A small extra about “The Guy Game” the reason the game was pulled from shelves had nothing to do with its quality (although that should also be considered a crime) One of the girls featured, lied about her age during the filming . After the game was released it was revealed she was only 17. I know right? Yikes.
@@boiwhoactuallyareyou I dunno man I learned about the whole affair from an adult magazine. For some reason it’s been information I’ve retained for a decade nearly. Your mileage may vary I guess
@@ElSandwich777 yeah idk I thought the whole reason it had controversy was because of the underage girl, hense all the callbacks of the product back in the day and nowadays being one of the most rarest games to own on the Xbox original, meh idk maybe we’re just too cultured for most people 😭😭
@@NumbHydro Simply put, it's unfortunately not very good in any aspect. The controls, the gameplay loop, the frankly bizarre design choices that felt like someone sought consultation from a crazy person, it's just bemusing in the end. Especially the whole thing where the base dialogue dub is an indecipherable and unpleasant sounding conlang. I'm all for wacky videogame languages if they sound pleasant, unique, endearing, or cute, but this is definitely not that. The only thing that could have made it more absurd would be if it ended with a card that said "The Beginning".
8:45 The worst part of Aliens: Colonial Marines is that someone found out that there was a single line of code that fixed the poor enemy AI. It was caused because a developer had a typo and put "teather" instead of "tether", and in this case the typo broke their whole code. When fixed the enemy behavior is what you'd find in a regular game. But without the fix, when the game released I remember the enemy AI being very bad and often being too stationary.
Happy Soft made another game, being a parody management type game regarding a real Japanese cult. Also yes, that is a REAL dead body shown in the game over/death scene.
Aliens: Colonial Marines has one of my favorite bugs of all time. The Alien’s AI was completely destroyed by a single typo that broke its ability to lock on and stalk players. Once a single letter was deleted, the game’s Xeno AI improved. The misspelled word was “TEATHER,” just delete the a.
6:00 - Dude, was this part of the video made in 2015 or something? The dude's BEEN had a new game already! TWO in fact! Don't know how the heck you missed that when making this.
You forgot the controversy that spawned within The Guy Game where it turned out that multiple women shown happened to be minors, causing the game to be illegal
To note, the game devs that brought Jim Sterling to court also restarted their company like 2 more times and got caught each time. No idea if their last company is still going, they went inactive on their Facebook page years ago
About the whole Pheonix Games thing. Most of their games that contained films are mostly ones sith animations from Dingo Pictures, same with Midas Interactive. The biggest piece of irony is that these animations in those games supposedly weren't authorized by Dingo Pictures at all. That's right, a company that specializes in rip-off Disney and Don Bluth animations had their animations ripped off by Pheonix Games and Midas Interactive.
Keep making the long videos, they're better than trying to cram everything into 20 minutes or worse having 50 parts for your viewers to go through just for one topic
Decent video. here is some corrections plus some somewhat important things about some of the games I have noticed were omitted. I'm not familiar with all of them so I'm probably missing some stuff. Action 52: Entry contains a lot of omissions, namely descriptions of common problems with gameplay (Repeat Shooter, Bizarre jump controls, two games which routinely crash in some versions, a game which literally would crash after level 5 (to which an award was set for anyone who got to level 6). Implication that Cheetahmen is the collections only platformer, Biggest omission is "The Action Gamemaster", which was the intended final game before the guy funding its creation saw the ninja turtles and demanded they do what they do (with little to no time left). Bubsy 3D: Bubsy has had several modern reinstatement, Omits Bubsy's major issues as a platformer (Tank Controls, a camera which lunges upwards every time Bubsy Jumps and down once he lands, slipping off of a ledge being an instakill and more), Also video editing mistake where Getting Over It shows up for a few frames. Aliens: It's major citicisms being the contrast between the product itself and the advertising, especially in relation to graphics, features and enemy AI Balan Wonderworld: it's world not land, mainly known for the presence of the creator of Sonic being head of the game, with development outsourced to a company owned by Sonic's Character designer and the director for Sonic CD. Its most infamous for its bizarre gameplay and story decisions, where nothing is explained without the novelization and power ups can regularly remove your jump abilities, along with being stupid concepts in general (most famously, box fox, a fox costume which every few seconds turns into a cube. Night Trap: The Masked Intruders are called "Augers" (Essentially vampires,). There is no graphic violence, with the game making deliberate steps to make it less violent (such as the blood sucking machines) Nintendo CDI: The Hotel Mario entry focuses on the absurd premise rather then flaws with the gameplay, iirc its has frustrating mechanics, but I've never played it (as with most of the games here) Quiet Man: The silent cutscenes were the games big idea, though they can be played with dialogue if you beat the game. Its not worth it. Dikatana: Nitpicky, but the company is called Ion Storm Plumbers don't wear ties: Does not mention the bizarre filtering and photoshop jobs done on some of the stills. They almost make the game worthwhile Dr Jekyll: The cane attack is designed to be situational, most gameplay is based on avoidance to which the game has a variety of absurdities such as uneven hitboxes which