"A professional won't let you exploit them, but a teenager is so desperate to prove himself he'll put up with any toxic bullshit." And that is how the intern was born.
It's also the case that the teenager has spent his entire life listening to other people tell him what to do. We hear about 'rebellious' teenagers specifically because children are supposed to just shut up and accept whatever they're told by an adult - at home, in school, in church. No backtalk, no difficult questions, certainly no skepticism. When you go to school, you get good grades by just repeating whatever you know the teacher wants to hear. Well, when you get your first job, the only difference is that you're being _paid_ for accepting whatever you're told. Of course, you don't have to _believe_ it, necessarily. You just have to do what you're told. Well, that's how I remember it, at least. Admittedly, it's been a long, _long_ time since I was a teenager. :)
Instead of asking, "Why is a kid too young to vote old enough to die in a war?" we asked, "Why is a kid old enough to die in a war too young to vote?" We lowered the voting age when we should have raised the dying age.
I never thought that John Oliver would ever talk about Pepsiman, but we now live in a world where he does. And I am grateful for living in this world. The only way this world could be any better is if he talks about Sneak King in the future.
Never thought I’d hear John Oliver talk about food video games the way Angry Video Game Nerd has been talking about for over a decade. This isn’t the crossover I anticipated but here we are and I’m loving every minute of it!!
John needs to rip off Conan's Clueless Gamer segment. I'd love the hear what John had to say about some of the most classic games. Although I assume he'd say that the Minecraft guy was fuckable or something.
When I was a teenager, I bought a used game called 'Darkened Skye" thinking it looked like a cool, fantasy adventure. When I got it home and read the game guide I nearly fell on my ass laughing because the whole game was about Skittles.
I think I watched a TH-cam documentry from the creater of that. She was talking about how her Skittles contact people didn't care about the game and just wanted some shovelware BS, but she saw it as an opportunity to make a real game so actually made some badass game that just happened to use skittles as currency, or ammunition, or something.
The *only* cereal my Dad ever let me have was wheat Chex, so when we got the Chex Quest CD-rom it was just an extra little prize. I didn’t have a computer at Dad’s house, so I took it to Mom’s, and oh boy!! I had so much fun playing that game. My stepdad’s mom didn’t like it because she thought it was violent(?) and I had to assure her that it wasn’t, nobody dies, nobody gets injured. In Chex Quest, the bad guys just get teleported home.
Rather ironic that a child had to assure their parental figures that there was no deaths in the game and that the enemies essentially gets "teleported" somewhere else. It's like, who TF is easily traumatized over cartoon violence in this relationship, the child wanting to have fun or the parents with their 80s-style evangelical conservatism?
Man, if you enjoyed Chex Quest, Doom proper with all its map packs + mods would have blown your mind. Also, only allowing your child to eat Wheat Chex seems like it should be child cruelty (but seriously, really? I hope your mother was more permissive cereal-wise, I can't imagine never being allowed to have Cap'n Crunch, Kix, Fruity Pebbles, Trix, Cookie Crunch etc. as a kid)
KFC is such a mess in it's main marketing I truly believe they're doing everything they could to get the headlines but it was so corporate people tend to ignore.
I cannot fathom why he didn’t bring up the Netflix movie with Mario Lopez and LITERALLY COLONEL SANDERS Also that video game broke the internet for a hot second
Chex Quest was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. When we got it we booted it up and we played that thing over and over and over again. It was a legitimately well made well balanced game that was loads of fun.
Chex Quest was my first FPS. It had a nice sort of horror vibe for me because I didn't have a compatible sound card (remember those?) and thus had to play it in complete silence. Got plenty of jump scares from those green slime monsters. Also, the melee fallback weapon was a spoon.
Can’t believe there was no mention of the killer Pepsi man theme song. Nor did he mention the incredible kfc game where you try to seduce colonel sanders himself. That is a real game that exists, along with a kfc lifetime movie, the lore of kfc runs DEEP.
KFC also made a tower defense game where you put chicken, fries, and soda towers in the middle of your stomach maze while hunger creeps try to reach your brain
Cheesy marketing tie-in aside, Cool Spot was actually a really solid platformer. Good graphics, responsive controls, fair but challenging difficulty curve, nice soundtrack. It also managed to incorporate the whole soda gimmick into the level environments in interesting ways. I had a lot of fun playing that game back in the day.
Came looking to see if others remembered this game. I spent many happy hours playing it and even got a geeky boyfriend to find it for me again in the late 90s. That train level with the balloons sucked hours of my life away but I don't regret a minute of it.
Pepsi man has been one of the funniest things in gaming for a while, especially speed running. The fact that someone else is enjoying this meme is fantastic lol
The game genuinely fucking slapped. I put so many hours into that game, the “Pepsi man” singing in the background killed me when I heard it again ahaha
Pulling roller coaster tycoon 2 out of a serial box is the highlight of my life. For poor kids like me, having free games in cereal boxes was a godsend
I remember getting an issue of some PC gaming magazine as a birthday gift one time, and it had a CD filled with shareware/demo games. I must have played all those demos 100x each, and it was amazing.
@@DustySquitoNM When i was a kid i only ever got video games for christmas and my birthday (jan 6th birthday so pretty much the entire year with no new games) and way too much of my gaming entertainment were demo discs. I remember playing the absolute shit out of the bushido blade demo, never actually played the full game though.
Exactly what I was thinking - I spent hours and hours each weekend exploring and playing through it. It was challenging, fun, and at the same time, super playable. Once beaten, you could always go back and find something new.
I'm so glad he brought up the fact that chex quest is on the doom engine but I'm also glad John knows the rules of always referring to doom as "FUCKING DOOM" when brought up.
To be fair though, the explanation for the "violence" wasn't that you were killing the enemies, it's that you were using your ray guns to send them back to their ships.
New chuck tingle book coming this summer, as predicted by eden: Wet Hot Refreshing Pepsi Summer, where a shy seven-up dot guy gets a job at a soda fountain in his college town freshman year. One day he accidentally trips and spills a milkshake on one of the regulars, a bad boy Pepsi-branded terminator t-1000
You didn't mention the single greatest snack video game: Darkened Skye, a 3D, Zelda-esque adventure game. The story of the game is that tyrannical goblins have banned all color from their kingdom, and it's up to Skye, an elf from the forest of Lynlora, to bring color back to the world using the power of magical Skittles.
"If you want someone to say something casually mean to you when they pass you on the street that will live in your brain until the day you die--look for a teenager." I laughed until I cried. Then I wrote it down in my "Concepts to Save" notebook.
@@tbecker97204 Perk up: 615m hits pricked up: 7m hits Pricked up also has no definitions, t doesn't actually mean anything. The correct answer is perked up. When you _perk_ something up, you are making it happier, livelier or interesting. Matt Gaetz's ears where more interested in the conversation after he heard the phrase "look for a teeenager."
@@kindlin - dude, I'm quite sure Thomas is fully aware that the phrase is perked up as I originally wrote. He's just taking it one step further with a play on words and calling Matt Gaetz a prick. Of which I concur.
A moment of profound respect for the tech team that imported those QuickTime movies from Pepsi man and pretty much remastered them to a decent resolution. Respect the tech.
What exactly would a John Oliver game be? He couldn't be a superhero, no one would ever believe that. I guess you could put John in like a paint ball shooting gallery where he is the target and you win by covering the target. You could choose avatars of people that he's pissed off over the years on his show as the shooters. Or have him do his show and every time he swears you have to put soap in his mouth....Ivory brand, of course. Other ideas?
I grew up in Japan, Pepsi man was amazing. When you’d buy a bottle of Pepsi you could get a Pepsi man figurine that you could attach to your bottle cap. The Pepsi man commercials were the best.
