Snack Video Games: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive) 

Hence the economic crash... Exploitation _always_ ends well.

How the unpaid intern was born.

Ah. The backbone of the United States Military...

It's also the case that the teenager has spent his entire life listening to other people tell him what to do. We hear about 'rebellious' teenagers specifically because children are supposed to just shut up and accept whatever they're told by an adult - at home, in school, in church. No backtalk, no difficult questions, certainly no skepticism. When you go to school, you get good grades by just repeating whatever you know the teacher wants to hear. Well, when you get your first job, the only difference is that you're being _paid_ for accepting whatever you're told. Of course, you don't have to _believe_ it, necessarily. You just have to do what you're told. Well, that's how I remember it, at least. Admittedly, it's been a long, _long_ time since I was a teenager. :)

Snack Rap artist. Honey Bun Gang ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YzjtrrL28qw.html

It also helped Chex Quest that the Doom engine was highly moddable and said teenager probably already had experience making Doom mods.

Ahahaha so true

Instead of asking, "Why is a kid too young to vote old enough to die in a war?" we asked, "Why is a kid old enough to die in a war too young to vote?" We lowered the voting age when we should have raised the dying age.

Indeed, there's a reason it's called INFANTry :)

I mean that was true in the 90s lol in 2021 most 30-year-olds know how to program now lol.

The Noid

In the 90s, 7-Up was my drink of choice They peaked when they had Orlando Jones as their pitchman

⁠Was that the same times as their slogan was “Make 7-Up Yours”? One of the all time greatest marketing campaigns

I feel personally attacked😂

7-up is way better than Sprite.

Chex cereal is great despite what John says lol

Oh damn, I always felt Wheat Chex was the worst tasting Chex, lol! We were not allowed to eat the heavy sugared cereals either.

Rather ironic that a child had to assure their parental figures that there was no deaths in the game and that the enemies essentially gets "teleported" somewhere else. It's like, who TF is easily traumatized over cartoon violence in this relationship, the child wanting to have fun or the parents with their 80s-style evangelical conservatism?

@@Echo81Rumple83 that’s not ironic

Man, if you enjoyed Chex Quest, Doom proper with all its map packs + mods would have blown your mind. Also, only allowing your child to eat Wheat Chex seems like it should be child cruelty (but seriously, really? I hope your mother was more permissive cereal-wise, I can't imagine never being allowed to have Cap'n Crunch, Kix, Fruity Pebbles, Trix, Cookie Crunch etc. as a kid)

He really commits as well

This has Seanbaby written all over it

@The Cat-Ear Femboy Café well if you need it done, find a teenager.

I’m in my mid thirties, and Chex Quest *was* fucking rad!

would be Dan obrien formerly from cracked

He did

Never thought I’d hear John Oliver talk about food video games the way Angry Video Game Nerd has been talking about for over a decade. This isn’t the crossover I anticipated but here we are and I’m loving every minute of it!!

@@rachel_sj he even mentioned the mowtendoo video

John needs to rip off Conan's Clueless Gamer segment. I'd love the hear what John had to say about some of the most classic games. Although I assume he'd say that the Minecraft guy was fuckable or something.

Yeah but his idea is Terrible last thing gamers need is more brands shovelware games. Chex quest and Pepsi man are exception to the rule

Came looking to see if others remembered this game. I spent many happy hours playing it and even got a geeky boyfriend to find it for me again in the late 90s. That train level with the balloons sucked hours of my life away but I don't regret a minute of it.

On the other side of the scale, all the Chester Cheetos games are terrible.

i remember renting this game from a video game rental shop lol

Agree 👍

Cool Spot is genuinely one of the best non-Sonic platformers on the Genesis. The only one I think is better is Ristar.

The game genuinely fucking slapped. I put so many hours into that game, the “Pepsi man” singing in the background killed me when I heard it again ahaha

Fun fact! Kotaro Uchikoshi, writer & director of the Zero Escape series, was also a 3D modeler for Pepsiman.

I haven’t watched any gameplay but I love when Dougdoug uses the music in his twitch streams

@@racar0811 Ditto! That was where I'd heard of it before as well, and my goodness, that song is so dang good.

*so dang good (for a Pepsi Man theme song).

