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I have a suspicion that the only reason why Twilight board games sold well enough to warrant a sequel but has almost no real reviews is because it's a quintessential auntie game. It's a game aunt who knows nothing about her niece beyond "She likes Twilight" buys as a Christmas gift only to never be played.
If I recall correctly, the Lord Of The Rings board game has one thing you didn't mention, and that was that it can be soft locked. Specifically, the final game in the series, Return of the King, can be soft locked. Basically, Return Of The King adds a mechanic involving the Eye Of Sauron, and wherever it faces on the board, characters within its line of sight cannot move. On top of that, it's possible to get Sam and Frodo to Mount Doom very early in the game, and once they get there, their story is finished, but it's not the end of the game, it just means they can't move anymore. The game only ends when every character has resolved their stories, and some characters don't even appear until certain map spaces hit the table. As a result, it's possible to get Sam and Frodo to Mount Doom (which comes out early on) and have the Eye Of Sauron facing the other characters, which makes them unable to move, which means that the game no longer becomes playable after that point.
@@Tinil0 The eye moves whenever you land on the ring spaces. You pick up a numbered ring card and it will tell you which way Sauron is looking. The last game has a minimal element of choice, so it is possible to negate it to some degree, but it will eventually happen again.
With the gone with the wind game, my guesses are that they just wanted to make a 8 in 1 gameset for old people to play in a gathering. The whole movie thing is just something to slap onto the game to make it more appealing
@@Hijiri_MIRACHION I know what Board James is, pretty sure he stopped doing Board James a while ago. also Board James is not angry, so he's not the ABGN.
@@gotgunpowder Because Board James storyline has ended. If you don't know, Board James is a serial killer that executed and every single video (atleast every post-Mr bucket video) is a part of the dying dream of Board James.
Dude, Gone with the Wind has to be a contender for the next WBGT. I have never seen a board game so confused on its identity without being deliberate like Heckadeck. On a related note, one possible idea for a future video could be the Most Fascinating Spinoffs of Classic Board Games such as Clue Escape, Twister AIR, Sorry Sliders, etc. In other words, games that stick to their original material at its core, but are completely different on a fundamental level.
There was a version of Clue that came out in the late 2000's where the players could get murdered by drawing clocks from a deck. Was that the version you mentioned?
@@LeoMidori No, Clue Escape is a essentially a cooperative puzzle game with an ongoing narrative and progressive board layout. What are you talking about out of curiosity?
"Gone with the wind the game" seems like it was trying to be the perfect gift for grandma but I think it would've been better to just get her a VHS of the actual movie
Finally a video for me. I actually did a weird thing last year where I would try to design a board game for every movie I saw in October. It led to some wacky stuff.
Aristocats fundamentally impacted me as a person. Every time I get my hands on an instrument, I am COMPELLED to play Scales and Arpeggios., which was Marie's piano practice song. I don't play chopsticks. I play Scales and Arpeggios. I watched that movie SO MANY TIMES as a kid it is unREAL. It was legit a non miniscule part of my childhood, and hearing someone mention it is insane to me. I love it.
Same, sans the musical skill. It was probably my most-watched Disney film as a kid (Tied with Pooh's Grand Adventure, of course). Lines from it still routinely pop into my head.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually _likes_ that movie. XD Berlioz is my favorite kitten. It's a real shame that all the Aristocats merch is Marie.
I 100% thought when you said it was an exact 1:1 recreation of LotR that you were going to say "yeah if you're playing as Boromir you just die near the end".
The lord of the rings board game being a 1:1 retelling of the story is wild. I honestly could not imagine spending an entire day playing a single board game.
5:30 You know, speaking of The Thing, I heard that has a board game, and a hidden role one at that. You've covered some hidden role games before, right? Maybe a whole video dedicated to the Good, Bad, and Wacky of the genre could be fun!
@NickW855 I believe I'm thinking of Outpost 31, but both could be fun to cover in their own ways, I'm sure. Maybe not fun to play... but I'd listen to someone as funny as Kam speak about it!
Good Bad and Wacky as a series tackling different board game mechanics and themes sounds like a fantastic idea for a series, actually. I'd love to see Good Bad and Wacky: Worker Placement.
@@NickW855 theres actually three games with the "the Thing" game having a spinoff for the norwegian station with a core mechanic of people having crowns. It makes more sense with contecxt.
To make Carpathia more interesting, you should institute a rule where you HAVE to beat whoever is representing The Entity in a game of whoever's choosing that meets the player or Carpathia itself. If you meet Carpathia: Defeat it in whatever battle you declare, and if you can do this, you rightfully defeat the entity and win. If Carpathia meeta you: Win against it to keep control of your mortal soul. If you lose, Carpathia consumes you and you are eliminated. It's like people saying they fought Death: we will never know what game, or combat style, or other competition they played to stay the hand of Mr. Scythe. It's the same here: no one knows what you will do to either slay the incarnation of Rapture, or to barely escape its clutches.
The Lord of the Rings board game falls in the same major pitfalls as Mario Party 9: Everyone controlling a group of characters in a linear path. .....at least Mario Party 9 has minigames that are fun.
