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Do you take a hit of a joint, spin in a circle 10 times while blindfolddd and throw a dartboard at the wall to see where it lands? That's what it seems with such obscure games lol
@@BBWahoo This one popped into my mind randomly, so you're not far off. And since I knew Disney's TV upfronts were coming on the 15th or 16th and that the show was listed for summer, I lined the release up just in case they dropped a trailer that week. The good side was they actually didn't drop the trailer until a week or so after this was supposed to be out, but the bad side was that I ran into some copyright claim issues that delayed the video anyway!
Another fun fact about this game: Until just recently, there was an Easter Egg embedded in the wall of Planet Express that nobody knew how to activate. 16 years later in 2019, people finally figured out the exact chain of random things you had to do around the office, causing the wall to slide open and reveal the egg. NEVER GIVE UP
Funfact: The gamedeveloper made an almost finished Futurama point and click videogame that it is lost media. It was canceled because one executive told them that they didn't like that kind of game and made a new game instead. It would be cool to find more info about that game. It would be cool to find also more info about the gba game.
Yeah, about as painful as Project Titan, the canned Halo MMO that I have spent about a week randomly emailing devs and falling down rabbit holes just to find more info and assets.
I remember this game as a kid. I remember how frustrating it was, how weird it looked, and how funnily the story was. I also remember my parents "giving it away" along with most ps2 games when I was a teen. Man...
Parents man. When I was a kid, my very religious parents saw me playing ocarina of time, and that there were "gods" in the game, and before I could even get half way into it, they literally just threw my game away for being blasphemous lol. My grandma gave it to me as a gift too!
Same thing happened to me as a teen. My mum straight up got rid of a big box of childhood games, consoles and dvd’s. This was years ago and I love my mum of course but I’m still slightly salty about it
I remember randomly getting this game as an Easter gift from my parents when I was like 10. It was such a mind fuck because: 1) we never got gifts on Easter 2) my parents never got me games i didn't ask for 3) I had no clue there was a Futurama game and 4) i knew for a FACT i "wasn't allowed" to be watching shows on adult swim lol. I thought it was a dream.
I used to have it when I was a kid and it was my favourite game out of what we had, no idea where it went but it's definitely gone now. Gonna have to emulate it to play it again I guess
This game and Hit and Run are the perfect combo. Both extra hard and extra fun. I loved them as a kid. Edit: In spanish I think is not as rare as in english. I remember a lot of people having it here in Spain.
Always wanted to play this but only time i found it was a few years after release still full price and i could have sworn it was on GameCube aswell but just my bad memory lol
The riddick games would look insane with a full remake. Those games still look good on Ps3 today. The original Xbox version was insanely impressive for the time, too. Plus they are honestly pretty fun, weird games.
@@localgamerz.. making not made and its a remaster(your improving visuals not how the game functions) than a remake(every asset is done from scratch) to produce the entire final product.
Wait, that infinite time loop thing is literally what they did with the last finale of the show lmao Like the premiere of the episode on comedy central cut directly into a rerun of the pilot
I think this is my first exposure to Futurama and other adult cartoons of the time. I didn't actually play it, I just saw it at an EB games once and that, "oooo", and then walked over to the gamecube section cause that was the only console i had at the time
I remember being frustrated with this game as a kid yet I still enjoyed it. Though I remember HATING the Leela Levels because I could never figure out how to safely avoid those skeletons that run towards you and explode
Yeah I straight up don't know the game-intended way to avoid those guys, they even run faster than you! I just started saving up the charge attack charges in a pinch, because Leela had some invulnerability while using it.
