Celebrities in Video Games - The Lost Era
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Celebrity Tie In Video Games are kind of a lost art. We used to see famous people getting their own video games ALL THE TIME, but now not so much. Be it Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Dwayne the Rock Johnson or even more obscure ones, there's been licensed celebrity games rolling around since the 80s.
So uh. I kinda decided to go through as many as I could???
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YO! 3 videos in a single month, I'm feeling CRAZY. I wanted to try something a little different this time around, and thought that famous celebrities with video games were a funny target. Let me know if I missed anything spicy!
Hope everyone's having a good day!
Austin
bruh what about quantum break with liam neeson?
I really like this topic. Good video
The only man going against hellofresh....
God help .....well them
Lol yall still got the bag hahahah
Yeah and thanks for the extra 4oz of some Austin ĝoodness right on budster👍😭
You missed the opportunity to title this video "Celebrity Video Games", a much more accurate (and clickable) title than "Celebrities in Video Games".
One of my favourite things about Blood On The Sand is that, apparently, a lot of the elements were added because 50 Cent asked his son what he’d want in a game and then they just added them.
I thought that was pretty funny but I actually do think it made the game more fun.
That the same son he was beefing with? Lol
Is 50 Cent's son named 25 Cent or Quarter...
Based
Matt McMuscles did an excellent What Happened video explaining all that!
Outside of the Def Jam and 50 Cent games, my favourite celebrity cameo was in True Crime Streets of LA. If you collected all 30 bones that were scattered throughout the map you unlocked Snoop Dog as a playable character, and the best part was he was fully voiced by Snoop Dog as well.
Wasnt Snoop dog a voice you could use in call of duty infinite warfare as a anoncer to ?
Snoop dog was also the protagonist of the 2nd game lol.
I'm kind of surprised he didn't talk about the Def Jam games.
@@TheCommanderTaco No the hell he wasn't lmao. Marcus was voiced by Avery Wadell. Redman was unlockable in the sequel though, he had his own game mode where he had to escape NYC while everyone tried to kill him.
Streets of LA? you sure it wasn't New York AKA the sequel?
Man, how do you go through this entire video without even mentioning Def Jam, fight for NY? A fighting games consisting of almost entirely R&B and rap artists, and the main villain was Snoop Dogg! Legitimately one of the best fighting games of all time.
I'm still surprised we never got a fighting game with the same engine. Like obviously we'll never get a remaster due to the insane licensing costs it would require (if you still have a copy treasure it as they're fucking expensive to buy nowadays) but the engine was so god damn fun i thought for sure another game would come along with a similar feel and it just never did.
Those games were using the same engine as the WWE Smackdown games like here comes the pain shut your mouth and Smackdown Vs raw. So technically we did get a fighting game like that, just with a ring too
hell yeah!!! came to say this too lol, ffny was so underratedly good
My fav fighting game hell yeah
@@AlphaGamingClubOfficial they actually used the engine of the AKI WCW & WWF N64 wrestling games, not the Yukes Smackdown games. 🙂
Def Jam Fight For NY. A game that has a lot of rappers and some actors as well, and as of 2019, the community established their own competitive scene with Fight For NY showing up at CEO
I played 50 cent bulletproof all the time as a kid in the PS2 and it's mostly the reason I consider 50 to be my favorite rapper even now. I even had a friend who had blood on sand.
I was the other way round, I bought two bulletproof discs for the ps2 and both of them didn’t work 🤣 I was obsessed with blood on the sand though, Think it was just because I liked gears of war and rap and it was the perfect mix
RLY GREAT GAME & Curtis is
Actually A NiceGuy... It's Sad
That He HAD TO Grow-Up in
THAT Kind Of Environment Tho!
I remember playing bulletproof on the ps2 back in the day, gaming was amazing back then now it's all messed up
Back in the day it felt like Fred Durst was in every wrestling game
Look up Fred Durst's appearance in videogames, by Matt McMuscles. You will be nostalgically pleased
It was part of the deal he made to license his music.
It is odd that he was able to get into a WWE/WWF game yet ICP a few years prior had their music in the game and actually had matches in the WWF tag division were cut from WWF Attitude music still in the game but you have to create them I figured you should be able to unlock them
Yeah. I think he's also in that Fight Club game.
Didn't he get his own signature edition of the Dreamcast?
Celebrity video games will forever an insanely bizarre yet fascinating part of gaming history.
ikr.
They ain't going nowhere anytime soon
Which is sad.
Get ready for crimeboss rockay city next month.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607they did go away and we need them to come back
I do love that SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run was actually supposed to be a tie-in game for a movie that was announced in the manual for SpyHunter 2.
