Strange Colorful XBOX 360 Games #13 (@RebelTaxi) 

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Late at night like Toonami in the good old days. Honestly, I'd kill for a Rebel Taxi TV channel where it was just Y2K late nineties and 2000s-era entertainment.

Comic Jumper is HELLA underrated. One of my friends actually cosplayed as Captain Smiley for Otakon one year. Funny thing happened with his blue muscle suit, though: he initially tried dying it blue by soaking it in a plastic trash can of dye, but it wasn't light enough. So he ended up using acrylic paint and spray paint which did the trick. This ended up biting him in the ass (or more like DYING his ass) as when we got back to our hotel room, his ass was blue. The dye got on his skin from sweating so badly. We have never let him forget it lol.

Adrenaline Misfits definitely feels like the monkeys paw of games, where you get a title with an art style and character design that resembles cool early 2000s extremeness, but the only issue you got to play it through Kinect.

I'm sorry but "you can Jekyll but you can't Hyde" is a genius sentence, i feel the video can only go downhill from that

Oh man I remember blur! I came up with my own headcanon on what the story might be about. Basically it was about a group of young wizards in modern times who want to race cars instead of memorizing spells.

Blur and Captain Smiley both look genuinely wonderful, I'd love to see them revived or remastered in some way

The fact that there’s a contra title made by the blazblue and guilty gear people, and it wasn’t that successful is a major bummer, this could’ve led to something cool and new for the franchise, and considering the state it’s in now probably would’ve been the better timeline.

That grass commercial was way more subtle than any real-life PETA ad.

Captain Smiley gives me the vibes of an American version of a Grasshopper Manufacture/Suda51 game. A game from a team who didn’t fully care about getting high reviews or sales, and just making something they thought would be cool. It just has this feeling of genuineness and heart that you don’t see from many big studios nowadays.

"They look like Steve-O made an NFT." No one has better references than Pan.

Captain Smiley actually looks really fun! Very much that early to mid 2000's vibe but this would've absolutely have been something I'd bought back then. Slightly similar with the 4th wall breaking humor is a little-known JRPG called Okage, which I had on PS2, so the whimsical humor of Mr. Smiley would've fit right in with me if my family had a 360. Edit: The 360 was the competiton to the PS3, not PS2, whoops, lol. Well, still the same.

I miss Captain Smiley! I still have the theme on my old Xbox 360. Can't say Sabat has done another role quite like that superhero and his sidekick. Once asked him at a con whatever happened to the character, and I think he said he recorded some lines for a mobile game Twisted Pixel had been working on. I don't know, might've been a guest character. Wish it would come back though, the time is better than ever for a goofy superhero parody.

If there is a part 2, Naughty Bear needs to be included. Its one of the strangest games of the seventh console gen, and I'm surprised see that its not talked about a lot.

To answer Rebeltaxi's question, the only games i can think of that still do the whole "save data from one game gives you stuff in another" thing are Nintendo ones, having Persona and Dragon quest save data on your switch gets you spirits for them in Smash, with Kingdom hearts save data you get more music for the Kingdom hearts stage in smash and having save data for other Pokemon games gives you Darkrai and Shaymin in Pokemon Legends.

Wide load games (the company behind hail to the chimp) fascinate me because all their games have a unique sense of humor. They are also behind the cult classic Stubbs the Zombie and a fun Clue-esque game called Guilty Party which was sadly released for the Wii at a time when the market for party games was so oversaturated, not even the fact that Freakin' DISNEY was publishing could help it stand out. Both potential topics for future videos.

My favorite part about Hard Corps Uprising is telling people who are fans of Blazblue/Guilty Gear music that the soundtrack exists, if they hadn't heard of it already. It's just obscure enough that I feel like I'm magically manifesting music from one of their favorite artists.

Blur handles speed so well. I think about it when people say “a Flash game could never be made hes too fast” Well, Blur seems to have handled it pretty well.