@@TheGoldenBoltyou just had to jump over the corners of the central lava pool! I had this game as a kid too and I must say, since I played Half-Life I noticed how heavily inspired this game was to it. They share the same "Run, Think, Shoot, Live" concept. Both games are meant to be approached intelligently rather than by instinct, by observing the levels thoroughly and figuring out the (intended) clever way to solve them rather than going all-rage desperately trying to reach the next level. Just like a lot of HL players say the game's way too difficult (when in reality it's not difficult at all but just meant to be played by brain rather than skills), every puzzle you complained about in the video was easily solvable by thinking cleverly :) As for the perfomance issues, if you were on Xbox you would've hardly noticed any frame drops at all. You should've tried that version instead of the PS2 one. They say it's far superior, and the PS2 version doesn't make it justice
Knowing I still have my original copy (no clue where or how i got it or even how I've kept it all this time) I honestly like cracking it open from time to time. It's fun enough and gives a weirdly specific kind of nostalgia The humor is strange at times but fits perfectly. And yes, full agree on the music mention. Some is pretty good! A great 7/10 game
Back in 2019 I saw like three of these copies in a local retro game store. They were like 20 bucks each and were in CD sleeves, not the actual cover. Had I known how valuable they were, I’d of bought all of them lol
Long live Futurama I have watched every season for years now since it came out, I am 62 years old and that show is by far my favorite show of all time so again long live Futurama
I still have this game on my shelf, I quite enjoyed for what it was. Only now as an adult do I get the reference to the film 'Alien' with the derelict ship in Bender's level. Didn't know the game was expensive, although UK online listings are only around £40-£50, crazy that other in countries it goes for over $100.
The ost smacks, especially the intro and red light district. Perfect for a bboy like me, especially since I don't need a license in order to play it when I dance battle
Think i replayed this about a year ago, I grew up with this game and had so much fun with it. defs has its quirks but honestly, thats just the ps2 era to me
I really think that this game could use a remake, especially the way that one person made simpsons hit and run in unreal. If I ever decide to get in to game making, maybe I’d try that. There’s a lot of potential in that game
When GameStop was beginning to stop carrying PS2 games in like 2014 or 15, they had this game on the ONE shelf of PS2 games in the corner. I remembered renting it one time in 2004 and bought it for $10. I just learned today that it sells for $300+ and I'm frantically looking for my copy lol
I remember the game cutscenes feeling like I was watching a real episode of Futurama. So this is pretty cool to me. I'm surprised how rare the game is now. I remember getting it for pretty cheap from a store. I do remember some parts of the game being pretty frustrating for me as a kid though.
Holy shit, I had this game as a kid and I never knew it was rare! I remember I found it weird that no one I was friends with owned a copy/talked about it since most of us loved Futurama. Pretty sure I still have it tucked away in a box with a majority of my other PS2 games. Such fond memories of the game, I remember showing some of my friends the game while I was having a birthday party back in like, 2016/17, and even they hadn't heard of it (At this point, I rarely talked to any of my friends from my childhood), I had a blast showing it to them.
Futurama keeps coming back because it is actually the best show ever made. I'm not being sarcastic or particularly exaggerated. It is easily among the top ...ten? ...five? shows of all time.
I had this game as a kid because my dad and i used to love futurama and the ps2. I wish i kept the box, but i know id never sell it anyway, i used to pretend to run around and attack like bender in the playground in primary school.
It must be a lot cheaper here in the UK on the second hand market then because I keep hearing Americans say "it'll cost a couple hundred bucks" but I picked it up for £20 from CEX.
I rented this game from Hollywood video played half of it. I tried to pick it up again when my "collecting phase" kicked in. The price is RIDICULOUS totally worth it I'd say
Wait what? Several hundred dollars? How'd it get so expensive, I swear they used to be everywhere not that long ago. I guess it's one of my most valuable possessions then now
I just looked up how much this game costs, and damn. I remember playing this when I was a kid. My Dad bought a box of games off of eBay and this was one of them. I remember it having a textured top to the disc, I'm not sure if that was just the Xbox version or not though. I'm incredibly sad now though, knowing how much money it would cost just to relive the memories of playing though this.
I played that game as a kid ! i didn't what futurama was at the time, and the game was kinda hard for me but this vid gave me the urge to plug back my ps2 and play the game.
I remember having this game, as a kid. Never made it past the subway. I chalked it up to being bad at games but watching this makes me feel less shame for that.