I have a whole slew of Dragon Quest bottlecaps....but they came in blind boxes. Do people actually put those on beverages and carry them around? *boggle* You would think they would come as the top when you buy a beverage and then you could just collect them like Blanton's bourbon stoppers. I have no need to accessorize my Coke, alas.
@@genekwagmyrsingh9433 the good thing about the Egyptian mod was they replaced the little bit of dialog that happens at the start of the first level. The Egyptian Arabic audio was funny 😂
at least there is still sugar in 7up. As opposed to Sprite that has fallen victim to the Coca Cola Company going full retard and decide that the zero sugar version of Sprite should be the ONLY version of sprite.
Agreed. Although with ZeniMax purchasing iD in 2009, and now Microsoft owning ZeniMax ... IDK. Sure, Doom Eternal is mostly decent, but it lacks Romero's touch.
I want a pasta-themed fighting game now. No particular brands, just a bunch of different anthropomorphized pasta. Spaghetti, ravioli, lasagna, etc. Call it 'Hasta la Pasta'. Extra points if the winner eats the loser.
Chocolate and candy bars. I would love a good re-branding - like, of the “MARS Effect“ series, for example... but I would also settle for a little “Wunderbar Woman” spin-off (or of any other candy bar of the Cadbury brand).
I think John honestly can tell sometimes just how much we miss him during his numerous hiatuses and that's why he posts these funny dumb AF web exclusives just to remind us that he loves us too.... Or maybe I'm just too stoned and John just likes to f*** with our heads with these random ass topics!
Or… it is part of his contract, the one offering him high pay and long vacations, that he pre-record web exclusives to keep folks in mind of the show? It ain’t called show-love-fest, it’s called show business.
I think he's just experimenting with how stupid his topics can get while still retaining the same audience. He's probably very disappointed in us by now... But just a little proud.
The winter doesn't begin because the snow is coming or because the ground is freezing or because the leaves fall off the trees. No, the true arrival of winter is when John Oliver says I'll see you in February. It sends a chill down my spine. My Monday mornings are now irrelevant
I still remember the cereal boxes that hooked me on a brand for ten years by giving away copies of the previous wave of PC games - early 2000s, and they gave away Age of Empires (the original one) and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. it was how I first found Age of Empires and how I first learned Tony Hawk existed at all, and I still have those two original game discs kicking around somewhere. Marketing.
I also still have my Nutri-grain copy of Age of Empires. Not sure if I could install it from the disc given how some 2000s-era installers can be weird about things like hard drive space (like not being able to detect the true available space on the hard drive)
Aging myself here, but my grandma was super into couponing when I was little and we always got weird promo shit from companies. One of the things I got was a Kool-aid man video game for Atari. You had to go around a house and collect all of the ingredients to make kool-aid and avoid some kind of baddies. If you collected everything, the kool-aid man burst through the house. Pretty cool.
As a teenage programmer who started a company at 17, this is accurate. The benefit of young coders to businesses is simple: we don't know how to say "no" yet, are eager to impress, and already have been coding for a few years. So we can be overworked and usually still finish. This poor kid finished school at 3:30 (already eight hours of doing shit) then proceeded to code until 11. Sounds like my life... I wanted to die lol
Darkened Skye - a legitimately good fantasy adventure game, with a well-voiced cast and a wonderfully snarky sidekick, all about collecting skittles to use magic, and visiting all the fantastical locations from those old taste the rainbow ads.
@@Fools_Requiem Also pretty buggy. I feel at some point Skittles said, look dudes, we're not trying to make the next great game, just ship it already. Which is a shame, because at it's best it was absolutely terrific.
The thing that amazes/baffles me about PepsiMan is that, as John noted, the game was exclusive to the Japanese market… and yet 100% of its spoken and acted dialogue are in seemingly native English. Also, all this talk of brand mascot tie in games, and yet not one mention of “Sneak King”? You’re slipping, Oliver… or are you just scared?
One possible theory is that it was intended for the North American (and maybe European) market, but the execs didn't think it would sell well, so it was cut last minute. Also, a lot of Western media is marketed and sold in Japan, a direct result of the early 80s economic boom and tightening the business relations between Japan and the US. The "city pop", "j-pop" and other kinds of west-inspired music was sort of a reflection of prosperity back then. And for another example, as a music buff I can attest that even to this day, albums from U.S. artists are sold in Japan, where their booklets have info and bios in Japanese, and lyrics are often given both in English _and_ translated into Japanese. (As a matter of fact, this whole thing with Japanese exclusive releases, labels publishing and reissuing them, hiring music journalists and translators etc. is a small industry in its own right...) So it's not that weird that a videogame discarded as "not worth it" in the US would be released as a niche exclusive in Japan.
Killer7 is also fully English voice acted. With Jimmy Neutron saying he's going to get revenge, and Twilight Sparkle threatening your life while slitting her wrists! **Edit:** Grim from Grim Adventures feels no remorse when seeing a dead body and is a pro at Russian roulette.
I'll never forget the day I opened a box of cereal and a _friggin entire video game_ popped out. My parents didn't even let us play shooters. I was a 6-year-old homeschooler whose only video games were of the edu-tainment variety, like SimPark and the Cluefinders. But they let me play this game. And it was AWESOME!!! Big shoutout also goes to the game Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure, which my brothers and I played the heck out of after it, too, fell out of a cereal box (also in the 90's).
The best food tie in video game ever was "Yo! Noid" for the NES that was released in 1990. It was a game centered around "The Noid" who was the mascot for Dominos pizza. You were tasked by the mayor of New York to hunt down the evil clone of yourself using a yo-yo as your weapon. The game had an overworld map like Super Marios Brothers and one level has you navigate it on a skateboard and another is done on a pogo stick called "The Pizza Crusher". At the end of every few levels you face off with an evil Noid in a pizza eating contest. There even is a ice level where you have to fight guys who push curling stones at you and polar bears dressed as hockey players. That game ruled.
I had drastically different impressions of the game, and thought it was crap… though mine was the PC version so it might have been a different worse game. Edit: Just looked it up in Wikipedia and found the following As part of the advertising campaign, a computer game was released in 1989 called Avoid the Noid. The object of the game is to deliver a pizza within a half-hour time limit in an apartment building swarming with Noids (some of which are armed with pizza-seeking missiles or water balloons). The common version is version 1.0 and has CGA graphics and PC speaker sound effects, although version 1.1 also exists which added support for EGA graphics and Adlib music. In 1990, Capcom released a different video game, Yo! Noid, for the NES.
The most amazing thing about Chex Quest: it was a fantastic game. There's a dedicated community that still releases updated and modded version of the game today.
I'd love a follow up episode where John talks about fast food brands getting into games. There's the nightmare inducing burger King game and the (in)famously bizarre KFC dating sim and the more recent KFC gaming console that plays games AND keeps your chicken warm Seriously, there could be a segment all about KFC, I know it!
All the KFC stuff has only been in the last few years tho; kinda diverges from the 'style' and era when Snack King, Avoid the Noid, and the other fast food restaurant games were...
Funny bit.. but I'm pretty sure snacks still target gamers plenty. It's hard to find a bag of Doritos that doesn't give you some stupid weapon skin for a game you stopped playing already.
Doritos are right now (in my country at least) giving you in-game codes for Call of Duty (I think that's the game). Monster energy, although not a snack, is doing the same for Apex Legends.
Also please note that the background music for the Pepsi Man game is just a chorus singing "Pepsi Maaaaaan" over and over again... truly world-shattering music
Chex Quest was amazing! Thanks to the anonymous teenager who gave us unsuspecting kids such a great FPS. Where are the ports at? Need Chex Quest on Switch. Edit: Thanks Scott Holman!