I knew that Daisuke had his hand in Hard Corps’ music. What’s interesting it how it still has that transitional style between XX and Xrd

Comic jumper and really all twisted pixel games are such a good time. Glad they’ve received some recognition.

PS2 Ratchet and Clank games also had some form of unlockables based on save files. If you had a save from the first game, the second game had a character giving you some of the original guns. The third installement also had the same gimmick.

Fun fact: In Ms. Splosion Man, you can unlock Star Road, which has Star from Comic Jumper saying various lines at depreciating sanity. It's a pretty neat Easter egg.

My mom and I laughed our asses off at the Mario Kart Blur commercial when I was a kid.

In regards to what Pan said about difficulty fluctuations in "Orcs Must Die," "No More Heroes 2" followed the same logic. Cloe Walsh's fight was made to be easier than previous Assasin, Matt Helms, to give the player the illusion they were getting a lot better at the game, leading players to keep playing.

Blur and Split second are the two racing game that has so much potential but unfortunately over shattered

I love it when you can tell what company made the game you're looking at. Aint no one got a style like Arcsys

I love that Pan uses the old Screw Attack theme. Reminds me of watching SA's old top 10 videos. Man, I miss them.

The commercial for Blur was the funniest thing ever to me as a kid. Even my mom thought it was hilarious.

I'm so glad to see Captain Smiley get some recognition! Back in the Summer of Games era of Xbox, CS was a highlight that I still think about to this day. Hell, this game is what made me want to become a games developer (before realizing that the industry pays less for worse conditions, so I pivoted towards general computer science/electrical engineering). Yeah, great game, great memories.

For people who liked Orcs Must Die! I highly recommend dungeon defenders. It's a game in a similar, cell-shaded art style. But it has an added element of being an RPG and loot grinding game with better progression.

Omg the metroid song used at the beginning brought me back to the old screw attack days

Orcs must Die basically is what Fortnite started as, and I wish more games would do this style. With Orcs Must Die stuck on the previous generations, and Save the World being dead, it sucks we don't have more third person tower defense games.

Back in 2010, I was working in a multimedia store with a very small video games section, I remember that people (client and my co-workers) confused Blur and Split/Second with each other and the way to tell them apart was calling them "the Mario Kart one" and "the Disney one". In two months time, we had sold like five copies of Blur and about twenty copies of Split/Second and it was mostly because our store offered a free DLC code to unlock a bunch of cars.

There's something instantly nostalgic about a new RebelTaxi upload

That era was balanced with the browned and the bright. I didn't own a 360 (a working one at least) in 2018, so I had much to catch up on, but I played much 360 stuff since it's start up to its discontinument whenever I can.

Comic Jumper look like a fun experience even if the gameplay is mid. Also "Hent High" is totally on point

Blur is honestly to this day, one of my favorite racing games. The handling was pretty satisfying and hitting someone had a nice sort of a weight to it.

Cristifer sabbath using his yamcha voice for captain smile love it.

As someone who always looked at the arcade section of the xbox 360 store, and had no money, this was such a flashback. I've always wondered what many of this games were about, since i could only look at the few images they had

"Orcs Must Die" is probably the one game series that would benefit from a Couch Co-Op feature... but it never had one, even with the 3rd installment.

Orcs Must Die kind of reminds me of the Tecmo's Deception games. Tecmo's Deception: Invitation to Darkness is a classic.

Well damn its a pan pizza weekend then

This morning was off to such a crappy start. Then I saw you posted. Got to just sit down and enjoy some quality humor and content. Thank you Rebel

Smiley deserves a remaster and Misfits could use for a remake.

I played comic jumper so much when i first got Xbox gamepass during its early days. I loved it a ton but always thought it was weirdly difficult at times.

Quite a few games did the save data stuff on PS2. Jak X: Combat Racing made large use of it for unlockables. With Jak 1, 2, or 3 saves it would unlock Jak from those respective games as a racer. Same goes for unlocking Ratchet as a playable character if you had a copy of Ratchet: Deadlocked. Then if you linked your PSP & copy of Daxter it would unlock the characters from that game and a new car ( it also would unlock stuff in Daxter on PSP itself).

