Often times, video games being re-released in different titles without brand licensing has been a country-to-country issue. A game by Delphine software no less, was released in America as "James Bond: The Stealth Affair" but released in the UK as "Operation Stealth," and the main character's name was changed to "John Glames"
IIRC, the John Glames version was the original, whoever picked it up for the US release just slapped a proper James Bond license on it. But yeah, there can be weird licensing issues when going overseas.
@@Accursed_Farms Here is the Manual for Captain Zapp: archive.org/stream/Commodore64Manuals/Captain%20Zzap%20%28Europe%29#mode/2up s well as a bunch of other Manuals: archive.org/details/Commodore64Manuals All these manuals weren't uploaded when you made the video.
I really love Ross's style. He always sounds really laid back and he really gives off an air of confidence, like he's gotten around in life and he knows what he's doing but he also doesn't ever rush around or have nervous breakdowns. He seems like a really chill person.
"...imagine you're a kid with a new game on Christmas morning. Is sitting down and reading a manual cover to cover the first thing you wanna do?" That is _exactly_ what I always did.
Manuals used to be so cool. Lore, talking about characters and weapons, usually some cool art and tips. I dont remember the last game I seen with a cool printed manual. It's been a decade or more
I mean, you had to be doing SOMETHING while the game installed. I'm just a little young to have had a C64, but early DOS and Windows machines usually took a while to install, and I read the heck out of those manuals. Hell, I still have some old manuals to some of these games, and I *still* enjoy going back and looking through them.
The way that Ross dives so deeply into something is downright admirable. The research, the grinding; truly an inspiration. I'm glad he does it so I don't have to!
I've been genuinely shocked; literally with my mouth agape; listening to Ross describe some of the things he has done and had to go through/put up with in the making of this series. The amount of times where's he's had to perform painstaking research, reach out to people in a community that may not even exist, and spend countless repetitive hours of grinding and retrying in what would otherwise be the most un-fun gaming experience in any of our lives, but is just another day at the office for him is crazy. I mean damn, if I lose a couple round of Rainbow Six in a row, that's it for me, I'm done for the evening. there are so many "game critics" out there who either only play part-way through the game, or else give up when the game becomes too difficult for a "normal" person to complete and just walk away without ever knowing what lies ahead. The fact that Ross makes such a point of completing each game he plays on this series, no matter how brutually difficult, tedious, or nigh-unplayably broken and glitchy it is whenever possible, is nothing short of inspirational. It's the kind of thing that makes you wanna wake up the next day, go to work, and just do your god damn job, and do it well. Because if Ross can do it, you can too.
So I came across a forum post from 2002 that might kinda offer an explanation for the whole Captain Zzap vs Flash Gordon rebranding. Some dude that sounds like he knows more than I do says that they dev only had the Flash Gordon IP for Europe, and when the game came over to the US, they had to rebrand it to their own thing, so says a mister dumbflag. Sorry if this ruins the whole alternate universe fun, at least we still have Helious. www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3988&sid=ab1050f5cff9523233f122e83b1f113b
Doctor Pazuzu That explains why they would change it, but not why American copyright lawyers would allow them to get away with such minimal changes. I mean, this is American lawyers we are talking about. That still means a lawyer looked at it and said "Yup, now nobody can sue you."
@@Egonkiller This, there weren't the eyes on the industry, as it was a truly niche hobby. These were the days where saying you played video games got your ass kicked at school... my how times have changed.
It could outright have been as such as the devs negotiating the license for Europe, then asked if it was ok to sell the game in other markets if they took off the Flash Gordon branding, and the Flash Gordon people were just all "Sure, whatever."
Ross, I just want to say thank you. Your videos have given me multiple watches, and untold hours of entertainment. I appreciate your style, and I love the effort you put into all of your scripted work. Keep on rocking!
I have to agree. Such instant joy when a new video comes out, because I know how much effort he puts in to this and the movie, and that makes it so special to me.
The whole map segment reminds me of an incredibly frustrating and yet surprisingly fun puzzle put into World of WarCraft to obtain a hidden mount; while most of the steps are bizarre leaps of logic and math problems, this one part is a randomly generated labyrinth that not only bends in upon itself in a non-linear fashion in at least three places (that I could find) and one room that flat out teleports you to a random dead end somewhere else in the labyrinth. This non-linear maze of nightmares took me several *hours* to complete as I have to not only make the map of this Escherean hellscape but also explore nearly every single one of the rooms within it to find the multiple runes and corresponding orbs to bring to each rune. I feel Ross' pain profoundly in this segment.