The game will be called "Last Week Tonight: Tomorrow's Hero" and it will have John Oliver gaining access to news from the future and using it to bring about changes in the present day. It will be like a mix of Quantic Dream and Telltale type games, with action scenes like in Platinum games, including a couple of Grasshopper Manufacture style retro mini games between major segments.
Sweat & fret as you convince PresentDay to laugh & travel down your CustomFuture™️ path thru the power of your topical jokes & (only slightly stale) memes! [Distances measured from Caughter™️ all the way up to PeePants! LESGO!] (Unlock bonus perks such as UltiMemeBer™️ to really wow the crowds with GudGodShitPosts™️!!) *_ASK YER PARENTS 2DAY ~•~ LIMIT 1 PER CUSS_*
We can also talk about how Dole partnered with Sega to bring us the Super Monkey Ball series, which has over 20 games in it, the most recent of which was released LAST YEAR. (though Dole no longer has a part of it, it's still insane the a goddamned banana company helped to bring us this big of a game franchise). I'll also point out that the previously mentioned Chex Quest has THREE games. The most recent of which was released in 2008! Thought Chex Quest 3 was unofficial... UNTIL 2019 baby! General Mills officially re-released all of the previous Chex Quest games in 2019, including the previously unofficial Chex Quest 3.
General mills many, maaany, years ago sponsored some gloriusly cheesy pulp adventure radio stories. I don't think you can get away with having a story, where out of the blue the cast also tells you about their sponsors...oh..wait...that's youtube so nevermind.
Anybody remember Burger King's "Sneak King", where you snuck around various locations like Solid Snake in MG:S, only to surprise them with a Whopper? I loved that game.
I loved Pocket Bike Racer from the same series as that game, with the same BK characters, but now I play it and it feels like complete trash lmao. The only redeeming thing about it is racing as Brooke Burke in a fucking fantasy giant hamburger candyland, no I'm not making that up.
Please can we all take a moment to appreciate the fact for the Camera Operator does such a seemless job for making sure the on screen graphics and the 'head room' of James is perfected framed throughout, even to the point of the re-framing and zoom out at the end! (chief kiss!)
I played Cool spot game it was actually decent, I totally forgot about that till now but I guess ad games worked because to this day my kids only drink 7up.... Damn, does that mean I was brainwashed? 🤔
As a social media manager, yeah, most of the time I wanna speak into other clients voids. When I saw this I was like, laughing hard af but also crying.
I think the takeaway here is that John wants his own videogame. **Last Night This Week Tonight presents: John Oliver vs. The HBO Legal Team. Wax President Deathmatch Edition**
I don't know why, but I practically died laughing when he was describing the spaghttios vs chef boyardee game. I started when he said there would be no music and couldn't stop as he described the carnage they would wreck on each other. It was so serious
I played Chex Quest a couple of years ago. It IS good, in some ways better than Doom: 1. No hitscanners - only projectile armed enemies. 2. Nice music. Not better than Bobby Prince music, but still really nice. 3. Whacky and creative environments.
The McDonald's games on NES was my absolute favorite game as a kid. Granted, as an older Millennial the alternative was fishing in a large truckstop puddle with a safety pin tied to a stick, but nonetheless it was a solid Nintendo game.
@@sigil9414 Depending on where you were, you may remember it as McDonaldLand. Those two children, Mick and Mack, would also appear in "Mick and Mack in Global Gladiators." The two fight the forces of pollution with weird glob guns.
I remember renting a PS1 from blockbuster to play the "Spot Goes To Hollywood" game. I remember my mom looking us directly in the eye and telling us not to break, scratch, or drop anything because she had to put down a deposit. He had a really cute walking animation and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I love how they throw in oddly specific things to really throw people off. It actaully happened to me for once. I was getting distracted around 3:13 and it was like he knew it and snapped at me
At the point the 7UP game was shown I was like, 'they have to include Pepsi Man' and they did. Actual proof that John Oliver is an alien that can read our brainwaves. Also the spaghetti o's game sounds like an indie masterpiece waiting to happen tbh. John and his writers are damn good at what they do.
Can't believe John didn't take advantage of the Quiznos reference to propose a video game with the spong monkeys in it. That would be the first video game I ever bought in my life.
Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure was THE SHIT as a kid. I fucking loved that game. I'm almost 26 now and I'm still remember that game with fond nostalgia
"Yeah, lots of Cap'n Crunch to keep their bones from developing. You wouldn't want them to be too quick and nimble so they can escape this literal dungeon you keep them in." ~JonTron
Yep, it was pretty much the first one that came to mind when he brought up promo games for food products. They licensed a great engine from iD and made a pretty decent game with it.
when I read the title, I immediately thought "Chex Quest or bust" and I was not disappointed. (actually, my first thought was "mmm I like snacks" and my second thought was "Johnny boy is a snack", but my third thought was Chex Quest. Definitely.)
To be fair to the Sunny D social media intern, I believe the “I can’t do this anymore” tweet was actually referring to some sporting event that they were live tweeting at the time, and then all the other brands just started offering them mental assistance …
Only heard about it after the fact, but if I remember correctly, I think it ended up with, like, ten brands all talking legitimately good and important tips for self-care.
@@williamrayburn5314 Is it? Brands having a pretend crisis and trying to be relatable to ultimatily capitalize on the very real mental health issues of very real people. Are you sure that's nice, or has it just worked on you?
@@creativedesignation7880 You have a problem with people giving good advice to other people just because they happen to be doing it from a brand account? Get over yourself. Do you have a problem with TV shows doing the same thing? Those characters experience fake problems too.
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"A professional won't let you exploit them, but a teenager is so desperate to prove himself he'll put up with any toxic bullshit." And that is how the intern was born.
Hence the economic crash...
Exploitation _always_ ends well.
How the unpaid intern was born.
Ah. The backbone of the United States Military...
It's also the case that the teenager has spent his entire life listening to other people tell him what to do. We hear about 'rebellious' teenagers specifically because children are supposed to just shut up and accept whatever they're told by an adult - at home, in school, in church. No backtalk, no difficult questions, certainly no skepticism.
When you go to school, you get good grades by just repeating whatever you know the teacher wants to hear. Well, when you get your first job, the only difference is that you're being _paid_ for accepting whatever you're told. Of course, you don't have to _believe_ it, necessarily. You just have to do what you're told.
Well, that's how I remember it, at least. Admittedly, it's been a long, _long_ time since I was a teenager. :)
Snack Rap artist.
Honey Bun Gang
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"When you want to get it done, look for a teenager." The military has known that for centuries !
It also helped Chex Quest that the Doom engine was highly moddable and said teenager probably already had experience making Doom mods.
Ahahaha so true
Instead of asking, "Why is a kid too young to vote old enough to die in a war?" we asked, "Why is a kid old enough to die in a war too young to vote?" We lowered the voting age when we should have raised the dying age.
Indeed, there's a reason it's called INFANTry :)
I mean that was true in the 90s lol in 2021 most 30-year-olds know how to program now lol.
I love that John Oliver is basically just reading one of his mid-30s writers random thoughts about how cool 1990s ad-based video games were
He really commits as well
This has Seanbaby written all over it
@The Cat-Ear Femboy Café well if you need it done, find a teenager.
I’m in my mid thirties, and Chex Quest *was* fucking rad!
would be Dan obrien formerly from cracked
“7-Up, the poor man’s Sprite and the rich man’s Sierra Mist” deserves all the Emmys.
The Noid
In the 90s, 7-Up was my drink of choice
They peaked when they had Orlando Jones as their pitchman
Was that the same times as their slogan was “Make 7-Up Yours”? One of the all time greatest marketing campaigns
I feel personally attacked😂
7-up is way better than Sprite.