That's actually the most interesting part of that entire game. It's a tie-in to a movie that never existed. Which honestly is how the wheelman game feels as well.
Love seems to be too strong a word for that game.
KISS being more "mature and edgy" is hilarious given that they had a crossover movie with Scooby-Doo a few years ago. And it was a genuinely awesome movie too.
Well, Kiss is famously the most sellout band out there. They partnered with a group of idols in Japan to make some music. The music is fun tho.
Awesome until they chickened out on all the insanity. They should have kept going.
Also, the KISS game is 3d Gauntlet meets Quake with a taste of Metroid. You can run into a ton of enemies at once. And it has KISS music. Austin must have been speedrunning the first few levels, since it first appears early on, in a jukebox. (You know, that early 2000s thing that early 2000s gamers were gathering around when Limewire gave them a virus.)
They also did multiple Marvel comics and apparently mixed their own blood into the ink for the first comic
My 4 year old daughter loves the KISS Scooby-Doo movie 😂
@@theLikou1partnering with idols doesn’t make you a sellout lol what an odd example to include, and I don’t even disagree with them being sellouts
I was super lucky and found 50 Cent: Blood on the sand for 360 in a thrift store (avoiding the crazy ebay prices), and then a couple months later - the ps3 version at a record store (that also sold a small selection of games, and they didn't price games according to rarity online). So glad I found the copies ,as the game's great!
I own the PS3 version, are they actually valuable?
@@KaitouKaiju Well, it's not extremely valuable, but definitely more than what most PS3 games go for (outside of JRPGs and horror games) - it's around $30-40 for a very good condition copy. The 360 version is a little pricier, as it's rarer to find.
@@Glenni91N
That's the exact story I had just recently. I stumbled across a loose copy inside a different game case and got the game something like $5.
The more significant thing with the 360 version is it got backwards compatibility the very last batch of games they put out for it.
The only catch is it has to be a physical copy. Which when I went looking for and saw the prices I was bummed and was overjoyed when I found a copy for practically nothing.
Literally same wtf
One of the many benefits of working in a thrift store.
Didn’t even know it was sought after, I just saw 50 and knew I had to have it
We need a whole video on the Def Jam games. Every couple of months the Twitter account tries to bait followers by promising a remaster but Id rather have an Austin Eruption vid
I imagine licensing all that music is the biggest reason we don't see a rerelease.
You're really putting out the content recently Austin.
Gotta do the work!
@@austineruption - you’ve truly been putting out some quality work my friend.
This is the content of all time.
@@razielmxzmy favourite gender
@@austineruptiondoing the lord's work I see
Jet Li’s Rise to Honor deserves a mention. What a phenomenal gem on the PS2, slapping his name on there whilst making it a revolutionary take on the beat ‘em up genre. I personally think we wouldn’t have have the Arkham Game fighting system & new indie games like SIFU without this Rise to Honor. I could gush on it for hours.
Only played it once and BOI was surprised how solid it is, Jet kept finding new ways to dunk on Jackie all the time. From European movies to siding with Jack Ma over being a CCP cheerleader.
Brutal Legend genuinely had a shit ton of love put into it
The biggest problem is that it was an RTS game marketed as (and with a tutorial/story mode that mostly played as) a sort of _Zelda_ clone.
@@boobah5643 That demo made more harm than good. A lot of people got hyped because of that just to find out that the final game, exactly after that point, was nothing like it.
Yep Brutal Legend is awesome would love it if Double Fine returned to the land of heavy metal with Jack Black and company in tow, had a lot of fun playing the game on my PS3 back when I actually played the darn thing.
@@boobah5643 I was expecting a God of War clone. Huge dissapointment
yeah it was great.
50 Cent blood on the sand has quotes that still live rent free in my head. "Yo fiddy jump off that bigass ramp!" and "Bitch took my skull!" The game was stupid in the best ways possible.
The arcade version of Moonwalker was a damned nice looking game, and sounded awesome. Smooth Criminal had some nice bass to it. Yeah, I'm old enough to have put some money into one. The Genesis quite obviously couldn't come close to handling the graphics or sound so I have no idea why they even tried.
Would've been a killer app for the SEGA CD.
They really didn't. Genesis version is basically a different game, fun on its own merits.
We need a remaster of Moonwalker.
pretty cool seeing a video with MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch the same day as a Matt McMuscles video on Simpsons Wrestling.
Dance Dance Revolution actually did have two versions that were tied to specific celebrity variations: "Dancing Stage feat. Dreams Come True" and "Dancing Stage feat. True Kiss Destination". Though they're called Dancing Stage, they are DDR games.
