Context of A Sound of Thunder: It's based on a Short Story by Ray Bradbury who presents this future where folk can pay some guys with time machine access to hunt down certain ANCIENT Specimens, they also established a path that by all means is MEANT to be followed so you don't cause cataclysmic changes. The Educated Future is where they came from and our story's protagonist makes one little, itty bitty mistake...that being stepping outside the path and accidentally flattening a butterfly (And leaving a boot print in prehistoric times) which changes a BUNCH of stuff, including who won the election in their year AND the literacy of the Human Race. And it's implied the PoV character is going to get EXECUTED outright for his fuck-up.
@@joshlemagne The Time and Punishment segment, yeah. "As long as I stand perfectly still and don't touch anything, I won't destroy the future." "Stupid bug! You go squish now!" EDIT: If Wikipedia is to be believed, the movie version of "A Sound of Thunder" changed quite a bit. Something to do with "time waves" devolving everything or something.
55:25 Fun Fact: While Galidor _did_ precede Ben 10 by a couple years, the "limbs turn into machines" concept was done in the 90's by M. Rex, a comic that would eventually be the basis for Generator Rex, made by the same guys who created Ben 10 (Which on second thought, might be the reason you thought of Ben 10 there)
@@SympleSymon So... the chain goes: Turbo Teen (80's) -> M.Rex (90's) -> Galidor (00's) -> Generator Rex (2010's) -> ???? I guess we are about due for this decade's incarnation
Iron Kid was some kind of CGI cartoon that they localized as Eon Kid. i saw a bit of an episode once when i was in middle school. those are all the things i know about Iron Kid
I used to be a K-1 fan and the two GBA adaptations are among the best based on the license, the two are very similar, the second is just like the first with some updated content. There were somewhat decent and more "simulation" oriented K-1 games on Saturn and Playstation but I found the GBA ones more fun to play. Hernesto Hoost, Remy Bonjasky, Jerome Lebanner, Peter Aerts, Mark Hunt, Mirko CroCop (who also had a pretty good MMA run)... these guys are legends.
@@Alexalicious it is very 90s and everything you’d expect from the studio behind Battlefield Earth and Ecks & Sever. I’d have loved it too if I had seen it at the time as a kid, because dinosaur creatures and time travel guaranteed me a good time!
That Flashback game is not a finished game. It is a beta leaked by the development team and it was supposed to be a sequel of the original (ignoring the events of "Fade to black", I guess) The character of Conrad from the first game it's just a placeholder because that rom was a work in progress It's sad that the studio went bankrupt and that game was never finished, because the backgrounds looked dope! The Flashback games would be great material for a "What happened" episode, Matt! The first one initially was a licensed "Godfather" game (years before the EA one) that went wild on the development and ended up being his own thing. The sequel "Fade to black" was one of the first 3D third person shooters ever made, being in development way before "Tomb Raider" There was some kind of reboot of the first game made by Ubisoft that was hated by everyone and the recent sequel was delayed many times and when released received very bad reviews... There's material in there!
A Sound of Thunder was based on a atrocity of a movie based on the iconic short story by the legendary Ray Bradbury. The film was one of the last gasps of breaths by the infamous Franchise Pictures, known for Battlefield Earth, Driven, Ballistic Ecks vs Sever, & 3000 Miles to Graceland Infamy. The film is awful, one of the worst piles of crap I’ve ever watched. I don’t blame Peter Hyams though as there were so many cooks in the soup and broth. And I liked The Relic, Stay Tuned, & Sudden Death.
Interesting, because I'd heard of the film being terrible but being a Bradbury story I figured the story itself would be actually very good. Enlightening to learn that's pretty much the case.
Dancing Sword, you have to perform the combo shown with the right timing to do the magic stuff. You can practice in the pause menu if I remember right.
Dual Blades is basically "How to Draw Manga or Anime: The Fighting Game", I swear. Then, that Jurassic Park 3 game had the Beheaded Kamikaze scream sound from Serious Sam in it. Truly, this is a gift that keeps on giving!