Todd, put him in Starfield

Only if Adam Driver is there to pile drive him.

Brilliantly on point.

https:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0tUtUZHpPJE.html

Nabisco World minigolf was an important part of my childhood.

KFC is such a mess in it's main marketing I truly believe they're doing everything they could to get the headlines but it was so corporate people tend to ignore.

I cannot fathom why he didn’t bring up the Netflix movie with Mario Lopez and LITERALLY COLONEL SANDERS Also that video game broke the internet for a hot second

I forgot about that one lmfao. That is prob worse than pepsiman.

Don't forget KFC also put out their own gaming console, complete with a chicken warmer

The KFC game was actually hilarious. Fantastic Marketing honestly

Yeah, John should consider getting into comedy maybe.

What.

"What in the rainbow's name?" Wow, this was GameCube era. :O ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G1jQM9G0Fpw.html

I think I watched a RU-vid documentry from the creater of that. She was talking about how her Skittles contact people didn't care about the game and just wanted some shovelware BS, but she saw it as an opportunity to make a real game so actually made some badass game that just happened to use skittles as currency, or ammunition, or something.

https:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0tUtUZHpPJE.html

I loved that game. It was actually pretty cool.

True. I literally buy 7up cause it's cheaper than Sprite haha.

7 up is the superior lemon lime soda, anyway. While we're at it, RC Cola is also good.

I like all three, but I'd actually put a reverse order on that. of very minute distinction.

I disagree. 7up just tastes like seltzer water to me.

Bro i was literally right there on that part

Chocolate and candy bars. I would love a good re-branding - like, of the “MARS Effect“ series, for example... but I would also settle for a little “Wunderbar Woman” spin-off (or of any other candy bar of the Cadbury brand).

"I am gonna fusilli you up, be-yotch!!"

Good news! Can be done! Good... news..? It's a waifu gacha game.

I love this.

Any game where you can legally eat your opponent is a fun time

You Zorched them, it was totally nonviolent.

@@EvilSqueegeeRawr I mean. It wouldn't be the first Oliver has been ecumenical with the truth to present a more compelling story.

Omg can they get me passed the field of flemoids

For real, John Oliver, did anyone ever buy Chex except to make Chex Mix?

Because it was a damn good game!

Chex quest HD is like my favorite game in my steam library.

First game I ever owned, still love it

Hell yeah it was fun!

All that what was needed was to break a few pesky laws XD

Balanced like the nutritional content of a bowl of Chex Cereal as part of a Balanced Breakfast!

Brought to you by child labor! :p

Chex Quest was my first FPS. It had a nice sort of horror vibe for me because I didn't have a compatible sound card (remember those?) and thus had to play it in complete silence. Got plenty of jump scares from those green slime monsters. Also, the melee fallback weapon was a spoon.

“Hahahahaha, look at that high-waisted man! He got feminine hips!”

Yup. Played the fuck out of it. Didn't even know it was based on the DOOM engine.

Anyone who says otherwise will get sporked

Didn’t they release a remake a year or two ago?

I loved that game.

Exactly what I was thinking - I spent hours and hours each weekend exploring and playing through it. It was challenging, fun, and at the same time, super playable. Once beaten, you could always go back and find something new.

Give it a few months

@@needycatproductions6830 wouldn't have to wait a few months if they exploited a teenager.

John Oliver in an RPG. He teams up with ChiiJon to kill God.

Fun fact: someone developed a Tim Allen-themed version of Doom where every visual/sound effect is Tim Allen grunting. You can find it on RU-vid

Or a link to buy bear mace so you can spray yourself in the face with it, I wish my eyes and brain didn't exist right now

Game controls like butt, though.

Wow, I had forgotten about that! I really liked it.

@@Fools_Requiem Also pretty buggy. I feel at some point Skittles said, look dudes, we're not trying to make the next great game, just ship it already. Which is a shame, because at it's best it was absolutely terrific.

@@nytimesguy Yes!!! Darkened Skye was amazing!!

KFC made their own gaming console that has a built in compartment to keep your chicken warm. KFC is winning at this.

Technically KFC isn’t a snack it’s a fast food restaurant so that’s probably why.

@@Ramdomtwixy33 they should’ve made an exception.

If he brought up restaurant chains it would be a crime not to mention the Noid.

