DVD Games: Interactive Junk 

As a kid, I couldn't play video games on school days, so while watching the movies, this was the best I could do to pass a grey line 😂

I remember watching commercials for the Shrek 2 DVD SPECIFICALLY advertising the Far Far Away Idol segment as a feature and wanting to see it so bad. Time passed and I got the Shrek 2 DVD for my birthday later that year. I remember being so excited to watch this extra feature and see who was the winner, and being absolutely LIVID that each ending resulted in Simon being declared the winner no matter who you chose. I felt so betrayed lol

Regardless of the weird concept of these DVD interactive games, I still have very fond memories of Timon & Pumba's Virtual Safari on the Lion King DVDs.

Man, I miss when DVDs used to have games and interactive stuff in them

You seem very well versed as a youtuber. Got good writing, editing, original content. Your microphone may not be best but nobody starts with a good mike since that shit is expensive. I would like to see a sequel to this video. But it seems you could barely release this video so I wont hold it against you. Great work and instant sub

So many good memories of looking through all the special features and bonuses that came with DVDs, sometimes they even came with crappy DVD Rom games, it fealt like finding gold exploring the DVD menus for the first time

This was so interesting and fun to watch!! It doesn't feel at all like a flat delivery of chronological facts with nothing extra, it's put together with so much personal touch and humor and your videos tell a story very very well :D Awesome video!!! 🦐 👍

This was very enjoyable! I remember playing the “story mode” games using the remote. Not too exciting, but it was neat enough to entertain me.

You actually got me at 11:44 because I'm actually thought my phone started freezing!

Found you through recommendations you are incredible. One of my favorite DVD menus was spy kids 3-D I dont remember it vividly but I think there was a little mini game where you could play the race from the movie either way amazing job look forward to more ❤

Man, those DVD games were my childhood.

THIS IS YOUR FIRST VIDEO??? you scripted this SO WELL ❤️💙 looking forward to your next works !!!

Excellent video and great editing! I seem to remember the bonus features and games on the Harry Potter DVD sets were quite good at the time! Might be looking back through rose tinted nostalgia glasses!

As soon as I encountered this video, I had to quickly click in and let the nostalgia roll in. I remember the days when my mom would buy me a dvd from any movie that has been released after the movie premiere or "early access" from cheap DVD vendors. Now this would be a 75/25 for me because most of the DVDs are literally the films but they were illegaly recorded from a video camera inside a theater and they literally have Foreign Titles or Subtitles, while some DVDs are the real deal that carry the Main-Menu + Special Features. I have a WHOLE list of DVDs that have the Main Menu Features such as: -Disney's Robin Hood -The AristoCats -Meet the Robinsons -Cars Toons -Handy Manny -Home of the Range -The Scooby Doo Christmas Movie (I forgot the title but it included some What's new Scooby Doo episodes) -My Friends Tigger & Pooh -Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Halloween -Tom & Jerry: The Magic Ring -Garfield Gets Real -Good Boy Man... I miss those days when I had a bunch of DVDs with the menu screen and just watch em any time

I'll never forget the tough-as-nails Donald Duck snow game I played on some blank, pirated DVD when I was like 5.

I remember a 'game' on my Lilo and Stitch DVD that went through each of the cousins it was pretty cool. Thanks for the video!

7:43 this is part of why those dvd games made me fell uneasy back then. like i remember being freaked out over some rocket ship dvd game from despicable me which i swear that in my memory, it made it sound like vector was gonna kill me

This deserves way more attention!

We called them set-top games back in the day, because they were being played in the dvd player itself, which most people kept on top of their tv set. Two of the best that I remember (and keep in mind they're about as functional as cd-rom point and click adventures) were on the Who Framed Roger Rabbit disc, which had a ful tour of the movie world hosted with new narration by Benny the Cab, and a game consisting of a few different minigames somewhat replicating the movie plot. The other was a well made Superman vs Doomsday game on the disc for the animated film Superman: Doomsday, a rough first attempt at adapting Death of Superman in the Timmverse days, before the properly titled two part films Death and Reign. That was a fighting game composed of clips from the movie's fight scenes, attacks and responses played after clicks based on timing and reflexes, and it was the closest I ever saw a dvd set top game get to what feels like a real video game. They're as much a novelty as VHS board games now, but could stand some more attention. Too bad they realized that all that extra work made a better product, but didn't really help sales much.

This video was amazing, I really miss the DVD formats presentation. This video also brought back a memory of a DVD game that scared me. I remember being horrified by an Over the Hedge DVD Game where you played as the Squirrel trying to stealth through lasers or something? It was pretty typical for DVD games but the game over screen scared me. It was a scene from the movie of him in a cage, but where normally there was another character to hold his hand he was just alone. It disturbed the hell out of me cause he still looked down where the skunk girl was normally. I may be misremembering it though.

Now that I think about it, You Don't Know Jack would have been the perfect thing to adapt into a DVD game. Think about it. A small selection of episodes on a disc, complete with Cookie's usual witty commentary. It most likely wouldn't be able to keep track of your score, due to limitations of DVD coding, but I could imagine that it would give you a time/score conversion chart to help you keep track yourself.