If I had a nickel for every time there was an ET movie tie in that was praised to be great but flapped immediately, I have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that happened twice
@@DANKRUNEMUSIC It didnt. It was just the bursting point after ALOT of terrible 2600 games. Atari also failed at evolving the brand. Before during the same year the 2600s sucessor (Atari 5200) had already flopped heavily. The Collecovision also came out just a bit before. Which came with a Donkey Kong port by default. This already was a hit to Ataris market dominance. The 5200 did even worse in Japan, where it launched only 1 year before the Famicom which was a massive leap for home consoles.
Y'know I thought the "Gone With The Wind" board game was gonna be the weirdest part of this video but the phrase "The Newborn Army" is certainly giving it a run for its money
To clarify: The term is referring to an army of people who were just turned into vampires, not human infants. Don't blame you for assuming otherwise though, it's definitely a weird name
Wow cant wait to play Left Behind: the Movie: the Board Game Adventure at the Olympic Games with Banjo Kazooie and YOU & Knuckles Battle DX: the Ballad of Gay Bentley feat. Dante From the Devil May Cry Series: Directors Cut (Taylor's Version)
you know these are bad when I couldn't find a single one of these on the tabletop simulator workshop (although I'm not searching the whole 43 pages of lord of the rings things because good lord there's so many trading card games, maps, figurines, etc all over the place. There's also a completely different "lord of the rings the board game")
@@kamsandwich The amount of games on tabletop sim workshop is shocking for 2 reasons. 1: there's so many of them! and 2: there's still so many to go! I will never convince my friends to play even 1/8th of the games I've downloaded, but it won't stop me from downloading even more Also good luck getting the mask game to work right with that mask. Cool in person, but must be an absolute pain in tabletop
@@comradebusman3 I have a card game that I'm pretty sure is just literally called "martial arts the card game" and I have not seen it on Tabletop Simulator. Now I feel almost honorbound that the next moment I open up that old box for that game, I should also boot up a scanner and painstakingly make sure everything will have a digital copy.
A sequel to the "Gone With the Wind" novel was published in 1991 and was a best-seller. A TV mini-series adaptation of the sequel was in production when this board game came out. So, the book actually had come to increased prominence in the public conversation at the time.
14:06 For those wondering, the earliest movie-licensed board game is 1963's _Frankenstein Mystery Game,_ based on _Frankenstein (1931)._ At least, that's the earliest I can find any trace of; if anyone knows an earlier one, let me know, but it overall seems like it took a while for movie tie-in games to be a thing.
"Left Behind" was actually originally a book series, hence the inane subtitles. What this also means is that if we make a video game adaptation of the board game we can go full crazy. Probably even feature Dante from devil may cry in the game too! I'd *say* we can call it "Left behind II" but clearly thats what we should've called the first game, going by the disappointing sequel with no original up next. I think the wildest part of the Mask Board game is how it accurately kinda adapts the plot structure from the comics with the mask stealing mechanic, which is impressive given how its based on the movie, which is an entirely separate beast to the comics all together. Fun little Twilight Trivia; the reason there's only three board games is because Twilight fans actually hate the 4th book. For obvious reasons in some cases (Remember "Imprinting"?), but also because apparently the book flandsrized the characters to hell and back to make them match the movies more. Always Shout-out to GogTad. Not for anything he says i just wish i knew a guy named Gog Tad in real life.
Person who owned the full LOTR Board Game before our cat pissed in Mount Doom and doesn't remember much about the rules: if I recall, the only ring spaces that you need to stop on are the ring spaces in red. That means that there is a bit of variability, because you might not have an item that would be good for the section you are in. And this also gives you a reason to move the other characters; they can land on the spaces that other characters missed, meaning dice rolls can be important and replayability do actually exist in the game! ...Although I might be misremembering playing the game by myself for hours on end as a kid and having that rule myself because it made the game an actual game.
I think the lord of the rings game deserves to be in the worst board game tournament as it’s a literal one and done deal I have never seen that with a board game
I wish there was a board game tie-in for the movie Ultraviolet. Just the thought of a design team having to watch the train wreck and then create a game based on it is hilarious.
The LOTR game reminds me of Lego Heroica in some aspects, with its board connectivity and fantasy setting but little gameplay depth. At least none of the Lego board games make you sit through the entirety of Bionicle.
I regret to inform you it's not for lack of trying. There's a Bionicle board game that has tiles similar to LOTR where the object is to collect masks and defeat Makuta. It's been a while since I've played it but it wasn't super fun and the theming was pretty lackluster.
Honestly pleasantly suprised that kam seemed more mature than like, every other male I've seen talk about twilight. Just a nice "this isn't for me but this hate seems extreme" Always on guard whenever twilight gets mentioned for grown adults getting HEATED over.. well not much substantial
I feel like the "making fun of Twilight" people have mostly moved on at this point. The movie series is over a decade old, and there are new popular things to make fun of.
from my experience most guys are content to just ignore the films and books, it's actually other women i've seen that hate that series the most because of how horrible Bella is as a character and role model for young girls. I'm more upset about the missed potential then anything else as the first movie was originally to be quite different from the books and was going to be more like Blade in high school but that unfortunately did not happen. Stewart and Pattinson have both been vocal about their dislike towards those films overall.
