Thunder in Paradise CD-i - James and Mike Mondays
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I actually watched Thunder in Paradise, the power of the hulkster was real in the 90's.
It’s still running strong, even without Hulk wrestling. Hulkamaniacs everywhere still say their prayers and take their vitamins. Lol. The blood of the Hulkster still runs through the veins of his “little Hulksters”. Hahaha.
@@slimshead8100 Hate to burst your bubble but those vitamins were cocaine and steroids, and the only thing Hogan's ever prayed to is money.
@@RyanAcidhedzMurphy It was his character. that's like saying "y'know mark hamill really doesn't believe in the force and adam west isn't rally a billionaire who fights crime"
People looked up to hogan (myself included) because of his persona.
*really not rally lol
Same here, it was pretty catchy.
"Do you think you'll ever grow a handle bar mustache?"
One of life's more important questions right there Mike.
What a strange, obscure piece of video game history.
I had no idea this was even a thing.
I don't even remember the show. Not one bit.
i didn't even know Hulk Hogan used to star on a TV series.
Now imagine remembering the tv show from your childhood.
Thats where im at in my life.
Trust me, that's a great way to describe WCW's later years
here7ic I FORGOT about this show!!!!!!
I'm actually VERY impressed with how good the video In this game looks for the time it was released
@metalfaust19 Gameplay aside I was just impressed with how good the video looked for an early CD based game. I don't think I've seen video and scrolling in a CD ROM game for that time period look that good.
I think the CDI was kinda focused on the video playback aspect, so at least that aspect was good in comparison to others, I think... I'm sure I heard that somewhere... I think I remember the version of 7th guest on CDI looking better, but I might have imagined it... I don't think it had any actual 3D games, but it's been a while... One of my friends used to have one lol
@@KitsyX you may be right there... The CDi was supposed to be much more than just a game console, they were going for a "DVD before there were DVDs" thing.
The sequel Lightning In Paradise confirmed for the Amiga CD32. Preorder now for stickers to put on your paint can.
Shouldn't Lightning come before the Thunder?
Just say'n
@@spunkyspaz it's a prequel! 😁
Best ADD on to the ADD on!!!
Trouble in Paradise, featuring Kofi Kingston. Kofimania!
i love that intro, the guy singing is Jimmy Hart, Hulk Hogans manager for many years and he also wrote a bunch of the W.C.W. themes
Wrestling in the 80s and 90s was golden. It was so over the top. Jimmy Hart singing the opening theme made me nostalgia so hard that I Hulked up and Stinky Leg Dropped myself.
He also wrote Shawn Michaels' Sexy Boy theme song. A theme song still in use today, well, at least whenever Shawn shows up for something, like coming out of retirement.
@@lwvmobile Whoa I didn't knew Jimmy Hart was a composer, and that he compose the Sexy Boy theme, probably the best theme of any wrestler.
Also spotted Jim Neidhart and I believe Hacksaw Jim Dugan! I may have to go watch this show now
Hulk’s mustache is not a handlebar mustache. It’s sometimes referred to as a Fu Manchu, which is also false.
It is a horseshoe mustache.
This is a very important comment and should be pinned.
Well put brothurr
I always used to get mixed up between Terry Funk and Hulk Hogan
Completely wrong
“Such futuristic technology for Florida” 🤣
Figured they would've gotten some better voting machines then.
They filmed this at the Disney hotels, Grand Floridian mostly. The scene where James is “vaporizing guys” was filmed at the Disney water park Typhoon Lagoon. You can briefly see the pool and slides in the background. Also looks like they filmed it at the Fort Wilderness resort on the beach. Crazy to think these scenes with Hulk are a couple hundred yards from the Magic Kingdom lol
0:37 - RIP Jim Neidhart
The good 'ol Anvil
I thought I was the only wrestling nerd here!
Dont forget Jimmy Hart jammin out as well!
Rumble in paradise?
"Isnt that cool, James!?" *pans to James straight faced looking right into the camera like the Office*
The Office UK > The Office U.S.
@@tschrky303 says every fascist ever. GTFO nationalist
@@keymaster2024 Gotta agree with Ricky on this one - Quality over quantity (^o^)
@@keymaster2024 lol wut
The location of the start of the on rail shooter is Typhoon Lagoon, a Disney Water Park in Walt Disney World. It just blows my head.
This whole game was probably shot at Disney World. The city part was definitely the New York Street section of Disney MGM Studios. They used to have the Scarab boat on the backlot tour years ago and I think a lot of the show was shot there.