I really liked some of the Blu-ray games, ones that are my personal favorite is the one on The Lorax blu-ray where it was basically a platforming game and the one that was on Cars where you basically watched the movie trying to spot different cars and clicking the right car. Good Job on the video!

First video with 30k views? This channel gots potential!

woooah i can’t believe you only have 83 subscribers this is such a high quality video. i miss elaborate themed dvd menus, and audio commentaries, and the little dvd games! my favorite thing as a kid was behind the scenes videos though. idk why but i just really liked them

I ADORED every DVD, they were my life back when I didn’t have much else in terms of entertainment. I still buy my favorite movies in DVD.

This video scares me, despite growing up with DVDs they have always creeped me out. But that doesn’t mean I still don’t collect them.

I remember when I was a kid, my dad got me and my sibling a Bratz dvd that we assumed was a movie - turns out it was an interactive game like this where you got to set up a birthday party for the Bratz and even though I was disappointed about it not being a movie, I actually ended up playing it a LOT lol. I played the Shrek 2 Far Far Away Idol a lot too, sometimes I'd put the dvd in just to play it instead of watching the movie.

10:06 Finally, someone mentions the Shrek character morph game! I thought everyone just forgot about it

You have to play the tale of Despereaux bonus feature where you make the chef food! It was hilarious, and me and my sister used to play it so much as a kid

I had a Harry Potter DVD game. It was... interesting. Now one that _was_ good, my sisters were really into Nancy Drew, and they put one of the games on DVD - because it's a slower paced mystery, I think the format works surprisingly well.

Simon being the winner almost everytime, was my villian origin story

When I was a kid I remember playing so many DVD games!

Far far idol was my favorite 😆 I would always laugh my ass off. When my childhood best friend first told me about at during recess I died laughing in disbelief at how he described it the teacher had to intervene and try to calm me down. Later that day I knew I had to ask my dad to take me to circuit city and he actually got me the dang thing so I rushed to do my homework and I spent rhe next hour laughing uncontrollably at the pirate singing and Simon's reactions

Since Disney DVD was introduced, the craziest part of owning a format like that began. Still having fun with some of those discs. 😊

Anyone remember the Santa Clause 2? Interactive DVD game with the giant nutcrackers.. that use to fucking scared the shit out of me when I was little. I remember playing that one Mini Game where I think you need to answer true or false questions to see if Santa was a fake or not, and if you get it wrong, Those nutcrackers just APPEAR OUT OF NO WHERE! Talk about a jumpscare

I used to spend so much time playing DVD games as a kid. My favorites were the Barbie Rapunzel dress up game and art history lesson game, Lilo and Stitch's alien creation game, and the Disney Sing Along Songs games. There was some special feeling to seeing the clips from the movie as cutscenes as well.

this was a very good video. Straight and to the point, brought up a lot of info I had no idea about. Good pacing and goofs. I'm excited to see what other videos you put out!

Love the quality of this and even the effort of the captions during the stuttering bit! keep up the great work! :D Subbed

This is super well edited and structured, and I love the use of examples from your sources! Can't believe this is your first video. Keep it up!!

I remember Humongous Entertainment porting a few of their games onto DVD players. since they were point and click adventure type games, those were perfect for the format.

Hey, great video! I was astounded to finish the whole thing and see both a low subscriber count and a low view count. It's an excellent video, and subtitles were included as well. I found this through the 'recommendations' tab, so I really hope that your video continues hitting there; it's a really high quality watch and again, I was shocked to see you're not hitting 6 digit numbers of engagement. You've earned a sub, a comment and a thumbs up! Looking forward to the next video.

I remember really enjoying the extras on the Ducktales Movie dvd back in the day. Looking back at it it wasn't anything too special, it was like a point and click treasure hunt, yet as a kid it felt really cool to explore McDuck Manor like that. Another one I remember really enjoying was "It's your birthday party with Winnie the Pooh". Now this dvd was heavily focused on the interactive part, it was like the main feature of the dvd, it had like 8 different games to play. The one I remember most fondly was the personality quiz. Another interesting thing that came out on dvd were some of the Humongous Entertainment games. Which was very interesting, an entire game basically on your dvd. Sure it didn’t run as smoothly as the pc versions, but still, it was pretty impressive for a child. Personally I owned Pyjama Sam 3. Only downside really was that they removed the multiple randomised paths, so every playthrough was the same.

You love to see the first video on a channel that makes the channel look like it’s been around for years

this was an incredible first video! I can’t wait to see what other content you come up with

I liked the dvd interactive game for lion king 1 and a half as a kid. I remember riding that roller coaster over and over again to get all endings

Loving the channel so far!

Awesome video Tech :) I look forward to seeing more

fantastic video, surprised at the low view count here considering the quality. also thanks for putting actual captions on it

I used to watch the special features more than the movies half the time lol. I miss the special features man. They were so good. The ones for Coraline and ice age made me get into sculpting and animation. Thank god laika put theirs up on RU-vid. I wish bluesky did because they were the ones that got me into it of all things. They used to physically sculpt their models with clay before doing it on the computer

Looks like the AUS adaptation of the Deal or No Deal DVD game was basically the same as the US's, except that Howie Mandel was replaced with their host.