I have to say the main criticism for the game being that there's not much in the way of cutscenes was viewed as a massive positive in 2003 when the game was made. Obviously people have more evolved tastes nowadays and would be grateful for extra futurama scenes no matter how they got them, at the time cutscenes were viewed as a hacky way to draw out a game's lenghth. Considering too that the cutscenes are all render in engine and have to be stored on the dvd along with the game and you realise that was a fair decision to make at the time. Kids expected to get a good 20+ hours of levels in a game from 2003 and Futurama was a classic in my childhood. Also i don't think the game lags so much when you aren't emulating it. Thanks for making this!
I love how in America this game is seen as an extremely rare thing to own costing hundreds of dollars. But then you come here into PAL regions and the game is worth nothing and we have multiple copies usually lying in charity shops. I literally have a copy of the PS2 and Xbox versions just sitting on my shelf knowing they aren't worth a thing
This honestly sounds like a perfect game for the futurama series. Especially how you gain nothing from fully completing it and how hard it apparently is. Like this is the kind of collectathon / shoot/beat em up that a darksouls game would make lmao (never played darksouls but still lmao)
I love this game!!! I've replayed it way too many times to count. Just like Christmas or from the year 3000 Xmas I always play it at least a sneaky about every year. So I axe you what's your favourite part of the game that sticks with you?
I loved Futurama as a kid love it even more as a adult it felt like the best of the Simpsons writers with good storytelling at times plus Billy west is the g.o.a.t of voice acting I didn't know he voiced fry , the professor, zoidberg and zap they all sound completely different
This game reminds me of Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. I remember playing it with my brother on Ps2 all the time. Its also the first game where i saw things actually "make sense" in a way, you (being a robot) take small damage when standing in water. Also the first game i saw push the ps2 to its limits(atleast mine) actual ragdoll physics, dynamic enemy damage, decent graphics on par with 31:58 halo ce, etc...it might be my 3 inch thick rose tinted glasses but its an amazing game that i would love to see a modern review of it.
This might be more common in Europe, I still have the copy I bought for my dad back in 2003, that I later inherited when he gave me his Xbox. But you can get a copy for £20 a Cex (which is still pretty expensive for a PS2 game)
Had this game and absolutely loved it. Sold my ps2 and all the games to my sis cuz she was gonna buy a ps2 and i didnt use mine too often anymore. Did her a huge solid cuz she got a ps2, 50 games and wireless controllers for the same price. Literal years of entertainment. Asked her 2 months later how she liked the games, she said she put the ps2 and all the games in her laundry room for anyone to take. There was like 50 games including futurama, both star wars battlefronts, i think red dead revolver, destroy all humans, and several more awesome games i loved. I was pissed, if she told me i would have bought it all back same price i sold it for. I was shocked because she still has the original SNES we had from our childhood, never thought she would just toss out a ps2 with some of the best games ever made. Oof
I found it in a bargain bin in a toy store, and I got a further discount on it because the cover had a bit of water damage. Back then whenever I was spending the week or weekend at my girlfriends house, I'd bring a game I knew was going to be tough, because then I wouldn't have anything else to play, so I had to focus on this one game, and that's how I beat this one. loved the atmosphere and humor, but yeah, it had some pretty frustrating sections.
If the whole game was like fry's street levels that would have been cool. They could have had the other characters explore different parts of the city, or play on an alien city or something. I guess Leela comes close to that.
I rented this as a kid on disc for a week and got stuck on the 2nd level in the sewers😂. It was damn hard! Or I suck at platformers! Crazy how certain games become rare
I did actually own this one, though as it was included in a bundle of a used ps2, the disc sadly had scratches precisely wherever it wanted to load data within the sewage area early on
29:14 so they crash land the ship that was once broken and take the good one, at the beggining they fix the bad one. but it the same ship they go back in time in which, its a paradox
I think I saw a copy of this at a flea market once and I didn’t pick it up but now I really regret that because I didn’t realize this game would be so hard to come by and so rare
I am so happy that I found this in the bargain bin of a blockbuster video as a child. Struggled to get past the sewer level because the platforming is so precise, but I beat it as an adult. Still havne't beaten the game though.
