Fun fact, A Sound of Thunder was completed in 2003 but got shelved until 2005 because the movie it was tied into (which was directed by Peter Hyams of Timecop and The Relic fame) got delayed because of the special effects.
Iron Kid was some kind of CGI cartoon that they localized as Eon Kid. i saw a bit of an episode once when i was in middle school. those are all the things i know about Iron Kid
Dude, Dual Blades just unlocked an old memory. I played this so long ago as a kid and could never remember the name. I've been searching for this game for probably almost 20 years I guess lol. I knew exactly what it was as soon as Matt sliced dudes torso in half at the beginning! Lol
Context of A Sound of Thunder: It's based on a Short Story by Ray Bradbury who presents this future where folk can pay some guys with time machine access to hunt down certain ANCIENT Specimens, they also established a path that by all means is MEANT to be followed so you don't cause cataclysmic changes. The Educated Future is where they came from and our story's protagonist makes one little, itty bitty mistake...that being stepping outside the path and accidentally flattening a butterfly (And leaving a boot print in prehistoric times) which changes a BUNCH of stuff, including who won the election in their year AND the literacy of the Human Race. And it's implied the PoV character is going to get EXECUTED outright for his fuck-up.
@@joshlemagne The Time and Punishment segment, yeah. "As long as I stand perfectly still and don't touch anything, I won't destroy the future." "Stupid bug! You go squish now!" EDIT: If Wikipedia is to be believed, the movie version of "A Sound of Thunder" changed quite a bit. Something to do with "time waves" devolving everything or something.
It was wild to see who directed Black Belt Challenge when the credits came up, since that director would go on direct Killzone 2 & 3 and Horizon 1 & 2.
Dancing Sword Senkou has Noizi Itou's nice character designs, it seems to have been a selling point. Although, the company at the time (MTO) was more known for girls games including dress-up games and the dog games that got exported under the Petz games label, so I guess it was an attempt into a new genre.
Wow a K1 kickboxing game with Mark Hunt, CroCop, and other famous fighters many who fought in MMA/UFC later. Pretty awesome. And yes K1 in Japan in the 90s and early 00s was huge, fighters became household names.
I totally forgot there was a GBA port of Flashback, it looks so weird. The old animations of the characters with the new artstyle somewhat clashes to me.
That Flashback game is not a finished game. It is a beta leaked by the development team and it was supposed to be a sequel of the original (ignoring the events of "Fade to black", I guess) The character of Conrad from the first game it's just a placeholder because that rom was a work in progress It's sad that the studio went bankrupt and that game was never finished, because the backgrounds looked dope! The Flashback games would be great material for a "What happened" episode, Matt! The first one initially was a licensed "Godfather" game (years before the EA one) that went wild on the development and ended up being his own thing. The sequel "Fade to black" was one of the first 3D third person shooters ever made, being in development way before "Tomb Raider" There was some kind of reboot of the first game made by Ubisoft that was hated by everyone and the recent sequel was delayed many times and when released received very bad reviews... There's material in there!
I remember Iron kid was a cartoon that was brought over to America but the title was changed to "Eon Kid" possibly to keep the Marvel lawyers off their back
There actually was a cancelled PS2 game called Jurassic Park Survival. It looked like a cool Dino Crisis-esque action game, and you can even find a trailer on it! Its a shame, despite the fact there are SO MANY JP3 themed games, its hard to point to one as "the game" for the movie. Its not like the SNES/Genesis ones or TLW on PS1/Saturn. Most of them for JP3 are decent/cheaply made at best.
I lol'd when you hit Dancing Sword because I knew what was coming. To get past the lava you have to select the ice magic and then do the 6-hit combo AS FAR AS I CAN TELL because the controls are so poor the combo is impossible to perform for all practical intents and purposes.
Three Anime-based games you've likely never heard of that are kind of interesting: Boukyku no Senritsu, the first Futari wa Pretty Cure game (Futari wa Pretty Cure: Ariena~i! Yume no Sono wa Daimeikyuu) and Mermaid Melody Pitch Pitch Pitch. IDK how blind you want to go into these games but the first is an action game, the second a puzzle platformer and the third a rhythm game. EDIT: These are not great games, but I promise they're not total stinkers.