Dude, Dual Blades just unlocked an old memory. I played this so long ago as a kid and could never remember the name. I've been searching for this game for probably almost 20 years I guess lol. I knew exactly what it was as soon as Matt sliced dudes torso in half at the beginning! Lol
The console/PC version of Galidor is pure *What happened?* material. The game was cancelled in 2002, but a budget pc game publisher managed to get the beta pc build on store shelves in 2004 alongside other Lego PC rereleases. Lego was near bankruptcy when the game was canned, and it was in their product catalogues, so they probably didn't even notice it had been canned while they were rolling in Bionicle money, selling old licenses to budget labels.
Dancing Sword Senkou has Noizi Itou's nice character designs, it seems to have been a selling point. Although, the company at the time (MTO) was more known for girls games including dress-up games and the dog games that got exported under the Petz games label, so I guess it was an attempt into a new genre.
Fun Fact: the Ray Bradbury story A Sound of Thunder is the basis for that Simpsons Halloween Special segment where Homer goes back to the time 'when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos' and his actions radically alter the future.
It was wild to see who directed Black Belt Challenge when the credits came up, since that director would go on direct Killzone 2 & 3 and Horizon 1 & 2.
K1 was a pretty brutal kickboxing show, i can't believe they released such a cartoonish game. Mark hunt is a terrifying knockout machine, as are most of the fighters in there!
The super bar on Black Belt Challenge works like this: - Once is full do down+HP+HK to do the supper uppercut - One in mid air, repeat the button sequence that show in the bar, it will be the one made by your attacks when filling it, minus the final 2 letters.
It always amazes me just how deep the GBAs library is. This video unlocked so mamy obscure childhood memories. In regards to the K1 game, I think the meter thats next to your life bar represents overall body health. The top is your head, the middle is your body and bottom are your legs. You take alot of damage in one area itll change color, which I also assume effects how well you give/take damage.
I see we had the exact same experience with Dancing Sword. It seems you just have to do a combo and the lava freezes and you can walk over it from what I saw in a video, but I could never make it work. A shame because a beat 'em up with five playable characters might have good replay value.
That's exactly the case. You can find the combo written down in the game, and online, but the problem is the timing. It has to be perfect for it to trigger. Pretty dumb for a basic thing you need to do to progress.
From the one piece of dialogue in the beginning, I think the Sound of Thunder might be loosely and I mean loosely based on the short story the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this story, there is a company that figures out time travel, and then decides to use this technology to host safaris across history. But because they don’t really know how time travel works, they can only allow you to shoot animals that are about to die anyway, and they make a levitating path that you have to follow during the safari. The main character goes back in time to hunt a T-Rex, but during this safari he steps off the path and steps on a butterfly, and then when he gets back to the present everything is slightly different, for instance the President of the US is a fascist. Simply because of the line “STAY ON THE PATH” and the how every million years ago cutaway, the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury may be a loose inspiration.
I totally forgot there was a GBA port of Flashback, it looks so weird. The old animations of the characters with the new artstyle somewhat clashes to me.
I remember Iron kid was a cartoon that was brought over to America but the title was changed to "Eon Kid" possibly to keep the Marvel lawyers off their back
The GBA has always been known to have one of the most solid game line ups. It seems like, somehow, everyone was determined to put their best on this system. Another GBA video like this would be a good idea.
heya man, I've watched so many of these and never commented, but you are really great at what you do. You've managed to play so many of these random ass games and always keep it relevant and break down the design whilst never seeming tired of it all. Love your work man and keep it uppp
The devs behind Juka did Racing (Orbital Media) Gears Advance which is the best GBA racer and also the pretty good Scurge:Hive which was kinda Metroid but isometric.