I dont know what I like more with your videos. Either the complete trainwrecks of board games or the super weird ones that are good. Either way, very fun content as always
The last time i went to a movie theater it was just me and my buddies and one random guy who watch the movie alone, i distinctly remember that like a good hour into the movie he just starts watching a basketball game on his phone without headphones and honestly i don't blame him, that basketball game was more entertaining than the movie we paid to watch
The _Left Behind_ board game is SO far removed from the original source material, it's barely even comparable. I know it's based on the terrible early movie version, which itself didn't match the books too well, but still. Basically they made up a board game with oddball elements and slapped the characters' names on it. Seriously -- capturing the Antichrist? What???
I swear, because of the Rap Rat mention before the screen blink at 3:55 I had to slow down the video to make sure Kam didn't hide a sneaky Rap Rat in there... Is it paranoia already 💀?
Great video! (Though that kind of goes without saying at this point) If you ever make a sequel, please mention the awful Jurassic Park III board game, Island Survival Game. It's an overly simplistic, ugly-looking mess that is both somehow completely luck based and yet very unbalanced.
the lord of the rings game would be so good if it wasn't a collectors piece first and a game second. an interconnecting lord of the rings game that had good gameplay would be a total hit.
I remember having a Zathura board game once. Kinda wild considering what that was about, but I don’t even remember if it was wack or even bad, or just kinda meh. All I remember is the game not actually ending when you reach Zathura because the version we got in the real world is one of those “roll to see if you get in” kind of board game end goals.
Actually saw the Twilight: New Moon boardgame recently. It was in a thrift shop, seemed perfectly wrapped. Might consider buying it to drop off at your doorstep for Christmas.
I like that the LOTR board game was apparently printed by RoseArt, who I assume took a break from their very busy schedule of making extremely low quality crayons and cheap markers whose ink smells like feet to print off thousands of copies of these dumb games.
Oh my god finally someone shares my opinion on E.T., if it wasn't for that damn thing there was a good chance The Thing miniseries would have gotten made, instead all we were left with was a shitty prequel ruined by executive meddling and poor writing and a few wildly inconsistent comics. Seriously shit is wack, they change art style and sometimes even genre per run, last one was a weird horror romance thing.
I remember finding an old star wars board game in my grandparent's basement. We played it to kill time and came to the horrible realization that it actually kind of sucked.
Of all the board games shown, Gone with the Wind is the most baffling. I'd understand the release date if it coincided with a special anniversary or if the movie came out on VHS/DVD/etc., but then the "game" turns out to be "games" and over half of them doesn't make sense. You can at least understand what all the other board games tried (and failed) to do. Now the real question is do any of these games make it to the Worst Board Game Tournament 2.
As someone who used to be terrified of The Mask as kid and still creeped out by him (no thanks to my older brother taunting me with it as a kid), this thumbnail is gonna haunt my subscription feed for the next couple days 😂
There's a board game for Lord of the Rings based on the books that is actually pretty cool, but also really difficult to win. I also remember a Jurassic Park board game based on the 2nd movie of trying to cross roaming Velociraptor space to reach a helicopter, but if you take too long to get your people out of the starting space, a T-Rex will eat whoever hasn't left it.
18:00 dear God, you're reminding me of the obsessive and insane reaction the public had to Twilight. It's like for 2-3 years in 2008 we collectively forgot romantic fantasy was a genre full of clichés
Kam mentioning The Thing in a video really makes me hope he'll cover The Thing board game (Infection at Outpost 31) someday, that game's fantastic and one of my favs.
The problem with ET is you only have incentive to get ET to the middle if you are in the lead. So if you are playing a 4 player game, 3 players are trying to keep ET away from his ship.
Whoa, a video with a game I've actually played before! Not knowing anything about Twilight made trying to play a Twilight trivia game quite the experience.
Ah man I remember a Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia) game that was the absolute worst. Basically you could gather allies to help you roll more dice to beat enemies along the way but if you ever messed up, you had to wait until an enemy weak enough for one die to beat (only two types out of around 7-8) to come up in the enemy deck to even have a chance, and even then it was a dice roll to get past. Components were also super cheap and the theming was barely there other than movie stills. The board game for The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe slapped tho.
When I saw the Lord of the Rings on the thumbnail I was certain of the game it was going to be only to discover that they’ve made more than one iteration of the “constructible puzzle-style board where you go through the movie beat-for-beat because that’s fun I guess”. Like, they really made more than one… The one we got’s board was constructed with hexagonal tiles and appears to share many of the same mechanics as the one you showed but without the cool character tokens (they’re just cutouts on a stand) and without the 3D elements (Sauron’s eye is just a round token) in addition to the most convoluted combat system I’ve ever seen. I’m quite fond of D&D and have read through several rulebooks no problem but that single sheet explaining combat in the LotR game was entirely incomprehensible.
There was a board game based on The Crow (not the later, more competent The Crow: Fire It Up, this one was just called The Crow) where the entire game's ruleset contradicted itself so much it was unplayable. You had to get Eric's engagement ring with your crow piece, and give other people fakes. The problem was you also had to beat Top Dollar, and you had to do so by getting the help of the other players, which they had no incentive to do. Everything was printed on magazine paper. We tried to play it for an hour and couldn't even start due to all the problems with the rules. The other problematic licensed board game I ran into wasn't bad at all--the Games Workshop Judge Dredd game. It did, however, have a softlock condition: there is a a card that lets you move any villain on the board to any space on the board. The problem comes when a Judge dies, they end up in the hospital space, where the rules are crystal clear that no one can combat in the hospital. The problem is, if a villain is on the board and you can't attack, you lose and die automatically. So if a trolling player decides to stick Judge Death in the hospital, you're cooked.
