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Angry Video Game Nerd
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Only just barely, though. Mario 64: July 96 Japan, September 96 US. Bubsy 3D: October 96. Bubsy was probably in development long before any of its devs would have had a chance to play a final version of Mario 64.
Sure, but what I meant was that one is unplayable and one is praised for its gameplay.
At least in Shadow the Hedgehog he does use the homing attack, unlike the Sonic '06 video...
And yeah, I remember catalogs sort of like that. Good stuff.
Ironically, he did it in the Sonic game where it's the most useless since (as he pointed out), it's equally likely to send you into a pit as do what it's supposed to, and it's weakened thanks to the focus on guns. It was funny to hear him be moderately okay with it, but I guess it makes sense if he only played the first level as it seems.
Anyway, liked the game rush in the second video a lot better than the first. Felt like he was able to talk more about the actual games. Also, I had Spider-man & Venom: Separation Anxiety as a kid, which looks almost identical to Separation Anxiety (I actually confused them last time the subject came up). I thought it was decent, but I'd have to revisit it sometime to see how it holds up.
BigJonsson
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Hahaha
I own Boy and his Blob and The Three Stooges and played them tons
I liked the Stooges but Blob was way too hard and lacked instructions
LOL THE ENDING
I own Boy and his Blob and The Three Stooges and played them tons
I liked the Stooges but Blob was way too hard and lacked instructions
LOL THE ENDING
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Deleted member 57681
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I always liked Maximum Carnage as kid. I even was a little upset when Game Grumps ripped on it. Glad he found the gold bronze at the end of the rainbow.
alfredofroylan
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Great episode, I'd love to know his opinion about the remake of A Boy and his Blob for the Wii. That game deserves more love IMO
Ryan242004
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Very good little series. I remember those catalogs lol.
Same here, makes me feel old.
crimzonflame
Member
Awesome ending.
phillipgessert
Member
Totally agree, in fact the rant sections at the end of the older ones always bugged me a bit.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
LOL!
LJN actually managed with a decent game.
Makes me wonder if there's even an LJN equivalent this generation?
LJN actually managed with a decent game.
Makes me wonder if there's even an LJN equivalent this generation?
D3, which is a sub-publisher for Namco-Bandai. Releases all the really crappy Cartoon Network related games for Ben10, Adventure Time, etc.
THQ was big on releasing licensed crap games until they went bankrupt.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
D3 also handles the Earth Defense Force series.
The publisher of one of the most entertaining franchises shouldn't be compared to LJN imo.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
He should do Spirit of Speed 1937 for the Dreamcast. Not only an awful game, but also the final LJN game ever released.
Tomb Raider was also October 96.
Some developers looked at the void of early 3D gaming and made something out of it. Others brought literally nothing to the table.
Games like Bubsy 3D really make you appreciate the stunning achievement of something like Mario 64.
No kidding, I got Maximum Carnage as a young kid. I absolutely loved it, but I'm pretty sure I only played up until some church/Black Cat place. Maybe Doppleganger was there.
Sapphire Dreams
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Mind you, LJN were only the publishers and not the developers. If you want a publisher that always puts out shitty licensed games constantly it's probably Activision but they do have original IPs of their own that are good like Tony Hawk and more recently Call of Duty and most recently Skylanders.
I don't think we need to worry about the AVGN ending any time soon now. He just posted on Facenook yesterday asking for suggestions for future episodes...
https://www.facebook.com/Cinemassacre/posts/10151853010571336
A Black Falcon
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Ah, Bubsy 3D... I of course actually think that it's not that bad of a game, but I know very few people agree with me on that. I think the graphics are okay (flat-shaded polygons look fine), for one. The controls needed work, and a port to a system with analog controls, but I like the large levels and the strong focus on platform jumping. It's a different kind of feel from many other 3d platformers, as Bubsy 3D really is all about the platforms, and struggling to jump on enemies or platforms of course thanks to the controls. But anyway, he seems to have gave the game more of a chance than a lot of internet video reviewers have (ie, he actually learned how to play), which is good. Of course Mario 64 is many times better in every way, but Mario 64 is one of the best games ever made, few games hold up to it. I think I've heard that the people who were working on Bubsy 3D saw Mario 64 sometime that summer in '96, but it was way too late to change their game to keep up with it: Accolade wanted the game out that year, and so it was. And the reaction was so poor it killed the series.
