TOP BANANA: The Creepiest Platformer Game Ever | Kim Justice

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Top Banana is a 1991 game, most famously on Amiga, with environmental themes and a cute hero. You'd think that's plain and naff enough, but you'd be wrong. The graphics, controls and sound don't just make this one of the worst games ever, they make it one of the creepiest games there's ever been. Enjoy!
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0:00 Intro
1:10 HEX and Psycore: The Folks Behind Top Banana
4:59 Breaking Top Banana Down: Graphics, Gameplay, Sound...oh my
15:37 What the Reviewers Said
17:24 Top Banana for the Acorn Archimedes, Psycore's Big Bang and Revolver
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5 июл 2024

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@Kim_Justice Месяц назад

Have you ever played Top Banana? If so, have you recovered yet? Have a shout about it here, and thanks for watching. :)

@RUOK2000 Месяц назад

I have absolutely vivid memories of playing this on the Acorn A3000 as a kid. My dad was a teacher and would bring acorns home for me to mess with during the summer holidays. This, mad professor mariarti and more have stuck with me ever since. Love it that you're covering this

@Debagio Месяц назад

I've never seen this game before but I'm definitely going to find it now!

@thegreathadoken6808 Месяц назад

I have a distinct lack of recollection of a 1 hour period in the early 90s which I'm certain my mind has wiped from memory due to the inclusion in this block of time of a highly traumatic session of Top Banana. Some people can recall alien abductions under hypnosis. I'm sure I would only recall playing this horrible game.

@Ezyasnos Месяц назад

I have played Top Banana........................................................

@mcbpete Месяц назад

Even just seeing the thumbnail my brain automatically played the 'uuuugghh' cow-noise-pickup and the Catchphrase buzzer sound effect. Definitely got more use from the supplied T-Shirt than the game 😁

@Nov-5062 Месяц назад

This game looks as if someone took a Gustav Klimt painting, chewed it off, spat it out and drew anime doodles on it. On a more serious note, it reminds me of those Grunge indie games like Hylics or Cruelty Squad, which makes it waaaasy ahead of its time artistically.

@wolfgangervin2582 Месяц назад

I can totally see Gorbino's Quest being like this.

@Sedric-and-Charlie Месяц назад

Despite it being so extremely unplayable I unironically love Top Banana. It's extreme game-as-art stuff, pushing the boundaries as far as possible such that you might dig through the ideas it throws out to try and work out what kind of playable experience you could make from them. Makes me think of more modern visually eclectic or confrontational stuff like Cruelty Squad or Jack King-Spooner's games, though I don't think either of those have any influences from this thing They played a level of Top Banana once as a Gamesmaster challenge. I remember at the time thinking it had something to do with Betty Boop owing to the character design

@kennethgibson4510 Месяц назад

Wow don't remember that but it does seem like something that gamesmaster would be into

@mistertagomago7974 Месяц назад

I agree completely.

@robintst Месяц назад

This feels like a game that should be double billed with LSD Dream Simulator on PlayStation with both set to the Sweet Cupp'n Cakes music from Homestar Runner.

@masonasaro2118 Месяц назад

*Casio demo*

@D3usExMachina Месяц назад

EH STEVE!

@joezar33 Месяц назад

I give you props , for being able to look at the game . My was hurting just looking at this shiite

@DrBananananananananananananana Месяц назад

It's art and honestly a editable sprite set?. I would've loved that as a kid.

@joedent3323 Месяц назад

Its a really cool concept, isn't it? Execution be damned: its a clever idea.

@lunamorley Месяц назад

I needed this. I played Top Banana with no context, no background, no anything. So to have some things vaguely make sense is something I wasn't expecting. Also the second I saw Big Bang I started laughing hysterically. I think I need to play that next.

@cartmann94 Месяц назад

This game seems like a lot of those “heroic efforts” of games from the 00s that were riffed online. You know, the Dontrel the Dolphins and that like.

@nobodyinparticular9640 Месяц назад

More like heroin effort eheheheheheheh

@Zycyzyx Месяц назад

Games that make you stand up and shout TRELYATE! (there is no unique, beautiful mind in game creation quite like the one that produced Dontrel, though.)

@boontube860 Месяц назад

The graphics remind me a lot of the graffiti world section of Yume Nikki, however where that was just one small area with hardly any collision in a game about wandering around THIS is expecting precision and timing. Absolutely mad.

@casanovafunkenstein5090 Месяц назад

I was thinking that it looked like a Lisa fan game/abandoned prototype, so we're probably on a similar page given that the Original Lisa was heavily inspired by Yume Nikki

@philipneedstowrite1799 Месяц назад

Strangely... I don't hate how Top Banana looks. I've played a decent few modern indie games that try to do something similar. But those indie games are much more polished, much clearer in meaning, and aren't action games!