I never thought that John Oliver would ever talk about Pepsiman, but we now live in a world where he does. And I am grateful for living in this world. The only way this world could be any better is if he talks about Sneak King in the future.
He did
Never thought I’d hear John Oliver talk about food video games the way Angry Video Game Nerd has been talking about for over a decade.
This isn’t the crossover I anticipated but here we are and I’m loving every minute of it!!
@@rachel_sj he even mentioned the mowtendoo video
John needs to rip off Conan's Clueless Gamer segment. I'd love the hear what John had to say about some of the most classic games. Although I assume he'd say that the Minecraft guy was fuckable or something.
Yeah but his idea is Terrible last thing gamers need is more brands shovelware games. Chex quest and Pepsi man are exception to the rule
He missed the opportunity at the end to say "I'm going to go convince my staff to put me in a video game, because clearly I'm a certified snack". 😁
Todd, put him in Starfield
Only if Adam Driver is there to pile drive him.
Brilliantly on point.
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Nabisco World minigolf was an important part of my childhood.
When I was a teenager, I bought a used game called 'Darkened Skye" thinking it looked like a cool, fantasy adventure. When I got it home and read the game guide I nearly fell on my ass laughing because the whole game was about Skittles.
What.
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I think I watched a TH-cam documentry from the creater of that. She was talking about how her Skittles contact people didn't care about the game and just wanted some shovelware BS, but she saw it as an opportunity to make a real game so actually made some badass game that just happened to use skittles as currency, or ammunition, or something.
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I loved that game. It was actually pretty cool.
The *only* cereal my Dad ever let me have was wheat Chex, so when we got the Chex Quest CD-rom it was just an extra little prize. I didn’t have a computer at Dad’s house, so I took it to Mom’s, and oh boy!! I had so much fun playing that game.
My stepdad’s mom didn’t like it because she thought it was violent(?) and I had to assure her that it wasn’t, nobody dies, nobody gets injured. In Chex Quest, the bad guys just get teleported home.
Chex cereal is great despite what John says lol
Oh damn, I always felt Wheat Chex was the worst tasting Chex, lol! We were not allowed to eat the heavy sugared cereals either.
Rather ironic that a child had to assure their parental figures that there was no deaths in the game and that the enemies essentially gets "teleported" somewhere else. It's like, who TF is easily traumatized over cartoon violence in this relationship, the child wanting to have fun or the parents with their 80s-style evangelical conservatism?
@@Echo81Rumple83 that’s not ironic
Man, if you enjoyed Chex Quest, Doom proper with all its map packs + mods would have blown your mind. Also, only allowing your child to eat Wheat Chex seems like it should be child cruelty (but seriously, really? I hope your mother was more permissive cereal-wise, I can't imagine never being allowed to have Cap'n Crunch, Kix, Fruity Pebbles, Trix, Cookie Crunch etc. as a kid)
Reminds me that there is a dating simulation game published by KFC game called "I Love You, Colonel Sanders!"
It was released only 2 years ago lol.
KFC is such a mess in it's main marketing I truly believe they're doing everything they could to get the headlines but it was so corporate people tend to ignore.
I cannot fathom why he didn’t bring up the Netflix movie with Mario Lopez and LITERALLY COLONEL SANDERS
Also that video game broke the internet for a hot second
I forgot about that one lmfao. That is prob worse than pepsiman.
Don't forget KFC also put out their own gaming console, complete with a chicken warmer
The KFC game was actually hilarious. Fantastic Marketing honestly
Chex Quest was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. When we got it we booted it up and we played that thing over and over and over again. It was a legitimately well made well balanced game that was loads of fun.
Hell yeah it was fun!
All that what was needed was to break a few pesky laws XD
Balanced like the nutritional content of a bowl of Chex Cereal as part of a Balanced Breakfast!
Brought to you by child labor! :p
Chex Quest was my first FPS. It had a nice sort of horror vibe for me because I didn't have a compatible sound card (remember those?) and thus had to play it in complete silence. Got plenty of jump scares from those green slime monsters. Also, the melee fallback weapon was a spoon.
Can’t believe there was no mention of the killer Pepsi man theme song. Nor did he mention the incredible kfc game where you try to seduce colonel sanders himself. That is a real game that exists, along with a kfc lifetime movie, the lore of kfc runs DEEP.
KFC made their own gaming console that has a built in compartment to keep your chicken warm. KFC is winning at this.
Technically KFC isn’t a snack it’s a fast food restaurant so that’s probably why.
@@Randomtwixy they should’ve made an exception.
If he brought up restaurant chains it would be a crime not to mention the Noid.
KFC also made a tower defense game where you put chicken, fries, and soda towers in the middle of your stomach maze while hunger creeps try to reach your brain
Cheesy marketing tie-in aside, Cool Spot was actually a really solid platformer. Good graphics, responsive controls, fair but challenging difficulty curve, nice soundtrack. It also managed to incorporate the whole soda gimmick into the level environments in interesting ways. I had a lot of fun playing that game back in the day.
Came looking to see if others remembered this game. I spent many happy hours playing it and even got a geeky boyfriend to find it for me again in the late 90s. That train level with the balloons sucked hours of my life away but I don't regret a minute of it.
On the other side of the scale, all the Chester Cheetos games are terrible.
i remember renting this game from a video game rental shop lol
Agree 👍
Cool Spot is genuinely one of the best non-Sonic platformers on the Genesis. The only one I think is better is Ristar.
This video should've ended with a link to a website where you can play a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver themed 8-bit videogame.
Give it a few months
@@needycatproductions6830 wouldn't have to wait a few months if they exploited a teenager.
John Oliver in an RPG. He teams up with ChiiJon to kill God.
Fun fact: someone developed a Tim Allen-themed version of Doom where every visual/sound effect is Tim Allen grunting. You can find it on TH-cam
Or a link to buy bear mace so you can spray yourself in the face with it, I wish my eyes and brain didn't exist right now
Let us not forget that Chex Quest was officially remastered for modern computers and still has active community support.
Omg can they get me passed the field of flemoids
For real, John Oliver, did anyone ever buy Chex except to make Chex Mix?
Because it was a damn good game!
Chex quest HD is like my favorite game in my steam library.
First game I ever owned, still love it
"7up, the poor man's Sprite, and rich man's Sierra Mist"
John is spot on with his soda tier list
True. I literally buy 7up cause it's cheaper than Sprite haha.
7 up is the superior lemon lime soda, anyway. While we're at it, RC Cola is also good.
I like all three, but I'd actually put a reverse order on that. of very minute distinction.
I disagree. 7up just tastes like seltzer water to me.
Bro i was literally right there on that part
Pepsi man has been one of the funniest things in gaming for a while, especially speed running. The fact that someone else is enjoying this meme is fantastic lol
The game genuinely fucking slapped. I put so many hours into that game, the “Pepsi man” singing in the background killed me when I heard it again ahaha
Fun fact! Kotaro Uchikoshi, writer & director of the Zero Escape series, was also a 3D modeler for Pepsiman.
I haven’t watched any gameplay but I love when Dougdoug uses the music in his twitch streams
@@racar0811 Ditto! That was where I'd heard of it before as well, and my goodness, that song is so dang good.
*so dang good (for a Pepsi Man theme song).
Pulling roller coaster tycoon 2 out of a serial box is the highlight of my life. For poor kids like me, having free games in cereal boxes was a godsend
I remember getting an issue of some PC gaming magazine as a birthday gift one time, and it had a CD filled with shareware/demo games. I must have played all those demos 100x each, and it was amazing.