KFC also made a tower defense game where you put chicken, fries, and soda towers in the middle of your stomach maze while hunger creeps try to reach your brain

I remember getting an issue of some PC gaming magazine as a birthday gift one time, and it had a CD filled with shareware/demo games. I must have played all those demos 100x each, and it was amazing.

Playstation demo 1+2

@@DustySquitoNM When i was a kid i only ever got video games for christmas and my birthday (jan 6th birthday so pretty much the entire year with no new games) and way too much of my gaming entertainment were demo discs. I remember playing the absolute shit out of the bushido blade demo, never actually played the full game though.

roller coaster tycoon was bomb af

that would have been sooooo epic

I also still have my Nutri-grain copy of Age of Empires. Not sure if I could install it from the disc given how some 2000s-era installers can be weird about things like hard drive space (like not being able to detect the true available space on the hard drive)

Fun fact Until like 1-2 years ago i thought tony hawk was only a video game character ans not real life

I still have the sega smash pack cd I got from a box of cereal! Sadly lost the babar and curious george dvds.

what a realization!!! holy$#@!

I believe the word is *"pricked up"* lol

@@tbecker97204 Perk up: 615m hits pricked up: 7m hits Pricked up also has no definitions, t doesn't actually mean anything. The correct answer is perked up. When you _perk_ something up, you are making it happier, livelier or interesting. Matt Gaetz's ears where more interested in the conversation after he heard the phrase "look for a teeenager."

Bahahahaha. LOL. That was really funny. Good one

@@kindlin - dude, I'm quite sure Thomas is fully aware that the phrase is perked up as I originally wrote. He's just taking it one step further with a play on words and calling Matt Gaetz a prick. Of which I concur.

Agreed. Although with ZeniMax purchasing iD in 2009, and now Microsoft owning ZeniMax ... IDK. Sure, Doom Eternal is mostly decent, but it lacks Romero's touch.

word....

He rips and tears.

@@Saavik256 Romero also touched Daikitana. His finger prints were all over it

Interesting how with any other IP, that sort of wording could be interpreted as derisive. But not DOOM. Never DOOM.

General mills many, maaany, years ago sponsored some gloriusly cheesy pulp adventure radio stories. I don't think you can get away with having a story, where out of the blue the cast also tells you about their sponsors...oh..wait...that's youtube so nevermind.

About two dozen other gaming channels have already done it. AVGN for one

That really was the best one!

@@PeckmasterK oh god it wasn't a fever dream?!

omfg! I want it and skittles now

mmmmmm skittles

😮

I had to pause while I laughed, it got me so good. Whomever wrote that joke should be proud of themselves, lol

I almost spit my drink out on the laptop with that joke... haha

I'm surprised that Chuck Tingle didn't use that term. (As far as i know.)

New chuck tingle book coming this summer, as predicted by eden: Wet Hot Refreshing Pepsi Summer, where a shy seven-up dot guy gets a job at a soda fountain in his college town freshman year. One day he accidentally trips and spills a milkshake on one of the regulars, a bad boy Pepsi-branded terminator t-1000

_FUCKING CHEX!_

Weren't both of those guys cancelled for doing... stuff to their interns?

We had a teacher that would let us play it in class when we got our project work done 🤣

I can't believe there's enough nostalgia for it that it got a full HD remaster

Did you know there's a chex quest 3?

@@andrewveto lol no, I’ll have to check it out.

@@T0dK0n I discovered it a while ago when I was looking at some old DOS games archive. Haven't played it yet 😅

This is beneath him.

Missed opportunity. :)

@@---nu4ed but it’s still funny even if it’s low hanging fruit 🥴

Too obvious a joke, maybe?

@@ericjourdain892 well when you're zazu, everything is beneath you, because he can fly!

Food is a thing you do to stay alive, quite trying to make it sexy!!!

You just won the Internet today. Tell your friends.

https:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0tUtUZHpPJE.html

Yea so British that he uses the wrong pronunciation for Aluminium and says "Aluminium"

@@jaggythistle76 you mean aluminum, and he's American now, so he can say it that way.

We had that game in Egypt too (as a Playstation game), it got so popular that it got unofficially dubbed to Egyptian Arabic!