make that more difficult E-Football: Its not just mobile games, there are PC and Console versions of the game and they seem to be what E football is referring to Hunt Down the Freeman: While a nitpick, it should be mentioned that the game was fan made and published officially, similar to Mega Man Vs Street Fighter DDI: Exclusively talks about Ninjabread man, doesn't describe faults, platformers are most famous for all being direct clones of Ninjabread Man. Should also note that Ninjabread man is a half-baked prototype for a Zool sequel that hastily changed the character design when they lost the rights over quality concerns. Pac Man 2600: Game's flickering is a necessary evil of mantaining the four ghosts on screen, due to the inane limitations of the 2600. Game was also weirdly designed for multiplayer, and was made while the programmer was high (iirc from a Retro Gamer interview) Hong Kong 97: Happysoft has released 2 games (The other being a management game making fun of the cult Aum Shinriko, with the goal of causing the 1995 Sarin Gas Attacks), the game's a deliberate farce designed by a "Dark Tourism" journalist and a developer at Square he was friends with to mock the tight regulations of Nintendo, you're goal is explicitly to kill all of China not that Chin ends up doing so, The corpse is a real, commonly assumed to be a Polish Boxer due to the date aligning with his suicide. Popeye: Popeye was not going to be the mascot of Nintendo. Instead, Donkey Kong, which would spawn nintendo's mascot, was intended to be a Popeye License game before realizing they only had the rights to print cards of him. Levels of the officially licensed unoffical remake are Unity stock assets. Dark Castle: Does not mention Dark Castles controls, known for being its worse feature Little Britian: several reapeated lines, focuses on sexual innuedos rather than the reason the game is her, it's piss poor gameplay and design. Stargazers: It is important to note that Kusoge is to some extent treated as a genre term (also sometimes used to refer to extremely broken fighting games). The game is about Psychic Kids and the AI turns out to be an intergalactic race of dolphins looking to take over the world. It's got its reputation due to being completely unbalanced with impossible enemy encounters seconds into the game, using pure Hiragana for text despite having built in Katakana used exclusively on the password screen (note Japanese uses Katakana for expressing loan words, which is a lot of words in a Sci-Fi game), the final boss just not being programmed so that the option is an instant bad ending, weapons which can weaken the player even at the start of the game, ugly abstract visuals and bugs so great you can break the scolling just by using 2 controllers. Super Monkey: The Plot is also an adaptation of Journey To The West. The game is the Asian equivalent of the Homeric Epics in terms of literary influence, so a Japanese Audience would understand much of the premise from familiarity with the source material Top Banana: From an American perspective maybe, though at least in Europe the Amiga is one of the big influential pillars of gaming (also for rave music, thanks to its sampling capabilities). The Atari ST I think might have also been pretty known too. Human Killing Machine: US Gold is a publisher, and Tiertex is the developer. Tiertex are well known for shit home computer ports. Sonic Jam Gamecom: As the gamecom is physically incapable of colour, I dont think its right to criticise its monochromatic display. SQIJ: The game is a port of Commodore 64 game (also on the C64's lesser version the Vic 20 of the same name. A poke refers to poking into the games data and manually altering it yourself. This is to turn off capslock, which turns on upon the start despite the game only acciepting lower case imputs. It should also be noted that the ZX Spectrum, while a home computer (known at the time as "microcomputers"), is basically the European NES (Especially in the UK, where it was made). The ways home computer markets worked in Europe made for a large amount of shit games, not helped by the ZX spectrum being a very cheap and underpowered, yet popular console. Hareraiser Prelude and Finale: The Games existence relies on the company head having cheated his way into winning a golden rabbit statue made by the artist Kit WIlliams as part of a contest for his artbook Masquerade. The game as such takes most of its concept from that. The two games were high priced titles despite the minimal programming, with both games able to fit onto a floppy disk for even the least powerful console it was ported to. It is important to note that the only change between Prelude and Finale are some different clues and the presence of spiders.
This video is pretty poorly researched. Not only were there two bubsy reboot games released a few years ago, Aliens: Colonial Marines was panned for it's laughable enemy AI and graphical downgrade over the pre-release footage, and there have been efforts to fix both hence the better reviews
since theres actually quite a bit in this video that apparently wasnt properly researched or defined, i figured i'd do my part and clarify something in here that even someone else who clarified it got it wrong. the dead body at the game over screen in Hong Kong 97 is real, however it's also not of Leszek Blazynski, or Atef Bseiso, or Farag Foda (all three of those having been speculations as to who the image is of). The image is actually from a Japanese "shockumentary" or mondo film named New Death File III. In NDFIII, at 28:55 (not in this video, despite youtube timestamping that part of the video), during footage of the Bosnian War in 1992, the film shows the body of a deceased civilian. this was confirmed several years ago to be the body featured in HK97. this is all found from in total 3 (three) google searches. research isn't extremely hard, esp with something as widely covered as Hong Kong 97, though considering this is at a point in the iceberg where most of everything is widely known, i doubt there's many people watching who aren't aware of hong kong 97.