@mistertagomago7974 Месяц назад

I hate it and love it at the same time.

@roadkill_52 10 дней назад

I love it as well. It's just a cool trippy world!

@spankyrambles Месяц назад

The music in this sounds like it's been ripped straight from silent hill.

@craigcharlesworth1538 Месяц назад

My main memory of this game is that there was a kids TV show hosted by Tommy Boyd on around the same time it came out, and also titled Top Banana. So for a long time I just assumed it was a tie-in to that.

@neilold7291 Месяц назад

Top banana or piece of cake

@sydneymeanstreet Месяц назад

The trick is to move in close and focus, then slowly move back and voilà, you're actually playing Super Mario Bros.

@VampireJack10 Месяц назад

I find wearing They Live! style sunglasses helps a great deal! 😎🥴👌

@RetroPixelLizard Месяц назад

12:28 "Well just listen to the temple..." ....It's goddamn Silent Hill. Suddenly Kang Fu looks like an okay game.

@cartmann94 Месяц назад

I hear the Giygas theme from Earthbound too.

@lilacfloyd Месяц назад

Love the Crystal Hammer music at the end. I haven't heard that in a while, brought back good memories. Good stuff. :)

@fishy7901 Месяц назад

I remember this being on the shelf roughly the same time as PP Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon, got them both on the Amiga, and played Banana for about 2 minutes before moving on to PP Hammer for a very long time. If you haven't already done a video on PP Hammer, it's worth a look!

@mucy2807 Месяц назад

Don’t remember this one, I was a speccy owner, and just for a year or two. Great times though. Ty KJ 😊

@helvete983 Месяц назад

It was a weird time, most people only experienced the Archimedes in school computer labs, definitely limited scope for gaming. It passed me by on the Amiga too. A speccy was my first ever home computer, great memories.

@mucy2807 Месяц назад

@@helvete983 Happy Days ☺️👍🏻

@whoisavie Месяц назад

the closest modern equivalent to top banana genre notwithstanding would be cruelty squad, as that also is an art game that intentionally pushes the boundaries for acceptable gameplay and visuals and equally goes for a "everything looks like shit because the world has gone to shit" angle cruelty squad is a lot more playable however, edit: as an addition id like to mention that if anything i *adore* top banana's soundscape. honestly just the whole "throw everything at the wall and force it to stick" approach is really cool and i appreciate what it sets out to do even if the game itself is hell incarnate

@businesscat380 Месяц назад

Top Banana was from 1991? Might explain a few things, the 2 things it immediately reminded me of: The patterned panels in shell suits...1991 was peak shell suit 😂 Magic eye pictures...again, they were all the rage in the early 90s This clown game doesn't look that bad...is it any weirder than what Matthew Smith was doing 10yrs earlier?

@dcikaruga Месяц назад

Played the demo when I was a kid on my Archimedes, can't say it aroused any interest. I remember the environmental theme mentioned in Acorn magazines, just felt it was a deliberate psychedelic style myself, and an underwhelming game.

@shkeni Месяц назад

The game itself looks unplayable but I love the weird psychedelic aesthetic and I SO WANT THAT TSHIRT from the ad!!!

@greenhowie Месяц назад

This is exactly the kind of game I'd imagine Tank Girl playing in a grubby cornier of the comic.

@STR82DVD Месяц назад

"Honeyyy! I'll give you your insulin later! There's a new Kim Justice Video!"

@lou5y Месяц назад

Wouldn't be surprised if Cruelty Squad took inspiration from this game.

@masonasaro2118 Месяц назад

This feels like if warioware and wario land 4 did acid together

@hawkeyepearce1066 Месяц назад

Looks like the old sci-fi channel's "Head-F**k TV" in video game form (God, I miss the old turn of the millennium analog satellite TV channels...)! Thanks for an earnest study of a genuinely eerie-looking 90's curio.

@mikefutcher Месяц назад

Big Bang by Psycore had bonuses that would make it be day, make it be night, make the bottom of the screen be underwater, and mirror the entire level. None of these had any effect on the gameplay. I've not seen that anywhere else.

@Lollero200q Месяц назад

Cruelty Squad anyone?

@GooeyGremlin Месяц назад

It's genuinely amazing to see a creative project like this that's so simultaneously ahead, and of, it's time period.

@boatofcar3273 Месяц назад

You are the single greatest Amiga reviewer of all time. I'm so glad you've finally gotten to this "classic." Excellent work as always Kim!

