Is No Escape [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk 

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Stuart Wilson clearly had a fun time in that role

Searched for years to find this movie on Blu-ray, finally tracked it down a few weeks ago. Definitely a hidden gem in the film world.

@@gearhead22harley I only have it on DVD. Bought it many many years ago.

Ha, really smooth timing indeed that what may be the last (or maybe second-last) video of 2022, is about a game set in 2022. Man, the 90's vision of the future... I guess corporations running prisons happened, but no cool island-prisons... that we know of.

Are you sure they're looking at you weird because of the way you're trying to explain the movie? Did you check for boogers? Or maybe you have food stuck in your teeth...

Hey, it worked for Twin peaks.

But would modern Hollywood be OK with a story about a dark future where white people like Darien are banned from ever taking political office (which is a mostly forgotten, but real plot point from Time Trax)?

Very underappreciated series. Some cheesy effects, but the characters and stories were quite enjoyable.

Six seasons and a movie.

Same here. Wild.

Same. Seen the movie a million times growing up

Yeah, same here

That dude’s shirt is VERY low cut lmao

@@rosselliswilkinson hey with a two dollar rental price tag on RU-vid I bet it’s worth it

@@rosselliswilkinson oh, if it was called Escape from Absalon or something in Australia then yeah I saw it too. Thought it was cool, remember Ray Liotta jumping into the ocean that's about it.

I knew about the (hugely underrated) movie, but had no idea there was a (somewhat mediocre) game for it

@@samuelallen2831 for $2 it’s definitely worth it. Really cool 90s action / sci fi flick. I just rewatched it recently, came across it on Cinemax by chance

@@samuelallen2831 I'm not sure it's even worth the time even if you get it on the high seas

...and yes, I know and love him from other movies: Goodfellas, Cop land, NARC, etc. But this specific movie was one where he sold it while everything around him was almost laughable.

Absolutely agree on the movie, I loved it the first time I saw it and I've seen it several times since. But omg, how did I completely miss that Ray Liotta died?? I loved him (and not just because he's a fellow Jersey guy)!

Omergherd! Germsberms! 😝

@@guybrush1701 early 2000s called and would like there meme back

@@mattalan6618 still funny tho IMHO. Actually I just saw a video interviewing the girl in question. Really cool.

@@guybrush1701 wasn't funny then sure as shit ain't funny now

@@mattalan6618 you're entitled to your opinion

Yeah. It's sort of like how people wonder why there was never a Masters of the Universe NES game since both were huge in "the '80s." It's because the MotU cartoon and toys peaked in popularity between roughly 1983 and 1986, while the NES only became a true phenomenon in America around 1987. The windows of opportunity just didn't line up.

@@willmistretta it's the perils of just remembering the whole of the 80's as one continuous "chunk of childhood", instead of as it's own thing with it's own distinct moments. It's like with the NES, which I for a very long time just thought of as having "one look", only to then read up more about it and realize that after Super Mario Bros they started making a LOT of games with graphics boosting chips that allowed the machine to do far more than its earliest games could, so games before SMB looked and played quite differently than games after it. And just as such, the "80's kids cartoons" were also of different eras and from different circumstances.

@@goranisacson2502 That's true. A lot of people are surprised when I tell them I was never really that into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles despite growing up in the '80. Thing is, I was born in the late '70s, so the peak of my 30-minute toy commercial watching, action figure coveting phase was the early-mid '80s, encompassing stuff like He-Man. G.I. Joe, and Thundercats, but waning right before Turtlemania. The gaming landscape changed especially fast back then, too, and that's not just an artifact of memory. It's pretty wild to think that Pac-Man and Super Mario World came out almost exactly one decade apart, for example.

@@willmistretta And then we have to take into consideration how the eighties could have looked very different depending on where you were. I for one was born 87, and in Sweden. Turtlemania rolled RIGHT in around here to hit during my "action figure coveting"-phase, but I think that it might have faded sooner than that in the US (even if Turtles then happened to become one of those franchises who keep going throughout the ages, and I think we got all the Turtles videogames EXCEPT the third one for the NES). But even so, a game or toy could be "big" later over here, than it was over there. Thundercats, for instance- it didn't make it over here to Sweden until Turtles was already big, and that was practically early 90's!

​@@willmistretta Yeah, there was a MotU live action movie in 1987 (which did receive a lil game on the 8-bit home micros) but it was a bit of a low budget affair and a bit of a bomb (even though it is certainly enjoyable in it's ways) and MotU as a brand was at a bit of a low point overall and the New Adventures of He-Man in 1990 didn't come even half close to achieving the same level of popularity that the first MotU wave had hit. No company wanted to put any money into making a NES/SNES game (the 8-bit home micro computer games were easy to make and release and cost just a couple quid to buy so much less risky that expensive cartridge manufacturing costs and such). The 2002 reboot series got a couple games before that show got axed halfway through it's second season due to low ratings and the toys not selling well. In fact we're very likely in the most popular time of MotU since the original mid 80s popularity. Two popular Netflix cartoons that began in 2021 (Revelation and the CGI kid's show, with the She-Ra one from 2018 still popular with some folk too), several different popular toylines (Masterverse, Origins, Mega Construx being the main ones that I have and there's the more costly Mondo collector figures and all sorts of other merchandise available), I think there's a She-Ra live-action show being made by Amazon? I haven't kept up with that. And always talks of a new He-Man movie. MotU is doing alright for itself these days. Again not as huge as it was in mid 80s but it's doing better than it has in decades. Now could finally be the time for a MotU NES game! Well... I mean... a NES-style one perhaps. NES has become a popular retro aesthetic in indie video games (or games made by larger developers/publishers like Mega Man 9/10 by Capcom or those recent Bloodstained - Curse of the Moon games) anyways. :D Or go extra with SNES-style but that requires a fair bit more work. Maybe start with the NES-style, see how it does and then if successful, invest in the more time-consuming SNES-style. :) I dunno. I'm just thinking out loud. In text form. So not loud at all. Except for the tapping of these keys. I shush now. :)

it's awesome. it's a similar concept to no escape. both are good movies. Fortress is more futuristic/sci fi.

I love movie trivia, thanks for this.

The same Gale Ann Hurd from carlito's way?

Great trivia! Gale Ann Hurd is awesome. I actually used to work directly for her once upon a time (on her homes, not film). Spectacular lady IRL. SUPER accomplished with an insane filmography under her belt.

It is known as Escape From Absolom outside of the US/UK.

@@2WhiteAndNerdy extremely underlooked name in the industry for sure

@@AsylumSaint 🙏🏽

@@AsylumSaint i didnt even know about the movie until this video

Hey yo Seriously that is a laugh out loud funny observation and I'm disappointed I didn't see it myself

It's a good game, but not without it's flaws. I played SEGA version and did not have any issue with controls. But there are problems that are shared by both versions like obscure item placement and badly implemented trading.

@@JohnDoe-lb2hp It does have some obscure parts, but I think that comes down to people's taste in games. I like the exploration and puzzle solving elements that provides, but I appreciate that could be tedious to others, especially if you're expecting an action platformer

This is a very paradoxical comment. "I never saw anything, and it was very weird..."