There's actually a modern E.T. game that came out in 2022. It's published by Funko and designed by Prospero Hall, a combo that has produced some actually pretty good classic movie tie-in games in the last several years. The pieces are really nice in it too!
I've played the Twilight the (Movie Board) Game. As I remember it it played like a pretty typical Trivial Pursuit-esque trivia game, despite the challenges and what not. I remember their being something weird about the cards tho, but I can't remember exactly what, like the Triva questions were too easy, or some of the answers were printed to the wrong questions, or a couple of the challenges didn't make any sense (or were either unfailable or unwinnable), or something like that. It was my sister's and I think we only played it once together, after that she played it mostly when she couldn't get her friends to play Zombies!!! with her.
The fact that ET not only had a video game so bad it crashed the market but also has a really terrible board game just proves that we can NOT let that alien bastard back in a game of any kind
That three-piece Lord of the Rings board game sounds like it would be a really interesting experience to play... once. I'd love to see the Valefisk crew subject themselves to it
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Which movie board game do you think was the worst? Are there any that you'd actually want to try? Let me know below!
I guessed it was going to be an Invisalign sponsorship
I have a suspicion that the only reason why Twilight board games sold well enough to warrant a sequel but has almost no real reviews is because it's a quintessential auntie game. It's a game aunt who knows nothing about her niece beyond "She likes Twilight" buys as a Christmas gift only to never be played.
The Scene It game for Twilight sucks major ass.
If I recall correctly, the Lord Of The Rings board game has one thing you didn't mention, and that was that it can be soft locked. Specifically, the final game in the series, Return of the King, can be soft locked. Basically, Return Of The King adds a mechanic involving the Eye Of Sauron, and wherever it faces on the board, characters within its line of sight cannot move. On top of that, it's possible to get Sam and Frodo to Mount Doom very early in the game, and once they get there, their story is finished, but it's not the end of the game, it just means they can't move anymore. The game only ends when every character has resolved their stories, and some characters don't even appear until certain map spaces hit the table. As a result, it's possible to get Sam and Frodo to Mount Doom (which comes out early on) and have the Eye Of Sauron facing the other characters, which makes them unable to move, which means that the game no longer becomes playable after that point.
wait. so wouldn't this happen 6 HOURS IN????
Wait, so what causes the eye to move? Is it related to moving yourself to cause the softlock?
This is the only board game we have ever heard of with no way to win or lose. It's a game-breaking glitch in a board game.
@@SimonCallahan That's dumb considering Aragon et al literally wanted the Eye on them.
@@Tinil0 The eye moves whenever you land on the ring spaces. You pick up a numbered ring card and it will tell you which way Sauron is looking. The last game has a minimal element of choice, so it is possible to negate it to some degree, but it will eventually happen again.
my least favorite movie board game is the twister board game. literally nothing about tornadoes, you just put hands and feet on spots
I know, so innacurrate
*_TORNADO TWISTER_*
ha, you win sir
One neat aspect of it though, when a player loses, it plays Bill Paxton's classic "game over, man, game over!" quote.
The Campaign for Gone With The Wind 1930-1939
reminds me of that campaign 84 game that AVGN played.
Yeah it's called the Civil War
@@franslair2199your not wrong
Honestly considering the film itself is *4 hours long* (beating 2 out of the 3 LOTR Extended Cuts in runtime iirc) maybe that tracks lol
@@jadedheartsz _ban all shoelaces_
With the gone with the wind game, my guesses are that they just wanted to make a 8 in 1 gameset for old people to play in a gathering. The whole movie thing is just something to slap onto the game to make it more appealing
That would most likely be the target audience for the film as well
I really want to know what the other games are apart from the trivia
The WHAT with the wind game
@@alt0248I’m guessing the people name ones are just hearts/spades/whatever-the-hell-else
with the WHAT game?
"What were they thinking?!"
Kam briefly transitions into the Angry Board Game Nerd (ABGN)
board Kames
AVGN already has a board game counterpart, he's called Board James.
Therefore, he should, as another commenter suggested, be called Board Kames.
@@Hijiri_MIRACHION I know what Board James is, pretty sure he stopped doing Board James a while ago. also Board James is not angry, so he's not the ABGN.
@@gotgunpowder Because Board James storyline has ended. If you don't know, Board James is a serial killer that executed and every single video (atleast every post-Mr bucket video) is a part of the dying dream of Board James.
Dude, Gone with the Wind has to be a contender for the next WBGT. I have never seen a board game so confused on its identity without being deliberate like Heckadeck.
On a related note, one possible idea for a future video could be the Most Fascinating Spinoffs of Classic Board Games such as Clue Escape, Twister AIR, Sorry Sliders, etc. In other words, games that stick to their original material at its core, but are completely different on a fundamental level.
There was a version of Clue that came out in the late 2000's where the players could get murdered by drawing clocks from a deck. Was that the version you mentioned?
@@LeoMidori No, Clue Escape is a essentially a cooperative puzzle game with an ongoing narrative and progressive board layout.
What are you talking about out of curiosity?
Gotta say it is funny that the Lord of the Rings boardgame only allows 2 - 6 players when there are nine characters.