Playstation demo 1+2
@@DustySquitoNM When i was a kid i only ever got video games for christmas and my birthday (jan 6th birthday so pretty much the entire year with no new games) and way too much of my gaming entertainment were demo discs. I remember playing the absolute shit out of the bushido blade demo, never actually played the full game though.
roller coaster tycoon was bomb af
that would have been sooooo epic
Chex Quest was a fantastic game.
Yup. Played the fuck out of it. Didn't even know it was based on the DOOM engine.
Anyone who says otherwise will get sporked
Didn’t they release a remake a year or two ago?
I loved that game.
Exactly what I was thinking - I spent hours and hours each weekend exploring and playing through it. It was challenging, fun, and at the same time, super playable. Once beaten, you could always go back and find something new.
I'm so glad he brought up the fact that chex quest is on the doom engine but I'm also glad John knows the rules of always referring to doom as "FUCKING DOOM" when brought up.
_FUCKING CHEX!_
To be fair though, the explanation for the "violence" wasn't that you were killing the enemies, it's that you were using your ray guns to send them back to their ships.
You Zorched them, it was totally nonviolent.
@@EvilSqueegeeRawr I mean. It wouldn't be the first Oliver has been ecumenical with the truth to present a more compelling story.
"If an aluminum can was a power top" is a sentence that I sincerely couldn't have imagined in my wildest fever dreams
I had to pause while I laughed, it got me so good. Whomever wrote that joke should be proud of themselves, lol
I almost spit my drink out on the laptop with that joke... haha
I'm surprised that Chuck Tingle didn't use that term. (As far as i know.)
New chuck tingle book coming this summer, as predicted by eden: Wet Hot Refreshing Pepsi Summer, where a shy seven-up dot guy gets a job at a soda fountain in his college town freshman year. One day he accidentally trips and spills a milkshake on one of the regulars, a bad boy Pepsi-branded terminator t-1000
You didn't mention the single greatest snack video game: Darkened Skye, a 3D, Zelda-esque adventure game. The story of the game is that tyrannical goblins have banned all color from their kingdom, and it's up to Skye, an elf from the forest of Lynlora, to bring color back to the world using the power of magical Skittles.
That really was the best one!
@@PeckmasterK oh god it wasn't a fever dream?!
omfg! I want it and skittles now
mmmmmm skittles
😮
I remember as a kid referring to Chex Quest as “kid doom” and the actual Doom as “grown up” Doom. I played them both religiously. Good times
We had a teacher that would let us play it in class when we got our project work done 🤣
I can't believe there's enough nostalgia for it that it got a full HD remaster
Did you know there's a chex quest 3?
@@andrewveto lol no, I’ll have to check it out.
@@T0dK0n I discovered it a while ago when I was looking at some old DOS games archive. Haven't played it yet 😅
"If you want someone to say something casually mean to you when they pass you on the street that will live in your brain until the day you die--look for a teenager." I laughed until I cried. Then I wrote it down in my "Concepts to Save" notebook.
“Hahahahaha, look at that high-waisted man! He got feminine hips!”
"If you need go get it done, look for a teenager."
Matt Gaetz's ears just perked up on that one.
what a realization!!! holy$#@!
I believe the word is *"pricked up"* lol
@@tbecker97204
Perk up: 615m hits
pricked up: 7m hits
Pricked up also has no definitions, t doesn't actually mean anything. The correct answer is perked up. When you _perk_ something up, you are making it happier, livelier or interesting.
Matt Gaetz's ears where more interested in the conversation after he heard the phrase "look for a teeenager."
Bahahahaha. LOL. That was really funny. Good one
@@kindlin - dude, I'm quite sure Thomas is fully aware that the phrase is perked up as I originally wrote. He's just taking it one step further with a play on words and calling Matt Gaetz a prick. Of which I concur.
A moment of profound respect for the tech team that imported those QuickTime movies from Pepsi man and pretty much remastered them to a decent resolution. Respect the tech.
About two dozen other gaming channels have already done it. AVGN for one
Yes, I would 100% play the Last Week Tonight's writers' video game, featuring John Olivier, and I'm sure you can find a great teenager to make it.
It needs to have Mr. Nutter Butter as his sidekick.
for now we'll have to settle for squinting at the mr bean video game and pretending
The show has couple of crazy characters on it of a fighter. Someone get Nether Realm on the horn!
That could be the whole story arc for the game, John Oliver in a 1st person adventure game on a quest to find teenagers to 'make it'...
What exactly would a John Oliver game be? He couldn't be a superhero, no one would ever believe that. I guess you could put John in like a paint ball shooting gallery where he is the target and you win by covering the target. You could choose avatars of people that he's pissed off over the years on his show as the shooters.
Or have him do his show and every time he swears you have to put soap in his mouth....Ivory brand, of course.
Other ideas?
KFC made a dating game and it was absolutely insane. Didnt make me want to eat KFC but the game was pretty epic.
I grew up in Japan, Pepsi man was amazing. When you’d buy a bottle of Pepsi you could get a Pepsi man figurine that you could attach to your bottle cap. The Pepsi man commercials were the best.
We had that game in Egypt too (as a Playstation game), it got so popular that it got unofficially dubbed to Egyptian Arabic!
I have a whole slew of Dragon Quest bottlecaps....but they came in blind boxes. Do people actually put those on beverages and carry them around? *boggle* You would think they would come as the top when you buy a beverage and then you could just collect them like Blanton's bourbon stoppers. I have no need to accessorize my Coke, alas.
@@HassanSelim0 Amusing to think you need to understand a language to properly enjoy Pepsiman lol
@@genekwagmyrsingh9433 Not really he just means it eventually got modded by fans, we all understood it fine afaik
@@genekwagmyrsingh9433 the good thing about the Egyptian mod was they replaced the little bit of dialog that happens at the start of the first level. The Egyptian Arabic audio was funny 😂
“The poor man’s Sprite and the rich man’s Sierra Mist” really needs to be on the bottle from here on out…
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Yes and...love your username.
at least there is still sugar in 7up. As opposed to Sprite that has fallen victim to the Coca Cola Company going full retard and decide that the zero sugar version of Sprite should be the ONLY version of sprite.
@@OnionChoppingNinja ok
I love how John doesn't call it just Doom, but "Fucking DOOM": He puts the respect the name deserves.
Agreed. Although with ZeniMax purchasing iD in 2009, and now Microsoft owning ZeniMax ... IDK. Sure, Doom Eternal is mostly decent, but it lacks Romero's touch.
word....
He rips and tears.
@@Saavik256 Romero also touched Daikitana. His finger prints were all over it
Interesting how with any other IP, that sort of wording could be interpreted as derisive. But not DOOM. Never DOOM.
I want a pasta-themed fighting game now. No particular brands, just a bunch of different anthropomorphized pasta. Spaghetti, ravioli, lasagna, etc. Call it 'Hasta la Pasta'. Extra points if the winner eats the loser.
Chocolate and candy bars. I would love a good re-branding - like, of the “MARS Effect“ series, for example... but I would also settle for a little “Wunderbar Woman” spin-off (or of any other candy bar of the Cadbury brand).
"I am gonna fusilli you up, be-yotch!!"
Good news! Can be done!
Good... news..? It's a waifu gacha game.
I love this.
Any game where you can legally eat your opponent is a fun time
"Taste is one of the senses and honestly its overrated"
When you thought he couldnt get more British.
Food is a thing you do to stay alive, quite trying to make it sexy!!!
You just won the Internet today. Tell your friends.
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Yea so British that he uses the wrong pronunciation for Aluminium and says "Aluminium"
@@jaggythistle76 you mean aluminum, and he's American now, so he can say it that way.
I remember a really awesome game from Cap'n Crunch cd-rom that I got a lot of play time out of in the late 90s/early 00s. Good times.
