I vividly remember 2007~8, a friend of mine had just discovered SNES emulators and had downloaded about a zillion ROMs, so of course we went through all the ones we didn't recognize, and I remember when we booted up this game, neither of us had ever heard of the movie, and we were floored by the long well-made intro that actually seemed to have an interesting story... and then as soon as gameplay started and we tried to move the character and get a feel for the controls... we exited and moved onto another game
Just watched the trailer for this movie, it happens in 2022. Got this review out just in time. Oh man, I have seen this movie. It is one of those movies you kinda remember but when you try to explain it people look at you weird. Now I know the name and maybe I'll watch it again one day.
Ha, really smooth timing indeed that what may be the last (or maybe second-last) video of 2022, is about a game set in 2022. Man, the 90's vision of the future... I guess corporations running prisons happened, but no cool island-prisons... that we know of.
Are you sure they're looking at you weird because of the way you're trying to explain the movie? Did you check for boogers? Or maybe you have food stuck in your teeth...
This seems like one of those games that could use one of those improvement fan patches, but that would require someone to care enough about this game to make one.
Hey hey hey, Time Trax is not forgotten. The adventures of Darien Lambert and his living AI Selma always have a welcome home in my heart. I know its been almost 30 years but I am still confident for a season 3.
But would modern Hollywood be OK with a story about a dark future where white people like Darien are banned from ever taking political office (which is a mostly forgotten, but real plot point from Time Trax)?
Sometimes I come to a SNES Drunk video to learn about a game I didn't even know existed. Sometimes I come to a SNES Drunk video to be told to have a great rest of my day. Today it was for both reasons!
A game based on a movie I didn’t even know existed. If not for that cover art clearly being a movie poster, I do not think I would have suspected that.
@@rosselliswilkinson oh, if it was called Escape from Absalon or something in Australia then yeah I saw it too. Thought it was cool, remember Ray Liotta jumping into the ocean that's about it.
@@samuelallen2831 for $2 it’s definitely worth it. Really cool 90s action / sci fi flick. I just rewatched it recently, came across it on Cinemax by chance
I have not seen the movie but i have one particular memory of No Escape. The corner store near my house had a small section of VHS rentals and they had a few movie posters up to promote it. This film's poster was quite large and situated right in the center where it grabbed your attention the second you entered the store. As was not uncommon with small time video rental at the time the staff were not that quick at updating the posters so the No Escape poster was up for probably a year, for a film that despite being new on video was obscure enough that I didn't remember its theatrical run at the time. But as a result if I see that poster now my mind immediately goes back to grade 8. So the poster is nostalgic for me but it has nothing to do with the movie itself.
I still use this movie as a prime example of how great of an actor Ray Liotta was. The whole movie is silly, but he sells it %100. He gives a fantastic performance, and you believe him.
...and yes, I know and love him from other movies: Goodfellas, Cop land, NARC, etc. But this specific movie was one where he sold it while everything around him was almost laughable.
I haven't seen the movie of this in a long time, but I remember liking it. Ray Liotta has one of the craziest filmographies ever. He was in all time greats like Goodfellas, Blow, John Q., and Field of Dreams, but he also in No Escape, Operation Dumbo Drop and his last movie was the upcoming Cocaine Bear. As for the game, I've known about it for years but never played it. Now I'm glad I never did.
I am from the future and Cocaine Bear is an all-time classic. There are fan conventions, whole extended universe of side media, and an entire industry of people who make their livings completely off of Cocaine Bear discussion, cosplay, analysis, fan merch production, etc. It's bigger than Star Wars.
This movie is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. it's always been right on the edge of cult status and now that Liotta has passed will probably get there. Fun action flick. Definitely nothing else like it.
Absolutely agree on the movie, I loved it the first time I saw it and I've seen it several times since. But omg, how did I completely miss that Ray Liotta died?? I loved him (and not just because he's a fellow Jersey guy)!
