During that "competition" I couldn't help but smile every time the little girl called out the next game to the host. She has such an adorably bright voice, it's like the one bit of clarity in between the two idiots yelling about "graphics" and "thirty games in on cartridge" every third of a sentence.
I miss the adorable times of absolute incompetence in video game entertainment and consoles/computers in general by media. I mean, a group of wrestlers pretending to be a cybersport trainers for a teams of kids playing tetris. And hosts having no idea what's going on. And almost no screentime for gameplay.
When Hulk was describing the games, I don't think that was scripted. I think that's actually how he sees those games. With his cocaine-vision. That's how I'm looking at it, anyway :)
Originally during the stream, I thought it was going to be 30 games for $50. Then I noticed the "3 easy payments" on the top, and that 15 of the games had to be removed, meaning that it actually turned out to be 15 games for $150. Oh well, at least the games are better than anything from Action 52 I guess.
So much cocaine, I feel like I'm back in the radical 1990s screaming at my parents to buy this for me. Only gratuitous amounts of cocaine could successfully hype mahjong enough to market it to young children.
What's shocking is this company sued Nintendo and won. And in a cash grab took all the games they produced and put them on this pos. All that money still went out of business.
Hulk: *"LET'S TALK TO THE COACHES!"* Honkey-Tonk Man: *"ROCK MUSIC REFERENCES."* Mr. Wonderful: *"MY PLAN/TEAM/EVERYTHING IS SO WONDERFUL!"* Coco B. Ware: *"REFERENCES TO FLYING!"* Judges: _"The rules are made up and the points don't matter."_ Hulk: *"BACK TO YOU, MIKE!"* Mike and Richard: *_"Rampant and shameless lying about our shitty bootleg multicart! Also professional gamer Michael Elson is here!"_* Michael Elson: _"I wanna go home."_
I like how they say that the so-called World Game Federation was not affiliated with the WWF, but they bring in the Honky Tonk Man, Koko B. Ware, and Hulk Hogan like they weren't violating a contract.
What's especially nuts about this particular stream is that the original 30-minute version of the Maxivision infomercial has once again disappeared off the internet meaning that this is the only way to watch the first part of it lmao
Fun fact: One of the reasons this infomercial was pulled after airing only ONCE (not a very effective way to promote a product) was because the wrestlers appearing in it were not sanctioned to use their characters in it by the WWF.
It truly is hilarious they didn't even try to get different game boxes to try to pass of having 30 games on it. You can clearly see each title on top of that TV 3 times.
Budget for developing this "game" cartridge: 30% wages and overhead. 50% cocaine. 19% "world game federation" show. 1% Game design, Programming. Graphics. Cartridge design, box design, research and development.
i cannot believe he described crazy creatures as 'not the best' at least 15 times during that games segment. i felt like i was in the twilight zone lol
Joel Says at the end of the Commercial "You Fucking Sellout...". The funny thing is that that was the exact tought of the WWF Fans back when Hogan Left the WWF For WCW. Joel Made my day with that line :D
17:49 Joel: How fucking dare they here's a game about not advocating drugs and suddenly... Hulk Hogan: BURWRWLWRLWLR Joel: I'm done... I fucking lost it. LOL
God, I miss this era of "fuck it, let's try everything, money's no object" game advertising. How much better would modern shovelware be if there were an expensive half-hour fake competition hosted by Hulk Hogan to pitch... I dunno... what's the modern equivalent of Maxivision? Minigame collections? Famiclone consoles? "Wii Party! It's incredible, dudes!"
20:02 - This game is Bubble Bath Babes, which is an unlicensed porn game for the NES. I suppose since Chiller made it on there it's no real surprise that this would too, but that's still really sketchy.
what really gets me is hulk was promoting games that have nothing to do with fighting. not RIVER CITY, not STREET FIGHTER, but MAHJONG and NO DRUGS BEAR! IT'S INCREDIBLE DUDES!!
Imagine if during the infomercial they ended up on Chiller and Hogan had to shill a controversial unlicensed horror game. Also, to retroactively answer Joel's question, this was 1992, so if it was after WrestleMania VIII then he technically was not under contract and that also explains his buddies (though Koko had been in a tag team with Owen Hart called High Energy).
This is 4 years old, but if I can bring knowledge to the godforsaken RU-vid section, I'll be happy. Menace Beach was made by a company called Color Dreams, and shortly after (Weeks? Months? I can't be arsed to find out) they rebranded themselves as Wisdom Tree, with the mission to make biblical/religious games on the NES. Now, they didn't really want to spend time sitting on their asses while their devs made more games (with more Jesus this time), so they put some lipstick on the proverbial pig and turned Menace Beach into Sunday Funday. Yes. The company made a "bootleg" of their "bootleg".
I've seen ridiculous 1990s infomercials for cheap ass garbage, but this WGF skit has to take the cake because you know exactly the kind of bullshit they're selling.
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