Thunder in Paradise the tv show was filmed there
I loved Thunder in Paradise. Great show for a teenage kid on the 90s.
There was a lot more joie-de-vivre in shows in the 20th Century. Now everything's so serious and joyless.
Man, I loved this show when it was on channel 9. I miss the 90’s, so ducking much!
Good times for sure
@@shermhart7617 Second that. Good times.
Quack quack!
The best part of this "game" is all the background chicks in awesome 90's bikinis
More like the worst part, if you catch my drift.
@@tschrky303 Lol
Give this men a beer
@@tschrky303 WTF, 90's chicks are awesome!
Dare I say one of the best Hulk Hogan CD-i games
Were there more?! Lol.
The camera footage looks quite good/clear and there's clearly some kind of device being used to stabilize the camera movements too.
Probably a steadicam.
Yeah it was definitely higher budget footage than what most of these types of games that used live action footage had.
It's almost like they wanted a proper memory of the show that otherwise would be forgotten and completely lost to history.
Probably the same hardware used to film the show
I had no idea the CDi was capable of playing footage of that quality
I was expecting this to be an April fools joke, but no. It's real. They really made this.
If you watch the CDi nerd episode, the game is very easy to spot in his collection.
I was thinking that too. Especially with Mike cracking up early on.
The fact they actually made it, is the joke 😂
Well, I kind of feel like a fool for being remotely interested.
Thunder in Paradise was a fun thing to watch in a time where most of the things were so so, i mean there were awesome stuff but it wasnt 24/7 on TV (or cinema) like it is now. Now we are berried in things. I literally got no time to finish watching everything on my list... and i hope i will before i die.
"At least its something." 10/10 would purchase!
Let's flip that Shit-Switch and crank up that diarrhea dial! We've got Thunder in Paradise on C! D! (demonic growl) IIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
I remember this show. Sting (the pro-wrestler surnamed Borden, not the singer surnamed Sumner) was a recurring villain.
"This was an exclusive." Yeah, A game nobody's ever heard of, on a system nobody's ever heard of, based on a TV show nobody's ever heard of. Pretty exclusive I'd say.
Nobody heard of the CDi? What?
I loved this show as a kid.
The TV show actually did have a bit of popularity back in the mid 90's.
That’s not 100% true though. There was also an MS-DOS version.
Was literally watching another video yesterday on weird 90's FMV games that included this. I'm honestly not sure what's weirder, that games like this existed or that I considered them the pinnacle of video game technology as a kid.
That said, all joking aside, this doesn't seem particularly terrible by the standards of its time. It seems like a pretty straightforward and functional rail shooter with clear video.
LITERALLY!?!?!?!?!
Yeah I thought that shit was awesome back then. Sewer Shark, lethal enforcers, etc. That stuff blew me away. Hell even the cdi Zelda games impressed 10 year old me. I had never seen anything like it prior to then.
Yes but why would anyone care or give money for this shit especially at that time. Like just watch tv or play some music to spend your time and entertain yourself back then lol.
Can’t wait for the “ride to hell : retribution -Avgn episode “
You should check out Angry Joe’s review of that game. It’s awesome
Yeah ride to hell looks awful. Please james make a avgn episode of that!
Is there really anything he could say about that game that hasn't already been said like, 5 years ago? Maybe so.
@@marcguerra1854 Not to mention the review by Zero Punctuation.
@@xotl2780 well james usually puts his own avgn spin on things so i think so.
I watched the show, mainly for the boat. That thing was pretty cool. The boat was the real star of that show.
Raddest goddamn boat that ever boated.
Ahhh, Knight Boat.
I like how the bad guys simply stop existing once they go out of sight.
They assimilate intobThe Matrix.
At 9:24 that is the Disney’s MGM Studios theme park. They had a section of the park called “streets of New York,” you could walk around and take pictures and it was also used to film things in the 90s when the theme park doubled as an actual working movie studio. Bette Midler filmed scenes for one of her movies here.
Mike sounded bummed the Peacekeeper worked and they had to finally play it 🤣
When I remember correctly the „graphics card“ that James needed was the mpeg2 decoder card that some models have built in. That’s also the reason why the image quality is so good.....
You actually knew more than Mike, holy fuck
Close enough, it was MPEG-1.
Love how it’s a CDi exclusive and the guy near the starts looks to be playing a SNES. Even he knows better
It's a Gravis gamepad which is basically a CDI controller but a different color and for PC, so not that far off. You can see the joystick attached.
God, the CD-i. What a hellish console...
That in-game grenade was a metaphor...