Had a GameStop employee con me into not buying this game when I was a kid, it was behind a paper “buy one get one half off sign” and it was the only one I saw. I brought it to the counter and the guy convinced me it was horrible. Whether or not he was right, it feels like he knew it was gonna be rare.
I always find it weird how the UK copies are so cheap and the US is so expensive, it’s definitely a lot more common in UK than u make out in the video though, I recently picked it up for £12 on CEX, which is pretty much the go-to for game collectors over here
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Futurama sleepers rise up.
Do you take a hit of a joint, spin in a circle 10 times while blindfolddd and throw a dartboard at the wall to see where it lands? That's what it seems with such obscure games lol
Then again. A trailer for the futurama reboot came out a few days ago so your video is pretty topical when really thinking about it
@@BBWahoo This one popped into my mind randomly, so you're not far off. And since I knew Disney's TV upfronts were coming on the 15th or 16th and that the show was listed for summer, I lined the release up just in case they dropped a trailer that week. The good side was they actually didn't drop the trailer until a week or so after this was supposed to be out, but the bad side was that I ran into some copyright claim issues that delayed the video anyway!
Another fun fact about this game:
Until just recently, there was an Easter Egg embedded in the wall of Planet Express that nobody knew how to activate.
16 years later in 2019, people finally figured out the exact chain of random things you had to do around the office, causing the wall to slide open and reveal the egg. NEVER GIVE UP
What's the easter egg?
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond Literally a big shining egg. You can whack it and it wiggles a little but otherwise just unlocking it is the reward.
@@Hugsloth lol
@@Hugsloth that sounds exactly like what this game would give tbh that's perfect
Nibbler’s race are all time travelers. They explain that in the show.
Funfact: The gamedeveloper made an almost finished Futurama point and click videogame that it is lost media. It was canceled because one executive told them that they didn't like that kind of game and made a new game instead. It would be cool to find more info about that game. It would be cool to find also more info about the gba game.
Yeah, about as painful as Project Titan, the canned Halo MMO that I have spent about a week randomly emailing devs and falling down rabbit holes just to find more info and assets.
Yeah, the point and click adventure genre needs WAY more respect than it gets.
man, official gba sprites of the planet express crew would’ve been amazing.
I remember this game as a kid. I remember how frustrating it was, how weird it looked, and how funnily the story was. I also remember my parents "giving it away" along with most ps2 games when I was a teen. Man...
Parents man. When I was a kid, my very religious parents saw me playing ocarina of time, and that there were "gods" in the game, and before I could even get half way into it, they literally just threw my game away for being blasphemous lol. My grandma gave it to me as a gift too!
Same thing happened to me as a teen. My mum straight up got rid of a big box of childhood games, consoles and dvd’s. This was years ago and I love my mum of course but I’m still slightly salty about it
I remember randomly getting this game as an Easter gift from my parents when I was like 10. It was such a mind fuck because:
1) we never got gifts on Easter 2) my parents never got me games i didn't ask for 3) I had no clue there was a Futurama game and 4) i knew for a FACT i "wasn't allowed" to be watching shows on adult swim lol. I thought it was a dream.
I got a copy of this for like $5 a while back didn't realize just how rare it is 🌿
You should do a letsplay of it
I still have my Xbox copy. It works great!
same i have it on ps2 its in a good state cus i found it so hard as a kid
I used to have it when I was a kid and it was my favourite game out of what we had, no idea where it went but it's definitely gone now. Gonna have to emulate it to play it again I guess
Same, got mine at a flee market
Had this game as a kid an 99% sure I still have my original ps2 copy hanging around somewhere! Glad to see it get some more love
If it's in good shape it's worth it's weight in gold.
@@treborkroy5280 we had a ps2 slim so it’s scratched to hell probably lol
@@QueAwkwardNoises My slim destroyed almost all of my games. Wtf playstation 😢
I had no idea slims did that. I have one to play MVC2 specifically! Dammit sony!
@@CrystalLynn1988 this is exactly why I bought a fat PS2. Slims can destroy disks at any time.
This game and Hit and Run are the perfect combo. Both extra hard and extra fun. I loved them as a kid.
Edit: In spanish I think is not as rare as in english. I remember a lot of people having it here in Spain.