The best part of game dungeon is how Ross always finds these games nobody has heard of, and then beats them with insane difficulty all while showing us the first time the game has been beaten.
My theory might be that they only got the copyright for a specific region, so maybe they fully developed flash Gordon but could only release it in the EU or something, so they did a repaint to release it elsewhere.
Ross, I went to your link and I found some "Flash Gordon" stuff. I don't think I've heard of that, it reminds me of the theme from the captain zzap movie.
As far as I know, titles usually gets altered (at least in case of Biohazard/Resident Evil) due to copyright issues. RE was first named Biohazard, but when they tried to release it in the US, they found out there was already a name like that copyrighted. So I assume, the developers of this game just lost the rights immediately, maybe due to failing the contract or smth.
Honestly it's a common problem with older games and I think a lot of times the MAIN reason is to get the actual viewport smaller to save resources but not actually having anything interesting to show on the rest of the screen.
One day, there will be a Game Dungeon, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl. On that day, the perfect combination of messed up game world and sharp-eyed reviewer will be achieved. The noosphere is wounded, Ross. Nobody can fix it. The Zone will devour us all.
Everytime I see one of your videos go up, every other youtube video in my viewing queue gets thrown to the back of the bus. This time, my family joined them.
Thank you, Ross for making really unique, entertaining content! These are always worth the many months wait. Happy holidays to you and all the viewers!
"Is sitting down and reading the manual cover to cover the first thing you want to do?" Very likely, yes. I loved reading manuals as a kid. Reading about all the actions and environments filled me with anticipation and excitement, and I liked looking at the concept art and character renders that often dotted the pages of Nintendo's manuals.
I bet it was Flash Gordon game in first place and Ross messed something up while traveling back in time so now it's called Captain Zapp and he decided to just roll with it.
Then we get a game possessed by the devil that kills anyone who plays it, a game sent from a dystopian future by a rogue AI, a game that's actually a secret CIA experiment, a game that sucks you into the computer world, and a game made by a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand computers for a thousand years.
Well by today's standards quite a few of the games he's reviewed are pretty ancient. I still subconsciously think of the 90s as something pretty recent (probably as a means of coping with the fact I'm getting old) but damn, even Warcraft 3 will be 20 years old in a couple weeks from the time I'm writing this.
Yahtzee and Gabe ran into a similar licensed game not using the name on their channel (Yahtzee 19). It was James Bond: the Stealth Affair in some places, but was Operation stealth in others. James Bond was named John Glames in the Operation Stealth...
This brings back a lot of memories, not of this specific game, but of home computer gaming in the mid-1980s in general. Given the _colossal_ gap between what the packaging promised and what the games actually were, the insane difficulty curves, the irresolvable technical malfunctions, and the way it all added up to a constant whipsaw of anticipation and disappointment, it's a wonder computer games as a concept ever survived long enough to be any good.
I had this one, as Flash Gordon, at the time. I remember the weird spooky feeling of the jungle level so well, and I think maybe once saw that end screen as it looks kinda familar, there must have been a technique for dealing with that last level that me and my friends figured out. I always remember being confused as to why the atmosphere and enemies in this were so different to the tone of the movie, which I LOVED as a kid.
Silly Billy nice! I got a present that made me cry cause I was so happy! Still, the high quality material the Ross provides it worth more than money can buy to me.
Silly Billy it was a really nice Nikon camera. I had to stop taking artistic photos when I went back to college full time. I just graduated and this is what I have been wanting for a few years but haven't been able to afford.
It could be that they either lost the licence at some point, or didn't own the rights in a certain country. (For example, HG Wells's work is considered to be in the public domain everywhere except the United States)
Ross is definitely one of the most unique content creators on TH-cam, and makes some of the best videos on this site. Love ya Ross!! Keep it up! And Merry Christmas!
Thanks, Ross. It's a lonely and sad Christmas Eve tonight, just me and a bottle of Vodka. At least there's a new Game Dungeon to cheer me up. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year. War is over.
Uuuuuh hate to be that guy, but when I was a kid with a Saturn, I got 2 games one Christmas. Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Nights Into Dreams. And first thing I did? Read the manuals to both. So yeah, theres probably more kids that did that too.
I used to tear them in half while ripping open the box and then throw it all into the trash... I know I did this to at least Super Mario RPG and Earthbound... Just about everyone did. Hence why video game collectables from that time are so valuable, and why modern video games likely never will be.