I have a whole slew of Dragon Quest bottlecaps....but they came in blind boxes. Do people actually put those on beverages and carry them around? *boggle* You would think they would come as the top when you buy a beverage and then you could just collect them like Blanton's bourbon stoppers. I have no need to accessorize my Coke, alas.

@@HassanSelim0 Amusing to think you need to understand a language to properly enjoy Pepsiman lol

@@genekwagmyrsingh9433 Not really he just means it eventually got modded by fans, we all understood it fine afaik

@@genekwagmyrsingh9433 the good thing about the Egyptian mod was they replaced the little bit of dialog that happens at the start of the first level. The Egyptian Arabic audio was funny 😂

Which one is James?

Pepsi girl

No it’s really good you don’t get it like I looked it up ad a joke but they really did a good job on the art it’s surprisingly hot

m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q_9SsX7HJhE.html

He has a sadness in his eyes at that part that makes me think he's been through it!

Rule 34

Probably a little of both

Or… it is part of his contract, the one offering him high pay and long vacations, that he pre-record web exclusives to keep folks in mind of the show? It ain’t called show-love-fest, it’s called show business.

I think he's just experimenting with how stupid his topics can get while still retaining the same audience. He's probably very disappointed in us by now... But just a little proud.

The latter seems like a real possibility.

@@markstevens1729 I wanna believe John loves me 😔

https:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0tUtUZHpPJE.html

Yes and...love your username.

at least there is still sugar in 7up. As opposed to Sprite that has fallen victim to the Coca Cola Company going full retard and decide that the zero sugar version of Sprite should be the ONLY version of sprite.

@@OnionChoppingNinja ok

It needs to have Mr. Nutter Butter as his sidekick.

for now we'll have to settle for squinting at the mr bean video game and pretending

The show has couple of crazy characters on it of a fighter. Someone get Nether Realm on the horn!

That could be the whole story arc for the game, John Oliver in a 1st person adventure game on a quest to find teenagers to 'make it'...

What exactly would a John Oliver game be? He couldn't be a superhero, no one would ever believe that. I guess you could put John in like a paint ball shooting gallery where he is the target and you win by covering the target. You could choose avatars of people that he's pissed off over the years on his show as the shooters. Or have him do his show and every time he swears you have to put soap in his mouth....Ivory brand, of course. Other ideas?

Conan O'Brien should invite John for a new "Clueless Gamer" episode

He did, it's called JonTron...

@@42Mrgreenman yeah but you know… fuck jontron

Hasn’t failed yet why challenge it

Damn near every mech anime ever

Yeet a teenager into a large metal object with big boom sticks, what could go wrong

That was also Epstines moto

Young people are also historically super easy to predict and market to

the last thing that Mr. Parrot-face is, is self aware.

Would you say he needed to get it done, and he got a teenager to do it?

@@TheOneandOnlyCSG tell that to the numerous news articles on how the current younger generations are nigh-impossible to market to

@@technicolormischief-maker5683 Those articles are part of the marketing. The current young generations are easier than ever

I'm sorry :( hope you have a great work life balance now and no one is taking advantage of you!

I played tf out of that game in 1996.

YES, thank you! Id play that game today if I could.

@@ivanparas ditto, got to find all the secret rooms. Only thing I was thinking was lord I hope he mentions check quest and bammmm.

Chex Quest was amazing! Thanks to the anonymous teenager who gave us unsuspecting kids such a great FPS. Where are the ports at? Need Chex Quest on Switch. Edit: Thanks Scott Holman!

@@ivanparas i belive it was re released on steam last year

It also got a sequel back in the 90s, and another one recently.

Chex eternal when

@@natesgeeklounge Chex eternal would be crazy lol

Chex Quest was great.

Welp I know what I'm doing this holiday.

The aluminum can is a power-top after all

He also knew exactly what he was doing when saying it contains the word "amongst"

Then just do it and send it to him.

That would be hilarious. You should do it. He can collect Emmy and Peabody awards.

Please do it 🙏

You know if he hasn't already come up with a game, there's a team working on it. Better let them know quick!

@@RaindropWorksPDX As long as there isn't a teenager on the team, he has plenty of time.

big mood my friend

I know. Like a little groundhog

Haha yeah I played the hell out of that

I played that shit so much as one of the summer day cares my mom sent me to as a kid

Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure! I loved that game so much!