Always wanted to play this but only time i found it was a few years after release still full price and i could have sworn it was on GameCube aswell but just my bad memory lol
And the family guy game
One of the few early licensed games that really deserves a re-release this and Hit and Run deserves a HD upgrade
If they re-released this i would 1000% buy it.
The riddick games would look insane with a full remake. Those games still look good on Ps3 today. The original Xbox version was insanely impressive for the time, too. Plus they are honestly pretty fun, weird games.
You should lookup the hit and run remake someone made, hopefully they release it but it looks amazing
@@localgamerz.. making not made and its a remaster(your improving visuals not how the game functions) than a remake(every asset is done from scratch) to produce the entire final product.
Could not agree more for both games
no joke i've been listening to all Golden Bolt videos when i'm at work and now he just uploads.
i'll save this video for tomorrow as well
Wait, that infinite time loop thing is literally what they did with the last finale of the show lmao
Like the premiere of the episode on comedy central cut directly into a rerun of the pilot
I think this is my first exposure to Futurama and other adult cartoons of the time.
I didn't actually play it, I just saw it at an EB games once and that, "oooo", and then walked over to the gamecube section cause that was the only console i had at the time
Game is still pretty easy to get here in the UK, thankfully. CEX have the PS2 version in stock for £18, and the Xbox version for £25.
I remember being frustrated with this game as a kid yet I still enjoyed it. Though I remember HATING the Leela Levels because I could never figure out how to safely avoid those skeletons that run towards you and explode
I used to just run away and hope lol
Yeah I straight up don't know the game-intended way to avoid those guys, they even run faster than you! I just started saving up the charge attack charges in a pinch, because Leela had some invulnerability while using it.
I could never get past the subway levels as a kid
The Trick was to jump up a platform or on a crate I found but the Leela levels were still difficult.
@@TheGoldenBoltyou just had to jump over the corners of the central lava pool!
I had this game as a kid too and I must say, since I played Half-Life I noticed how heavily inspired this game was to it. They share the same "Run, Think, Shoot, Live" concept. Both games are meant to be approached intelligently rather than by instinct, by observing the levels thoroughly and figuring out the (intended) clever way to solve them rather than going all-rage desperately trying to reach the next level.
Just like a lot of HL players say the game's way too difficult (when in reality it's not difficult at all but just meant to be played by brain rather than skills), every puzzle you complained about in the video was easily solvable by thinking cleverly :)
As for the perfomance issues, if you were on Xbox you would've hardly noticed any frame drops at all. You should've tried that version instead of the PS2 one. They say it's far superior, and the PS2 version doesn't make it justice
The game to this day is why I use my gamer tag. Fry had a catch phrase “it’s Fryday!”
Knowing I still have my original copy (no clue where or how i got it or even how I've kept it all this time) I honestly like cracking it open from time to time. It's fun enough and gives a weirdly specific kind of nostalgia
The humor is strange at times but fits perfectly. And yes, full agree on the music mention. Some is pretty good! A great 7/10 game
Back in 2019 I saw like three of these copies in a local retro game store. They were like 20 bucks each and were in CD sleeves, not the actual cover. Had I known how valuable they were, I’d of bought all of them lol
For anyone in the UK like me you'll be happy to know that CEX only sells this game for £15 - £25 depending on what console you get it on
ever since the futurama revival trailer has been shown I’m seeing tones of new futurama vids seems that futuramas climbing back up into the spotlight.
I had no idea this was such a rare game, I remember playing this on PS2 as a kid throughout school holidays with my cousins
Wow i distinctly remember playing this game, I must of rented it from Blockbuster several times I had no clue it was so rare and limited.
Long live Futurama I have watched every season for years now since it came out, I am 62 years old and that show is by far my favorite show of all time so again long live Futurama
I still have this game on my shelf, I quite enjoyed for what it was. Only now as an adult do I get the reference to the film 'Alien' with the derelict ship in Bender's level. Didn't know the game was expensive, although UK online listings are only around £40-£50, crazy that other in countries it goes for over $100.