@spongbros Месяц назад

Nothing to do with the near-contemporaneous TV-am series, it seems.

@anactualmotherbear Месяц назад

Another excellent vid, Kim! This is the sort of thing I love seeing getting a highlight on your youtube show.

@anavash Месяц назад

Thank you Kim this is fantastic! Good lord what a piece of lore for the Amiga. I'm your biggest fan in Arizona. :p

@AmigaCammy Месяц назад

Awesome video, thanks Kim! I feel like playing it on my next stream just for a laugh. The Amiga doesn't seem to have many games with female protagonists, at least not many good ones.

@hemangchauhan2864 Месяц назад

Those backgrounds can be turned into really cool look "creepy" background in a good platformer/action game. But here, its just an eye sore.

@roadkill_52 10 дней назад

Nah, it's still very cool

@gamingcrazy7013 Месяц назад

My dad presented a pirated copy of the Amiga version of this game to me and my older brother. It was a cracked 1 disk version without the cool intro. I did actually get some enjoyment out of it, but man it was wierd and trippy as fuck!

@eclecticist6388 Месяц назад

Never saw Top Banana before, but it's interesting that the programmer of Top Banana also made Space Tripper (PC arcade shooter) of which I have fond memories!

@JazzemBros Месяц назад

Great vid Kim! We had an Archimedes and a demo of Big Bang, wild to see even weirder games from the same dev Can confirm firsthand that BB was unsettling to a five year old 👍

@2HeadedHero Месяц назад

This looks like some major crunchy indie stuff about two decades before they flooded Steam

@joedent3323 Месяц назад

Nice video Kim. Love to see a new drop. Cheers Mate "LiL'JpD."

@TheIrland09 Месяц назад

This is the video game equivalent of a grindcore album.

@SuperMookles Месяц назад

I loved Ninja Tune back in the 90s, but I've never heard of this. I'll definitely have to track it down! It looks like Nathan Barley channeling Monty Python.

@JustJulyo Месяц назад

The last game was WAY creepier than that. That clown head turning when jumping would have made me shut off the console

@whatamalike Месяц назад

This game feels like a fortnight in a bad balloon

@MarkTheMorose Месяц назад

I think I played a demo of this, probably from Amiga Format's coverdisk. [Yes, number 32 from March 1992.] I don't recall it other than that, but I never tried it again so it probably didn't tick any boxes. The only game demos that ever did that were Lemmings and Zeewolf.

@mrburgess1698 Месяц назад

At 9:01 I’m certain that the Oliver Hardy looking head is actually the late comedian Les Dawson.

@otaking3582 Месяц назад

After watching Kaizer Beam's video on Tamala 2010, I'm convinced that musicians doing other media usually leads to pretentiousness.

@MainStreetBusinessStrategies Месяц назад

This is a level of awful that all awful is measured by. I rate games on the Top Banana Scale. As it is the worst game ever made, everything is a multiple of that. So, for instance, Monkey Island would be 950 Top Bananas

@Antireality Месяц назад

So how does Top Banana rank compared to the lowest scoring Archimedes games? Asking for someone who suspects his name might be on the intro screen of one of the contenders for that title...

@mattjames6349 Месяц назад

oh god, my eyes! how do you tell what is a platform?! Great viideo though Kim!

@RhysWynne Месяц назад

I remember this game was reviewed on the first season of Gamesmaster. I felt it was some sort of tie in to the kids Gameshow that was around at the time, especially with the Catchphrase buzzer...

@mrpositronia Месяц назад

Oh dear. Watching this made me feel physically sick. I'm sorry Kim, that you had to play this so we don't have to.

@PooperScooperTrooper Месяц назад

Great review! You made me laugh a few times :-)

@VampireJack10 Месяц назад

It's a favourite of Amigo Aaron from Amigos Retro Gaming - he would LOVE a Top Banana t-shirt! 😂

@DMRetroLP Месяц назад

The audio sounds like Akira Yamaoka got drunk and fell down the stairs with his keyboard.

@greenaum Месяц назад

Have you tried changing the background graphics to just black squares? That'd solve a lot of problems by the look of it.

@Kousaburo Месяц назад

I thought this would be about the 90's Saturday morning TV show that I barely remember.