Payday 2 did do some cross game dlc where owning Hotline Miami would get you A character, weapons, perkdeck, and some masks. So I would say cross dlc does exist but it’s very niche. Like both studios got to be homies.

Captain Smiley is the best Deadpool game we never got

As an owner of Free riders... Yeah Misfits fully earns those 3 points by being just slightly controllable. Even with a big living room Free riders is the most unresponsive kinect game you'll see

Aw man I remember playing Blair a ton. It was such a fantastic racing game. It is comparable to Mario Kart, but it just has a more like weighty feel. Wish I knew where my copy was.

26:59 "The Game doesn't warn you to jump" *Shows a pop up telling you to jump*

Captain Smiley shows up as the last boss in Path of the Warrior, a VR beatemup by the same studio. They keep it a secret until the end so if you played Comic Jumper it was a nice surprise.

1:39 If you're actually asking, I think it's the Latin "with" like in magna cum laude. According to grammarist, "in English [it] has come to mean plus or along with being". So, yeah, armadillo/artist.

i'm legitimately going to play comic jumper captain smiley now, that game looks actually fun for the experience if nothing else

As a racing game fan, NFS, Forza, ect. I always see Blur in retro game stores and I remember the commercials. But never hear anyone talk about it.

Blur still remains as one of my favourite racing games of my childhood Shame this awesome concept never got expanded I never knew it had a STORY MODE this whole time which blew my mind and I would've loved it

About what you said about owning two games unlocking content last time I remember a game doing that is if you owned Battlefield 1 you would get a Red Baron inspired paintjob for Ion in Titanfall 2.

14:53 Guptill89 lol

I brought comic jumper from xbox arcade based off the art alone! Worth every penny, i laughed my ass off at it as a teenager

I got demo discs from Xbox magazines all the time, comic jumper was on there and I would play it over and over, same with splosion man and the maw

There's another game that unlocks content for another just like Comic Jumper did. In Nicktoons unite, if you have other nickelodeon games on your memory card you can unlock exclusive costumes such as SpongeBob as Mermaid Man. I think it was only on the GameCube version.

hearing about splosion man again is awesome, i wish that could've had a section too didn't realise they made the maw as well - i played both of those games as a kid, but i never heard of comic jumper

Some other underrated 7th gen games with unique visuals Dishwasher Dead Samurai Gunstringer Sanctum Anything by Tom fulp Monday Night Combat

Hard corps even sounds like an arc sys game. I did not know I NEEDED this.

7:50 holy shit, that gaming magazine quiz strip had my childhood flashing before my eyes...

Captain smiley doing pop shuvits on a woman's corpse is the best thing I've seen all week

Doing a video about 2000s MTV2 would be cool. (Rob & Big, Viva La Bam, Punk'D, Wild Boyz, Sucker Free Sunday, and the bumpers too of course).

Blur had a really competitive online scene when it was a free demo but once it came out it was a desert

I remember that Blur commercial and I was like “what”?! “Why are they attacking Mario Kart?!”

That is one of the most insane depictions of Spark the Electric Jester, and it's impressive that it came out before the game.

Hard Corps Uprising was me and my cousin’s favorite game on the ps3. I specifically remember having one of his friends over to play this game and him saying “thats gay” every time we died. Instreasting times.

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I can’t help but notice how similar Captain Smiley’s manga design reminds me of Spark from Spark the Electric Jester. Maybe he’s the inspiration for his design?

This video hits different now after hearing about the Xbox 360 Store

Orcs Must Die is a really fun franchise, each entry has been highly enjoyable and addictive

This might be from the other Xbox, but there's a game called "Armed and Dangerous" which feels like British Team Fortress 2. And here's what took me off guard about it. It features well known voice-actors ranged from Jeff Bennett, Corey Burton and even the late (but great) Tony Jay.