Guess Boromir’s sitting this one out, then.
That's not historically/ mythology accurate of them
Excuse me, Kam, it's called Based on the Bestselling Novel Left Behind The Movie The Board Game Adventure.
Ah my apologies, I meant no disrespect
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3:55 Aw hell naw, not the single-frame Rap Rat jumpscare
im still here
It's even better that if you click this time stamp, Kam says "instant" before the one-frame punch
"Gone with the wind the game" seems like it was trying to be the perfect gift for grandma but I think it would've been better to just get her a VHS of the actual movie
Heard the “if looks could kill this game would be fatal” and I was brought back to a very dark place.
Good video👍
"If looks could kill, this game would be F.A.T.A.L." would be such a bar tho
Oh no
Finally a video for me.
I actually did a weird thing last year where I would try to design a board game for every movie I saw in October.
It led to some wacky stuff.
Please elaborate
Were any of them good?
Aristocats fundamentally impacted me as a person. Every time I get my hands on an instrument, I am COMPELLED to play Scales and Arpeggios., which was Marie's piano practice song. I don't play chopsticks. I play Scales and Arpeggios. I watched that movie SO MANY TIMES as a kid it is unREAL. It was legit a non miniscule part of my childhood, and hearing someone mention it is insane to me. I love it.
Same, sans the musical skill. It was probably my most-watched Disney film as a kid (Tied with Pooh's Grand Adventure, of course). Lines from it still routinely pop into my head.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually _likes_ that movie. XD
Berlioz is my favorite kitten. It's a real shame that all the Aristocats merch is Marie.
I 100% thought when you said it was an exact 1:1 recreation of LotR that you were going to say "yeah if you're playing as Boromir you just die near the end".
The lord of the rings board game being a 1:1 retelling of the story is wild. I honestly could not imagine spending an entire day playing a single board game.
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At least they didn't make Campaign for Middle Earth.
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Paradox Interactive strategy games be like:
5:30 You know, speaking of The Thing, I heard that has a board game, and a hidden role one at that. You've covered some hidden role games before, right? Maybe a whole video dedicated to the Good, Bad, and Wacky of the genre could be fun!
It has TWO board games. The Thing (which is not great) and Outpost 31 (which IS great).
@NickW855 I believe I'm thinking of Outpost 31, but both could be fun to cover in their own ways, I'm sure.
Maybe not fun to play... but I'd listen to someone as funny as Kam speak about it!
Two of The Thing board games have been mentioned, but my favorite board game interpretation of The Thing is "Who Goes There?"
Good Bad and Wacky as a series tackling different board game mechanics and themes sounds like a fantastic idea for a series, actually. I'd love to see Good Bad and Wacky: Worker Placement.
@@NickW855 theres actually three games with the "the Thing" game having a spinoff for the norwegian station with a core mechanic of people having crowns. It makes more sense with contecxt.
You say it as a joke Kam but Aristocats board game would go insane.
You have to walk like a goose to pass through the river( or away from it to be accurate)
I'd probably play it
So you can spend an entire day, rolling dice and drawing cards, just to see the entire story of LoTR? Sounds like a genius idea for a board game.
To make Carpathia more interesting, you should institute a rule where you HAVE to beat whoever is representing The Entity in a game of whoever's choosing that meets the player or Carpathia itself.
If you meet Carpathia: Defeat it in whatever battle you declare, and if you can do this, you rightfully defeat the entity and win.
If Carpathia meeta you: Win against it to keep control of your mortal soul. If you lose, Carpathia consumes you and you are eliminated.
It's like people saying they fought Death: we will never know what game, or combat style, or other competition they played to stay the hand of Mr. Scythe. It's the same here: no one knows what you will do to either slay the incarnation of Rapture, or to barely escape its clutches.
That is such a good way to make the game interesting at the end. Square up in the Rock, Paper, Scissors Game and I'm staying alive for sure.
@@kamsandwich You misunderstand me.
ANY competition. XP
@@powerplay9422 I'm scared now
@@kamsandwich :3
@@kamsandwichNo Timmy,I'm not competing in a twerk off with you!
"might as well slap 'and Knuckles' on there'" gave me a hearty laugh!
The Lord of the Rings board game falls in the same major pitfalls as Mario Party 9: Everyone controlling a group of characters in a linear path.
.....at least Mario Party 9 has minigames that are fun.
If I had a nickel for every time there was an ET movie tie in that was praised to be great but flapped immediately, I have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that happened twice
Whats the other one
@humantwister9209 The Atari ET game that basically ended Ataris prime
@@DANKRUNEMUSIC It was also the final straw that almost killed console gaming in the US for good measure
@@maglev0789 Also in Europe. The most popular videogames in Europe by the early 80s were all on home computers - c64, cx spectrum, amstrad, etc
@@DANKRUNEMUSIC It didnt. It was just the bursting point after ALOT of terrible 2600 games. Atari also failed at evolving the brand. Before during the same year the 2600s sucessor (Atari 5200) had already flopped heavily. The Collecovision also came out just a bit before. Which came with a Donkey Kong port by default. This already was a hit to Ataris market dominance.
The 5200 did even worse in Japan, where it launched only 1 year before the Famicom which was a massive leap for home consoles.