The ost smacks, especially the intro and red light district. Perfect for a bboy like me, especially since I don't need a license in order to play it when I dance battle
Think i replayed this about a year ago, I grew up with this game and had so much fun with it. defs has its quirks but honestly, thats just the ps2 era to me
I had this game as a kid, it was SO hard! I never got passed the Zoidberg level. I still have it, I had no idea it was rare
I'm so thankful I got a copy of this for my Xbox years ago.
I still have my copy.
I never got past the sewer level.
10/10, hope it gets a remaster.
Or remake
HOLY SHIT ME TOO
game was so fucking hard especially when youre a kid
I remeber playing this game as a kid, don't think I even realised it was supposed to be a episode you play through.
Now here's a game that could use a remake/remaster
I just loved exploring Planet Express in a 3D space. Same with the Simpsons house in the PS2 videogame.
The corner gag makes sense because Universe A is inside Universe 1 (or The Fighting Mongooses)'s box
That game over gag at the start of the game has got to be the funniest bit I've every witnessed in a game ever.
I really think that this game could use a remake, especially the way that one person made simpsons hit and run in unreal. If I ever decide to get in to game making, maybe I’d try that. There’s a lot of potential in that game
Omg yes. That guy did a fantastic job remastering hit and run. Someone needs to give this the same treatment desperately.
Oh yeah, my favorite, the "forgotten" PS2 game that everyone knows and remembers!
i had no clue this game was considered so rare or unknown, loved it as a kid as still have my copy for ps2 on my shelf
When GameStop was beginning to stop carrying PS2 games in like 2014 or 15, they had this game on the ONE shelf of PS2 games in the corner. I remembered renting it one time in 2004 and bought it for $10.
I just learned today that it sells for $300+ and I'm frantically looking for my copy lol
Wow thanks Golden Bolt for doing this video on this one. It would be a trip if this was ever made available on consoles. I would play it!
I remember the game cutscenes feeling like I was watching a real episode of Futurama. So this is pretty cool to me. I'm surprised how rare the game is now. I remember getting it for pretty cheap from a store. I do remember some parts of the game being pretty frustrating for me as a kid though.
Holy shit, I had this game as a kid and I never knew it was rare! I remember I found it weird that no one I was friends with owned a copy/talked about it since most of us loved Futurama. Pretty sure I still have it tucked away in a box with a majority of my other PS2 games.
Such fond memories of the game, I remember showing some of my friends the game while I was having a birthday party back in like, 2016/17, and even they hadn't heard of it (At this point, I rarely talked to any of my friends from my childhood), I had a blast showing it to them.
Futurama keeps coming back because it is actually the best show ever made.
I'm not being sarcastic or particularly exaggerated. It is easily among the top ...ten? ...five? shows of all time.
how many shows can make a timeloop of themselves so they don't have to actually end? i think Futurama found the secret to being a never ending show
@@wilsonweiseng6485 well yea not hard when your show doesnt really work on time, hence the name futurama
Ahaha I'm so glad you mentioned the soundtrack of this game being so similar to PS2 Ratchet and Clank. Christopher Tyng would be a great R&C composer
11:26-11:31 “For the same reason everyone pawns everything in America, to get a gun.”
One of the funniest Futurama lines ever 😂
I had this game as a kid because my dad and i used to love futurama and the ps2. I wish i kept the box, but i know id never sell it anyway, i used to pretend to run around and attack like bender in the playground in primary school.
awe lol
It must be a lot cheaper here in the UK on the second hand market then because I keep hearing Americans say "it'll cost a couple hundred bucks" but I picked it up for £20 from CEX.
I didn't forget it! I have a copy on my shelf and played it recently
How delightfully relevant
Dannnng the way you turned that executive joke around lmao… someone see this man for 2nd degree burns
Ah this brings back the memories , used to love this game as a kid , think I still have the disc somewhere 😂😂
I rented this game from Hollywood video played half of it. I tried to pick it up again when my "collecting phase" kicked in. The price is RIDICULOUS totally worth it I'd say
That Leela death sound was pretty funny, but it's easy to tell that it would get grating fast
I've always heard about it being super expensive, it only goes for $20 on eBay here in Australia and i picked it up for $2 at an op shop lol.
