Many eons ago, there was a quiz with 20 or so multiple choice questions in a Swedish Nintendo mag where you could win a Game Boy. One of the questions was, "what category is not included in Anticipation?". Weapons was one of the options. Not a single fucking person in the country had ever played Anticipation or even knew what it was. I was recommended to guess weapons, since surely a reputable company like Nintendo would NEVER release a game full of weapons designed for maiming and murder to its audience consisting of 90% children at the time. Now, 25 years later, I finally learn that weapons was not only a category, it was the biggest motherfucking category. No wonder I never got my Game Boy...
A few notes: - I'm not sure how they didn't figure out that every blue puzzle is a weapon. If they'd played another round they'd have probably had all the blue puzzles be tools or something like that. - According to GameFAQs, the first puzzle is indeed a robot, so I don't know why that didn't work. - The tree was indeed an "Xmas Tree." I wish I was joking.
And on that note, this episode of James and Mike has been the one that has gotten me more riled up than any other episode. Like excited and shouting out stuff at the screen. This is NUTS.
FYI: English is not my primary language, but I started learning it on third grade, and learned a hellalot of words with this game when I was 9-10 years old. Good times.
I was born in 89, I talked my dad into giving me his NES stuff when I was in high school. The crown jewel is the power glove complete in box - but this damn game was one he had. Thanks for showing it!
7:30 That's not a mace but a flail. The difference between a flail and a mace is that a mace don't got the "ball" on a chain. It's on the actual handle while the flails "ball" is connected by a chain.
Normally i hate Mondays so much but the moment i started watching these episodes ive been looking forward to every monday. Thanks alot and keep up the good work!
ThePreciseClimber Cross and Christ have simmilar phonetic structure, Christ was said to be crucified, and printing Xmas uses less ink and takes less space. It's rather apparent *why* the spelling is used.
***** I could be wrong, but I think "X" is a substitute for "Christ" because the letter/symbol was a visual representation of "Christ" a long time ago. An example would be in the P and X symbol (a big letter P with a smaller X attached to the vertical stick of the P), which I've seen on the front of podiums in churches sometimes. (Not to mention, "X" can be thought of as "cross" as well.)
I'm no expert, but your comments made me curious so I googled a bit. Apparently you CAN call a flail as "chain mace", which would technically make them right in the video. About the morning star, it appears that this name only means the tip is ball with spikes. A morning star can be both a regular mace or a flail.... as long as the tip is a ball with spikes, it will be called a morning star. I may be wrong...
Nice episode guys, always enjoy J&M Mondays. But I must say, it looks like you used some of my 8BitStereo versions of Anticipation in some parts of the video. I am so honored if you did! I really feel like my series has even caught the attention of big people like you, if I do say so myself, keep it up! :)
At 0:00 to 0:14 it's clearly at a different quality than at 0:15 when the actual recording of the gameplay/music is playing. Plus the Square 1 and Square 2 channels are separated to left and right, respectively, if you're listening on headphones. You can't record stereo quality like that. But just give a listen to my "Anticipation (NES) Soundtrack - Stereo" of the Title Screen that was in the beginning of this video, the sound is quite the same ;)
No one gives a shit, you don't own anything. Adding shitty reverb and echo doesn't make someone else's intellectual property yours, therefore you don't need to be credited even if they did use it.
The colors of each stage are given a category. Weapons, office, Leisure, Food, etc. On the higher difficulties the category is not displayed. So on that level they had Blue stages in the category of weapon. Because you move based on the number on the die is at when you answer, you can end up repeating the same color - and the same category - a lot.
I love how the front of the cartridge depicts this as a fun old fashion family game. All the kids are in the picture. Then 90% of the pictures/answers are weapons you would use to brutally murder someone. lol
I like how you added Bootsy as a 3rd player, even though he seems quite a bit more mellow IRL than he is in Board James. Kinda fits in the dynamic though, and if he becomes a regular, he'll probably warm more up to the role.
I am not sure about the revamped version. I just know I was a fan of DB and DBZ back in middle school and when the internet was fast enough to finally download GT subbed I was let down for the most part. The last Segas I did enjoy though, They kind of went back to the DBZ style. Everyone has their own opinions so I am glad it does have a fan base.
If The Nerd was the Saw killer, this is the game he would choose. Pit you against your fellow man and see who survives... And what will be left of them?
lewdstep Alcohol and tobacco is far far worse, both for your health (mainly the tobacco) and for causing violence and accidents (alcohol). If all alcholists and smoking addicts had a roll of marijuana instead they would be far healthier and friendlier people.