YOU PUT MY AXOLOTL IN THE VIDEO

i'm a little disappointed the Death Spank games weren't included with their unique animal crossing pop up book art style

Ahh Comic Jumper was a fun little time. I'll always remember it as one of the few games I managed to get all the achievements for

yo pan have you ever talked about this game called Hell Yeah! made by SEGA for the 360? i got to play the full game as a kid but the demo was fuckin rad, it was this sweet cartoony 2D shooter game with tons of style, gore, and cool character designs. it seems CRIMINALLY underrated and exactly the kinda game id expect to see in one of these videos, you should definitely check it out if its still available anywhere

“Awkward but awesome” is the most mid 2000s thing I’ve ever heard

You should def check out the Sanctum games (Sanctum 2 in particular), they're fps tower defense games from the 360 era with a really cool art style and an absolute banger soundtrack. Gameplay's great too, especially with friends.

20:17 "So I clicked the timestamp repeatedly.. Funniest sh•t I'd ever _seen."_

This one time in middle school, we had a student run carnival and me and a group decided to bring an Xbox 360 as one of the attractions. Brought controllers and the system. I thought a racing game was a good idea so I brought my favorite, Need For Speed Prostreet. We got it set up and tested it, and I forgot the game has showgirls at the start of each race. But luckily we saved it by someone having a copy of Blur. Day was saved

Good to start the day with some rebeltaxi!

12:26 Does anyone have a theory on what is happening in the corner? Is the person A) Kicking in rage B) Dancing while almost tripping on their shoes C) Practicing 1 Foot Karate D) Trying to stomp on a spider that maybe just a carpet stain

8:20 - Best representation of playing a Kinect game Iv'e ever seen

Pokemon use to do a similar thing; if you had a Gen 3 cartridge in your console, you could find exclusive pokemon in any of the Gen 4 games

I'm happy you mentioned Blur, it's my favorite cult classic game. Multiplayer is a blast, but I really wish it wasn't handled so poorly... Always gonna love the game and the whole neon aesthetic tho.

18:09 The most recent game I know of that has this is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. While most items with this criteria could later be unlocked by normal means, the last of these is exclusively reliant on this requirement; If the player has save data for Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory on their Switch, they can unlock the music track "Dearly Beloved -Swing Version-" in SSBU (granted the respective Fighters Pass DLC is present).

we need more Comic Jumper, not only is the game fun it´s full of love too, and the extra content unlocks are something we REALLY need in today´s games

I loved Hardcorps Uprising. Thanks for bringing back fond memories.

18:16 The only example I can think of is if you own both Pokémon Legends Arceus and either Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl on Nintendo Switch and you've beaten Pokémon Legends Arceus you can unlock a battle agaisnt Arceus in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl.

HAIL TO THE CHIMP Me and my siblings played the demo so much and we loved it. Bought it years later lol

The jokes and puns in Hail To The Chimp sound like they could be straight out of BoJack Horseman!

Everyone talks about the brown games of the X360, and tbh there are some really good games now considered classics, but man it's so refreshing that even in the piss filter era there were some games not afraid of being colourful and just fun, maybe not the most polished but at least the cotent is nice.

Man, I just remembered when Modnation was still a thing I always kept seeing that broccoli guy from the Blur commercials as a racer, I think he was in the weekly top 10 at one point but for the longest time I never knew where he was from

Come to think of it, I'm surprised Pan doesn't talk about Guilty Gear more, considering how it revolutionized 2D-styled CG.

Blur wasn't the first to use sexual appeal for marketing purposes. Juiced the racing game by THQ in 2005 had a commercial where two guys customize a car that affected a woman that was by the sidewalk.

30:37 That was so nostalgic to see. Never played Blur, but I think that was one of the ads for the PSP.

I wait on my pc late at night, I sit in the glow of the screen, i wait for the new rebel taxi video