A lot of the reason why companies change names in different regions is usually legal concerns like a trademark in one country preventing them from releasing there. This is why Farenheit was named Indigo Prophecy in some regions
Nope, this is just basic copyright conflict. The Mandela Effect is pure bullshit. Since logical paradoxes already exist and there is only one universe. The rest is just made up fantasies thanks to our deceptive brains.
@@planescaped False. There is only one universe. And in this particular case, the publishers had the rights to the film's name in the UK, but NOT in the United States. Thus the name change. Very simple explanation. Sans the whole ordeal with who UK publishers bought the naming rights to films on the cheap, when they were in the scripting phase.
Ross, for a shorter review at some point in time can I recommend Afterlife, by LucasArts? I know it's kind of a SimCity derivative, and you've made it clear how those go for you, but it still has its fun points
I was up all night doing Postmates deliveries in an ice storm on Christmas Eve to make sure I get this year wrapped up clean in terms of debt/rent, watching a Game Dungeon with my dog is the the best way to end my night. Much love, Ross.
"Is sitting down and reading the manual cover to cover the first thing you want to do?" Yes. Yes, Ross, it is. That's where the story is. That's why I know that Dr. Light and Dr. Wily used to work together, and be friends. That's why I know Protoman is my brother. That's why I know who Zelda is, and why I'm looking for her and some magic triangles. Ross, that's how I knew what the fuck was even happening in Ultima 4.
As a matter of fact, yes, I WOULD read the manual cover-to-cover first. I also read instruction manuals for appliances before I use them. I'm weird like that I guess.
I do that too, hence my mother taking me for some sort of tech guru because I don't just try to wing it when working with a single button interface I've never seen before.
i love this episode. my boy and i bounced pretty hard on it in the map room besides the fake fire place in an effort to stave off hypothermia and one week later we're still goin strong and i'm personally pleased that i got all my digits at nominal functionality, twitching nervously and doing things while i'm not looking. and as a compliment to the fake snow clouds we painted all over the wall of hanging topographical maps is the shiny christmas feeling wafting up and out of the piles of fake snow we refuse to shovel off our sidewalk. if the Illuminati's attempt to steal santa's birthday by replacing all our snow with flame retardant plastic wasn't so well timed, maybe we here would have all bounced to a review of a game like 'Snowball Simulator 64' or 'Ski Free', or a CD-ROM gallery of Coke A Cola commercials while it's more prudent to accept the extinction of snow flakes 18 years after Y2K did nothing more drastic then make my 6 year old neighbor cry while her dad hid firecrackers from a santa elf disguised as a cop ...I have to applaud the effect of glossing over the subject and letting everybody mourn in their own fashion. also the first time i saw the baldie's episode i wept a little while held in a drunken rapture of your fantastic style of story telling. Usually flying monkeys are our closest allies while on a motorcycle, duel wielding pistols, and i'm over here keeping that flame a-kindled. We all just witnessed quite enough of their blood being shed to maybe forget the centuries of peace our two kinds have happily shared together, and i just hope that we all do our part by inviting any of the poor fellas into our homes and hearts, and get 'em off the fake plastic streets before Flight of the Concords tries even one more god damn David Bowie impression.
there are a bunch of old Mickey Mouse games released in Japan but rebranded as other properties, eg, Roger Rabbit and Donkey Kong, due to contractual reasons. in fact, this kind of thing is pretty common vis-a-vis Japan vs everywhere else
So this game is both Flash Gordon and Captain Zzap. I've got that. But why the hell does the Captain Zzap box art (6:25) spell his name *Zapp?* Is it somehow connected to the Futurama character Zapp Brannigan, even though that would be impossible, since Futurama didn't even _exist_ until 1999? I want answers! *Screams in confused frustration*
"...imagine you're a kid with a new game on Christmas morning. Is sitting down and reading a manual cover to cover the first thing you wanna do?" Its usually what I did in the car on the drive back home with whatever new game we'd picked up, heh
I'm stuck at work overnight tonight on Christmas eve and will probably sleep most of Christmas day off so thanks for helping my holiday suck a little less, Ross.
As far as people who aren't named Gordon go, Ross might just know the absolute most about being a Gordon.
Festus Omega
Does Gordon Freeman know what it means to be a Gordon?
Gordon Freeman _is_ what is means to be a Gordon!
A Flash Gordon, a Gordon Freeman, a Samuel Gordon. I think it goes a long way to covering all the different kinds of Gordons
Flash Freeman, Ross Gordon! That's an order.