Yes! That game slapped like crazy!
I spent too many hours on that game and I don't regret a minute.
I remember Kellogg's 'Tony & Friends' games. They were terrible, but I like that they tried.
Yeah! You had to raise a creature something right? I feel like there was a skateboarding minigame too!
It's called Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure
I think John honestly can tell sometimes just how much we miss him during his numerous hiatuses and that's why he posts these funny dumb AF web exclusives just to remind us that he loves us too.... Or maybe I'm just too stoned and John just likes to f*** with our heads with these random ass topics!
Probably a little of both
Or… it is part of his contract, the one offering him high pay and long vacations, that he pre-record web exclusives to keep folks in mind of the show?
It ain’t called show-love-fest, it’s called show business.
I think he's just experimenting with how stupid his topics can get while still retaining the same audience. He's probably very disappointed in us by now... But just a little proud.
The latter seems like a real possibility.
@@markstevens1729 I wanna believe John loves me 😔
"When you need to get it done, look for a teenager"
-Matt Gaetz campaign slogan
How did he get through that whole DOOM x Cereal segment without saying "cereal killer"?
This is beneath him.
Missed opportunity. :)
@@---nu4ed but it’s still funny even if it’s low hanging fruit 🥴
Too obvious a joke, maybe?
@@ericjourdain892 well when you're zazu, everything is beneath you, because he can fly!
The way John warns people about looking up NSFW Pepsi Man art has my dying. He's definitely seen some things by that tone of voice lmao
Pepsi girl
No it’s really good you don’t get it like I looked it up ad a joke but they really did a good job on the art it’s surprisingly hot
m.th-cam.com/video/q_9SsX7HJhE/w-d-xo.html
He has a sadness in his eyes at that part that makes me think he's been through it!
Rule 34
it warms my heart to see people sharing their memories of their favorite snack food video games, it really was a different time for snacks then
Same here. That was back when social media was passing notes in class.
3:15 „Hey, hey, hey, hey ... Chex Quest!“ I don’t know why I find this line so funny!
Yeah, John should consider getting into comedy maybe.
When John is doing stories about cereal and video games, I feel better about the state of the world.
they needed something more light-hearted or their writers would quit from depression.
I am absolutely delighted by the mention of Chex Quest as Scott is a good friend of mine. I'll make sure he sees this.
Did he continue making games?
@@AntonAdelson He still does software development as a freelancer.
The winter doesn't begin because the snow is coming or because the ground is freezing or because the leaves fall off the trees. No, the true arrival of winter is when John Oliver says I'll see you in February. It sends a chill down my spine. My Monday mornings are now irrelevant
big mood my friend
I know. Like a little groundhog
I still remember the cereal boxes that hooked me on a brand for ten years by giving away copies of the previous wave of PC games - early 2000s, and they gave away Age of Empires (the original one) and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. it was how I first found Age of Empires and how I first learned Tony Hawk existed at all, and I still have those two original game discs kicking around somewhere.
Marketing.
I also still have my Nutri-grain copy of Age of Empires. Not sure if I could install it from the disc given how some 2000s-era installers can be weird about things like hard drive space (like not being able to detect the true available space on the hard drive)
Fun fact
Until like 1-2 years ago i thought tony hawk was only a video game character ans not real life
Aging myself here, but my grandma was super into couponing when I was little and we always got weird promo shit from companies. One of the things I got was a Kool-aid man video game for Atari. You had to go around a house and collect all of the ingredients to make kool-aid and avoid some kind of baddies. If you collected everything, the kool-aid man burst through the house. Pretty cool.
@@elbowsbuns1896 If was an Atari 2600, the Kool-Aid Man yelled "OOOOOHDDDYLAAAAADEEEYLAAAAD"
I guess it would be pretty cool...to certain people.. Grape being the favorite flavor of colored sugar mix
As a teenage programmer who started a company at 17, this is accurate. The benefit of young coders to businesses is simple: we don't know how to say "no" yet, are eager to impress, and already have been coding for a few years. So we can be overworked and usually still finish. This poor kid finished school at 3:30 (already eight hours of doing shit) then proceeded to code until 11. Sounds like my life... I wanted to die lol
I'm sorry :( hope you have a great work life balance now and no one is taking advantage of you!
One of my favorite games as a kid was unironicly the captain cruch game where you raise a crunchling.
Haha yeah I played the hell out of that
I played that shit so much as one of the summer day cares my mom sent me to as a kid
Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure! I loved that game so much!
Yessssd
Mine was a 2d platformer from Yogho Yogho, a Dutch yoghurt drink. Loved that game
Darkened Skye - a legitimately good fantasy adventure game, with a well-voiced cast and a wonderfully snarky sidekick, all about collecting skittles to use magic, and visiting all the fantastical locations from those old taste the rainbow ads.
Game controls like butt, though.
Wow, I had forgotten about that! I really liked it.
@@Fools_Requiem Also pretty buggy. I feel at some point Skittles said, look dudes, we're not trying to make the next great game, just ship it already. Which is a shame, because at it's best it was absolutely terrific.
@@nytimesguy Yes!!! Darkened Skye was amazing!!
The thing that amazes/baffles me about PepsiMan is that, as John noted, the game was exclusive to the Japanese market… and yet 100% of its spoken and acted dialogue are in seemingly native English.
Also, all this talk of brand mascot tie in games, and yet not one mention of “Sneak King”? You’re slipping, Oliver… or are you just scared?
I guess it didn't fit his narrative that it was a 1990s trend? Idk still a good segment
Big Bumpin' was better than sneak king. its a great party game.
One possible theory is that it was intended for the North American (and maybe European) market, but the execs didn't think it would sell well, so it was cut last minute. Also, a lot of Western media is marketed and sold in Japan, a direct result of the early 80s economic boom and tightening the business relations between Japan and the US. The "city pop", "j-pop" and other kinds of west-inspired music was sort of a reflection of prosperity back then.
And for another example, as a music buff I can attest that even to this day, albums from U.S. artists are sold in Japan, where their booklets have info and bios in Japanese, and lyrics are often given both in English _and_ translated into Japanese. (As a matter of fact, this whole thing with Japanese exclusive releases, labels publishing and reissuing them, hiring music journalists and translators etc. is a small industry in its own right...) So it's not that weird that a videogame discarded as "not worth it" in the US would be released as a niche exclusive in Japan.
Killer7 is also fully English voice acted. With Jimmy Neutron saying he's going to get revenge, and Twilight Sparkle threatening your life while slitting her wrists!
**Edit:** Grim from Grim Adventures feels no remorse when seeing a dead body and is a pro at Russian roulette.
@@NarkySawtooth. wait.. there's Jimmy Neutron and Twilight Sparkle in Killer7?!
ah, right, for a moment I forgot it was a Suda51 game
I went to school for game design and it would be my life's HONOR to create a video game based on John Oliver.
Then just do it and send it to him.
That would be hilarious. You should do it. He can collect Emmy and Peabody awards.
Please do it 🙏
You know if he hasn't already come up with a game, there's a team working on it. Better let them know quick!
@@RaindropWorksPDX As long as there isn't a teenager on the team, he has plenty of time.
Petition for John to make a TH-cam gaming channel where he plays ridiculous brand games.
Conan O'Brien should invite John for a new "Clueless Gamer" episode
He did, it's called JonTron...
@@42Mrgreenman yeah but you know… fuck jontron
I'll never forget the day I opened a box of cereal and a _friggin entire video game_ popped out.
My parents didn't even let us play shooters. I was a 6-year-old homeschooler whose only video games were of the edu-tainment variety, like SimPark and the Cluefinders. But they let me play this game. And it was AWESOME!!!