GI Joe and Transformers were on their way out during the SNES era. TF came back a bit with Beast Wars which did get a couple games during PS1/N64 era. But overall there wasn't even much in the way of enough nostalgia for those properties at that time. They weren't old enough to be retro-cool and they were just seen as replaced by the likes of Power Rangers and TMNT (which did receive many games on SNES and other machines of the time).
Yeah. It's sort of like how people wonder why there was never a Masters of the Universe NES game since both were huge in "the '80s." It's because the MotU cartoon and toys peaked in popularity between roughly 1983 and 1986, while the NES only became a true phenomenon in America around 1987. The windows of opportunity just didn't line up.
@@willmistretta it's the perils of just remembering the whole of the 80's as one continuous "chunk of childhood", instead of as it's own thing with it's own distinct moments. It's like with the NES, which I for a very long time just thought of as having "one look", only to then read up more about it and realize that after Super Mario Bros they started making a LOT of games with graphics boosting chips that allowed the machine to do far more than its earliest games could, so games before SMB looked and played quite differently than games after it. And just as such, the "80's kids cartoons" were also of different eras and from different circumstances.
@@goranisacson2502 That's true. A lot of people are surprised when I tell them I was never really that into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles despite growing up in the '80. Thing is, I was born in the late '70s, so the peak of my 30-minute toy commercial watching, action figure coveting phase was the early-mid '80s, encompassing stuff like He-Man. G.I. Joe, and Thundercats, but waning right before Turtlemania. The gaming landscape changed especially fast back then, too, and that's not just an artifact of memory. It's pretty wild to think that Pac-Man and Super Mario World came out almost exactly one decade apart, for example.
@@willmistretta And then we have to take into consideration how the eighties could have looked very different depending on where you were. I for one was born 87, and in Sweden. Turtlemania rolled RIGHT in around here to hit during my "action figure coveting"-phase, but I think that it might have faded sooner than that in the US (even if Turtles then happened to become one of those franchises who keep going throughout the ages, and I think we got all the Turtles videogames EXCEPT the third one for the NES). But even so, a game or toy could be "big" later over here, than it was over there. Thundercats, for instance- it didn't make it over here to Sweden until Turtles was already big, and that was practically early 90's!
@@willmistretta Yeah, there was a MotU live action movie in 1987 (which did receive a lil game on the 8-bit home micros) but it was a bit of a low budget affair and a bit of a bomb (even though it is certainly enjoyable in it's ways) and MotU as a brand was at a bit of a low point overall and the New Adventures of He-Man in 1990 didn't come even half close to achieving the same level of popularity that the first MotU wave had hit. No company wanted to put any money into making a NES/SNES game (the 8-bit home micro computer games were easy to make and release and cost just a couple quid to buy so much less risky that expensive cartridge manufacturing costs and such). The 2002 reboot series got a couple games before that show got axed halfway through it's second season due to low ratings and the toys not selling well. In fact we're very likely in the most popular time of MotU since the original mid 80s popularity. Two popular Netflix cartoons that began in 2021 (Revelation and the CGI kid's show, with the She-Ra one from 2018 still popular with some folk too), several different popular toylines (Masterverse, Origins, Mega Construx being the main ones that I have and there's the more costly Mondo collector figures and all sorts of other merchandise available), I think there's a She-Ra live-action show being made by Amazon? I haven't kept up with that. And always talks of a new He-Man movie. MotU is doing alright for itself these days. Again not as huge as it was in mid 80s but it's doing better than it has in decades. Now could finally be the time for a MotU NES game! Well... I mean... a NES-style one perhaps. NES has become a popular retro aesthetic in indie video games (or games made by larger developers/publishers like Mega Man 9/10 by Capcom or those recent Bloodstained - Curse of the Moon games) anyways. :D Or go extra with SNES-style but that requires a fair bit more work. Maybe start with the NES-style, see how it does and then if successful, invest in the more time-consuming SNES-style. :) I dunno. I'm just thinking out loud. In text form. So not loud at all. Except for the tapping of these keys. I shush now. :)
In the pantheon of long forgotten movies, No Escape has always been up there for me as one of the premier disappeared-from-the-public-conscious movies. It's a fun flick, I saw it in the theater, It has a very well rounded cast, Liotta, Lance Henrickson, Ernie Hudson, Armand Assante and Kevin Dillon, a ridiculous sci-fi premise and some fun action, yet in spite of this, I have seen zero people talking about it, it's never every played on TV, and even when Liotta died it was never brought up anywhere. That it wouldn't appear in Nintendo Power doesn't surprise me.