Same with WWF warzone it's like they tried to make a WWE game with mortal kombat and street fighter controls but broke them I love how bad that game is because it's in the same category as Rogue Warrior and Sonic 06 it's so bad that it's good
The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man felt more like a bootleg low-budget fan game than a true arcade port of the original. (29:19) And even Atari had the understatement to advertise the game as quote "Differs slightly from the Original"
6:00 Correction: Bubsy returned in 2017 and 2019 with two games, The Woolies Strike Back and Balls of Furry. 36:38 It wasn't Hudson Soft's idea, rather Konami's during their acquisition of the company so they'd get the rights of Bomberman, since they were desperate at the time, and it shows. Hudson Soft went bankrupt in 2012, and we should blame Konami for their treatment towards the company prior to their inevitable fall from grace upon firing Hideo Kojima and the infamous Nikkei Report. When you realize Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill got skins in Super Bomberman R with the voice actors behind those beloved characters reprising their roles, I should mention Act Zero to David Hayter(Solid Snake) and Quinton Flynn(Raiden) as a joke, due to it being inexplicably abysmal, with no save data, a forgettable soundtrack, jiggle physics on the Bomberwomen, and the worst video game redesign next to El Donte(made worse when his OG design was faithful to Dante's appearance in the Devil May Cry series' main continuity, until Capcom hijacked development without Ninja Theory's permission). What an insult, but the mention would be quite funny towards these renowned MGS cast members due to the early 2000's obsession over edge in vein to a 12 year old Call of Duty player calling someone on Xbox Live offensive slurs(mostly the N word).
The Guy Game is such a crazy concept like who had the idea that the lonely guys the game was made for would wanna do trivia while trying to crank their hog
first time I've seen someone talk about the guy game and not address the reason it was banned, was that for youtube censorship reasons? but even though I had already heard of most of these games I was entertained, I think if you put in the work and research you have potential
I don't think it was the case, because even other TH-camrs like Caddicarus and Scott The Woz either mentioned or hinted the reason why it was banned. I think it might've been the case of not enough research.
56:00 I wouldn't say Miyamoto wanted Popeye to be the mascot for Nintendo, as Mario ended up being the mascot because he was an original character. It would've been more correct to say the game that eventually became Donkey Kong was to have the main cast of Popeye as the characters, but they failed to secure the rights so they invented DK and Jumpman (Mario) instead. Even with that, the video is still really good, keep up the good work
Don't listen to what people are saying, keep making long icebergs like this one. Mfs make one video for each layer in the iceberg and end up making you watch 16 parts of the same fucking iceberg. It's better to just do it all in one big video.
Takeshi's challenge is bad to play. Randomly spawning enemies, a large overworld full of red herrings, a lot of RNG, and a paragliding segment which is absolute hell. And they final area is full of racist islander stereotypes, after all that. Its a classic because its bad, all the fans are trauma bonded to it.
Pretty good video, but the Mega Man X7 entry wasn't entirely accurate. Mega Man X4 is arguably the best game in the sub-series, competing with X1, and X7 did get a sequel in X8, which is a leagues better game. X Command Mission also was decently well received, and Mega Man as a whole didn't really die off until several years later.
Streatham hill stories was British wasn't it. My nit pic is that you mentioned what happens when a foreign company attempts a GTA clone when rockstar itself is British :p Good video though
I also really enjoyed it. It was my first Tomb Raider game, so it's nostalgic. Didn't know the backstory though. Will try to find a video that goes into it
Actually, if you judge The Guy Game by content alone, it's - supposedly - not half bad. (Obviously, I've never played it; the reason this game is so bad is related to the reason you could - no joke - be arrested for owning it.) IGN reviewed it, and based on gameplay alone, gave it a 7.5 rating, describing it as "solid, simple, and fun", if lacking in replay value. The reason the game is so notorious is, they never bothered to ask the age of the "contestants" featured in it, and one was under 18, making the game technically child porn (this is why pornographic film studios have gone through lengths to make sure that the actors they hired are of legal age and have consented to being in a porn production following the Traci Lords scandal of the 80s). The game was recalled, and a lawsuit later put Topheavy Studios out of business.
The one thing I’d say you could do a bit better on is the research for each entry. I don’t need a complete recap of every entry, but missing pretty obvious/big stuff (guy game’s underage girl being the reason it was banned and bubsy getting new games after 3d to name examples) makes some entries feel half-baked
About Bubsy you made a mistake Their creators decided to revive it some years ago and they made two of the most boring platformers ever made as a result And as much as i hate to assume, they are the best bubsy games
I'm in the middle of trying to 100% Balan Wonderworld. As awful as the game is, it's hilarious how little it makes sense. I'm actually having a good time because of how laughably bad it is.
28:50 The Leisure Suit Larry series actually has had two new games come out: Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry (2018) and the sequel Wet Dreams Dry Twice (2020). the first one is basically the plot of Austin Powers but its the 2010s and Larry has to try and woo modern women. I've not played the second game, just watched a walk through. As a female fan of the og series, these new ones were a fun little romp
I liked learning about some of the games that I had never heard about, although as an avid AVGN fan whose seen every episode numerous times, it was kind of obvious when you were using quotes/footage directly from one of his vids (Dark Castle or The Crow, for example). Overall I enjoyed watching though
As someone who owns an actual copy of Wild Woody, I find the game itself to be fine, it’s what you’d expect from a Sega platform game. The cutscenes are terrible though. The game is a personal guilty pleasure of mine haha. Not that bad
AVGN needs to see this if he needs more ideas on what game should he feature next and not another generic mobile game that's already obvious. I'd rather see him review RapeLay than do that one episode.