Big shoutout also goes to the game Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure, which my brothers and I played the heck out of after it, too, fell out of a cereal box (also in the 90's).
1:57 "poor man's Sprite and rich man's Sierra Mist" is the most accurate description of 7up
The best food tie in video game ever was "Yo! Noid" for the NES that was released in 1990. It was a game centered around "The Noid" who was the mascot for Dominos pizza. You were tasked by the mayor of New York to hunt down the evil clone of yourself using a yo-yo as your weapon. The game had an overworld map like Super Marios Brothers and one level has you navigate it on a skateboard and another is done on a pogo stick called "The Pizza Crusher". At the end of every few levels you face off with an evil Noid in a pizza eating contest. There even is a ice level where you have to fight guys who push curling stones at you and polar bears dressed as hockey players. That game ruled.
I LOVED that game! Hooooly shit memories unlocked :)
This, jacked up with Game Genie super powers
OMG yes...and double yes with the game genie...hahaha.
I just posted the same thing, I wish I had read through the comments earlier. I loved this game!
I had drastically different impressions of the game, and thought it was crap… though mine was the PC version so it might have been a different worse game.
Edit: Just looked it up in Wikipedia and found the following
As part of the advertising campaign, a computer game was released in 1989 called Avoid the Noid. The object of the game is to deliver a pizza within a half-hour time limit in an apartment building swarming with Noids (some of which are armed with pizza-seeking missiles or water balloons). The common version is version 1.0 and has CGA graphics and PC speaker sound effects, although version 1.1 also exists which added support for EGA graphics and Adlib music. In 1990, Capcom released a different video game, Yo! Noid, for the NES.
The most amazing thing about Chex Quest: it was a fantastic game. There's a dedicated community that still releases updated and modded version of the game today.
It also got a sequel back in the 90s, and another one recently.
Chex eternal when
@@natesgeeklounge Chex eternal would be crazy lol
Chex Quest was great.
Welp I know what I'm doing this holiday.
I remember tons of free games in food boxes.
My grandma had so many games at her house because of all the snacks she always had for the grandkids.
I still have the sega smash pack cd I got from a box of cereal! Sadly lost the babar and curious george dvds.
I was about to say "if John didn't even mention Pepsiman, what's even the point of this video?" and there it is. Perfection.
I'd love a follow up episode where John talks about fast food brands getting into games. There's the nightmare inducing burger King game and the (in)famously bizarre KFC dating sim and the more recent KFC gaming console that plays games AND keeps your chicken warm
Seriously, there could be a segment all about KFC, I know it!
All the KFC stuff has only been in the last few years tho; kinda diverges from the 'style' and era when Snack King, Avoid the Noid, and the other fast food restaurant games were...
Funny bit.. but I'm pretty sure snacks still target gamers plenty. It's hard to find a bag of Doritos that doesn't give you some stupid weapon skin for a game you stopped playing already.
and how about that whole team of streamers hired under Red Bull's brand?
Doritos are right now (in my country at least) giving you in-game codes for Call of Duty (I think that's the game). Monster energy, although not a snack, is doing the same for Apex Legends.
yeah but they arent making the games themselves these days
I swear Chex just remade Chex Quest too. I remember seeing the characters on bags earlier this year. Plus, Nerds put out a D&D module.
@@walkingonneedles sure they do. KFC and Wendy's had a few in the past few years iirc. Sure they mostly for the memes, but they count
Also please note that the background music for the Pepsi Man game is just a chorus singing "Pepsi Maaaaaan" over and over again... truly world-shattering music
Chex quest is a goddamn masterpiece. One of your main weapons is a nuclear powered spork.
A SPORK!
I played tf out of that game in 1996.
YES, thank you! Id play that game today if I could.
@@ivanparas ditto, got to find all the secret rooms. Only thing I was thinking was lord I hope he mentions check quest and bammmm.
Chex Quest was amazing! Thanks to the anonymous teenager who gave us unsuspecting kids such a great FPS. Where are the ports at? Need Chex Quest on Switch.
Edit: Thanks Scott Holman!
@@ivanparas i belive it was re released on steam last year
The game will be called "Last Week Tonight: Tomorrow's Hero" and it will have John Oliver gaining access to news from the future and using it to bring about changes in the present day. It will be like a mix of Quantic Dream and Telltale type games, with action scenes like in Platinum games, including a couple of Grasshopper Manufacture style retro mini games between major segments.
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Ooh! I LOVE point-and-click adventure games!
Can't wait for the AVGN to review it.
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We can also talk about how Dole partnered with Sega to bring us the Super Monkey Ball series, which has over 20 games in it, the most recent of which was released LAST YEAR. (though Dole no longer has a part of it, it's still insane the a goddamned banana company helped to bring us this big of a game franchise).
I'll also point out that the previously mentioned Chex Quest has THREE games. The most recent of which was released in 2008! Thought Chex Quest 3 was unofficial... UNTIL 2019 baby! General Mills officially re-released all of the previous Chex Quest games in 2019, including the previously unofficial Chex Quest 3.
General mills many, maaany, years ago sponsored some gloriusly cheesy pulp adventure radio stories. I don't think you can get away with having a story, where out of the blue the cast also tells you about their sponsors...oh..wait...that's youtube so nevermind.
Anybody remember Burger King's "Sneak King", where you snuck around various locations like Solid Snake in MG:S, only to surprise them with a Whopper? I loved that game.
I was just going to comment this same thing. Hilarious game.
A guy on reddit has like 1000 copies of that game, so if you wanna play it again...
I loved Pocket Bike Racer from the same series as that game, with the same BK characters, but now I play it and it feels like complete trash lmao.
The only redeeming thing about it is racing as Brooke Burke in a fucking fantasy giant hamburger candyland, no I'm not making that up.
Personally I think the pocket bike racing game killed it. It was a legit fun racing game.
The other BK game (crazy how they made MULTIPLE games) with the bumper cars was also very fun. Big Bumpin' was it? Good times.
John knows EXACTLY what he's doing when he says "...played Pepsiman to completion."
The aluminum can is a power-top after all
He also knew exactly what he was doing when saying it contains the word "amongst"
I love how the web exclusives are topics where they are like "yeah this is one for the stoned freeloaders!"
Please can we all take a moment to appreciate the fact for the Camera Operator does such a seemless job for making sure the on screen graphics and the 'head room' of James is perfected framed throughout, even to the point of the re-framing and zoom out at the end! (chief kiss!)
Which one is James?
“If you need to get it done, get a teenager.”
That is straight anime logic.
Hasn’t failed yet why challenge it
Damn near every mech anime ever
Yeet a teenager into a large metal object with big boom sticks, what could go wrong
That was also Epstines moto
I played Cool spot game it was actually decent, I totally forgot about that till now but I guess ad games worked because to this day my kids only drink 7up....
Damn, does that mean I was brainwashed? 🤔
A little bit? TY for telling your story BTW- Delightful😆💜😘👍
Those sea crabs had it coming.
I blame that game for my love of the color green, the inside the bottle levels were so pretty to me as a child.
Same!!! I totally forgot it until now! Didn't know Chex made a game lolll
Spot goes to Hollywood was great
You gotta actually feel for the Sunny D rep who was probably just being true to themselves and not the brand when they said "I can't do this anymore"
And then they got replaced. "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
@@yarion4774 Social media managers aren't allowed to have feelings, only marketing ideas.
As a social media manager, yeah, most of the time I wanna speak into other clients voids. When I saw this I was like, laughing hard af but also crying.
“For six weeks, in 1992, Chex cereal, FUCKED” is perhaps my favorite delivery
Chex quest was the shit… but the craziest brand tie in game has to be Pepsi Man on the ps1
The electric spork!
I think the takeaway here is that John wants his own videogame.
