Mort the Chicken Retrospective - Pizza Tower's Foul Fowl 

Hey so! We've gotten quite a few comments about the game's humor recently. I want to re-stress a point I made in the video: I'm no authority on comedy and would never pretend to be. For all of my comments about not finding the game funny, I'm ultimately just one person, and if you got more out of the game's humor than me, that's 100% more power to you and I'm not here to tell you you're wrong or anything. I hope you enjoy the video regardless.

So, story time: My brother played this game when he was a kid and over the years he developed a passionate hatred for this game. So, being the caring younger brother that I am, I like to torture him with this game at every chance I get. So one day, I show him pizza tower, he's into it, he likes it. Then I go "Now you gotta see this level" "Fun farm, with special guest Mort the chicken" The smile banishes from his face as he stares at the screen in disbelief for like a full minute. God I love this videogame.

McPig got Mort in Pizza Tower because he asked the creator if he could plop the smug chimken in his game and got the green light

It interesting how this little cameo level help inspired so many crossover fans art of pizza tower.

mort the chicken walked so elden ring could run

the thing I'm most shocked by is the fact Mort the Chicken existed before Pizza Tower, the game is so off the wall bonkers already I didn't even question Mort, I never heard of this game so I thought he was an original thing

I love how much crossover fanart with Pizza Tower was made because of the Mort the Chicken cameo

The best part of this entire cameo is the name of the OST that plays in Fun Farm is called "Morts Farm" so it is very possible that Mort is canon to Pizza Tower

I actually quite liked the "in 24 hours - 23 hours ago" joke lol it wasnt laugh out loud or anything but it got me to grin

Never thought a chicken from a game that I played as child would pop up in an indie game lol

Be on the lookout for this duck. He is presumed ARMED.

“WELCOME TO MORTIO WORLD!!” I really enjoyed your breakdown of the game’s plot. I never really considered that Mort is a mundane chicken in a world of humanlike chickens. It’s rather like how many depictions of Shockwave of _The Transformers_ show him as a stereotypical robot in a world of robots with highly varied personalities. A weird comparison, but it’s a weird game with a weird (and hilarious) cameo in another game. It works. XU

What if people were chickens guys? That would be pretty funny I think.

It kinda makes sense that the creators of Pizza Tower would make their singular special guest Mort the Chicken. Mort the Chicken has such an off the walls story (excluding the beginning and end) that it kinda fits the theme of, well everything in Pizza Tower. One look at the game and you could tell how wacky it is.

I feel like mort is slowly coming to be again, maybe he might get his own new fangames.

Morts the only nonsapient chicken in this world of intelligent chickens

Hey, c'mon, Gex wasn't THAT obscure, he was on Crystal Dynamic's logo for a time.

I aint gonna lie, the scene with Mort strapped to a rocket actually had me dying. That shit was so funny for no reason.

if you spam triangle, you can make mort ascend to a higher plane of existance

You know, with the popularity that Pizza Tower has, and the attention it has given to Mort the Chicken, it makes me wonder if any other indie developers will try and do the same thing. Now I'm imagining playing through the next part of Deltarune only to run into Croc at some point. Who knows what could happen at this point?

I remember those first three levels, Pyramid, Cathedral and the ice one, from an old PS1 demo disc. Is the game jank as hell? Yes. Is it weird and charming? Yes. It was also, bafflingly, by far the best game on that demo disc.

I actually really like the whole debug room aesthetic the game has going on, it kind of reminds me of when I played Roblox as a kid and most of the games looked like this, just eclectic arrangements of level assets to meet the bare minimum of a functional game, with little thought given to how it looks beyond it not being actively unpleasant to see. It's like the whole game is a peek behind the curtain, with the intentions of the developers laid bare.

16:55 So really, these levels feel like archaic forms of Mario Sunshine’s secret levels lmao Edit: mario sunshine secret levels with no pitfalls

I love when he said it’s mortin time and morted all over the place

It's really surreal seeing this weird game I loved as a kindergarderner being represented in a popular indie game of the present

"You have 24 hours" "We received this tape 23 hours and 50 minutes ago" Sorry but that is amazing

This was a fun view at a funny (for it's existence if not for the actual comedy) game! This was my first time seeing one of your videos, and I really liked it, so great job! I hope you'll still release that Wario World retrospective btw, as I adore that game!