''This game was developed by Rareware, which has unfortunately been bought out by Microsoft. I don't think an Anticipation remake would be possible anymore.''
I'm glad you guys finally did something with this game, being one of the more obscure NES games. We had this when I was young. I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the cover art. It screamed 80's cheesiness.
Fun fact: Most birds dont have regular orifices. They concentrate their refuse into a goop and defecate through what is called a cloaca. So their orifice for peeing, procreation and defecating is combined into one. So its a bag of cloacas, not duck vaginas. And it actually made it more nasty.
I remember watching that game being played at the residence I was babysat at that I mentioned in the autobiography I posted as a college project on my channel, and boy the players sure did have a tough time playing it as much as James and Mike did!
***** See, that makes sense, but it's also a ball on a chain... but the chain is on a stick instead of shackled to your ankle. Also the ball gores people. I was makin' a joke though, naming the wrong thing like how "mace and chain" is the wrong name. "Mace and chain" sounds like a mace on the end of a chain being whipped around like a yo-yo.
Bro. Tranquilty In the books when someone mentions or talks to R2D2 it is always spelled Artoo but ya unless you read a lot of SW books (which were not even around that much in the 80's) then that's a pretty obscure way of spelling it lol
Many eons ago, there was a quiz with 20 or so multiple choice questions in a Swedish Nintendo mag where you could win a Game Boy. One of the questions was, "what category is not included in Anticipation?". Weapons was one of the options. Not a single fucking person in the country had ever played Anticipation or even knew what it was. I was recommended to guess weapons, since surely a reputable company like Nintendo would NEVER release a game full of weapons designed for maiming and murder to its audience consisting of 90% children at the time. Now, 25 years later, I finally learn that weapons was not only a category, it was the biggest motherfucking category. No wonder I never got my Game Boy...
Bootsy at video games: calm, collected, "guys pay attention."
Bootsy at board games: one eyed eunuch
One of those puzzles is wrong. A mace is a fixed weapon similar to a club, the ball and chain is a flail.
Pshh, what are you, some nerd?
you could invite Bootsy more often. :)
Hell yeah. More Bootsy!!
I would like to see him more often too. But I would also like to see him talk instead of just sit there.
All these weapons...geez, the parents were concerned about Mortal Kombat and Night Trap, but they seemed to miss this one!
"That's the kind of shit that electricians know."
Answer: Ladder
NEX H5 What's wrong with that? I can confirm, I am an electrician and I know what a Ladder is.
Karl i'm pretty sure he's implying that you don't need to be an electrician to know what a ladder is, idiot.
"This game is so violent!" Wow, maybe 'cause the blue card was the arms category.
It's amazing how much fun it is just to watch them being friends. I have so many feels.
Goblet! GOBLET! FUCKING IT'S A FUCKING GOBL- oh thank Christ.
A few notes:
- I'm not sure how they didn't figure out that every blue puzzle is a weapon. If they'd played another round they'd have probably had all the blue puzzles be tools or something like that.
- According to GameFAQs, the first puzzle is indeed a robot, so I don't know why that didn't work.
- The tree was indeed an "Xmas Tree." I wish I was joking.
Droid
I would have guessed: ”Spruce” for the tree 🌲.
Interesting facts.
I love this kind of episodes where they just talk about random things and play some games
And on that note, this episode of James and Mike has been the one that has gotten me more riled up than any other episode. Like excited and shouting out stuff at the screen. This is NUTS.
FYI: English is not my primary language, but I started learning it on third grade, and learned a hellalot of words with this game when I was 9-10 years old. Good times.
God I love the music in Anticipation.
I like the bee boo beep part.
I dont
How appropriate that the game features so many weapon words when the players are associated with *CINEMASSACRE*. :P
It's all about anticipation.
Orochii Zouveleki That was really (pun)ny.
oh man this takes me back. My sister and I use to play this all the time.
Same
This game is more violent than GTA 5
Have you ever learned to fly?
7:35 That's not a mace. That's a medieval flail. Look it up, a mace is attached to the base.
nekoaitsu
lol
A flail's chain is short enough that the wielder can't hit himself on the knuckles. The weapon depicted in the game is purely fictional.
Ahhh, yes. Someone who understands. Of course I was referencing what it symbolized, but you're entirely correct.