This is an uber tier meta comment
Meanwhile in an alternate dimension:
Scott's game dungeon: Flash Gordon
And he talks about the Captain Zapp movie
You mean - Scott's Dame Gungeon*
Ross' Game Foyer
The S&M dimension
@@zemja”ham and Swiss on rye! (Figure it out!)”
Once again, Ross has proven that he is indeed the champion of Earths.
*Earthworld
Yes, but do you know the times?
It's Earth's ^^
"Life is hopeless - you're going to die - everything is confusing and you didn't know what to do even though you really tried." :D great C64 vibes
ZZAP (AA-AAH)
Protector of the Galaxy!
ZZAP (AA-AAH)
He’ll rescue each of us!
He's pro every one of us!
Support every one of us!
He rescues with a sturdy hand
every male, every female
every infant with a mighty ZZAP!
Often times, video games being re-released in different titles without brand licensing has been a country-to-country issue.
A game by Delphine software no less, was released in America as "James Bond: The Stealth Affair" but released in the UK as "Operation Stealth," and the main character's name was changed to "John Glames"
Oh snap! I remember seeing that on let's drown out! That's awesome!
DELPHINE YOU ASSHOOOOOLES!
The name's Glames...
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Gabe: "That's not a real name, you're making that up"
IIRC, the John Glames version was the original, whoever picked it up for the US release just slapped a proper James Bond license on it. But yeah, there can be weird licensing issues when going overseas.
7:33 Why does the box have "Zapp," while it's "Zzap" everywhere else? If this wasn't confusing enough!
Oh wow, good catch.
It got scrambled in the jump.
(The inter-dimensionary jump)
@@Accursed_Farms Here is the Manual for Captain Zapp: archive.org/stream/Commodore64Manuals/Captain%20Zzap%20%28Europe%29#mode/2up
s well as a bunch of other Manuals: archive.org/details/Commodore64Manuals All these manuals weren't uploaded when you made the video.
@@MegaSnake001 Some heroes don't wear capes.
Thank you!
@@HistoryScope You're welcome!👍 Always check Archive.org for such stuff.
I really love Ross's style. He always sounds really laid back and he really gives off an air of confidence, like he's gotten around in life and he knows what he's doing but he also doesn't ever rush around or have nervous breakdowns. He seems like a really chill person.
"...imagine you're a kid with a new game on Christmas morning. Is sitting down and reading a manual cover to cover the first thing you wanna do?"
That is _exactly_ what I always did.
Glad I'm not the only one
Manuals used to be so cool. Lore, talking about characters and weapons, usually some cool art and tips. I dont remember the last game I seen with a cool printed manual. It's been a decade or more
I mean, you had to be doing SOMETHING while the game installed. I'm just a little young to have had a C64, but early DOS and Windows machines usually took a while to install, and I read the heck out of those manuals.
Hell, I still have some old manuals to some of these games, and I *still* enjoy going back and looking through them.
#MeToo. Read them on the toilet too.😂
Hey, Tunic has come out since this comment. I feel like we're all a little vindicated.
Where...where does Ross find all of these games? A dungeon?
Salokin it's the coal substitute.
Dude. The pc is a wasteland of obscure and weird games. You could throw a rock and hit a weird PC game.
Not just in " A dungeon ", but a "Game dungeon " =P
Obviously
Well, he did say he got it for Christmas as a kid at the start of the video.
A whole 25 minutes of Ross on Christmas Eve? Hell yes.
I love that walk animation, it's groovy, like he has a spring in his step as he faces certain annihilation.
The way that Ross dives so deeply into something is downright admirable. The research, the grinding; truly an inspiration. I'm glad he does it so I don't have to!
I've been genuinely shocked; literally with my mouth agape; listening to Ross describe some of the things he has done and had to go through/put up with in the making of this series. The amount of times where's he's had to perform painstaking research, reach out to people in a community that may not even exist, and spend countless repetitive hours of grinding and retrying in what would otherwise be the most un-fun gaming experience in any of our lives, but is just another day at the office for him is crazy. I mean damn, if I lose a couple round of Rainbow Six in a row, that's it for me, I'm done for the evening.
there are so many "game critics" out there who either only play part-way through the game, or else give up when the game becomes too difficult for a "normal" person to complete and just walk away without ever knowing what lies ahead. The fact that Ross makes such a point of completing each game he plays on this series, no matter how brutually difficult, tedious, or nigh-unplayably broken and glitchy it is whenever possible, is nothing short of inspirational. It's the kind of thing that makes you wanna wake up the next day, go to work, and just do your god damn job, and do it well. Because if Ross can do it, you can too.