I really like these in dept analysis of some unknown games. Its easy for us to pass by but not really think about it. Hope to see many others videos like this
I actually think it's a pretty good game, though i had SEGA version. Controls are "meh" but i've seen much worse. Delay is here but it is nowhere near the levels of Flashback or Prince of Persia. Combat becomes far too easy once you learn that you can kick instead of punching, or know where to get a knife.The best quality of this game is that it's non-linear: it's fun to explore the island, visit different locations, find new items and experiment with crafting. Once you figured what you need to do it is actually possible to finish it in 15-20 minutes.
I might be in the extreme minority that I own this game, but have never seen the movie. My mom got it for me, not knowing anything about the game or movie. I think it must have been in a discount bin or something. Happy to see your review aligned with my experience as a kid. I always REALLY wanted to like this game because of the crafting and trading, but it just felt impossible to progress anywhere.
Never seen the movie or played the game but damn is the image at 3:36 familiar to me. It had to have been in either Gamepro or EGM somewhere because this image is kinda burned into my brain.
With the snes coming out when it's did, it's no wonder we didn't get a gi joe or transformers game. When it's got its main stride, both cartoons were dead, on on it's way out. (Here at least) reason why we don't get a transformers game on the nes. The series was done in the states in 1987. And the nes blew up 87/88. Yes we got famicom transformers and fds. The fds game was based on the headmaster series, which we never got
A big producer produced this movie, Gale Ann Hurd, and going by my memory from childhood it had a pretty decently big marketing campaign with a lotta commercials and whatnot, and I assume the game was a part of that marketing budget. She produced Aliens and other James Cameron movies (they were married for a lil' bit and she co-wrote and produced Terminator), so that's likely the Lance Henriksen connection. It never looked that interesting to me as a kid, and after all the ads and marketing push it seemed to fade pretty fast. Martin Campbell directed it, he was up n' coming then, and right after No Escape he had a hit with Goldeneye and then the Mark of Zorro before kinda fading away (but still working) in the 00s. Gale Ann Hurd produced a trillion things, and The Walking Dead TV series is prolly her main thing now. I wouldn't mind seeing No Escape again, it was at least a decent movie to half-watch on HBO!
Great trivia! Gale Ann Hurd is awesome. I actually used to work directly for her once upon a time (on her homes, not film). Spectacular lady IRL. SUPER accomplished with an insane filmography under her belt.
Wow, how did I not know this was a game. I picked up the movie on Blu-ray, and it looks fantastic. I highly recommend it for anyone who hasn’t watched it.
I suspected from the movement and sound font that this game might be from Bits Studio, the same folks who did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, but that crafting system is a dead giveaway. Seems like they didn't learn their lesson from those games, which have identical issues to this one.
This is truly an excellent review and explanation of No Escape, but I feel like this must have been just a massive struggle to push through and learn like you did. You're the SNES Drunk. You play it, so we don't have to.
In the early 2000's, I had this as a ROM and loaded it up during a vacation out in the middle of nowhere with my wife. I got about a screen in when the character start raising his arms up precipitously; I guess I got him into a crouch walk or something. I just screamed, "Look at me! I'm an airplane!" and we just started laughing so hard I shut it off. That was my experience playing No Escape.
I don’t know, I like the concept of a gritty action movie platform on the SNES being connected plot-wise to an Atari game which features a guy riding a Pegasus on the cover.
Fantastic video. As a fan of Out of this World I think I will have to give this a try. Seems like it would be fun to try out the crafting system in an early game.
The movie was called "Fuga de Absolom" here in Mexico. I remember watching it on a bus when I was a kid and never seen or heard of it again. I didn't know there was a videogame, though.