You mean heavenly
This the only console to play classics like flowers of Robert maplethrop, lamchop’s singalong and hotel Mario. What more could you want from a game console?
Not Chuck Productions
You’re right, it’s more like Purgatory.
What the hell are you saying?! Without that, we will never hear Zelda's father saying "MA BOI!"
Wtf are you talking about? That game is a masterpiece and so is plumber wear ties
The side kick is jack lemmon’s son
Looks like a young Jack Lemmon too
I know I'm not the only one that knows this but the kid from step by step (I hate that my brain has retained that information) it perfectly exemplifies the 90's
Or at least the part of the 90's no one ever talks about fondly.
There was an episode where he killed a predator it was cloaked the whole time but you know it was a predator
RANDOM MAY I need to see that
I always liked Doug Walker more than James Rolfe.
Just kidding, Happy April Fools day.
Damn that was a good one
Just thought yeah he is good and all but better than James??
I always liked Mike Matei, personally.
😂
Eww lol
I always thought Toxic Crusaders was one of the best AVGN episodes ever.
Kidding!
I find it crazy that I original loved nostalgia critic and despised AVGN. Then a year later I get to see not AVGN, but James Rolfe who is such a nice guy that he ended up being my favorite TH-camr other than Jontron. I'd rather sit and listen to James talk about books and stuff than Doug's thoughts on how the New Karate Kid is better than the old.
11:19 You really need to play more games if you think this is the best it has to offer!
The Apprentice, Burn Cycle, Flashback, Tetris, Voyeur, Escape from Cyber City, Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II, Space Ace, Lemmings, Name that Tune, are but a few games worth playing.
Ah, the "Hogan goes Hollywood" period of the mid 90s. It gave us such treasures as "Mr. Nanny", "Santa with Muscles", "Suburban Commando" and of course, "Thunder in Paradise".
It's also worth pointing out that it's directly after the period when Vince McMahon was involved in that massive steroid scandal. If you were thinking that Hulk doesn't look quite as 'big' in these videos as he did when he was wrestling, you're probably right.
I was a big fan of this show as a kid. It would play as soon as I got home from school. Super cheesy but entertaining.
I remember watching this as a kid and on one episode there was a PREDATOR (complete with cloaking effect) chasing Hulk Hogan through the jungle. Never knew wtf that was.
I would love a Kamen Rider themed AVGN episode complete with a parody of the Kamen Rider opening.
YEEEES!
Cd-i on a James and Mike Monday?
This is why i look forward to Monday, this series here. Best part is you never know what to expect them to play.
Love you guys!
Funny game, but glad it was playable. I would've loved to be a cameraman for a 90s rail shooter game! Between the running around with the camera and stunts, it must've been a lot of fun for the people involved.
Would have been even more fun for this game as the whole thing was literally filmed at Walt Disney World.
You know what they say if you do what you love you won't work a day in your life. But this was basically an extended vacation.
I still have my CDi along with this classic and good few other game's somewhere in my basement, going to have to hunt it down and play this masterpiece again. I would give anything to go back in time to the 90's, what a silly, fun decade it was.
Thunder in Paradise is nostalgia trip I never wanted to take lmao
Some things are better dead.
Hogan of Borg needs to be a TV show, somebody call Kurtzman!
Interesting. That may be the only video game filmed at the former Disney-MGM Studios New York Street. Now that space is about to be Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge.
Greg's Game Room So Disney own Samsung now?
Everyone else: Man, so many great games I can play today. Sekiro, RE2 Remake, DMC5, Smash Bros Ultimate...
James and Mike: Let's play Thunder in Paradise on Phillips Cdi
Would rather play the cdi than all that shit too, minus re2
jari56ify You have horrible taste.
I didn't know opinions could be so objectively wrong
Not all history is better forgotten but history like this is. Or at the very least used as an important contrast to how much better we have it now.
Retread 1, Retread 2 or Retread 3, so many choices today
I died seeing jimmy hart on the keyboard 😂🤣😂🤣
The video card was a CD-i accessory that was required for the games that used FMV technology. Some models come with one built in, some don't and require you to buy it separately and install it, but if you buy a used system today, chances are you'll probably get one that has the card already installed anyway.
I had this game, it's pretty neat as far as "TV shows that include gameplay elements" games went, especially if you like the show. It delivers what it promises.
Loving that sweet Cobra Kai cap!
Much of the game was filmed at different Disney Resorts =)
That's mostly why I watched the show as a kid, for the creative reuse of theme parks and hotels as sets. Need a middle eastern courtyard? Epcot has you covered. European castle? Well we have one of those at the Magic Kingdom, no one will notice!