@@MrGeorgeFlorcus Well said.
He can make any lame ass random game and turn it into the most interesting video in the world. It's incredible.
So I came across a forum post from 2002 that might kinda offer an explanation for the whole Captain Zzap vs Flash Gordon rebranding.
Some dude that sounds like he knows more than I do says that they dev only had the Flash Gordon IP for Europe, and when the game came over to the US, they had to rebrand it to their own thing, so says a mister dumbflag. Sorry if this ruins the whole alternate universe fun, at least we still have Helious.
www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3988&sid=ab1050f5cff9523233f122e83b1f113b
Doctor Pazuzu That explains why they would change it, but not why American copyright lawyers would allow them to get away with such minimal changes. I mean, this is American lawyers we are talking about. That still means a lawyer looked at it and said "Yup, now nobody can sue you."
Ellie, games were irrelevant back then
@@Egonkiller This, there weren't the eyes on the industry, as it was a truly niche hobby.
These were the days where saying you played video games got your ass kicked at school... my how times have changed.
This is what I thought the first time I saw the video. It's like that DSI game about James Bond that became John Glames
It could outright have been as such as the devs negotiating the license for Europe, then asked if it was ok to sell the game in other markets if they took off the Flash Gordon branding, and the Flash Gordon people were just all "Sure, whatever."
>when the history of the game is more interesting than the game itself
this is why I love Ross's Game Dungeon
Ross, I just want to say thank you. Your videos have given me multiple watches, and untold hours of entertainment. I appreciate your style, and I love the effort you put into all of your scripted work. Keep on rocking!
Essidus hey, aint you dead?
Silly Billy I got better.
Essidus how ?
I have to agree. Such instant joy when a new video comes out, because I know how much effort he puts in to this and the movie, and that makes it so special to me.
The whole map segment reminds me of an incredibly frustrating and yet surprisingly fun puzzle put into World of WarCraft to obtain a hidden mount; while most of the steps are bizarre leaps of logic and math problems, this one part is a randomly generated labyrinth that not only bends in upon itself in a non-linear fashion in at least three places (that I could find) and one room that flat out teleports you to a random dead end somewhere else in the labyrinth. This non-linear maze of nightmares took me several *hours* to complete as I have to not only make the map of this Escherean hellscape but also explore nearly every single one of the rooms within it to find the multiple runes and corresponding orbs to bring to each rune. I feel Ross' pain profoundly in this segment.
The best part of game dungeon is how Ross always finds these games nobody has heard of, and then beats them with insane difficulty all while showing us the first time the game has been beaten.
My theory might be that they only got the copyright for a specific region, so maybe they fully developed flash Gordon but could only release it in the EU or something, so they did a repaint to release it elsewhere.
Ross, I went to your link and I found some "Flash Gordon" stuff. I don't think I've heard of that, it reminds me of the theme from the captain zzap movie.
This game was released in the UK as Flash Gordon!
It's an alternate universe version of Captain Zzap, where he fights Ming the Merciless instead of Targ the Tyrannical. Kinda hard to explain...
I know it has something to do with an old game reviewing magazine called Gordon! 64.
INTERLOPER!
how 'bout that song by King?
"ZZAP! AAA~AAH!"
god, looking at that driving section hurts my eyes
For the past few days I've been marathon watching game dungeon videos after discovering the channel. Nearly watched them all. Great find.
This is seriously my favorite series on youtube, Ross. Keep it up! Merry Christmas!
As far as I know, titles usually gets altered (at least in case of Biohazard/Resident Evil) due to copyright issues. RE was first named Biohazard, but when they tried to release it in the US, they found out there was already a name like that copyrighted. So I assume, the developers of this game just lost the rights immediately, maybe due to failing the contract or smth.
I think it's cause there's a band named Biohazard
@@kett912 I thought there was a super Nintendo game of that name here?
Maabus must win an award for useless HUD as well
Honestly it's a common problem with older games and I think a lot of times the MAIN reason is to get the actual viewport smaller to save resources but not actually having anything interesting to show on the rest of the screen.
This game is pretty zen.
To fire you must not press the fire button...
Yes, new Game Dungeon, just in time to fill the void of my heart caused by the lack of family members to spend Christmas with.
DiglidiDudeNG So you don't have to listen to 10 family members arguing about politics at once? Oh my God, that's great!
Are you ok there buddy? Stay strong and hope you get over it
If I could give you a gift it would probably be a sealed copy of Dino Crisis on the PS1.