Can't believe David Cage didn't get a nod in the one, come to think of it. He's been trying to get celebrity video games made ever since Omikron: The Nomad Soul with David Bowie playing himself but a digital god, and including most of the Hours and Heathen albums. You could even become Iman.
6:32 a game based off the fluidity of traversal and combat seen in Jackie Chan’s movies would actually be really cool. I could imagine it having big uncharted style set pieces, and combat focused on using your environment rather than firearms. There’s a lot of potential in that.
I'm surprised he never mentioned "Def Jam Vendetta" or "Def Jam fight for NY"
I just want to say before I watch. Def Jam Fight for New York is bar none the best celebrity video game.
Facts i have had to mamy memeories
That's a weird way of saying 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Ghost Face Killah was my go-to on that game.
Easily.
Big facts
I dunno if it counts and it's probably been commented into the ground, but Def Jam Fight for NY is such a banger. After watching the Best Friends play it I dropped like 80 bucks on a physical copy that I later learned was NTSC, so I couldn't even run it. This was before I had any income, and I had no idea about emulation back then, so it was a huge bummer. But I kept the copy in the hopes that one day I'd get the chance to play it - even now I have it on my shelf, having now beaten the game like 3 times on emulator.
Also, I still vividly remember playing 50 Cent Bulletproof with my cousins. I think that was the first shooter I ever played, and I didn't know what a 50 cent was, but it was still a blast. Good times.
I remember a friend of my brother lent it to him and I beat it without knowing who any of the rappers were. I tried to get it for myself after my brother returned it but no one knew wtf I was talking about. It was like the game never existed.
I thought nobody else noticed he missed one of the biggest series that I know a bunch of people played in the early 2000's. In the Army multiple guys had copies of Vendetta and fight for NY. They would have it thumping too because the soundtrack still bangs. It's a good list but without Def Jam it isn't really complete.
This era was my idealized version of coolness.
I still consider the video game period between the early 90s to the mid-2000s to be the best.
Between the first two PlayStations, everything by Nintendo, Sega and the original Xbox it was just one of the greatest times to be alive ever.
I think we need a new Britney game, especially now that she's free from that conservatorship. Toxic and that time Justice did a remix of one of her tracks will make it a worthwhile sequel.
As long as we get prime Britney in that sparkling dress
@jay bee No. You get Modern Britney, with the Manson Lamps and Mental instability.
The game is just choosing which parital nude to post on Instagram, and something like Clue.. but it's "can you figure out your new husband is using you?"
She’s over the hill now, though.
Instead of a music game, how about Britney: Escape from Dad?
Gotta respect that Vin Diesel had the foresight to open his own video game company.
Escape from Butcher Bay was amazing too.
Did u know there's a sequel to that called dark Athena
Aerosmith's Revolution X deserves an entire video dedicated to it. Its so weird with such obscure progression that to this day I'm still unsure if I've seen all of the easter eggs/content it had to offer.
honestly creating a game studio that makes games starring you sounds like something i would if i were rich and famous
As a side note entry, Kiss has an entire level in Tony Hawk's Underground, called Hotter Than Hell; you can also skate as Gene Simmon
*AHEM* WHERE IS SPICE WORLD?
You missed a classic PS1 game here... and.. Yes... I actually had it growing up. I can't even blame it on Sisters as an only child...
Appreciate this video, the 50 cent game being cool is awesome
Celebrity Sports Showdown?! I'm adding this to my Homebrewed Wii ASAP!
A Bruce Lee game now would be incredible. A blend of Sifu and Sleeping dogs would be my preferred style.
one day one day...
celebrity deathmatch is the single best fighting video game in existence.
I LOVED stuntmaster, hard af but satisfying. Amazing video as always Austin
"Yo Fifty, jump over that big-ass ramp!" and "That bitch took my skull" are two lines from Blood on the Sand that instantly put me in a good mood.
Every time I see a video titled like this I think of the Snoop Dogg game that we didn't get I believe do to the script director passing away who was a director of classic gangster movies
I enjoyed Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City quite a bit, actually, the levels featured a lot of exploration and you had to be on the lookout for health upgrades, since those were not only permanent, but would also come really in handy in later levels, which featured trickier platforming and a lot of enemies.
Outside of the goofy-looking enemy sprites, I liked the background art a lot, there were some really cool atmospheric touches like fog and heat ripple effects and last but not least, the various B-Ball types were fun to play around with.