Y'know I thought the "Gone With The Wind" board game was gonna be the weirdest part of this video but the phrase "The Newborn Army" is certainly giving it a run for its money
That’s literally what they’re called in the movie, idk what to tell you
To clarify: The term is referring to an army of people who were just turned into vampires, not human infants. Don't blame you for assuming otherwise though, it's definitely a weird name
KamSandwich, I know of an extremely broken board game titled "The Family Farm Board Game" by John Deere.
Ok, you've piqued my interest with that one
Wow cant wait to play Left Behind: the Movie: the Board Game Adventure at the Olympic Games with Banjo Kazooie and YOU & Knuckles Battle DX: the Ballad of Gay Bentley feat. Dante From the Devil May Cry Series: Directors Cut (Taylor's Version)
This comment is an masterpiece
The (Taylor's Version) at the end sent me into a giggling fit, lol.
This man’s channel is going to be a TREASURE TROVE of binge watchable videos in a few years 🙏
Already is
"Please don't misspell my name."
As a Cameron, I respect that.
The ET board game reminded me of how the ET video game almost crashed the entire video game market as it was that bad.
Ehh. Well… the North American game market.
Love it when a board game can make me experience dorcelessness. It sure beats the other methods.
"if looks could kill, this game would be *fatal"*
*intense war flashbacks*
"Frog Kissing" that's goes alongside "Jeeminy Freakin Frosties" as a new Kam Sandwich curseword. Great work on the video as always.
you know these are bad when I couldn't find a single one of these on the tabletop simulator workshop (although I'm not searching the whole 43 pages of lord of the rings things because good lord there's so many trading card games, maps, figurines, etc all over the place. There's also a completely different "lord of the rings the board game")
Great, more stuff to transfer over.
I haven't even finished Oy Vey yet
@@kamsandwich The amount of games on tabletop sim workshop is shocking for 2 reasons. 1: there's so many of them! and 2: there's still so many to go!
I will never convince my friends to play even 1/8th of the games I've downloaded, but it won't stop me from downloading even more
Also good luck getting the mask game to work right with that mask. Cool in person, but must be an absolute pain in tabletop
@@comradebusman3 I have a card game that I'm pretty sure is just literally called "martial arts the card game" and I have not seen it on Tabletop Simulator. Now I feel almost honorbound that the next moment I open up that old box for that game, I should also boot up a scanner and painstakingly make sure everything will have a digital copy.
A sequel to the "Gone With the Wind" novel was published in 1991 and was a best-seller. A TV mini-series adaptation of the sequel was in production when this board game came out. So, the book actually had come to increased prominence in the public conversation at the time.
I'm sure the target demographic for The Lord of the Rings boardgame was children that were too young to be allowed to watch the movies
I've got a top gun game, half of it is flight combat, literally half of the game is just volleyball. I'm not even joking.
1:08 sick Dune Imperium shoutout. IMO the best board game ever made.
Have you ever played the original Dune game?
damn you haven't played a lot of games have you. It's *ok,* but I would hesitate to really even call it good.
@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts I’ve played it a couple times previously. It’s pretty good, but I have trouble finding enough people to play.
@@McBehrer Dune Imperium is ranked top ten on BGG you tool. Clearly plenty of people agree with me.
14:06 For those wondering, the earliest movie-licensed board game is 1963's _Frankenstein Mystery Game,_ based on _Frankenstein (1931)._ At least, that's the earliest I can find any trace of; if anyone knows an earlier one, let me know, but it overall seems like it took a while for movie tie-in games to be a thing.
People say you're board game scott the woz but you remind me more of matt mcmuscles
Ooo that's a new one.
Starting The Worst Fighting Board Game series next
Gonna be honest, bare-knuckle boxing The Antichrist sounds pretty badass
"Left Behind" was actually originally a book series, hence the inane subtitles.
What this also means is that if we make a video game adaptation of the board game we can go full crazy. Probably even feature Dante from devil may cry in the game too!
I'd *say* we can call it "Left behind II" but clearly thats what we should've called the first game, going by the disappointing sequel with no original up next.
I think the wildest part of the Mask Board game is how it accurately kinda adapts the plot structure from the comics with the mask stealing mechanic, which is impressive given how its based on the movie, which is an entirely separate beast to the comics all together.
Fun little Twilight Trivia; the reason there's only three board games is because Twilight fans actually hate the 4th book. For obvious reasons in some cases (Remember "Imprinting"?), but also because apparently the book flandsrized the characters to hell and back to make them match the movies more.
Always Shout-out to GogTad. Not for anything he says i just wish i knew a guy named Gog Tad in real life.
I'm personally waiting for Left Behind: The Movie: The Board Game: New Funky Mode
Person who owned the full LOTR Board Game before our cat pissed in Mount Doom and doesn't remember much about the rules: if I recall, the only ring spaces that you need to stop on are the ring spaces in red. That means that there is a bit of variability, because you might not have an item that would be good for the section you are in.
And this also gives you a reason to move the other characters; they can land on the spaces that other characters missed, meaning dice rolls can be important and replayability do actually exist in the game!
...Although I might be misremembering playing the game by myself for hours on end as a kid and having that rule myself because it made the game an actual game.
I think the lord of the rings game deserves to be in the worst board game tournament as it’s a literal one and done deal I have never seen that with a board game
I wish there was a board game tie-in for the movie Ultraviolet. Just the thought of a design team having to watch the train wreck and then create a game based on it is hilarious.