"Why is Mort The Chicken in Pizza Tower?" Long story short: The devs of PT asked the devs of MtC, the rights were given, Mort's in Pizza Tower now.

"you have 24 hours" "we received this tape 23 hours and 15 minutes ago" cmon that was funny

Rented Mort the Chicken with a friend when we were 8 at some grocery store, we were sold on the box art alone

Now this...This is the content I'm lookin for

Real question rn tho: Can we mod mort the chicken. We either need a kaizo version of Mort or we need to mod in Peppino Spaghetti to complete the loop.

So you're telling me this dude made the N Gage and now works with nfts... :|

My hypothesis about mort's cameo in pizza tower is that one of the devs saw something about it online and thought, "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if we put this in our game?"

Hope that wario world retrospective is just delayed and not cancelled!

Mortis

Mort the chicken has the same gameplay loop as sonic 3d blast

Great review, this really deserved to blow up. Congrats!

I love you have so little footage that you kept using the same ice level footage, like, 5 times

Lmao he actually did

Dude your content is fantastic glad I found this video

i want someone to mod peppino in mort the chicken

I really REALLY think you should give AndNow's other title a shot! Tiny Tank is just as honest as Mort is and it has a LOT to say in a very charming package. Its a mixed bag of a game but its also VERY memorable and given how unknown it is I think it'd make a really great video!

Woah a new Opal the Chicken upload!!

Could you consider doing a retrospective on a game called Metal Arms: Glitch in the system? Its a 2003 third person shooter released on the PS2 and GameCube that was critically acclaimed, but very unknown. It was one of my favorite games growing up, and I would love to see what others think of the game.

Mort moment

I love how instead of going the obvious route and doing a crossover level with Antonball they went with fucking Mort the Chicken

16:41 it kinda looks like he’s saying what your saying.

haven't played, but it looks sooo much like ape escape. like its uncanny. even the UI elements in game looks like it.

Man the memories flood back with this game, mind you I only played the Demo until I emulated it though PC a good ten years back though I didn't get far. I remember playing Mort the Chicken back on the Official US Playstation Magazine Disc #41 which came out in Feb 2001. I was 8 years old that year and my Dad gave me his PS1 for my birthday, he gave me a few game and the ones that stood out were Driver 2, 007: The World is not enough and My Favorite Spyro: Year of the Dragon, but that Demo Disc I had was worn out by the time I was done with it. This game enters my mind every once in a while and I Def have to stream it sometime in the future. Thats for this Blast from the past IDC how obscure this game is it really left and impression on me as a kid and is the reason I also have a taste for games that are Less than Triple A titles!

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Mort The Chicken content in 2023? With ATHF references? And an opening with a sound byte from JoJo HFTF? Thank you for being you.

Thanks for the explanation Dr. Cock

or just because pulling some random fucking dime a dozen 3d platformer mascot from that era of gaming is really really fucking funny

The whole section about the humor of the game feels more subjective than anything else. Went a little harsh on that aspect, when it was genuinely funny throughout.

remember when mort said: "ITS MORTIN TIME!" and then all morted all over the place?

Definitely a your milage may very with the humor, to me it's pretty well done deadpan jokes and I find it funny myself

Played this game today and it made me violently motionsick

Never knew that Mort the Chicken came out on my birthday in Europe. Not year, but still.

I wonder how many more views nitrorad's Mort review has gotten since pizza tower

The joke that gave you a nose exhale got me laughing out loud

I wouldn't be surprised if Tour de Pizza's next game was a Mort the Chicken sequel just "because".

I have never played this game yet I came across him in 2015-2016 unknowingly since there was some dude in the YTPMV community named hoboware that had a crappy tracing of Mort as his profile picture. I did not even know Mort's name until recently when I was binging Nitro Rad's videos. Interesting how I could recall more people who found Mort endearing than other gaming mascots like Lester the Unlikely or Yeet and Boik from Boppin'. Anyways, I appreciate seeing more videos on Mort. Will you possibly make more videos about Ed's other games such as Kolibri? That game is insanely beautiful.