There's definitely some Worst Fighting Game content in here, not because the games are particularly bad but just the sheer intrigue of where they came from.
The fact they made a movie from A Sound of Thunder is very funny to me. As I recall the short story really is very short; the whole thing can be read in a few minutes. They really had to milk it and add lots of filler to pad it out to the length of a movie. A tremendously stupid movie. And not even really in the fun way, either. The kind of movie where you can SMELL the padding.
yooo. I didnt know that today I would be treated to a Garth Marenghi reference! Matt, I didnt know you are a fan of the masterpiece that is Darkplace! 🤘🤘
Dual Blades is utterly baffling yet deeply intriguing to me. Like, why is the "Kilroy was here" phrase painted on the wall in that one stage? What significance does an old WW2-era graffiti have in the game's lore? It's so out of place I can't help but want to understand more about it.
I remember seeing that phrase on stuff I watched as a kid, only learned what it meant when I grew up so I thought it was just some joke I was unaware of.
I played Dual Blades as a kid. To me it was basically Soul Calibur combined with Mortal Kombat, but obscure as far as I knew. I really enjoyed it as a kid, but I doubt many others had the same experience that I did. Either way I'm fond of it.
Anytime I'd load a GBA rom on my PC and it would the menu at 0:25for languages I would always think that it was not an actual GBA game but something that was thrown together.
#1 Don't panic, just remember the advice your Father gave you on your wedding day. #2 Basically the plot of Punch Punch Forever #3 The Rockawho? #4 Master Roshi dealing with another upstart #5 Breakin Sword 2: Electric Boogaloo #6 The art drawn on your middle school book covers turned into a fighting game #7 All I see is the guy from Last Action Hero shooting natives #8 Look at this toy-ass looking toy show game #9 ♪ Heavy boots of lead, fills his teachers full of dread ♪ "I am Iron kid!" #10 Basically the plot of Brütal Legend #11 How dare they depict Spinofaarus in such an insulting way #12 ♪ MMA babies, they'll make your dreams come true ♪
Black Belt Challenge! This game was theSHIT when i played on my totally real gameboy advance and not at all a PC with an emulator. it was jsut randomly on there and i randomly tried it out of boredom and boom instant favourite (due to thewacky characters...apart from Drake, who's so generic)
I didn't know that they made a GBA game of one of Ang Lee's crowning martial arts film, and its made by UbiSoft. Looks a lot like Ninja Gaiden in a way.
@52:40 Good news for mocking Galidor. Galidor was potentially LEGO's greatest failure ever a nd almost helped bankrupt the company back in the early 2000s. LEGO was losing a lot of money back then, and they were trying every crazy thing they could to get back on the market. And Galidor was the craziest.
I really want to see Dual Blades covered in a Worst Fighting Game style way, where we learn about the weird mechanics and stuff. What a cool game with truly "legendary" artwork!
I did not watched the full video yet, with that said, i remember there is a remake or something for dual blades on mobile, and it's pretty cool, if you can you should play it, I do not remember well how it is, but as far as i remember it's good
55:25 Fun Fact: While Galidor _did_ precede Ben 10 by a couple years, the "limbs turn into machines" concept was done in the 90's by M. Rex, a comic that would eventually be the basis for Generator Rex, made by the same guys who created Ben 10 (Which on second thought, might be the reason you thought of Ben 10 there)
@@SympleSymon So... the chain goes: Turbo Teen (80's) -> M.Rex (90's) -> Galidor (00's) -> Generator Rex (2010's) -> ???? I guess we are about due for this decade's incarnation
A Sound of Thunder was based on a atrocity of a movie based on the iconic short story by the legendary Ray Bradbury. The film was one of the last gasps of breaths by the infamous Franchise Pictures, known for Battlefield Earth, Driven, Ballistic Ecks vs Sever, & 3000 Miles to Graceland Infamy. The film is awful, one of the worst piles of crap I’ve ever watched. I don’t blame Peter Hyams though as there were so many cooks in the soup and broth. And I liked The Relic, Stay Tuned, & Sudden Death.
Interesting, because I'd heard of the film being terrible but being a Bradbury story I figured the story itself would be actually very good. Enlightening to learn that's pretty much the case.