ECW anarchy rulez is easily the worst wrestling game because the devs got lazy and the game looks bland for being a PS1 wrestling game its just another reskin of WWF warzone but worse
Claiming ET is worse than Big Rigs? Despite the actually working gameplay mechanics that even the AVGN pointed out are overhated by an audience that didn't bother with the instructions? Duke Nukem Forever was just juvenile and offensive? Unlike that critically acclaimed South Park RPG series? This list can't even handle the basics. Think I'll check out here.
30:29 How bad was _this_ _Pac-Man?_ I had the game beat barely 4 hours after I played it _for the first time;_ and it wasn't even on _my_ 2600!! A year later, they did a _waaaaay_ better job with their version of _Ms. Pac-Man._ The monsters actually _chased_ you; and it wasn't so easy to start a game on the hard level on Sunday and still play that same game on _Friday!_ 👍
28:08 postal 3 actually is the bane of a postal fans existence because apparently there was a bunch of controversy surrounding the fact that the development team wasn’t the team that made the other postal games which are cult classics in there over the top nature as “more offensive gta” where the series two gimmicks was its only as violent as you are and that your a sick person for buying a game that’s this racist and violent it was meant for not only to provoke thought on the people who wanted a good thing to think about but also quill the itch for something mind numbing dumb violent and offensive to play making it be a good game for multiple types of people and the fact that the games were perpetually bad looking to make fun of the player yet is actually fun to play makes it a gem among the rough luckily postal 4 was much better even if it’s moving a different direction and postal brain damaged is the best arena shooter I’ve ever played gameplay wise even if the humor is kinda bad the fact that postal 3 wasn’t thought provoking and just straight up dumb and offensive while not being fun to play pushed both of its demographics away making it even worst than you mentioned.
I don't want to criticize you, because I liked the video, but you may want to shorten your videos and not cover such a broad subject. I think it would help a ton for getting more views and comments but it's really hard to comment on long videos like this because there are so many changes in subject and people forget what all they watched
The ice bergs are made specifically to be long expansive listings of topics…just don’t watch this dude’s icebergs. He shouldn’t have to shorten them when plenty of TH-camrs that post long icebergs get crazy views.
A small extra about “The Guy Game” the reason the game was pulled from shelves had nothing to do with its quality (although that should also be considered a crime)
One of the girls featured, lied about her age during the filming . After the game was released it was revealed she was only 17.
I know right? Yikes.
this isn’t common knowledge?
@@boiwhoactuallyareyou I dunno man I learned about the whole affair from an adult magazine. For some reason it’s been information I’ve retained for a decade nearly.
Your mileage may vary I guess
@@ElSandwich777 yeah idk I thought the whole reason it had controversy was because of the underage girl, hense all the callbacks of the product back in the day and nowadays being one of the most rarest games to own on the Xbox original, meh idk maybe we’re just too cultured for most people 😭😭
i remember caddicarus talking about this game at one point
"This game has... illegal _booba_ on it!"
Night Trap: you just watch security cameras. Bad game
Five Nights at Freddy's: you just watch security cameras. Good game
exactly 😂😂
FNaf has cams but you don’t just stay on them
ah yes, they both have cameras so they're the exact same game
fnaf isn't a good game either. worthless franchise quality-wise.
See? Even YOU said "Balan Wonderland". It's almost IMPOSSIBLE to just say Balan Wonderworld.
Even worse, I called it Balan Wonderwall for a couple of times
Why its this game hated again besides being made by someone who worked on Sonic?
@cantin8697 Oh
@@NumbHydro Simply put, it's unfortunately not very good in any aspect. The controls, the gameplay loop, the frankly bizarre design choices that felt like someone sought consultation from a crazy person, it's just bemusing in the end. Especially the whole thing where the base dialogue dub is an indecipherable and unpleasant sounding conlang. I'm all for wacky videogame languages if they sound pleasant, unique, endearing, or cute, but this is definitely not that. The only thing that could have made it more absurd would be if it ended with a card that said "The Beginning".
@@Django2k6 Oh
8:45 The worst part of Aliens: Colonial Marines is that someone found out that there was a single line of code that fixed the poor enemy AI. It was caused because a developer had a typo and put "teather" instead of "tether", and in this case the typo broke their whole code. When fixed the enemy behavior is what you'd find in a regular game. But without the fix, when the game released I remember the enemy AI being very bad and often being too stationary.
I hear a Game Genie was made for the PS3! Hope someone can hack a code that applies that AI fix!
Hope someone got fired for that blunder
fun fact: Bubsy actually got not only one, but *two* new games released on the PS4 in 2017 and 2019
Oh yeah, I forgot about Paws on Fire.
Flatout 4 exists too; would help to do some slight research before making these sort of claims if you're gonna a make an iceberg video
Happy Soft made another game, being a parody management type game regarding a real Japanese cult.
Also yes, that is a REAL dead body shown in the game over/death scene.