I thought he was gonna do Wario Land 4

I can see myself playing mort the chicken and having fun. I can't see myself having fun playing bubsy, I wouldn't pay for it in the 2000s, but I would play this on steam on a sale and have a bit of a good time.

At around 9:30 in this video, the doctor of phycology: Carl Cockerel essentially calls us "featherless bipeds", which is a reference to Ancient Greece, in which Plato describes us in the same fashion.

Okay so I decided to try it after all, and it's pretty okay with some tweaks. So follow these tips if you really, really wanna try it for some reason: 1) It seems the game has an Easy Mode enabled by default. Disable it. 2) There is a tally in the options menu, and while getting all the coins isn't strictly necessary to beat the level, the game becomes much more fun if you do. It seems the game was made trying to use Mario-like philosophy where the actually more fun challenges are for optional stuff. So go for 100%. 3) The reason controls are so weird is because it seems they were first designed for Dpad, and analog controls were implemented on top of that. I genuinely found the game plays much better with Dpad, rotating with triggers - sort of hybrid tank controls. It might take some getting used to, but controls make way more sense that way. 4) Game becomes a lot more fun if you run a self imposed challenge that you e.g. can only get hit three times (or even only once), or you reset the level. Considering how easy the game is, this is very much achievable and makes it way less mindless.

You made a mort the chicken retrospective... BECAUSE OF PIZZA TOWER?!

16:40 THE SYNC

Mort the chicken has a similar gameplay style to pizza tower in a few ways, you collect living things, there are enhancements you can get, and it's very strange

Este wey le sabe, le sabe DEMACIADO

this video is longer than the game

where is that ending audio from?

i like the cutscenes

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Dude you sound so familiar, were you at one point one of the narrators for TatsTopVideos?

I think you're a bit too hard on Mort lol. It is an easy game for sure but it's also what we would call a "3rd party" game at the time since AAA (Triple A) wasn't in the lexicon at the time. These games were generally short and had to find ways to differentiate themselves compared to other games. That's why you see things like the extra large health bar and using most of the file space for cutscenes. On top of that, it was late in the PSX life, so it was made on a very small budget compared to a PS2 game being made around the same time. As for the Triangle button, this game wasn't made with the dualshock controller as the default. The default settings assumed you're playing with the original controller. So the triangle button is to move your camera if you didn't have anolog enabled

I'm creating a cartoon. It's called, Forgotten Tales! It's about these forgotten and obscure characters that no one remembers from media going on wacky and crazy adventures.

Appreciate the Kingdom Hearts 1 music

What the cluck man, Mort gets all the chicks

Lore of Mort the Chicken Retrospective - Pizza Tower's Foul Fowl momentum 100

I want Mort the Chicken to dominate me

Mort’s creator created the end of actual good games.

mort the chicken be funny af

why is this video's duration half an hour

the comments about the ost are a bit too harsh its closer to penis music than it is to 'generic royalty free' stuff

24:33 yes exactly

but where does the nugget come from...???

seeing ytp sexer randomly mentioned gave me whiplash

I love mort the chicken

Mighty Morten Chicken Rangers!

i'm surprised people reference wario world for gamecube for pizza tower when wario land shake it for wii is a much closer comparison

Did anyone else notice that Chicken middle and Henny penny are referencing 2 characters from the Chicken little movie? 6:17 (Henny penny is in mr. woolensworth's class, and chicken little is literally what the movie is named after... Nice to spot this.)

22:00 fnaf jumpscare

What did the devs think this is? Flicky?!

Do a retrospective on the obscure 90’s PC Point And Click adventure game, The Neverhood (along with other games in the franchise, Skullmonkeys, Boombots, and Klaymen Gun-Hockey, AKA クレイマン ガンホッケー )

I want a Mort the Chicken 2 with a pizza tower reference in it.

Aight look both ways and get a note from your mommy actually got me

I like how their production is all the way over, Ecco and Mr. Bones are cult classics, Mort was obscure and forgotten but not inherently terrible, and Kolibri... I'm pretty sure some streamer I follow has it on a roulette as the ultimate punishment.

I can't be the only one who thought this was a early ps1 game