The LOTR game reminds me of Lego Heroica in some aspects, with its board connectivity and fantasy setting but little gameplay depth. At least none of the Lego board games make you sit through the entirety of Bionicle.
THAT'S THE LEGO GAME I WAS FORGETTING
I regret to inform you it's not for lack of trying. There's a Bionicle board game that has tiles similar to LOTR where the object is to collect masks and defeat Makuta. It's been a while since I've played it but it wasn't super fun and the theming was pretty lackluster.
18:23 YOOO DORCELESSNESS MENTIONED LET'S GOOOO!
You are the bosrd game scott the wozz, and AVGN it seems. This is probably the greatest channel ever.
Honestly pleasantly suprised that kam seemed more mature than like, every other male I've seen talk about twilight. Just a nice "this isn't for me but this hate seems extreme"
Always on guard whenever twilight gets mentioned for grown adults getting HEATED over.. well not much substantial
@@garbagecan7718 If I get to enjoy my Transforming Space Robots Cartoon, you can enjoy your Shiny Vampire Movie, simple as
I feel like the "making fun of Twilight" people have mostly moved on at this point. The movie series is over a decade old, and there are new popular things to make fun of.
from my experience most guys are content to just ignore the films and books, it's actually other women i've seen that hate that series the most because of how horrible Bella is as a character and role model for young girls. I'm more upset about the missed potential then anything else as the first movie was originally to be quite different from the books and was going to be more like Blade in high school but that unfortunately did not happen. Stewart and Pattinson have both been vocal about their dislike towards those films overall.
I had the "The Golden Compass" board game as a child and it left no impression on me at all XD. I do not remember anything about it.
Left Behind The Board Game Adventure & Knuckles Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
I see you King 👑
Frankly, they never gave a damn when they made a board game out of Gone with the Wind
I dont know what I like more with your videos. Either the complete trainwrecks of board games or the super weird ones that are good. Either way, very fun content as always
The last time i went to a movie theater it was just me and my buddies and one random guy who watch the movie alone, i distinctly remember that like a good hour into the movie he just starts watching a basketball game on his phone without headphones and honestly i don't blame him, that basketball game was more entertaining than the movie we paid to watch
The _Left Behind_ board game is SO far removed from the original source material, it's barely even comparable. I know it's based on the terrible early movie version, which itself didn't match the books too well, but still. Basically they made up a board game with oddball elements and slapped the characters' names on it.
Seriously -- capturing the Antichrist? What???
"but the last time I bought a game with a celebrity on the front they almost died"
that- that's a good reason to not buy something
I love the switching picture's in the background
I swear, because of the Rap Rat mention before the screen blink at 3:55 I had to slow down the video to make sure Kam didn't hide a sneaky Rap Rat in there... Is it paranoia already 💀?
Great video! (Though that kind of goes without saying at this point) If you ever make a sequel, please mention the awful Jurassic Park III board game, Island Survival Game. It's an overly simplistic, ugly-looking mess that is both somehow completely luck based and yet very unbalanced.
Would love to see a crossover between KamSandwich and Walter Culture on the Twilight Zone board game ;)
That would be such an amazing blend imo
101 Dalmatians had a 3D board game. I would know because I played it when I was a kid.
the lord of the rings game would be so good if it wasn't a collectors piece first and a game second. an interconnecting lord of the rings game that had good gameplay would be a total hit.
I remember having a Zathura board game once. Kinda wild considering what that was about, but I don’t even remember if it was wack or even bad, or just kinda meh. All I remember is the game not actually ending when you reach Zathura because the version we got in the real world is one of those “roll to see if you get in” kind of board game end goals.
Actually saw the Twilight: New Moon boardgame recently. It was in a thrift shop, seemed perfectly wrapped. Might consider buying it to drop off at your doorstep for Christmas.
Thank you GrubHub, I love a free delivery
I like that the LOTR board game was apparently printed by RoseArt, who I assume took a break from their very busy schedule of making extremely low quality crayons and cheap markers whose ink smells like feet to print off thousands of copies of these dumb games.
I was extremely confused when I saw their logo in the top corner
GONE WITH THE WIND? You're kidding me. Ten fucking gone with the wind games. I am losing my mind
Dang, E.T. was 0 for 2 in the games department lmao
What were they thinking??
Oh my god finally someone shares my opinion on E.T., if it wasn't for that damn thing there was a good chance The Thing miniseries would have gotten made, instead all we were left with was a shitty prequel ruined by executive meddling and poor writing and a few wildly inconsistent comics. Seriously shit is wack, they change art style and sometimes even genre per run, last one was a weird horror romance thing.
maybe the come with the wind game took half a century because they spent that time making the approximately 50 games that are in it
I remember finding an old star wars board game in my grandparent's basement. We played it to kill time and came to the horrible realization that it actually kind of sucked.
Was it based off the 1977 film, with a bunch of straight paths to choose from with varying risk, but with no other elements other than moving.
@@dictatorofcanada4238 I think so
Ok but I unironically think an Aristocats board game would be really fun
3:46 Rapture Rat: the prequel to Rap Rat
3:28 flashing lights warning
It's my birthday thank you for this birthday present
Of course, Happy Birthday!