Same over here lol
Hoping your xmas goes well my dude
But Ross *is* a family member !
The next thing we know Captain Zapp will be renamed to Ross The Dungeon Seeker.
Well I wasn’t going to sleep on Christmas eve anyway! Thank you Ross!
Ross is Santa this year.
One day, there will be a Game Dungeon, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl.
On that day, the perfect combination of messed up game world and sharp-eyed reviewer will be achieved.
The noosphere is wounded, Ross. Nobody can fix it.
The Zone will devour us all.
Such is life in the Zone.
get out of here, stalker
CHEEKI BREEKI I V DAMKE
Don't just stand there, come in.
Let this happen
You are easily my favorite TH-camr. I hope that the Game Dungeon series doesn't stop until you have beaten EVERY weird ass game out there.
Everytime I see one of your videos go up, every other youtube video in my viewing queue gets thrown to the back of the bus.
This time, my family joined them.
Thank you, Ross for making really unique, entertaining content! These are always worth the many months wait. Happy holidays to you and all the viewers!
"Is sitting down and reading the manual cover to cover the first thing you want to do?" Very likely, yes. I loved reading manuals as a kid. Reading about all the actions and environments filled me with anticipation and excitement, and I liked looking at the concept art and character renders that often dotted the pages of Nintendo's manuals.
Me too. Especially with RPGs and RTS games.
Okay weirdo
Whoa. The amount of work that you go through to show us (now) obscure games is insane. Much appreciated and happy holidays!
It's a Heart of Darkness miracle!
I lost it at Gamespot Avenger :'D Thanks for your awesome content, Ross! You're my favourite TH-camr :)
I bet it was Flash Gordon game in first place and Ross messed something up while traveling back in time so now it's called Captain Zapp and he decided to just roll with it.
"This movie holds nothing back, except the budget."
YES.
Now that is one damn nice Christmas gift, Thanks Ross.
Merry christmas ross, your hard work is so deeply appreciated
So we already a game from aliens and now we have a game from alternate universe. What's next, a game from ancient past?
Then we get a game possessed by the devil that kills anyone who plays it, a game sent from a dystopian future by a rogue AI, a game that's actually a secret CIA experiment, a game that sucks you into the computer world, and a game made by a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand computers for a thousand years.
@@handsomebrick We have that. It's Bip Bop I, II and III.
Well by today's standards quite a few of the games he's reviewed are pretty ancient. I still subconsciously think of the 90s as something pretty recent (probably as a means of coping with the fact I'm getting old) but damn, even Warcraft 3 will be 20 years old in a couple weeks from the time I'm writing this.
Yahtzee and Gabe ran into a similar licensed game not using the name on their channel (Yahtzee 19). It was James Bond: the Stealth Affair in some places, but was Operation stealth in others. James Bond was named John Glames in the Operation Stealth...
I miss let's drown out...
'John Glames' that's the greatest knock off name I think I've ever seen.
"IT'S OPENING, JOHN!"
Looks like I’m spending Christmas Eve with my favorite machinina man, TH-cam personality
I love these seasonal episodes of Game Dungeon!
Something about the super low resolution of these old games is surreal. It makes this one rather frightening, actually.
Commodore 64 at its purest, man.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY!
- Mr. Sark
ilocosmetro Why do you keep quoting
Sark on Ross's videos? It makes it look like you're impersonating him.
Ernesto Mercado It's Christmas. It's the only thing I have left.
Zzap bless us everyone
"Classic Tournament Fighting Skills of Mashing Buttons."
Never change, Ross. Never change...
What about a video detailing Christmas or other holiday modes in games? Like how Tyrian detects when it's Christmas.
Gotta say I really love your C64 game dungeons, Bozo's Night Out, Spiderbot, and Captain Zzap.
"That classic Commodore feeling of fear and confusion"
100% precise.
This brings back a lot of memories, not of this specific game, but of home computer gaming in the mid-1980s in general. Given the _colossal_ gap between what the packaging promised and what the games actually were, the insane difficulty curves, the irresolvable technical malfunctions, and the way it all added up to a constant whipsaw of anticipation and disappointment, it's a wonder computer games as a concept ever survived long enough to be any good.
"Your Earth world will soon be under attack from Targ."
So the Klingons send their mutts after the Federation now, huh?
I had this one, as Flash Gordon, at the time. I remember the weird spooky feeling of the jungle level so well, and I think maybe once saw that end screen as it looks kinda familar, there must have been a technique for dealing with that last level that me and my friends figured out. I always remember being confused as to why the atmosphere and enemies in this were so different to the tone of the movie, which I LOVED as a kid.
