Rise of the Robots - What Happened?
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Rise Of the Robots AI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to contact Brian May.
LOL
Why are we not finding this!?!?
Someone should warn Linda Hamilton.
how fucked are we?
@@metafish2428 very fucked.
This game looks like something you'd see characters in a TV show play.
Like Reboot
Ever saw the cartoon Widget? The alien played this video game and it was all 3D, but the cartoon was 2D lol
I want to give this comment a like but it has 666 and I don’t want to ruin that
Like NCIS or some shit lol
@@oharehatmancaleb7 go for it now
"ALL OF WHICH I OWN!"
You are WAY too eager to announce that lol
It's a cry for help more than anything.
"The hentai was canceled" FUCK. Now what do we do?!
We make it happen, obviously. We have the technology.
I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.
@@AtomicWandMassager Don't worry, I'm sure Flanders will die to hentai 😁, also pretend like I posted some generic inspirational quote about getting back up when life puts you down or whatever.
I've seen RotR r34. To be fair, though, the artist did it explicitly because nobody else had ever even thought of it.
@@GaldirEonai ok, i gotta see this
“Rise of the Robots is gonna be a huge hit, look at all the marketing we’re throwing into it.”
“How’s the game?”
“The what?”
So what can you tell me about the game?
Graphics
Is there anithing else?
....... Graphics
@@jackblack2408 A title screen
So funny I forgot too laugh grow up
@@scottpiwinski6779 Says the adult with English skills of a 12 yr old. There ain't a cure for being a dumb adult, you're stuck like that.
@@scottpiwinski6779 Huh?
"Good child bearing hips there"
Yeah like what?
@@bafrali5561 twas a quote in a magazine article he showed
@@matthewgardner8609 I know. My reaction was to the magazine.
@@bafrali5561 lol sorry. I pulled a r/woosh
That gave me a pause. Quite out of place joke, looked like they didn’t know what to even joke about with this game in the review.
I actually bought the Rise of the Robots novel back when I was in Secondary school, but it was so damn boring and took so long to get to the actual robots, I quickly lost interest and never got through. I can only remember there being a character who was only ever referred to as 'The Thin Man'. Everyone called him that, even when it wouldn't make sense to refer to him like that.
“Boring and not enough robots”
sounds like the author really stayed true to the spirit of the source material
Th-thin man?!
How can you have a novel called Rise of the Robots and not immediately start with robots?
"Hey, The Thin Man, get you're fucking ass over here!"
I figured that would be the case. They only had a few iconic characters, so I'm sure the novel would feature a mediocre story of a handful of human characters, with the Robots' appearances spread sparingly throughout.
11:31
"Uppers: Nice graphics
Downers: Farcically tedious"
That's it. That's the episode.
Future What Happened. Kentucky Fried Console.
Is it fair to call it a(n eventual) failure if it was only ever made for publicity/as a big joke?
And yes I know this comment was also a joke
Waiting for chicken oil related hardware fires
More like Cyberpunk 2077
@@impalas1966 I was not aware that Cyberpunk77 was released by Kentucky Fried Chicken.
How about an episode of What Happened? on Jump Force? That was the biggest disappointment in my life!
According to Kim Justice, this game caused a video game magazine crash in Europe. Probably because quite a number of magazines give it a high score. Computer and Video Game Magazine gave it a 91 I think. Moreover, Doom 2 in the same issue was given a 86.
I see game journalism hasn't changed much over the years.
You mean to tell me they are more into hiping mediocre or bad games instead of helping the consumer make an educated purchase.
Yup, UK bloke here. In response, Amiga Power gave Rise of the Robots 5%, in what may be the greatest, most scathing video game review ever written, calling it "an astonishing waste of time", saying "because the graphics are so good you can't actually do anything with them", and completely shitting on all the mags that gave it guaranteed high scores in exchange for better access. The last line of the FOLLOW-UP letter(yes, really) is "Mirage and Time Warner, I sincerely and truly hope you all die."
History repeats itself
Yeah I cringe when people shit on modern gaming journalism for not being "like in the good old days". Gaming journos were always a bunch of sell outs.
My favorite thing about Rise Of The Robots, at least of the SNES version I played as a kid:
You can play two player mode as mentioned. However the first player was forced to be Babby Blue Bot Cyborg. Second player could choose any of the remaining bots including the penultimate opponent.
The way progressive difficulty worked in ROTR wasn't by having AI become more advanced or computer opponents using more advanced combos: It was done by having the later enemies do more damage. This carried over to two player. The second player could choose said penultimate bot and kill the first player in as few as four hits.
This game is REALLY bad.
Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 on MSX had multiplayer like that and that was in like 1986. Made after a year after Yie Ar Kung Fu in Arcade and MSX which was the first fighting game with multiple oppenents folowed up by a Arcade Mecha game called Galatic Warriors which first fighting game with special moves same year both by Konami. Both are milles better than Rise of the Robots to in everyway.
@@johnsimon8457 To be fair things like that then was rare 95% of games then was major bug free and had all content built into them. They had to be they was noi way to patch games and it would cost alot of money to resell them with fixed copys.
The Brian May OST did in fact see inclusion in later ports of Rise, namely the 3DO version, which allowed you to select from three OSTs (the original, May's work, & the Japanese OST [yeah, the Japanese release had a couple of unique songs!]). Also, while it's understandable that Matt focuses on the American side of things, there's word that Rise effectively destroyed the credibility of numerous UK gaming mags of the time, proving that a bunch of them would literally just take payolas & give positive reviews for underwhelming games. This was apparently a common complaint at the time, but none of the arguments were for absolutely indefensible games... Until Rise. Early UK magazine reviews apparently praised Rise like crazy, and it quickly was found out that those magazines were the ones that got "exclusive" early coverage for reviews, so when Rise came out & was shown to be undeniably bad those magazines looked really bad.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Should have been obvious when they deemed anything on the ZX Spectrum playable
The kit games magazine I used to read growing up was Games Master. I wonder if they praised it. U remember playing the game and hating it though, it was so boring! 😂
the same happened with a lot of spanish magazines I read on that time, I remember one giving this piece of shit something like 95 out 99 points or something like that. Embarrassing.
my favorite is when the cyborg and the sentry fight like at 2:30, because it's basically Red Bionicle vs. Big Dick Pepsiman
That’s exactly what I thought. “Is that Pepsi-man?”
@@stefanfilipovits21 They... they actually do look alike. And the Supervisor Robot looks rather a lot like Pepsi-Girl
That shit's not even Bionicle level, it's more like a fuckin Hero Factory character
The background really sells the aesthetic the best though. Like some weird dystopian hallway or something.
Didn't realize Toa Tahu was a DLC character for this game.
Small error: Brian May is still very much Queen's guitarist, although at this point it's basically become its own cover band.
I bought this piece of garbage on SNES with hard earned lawn mowing money back when it came out. I don't remember what lies I must have told at the store I bought it at, but was able to get a refund on it.
Probably still less lies than the marketing team that hyped it up, getting a refund was more than fair.
Are you sure you didn't just tell them the truth? 😂
This is one fiasco that's stranger than fiction!
Should have bought Lawn Mower Man instead (if you didn't own it already).
I would’ve liked Rise of The Robots to be a stylish, 90’s action adventure game. Not a bare bones generic fighting game.
Like X-Perts?
While I agree, it probably would've been 300 floppy discs on the Amiga. Or is it spelled "disk"? Well you know what I mean.
so, I finally got around to finishing up the Novel. it was honestly pretty interesting at parts. it definitely takes it's time building up character and world building, which is welcome, though unfortunately it definitely was written before they decided to nix the massive plans they had for the franchise, as it sets up more than one branch to go off of in later pieces in the franchise timeline, which Rise 2 did not use at all, unfortunately (spoilers below)
also, the Novel only had two fights, one against two loader droids at once, which was well enough written to give me hope for the rest of it, until there was no more fights until the Supervisor, who didn't have a real fight at all (Coton used Tackle, it failed) . oh and Coton (the robot) had a sister that was stuck in the building, and she defeats the supervisor, by using a lighter to trigger the sprinkler system, which melts her. then they both escaped successfully.
"Opponents actually learn from their mistakes and read your moves" bullshit!
13:35 Seriously, OMF 2097 is one of the all-time best PC fighters ever, even today. Good on Matt to mention it because it really did blow ROTR out of the water in every possible way.
And to really make it particularly embarrassing, OMF 2097 was mostly created by only two people (with assistance on sound and music.)
ok but "Mercy is a human trait" is honestly a pretty sick tagline for a fighting game about robots
So, funny story about the whole music by Brian May. My dad actually bought the whole game because of the "Music by Brian May" as he was a huge fan at the time. Then we found out it was a trash game but a great memory we share.
There was a "Director's Cut" for MS-DOS that was really just the regular game with some bonus material. It included some kind of 100 page journal by one of the heads of the team. It was this very weird mix of enthusiasm and just adding too much detail to document the game's incompetent production. My favourite part was when he described how he peed in a vase so he didn't have to interrupt a call with a publisher.