Exactly what I was thinking
Who gives a shit.
7:30 Isn't that a flail? A mace is a club...
WARNING: do not play in airport terminals. When that thing starts drawing and you yell "BOMB!" Some shits gon go down.
Anticipation...for murder?
Oj simpson mustve been on the programming team.
All the weapons were in blue, so i'm guessing the blue category is weapons
the mace in the game is technically a flail, a mace is just a ball on a stick, aa flail has a chain
I was born in 89, I talked my dad into giving me his NES stuff when I was in high school. The crown jewel is the power glove complete in box - but this damn game was one he had. Thanks for showing it!
I thought James would drop some F-Bombs, not some B-Bombs.
I prefer atomic bombs.
I always crack a smile everytime I see Mike Tyson peeking in the top right corner like that. Perfect placement even if it was by accident.
Thanks for introducing the stranger on the couch James..
Wow it's Bootsy? My god I didn't recognize him.
I loved this episode, watched it twice actually. Smooth and fun. Seeing Bootsy back was great too.
Cinemassacre, each color tile was themed. Blue tiles were weapons.
Almost 8 months later and still enjoyable to watch; James and Mike are timeless video game entertainers. Bootsy is pretty cool too, I suppose.
It sure is timeless, even still enjoyable 8-9 years later
5:00 It is xmas tree, remember this game. =)
7:30
That's not a mace but a flail.
The difference between a flail and a mace is that a mace don't got the "ball" on a chain. It's on the actual handle while the flails "ball" is connected by a chain.
No its sting you of all people would know that! duh!
julen urionabarrenechea
Ohh yeah.... Forgot about that toothpick.
It's because this game is British. British and American English variants differ very much.
FerzenChannel
Not in this case. Flail is the same word in both American and British English.
Frodo Baggins
Okay. So, because of bad drawings in the game.
I was ready to scream GOBLET at the computer before they ever chose the G.
I actually did scream it and then Mike said it. I'm like "FINALLY!"
Normally i hate Mondays so much but the moment i started watching these episodes ive been looking forward to every monday. Thanks alot and keep up the good work!
It actually is "XMAS TREE". I hate that puzzle, gets me every time.
***** I never got why it's spelled Xmas. Wouldn't that mean "Crossmas"? :P
ThePreciseClimber Cross and Christ have simmilar phonetic structure, Christ was said to be crucified, and printing Xmas uses less ink and takes less space. It's rather apparent *why* the spelling is used.
*****
I could be wrong, but I think "X" is a substitute for "Christ" because the letter/symbol was a visual representation of "Christ" a long time ago. An example would be in the P and X symbol (a big letter P with a smaller X attached to the vertical stick of the P), which I've seen on the front of podiums in churches sometimes. (Not to mention, "X" can be thought of as "cross" as well.)
It seems like James and Mike Mondays that they looked stoned most of the time. LOL.
They should make an Aniticipation 2 : Die Harder
"I didnt think it was something you could just scoop out" I'm deceased 😭
this is like board james, playing a virtual board game and theres mike, james, and bootsy
wow 20+ years later and i still remember what some of these are the moment it starts drawing.
That was a flail...not a mace.
Yes, the creator of this game was some fuckin' rookie-serial-killer instead of a professional like myself.
Müsta Klaki
Or... wait... was it a Morning Star? Yes, it was.
:) A flail has ~multiple~ tails, heheheh.
--Grand Master Serial Killer.
I'm no expert, but your comments made me curious so I googled a bit.
Apparently you CAN call a flail as "chain mace", which would technically make them right in the video.
About the morning star, it appears that this name only means the tip is ball with spikes. A morning star can be both a regular mace or a flail.... as long as the tip is a ball with spikes, it will be called a morning star.
I may be wrong...
***** A flail is technically a type of mace, though, and not a distinct weapon altogether. Similarly to how a square is a rectangle.
I thought it was the Gundam Hammer!
Love the series. It really takes you back in time
"well maybe its tasty..." "WHO FIGURED THAT OUT??" Hahahaha
MC Vagina figured that one out.
Nice episode guys, always enjoy J&M Mondays. But I must say, it looks like you used some of my 8BitStereo versions of Anticipation in some parts of the video. I am so honored if you did! I really feel like my series has even caught the attention of big people like you, if I do say so myself, keep it up! :)
How do you know that it was yours? If it's just the game music they could have recorded that themselves.