There actually was a cancelled PS2 game called Jurassic Park Survival. It looked like a cool Dino Crisis-esque action game, and you can even find a trailer on it! Its a shame, despite the fact there are SO MANY JP3 themed games, its hard to point to one as "the game" for the movie. Its not like the SNES/Genesis ones or TLW on PS1/Saturn. Most of them for JP3 are decent/cheaply made at best.
Hey, Matt McMuscles. You should play some arcade games you have never heard of. I have some suggestions you should play. Suggestions: 64th Street: A Detective Story Numan Athletics Twinkle Star Sprites Karate Blazers In the Hunt Windjammers Last Bronx
I lol'd when you hit Dancing Sword because I knew what was coming. To get past the lava you have to select the ice magic and then do the 6-hit combo AS FAR AS I CAN TELL because the controls are so poor the combo is impossible to perform for all practical intents and purposes.
Try the GOG version for Pray for Death, the reviews seem like they made it work over there. Also, speaking of portable fighters, did you see that game Pocket Bravery on steam? It's like, going for the Fatal Fury Pocket look, I think you'd be into that.
You ever play Bruce Lee for the Gameboy Advance? It's kind of like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in terms of mechanics, but it plays a lot better. A surprising hidden gem for me. Looking it up now, it was apparently developed by... Blizzard?!
0:15 now hold up. Didn't BAM! Entertainment help publish the Game Boy Advance versions of Fire Pro Wrestling outside of Japan? Aren't those entertaining games?
There's definitely some Worst Fighting Game content in here, not because the games are particularly bad but just the sheer intrigue of where they came from.
Will say when you were playing the K1 game, one of the coolest dudes was who you were playing as. Nicholas Pettas now has a channel on TH-cam called junk food Japan and it’s dope.
Iron Kid was a cartoon. It was one of those jank 3D cartoons from the 2000s but I watched it a lot just because it was on at a time I could watch the TV
Dual Blades is utterly baffling yet deeply intriguing to me. Like, why is the "Kilroy was here" phrase painted on the wall in that one stage? What significance does an old WW2-era graffiti have in the game's lore? It's so out of place I can't help but want to understand more about it.
I remember seeing that phrase on stuff I watched as a kid, only learned what it meant when I grew up so I thought it was just some joke I was unaware of.
Hey Matt, while you were playing Black Belt Challenge, I noticed that it was directed by Mathijs de Jonge... If I'm not mistaken, he's the dude who went on to direct Horizon: Zero Dawn with Guerilla Games
Three Anime-based games you've likely never heard of that are kind of interesting: Boukyku no Senritsu, the first Futari wa Pretty Cure game (Futari wa Pretty Cure: Ariena~i! Yume no Sono wa Daimeikyuu) and Mermaid Melody Pitch Pitch Pitch. IDK how blind you want to go into these games but the first is an action game, the second a puzzle platformer and the third a rhythm game. EDIT: These are not great games, but I promise they're not total stinkers.
I played Dual Blades as a kid. To me it was basically Soul Calibur combined with Mortal Kombat, but obscure as far as I knew. I really enjoyed it as a kid, but I doubt many others had the same experience that I did. Either way I'm fond of it.
Flashback! Yo! My fav game of all time. WAIT. There was a sequel that wasn't Fade to Black, The XBA remake or the sequel they announced a few years ago???
I assume K-1 Grand Prix is based on the actual K-1 kickboxing promotion (based on the fact that the game has Mirko Crocop in it), and that would explain why there's no jumping.
Anytime I'd load a GBA rom on my PC and it would the menu at 0:25for languages I would always think that it was not an actual GBA game but something that was thrown together.
Iirc, Black Belt Challenge was meant to have a different game but the publisher demanded it be what it is cause they wanted to capitalise on the popular sports game market.
I wish the cancelled Sound of Thunder Ps2/Xbox game could’ve seen the light of day. I’ve only seen a few screenshots and no gameplay footage. It looked like it ran similar to The Thing game, super bummed it was never released. Same with the Thing 2 for that matter
OK dude I used to be way into GBAs a bit over 10 years ago when they were cheap. Had the flash cart and even ran NES emulation on the things, but I never heard of these either.