Merry Christmas from Argentina Ross, and thanks for the upload!
Pedro Matias Gonzalez Saludos de Neuquen Argentina too!!!
Hell yeah
Aguante los Argentinos que ven a Ross loco! Jaja!
Ross es simple y llanamente lo mejor.
The jungle section does have pretty good visuals for Commodore.
Flash Gordon -Freeman-
One of my favorite Game Dungeons!
Hell yeah, nice job & a merry christmas ross!
I really admire Ross for putting out as much effort as he does into his videos. You can tell that this is an art and craft to him.
Once it is spelled ZAPP, and then in game ZZAP. Am I going crazy or what is going on?
"if alternate realities exist, we are one of the alternate, not the standard ones" -Ross Scott 2017
I'd love to see ross do a game dungeon for HeXen, seems up his ally
I have been watching Ross Scott videos all day and just as I was about to go to bed he uploads a new one, nice.
Ahhh new Game Dungeon!!! This is the best Christmas present ever!!!
Agreed...
Amy Ann Tylenda i have to take it back. I got a psone for christmas with some good games
Silly Billy nice! I got a present that made me cry cause I was so happy! Still, the high quality material the Ross provides it worth more than money can buy to me.
Amy Ann Tylenda what was it
Silly Billy it was a really nice Nikon camera. I had to stop taking artistic photos when I went back to college full time. I just graduated and this is what I have been wanting for a few years but haven't been able to afford.
It could be that they either lost the licence at some point, or didn't own the rights in a certain country. (For example, HG Wells's work is considered to be in the public domain everywhere except the United States)
Gordon’s in media are usually just Awesome people, I’m going to change my name to Gordon.
It's amazing that someone made a map of such a jungle.
Oh hai Ross! Merry Xmas!
Ross is definitely one of the most unique content creators on TH-cam, and makes some of the best videos on this site. Love ya Ross!! Keep it up! And Merry Christmas!
Thanks, Ross. It's a lonely and sad Christmas Eve tonight, just me and a bottle of Vodka. At least there's a new Game Dungeon to cheer me up. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year. War is over.
Mortini Hale happy winter holidays and merry christmas
This is awesome. Thanks for playing these old games and the effort you put into making these videos. Merry Christmas Ross.
Uuuuuh hate to be that guy, but when I was a kid with a Saturn, I got 2 games one Christmas. Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Nights Into Dreams. And first thing I did? Read the manuals to both. So yeah, theres probably more kids that did that too.
I used to tear them in half while ripping open the box and then throw it all into the trash...
I know I did this to at least Super Mario RPG and Earthbound... Just about everyone did. Hence why video game collectables from that time are so valuable, and why modern video games likely never will be.
I think people did mostly read manuals, but didn't save them afterward.
Crazily enough I do still have the manuals to all my games. At least the ones I bought(or got) new.
Dude. You have no idea. Every time I see "game dungeon" on my feed I get STOKED. Best series 10/10
Merry christmas papa ross
A lot of the reason why companies change names in different regions is usually legal concerns like a trademark in one country preventing them from releasing there. This is why Farenheit was named Indigo Prophecy in some regions
This is where the Mandela Effect screwed up and accidentally left both games in our universe.
Nope, this is just basic copyright conflict. The Mandela Effect is pure bullshit. Since logical paradoxes already exist and there is only one universe. The rest is just made up fantasies thanks to our deceptive brains.
@@DR3ADER1 Woosh
@@DR3ADER1 The Mandela Effect isn't bullshit, though it is cited way too often and in places where it really isn't applicable.
@@planescaped False. There is only one universe. And in this particular case, the publishers had the rights to the film's name in the UK, but NOT in the United States. Thus the name change.
Very simple explanation. Sans the whole ordeal with who UK publishers bought the naming rights to films on the cheap, when they were in the scripting phase.
@Alan Smithee Theories are unfunny. So get a better sense of humour.
Merry Christmas to Ross and all! This is a great gift
Ross, for a shorter review at some point in time can I recommend Afterlife, by LucasArts? I know it's kind of a SimCity derivative, and you've made it clear how those go for you, but it still has its fun points
I was up all night doing Postmates deliveries in an ice storm on Christmas Eve to make sure I get this year wrapped up clean in terms of debt/rent, watching a Game Dungeon with my dog is the the best way to end my night. Much love, Ross.