At 0:00 to 0:14 it's clearly at a different quality than at 0:15 when the actual recording of the gameplay/music is playing. Plus the Square 1 and Square 2 channels are separated to left and right, respectively, if you're listening on headphones. You can't record stereo quality like that. But just give a listen to my "Anticipation (NES) Soundtrack - Stereo" of the Title Screen that was in the beginning of this video, the sound is quite the same ;)
No one gives a shit, you don't own anything. Adding shitty reverb and echo doesn't make someone else's intellectual property yours, therefore you don't need to be credited even if they did use it.
Mace? Flail silly game.
lol, I opened up comments to say this exact thing
Holy shit, Bootsy is back! And he got his eyeballs back!
I thought Bootsy died!
It's entertaining to see how many people are concerned with correcting the ball and chain thing.
The people on the cartridge look like the cast of full house
Way to go, Rare.
But the music is good. I'm sure it was made by Dave wise, the same guy who made the music for Donkey kong country.
Lol, I really do love how the game appears to be descending into madness as it gives them more weapons one right after the other.
The colors of each stage are given a category. Weapons, office, Leisure, Food, etc. On the higher difficulties the category is not displayed. So on that level they had Blue stages in the category of weapon. Because you move based on the number on the die is at when you answer, you can end up repeating the same color - and the same category - a lot.
etherraichu Oh, I didn't know that. Neat. There's always an explanation for everything. :P
that wasnt a mace, that was a flail, A FUCKIN FLAIL
Hey James did you know that you were referenced in the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Revelations DLC?
Pics or it didn't happen.
Pycasne Eesost
just search LOS 2 angry sir rolfe
Interesting.
Pycasne Eesost
Lol "pics or it didn't happen"
I love the internet.
hellsbellsdog
I was just saying "That is interesting, please show me!" in my native language, Derpese.
I love how the front of the cartridge depicts this as a fun old fashion family game. All the kids are in the picture. Then 90% of the pictures/answers are weapons you would use to brutally murder someone. lol
Looks like a real fun game, great way to use the NES. About the weapons, maybe the blue cards stand for weapons category?
only NES game here I see you guys do that I never heard of where was I this game looks funny to play if I played it back when I had an NES.
WHAT?
I want you to read that sentence back. Slowly.
You must have ran out of punctuation marks. Here, have some: ....,,.,...
for great response it is imperial suffice it to say it is not a great instruction on NES.
At least he is true to the mispelling that appeared in th NES
"What if there was a bag of bat vaginas?"
- Mike Matei
James, Mike, & Bootsy Monday!
"High heals?" in the more info box.. It's high heels guys!
James and Mike Mondays, I wait ALL week for this! I want to see them play Crash n the Boys!
Like if u want these guys to play Conkers Bad Fur Day
I second this!!
:D
Im gonna keep making this post till they realize how bad we want to see them play conkers bad fur day
that or do it for AVGN
BY THE WAY IF YOU BOUGHT RARE REPLAY ON XBOX ONE
WHY ISNT THIS GAME ON THERE ?!
Just a thought: The tree was probably "Firtree", as the game is from the 90's and we didn't usually call them Christmas Trees until way later.
"What if there is a bag of bat vaginas?"
Mike is fucking hilarious hahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahaha
Mike: "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb"
Yea, that's how most players feel about playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde XD
I don't think they realized that the color tiles represent the kind of picture you're gonna get. (ie blue tile = weapon...)
Thank you, James!
You just throw me into memories 'bout really good NES games!
I never played that one and I'd like to. Finding NES games is hard nowadays.
I like how you added Bootsy as a 3rd player, even though he seems quite a bit more mellow IRL than he is in Board James. Kinda fits in the dynamic though, and if he becomes a regular, he'll probably warm more up to the role.
"Its a mustache you idoit!" = Vegeta's voice
Vegeta looked ugly with that mustache.
dburrs1 most of DBGT was ugly lol.
*****
I liked GT the old one not the new revamped version.
I am not sure about the revamped version. I just know I was a fan of DB and DBZ back in middle school and when the internet was fast enough to finally download GT subbed I was let down for the most part. The last Segas I did enjoy though, They kind of went back to the DBZ style. Everyone has their own opinions so I am glad it does have a fan base.
Both spellings are acceptable.
Hey cool, look who it is! "Bootsy" being there was actually a fun addition; be sure to bring him around whenever the game allows a third person.