Idk what’s more haunting the dead body or that goddamn theme/only song
Goose Boose confirmed the corpse was a Bosnian Civil War victim taken from the Japanese shockumentary Death File: Yellow.
Aliens: Colonial Marines has one of my favorite bugs of all time. The Alien’s AI was completely destroyed by a single typo that broke its ability to lock on and stalk players. Once a single letter was deleted, the game’s Xeno AI improved. The misspelled word was “TEATHER,” just delete the a.
Wdym? It was intentional. The devs obviously wanted the make the Aliens to have dreams of playing in a Shakespeare
that's wild...
great video, but I think long videos like this, especially icebergs, need to have chapters!
6:00 - Dude, was this part of the video made in 2015 or something? The dude's BEEN had a new game already! TWO in fact! Don't know how the heck you missed that when making this.
The CD-i games are national treasures
You forgot the controversy that spawned within The Guy Game where it turned out that multiple women shown happened to be minors, causing the game to be illegal
To note, the game devs that brought Jim Sterling to court also restarted their company like 2 more times and got caught each time. No idea if their last company is still going, they went inactive on their Facebook page years ago
About the whole Pheonix Games thing. Most of their games that contained films are mostly ones sith animations from Dingo Pictures, same with Midas Interactive. The biggest piece of irony is that these animations in those games supposedly weren't authorized by Dingo Pictures at all. That's right, a company that specializes in rip-off Disney and Don Bluth animations had their animations ripped off by Pheonix Games and Midas Interactive.
Keep making the long videos, they're better than trying to cram everything into 20 minutes or worse having 50 parts for your viewers to go through just for one topic
Out of every iceberg videos, this videos gives me the early Normalboots/Hiddenblock vibes
Same
That's the first time I've heard someone pronounce Lionel Messi like that.
Decent video. here is some corrections plus some somewhat important things about some of the games I have noticed were omitted. I'm not familiar with all of them so I'm probably missing some stuff.
Action 52: Entry contains a lot of omissions, namely descriptions of common problems with gameplay (Repeat Shooter, Bizarre jump controls, two games which routinely crash in some versions, a game which literally would crash after level 5 (to which an award was set for anyone who got to level 6). Implication that Cheetahmen is the collections only platformer, Biggest omission is "The Action Gamemaster", which was the intended final game before the guy funding its creation saw the ninja turtles and demanded they do what they do (with little to no time left).
Bubsy 3D: Bubsy has had several modern reinstatement, Omits Bubsy's major issues as a platformer (Tank Controls, a camera which lunges upwards every time Bubsy Jumps and down once he lands, slipping off of a ledge being an instakill and more), Also video editing mistake where Getting Over It shows up for a few frames.
Aliens: It's major citicisms being the contrast between the product itself and the advertising, especially in relation to graphics, features and enemy AI
Balan Wonderworld: it's world not land, mainly known for the presence of the creator of Sonic being head of the game, with development outsourced to a company owned by Sonic's Character designer and the director for Sonic CD. Its most infamous for its bizarre gameplay and story decisions, where nothing is explained without the novelization and power ups can regularly remove your jump abilities, along with being stupid concepts in general (most famously, box fox, a fox costume which every few seconds turns into a cube.
Night Trap: The Masked Intruders are called "Augers" (Essentially vampires,). There is no graphic violence, with the game making deliberate steps to make it less violent (such as the blood sucking machines)
Nintendo CDI: The Hotel Mario entry focuses on the absurd premise rather then flaws with the gameplay, iirc its has frustrating mechanics, but I've never played it (as with most of the games here)
Quiet Man: The silent cutscenes were the games big idea, though they can be played with dialogue if you beat the game. Its not worth it.
Dikatana: Nitpicky, but the company is called Ion Storm
Plumbers don't wear ties: Does not mention the bizarre filtering and photoshop jobs done on some of the stills. They almost make the game worthwhile
Dr Jekyll: The cane attack is designed to be situational, most gameplay is based on avoidance to which the game has a variety of absurdities such as uneven hitboxes which make that more difficult
E-Football: Its not just mobile games, there are PC and Console versions of the game and they seem to be what E football is referring to
Hunt Down the Freeman: While a nitpick, it should be mentioned that the game was fan made and published officially, similar to Mega Man Vs Street Fighter
DDI: Exclusively talks about Ninjabread man, doesn't describe faults, platformers are most famous for all being direct clones of Ninjabread Man. Should also note that Ninjabread man is a half-baked prototype for a Zool sequel that hastily changed the character design when they lost the rights over quality concerns.
Pac Man 2600: Game's flickering is a necessary evil of mantaining the four ghosts on screen, due to the inane limitations of the 2600. Game was also weirdly designed for multiplayer, and was made while the programmer was high (iirc from a Retro Gamer interview)
Hong Kong 97: Happysoft has released 2 games (The other being a management game making fun of the cult Aum Shinriko, with the goal of causing the 1995 Sarin Gas Attacks), the game's a deliberate farce designed by a "Dark Tourism" journalist and a developer at Square he was friends with to mock the tight regulations of Nintendo, you're goal is explicitly to kill all of China not that Chin ends up doing so, The corpse is a real, commonly assumed to be a Polish Boxer due to the date aligning with his suicide.