Hold up, this is crazy. The guy from Denmark you played as in K1 GP2 is Nicholas Pettas, who now has his own TH-cam channel call Junk Food Japan! Friggin crazy!
The Sound of Thunder was a story by Ray Bradbury about the future where you could go into the past to hunt dinosaurs. This guy in the group is a jerk, messes up the future, so the group leader shoots him - the ending line is “and there was a sound of thunder”
Context of A Sound of Thunder: It's based on a Short Story by Ray Bradbury who presents this future where folk can pay some guys with time machine access to hunt down certain ANCIENT Specimens, they also established a path that by all means is MEANT to be followed so you don't cause cataclysmic changes.
The Educated Future is where they came from and our story's protagonist makes one little, itty bitty mistake...that being stepping outside the path and accidentally flattening a butterfly (And leaving a boot print in prehistoric times) which changes a BUNCH of stuff, including who won the election in their year AND the literacy of the Human Race. And it's implied the PoV character is going to get EXECUTED outright for his fuck-up.
Also parodied in the Simpsons, I think one of the treehouse of horrors episodes.
In the movie its one of the rich guys who steps on the butterfly.
@@joshlemagne The Time and Punishment segment, yeah.
"As long as I stand perfectly still and don't touch anything, I won't destroy the future."
"Stupid bug! You go squish now!"
EDIT: If Wikipedia is to be believed, the movie version of "A Sound of Thunder" changed quite a bit. Something to do with "time waves" devolving everything or something.
The game Matt is playing is based on the '05 movie adaptation starring Ben Kingsley.
Yeah. The movie version that was based on was a bit loose.
Black Belt Challenge was developed by Guerilla Games, back when they were called "Lost Boys Games".
Gotta love the demoscene effects.
For me a certified Guerrilla Games classic, but sadly lacking in content and mechanics. Definitely a case of style over substance.
55:25 Fun Fact: While Galidor _did_ precede Ben 10 by a couple years, the "limbs turn into machines" concept was done in the 90's by M. Rex, a comic that would eventually be the basis for Generator Rex, made by the same guys who created Ben 10 (Which on second thought, might be the reason you thought of Ben 10 there)
Fun fact: don't forget about Turbo Teen, which predates both! He's a kid now, he's a car now!
@@SympleSymon So... the chain goes:
Turbo Teen (80's) -> M.Rex (90's) -> Galidor (00's) -> Generator Rex (2010's) -> ????
I guess we are about due for this decade's incarnation
@@Hatsworthful Eh... Sorta? It was more like, the straw that broke the camel's back tbf...
Iron Kid was some kind of CGI cartoon that they localized as Eon Kid. i saw a bit of an episode once when i was in middle school. those are all the things i know about Iron Kid
I used to be a K-1 fan and the two GBA adaptations are among the best based on the license, the two are very similar, the second is just like the first with some updated content. There were somewhat decent and more "simulation" oriented K-1 games on Saturn and Playstation but I found the GBA ones more fun to play. Hernesto Hoost, Remy Bonjasky, Jerome Lebanner, Peter Aerts, Mark Hunt, Mirko CroCop (who also had a pretty good MMA run)... these guys are legends.
The rabbit hole that is the GBA fighting game library never ceases to amaze me.
A Sound Of Thunder (The Movie) starred Ben Kingsley. It was so mid it was a belt. I’m so glad someone else suffered through the GBA game too!
I...i liked the game
@@laladoopsy ahhh, that’s ok! it’s fine for what it is I guess. There’s better on the GBA, but an awful lot worse too.
Ironically, the engine seems to be the same as that used in the Max Payne GBA port.
It wasn't perfect, but it was still impressive.
I liked the movie when I was younger, no idea how it'd hold up now lol
@@Alexalicious it is very 90s and everything you’d expect from the studio behind Battlefield Earth and Ecks & Sever. I’d have loved it too if I had seen it at the time as a kid, because dinosaur creatures and time travel guaranteed me a good time!