Is Chaos in the Windy City canon to Shut Up and Jam Gaiden
I loved that game as a kid even though I sucked at it. I figured out a cheat all on my own for it, I think it was like 246813579MJ or something and you'd get all the different balls.
Anybody remember rapjam vol 1?
It had queen latifa,onyx etc.
Honestly, my measure of "making it" as a celebrity is to have a GOOD game about you
Jet Li's Rise To Honour is still super dope
I love John Woo's Stranglehold, just as a great slo mo action shooter. So many fun dives and slides across tables, it captured the feeling of movie gunfights very well. I wasn't into the story so I'd just pretend I was the punisher, and it's got a fair level of challenge and never got old.
Tons of people have talked about it over the years and like Goldeneye it's a character rather than the actual literal person, but regarding Vin Diesel in video games, the Riddick game+expansion is pretty rough around the edges and has a few difficulty spikes that are way meaner than they need to be, but otherwise it's a really solid and fairly unique stealth-shooter. Still well worth checking out as long as you're someone who has patience for dying a lot
Just played the first one (Butcher Bay) recently, it was decent if unpolished. Good luck finding them anywhere. :(
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not but I think vin diesel would’ve made a much better video game voice actor than a real one 🤣 he could’ve been the Nolan north of gta knock offs
5:45. Holy mother of uncle, this game still holds up artistically!
Maybe its because it looks like the characters are toys akin to stretch armstrong or the vinyl figures from modnation racers, while the animations are as smooth as any Lego game in existence
One celebrity tie in that just lives rent free in my head is the katy perry sims 3 crossover. That shit was wild and honestly pretty cool. Really made you realize how big sims had gotten
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster is honestly amazing. One of the best beat'em ups I've ever played
20:27 lmaooo diesel from meet and f. game
I really enjoyed the Wu Tang game back in the day, giving the opponent a fatality while saying some one liner was badass
What
Surprised you didn't cover the Def Jam fighting games, those were pretty fun from my memory
The best game featuring celebrity athletes didn't profit any of them. Barkley, Shut Up and Jam Gaiden is one of the greatest freeware games of all time.
Jet Li: Rise to Honor was so much fun back in the day. Especially the bicycle kick special move.
you mentioned green day rick band briefly but in terms of artist specific games in that line i think beatles rock band was a standout. the amount of work that went into it artistically was absolutely unreal, the animation was incredible, the attention to detail was unmatched. maybe i’m extra nostalgic but i really loved beatles rock band
yep. You’re wearing nostalgia googles
20:26 nearly made me spit out my drink, holy crap
That is a deep cut to old Newgrounds I was not ready for
I can hear the music in my head 😂
The Chronicles of Riddick games were just. Amazing.
I'm not surprised the devs would go on to do Wolfenstein: the New Order.
Austin dropping that 90s web ring deep cut. Respect.
I had Apocalypse with Bruce Willis on ps1 as a kid and from what I can remember I enjoyed it heh. I know it had an unusual shooting system where each of the face buttons fired in a different direction so it almost felt like an early twin stick shooter.
A lot of weapons👌
I played the crap out of that game don't even remember where I got it from but the but scenes blew me away at the time I looked for years for the film it was based off lol
Happy to see this mentioned! It was really good.
Kinda shocked you didn't play and talk about Def Jam Vendetta and FFNY in the video! Great video as always Austin, now good luck fighting DMX and Snoop.
Also ffny and icon.
Not to mention rapstar.
I remember there was this arcade game I was playing with Aerosmith?
The game was kind of fun but a weird concept!
The only Guitar Hero game I ever owned was the Aerosmith Guitar Hero on PS2, and Steven Tyler's character model still haunts my nightmares
It's called Revolution x.
@@SpeedsterBlur
That’s the game!
Yeah it was very fun!
I also know that dead or alive 2 ultimate 3 and 4 had Aerosmith music!
They had two games.
The Beatles had one and Metallica.
Blood on The Sand is one of my most treasured 360 games. I managed to get it at a really nice price, too.
How much does it go for now? Has the price gone way up?
Blood on the Sand is art and I love it.
The Chronicles of Riddick games are masterpieces and I will die on that hill
Just occurred to me earlier today when thinking about your obscure to us comment about foreign celebrities. If no one has mentioned in a comment yet I think one recent game that deserves an honorable mention would be the " Judgment" ( off spring of the Yakuza games) series. It was because of the celebrity and his weird agency that there was such drama about the Judgment game getting ported over to PC.
My favorite is Snoop Dogg being in a Tekken Tag 2 stage with an original song that slaps hard
I actually owned one of the Journey Atari games. It didnt come with a instruction booklet so young me didnt know what to do but still managed to figure it out.