Good job introducing your quiet friend, guys.
If The Nerd was the Saw killer, this is the game he would choose. Pit you against your fellow man and see who survives... And what will be left of them?
Marijuana is bad m'kay?
lewdstep Alcohol and tobacco is far far worse, both for your health (mainly the tobacco) and for causing violence and accidents (alcohol). If all alcholists and smoking addicts had a roll of marijuana instead they would be far healthier and friendlier people.
Baleur And they'd be in their own worlds half the damn time.
I loved playing this game as a kid. I wish they'd revive it. My family and I used to sit around and play the hell out of this game.
Yeah dude I was just telling my friends this lol Advanced pictures or to current items. A bird would be Twitter lmao
''This game was developed by Rareware, which has unfortunately been bought out by Microsoft. I don't think an Anticipation remake would be possible anymore.''
guys guys! it really is XMAS TREE!
+St. Andy Augustine I love how they tried Christmas Tree, Pine Tree, Tree, and Evergreen but it's fucking "xmas tree" haha.
Man I love James and Mike Mondays!
Your basement is F_____ awesome!!!!
I'm glad you guys finally did something with this game, being one of the more obscure NES games. We had this when I was young. I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the cover art. It screamed 80's cheesiness.
I think James played every game out there in college.
Fun fact: Most birds dont have regular orifices. They concentrate their refuse into a goop and defecate through what is called a cloaca. So their orifice for peeing, procreation and defecating is combined into one. So its a bag of cloacas, not duck vaginas. And it actually made it more nasty.
You should do the Family Feud game on the SNES!
I remember watching that game being played at the residence I was babysat at that I mentioned in the autobiography I posted as a college project on my channel, and boy the players sure did have a tough time playing it as much as James and Mike did!
BAD LUCK BOOTSY!
I KNOW RIGHT! :D
this is the first episode i`ve seen of james & mikes mondays and i like it. It`s very funny.
We anticipated this video
"We played it in college, but I can't remember much." Well, everybody knows why.
The answer for the Christmas Tree literally is Xmas Tree and R2D2 is Robot. The Christmas Tree one is ridiculous.
but when James hit the R for either R2D2 or ROBOT it was wrong at the R sooooo?
Rhys Jewkes droid?
Your face Fucking Droid
one of my favorite multi-player NES games. as long as you have people willing to play it with you.
technically that was a flail, not a mace
+Jamie Frank "Mace and chain"? Surely you mean "ball and chain".
+Gearz86 Anticipation does not listen to your logic!
***** See, that makes sense, but it's also a ball on a chain... but the chain is on a stick instead of shackled to your ankle. Also the ball gores people.
I was makin' a joke though, naming the wrong thing like how "mace and chain" is the wrong name. "Mace and chain" sounds like a mace on the end of a chain being whipped around like a yo-yo.
+ManMadeGod4 pepper spray on a key ring 😂
+Gearz86 I was gonna say the same thing its a freaking flail not a damn mace
I love the Mike Tyson cut out which is watching the game from behind James.
0:52 it might have been "DROID".
Update: It most indeed is "DROID".
The whole board james crew is here.
Add a little beer to this and it can be really fun
OMFG! Anticipation was my favorite NES game!
You got it wrong because you tried to type R2D2, and not Artoo Detoo.
I'm perplexed what the game expects you to write when there weren't any numbers to type in
glitchhunter09
couldn't be robot because that also starts with 'R'
Bro. Tranquilty
In the books when someone mentions or talks to R2D2 it is always spelled Artoo but ya unless you read a lot of SW books (which were not even around that much in the 80's) then that's a pretty obscure way of spelling it lol
you guys got it made. I want to do what you do, man I could actually be good at my job, be on time everyday etc..
7:37 : THATS A MORNING STAR not a mace. a mace has no chain
No its not it's a FLAIL! :D
2ndvenus If no one saw the ":D" you would seem like a total jerk.
2ndvenus Uhhh.. I get everything you said, accept for the masturbate part.. that kinda freaked me out.
I'm so envious of that game library... Every time I look at it I just wanna rifle through...
"Nobody uses ink anymore" check your printer cartridges, what's in them?
Magic writing!
No one uses an inkwell and quill.
*****
*Sighs* Except Scruffy over there still living in the 1800s. Nothin' but love for 'im, though.
The ink was in a fucking jar.
George Aveline It was called an inkwell.