Of all the board games shown, Gone with the Wind is the most baffling. I'd understand the release date if it coincided with a special anniversary or if the movie came out on VHS/DVD/etc., but then the "game" turns out to be "games" and over half of them doesn't make sense. You can at least understand what all the other board games tried (and failed) to do.
Now the real question is do any of these games make it to the Worst Board Game Tournament 2.
As someone who used to be terrified of The Mask as kid and still creeped out by him (no thanks to my older brother taunting me with it as a kid), this thumbnail is gonna haunt my subscription feed for the next couple days 😂
Happy Halloween!
Kam uploading twice in a week, did we skip Halloween and go straight to Christmas? 🙌
2 videos in the same week? How delightful!
The Rear Window Board Game took almost 70 years!
So the fan hype was definitely Gone with the Wind
I’m still so surprised by how small your channel is. You make great stuff man! Best of luck
There's a board game for Lord of the Rings based on the books that is actually pretty cool, but also really difficult to win.
I also remember a Jurassic Park board game based on the 2nd movie of trying to cross roaming Velociraptor space to reach a helicopter, but if you take too long to get your people out of the starting space, a T-Rex will eat whoever hasn't left it.
18:00 dear God, you're reminding me of the obsessive and insane reaction the public had to Twilight. It's like for 2-3 years in 2008 we collectively forgot romantic fantasy was a genre full of clichés
What about "board games with crazy boards"? Things like Fireball Island or Mouse Trap.
Colt express
Kam mentioning The Thing in a video really makes me hope he'll cover The Thing board game (Infection at Outpost 31) someday, that game's fantastic and one of my favs.
13:44 My God, Kam saying that just gave me flashbacks to so many AVGN episodes
I nominate the last one for the tournament.
The problem with ET is you only have incentive to get ET to the middle if you are in the lead. So if you are playing a 4 player game, 3 players are trying to keep ET away from his ship.
BSG isnt a movie and I am disappointed in the internet that no one poined that out to you for over a day. Truly not what it used to be.
18:23 i wasn’t expecting a blue channel reference in here from all places
Whoa, a video with a game I've actually played before!
Not knowing anything about Twilight made trying to play a Twilight trivia game quite the experience.
If it's a one-to-one retelling, then I'd rather just watch the movies
Ah man I remember a Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia) game that was the absolute worst. Basically you could gather allies to help you roll more dice to beat enemies along the way but if you ever messed up, you had to wait until an enemy weak enough for one die to beat (only two types out of around 7-8) to come up in the enemy deck to even have a chance, and even then it was a dice roll to get past. Components were also super cheap and the theming was barely there other than movie stills. The board game for The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe slapped tho.
When I saw the Lord of the Rings on the thumbnail I was certain of the game it was going to be only to discover that they’ve made more than one iteration of the “constructible puzzle-style board where you go through the movie beat-for-beat because that’s fun I guess”. Like, they really made more than one…
The one we got’s board was constructed with hexagonal tiles and appears to share many of the same mechanics as the one you showed but without the cool character tokens (they’re just cutouts on a stand) and without the 3D elements (Sauron’s eye is just a round token) in addition to the most convoluted combat system I’ve ever seen. I’m quite fond of D&D and have read through several rulebooks no problem but that single sheet explaining combat in the LotR game was entirely incomprehensible.
I appreciate how ET beat out The Thing in the box office, but The Thing has to stellar board games, and ET has... whatever that board is.
There was a board game based on The Crow (not the later, more competent The Crow: Fire It Up, this one was just called The Crow) where the entire game's ruleset contradicted itself so much it was unplayable. You had to get Eric's engagement ring with your crow piece, and give other people fakes. The problem was you also had to beat Top Dollar, and you had to do so by getting the help of the other players, which they had no incentive to do. Everything was printed on magazine paper. We tried to play it for an hour and couldn't even start due to all the problems with the rules.
The other problematic licensed board game I ran into wasn't bad at all--the Games Workshop Judge Dredd game. It did, however, have a softlock condition: there is a a card that lets you move any villain on the board to any space on the board. The problem comes when a Judge dies, they end up in the hospital space, where the rules are crystal clear that no one can combat in the hospital. The problem is, if a villain is on the board and you can't attack, you lose and die automatically. So if a trolling player decides to stick Judge Death in the hospital, you're cooked.
There's actually a modern E.T. game that came out in 2022. It's published by Funko and designed by Prospero Hall, a combo that has produced some actually pretty good classic movie tie-in games in the last several years. The pieces are really nice in it too!
I've played the Twilight the (Movie Board) Game. As I remember it it played like a pretty typical Trivial Pursuit-esque trivia game, despite the challenges and what not. I remember their being something weird about the cards tho, but I can't remember exactly what, like the Triva questions were too easy, or some of the answers were printed to the wrong questions, or a couple of the challenges didn't make any sense (or were either unfailable or unwinnable), or something like that. It was my sister's and I think we only played it once together, after that she played it mostly when she couldn't get her friends to play Zombies!!! with her.
The fact that ET not only had a video game so bad it crashed the market but also has a really terrible board game just proves that we can NOT let that alien bastard back in a game of any kind
That three-piece Lord of the Rings board game sounds like it would be a really interesting experience to play... once.
I'd love to see the Valefisk crew subject themselves to it
I never thought I’d ever be reminded of 13 Beavers while watching someone talking about Emperor Zod but here we are lol