Celebrity Deathmatch was awesome, never did play the game though.
I think Bruce Willis - Apocalypse was a pretty important one that you missed.
🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!
Was that the one with 5 die hard movies in it?
Brutal Legend is amazing and desperately needs a sequel.
These are the video game videos i love to watch thanks Austin
David Bowie's Nomad Soul was interesting.
That Hudson Mohawke Cbat reference. 😂 Beautiful.
I visit Chicago occasionally to see family, and can confirm that Michael Jordan's Chaos in the Windy City is an accurate depiction of what it's like there
The online multi-player in the 50cent game was peak entertainment back then
I'm loving the Phantasy Star sounds you're using in transitions lol
Forgetting Kung Fu for NES for Jackie Chan.
Britney dance beat is hilarious now. K fed was a backup dancer. That's all I'm going to say.
Celebrities in video games is now became a weird trend nowadays when it comes to licensed games and original I.P. It’s been going for 40yrs and still going on today.
I remember watching my brother play Jackie Chan Stunt Master and thinking it was the best looking video game I’d ever seen 😂
DUDE! JAckie Chan's Adventure's was my ish when i was a kid one of my all time fav shows.
The same day that Matt McMuscles does a What Happened video on Simpsons Wrestling, made by the same developer as Celebrity Death Match.
Coincidence?
Yeah, probably.
“We paid for Dwayne; you’re getting the Johnson, baby”
This had me giggling and kicking my legs in the air
20:23 I hate that I actually recognize those games you just show for throwaway just because of that green button
Britney’s Dance Beat had an amazing, cutting-edge (no sarcasm) live performance viewer where you had camera control during FMV. At least it was in the review code I played it on back when I worked at Game Informer. I’m surprised the tech never really showed up anywhere else.
Speaking of Bruce lee, would Hong Kong 97 count as a celebrity game?
That’s his half brother Chin bro
Don't fuck with the Chin
@@kokotheclown2588 well if that’s chin, then does ex Chinese president Tong Shau Ping count?
@@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749 huh now that u think about maybe
@@kokotheclown2588 yay?
Can't believe he didn't mention Playboy the mansion.
Surprised you didn't bring up Keith David playing himself as a major character in Saints Row IV
That's not a celebrity game that's a celebrity IN A game. Everyone in the comments seems to have missed that even though he explains it in the video. You could literally talk about GTA VICE CITY if you want to talk about celebrities IN A game but the game itself is not BASED on those celebrities.
That Steven Spieldberg clip was gold
Got one more for ya, Minnesota Fats: Pool Legends for the Sega Saturn. Great gameplay, hilarious cutscenes. It's not a big game, but it is supposed to be a sequel to Side Pocket, which was quite popular.
seagal's first 5 flicks are pretty dope though lol
Out for Justice is a masterpiece of comedy and I won't hear otherwise.
Rise to honor ate up so much of my childhood gaming hours. Beat it so many times and actually loved the characters towards the end and was genuinely upset when his chubby funny friend died
I actually,amazingly stumbled across a loose copy of blood in the sand recently at a thrift shop. It of course was in some completely random like flying game's box but when I saw that game inside I was so excited.
Yeah the prices are insane for that game and it sucks cuz it's actually pretty good but not for $50 for a loose copy good.
Lolol. The way u describe Kiss is so funny and on the nose. Also love ur channel, found a new channel to binge
Comment for the algorithm, a great vid, and the Acclaimed reference ✂️✂️✂️✂️
Bros literally the only youtube channel id have notifications on for real talk.
Yoo what Austin know bout MNF 🤣😭
man i love your videos. always a good watch with plenty of laughs. thanks man
I was hoping you'd cover Bujingai in here, a PS2 action game starring Gackt, a famous Japanese musician. Gackt also was in Crisis Core FF7, as Genesis.
I have lots of fond, 90s-tinted memories of playing the Myst-like PC adventure/fmv game featuring the band Queensryche. My dad took me to a meet and greet at the local Incredible Universe store they did to promote their new album, and all I cared about was the free video game.
I watched this just to hear about the Spice World game.
Radiohead made a free to play game recently.
The Stephen Spielberg, "konichiwa" clip had me rolling...
Didn't expect to hear about KISS Psycho Cirrus Nightmare Child (what a mouthful title)
Best Vin Diesel game is still Chronicles of Riddick Butcher bay (Assault on Dark Athena was meh, and changes to BB too)
I know it was just a Typo of you but "Psycho Cirrus" genuinely seems like a name for a cloud-themed Yu-Gi-Oh Monster.