I was ten in 1993 and to me, Queen was "the band who did that Mighty Ducks song"
My parents let me watch Highlander so it was the "I Am Immortaaaaal" band to me.
That Astar reference gave me some awful flashbacks from those ads. Scared the living crap out of me as a kid! "Je suis Astar le robot je peux remettre mon bras vous pas" Those War Amps ads were something else
If we’re talking more about bad fighting games, it would be interesting if you did a whole episode on Kasumi Ninja since you mentioned it. Essentially a part of the Mortal Kombat: Attack of the Clones games. Otherwise, I really enjoy this video & your other ones!
or Criticom
@@plasmaoctopus1728 he has done criticom, still no kasumi ninja..
It is really impressive how fast he's been getting these out. We love you, Matt. I think we can all agree from recent big name games that this series will never run out of material.
In case it does, though, I submit a suggestion of: Donkey Kong home versions (coleco, atari, PC). It's been done before but it's a classic tale of miscommunucation and intrigue with drunk American businessmen clashing against repressed Japanese businessmen...it killed Atari and ultimately infulenced the creation of Nintendo of America.
I'm just glad people remember One Must Fall. That game was badass!
I had Rise 2 as a kid. It was one of those games that always kinda just showed up at my house. It always kinda creeped me out with how weird and broken it was. But changing the color of your robot during the loading screen sold me. Like who else was doing that?
Now let's wait for WHA HAPPUN to Cyberpunk 2077! :D
Oh I’m looking forward to it
Turns out making a game for 8 different platforms at the same time is hard.
@@milkweedreflections Yeah right, keep defending them, CD projekt fanboy
@@alos6378 I'm assuming you meant to reply to sikly, but he isn't exactly wrong. Cyberpunk, if playable for you, is a decent game. It's kinda a generic FPS RPG with cybernetics and a unique setting. I wouldn't give it an 8/10 though I would give it a 7 or 7.5.
Guys, this series is not strictly for *bad* games, but those with troubled development worthy of a story. Even if CP2077 redeemed itself in the future, it still has story worthy of this series.
Reminder: there is episode of Doom 2016 in this series
I am so glad someone remembered One Must Fall. The intro music is still in my music rotation 28 years later! Being a DOS exclusive was such a weird move.
Starting to feel like the rush to make a multimedia franchise out of a yet-to-be-made video game is a theme that keeps popping up on this show. Seriously, has that strategy ever actually worked?
Nope most of the time the ones that do become that are the ones that no on believed at first (like star wars or the deadpool movies)
No, because a franchise is spawned by people liking something and finding it unique. When they try that strategy, they take a look at what's popular and try to copy that. This leads to consumers instead just going back to the thing that they like.
It happened with this, it happened with Cheetahmen, and it'll possibly happen with Cyberpunk 2077
Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't quite at that levels but it was designed as a "Mario killer" with full media support, and whilst Mario is doing pretty well these days (or so I hear), Sonic isn't exactly doing badly either
@@captainmappy3959 It's enough to make a grown man cry like an anime fan on prom night.
Seriously though, this channel is gold for anyone that's an old-school gamer because it's a blast from the past with every one of these episodes.
Forgot to mention that I owned this at some point and forgot how horrible it was. Most definitely one of the worst games I've ever played.
Step 1: Design a blue guy to put in magazines for hype.
Step 2:
Step 3: lots of money
OMF 2097 was epic for its day. I was a SF2 and Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 nut and OMF immediately captured me with its single player, upgrade-centered campaign mode. It's a shame it never got any console ports. Fantastic game!
Been hoping for this one for eons!!! Thank you!!!
"Everything is lies! EVERYTHING IS LIIIIIIIIIES!"
That basically sums up the gaming industry as a whole.
Deep, but I can't refute that.
I remember renting this from Blockbuster with my cousin because my aunt wouldn't let us play Killer instinct.
The story of No Man's Sky's rise, fall and rerise deserves its own episode.
The thing I remember most about this was that the first guitar magazine I ever bought featured Bryan May and had Cyborg tabbed with a backing track. It also featured tabs for Back in Black by ACDC and the riff from Cowboys from Hell as riff of the month.
He kinda looks like a guy on a graphics card box
from the late 90s.
the only thing i know about 'one must fall' is that freeman's mind used a song from it in order to make a joke about programmers
Turn down the music, you friggin bassheads!
Not gonna lie
The game gear one you clipped in for 2 seconds looked more fun and interesting then any of the other footage.
I honestly had no prior knowledge of this supposed dud , so this info will be completely new to me .
Just the biggest vibe
I appreciate the One Must Fall 2097 music underneath. Had both that and Rise on PC, but loved OMF a TON more than Rise due to playability.