Iron Kid takes me back, but when I was youngling it was called "Eon Kid on Kids WB"
i remember the theme to that show
That Flashback game is not a finished game. It is a beta leaked by the development team and it was supposed to be a sequel of the original (ignoring the events of "Fade to black", I guess)
The character of Conrad from the first game it's just a placeholder because that rom was a work in progress
It's sad that the studio went bankrupt and that game was never finished, because the backgrounds looked dope!
The Flashback games would be great material for a "What happened" episode, Matt! The first one initially was a licensed "Godfather" game (years before the EA one) that went wild on the development and ended up being his own thing.
The sequel "Fade to black" was one of the first 3D third person shooters ever made, being in development way before "Tomb Raider"
There was some kind of reboot of the first game made by Ubisoft that was hated by everyone and the recent sequel was delayed many times and when released received very bad reviews... There's material in there!
A Sound of Thunder was based on a atrocity of a movie based on the iconic short story by the legendary Ray Bradbury. The film was one of the last gasps of breaths by the infamous Franchise Pictures, known for Battlefield Earth, Driven, Ballistic Ecks vs Sever, & 3000 Miles to Graceland Infamy.
The film is awful, one of the worst piles of crap I’ve ever watched. I don’t blame Peter Hyams though as there were so many cooks in the soup and broth. And I liked The Relic, Stay Tuned, & Sudden Death.
Interesting, because I'd heard of the film being terrible but being a Bradbury story I figured the story itself would be actually very good. Enlightening to learn that's pretty much the case.
Dancing Sword, you have to perform the combo shown with the right timing to do the magic stuff. You can practice in the pause menu if I remember right.
Yes, Im aware. But the combo timing is stupid strict. Just wouldnt work.
@@flophouseplaysI wonder if the emulator is messing things up. I don't know for sure that you are using an emulator.
Iron Kid has such budget Mega Man Zero vibes that I kinda gotta respect it.
If you didn't see the title, you would think that's a mega man game. I know I did
Mad props to the sprite artist on that last game, those are some great pixel likenesses.
Dual Blades is basically "How to Draw Manga or Anime: The Fighting Game", I swear. Then, that Jurassic Park 3 game had the Beheaded Kamikaze scream sound from Serious Sam in it. Truly, this is a gift that keeps on giving!
Dude, Dual Blades just unlocked an old memory. I played this so long ago as a kid and could never remember the name. I've been searching for this game for probably almost 20 years I guess lol. I knew exactly what it was as soon as Matt sliced dudes torso in half at the beginning! Lol
"Iron Kid" was a mid popular 2000s cartoon show from South Korea.
Also, I had no idea Big Joel had a Lets Play channel...
The console/PC version of Galidor is pure *What happened?* material. The game was cancelled in 2002, but a budget pc game publisher managed to get the beta pc build on store shelves in 2004 alongside other Lego PC rereleases. Lego was near bankruptcy when the game was canned, and it was in their product catalogues, so they probably didn't even notice it had been canned while they were rolling in Bionicle money, selling old licenses to budget labels.
If there's ever a follow-up to this, I really hope Wade Hixton's Counter Punch is a game you haven't heard of.
Dancing Sword Senkou has Noizi Itou's nice character designs, it seems to have been a selling point. Although, the company at the time (MTO) was more known for girls games including dress-up games and the dog games that got exported under the Petz games label, so I guess it was an attempt into a new genre.
Fun Fact: the Ray Bradbury story A Sound of Thunder is the basis for that Simpsons Halloween Special segment where Homer goes back to the time 'when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos' and his actions radically alter the future.
It was wild to see who directed Black Belt Challenge when the credits came up, since that director would go on direct Killzone 2 & 3 and Horizon 1 & 2.
The quality was already there even in this GBA game.
I remember reading A Sound of Thunder back in sixth grade. It was... nothing like this.