I remember playing this game as a kid - kinda crazy how it all might be lost to time, now.
Wait what? Several hundred dollars? How'd it get so expensive, I swear they used to be everywhere not that long ago. I guess it's one of my most valuable possessions then now
I would love to play this. I absolutely love Futurama.
I can't wait till the 142nd episode
4th wall breaking is so common now because of shows like Rick & Morty, I don’t think it would have bothered me here.
I just looked up how much this game costs, and damn. I remember playing this when I was a kid. My Dad bought a box of games off of eBay and this was one of them. I remember it having a textured top to the disc, I'm not sure if that was just the Xbox version or not though. I'm incredibly sad now though, knowing how much money it would cost just to relive the memories of playing though this.
cost like 35$ on ebay (or emu and xbox controller)
I played that game as a kid ! i didn't what futurama was at the time, and the game was kinda hard for me but this vid gave me the urge to plug back my ps2 and play the game.
It's funny the quick snippet(s) of CGI they used in the new season reminded me of this game
I remember having this game, as a kid. Never made it past the subway. I chalked it up to being bad at games but watching this makes me feel less shame for that.
Imagine being a huge fan of Futurama in the early 2000's, play this game and then get blown away by its shittyness. lmaoooo
I used to rent this game all the time from Hollywood Video as a kid, I had no idea how rare it is!
I'm just picturing a more replayable version of this game where on each subsequent ng+ the professor has another hat on top of his head
This game is so good I wish they actually remastered this game
I have to say the main criticism for the game being that there's not much in the way of cutscenes was viewed as a massive positive in 2003 when the game was made. Obviously people have more evolved tastes nowadays and would be grateful for extra futurama scenes no matter how they got them, at the time cutscenes were viewed as a hacky way to draw out a game's lenghth.
Considering too that the cutscenes are all render in engine and have to be stored on the dvd along with the game and you realise that was a fair decision to make at the time.
Kids expected to get a good 20+ hours of levels in a game from 2003 and Futurama was a classic in my childhood.
Also i don't think the game lags so much when you aren't emulating it. Thanks for making this!
I've owned this game since I was a child and I'm pretty sure I got it used for only a few dollars. Now I'm incredibly proud to own it!
I love how in America this game is seen as an extremely rare thing to own costing hundreds of dollars. But then you come here into PAL regions and the game is worth nothing and we have multiple copies usually lying in charity shops.
I literally have a copy of the PS2 and Xbox versions just sitting on my shelf knowing they aren't worth a thing
i know someone's gonna get rich exploiting this fact
This honestly sounds like a perfect game for the futurama series. Especially how you gain nothing from fully completing it and how hard it apparently is. Like this is the kind of collectathon / shoot/beat em up that a darksouls game would make lmao (never played darksouls but still lmao)
Best breakdown on youtube
I love this game!!!
I've replayed it way too many times to count.
Just like Christmas or from the year 3000 Xmas I always play it at least a sneaky about every year.
So I axe you what's your favourite part of the game that sticks with you?
Leela's level in the sun palace, but it's hard to pick favorite I loved it so much 🌚🌝
@@PatrickMarquez-c2y nice!
I loved Futurama as a kid love it even more as a adult it felt like the best of the Simpsons writers with good storytelling at times plus Billy west is the g.o.a.t of voice acting I didn't know he voiced fry , the professor, zoidberg and zap they all sound completely different
This game reminds me of Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. I remember playing it with my brother on Ps2 all the time. Its also the first game where i saw things actually "make sense" in a way, you (being a robot) take small damage when standing in water. Also the first game i saw push the ps2 to its limits(atleast mine) actual ragdoll physics, dynamic enemy damage, decent graphics on par with 31:58 halo ce, etc...it might be my 3 inch thick rose tinted glasses but its an amazing game that i would love to see a modern review of it.
This game isn't that expensive now in the UK, between £15-£25 which is around the same as hit n run.