I noticed the city street is the New York backdrop at Disney’s (MGM) Hollywood Studios at Disney World
is one of the most '90's shows ever.
Thunder in Paradise is legendary for the sheer amount of buttons and switches, and space (including a microwave for food) inside of that military speedboat. Carol Alt, Felicity Waterman, Heidi Mark are there too
Can't wait for my mom to finish taking a dump so I can use the bathroom
Still remember that Universal Soldier-like episode from TV series
also - no dog in the water when motorbike scene happen
How could you grow up in the 90's and never have watched Thunder in Paradise🤔
I was a huge Hogan fan as a kid and still never watched the movie or a single episode of the show.
However, by that time my Hulk Hogan fandom was waining.
Never saw it, but I was more of an Undertaker fan.
@@foxmulder4318 That's why my Hogan fandom was dying out by the early 90s, because The Undertaker became my main.
@@damambinator7740 I never really cared for Hogan personally. But I'm one of those who always roots for the villains.
I mean the show was on TBS
(I know that thanks to other comments) I was one of those kids that didn't have cable. Heck I was 18 before I got DirecTV.
Hogan has a horseshoe mustache, Mike. Handlebars go out to the sides, often with mustache wax.
Jimmy hart
Hulk hogan
And R.I.P the Anvil neidhart!😭😭👌
Some of the scenes looked like they were filmed at typhoon Lagoon in Florida. After a quick search I found a wiki article that said production for the show was filmed at Disney's Hollywood Studios and the surrounding Disneyworld areas!
Fun fact this is filmed at walt Disney world, no joke
This video helped me discover Thunder in Paradise - I love this series, both ironically and unironically.
See, really you're protecting the crickets from the evil exterminators who want to kill all your bug friends. That's why you hear crickets.
I loved Thunder in Paradies as a kid. Today i always ask myself, when i have kids, how can i possibly explain them why i got excited to see a wrestler who got a speedboat. :D I mean, yes ok it was a cool speedboat, but i definatly was no Knight Industries 2000...it was more like the bike from Streethawk.
Didn't they make a movie out of this? I just remember the Hulkster huffing and puffing to "oxygenate" his blood for a long swim in a underwater cave lol. That and glowsticks... it was the 90's, i was basically always baked... ok i'm still always baked but that's not the point damn it!
they made 3 movies but just combined the multi part episodes
@@brandoncarnes8990
Ah, So they took the nothing goes to waste everything's used approach huh?! Yeah that sounds like cable TV. Waste not want not, it's already in the can may as well use it.
@@JohnDoe-yf9wk yeah i had the movies as a kid didnt even know there was a tv show till later. they cut the episodes together well enough to seem like a direct to vid movie instead of several episodes
Nobody:
Chris 'Martin' Lemon: 7:39 "YEAH...OWHEUWHAHA"
THUNDA!!! Heyyy-oh. There's a hurricane a-blowing in. OVER THE WATER!
Remember the show. Thunder was the code name for the boat. Apparently it was a high tech boat that they acquired
"Such futuristic technology...for Florida." Mike apparently thinks Florida can't have nice things. Hahaha!
Thunder in Paradise is a legendary piece of 90s culture.
I'm sorry, did I miss something? Did they not mention the teen actor is J.T. Lambert from legendary TGIF show Step By Step?
Yea only thing missing was the Code Man lol
Also the City Facade that they were complaining why there’s cricket noises there too, that was part of Disney MGM Studios, now called Disney Hollywood Studios. The Facade is now mostly demolished and being made into Star Wars Land for Disney World. Just so weird Disney okayed an on rail shooter around 2 of their newest parks at this time.
back then, the MGM studios was an actual studio which was active due to it being in constant competition with Universal.
more CD-i !!! 😊
Talk about schadenfreude, watching the suffering of others is funny in this case. I mean the 3DO
actually had games like samurai shodown, super Street fighter 2 and gex among others. The CDI on the other hand was a pure landfill of pure garbage.
@John Doe
oh i wish i could see how James is trying to play Alone in the dark 1 on 3DO. The game now looks curious.
It's pretty telling for the CD-i that this is probably one of its best games.
It's obviously the MPEG-1 decoder module that you need for this game.. sometimes I wish you guys knew a bit more about the systems you own. You could buy VHS-ish quality movies on VCD, and needed that module to watch them. That's why the video quality doesn't look like ASS
come on like who the hell would know some obscure little fact. talking like they should be cdi scientist
Yeah, cdi did pretty good video with the mpeg decoder, and games like Thunder in Paradise, Space Ace, Dragons Lair etc all looked great on it
The FMV quality is actually really great for the 90's. Looks almost DVD at points.