Yeah, the movie that the game was based on was a bit loose.
Ray Bradbury is a hell of an author
I liked the look of Black Belt Challenge, Dual Blades and Dancing Sword. I'll be looking for the ROMs for these!
Dude, i never know Iron Kid has a game?
When i was child.. i watched the animated series and it's awesome.
Glad you open the memory.
An exquisite dash of Hot Import Nights in this collection. Well done, sir.
Crouching tiger actually looks like it's based largely on the Shinobi gameplay from Genesis/Mega Drive. Especially that downward jump kick.
K1 was a pretty brutal kickboxing show, i can't believe they released such a cartoonish game. Mark hunt is a terrifying knockout machine, as are most of the fighters in there!
The super bar on Black Belt Challenge works like this:
- Once is full do down+HP+HK to do the supper uppercut
- One in mid air, repeat the button sequence that show in the bar, it will be the one made by your attacks when filling it, minus the final 2 letters.
Nothing like a good old gba play through.
Dual blades is rated m and has a sequel called Slashers: The Power Battle. Only 9 gba games were rated mature.
The Flashback Legends GBA game is just a prototype, it was never finished because Delphine Software, well......y'know.
*”Wha Happun?!” jingle plays faintly in the distance*
These are straight up my favourite videos on TH-cam. Thanks for making them! Any chance of a Saturn one some day?
It always amazes me just how deep the GBAs library is. This video unlocked so mamy obscure childhood memories. In regards to the K1 game, I think the meter thats next to your life bar represents overall body health. The top is your head, the middle is your body and bottom are your legs. You take alot of damage in one area itll change color, which I also assume effects how well you give/take damage.
Had no idea Mark Hunt and Mirko Cro Cop were in a GBA game... might have to find it for myself 😅
I remember playing a ton on my Gameboy Advance. Good stuff!
I see we had the exact same experience with Dancing Sword. It seems you just have to do a combo and the lava freezes and you can walk over it from what I saw in a video, but I could never make it work. A shame because a beat 'em up with five playable characters might have good replay value.
That's exactly the case. You can find the combo written down in the game, and online, but the problem is the timing. It has to be perfect for it to trigger. Pretty dumb for a basic thing you need to do to progress.
Amazing run, loved it! The last one was surprisingly charming. Wish there was more of those.
Black belt challenge such a hidden gem. Deserves to be big for esports
From the one piece of dialogue in the beginning, I think the Sound of Thunder might be loosely and I mean loosely based on the short story the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this story, there is a company that figures out time travel, and then decides to use this technology to host safaris across history. But because they don’t really know how time travel works, they can only allow you to shoot animals that are about to die anyway, and they make a levitating path that you have to follow during the safari. The main character goes back in time to hunt a T-Rex, but during this safari he steps off the path and steps on a butterfly, and then when he gets back to the present everything is slightly different, for instance the President of the US is a fascist. Simply because of the line “STAY ON THE PATH” and the how every million years ago cutaway, the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury may be a loose inspiration.
I totally forgot there was a GBA port of Flashback, it looks so weird. The old animations of the characters with the new artstyle somewhat clashes to me.
It’s fitting since there’s a new Flashback game sequel coming out
It's probably because what Matt is playing is an unfinished build that was leaked after the studio went bankrupt.
I remember Iron kid was a cartoon that was brought over to America but the title was changed to "Eon Kid" possibly to keep the Marvel lawyers off their back
The GBA has always been known to have one of the most solid game line ups. It seems like, somehow, everyone was determined to put their best on this system. Another GBA video like this would be a good idea.
heya man, I've watched so many of these and never commented, but you are really great at what you do. You've managed to play so many of these random ass games and always keep it relevant and break down the design whilst never seeming tired of it all. Love your work man and keep it uppp
I completely forgot about Galidor! It even had a little MMO game I used to play
The devs behind Juka did Racing (Orbital Media) Gears Advance which is the best GBA racer and also the pretty good Scurge:Hive which was kinda Metroid but isometric.