OMF was the one fighter I could win at 90% of the time. That jumping Cheetah flip was just magic for me.
@@beauwight As tricky as Shadow was to control, it was my main, The Shadow Slide was money to distance.
I owned and probably still have Rise 2: Resurrection. I was still young and inexperienced enough with games that quality barely influenced whether I could have fun. I'm pretty sure there's a piece of paper in the spot where the manual should be with the codes for unlocking the boss characters to this day
The fact there is no ROTR hentai makes me sad, buy knowing Griffith gave us BLACK RAZOR is uplifting.
You can commission an artist for robot smut, no-one's stopping you
This takes me back. It was great to learn what happened behind the robot curtain. Thanks for the great video. Speaking of fighting games from the 90s, anybody else remember Battle Beast for the PC? Very cartoony visuals and jokey humor.
The blue cigar-chomping robot in the sequel gave you the finger, 8/10
Damn, Matt wasn't kidding when he said the hentia was canceled. Literally only one picture on rule 34.
I remember playing it at a friend's house and being surprised at how they could get so much wrong while looking so good.
god the amount of hype this game had was immense, This game was everywhere in the games media.
I remember when Bad Influence (A UK games based show) changed it entire opening to hype this game.
I thought it was just a bad dream or something, but now that there is a video about it, this game is real and I played it.
Suggestion: talk about Batman: Dark Tomorrow, widely considered to be one of, if not, the worst Batman games ever made.
I will one day!
Mission Complete!
Team "One Must Fall" here. I still play it every now and then.
One Must Fall is a gem, a diamond in the rough. Loved that game.
You seriously need more subs, I’m learning so much and some of these games will be classics now 2021. Love the editing and everything you do within the channel it’s awesome. I’ve also been gaming since NES duck hunt days and this channel warms my nostalgic heart ♥️
This was one of those "rented once on a Saturday" games.
i remember being about 8 years old, hanging with the neighbors kid trying to play this game on his snes but its just so hard
The Spiderman Turn off the Dark episode of Wha Happun will be a masterpiece
He's already done it bro
@@porassrivastava8242 I don’t recall that episode. Link please?
@@borby4584 I just checked, was wrong he hasn't
Not being a 'Rise of the Robots' fan myself, I seriously thought this video was about 'One Must Fall: 2097' for a second.
Love that game.
This gives me the closure I needed. I Had this garbage for the 3DO. Living in a 3rd world country where the consoles were (and are) too expensive, my father busted his ass to buy me the 3DO, for which there were very few games and also very expensive. This game crushed my soul, thinking how much of an effort it was to get me the system and games. Thankfully I had Gex and Theme Park to soothe my soul.
That One Must Fall 2097 Menu song at the start is a real ear worm
I remember this game. Oddly I still like some of the character designs, but everything outside of those and the initial premise were a huge letdown.
I just wanted to find a way to message you man, I used to watch two best friends since I was like 15 n I’m 20 now n wanted to just like thank you and the other guys because honestly your shit got me through some of the toughest times in my life and it was like the building of my sense of humor so just like thank you man it makes me happy you’re still making videos :)
I spent 4 minutes of this video trying to decode what NRG stood for.
It's Energy.
I hate it, A+
There was also a CD version of this game for the Amiga CD32 as well, and I got this game for it as soon as it was released. It was a short and clunky game, but the graphics weren't too bad for the time. One thing to notice is that one big plus on the Amiga CD32 was that you had a gamepad with multiple buttons, while most people used an 8-way joystick with one button (with some exceptions) on most other Amiga's making fighting games a lot harder to play on them. I don't know have any experience with the floppy disk version of Rise of the Robots, but many of those larger games would have some form of hard disk installation but most people that I knew didn't have a hard disk installed.
I don't know how I managed to live my entire life without this, considering I read all the game magazines, ads, and every bit of nonsensical media as a kid inside the Toys R Us game section. Video games are weird.
Astar, the robot from Planet Danger! There's a deep cut from my Canadian childhood.
Oh geez, haven't though of Astar since I was a kid... Deep cut right there
Really digging the One Must Fall theme at 0:14 at the start!
Cant wait for the CP77 'wha happun' episode.
I've played Bedlam. It was an isometric view, point-and-click real-time action game. You start off with one unit and as you progress you end up with 3 that you can cycle between and control 1 at a time. The units looked a lot like the SCV units in StarCraft.
You blew stuff up with machine guns and rocket launchers. I can't quite remember what the enemies were, some generic monster type I think. It had sort of interactive/destroyable scenery. I finished it, I remember it being fun but nothing special. My dad bought it in a grocery store on a discount/clearance shelf in those big old-school PC game box. The weirdest part is they never sold games there except for this one time.