I am pretty sure some latter CD-i have a mpeg decoder card, or something similar. May be what it is missing
Oh, wait. That was probably what you meant there. Sorry.
The theme to this show song was awesome! 'Thunderrrrrr, thunder in paradise'
Not gonna lie, as a kid I loved that show. Hulk Hogan was the man back in the day! lol
There's a video module that goes in the CD-I. It also allows you to play video CD's. I'm fortunate that mine already had one installed. And there are some okay games on the system, like The Apprentice and Mutant Rampage Bodyslam.
Lol at Jimmy Hart singing that shit
Thunder in Paradise was shot pretty much exclusively on Disney property, so the Island scenes are very likely Discovery Island.
The crazy nude guy was Sting from the WCW!!
He watched the crow. Then it doubled the hard on.
This feels like the ultimate Hot Couch game for a certain generation. Like, you'd go over to that guy's house, and he'd insist you watch the show on the disc before you played the game, and he'd laugh loudly throughout the episode, even though you knew he had seen it at least ten times. All while you sat on a hot, sticky, faux leather couch.
I would have loved this just becuase it was hulk Hogan lol I am pretty sure I watches this on VHS
4:51 - "I am Hogan of the Borg" :D
I forgot about this show,, Jimmy heart the mouth from da south sang the intro 🤣🤣🤣🤣 fuckin epic
haha, i remember the exact episode this game follows. Used to watch Thunder in Paradise right after Monday Nitro. Good times man
I’m not going to buy a Cd-i for this game, Brother!!
Pasta Mania Brother !!
That's what emulators are for.
DUDE!
I can't believe this made me realize Hogan's list of failures would keep growing more than a child's Christmas wish list.
Only true aficionados of the hulkster would know he had a failed chain of pasta restaurants.
That was one of those things I simply was amazed to learn.
Then again when you got money invest I guess.
Should've called it _CreepyPasta_ ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ
Thunder in Paradise was filmed in Orlando at the Disney studios.
That's JT from Step by Step.5:34
Yep, TGIF crew in the house!
Right there with family matters.
What a time to be alive.
This was filmed on location at Walt Disney world. The opening theme is filmed in Bay lake as you can see the Disney hotels. The shooting part was filmed at typhoon lagoon water park. If you look closely you can see the bottom of the water slides.
Just noticed all this game is filmed on Disney property. Even the street shooting scene is in Disney MGM or now Hollywood studios theme park.
Can we get a review of Suburban Commando?
"I am Hogan of Borg" - these are the quotes we live for
Omg you have to do a review on the series now!
Or at least the movie.
@@damambinator7740 I grew up watching thunder in paradise. I knew it was cheesey but i still enjoyed it. I wish they would release the series on dvd. All I can find are the movies sadly.
@@sinformant
I wouldn't be surprised if Terry aka Hulk Hogan had them destroyed.
More likely though it's just an obscure piece of media that's been lost. Heck if it wasn't for people with VCRs we wouldn't have any of a lot of shows these days.
I actually remember watching this show on UPN back in the early 90s. I don't know what I'd think of it now, but I loved it as a kid.
I remember Thunder in Paradise on TBS after WcW Monday Nitro. I remember observing some kid at Nobody Beats the Wiz electronic store playing the game. God, its awful...lol
Worse than David Arquette becoming WCW Champion?
If you want to talk about Pro Wrestling, Arquette as champion left a terrible stain onto the legacy of Pro wrestling forever and ever that you can't erase!!!@@nealmcbealthenavysealicall794
It's like gloriously awful though.
I mean the whole CD game era up until the PlayStation (with a few exceptions in Sega Saturn department) was mostly better forgotten.
@@NYKgjl10 then Vince Russo said Hold my Beer, challenged Booker T and gave his ass the WCW Championship. 2000 was just a Trainwreck for the company
@@nealmcbealthenavysealicall794 2000 WcW era was indeed a trainwreck. Even Hell doesn't want nothing to do with the product!!
The island and counter was filmed at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park that's at Walt Disney World. Because majority of Thunder Paradise was filmed in Disney the hotel with the white building is the Grand Floridian
Grow the handlebar stache! Do it! Do it! Do it! Your wresling name could be "Jim BigRigs Rolfe" and "Mike BigDick Matei" .... Or Bimmy and Jimmy.
I actually had this game for my cdi back in the day and completed it... I've been in therapy ever since!