Otherwise, this was another good episode for sure. As for that last bit, I'd forgotten that Acclaim had LJN's label put on the SNES release... I have both of these games (Maximum Carnage and Separation Anxiety) for Genesis, where Acclaim published both under its own name. On that note, Acclaim had bought LJN back in 1990, and after that point LJN was just a label owned by Acclaim, so it's really the same thing either way... Acclaim mostly used LJN as a label they put licensed junk on, so as to keep the better games on the "Acclaim" label I guess, though Acclaim's own release that generation were quite mixed in quality as well. Man, did they improve amazingly by the mid '90s! N64 Acclaim was fantastic... Oh, and Acclaim also had the Sega-systems-only "Flying Edge" label they used on some games, as well. Also, both of those Spiderman beat 'em ups were was actually developed by Software Creations, not Acclaim or LJN. Software Creations made a bunch of stuff, some good (Tin Star for SNES for example) and some not so good (NES Silver Surfer...), but their Spiderman games are decent, sure. I don't find either one of those Spiderman beat 'em ups all that exciting, but they aren't bad games either.
Otherwise, this was another good episode for sure. As for that last bit, I'd forgotten that Acclaim had LJN's label put on the SNES release... I have both of these games (Maximum Carnage and Separation Anxiety) for Genesis, where Acclaim published both under its own name. On that note, Acclaim had bought LJN back in 1990, and after that point LJN was just a label owned by Acclaim, so it's really the same thing either way... Acclaim mostly used LJN as a label they put licensed junk on, so as to keep the better games on the "Acclaim" label I guess, though Acclaim's own release that generation were quite mixed in quality as well. Man, did they improve amazingly by the mid '90s! N64 Acclaim was fantastic... Oh, and Acclaim also had the Sega-systems-only "Flying Edge" label they used on some games, as well. Also, both of those Spiderman beat 'em ups were was actually developed by Software Creations, not Acclaim or LJN. Software Creations made a bunch of stuff, some good (Tin Star for SNES for example) and some not so good (NES Silver Surfer...), but their Spiderman games are decent, sure. I don't find either one of those Spiderman beat 'em ups all that exciting, but they aren't bad games either.
Heh... that's true, isn't it. I'd forgotten that about the spin-dash getting you killed in Shadow the Hedgehog, I didn't get far into that game before stopping playing it...
They're average, I'd say. Also I imagine you mean Separation Anxiety and Maximum Carnage. It's easy to forget which is which, but I think Maximum Carnage is the first game, and Separation Anxiety is the second... anyway, the second game has two player co-op, while the first is single player only.
Starwolf_UK
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I better remember this anecdote. Especially as a response to "have Bethesda ever released a game that isn't completely buggy?" yes they have; Where's Waldo.
revolverjgw
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Oh man, huge rushes of nostalgia as he flipped through those Wishbooks. I got excited when he showed the lingerie section. That was a big deal for me back then. A very big deal.
AdventureMike
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When he brought out Maximum Carnage, my initial thoughts were "Who da fuck is hatin on Maximum Carnage?!?! *puff chest out*"
Great couple of episodes though. Him going over the wish books in the first part was a nostalgia trip. Even as late as the PSX era, I remember using a wish book to point out to my parents that I wanted Grandia and Brave Fencer Musashi!
Great couple of episodes though. Him going over the wish books in the first part was a nostalgia trip. Even as late as the PSX era, I remember using a wish book to point out to my parents that I wanted Grandia and Brave Fencer Musashi!
BassForever
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I hope he doesn't unless that's his final review as the AVGN. I like the sprinkles of shit that is LJN into random reviews
but if he did that, we wouldn't have the hilarious ending to this episode!
That took me by surprise because I could've sworn Maximum Carnage was Acclaim...it had an Acclaim-like ad campaign where it was advertised fucking everywhere for a minute. guess not!
Here's a spoiler-gif of the end, I'm sure some gif-modders can have some fun with it.
http://a.pomf.se/qncnyh.gif
http://a.pomf.se/qncnyh.gif
It just seemed big because you weren't used to it doing that yet.
This was a good episode. I wouldn't mind more multi-game ones like this.
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Deleted member 57681
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LJN also published some decent wrestling games, no? At least I remember not being completely pissed off by Royal Rumble or Raw for the SNES.