@@Alexalicious it is very 90s and everything you’d expect from the studio behind Battlefield Earth and Ecks & Sever. I’d have loved it too if I had seen it at the time as a kid, because dinosaur creatures and time travel guaranteed me a good time!
I used to be a K-1 fan and the two GBA adaptations are among the best based on the license, the two are very similar, the second is just like the first with some updated content. There were somewhat decent and more "simulation" oriented K-1 games on Saturn and Playstation but I found the GBA ones more fun to play. Hernesto Hoost, Remy Bonjasky, Jerome Lebanner, Peter Aerts, Mark Hunt, Mirko CroCop (who also had a pretty good MMA run)... these guys are legends.
Dancing Sword, you have to perform the combo shown with the right timing to do the magic stuff. You can practice in the pause menu if I remember right.
Dual Blades is basically "How to Draw Manga or Anime: The Fighting Game", I swear. Then, that Jurassic Park 3 game had the Beheaded Kamikaze scream sound from Serious Sam in it. Truly, this is a gift that keeps on giving!
Fun Fact: the Ray Bradbury story A Sound of Thunder is the basis for that Simpsons Halloween Special segment where Homer goes back to the time 'when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos' and his actions radically alter the future.
K1 was a pretty brutal kickboxing show, i can't believe they released such a cartoonish game. Mark hunt is a terrifying knockout machine, as are most of the fighters in there!
The console/PC version of Galidor is pure *What happened?* material. The game was cancelled in 2002, but a budget pc game publisher managed to get the beta pc build on store shelves in 2004 alongside other Lego PC rereleases. Lego was near bankruptcy when the game was canned, and it was in their product catalogues, so they probably didn't even notice it had been canned while they were rolling in Bionicle money, selling old licenses to budget labels.
I see we had the exact same experience with Dancing Sword. It seems you just have to do a combo and the lava freezes and you can walk over it from what I saw in a video, but I could never make it work. A shame because a beat 'em up with five playable characters might have good replay value.
That's exactly the case. You can find the combo written down in the game, and online, but the problem is the timing. It has to be perfect for it to trigger. Pretty dumb for a basic thing you need to do to progress.
From the one piece of dialogue in the beginning, I think the Sound of Thunder might be loosely and I mean loosely based on the short story the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this story, there is a company that figures out time travel, and then decides to use this technology to host safaris across history. But because they don’t really know how time travel works, they can only allow you to shoot animals that are about to die anyway, and they make a levitating path that you have to follow during the safari. The main character goes back in time to hunt a T-Rex, but during this safari he steps off the path and steps on a butterfly, and then when he gets back to the present everything is slightly different, for instance the President of the US is a fascist. Simply because of the line “STAY ON THE PATH” and the how every million years ago cutaway, the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury may be a loose inspiration.
The devs behind Juka did Racing (Orbital Media) Gears Advance which is the best GBA racer and also the pretty good Scurge:Hive which was kinda Metroid but isometric.
The super bar on Black Belt Challenge works like this: - Once is full do down+HP+HK to do the supper uppercut - One in mid air, repeat the button sequence that show in the bar, it will be the one made by your attacks when filling it, minus the final 2 letters.
Try the GOG version for Pray for Death, the reviews seem like they made it work over there. Also, speaking of portable fighters, did you see that game Pocket Bravery on steam? It's like, going for the Fatal Fury Pocket look, I think you'd be into that.
The GBA has always been known to have one of the most solid game line ups. It seems like, somehow, everyone was determined to put their best on this system. Another GBA video like this would be a good idea.
0:15 now hold up. Didn't BAM! Entertainment help publish the Game Boy Advance versions of Fire Pro Wrestling outside of Japan? Aren't those entertaining games?
Hey, Matt McMuscles. You should play some arcade games you have never heard of. I have some suggestions you should play. Suggestions: 64th Street: A Detective Story Numan Athletics Twinkle Star Sprites Karate Blazers In the Hunt Windjammers Last Bronx
heya man, I've watched so many of these and never commented, but you are really great at what you do. You've managed to play so many of these random ass games and always keep it relevant and break down the design whilst never seeming tired of it all. Love your work man and keep it uppp