At the same time I got a few other obscure titles: Crusader No remorse, Crusader No regret, The Dame was Loaded.
Man I loved One Must Fall. I remember playing the hell out of the demo as a teenager and then ordering the full version over the goddamn telephone, as was the style at the time.
Opening with One Must Fall 2097 music is... DUDE... YES
god i miss One Must Fall, and by spiritual extension, Rising Thunder.
Thanks for mentioning One Must Fall! That game was fantastic on every level.
I desperately want a mash up of "Everything is Lies" with "Everything is Awesome."
Everything is lies
Everything is part of a sinister scheme
Everything is lies
So I'll run away and scream!
@@MolecularMachine Gracias!
It was actually a small miracle that the original arcade game was rescued and added to MAME. IIRC, the only surviving prototype PCB no longer worked but, despite being rusty, the ROMs were still good and able to be dumped cleanly.
Now I want to see one for Criticom.
I got Bedlam as a bargain bin last minute gift from an aunt. It was a weird isometric game where you controlled not one, but THREE tanks that you had to switch between and were completely defenseless when you weren't controlling them while fighting swarms of enemies. It was as fun as it sounds.
Astar references are far and few between. Well done.
Totally caught you using the opening theme from One Must Fall, that's epic and you're awesome for even knowing what it was, LOL 😆
My friend and I used to stay up all night in highschool, playing this vs each other via a 28.8Kbps modem. Those were great times.
Any chance you can do Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier?
Oof.
He only takes request from patreon. You want it, you pay for it.
It was definitely disappointing but I dunno if I would call it "Whu Happun" levels of bad. Just kinda lame.
@ProtoSnake I hope that happens. He should really do one on the Gizmondo and True Crime: New York City.
@@TacomaStreetcarDisaster I just personally think it would be interesting only because it was so bad that it was the final nail in Jak and Daxter's coffin
I did not expect to be reminded of Bedlam. Way back when, my mom bought Bedlam from our local dollar store. I was genuinely curious about it and tried to install it. It sadly (or happily?) could not install into the family computer. I completely forgot about Bedlam until seeing this video. Thank you Matt!
Rise of the Robots?
More like Rise of the Jump Kicks.
I owned Bedlam way back in the day. I think it was available at Wal-Mart in their shovelware section. It was a somewhat decent isometric game where you piloted a robot around levels and had to achieve different objectives all the while blowing pretty much everything up. Kind of like Desert Strike (SNES), but on the ground.
As I was watching this (indeed very good) video, I remembered playing a demo of a PC fighting game called "Theatre of Pain", and it was made by Mirage! There's not much information about it online, but it says that it was the second last game of Mirage, after "Rise 2" and "Bedlam".
I have to revisit it: I remember being amused by it because one of the character's shouts sounded like and Italian swear word, me and my friends chuckled at that a the time xD
One Must Fall: 2097 Nostalgia Rush!!!
I recall that my brother rented this for the SNES and we tried playing it and it was BORING. It's amazing how a company took an interesting idea and sucked the interest out of it. Plus, the Amiga info is hilarious. 13 disks?! Nothing scream fun like swapping disks every few minutes. 5/100.
My parents gave me a choice to either go to the mall and buy some comics and action figures at kaybee and waldenbooks or rent Rise of the Robots ,what a horrible weekend that was.
Any mags who gave the game glowing reviews were then after never bought again, seem to recall in the uk a multiformat mag gave all the versions glowing reviews cannot remember what mag though.
I remember wanting to play this badly based off the cover art alone. Man, the 90s were an advertiser's heaven!
I dunno, I enjoyed the game, it was a simple, good looking fighter, I remember it was my ritual to finish it once every Saturday morning before I started my weekend.
It was relaxing.
My husband and I cheered when Astar appeared on the screen. Ah, growing up a kid in 1980s and 1990s Canada and getting trippy-ass PSAs.
To be fair, Rise of the Robots didn't soak up Millions in Pre Orders. They just made a Shitty Game.
This is like, the last game I ever expected to see covered on this channel wow
I don't think you'll see my message, but I would love a "What happened" to a game called "Slave Zero."
13:17 Yo, SICK NOKIA RINGTONE
I had the shareware One Must Fall 2097 for quite a while, and eventually dropped the full price for all the content. I agree, it was definitely far and away better than Rise of the Robots.
I'm sorry, but UA-cam is saying your comment is from 2 days ago.
Yes, that is correct.
@@thecunninlynguist Oh, okay.
Seeing Ampar made me happy. Thanks Matt! Great vid as always.