A Black Falcon
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Acclaim must have been so ashamed of the game that they resurrected the at that point dead LJN label just for that one game... if you look it up, you'd see that the LJN label had been killed off in early 1995, before Acclaim brought it back five years later just for that one title. I guess they really wanted to (or had to? Who knows) release it, but not admit that by putting their own name on the game...
The back of the Maximum Carnage box advertises that the games' soundtrack is by (or is based on songs by?) the band Green Jelly, so it was they who copied the song... who knows if they had the right to do so though.
It was pre internet days so they probably just thought why not. Nowadays it'd be GAF > Kotaku > Lawyers within 24 hrs of the games release. Cool little piece of trivia though.
GreggTheGrimReaper
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MrCunningham
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Yeah pretty much. It was not a rip-off where a music composer just steals a few guitar riffs from a song. The Super Villains track from Maximum Carnage was an intentional cover of Black Sabbath's The Mob Rules that was hidden into the game on purpose. They did do this without the permission of Black Sabbath though.
Green Jelly also made a studio recording of the Maximum Carnage theme song, complete with lyrics, and put it on one of their albums: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JjPc6g9288
Pretty decent two part episode though. I have a lot of memories of looking through the Sears wish book during the Christmas season when I was a kid.
SeventhSon
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Green Jelly was originally called Green Jello, until sued. It all makes sense.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
The wish list episodes were excellent; best in a long, long time. Had kind of a throwback feel to them; James was much less over-the-top than he's been in more recent episodes.
I was just thinking about those awesome JC Penney wishbooks the other day. So good. I also remember actually kind of wanting the Home Improvement game, but never bought or even rented it. And I wanted Maximum Carnage solely due to the red cartridge, but I only ever rented it.
I was just thinking about those awesome JC Penney wishbooks the other day. So good. I also remember actually kind of wanting the Home Improvement game, but never bought or even rented it. And I wanted Maximum Carnage solely due to the red cartridge, but I only ever rented it.
These episodes were actually the best I've seen in a long, long time. I think AVGN works way better when he doesn't have to devote an entire 10-15 minutes to a single game. The payoff at the end of the Maximum Carnage bit was absolutely priceless! Even though I thought Terminator 2 on Gameboy was a pretty decent LJN title
This double-episode actually made me want to go buy a couple Sears Wish Book catalogs for nostalgia value. As it turns out, they're all like $25-$50 on eBay (for mid-80's catalogs). Fuck that. I bet Sears could make some decent money just by digitizing their old catalogs and putting them up on the Amazon Kindle store.
For anyone that's interested the AVGN Game is only $6.74 on Steam right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/237740/?snr=1_7_15__13 I kinda just bought it to support The Nerd, but it seems like an enjoyable romp so far, with a ton of entertaining callbacks to previous episodes.
This double-episode actually made me want to go buy a couple Sears Wish Book catalogs for nostalgia value. As it turns out, they're all like $25-$50 on eBay (for mid-80's catalogs). Fuck that. I bet Sears could make some decent money just by digitizing their old catalogs and putting them up on the Amazon Kindle store.
For anyone that's interested the AVGN Game is only $6.74 on Steam right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/237740/?snr=1_7_15__13 I kinda just bought it to support The Nerd, but it seems like an enjoyable romp so far, with a ton of entertaining callbacks to previous episodes.
Godzilla: Unleashed (PS2) James & Mike Mondays
I really wish big gaming YouTubers would tell people what they use to record every single game console in 1080p.
I really wish big gaming YouTubers would tell people what they use to record every single game console in 1080p.
Top 10 Worst Video Game Endings
http://cinemassacre.com/2013/12/25/top-10-worst-video-game-endings/
Spoilers obviously.
http://cinemassacre.com/2013/12/25/top-10-worst-video-game-endings/
Spoilers obviously.
10. Predator
9. The Karate Kid
8. Link: The Faces of Evil
7. Back to the Future (NES)
6. Super Pitfall
5. Little Red Hood
4. One of the games in King of Kings
3. Ikari Warriors
2. Ghosts n Goblins
1. Ghostbusters (NES)
9. The Karate Kid
8. Link: The Faces of Evil
7. Back to the Future (NES)
6. Super Pitfall
5. Little Red Hood
4. One of the games in King of Kings
3. Ikari Warriors
2. Ghosts n Goblins
1. Ghostbusters (NES)