Yo! Scurge Hive was the first DS game I owned (and as you said, it was a pretty good isometric Metroid derivative).
there is like three Dual Blades games, and the last game in the series (The Dual Souls) was released 2 years ago
"Maybe we can put some generic GBA music over this footage."
Puts in one of the best tracks from Metroid Fusion.
There actually was a cancelled PS2 game called Jurassic Park Survival. It looked like a cool Dino Crisis-esque action game, and you can even find a trailer on it! Its a shame, despite the fact there are SO MANY JP3 themed games, its hard to point to one as "the game" for the movie. Its not like the SNES/Genesis ones or TLW on PS1/Saturn. Most of them for JP3 are decent/cheaply made at best.
I would love to see some more gba games
just because of the size of the sprites Black Belt Challenge gives me NeoGeo Pocket Color vibes.
Hey, Matt McMuscles. You should play some arcade games you have never heard of. I have some suggestions you should play.
Suggestions:
64th Street: A Detective Story
Numan Athletics
Twinkle Star Sprites
Karate Blazers
In the Hunt
Windjammers
Last Bronx
The Dual Blades art reminds me heavily of 'Diesel' of all things
I agree, "Black Belt Challenge" sounds like it would be more based in reality. They screwed up with the name
I lol'd when you hit Dancing Sword because I knew what was coming. To get past the lava you have to select the ice magic and then do the 6-hit combo AS FAR AS I CAN TELL because the controls are so poor the combo is impossible to perform for all practical intents and purposes.
I looked into Dual Blades and apparently it was actually rated M! It's also a Turkish game.
20:30. There is a spot in Netherlands that looks exactly like that: Zaanse Schans.
You could also say the Holland stage from Twisted Metal 2.
Try the GOG version for Pray for Death, the reviews seem like they made it work over there. Also, speaking of portable fighters, did you see that game Pocket Bravery on steam? It's like, going for the Fatal Fury Pocket look, I think you'd be into that.
Thank you Matt for the compilation videos. Love seeing obsure games.
You ever play Bruce Lee for the Gameboy Advance? It's kind of like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in terms of mechanics, but it plays a lot better. A surprising hidden gem for me. Looking it up now, it was apparently developed by... Blizzard?!
0:15 now hold up.
Didn't BAM! Entertainment help publish the Game Boy Advance versions of Fire Pro Wrestling outside of Japan? Aren't those entertaining games?
Apparently there are two sequels to Dual Blades called Slashers: The Power Battle and Dual Souls: The Last Bearer
There's definitely some Worst Fighting Game content in here, not because the games are particularly bad but just the sheer intrigue of where they came from.
Galidor was a line of Lego toys. It had a tie-in TV show, as I recall. It’s certainly not something I was expecting to think about today.
Black Belt Challenge and Dual Blades should be added to the next EVO tournament.
Holy cow, I had Galidor as a child but I could never remember what that game was called
Makes sense, LEGO killed Galidor off in no time, hell this game doesn't even have a LEGO logo in it
Unfortunately "Johnny Flashback and the Flashbacks of the Flash Backigans" is an extremely unfinished prototype. Never got finished.
2:15 Metroid Fusion had music AND sound!
Will say when you were playing the K1 game, one of the coolest dudes was who you were playing as. Nicholas Pettas now has a channel on TH-cam called junk food Japan and it’s dope.
THANK YOU! Gonna totally check this out later tonight.
Bam Entertainment 🤝 Gameboy Advance
Name a more iconic duo
Iron Kid was a cartoon. It was one of those jank 3D cartoons from the 2000s but I watched it a lot just because it was on at a time I could watch the TV
Simply put, A Sound of Thunder is the original source material for The Simpsons Halloween Special with Homer and the time traveling toaster.