Popeye: Popeye was not going to be the mascot of Nintendo. Instead, Donkey Kong, which would spawn nintendo's mascot, was intended to be a Popeye License game before realizing they only had the rights to print cards of him. Levels of the officially licensed unoffical remake are Unity stock assets.
Dark Castle: Does not mention Dark Castles controls, known for being its worse feature
Little Britian: several reapeated lines, focuses on sexual innuedos rather than the reason the game is her, it's piss poor gameplay and design.
Stargazers: It is important to note that Kusoge is to some extent treated as a genre term (also sometimes used to refer to extremely broken fighting games). The game is about Psychic Kids and the AI turns out to be an intergalactic race of dolphins looking to take over the world. It's got its reputation due to being completely unbalanced with impossible enemy encounters seconds into the game, using pure Hiragana for text despite having built in Katakana used exclusively on the password screen (note Japanese uses Katakana for expressing loan words, which is a lot of words in a Sci-Fi game), the final boss just not being programmed so that the option is an instant bad ending, weapons which can weaken the player even at the start of the game, ugly abstract visuals and bugs so great you can break the scolling just by using 2 controllers.
Super Monkey: The Plot is also an adaptation of Journey To The West. The game is the Asian equivalent of the Homeric Epics in terms of literary influence, so a Japanese Audience would understand much of the premise from familiarity with the source material
Top Banana: From an American perspective maybe, though at least in Europe the Amiga is one of the big influential pillars of gaming (also for rave music, thanks to its sampling capabilities). The Atari ST I think might have also been pretty known too.
Human Killing Machine: US Gold is a publisher, and Tiertex is the developer. Tiertex are well known for shit home computer ports.
Sonic Jam Gamecom: As the gamecom is physically incapable of colour, I dont think its right to criticise its monochromatic display.
SQIJ: The game is a port of Commodore 64 game (also on the C64's lesser version the Vic 20 of the same name. A poke refers to poking into the games data and manually altering it yourself. This is to turn off capslock, which turns on upon the start despite the game only acciepting lower case imputs. It should also be noted that the ZX Spectrum, while a home computer (known at the time as "microcomputers"), is basically the European NES (Especially in the UK, where it was made). The ways home computer markets worked in Europe made for a large amount of shit games, not helped by the ZX spectrum being a very cheap and underpowered, yet popular console.
Hareraiser Prelude and Finale: The Games existence relies on the company head having cheated his way into winning a golden rabbit statue made by the artist Kit WIlliams as part of a contest for his artbook Masquerade. The game as such takes most of its concept from that. The two games were high priced titles despite the minimal programming, with both games able to fit onto a floppy disk for even the least powerful console it was ported to. It is important to note that the only change between Prelude and Finale are some different clues and the presence of spiders.
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My God, did it take you twenty business days to write that skyscraper of a text ?
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@@froggycutie0God forbid someone try to actually be informative and give extra information
This video is pretty poorly researched. Not only were there two bubsy reboot games released a few years ago, Aliens: Colonial Marines was panned for it's laughable enemy AI and graphical downgrade over the pre-release footage, and there have been efforts to fix both hence the better reviews
It's the usual wikipedia tier slop.
since theres actually quite a bit in this video that apparently wasnt properly researched or defined, i figured i'd do my part and clarify something in here that even someone else who clarified it got it wrong.
the dead body at the game over screen in Hong Kong 97 is real, however it's also not of Leszek Blazynski, or Atef Bseiso, or Farag Foda (all three of those having been speculations as to who the image is of). The image is actually from a Japanese "shockumentary" or mondo film named New Death File III.
In NDFIII, at 28:55 (not in this video, despite youtube timestamping that part of the video), during footage of the Bosnian War in 1992, the film shows the body of a deceased civilian. this was confirmed several years ago to be the body featured in HK97.
this is all found from in total 3 (three) google searches. research isn't extremely hard, esp with something as widely covered as Hong Kong 97, though considering this is at a point in the iceberg where most of everything is widely known, i doubt there's many people watching who aren't aware of hong kong 97.
Rogue Warrior is definitely in the "so bad it's good" category, probably more than any other game.
Same with WWF warzone it's like they tried to make a WWE game with mortal kombat and street fighter controls but broke them I love how bad that game is because it's in the same category as Rogue Warrior and Sonic 06 it's so bad that it's good
6:00 That actually isn’t true there was a new Bubsy Bobcat game that released back in 2017 called Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back.
And in 2019 with Bubsy: Paws on Fire.
Forgot about that game? That's okay, there wasn't enough marketing for it.
The majority of the games in the lower sections of the iceberg are fairly common knowledge.
The Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man felt more like a bootleg low-budget fan game than a true arcade port of the original. (29:19)
And even Atari had the understatement to advertise the game as quote "Differs slightly from the Original"
6:00 Correction: Bubsy returned in 2017 and 2019 with two games, The Woolies Strike Back and Balls of Furry.