**Last Night This Week Tonight presents: John Oliver vs. The HBO Legal Team. Wax President Deathmatch Edition**
"Trying to murder a mouse in payjamas" is a sentence i never thought I'd hear. So thank you John Oliver, for that :)
And yet I remember that scene in the game
“If you need to get it done, get a teenager.”
Sounds like a Gaetz mantra.
It’s the Official Labor Policy of the Republican Party
Wasn't that tattooed on Jeffrey Epstein's shoulder?
@@Punnikin1969 technically, he preferred preteens if he could get them but they're... God, I just realized what I was about to say. Sorry, carry on.
@@a.humanbeing8171 ... harder to come by.
@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt
To be fair, child labor is a lot older than capitalism.
I don't know why, but I practically died laughing when he was describing the spaghttios vs chef boyardee game. I started when he said there would be no music and couldn't stop as he described the carnage they would wreck on each other. It was so serious
I'm surprised as a Brit, he never brought up the UK games like Mr. Wimpy and the penile shaped horrors of the Pepperami video game.
Helllooo you!
I have not been to the UK since I am not going to tell you when. Does Wimpy's still exist there? Thank you in advance for your eagerly awaited reply.
@@GR46404 as someone from England, I would say kinda. I seen them before but I only seen two in my life.
There was a Wimpy game?!
As an American I just cringed😂
I played chex quest as a kid and it was honestly unironically a very good game
Well yeah - it was Doom reskinned
I played Chex Quest a couple of years ago. It IS good, in some ways better than Doom:
1. No hitscanners - only projectile armed enemies.
2. Nice music. Not better than Bobby Prince music, but still really nice.
3. Whacky and creative environments.
What did you play it on? A Nintendo?
@@HH-gv8mx its a pc game
@@HH-gv8mx pc, it came on a disk. I'm not even sure how we got it tbh.
I'm 48 years old and I cannot believe I've never heard of the Chex/DOOM game until this moment. I was playing so much god damn DOOM when I was a kid.
That’s caus You’re a bit too old to have played Chex quest my friend
Shout out to the Angry Video Game Nerd and the Completionist for doing deep dives on these games!
Weren't both of those guys cancelled for doing... stuff to their interns?
The McDonald's games on NES was my absolute favorite game as a kid. Granted, as an older Millennial the alternative was fishing in a large truckstop puddle with a safety pin tied to a stick, but nonetheless it was a solid Nintendo game.
Was that the game where it turned the player/gravity upside down and you had to jump and run along the top of the level?
MCKids???? I played the hell out of that game.
@@sigil9414 Depending on where you were, you may remember it as McDonaldLand. Those two children, Mick and Mack, would also appear in "Mick and Mack in Global Gladiators." The two fight the forces of pollution with weird glob guns.
@@sigil9414 YES! I'd totally forgot the name. Man, major flashbacks.
I remember renting a PS1 from blockbuster to play the "Spot Goes To Hollywood" game.
I remember my mom looking us directly in the eye and telling us not to break, scratch, or drop anything because she had to put down a deposit.
He had a really cute walking animation and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
LOL you as well?
"Farfallity" was, ironically, a chef kiss moment.
I believe you have this
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nice name...for the noodle, of course
Honestly one of the best subtle jokes I’ve seen in awhile
"it comes in flavors of wheat rice and corn even though all three taste like the box it came in" I'm wheezing
I love how they throw in oddly specific things to really throw people off.
It actaully happened to me for once. I was getting distracted around 3:13 and it was like he knew it and snapped at me
Happened to me too. My ADHD was checking out.
Or chexing out.
adhd had me zoning a couple secs there too, like he totally knows LOL
ADHD had me too and John brought me back.
He speaks our tongue, the king.
At the point the 7UP game was shown I was like, 'they have to include Pepsi Man' and they did. Actual proof that John Oliver is an alien that can read our brainwaves.
Also the spaghetti o's game sounds like an indie masterpiece waiting to happen tbh. John and his writers are damn good at what they do.
Really feel like Burger King's "Sneak King" should've been in this, John would love its weirdness
Big Bumpin was the best game ever. Never a controller not being used when that one went in.
Agreed.
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Yes!!! Best fucking game ever
That was cool, but it was way later than the 90s. Totally different era of consoles.
Can't believe John didn't take advantage of the Quiznos reference to propose a video game with the spong monkeys in it. That would be the first video game I ever bought in my life.
"Oh boy! There's no POSSIBLE way that this topic could get depressing!"
"The best Doom mod was made with exploitive child labor"
"Ah."
Nothing not depressing under capitalism.
Well played Capitalism
Well played
🤣🤣 look for a teenager is never a good thing to say...
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@@ichijofestival2576 found the teenager desperate to prove themselves and put up with BS.
@@doggytheanarchist7876 The amount of money you can make within the capitalistic structure isn’t depressing, but I agree its got a lot of issues
"If you need to get it done, look for a teenager." Isn't that Matt Gaetz's motto?
The best part about Chex Quest to me, is that Brutal Doom is compatible with it. With extra gory green slime
Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure was THE SHIT as a kid. I fucking loved that game. I'm almost 26 now and I'm still remember that game with fond nostalgia
I'm surprised they didn't do one for 'Count Chocula' or 'Fruity Pebbles'.
Or LUCKY CHARMS! Lol 😂🤣😂😳🙄🙄
"Yeah, lots of Cap'n Crunch to keep their bones from developing. You wouldn't want them to be too quick and nimble so they can escape this literal dungeon you keep them in." ~JonTron
To be fair, Chex quest was amazing, it's a cult classic. Has a massive mod community today.
Still one of my favorite games.
It's genuinely a very good Doom Clone. And because it runs on the same engine..... you can change the game from Rated E to rated M
Yep, it was pretty much the first one that came to mind when he brought up promo games for food products. They licensed a great engine from iD and made a pretty decent game with it.
Same, still my favorite.
It also got a complete remaster on Steam that was released this year that includes both games and extra levels
when I read the title, I immediately thought "Chex Quest or bust" and I was not disappointed.
(actually, my first thought was "mmm I like snacks" and my second thought was "Johnny boy is a snack", but my third thought was Chex Quest. Definitely.)
Same
Literally same. Chex quest was the shit.
Y’all know it’s back right?
As a kid who's parents wouldn't buy them Doom, I probably played Chex Quest 20 times
"I'm going to convince my staff to put me in a video game."
MultiVersus, a thing that now exists, would be a perfect spot.
To be fair to the Sunny D social media intern, I believe the “I can’t do this anymore” tweet was actually referring to some sporting event that they were live tweeting at the time, and then all the other brands just started offering them mental assistance …
Only heard about it after the fact, but if I remember correctly, I think it ended up with, like, ten brands all talking legitimately good and important tips for self-care.
@@scaper8 aww..that's nice 🤗
@@williamrayburn5314 Is it? Brands having a pretend crisis and trying to be relatable to ultimatily capitalize on the very real mental health issues of very real people. Are you sure that's nice, or has it just worked on you?
@@creativedesignation7880 You have a problem with people giving good advice to other people just because they happen to be doing it from a brand account? Get over yourself.
Do you have a problem with TV shows doing the same thing? Those characters experience fake problems too.
@@creativedesignation7880 I often pay to tear up at people pretending to have problems and crises. As in going to a cinema
The description of the "fight of the century" between the chef and spaghettios guy was pretty chilling.
Burger King’s “Sneak King” game will always have my heart.
I LOVE YOU JOHN OLIVER. You are life!
Seeing John Oliver talking about Pepsiman is a sign today is going to be good
I feel like John's never gotten over being left out of that one episode of Community.
Which episode of Community?
@@octavianjoseph8633 S3E20, Digital Estate Planning.