Bender's catchphrase almost fits in 70% of the show's life we are back baby I am back baby
"You don't even know what a DVD is anymore"
Me who still uses a vcr/DVD player hybrid machine to watch his vhs tapes
This might be more common in Europe, I still have the copy I bought for my dad back in 2003, that I later inherited when he gave me his Xbox. But you can get a copy for £20 a Cex (which is still pretty expensive for a PS2 game)
Had this game and absolutely loved it. Sold my ps2 and all the games to my sis cuz she was gonna buy a ps2 and i didnt use mine too often anymore. Did her a huge solid cuz she got a ps2, 50 games and wireless controllers for the same price. Literal years of entertainment. Asked her 2 months later how she liked the games, she said she put the ps2 and all the games in her laundry room for anyone to take. There was like 50 games including futurama, both star wars battlefronts, i think red dead revolver, destroy all humans, and several more awesome games i loved. I was pissed, if she told me i would have bought it all back same price i sold it for. I was shocked because she still has the original SNES we had from our childhood, never thought she would just toss out a ps2 with some of the best games ever made. Oof
I found it in a bargain bin in a toy store, and I got a further discount on it because the cover had a bit of water damage.
Back then whenever I was spending the week or weekend at my girlfriends house, I'd bring a game I knew was going to be tough, because then I wouldn't have anything else to play,
so I had to focus on this one game, and that's how I beat this one.
loved the atmosphere and humor, but yeah, it had some pretty frustrating sections.
This game is not rare in the UK, i picked up my copy for like £4 a few years back. Even now it's selling for like £20 online. Weird how that works!
Love the idea of covering more obscure PS2 titles. Ever play Fur Fighters? That'd be a fun one
I wish Fur Fighters got a modern remake besides the PS2 port.
@@HolyGoddessMotherAnne Me too!
If the whole game was like fry's street levels that would have been cool. They could have had the other characters explore different parts of the city, or play on an alien city or something. I guess Leela comes close to that.
Wow, shout out to the studio devs that made the game! Can't believe it was there only game
I was never much of a gamer but I definitely have a copy of this in a box someplace.
I have a copy of Futurama and I got it around 6 years ago for about 20 quid and it was great
I rented this as a kid on disc for a week and got stuck on the 2nd level in the sewers😂. It was damn hard! Or I suck at platformers! Crazy how certain games become rare
Tons of copies still being sold here for like $20 in Australia
I did actually own this one, though as it was included in a bundle of a used ps2, the disc sadly had scratches precisely wherever it wanted to load data within the sewage area early on
Well damn. I can't wait to sell my copy when the show releases
29:14 so they crash land the ship that was once broken and take the good one, at the beggining they fix the bad one. but it the same ship they go back in time in which, its a paradox
i was lucky enough to play this game as a kid and i fuckin loved every second of it
I think I saw a copy of this at a flea market once and I didn’t pick it up but now I really regret that because I didn’t realize this game would be so hard to come by and so rare
I am emulating the PS2 copy but I am trying to save up for a physical PS2 copy to help complete my physical Futurama collection
Only ever borrowed this game off my mate when I had the chance and never really finished it but enjoyed it save for some of the difficulty spikes
I am so happy that I found this in the bargain bin of a blockbuster video as a child. Struggled to get past the sewer level because the platforming is so precise, but I beat it as an adult. Still havne't beaten the game though.
They should remake this and hit-and-run in HD and release them in one CD for full price. Add online multiplayer to hit-and-run.
I tried to play this again a couple of years ago and forgot how difficult it could be. No idea how my younger self got through to the end..
Had a GameStop employee con me into not buying this game when I was a kid, it was behind a paper “buy one get one half off sign” and it was the only one I saw. I brought it to the counter and the guy convinced me it was horrible. Whether or not he was right, it feels like he knew it was gonna be rare.
I was expecting you to add “brought to you by Mom’s Friendly Robot Co.” at the end of the Adblock vpn read
I always find it weird how the UK copies are so cheap and the US is so expensive, it’s definitely a lot more common in UK than u make out in the video though, I recently picked it up for £12 on CEX, which is pretty much the go-to for game collectors over here
loved this game as a kid, my mom rented it from the movie store