36:38 It wasn't Hudson Soft's idea, rather Konami's during their acquisition of the company so they'd get the rights of Bomberman, since they were desperate at the time, and it shows. Hudson Soft went bankrupt in 2012, and we should blame Konami for their treatment towards the company prior to their inevitable fall from grace upon firing Hideo Kojima and the infamous Nikkei Report. When you realize Metal Gear, Castlevania, and Silent Hill got skins in Super Bomberman R with the voice actors behind those beloved characters reprising their roles, I should mention Act Zero to David Hayter(Solid Snake) and Quinton Flynn(Raiden) as a joke, due to it being inexplicably abysmal, with no save data, a forgettable soundtrack, jiggle physics on the Bomberwomen, and the worst video game redesign next to El Donte(made worse when his OG design was faithful to Dante's appearance in the Devil May Cry series' main continuity, until Capcom hijacked development without Ninja Theory's permission). What an insult, but the mention would be quite funny towards these renowned MGS cast members due to the early 2000's obsession over edge in vein to a 12 year old Call of Duty player calling someone on Xbox Live offensive slurs(mostly the N word).
Oh man I remember a TH-camr who mentioned that a friend of his got a epileptic seizure from playing Top Banana in a dark room
This really could’ve been better researched & edited 😬
The Guy Game is such a crazy concept like who had the idea that the lonely guys the game was made for would wanna do trivia while trying to crank their hog
first time I've seen someone talk about the guy game and not address the reason it was banned, was that for youtube censorship reasons? but even though I had already heard of most of these games I was entertained, I think if you put in the work and research you have potential
I don't think it was the case, because even other TH-camrs like Caddicarus and Scott The Woz either mentioned or hinted the reason why it was banned. I think it might've been the case of not enough research.
50:50 Yeah, it is a photo of a real dead body. It was taken from a documentary or some sort. There is an interview video with the developer himself.
56:00 I wouldn't say Miyamoto wanted Popeye to be the mascot for Nintendo, as Mario ended up being the mascot because he was an original character.
It would've been more correct to say the game that eventually became Donkey Kong was to have the main cast of Popeye as the characters, but they failed to secure the rights so they invented DK and Jumpman (Mario) instead.
Even with that, the video is still really good, keep up the good work
If you’re planning a sequel to this, may I please suggest including Robin Hood’s Quest and Driving in Tehran?
Don't listen to what people are saying, keep making long icebergs like this one. Mfs make one video for each layer in the iceberg and end up making you watch 16 parts of the same fucking iceberg. It's better to just do it all in one big video.
It's literally just one guy saying that and everyone has made it clear that he shares the minority opinion
Takeshi's challenge is bad to play. Randomly spawning enemies, a large overworld full of red herrings, a lot of RNG, and a paragliding segment which is absolute hell. And they final area is full of racist islander stereotypes, after all that. Its a classic because its bad, all the fans are trauma bonded to it.
Fun fact for the Guy Game: one of the contestants was underage, making the game considered CP and therefore illegal.
Of course, the expert on "that topic" like you would know...
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6:32 It would've been even more uncomfortable if Sonic turned into a human after the princess kissed him 💀
Pretty good video, but the Mega Man X7 entry wasn't entirely accurate. Mega Man X4 is arguably the best game in the sub-series, competing with X1, and X7 did get a sequel in X8, which is a leagues better game. X Command Mission also was decently well received, and Mega Man as a whole didn't really die off until several years later.
If everyone hates mighty No. 9 then I'm dead
Streatham hill stories was British wasn't it. My nit pic is that you mentioned what happens when a foreign company attempts a GTA clone when rockstar itself is British :p
Good video though
I feel like the Diabetes game would get a pass if it wasn't so hard. It's meant to be played by kids, why is it hard 😭
"we never got a flat out 4"
*Actual flat out 4 from 2017 crying in the corner
i personally liked tomb raider AOD and it has a cult following too, there is a HUGE backstory why the game came out unfinished
I also really enjoyed it. It was my first Tomb Raider game, so it's nostalgic. Didn't know the backstory though. Will try to find a video that goes into it
Bubsy did have another game, even made by the same company
Actually, if you judge The Guy Game by content alone, it's - supposedly - not half bad. (Obviously, I've never played it; the reason this game is so bad is related to the reason you could - no joke - be arrested for owning it.) IGN reviewed it, and based on gameplay alone, gave it a 7.5 rating, describing it as "solid, simple, and fun", if lacking in replay value.
The reason the game is so notorious is, they never bothered to ask the age of the "contestants" featured in it, and one was under 18, making the game technically child porn (this is why pornographic film studios have gone through lengths to make sure that the actors they hired are of legal age and have consented to being in a porn production following the Traci Lords scandal of the 80s). The game was recalled, and a lawsuit later put Topheavy Studios out of business.
wait wheres Armed and Delirious ?????
Nice video!!! I like your voice and editing is fine too!! Subbed!!🌸🫧
The HongKong1997 3 second music loop haunts my nightmares.
The one thing I’d say you could do a bit better on is the research for each entry. I don’t need a complete recap of every entry, but missing pretty obvious/big stuff (guy game’s underage girl being the reason it was banned and bubsy getting new games after 3d to name examples) makes some entries feel half-baked
Didn't even mention Shadow: War of Succession, 2/10!