The deleted scenes in the first Harry Potter DVD were hidden behind an interactive game that you HAD to beat in order to see the clips.

I like this video. Just makes me think of reviews that are high enough quality in editing. It's lovely.

This was a really good video hope you keep up the quality!

I loved DVD games! Bonus features seen so lackluster nowadays Also I would've sworn your channel was bigger, the video is really high quality!

Really great video. Good editing and knowing your stuff.

I loved the dvd games as a kid. It used to be the deciding factor of whether or not we'd buy the disc. Surprisingly Disney's Dinosaur had a pretty cool game. I remember I sucked at it for awhile, and it absolutely terrified me, but I got out a notepad and wrote down every wrong descision so I wouldn't make the same mistake again. It was better than the movie

I remember the dvd for the dreamworks Sinbad movie had a game where you had to navigate the ship through the sirens strait. If you chose the wrong path, the boat would crash and you'd get a clip of Eris laughing at you. If you chose the right path, you get a triumphant "You win!" screen. My child self thought it was fun.

what the hell this is ur first video i thought i was watching some random popular youtuber till i checked ur account. great video amazing job

Very well made for a first vid. Subbed dude cant wait to see more

This was a great video man, you really deserve for subs after this.

DVD games! Now that's a throwback! My favourite ones were probably: That Timon & Pumbaa one from Lion King where you drive a boat or jeep off a cliff & die like an idiot Aladdin, where you explore the inside of Genie's Lantern, and some maze with traps & stuff Sinbad, where you fight Cetus the Sea Monster (and I think there was another one, but I cant remember) And Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, where you mix random substances and feed it to an Oompa-Loompa to see what bizarre effect it makes.

love the video! hoping to see more from you 💖

Loved this. Subscribed for more fun like this.

I was OBSESSED with the features on my family's DVD of the third Harry Potter movie. There was a point and click tour of Honeydukes where you could go around the candy shop and a running game where you played as Ron's rat dodging obstacles to escape Hermione's cat. But the best was The Quest of Sir Cadaggon which was a point and click adventure game through Hogwarts with a few timing based sections that I had a hard time with haha

Shout out for using Aladdin music from the Genesis, how nostalgic. Great job on the video. It was a fun watch!

awesome video, excited to see some more coming!!

Great first video can't wait to see more my guy.

You did great on this. Great subject I haven't seen covered on RU-vid yet. Looking forward to seeing what you got next.

this was awesome!! good job, keep it up!!

only one video in and I’m in love with this channel

Great idea man!! You really sent me down memory lane with this vid

Randomly found this in my recommendations, clicked it, and was surprised to find that it was produced by a channel with even less subs than myself. But anyways, this was very well written and edited, and I hope you'll consider making more videos like this! DVD games are nostalgic to me (and a lot of other people, I'm sure), and deep-dives like this are surprisingly scarce for the niche, at least from what I've seen. I subscribed and am looking forward to whatever you make next. Best of luck with the channel!

So surprised this is your only video great editing comedy and interesting video can’t wait for your next one

Very underrated channel

Awesome video! I am excited for more.

Haha every time I went to Hollywood Video or Blcokbuster I IMMEDIATELY flipped over whatever I chose to scan desperately for the words 'Bonus Game'

I'd love the Iron Maiden joke you'd put in (12:48)

This was really good. Subscribed

3:22 YOOO NO WAY, I REMEMBER WATHCING THIS LIKE A BUNCH OF YEARS AGO INCREDIBLY VIVIDLY WITH ME AND MY SISTER

Preaching to the choir but christ this is an extremely fun and interesting video, especially for a first video. Amazing job!

This is great for your first video keep it up!

So proud of you for finishing this Tech! Keep at it. -Lucy

I used to do these a lot, I especially played the Madagascar one for it's DVD along with the jungle book and it's sequel

Elf had my favorite features for dvd extras! I remember loving the snowball fight as a child.

"We will watch your career with great interest." -Palpatine Subscribed!

RU-vid recommendations doing their thing again! Really good video! The Evangelion section was particularly interesting to me. Subscribed

Can’t wait for more content, subbed for this video alone.

Dude, this high quality as hell!!

Awesome video! It opened up my memories of playing the game on the Over The Hedge DVD

oh god the shrek 2 one is hardcore nostalgia

Looking forward to part 2!

My favorite dvd game was some sort of game on a winnie the pooh movie. It had a map or something, a lot of fun in my childhood

I know its only been 5 days but this video is criminally underrated

Great vid dude!!

I need the rest of this series rn

The Disney Alice in Wonderland (1951) dvd has a few little games, and they are tremendously valuable for those who appreciate the unique style of the cartoon.

Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy has an improbablility drive, and it broke my dvd player

Wait… I have heard this intro music before in german television. This is the old Das Erste/ARD music from the 90s. Great choice, great video

I remember me and my sister spending hours in the extras menus for the Harry Potter DVDs where you wandered around Hogwarts and Diagon alley.

I love that the captions actually say "Why is Shinji acting crinji"?