Duel blades has awesome box art and manual art! I remember playing it as a kid, lol
MFW Black Belt Challenge was developed by Guerilla Games. THAT GUERILLA GAMES. 😮
The How Did This Get Made episode for the Sound of Thunder movie is hilarious
JP 3 game was my childhood favorite! Game was hard as sh*t though. Someday I want to make a fanmade remaster or remake.
Dual Blades is utterly baffling yet deeply intriguing to me. Like, why is the "Kilroy was here" phrase painted on the wall in that one stage? What significance does an old WW2-era graffiti have in the game's lore? It's so out of place I can't help but want to understand more about it.
I remember seeing that phrase on stuff I watched as a kid, only learned what it meant when I grew up so I thought it was just some joke I was unaware of.
Hey Matt, while you were playing Black Belt Challenge, I noticed that it was directed by Mathijs de Jonge... If I'm not mistaken, he's the dude who went on to direct Horizon: Zero Dawn with Guerilla Games
Oh my God I kinda need that K1 arcade fighter at the end with Chibi Mark Hunt
Love the fact you whacked a clip of Garth Merenghi in there!
I love this series!
Three Anime-based games you've likely never heard of that are kind of interesting: Boukyku no Senritsu, the first Futari wa Pretty Cure game (Futari wa Pretty Cure: Ariena~i! Yume no Sono wa Daimeikyuu) and Mermaid Melody Pitch Pitch Pitch. IDK how blind you want to go into these games but the first is an action game, the second a puzzle platformer and the third a rhythm game. EDIT: These are not great games, but I promise they're not total stinkers.
I played Dual Blades as a kid. To me it was basically Soul Calibur combined with Mortal Kombat, but obscure as far as I knew. I really enjoyed it as a kid, but I doubt many others had the same experience that I did. Either way I'm fond of it.
51:56 Oh, I remember the _Galidor_ TV Show from back in the early 2000s. It was, okay I guess.
Nice that the Botchamania references stuck around :)
Flashback! Yo! My fav game of all time.
WAIT. There was a sequel that wasn't Fade to Black, The XBA remake or the sequel they announced a few years ago???
There's a Flashback 2 coming out soon too.
I assume K-1 Grand Prix is based on the actual K-1 kickboxing promotion (based on the fact that the game has Mirko Crocop in it), and that would explain why there's no jumping.
Anytime I'd load a GBA rom on my PC and it would the menu at 0:25for languages I would always think that it was not an actual GBA game but something that was thrown together.
Iron kid(or atleast that was great English translation) was a Korean CG cartoon back in like 2006 lol. Never knew it had a game
I think the reason people think that Moloch will be in MK1 is because that era of the series has been getting A LOT of love in the marketing.
The Crouching Tiger title screen gives off soccer game vibes.
Iirc, Black Belt Challenge was meant to have a different game but the publisher demanded it be what it is cause they wanted to capitalise on the popular sports game market.
Black Belt Challenge is goated
I wish the cancelled Sound of Thunder Ps2/Xbox game could’ve seen the light of day. I’ve only seen a few screenshots and no gameplay footage.
It looked like it ran similar to The Thing game, super bummed it was never released.
Same with the Thing 2 for that matter
OK dude I used to be way into GBAs a bit over 10 years ago when they were cheap. Had the flash cart and even ran NES emulation on the things, but I never heard of these either.
Hold up, this is crazy. The guy from Denmark you played as in K1 GP2 is Nicholas Pettas, who now has his own TH-cam channel call Junk Food Japan! Friggin crazy!
Operation Genesis on PS2 was a Jurrasic Park 3 game ....technically, it had the JP3 logo and a Spino in it
Vivid Image made decent games. Had no idea Dinc moved to Turkey and Developed Dual Blades. It wasn't released in Europe.
I loved galidor show as a youngin ', I still own most of the toys, I actually bought this GBA when I got my console lol
The Sound of Thunder was a story by Ray Bradbury about the future where you could go into the past to hunt dinosaurs. This guy in the group is a jerk, messes up the future, so the group leader shoots him - the ending line is “and there was a sound of thunder”