@AndySmallbone Месяц назад

played it back in the day on my amiga a500.. great fun and started me using the expression top banana all the time and still use it now

@Johnoftheuchiha Месяц назад

Honestly the barf style color graphics reminds me of some late night Adult Swim style stuff. That and Problem Solverz

@TheInfiniteMiseryJumper Месяц назад

I have to say, this feels really appealing, as an experience. Slap on some old XL and rinse out for an afternoon. It does look WAY ahead of its time in terms of concept...I like it 👍

@GregDaniel78 Месяц назад

You know, via a random 6 quid purchase in some CEx type place I unwittingly bought this. And I have to say its ramshackle oddness kept me interested. I felt like a virologist researching an exotic disease. Plus, it came on standard AmigaDOS disks so it loaded more reliably on my failing A600.

@fennecfoxfanatic Месяц назад

The enemy sprites are giving me Hong Kong 97 vibes. Very creepy indeed

@LateNightPerson 6 дней назад

This game is like a hybrid of Bubble Bobble, Awesome Possum, and fucking Cruelty Squad

@justinsheppherd1806 Месяц назад

Bloody hell, lass; the things you put yourself through for the sake of content. I admire your guts.

@casanovafunkenstein5090 Месяц назад

If you told me that this was an abandoned prototype for Lisa: The Painful, before the game was made into an RPG and the protagonist was changed to Brad, I'd kinda believe it. It's like a whole game made up of that section with all the spiders with Lisa's dad's face on them from the first game in the series.

@xxnoxx-xp5bl Месяц назад

I legit love Top Banana. I know its presentation might throw people, but I think it's unique and compelling. I found the gameplay fine too. Nothing like as bad as is being made out here.

@blogrovic3138 Месяц назад

It was way ahead it's time. This game still has a great future in the Vaporware space

@googleboughtmee Месяц назад

Strange it's nothing to do with the kids tv show that had the same title and was on at the same time

@RedAsTheFire Месяц назад

This is the only game I've seen that legitimately feels like a creepypasta game.

@beatvidalia Месяц назад

watched this with a buddy and they got jumpscared twice during the big bang footage

@jaethemanchild Месяц назад

94? NINETY FOUR? Thats insane.

@QuietM4n Месяц назад

I had a bad trip alone on 2C-I and it actually did look a lot like this

@HighwayMule Месяц назад

Betty Boop? In-game portrait looks almost like inspiration for Momo

@KERMiTtehDOG Месяц назад

aaand another repressed memory unlocked.

@bjornh1527 Месяц назад

This video makes me want to track down the CDTV version to play on CD32! Absolutely fascinating.

@chuubaenjoyer7718 Месяц назад

someone from 2024 time traveled to the 90s to make one of them ironic retro creepypasta vidjergames

@MaximumRD Месяц назад

Pretty sure I got this on a cover disk back in the day, I did play it quite a bit, but it WAS weird, I didn't really like it that much but it did stand out.

@TheRealCheesemaker Месяц назад

As if they were ordered to port Silent Hill to Amiga and "make it a little bit more colorful".

@kumquatqueen5975 Месяц назад

The item pickup sound reminds me of the "Yeee!" Dinosaur meme.

@explodingmonad4535 Месяц назад

A 90's Manic Miner on acid.

@goatbone Месяц назад

Never heard of Hex but glad I have now. I feel like these games are for when you are really cooked and you want to show your friends something crazy.

@weavehole Месяц назад

Hah. I was going to make that exact Superhans comment. I did wonder if this game was what everyone was playing at the house party that time...

@TheBeird Месяц назад

Hmm, well that's my nightmares sorted out for the next six months

@egwok1 Месяц назад

Where can I get the trainer now that I seen your content I wanna try it. 🙏

@FlatCapAndy Месяц назад

Genuinely thought this would be about the old ITV kids show.

@featuremusic8354 Месяц назад

Oh wow I was thinking about this the other day and wondered why there was very little on it online

@SmashCatRandom Месяц назад

If you play it after dropping an E it looks totally normal.

@dogz8254 Месяц назад

If you want to hear a really good track by Hex, check out Harmonic from Sónar 97.

@beagsx3 Месяц назад

It's like a bad acid fever dream!

@Evilkingus Месяц назад

Great video as always!

@spartan117ak Месяц назад

this kinda reminds me of Cruelty Squad visually

@davids2750 Месяц назад

as far as Amiga shitpost games are concerned, this one makes Wizkid look like Citizen Kane

@Diablon76 Месяц назад

10:23 ZA WARUDO!

@LordTeaboBaggins Месяц назад

This looks more like some kind of modern ARG game.

@mikefutcher Месяц назад

Fond memories of Big Bang by Psycore.

@Rockford108 Месяц назад

I loved top banana on my old amiga, I still play it now on emulators 😂

@pigpenpete Месяц назад

I like this game for just how unhinged it is, they knew full well what they were making and just went with the mad arty concept regardless. It's a crap game for sure but I admire it anyway.