About Bubsy you made a mistake
Their creators decided to revive it some years ago and they made two of the most boring platformers ever made as a result
And as much as i hate to assume, they are the best bubsy games
I'm in the middle of trying to 100% Balan Wonderworld. As awful as the game is, it's hilarious how little it makes sense. I'm actually having a good time because of how laughably bad it is.
28:50 The Leisure Suit Larry series actually has had two new games come out: Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry (2018) and the sequel Wet Dreams Dry Twice (2020).
the first one is basically the plot of Austin Powers but its the 2010s and Larry has to try and woo modern women.
I've not played the second game, just watched a walk through.
As a female fan of the og series, these new ones were a fun little romp
Great video man! And can I say that your cat looks a lot like you haha
I liked learning about some of the games that I had never heard about, although as an avid AVGN fan whose seen every episode numerous times, it was kind of obvious when you were using quotes/footage directly from one of his vids (Dark Castle or The Crow, for example). Overall I enjoyed watching though
Is it just me or does the animation for Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric look really good? Hell it's better than Frontiers and I love that game
There's a good F&F video game: the Forza spin-off.
Kinect sold extremely well though. 35M.
Seeing Ganso Saiyuuki and Hoshi wo Miru Hito made me really happy as a kusoge enthusiast.
As someone who owns an actual copy of Wild Woody, I find the game itself to be fine, it’s what you’d expect from a Sega platform game. The cutscenes are terrible though. The game is a personal guilty pleasure of mine haha. Not that bad
AVGN needs to see this if he needs more ideas on what game should he feature next and not another generic mobile game that's already obvious. I'd rather see him review RapeLay than do that one episode.
Same.
Even if it gets nuked off youtube, id still watch it just for the reaction.
Calling it now, Sad Satan is at the bottom.
I feel like Crazy Octopus should be on this. Probably on Layer 2
7:33 Balan Wonder*world*.
there's actually another waldo game on the nes that lets you see waldo, so that one got it right
ECW anarchy rulez is easily the worst wrestling game because the devs got lazy and the game looks bland for being a PS1 wrestling game its just another reskin of WWF warzone but worse
Thanks for making a video that I can play in the background while I work
47:37 you can say ugly bastard it's ok lol
Much love for Yuma ❤️ keep it up bro
Oh dude you have to play the good saints row games
When you talked about Efootball I think you got the wrong game, I’m sure it was talking about the console version not the mobile.
Lalo Salamanca at 28:27
Claiming ET is worse than Big Rigs? Despite the actually working gameplay mechanics that even the AVGN pointed out are overhated by an audience that didn't bother with the instructions?
Duke Nukem Forever was just juvenile and offensive? Unlike that critically acclaimed South Park RPG series?
This list can't even handle the basics. Think I'll check out here.
30:29 How bad was _this_ _Pac-Man?_ I had the game beat barely 4 hours after I played it _for the first time;_ and it wasn't even on _my_ 2600!!
A year later, they did a _waaaaay_ better job with their version of _Ms. Pac-Man._ The monsters actually _chased_ you; and it wasn't so easy to start a game on the hard level on Sunday and still play that same game on _Friday!_ 👍
I thought everyone hated colonial marines
chidamin
Not sure if you just mentioned cheetahmen in a memey way or just saying you can't stand the games mentioned in the video
Rogue Warrior is a fucking masterpiece!
28:08 postal 3 actually is the bane of a postal fans existence because apparently there was a bunch of controversy surrounding the fact that the development team wasn’t the team that made the other postal games which are cult classics in there over the top nature as “more offensive gta” where the series two gimmicks was its only as violent as you are and that your a sick person for buying a game that’s this racist and violent it was meant for not only to provoke thought on the people who wanted a good thing to think about but also quill the itch for something mind numbing dumb violent and offensive to play making it be a good game for multiple types of people and the fact that the games were perpetually bad looking to make fun of the player yet is actually fun to play makes it a gem among the rough luckily postal 4 was much better even if it’s moving a different direction and postal brain damaged is the best arena shooter I’ve ever played gameplay wise even if the humor is kinda bad the fact that postal 3 wasn’t thought provoking and just straight up dumb and offensive while not being fun to play pushed both of its demographics away making it even worst than you mentioned.
Tucson here 🌵
TOP BANANA MENTIONED WOOOOO
You're winner
43:14 funny enough this was atlas gee what they made later on
Cool vid
46:27 woah she looks coop
PLAYSTATION IS F❤❤❤ING LIT
Not watching the whole thing, is Lunar Dragon Song on it?
no undertale, ddlc, helltaker and touhou?
Great video
I don't want to criticize you, because I liked the video, but you may want to shorten your videos and not cover such a broad subject. I think it would help a ton for getting more views and comments but it's really hard to comment on long videos like this because there are so many changes in subject and people forget what all they watched
The yapper
The ice bergs are made specifically to be long expansive listings of topics…just don’t watch this dude’s icebergs. He shouldn’t have to shorten them when plenty of TH-camrs that post long icebergs get crazy views.
Nah, long iceberg videos get a lot of views.
are you new here or?
This is pretty short by iceberg chart standards. See: Wendigoon.
This was good
Here's one more rotten gems! Limbo of the lost (2008) it's great
hell no duke nukem forever is on the list. It's a janky game but is fun to play.