FLASH AHHHH HES THE SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERS
**"ZZAP! AH-AAAAH!"
Yeah, awesome sondtrack, made me a King fan.
"ZZAP! _WHOA-OOOH!_ HERO OF THE GALAXY!"
King is such a great group. So many classics!
I wonder if Ross could've use some of the music from King's soundtrack. Perhaps there would've been some legal problems, I don't know.
"Is sitting down and reading the manual cover to cover the first thing you want to do?"
Yes. Yes, Ross, it is. That's where the story is. That's why I know that Dr. Light and Dr. Wily used to work together, and be friends. That's why I know Protoman is my brother. That's why I know who Zelda is, and why I'm looking for her and some magic triangles.
Ross, that's how I knew what the fuck was even happening in Ultima 4.
This is a great Christmas gift, thank you Ross!
Thanks for all the videos this year, Ross.
You forgot the other two awards.
In the other universe, you only have 1 award.
Giving multiple awards to 1 thing is just weird...
Thank you for the upload! every Game Dungeons video is like little Christmas for me :)
"GRIND YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD"
Lost it.
Nothing like being snuggled up in my bed on Xmas eve watching Game Dungeon on my Fire Tablet. Merry Christmas Ross!
As a matter of fact, yes, I WOULD read the manual cover-to-cover first. I also read instruction manuals for appliances before I use them. I'm weird like that I guess.
I do that too, hence my mother taking me for some sort of tech guru because I don't just try to wing it when working with a single button interface I've never seen before.
i love this episode. my boy and i bounced pretty hard on it in the map room besides the fake fire place in an effort to stave off hypothermia and one week later we're still goin strong and i'm personally pleased that i got all my digits at nominal functionality, twitching nervously and doing things while i'm not looking. and as a compliment to the fake snow clouds we painted all over the wall of hanging topographical maps is the shiny christmas feeling wafting up and out of the piles of fake snow we refuse to shovel off our sidewalk. if the Illuminati's attempt to steal santa's birthday by replacing all our snow with flame retardant plastic wasn't so well timed, maybe we here would have all bounced to a review of a game like 'Snowball Simulator 64' or 'Ski Free', or a CD-ROM gallery of Coke A Cola commercials while it's more prudent to accept the extinction of snow flakes 18 years after Y2K did nothing more drastic then make my 6 year old neighbor cry while her dad hid firecrackers from a santa elf disguised as a cop ...I have to applaud the effect of glossing over the subject and letting everybody mourn in their own fashion. also the first time i saw the baldie's episode i wept a little while held in a drunken rapture of your fantastic style of story telling.
Usually flying monkeys are our closest allies while on a motorcycle, duel wielding pistols, and i'm over here keeping that flame a-kindled. We all just witnessed quite enough of their blood being shed to maybe forget the centuries of peace our two kinds have happily shared together, and i just hope that we all do our part by inviting any of the poor fellas into our homes and hearts, and get 'em off the fake plastic streets before Flight of the Concords tries even one more god damn David Bowie impression.
there are a bunch of old Mickey Mouse games released in Japan but rebranded as other properties, eg, Roger Rabbit and Donkey Kong, due to contractual reasons.
in fact, this kind of thing is pretty common vis-a-vis Japan vs everywhere else
4:44 In the case of some franchises, it's actually a copyright/trademark issue. That was actually the case with Resident Evil / Biohazard.
Best game from an alternate dimension? What about Helious?
Joshua Hopkins Helious is from another galaxy, but is still of this dimension.
The universe is a big place, man.
Accursed Farms thanks for the great content
Thank you for doing what you do Ross.Merry Christmas!
So this game is both Flash Gordon and Captain Zzap. I've got that. But why the hell does the Captain Zzap box art (6:25) spell his name *Zapp?* Is it somehow connected to the Futurama character Zapp Brannigan, even though that would be impossible, since Futurama didn't even _exist_ until 1999? I want answers! *Screams in confused frustration*
DJfrog909 Zzap Brannigan
Well I'll be. Even without snow, you're always full of surprises. Merry Christmas, Freeman!
"...imagine you're a kid with a new game on Christmas morning. Is sitting down and reading a manual cover to cover the first thing you wanna do?"
Its usually what I did in the car on the drive back home with whatever new game we'd picked up, heh
I would read manuals only on the toilet. 😁
I'm stuck at work overnight tonight on Christmas eve and will probably sleep most of Christmas day off so thanks for helping my holiday suck a little less, Ross.
Awesome!
No need to apologize man. I love your behind the game segments a lot. IT's like with Phelous and his info on bad films.