Yessssd

Mine was a 2d platformer from Yogho Yogho, a Dutch yoghurt drink. Loved that game

I guess it didn't fit his narrative that it was a 1990s trend? Idk still a good segment

Big Bumpin' was better than sneak king. its a great party game.

One possible theory is that it was intended for the North American (and maybe European) market, but the execs didn't think it would sell well, so it was cut last minute. Also, a lot of Western media is marketed and sold in Japan, a direct result of the early 80s economic boom and tightening the business relations between Japan and the US. The "city pop", "j-pop" and other kinds of west-inspired music was sort of a reflection of prosperity back then. And for another example, as a music buff I can attest that even to this day, albums from U.S. artists are sold in Japan, where their booklets have info and bios in Japanese, and lyrics are often given both in English _and_ translated into Japanese. (As a matter of fact, this whole thing with Japanese exclusive releases, labels publishing and reissuing them, hiring music journalists and translators etc. is a small industry in its own right...) So it's not that weird that a videogame discarded as "not worth it" in the US would be released as a niche exclusive in Japan.

Killer7 is also fully English voice acted. With Jimmy Neutron saying he's going to get revenge, and Twilight Sparkle threatening your life while slitting her wrists! **Edit:** Grim from Grim Adventures feels no remorse when seeing a dead body and is a pro at Russian roulette.

@@NarkySawtooth. wait.. there's Jimmy Neutron and Twilight Sparkle in Killer7?! ah, right, for a moment I forgot it was a Suda51 game

I LOVED that game! Hooooly shit memories unlocked :)

This, jacked up with Game Genie super powers

OMG yes...and double yes with the game genie...hahaha.

I just posted the same thing, I wish I had read through the comments earlier. I loved this game!

I had drastically different impressions of the game, and thought it was crap… though mine was the PC version so it might have been a different worse game. Edit: Just looked it up in Wikipedia and found the following As part of the advertising campaign, a computer game was released in 1989 called Avoid the Noid. The object of the game is to deliver a pizza within a half-hour time limit in an apartment building swarming with Noids (some of which are armed with pizza-seeking missiles or water balloons). The common version is version 1.0 and has CGA graphics and PC speaker sound effects, although version 1.1 also exists which added support for EGA graphics and Adlib music. In 1990, Capcom released a different video game, Yo! Noid, for the NES.

Still one of my favorite games.

It's genuinely a very good Doom Clone. And because it runs on the same engine..... you can change the game from Rated E to rated M

Yep, it was pretty much the first one that came to mind when he brought up promo games for food products. They licensed a great engine from iD and made a pretty decent game with it.

Same, still my favorite.

It also got a complete remaster on Steam that was released this year that includes both games and extra levels

I believe you have this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YzjtrrL28qw.html

nice name...for the noodle, of course

Honestly one of the best subtle jokes I’ve seen in awhile

All the KFC stuff has only been in the last few years tho; kinda diverges from the 'style' and era when Snack King, Avoid the Noid, and the other fast food restaurant games were...

Did he continue making games?

@@AntonAdelson He still does software development as a freelancer.

That’s caus You’re a bit too old to have played Chex quest my friend

I was just going to comment this same thing. Hilarious game.

A guy on reddit has like 1000 copies of that game, so if you wanna play it again...

I loved Pocket Bike Racer from the same series as that game, with the same BK characters, but now I play it and it feels like complete trash lmao. The only redeeming thing about it is racing as Brooke Burke in a fucking fantasy giant hamburger candyland, no I'm not making that up.

Personally I think the pocket bike racing game killed it. It was a legit fun racing game.

The other BK game (crazy how they made MULTIPLE games) with the bumper cars was also very fun. Big Bumpin' was it? Good times.

Well yeah - it was Doom reskinned

I played Chex Quest a couple of years ago. It IS good, in some ways better than Doom: 1. No hitscanners - only projectile armed enemies. 2. Nice music. Not better than Bobby Prince music, but still really nice. 3. Whacky and creative environments.

What did you play it on? A Nintendo?

@@HH-gv8mx its a pc game

@@HH-gv8mx pc, it came on a disk. I'm not even sure how we got it tbh.

That's the Tommy Tallarico magic