Farm for lives on the platform at 2:30 and the became becomes beatable and a lot more tolerable. If you don't then you pretty much have to master impossibly sluggish controls and levels full of easy to fall into death traps. You also won't find health very often so just do yourself a favor and farm and the game suddenly becomes oddly enjoyable 😁
I remember renting this movie as a kid, because it starred Ray Liotta, who I was a big fan of. He sadly passed away this year on May 26th. Never played the SNES or Genesis versions, but was familiar with them, because there were always ads for it in comic books and video game magazines. 😁👍
Wait... we got a Ray Liotta game about a Ray Liotta movie that wasn't Goodfellas?! (Shut the hell up about Vice City. Tommy Vercetti was not Henry Hill in the least.)
In hindsight it seems so obvious. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself as a kid that every game based on a movie or TV license usually looks way better than it is because it has tons of production value but the game developers don't really care about making a great game.
As a kid I probably would've loved this game. I grew up mainly playing the more cartoony-looking SNES games aka the more fun ones. This one I would've liked for its dark, gritty and realistic looking sprites and in-depth gameplay. Never heard of the movie either but I think now it might be worth checking out.
I saw this movie in Australia where it was known as "Escape from Absalom". Pretty forgettable film, but it did have a great cast. Didn't even realise there was a SNES game until now.
Now that you mention it, I’m surprised no one ever made a Nightmare Before Christmas video game! Not that I’m a HUGE fan of it, but it seems like a perfect fit.. all of the characters and the setting would made for a really cool game… not to mention it’s popularity. Even today I’m sure such a game would sell really well.
God I remember this movie. But I think it was called Escape from Absolon, or something like that, here in Australia. And yeah, same deal. It was advertised for a bit then completely forgotten. I didn't think it was old enough to get a snes game.
I remember seeing this movie on HBO (or equivalent) way back and thinking how I couldn't recall it coming and going like so many other movies. As stated, it's very serviceable in terms of it being and action movie and that's about it.
How can people not know about this game?! It was massive when it came out, there were even TV ads running for a couple months. Surprised if it was never in Nintendo Power, I guess their advertising budget was blown on the TV. Very strange that the review is so negative about it, it's one of the best games on the SNES. So much replay value too. If you don't have this game you should definitely move it to the top of your list to get, you're truly missing out.
It's a good game, but not without it's flaws. I played SEGA version and did not have any issue with controls. But there are problems that are shared by both versions like obscure item placement and badly implemented trading.
@@JohnDoe-lb2hp It does have some obscure parts, but I think that comes down to people's taste in games. I like the exploration and puzzle solving elements that provides, but I appreciate that could be tedious to others, especially if you're expecting an action platformer
Request: Do you think you could save your videos at a real 4:3 format? It'd be 960 x 720. YT would add black bars and it would look the same as now on 16:9 screens, but those of us with an actual 4:3 monitor could gloriously fill it up entirely :P
The helicopter sound effect sounds like it belongs on a Sega Genesis game... since this was actually released on the Genesis, it may be that the noise was designed for the Genesis sound chip and actually sounded halfway decent on the Genesis.
Another great Ray Liotta movie of the 90’s. RIP Mr. Liotta. Thanks for the video. Never rented the game as licensed games have always burned me. Might have to fire the rom up on this one though. 😀
I am oddly nostalgic for this period. For about two years, every single video game was exactly this. Sprites with too many frames of animation so they looked nice in the TV commercial, but were unplayable, in a realistic style based on some live action licensed property, but with nonsensical unrealistic 2D action platformer level design, trying to be more "cinematic" than was possible in 8 bit hardware, but with no idea what that means, and one weird game mechanic based on one scene from the licensed property so they could say it wasn't just an action platformer. I think there are like 300 of this game. By 1995, they were all gone because everything had to be 3D if you were making a licensed cash-in trying to chase the trends. It was pretty much only late-1992 to early 1994. But in that period, it was all games.
I actually know this movie as „Escape From Absolom“. Didn’t know it was simply called „No Escape“ elsewhere. 🤷🏻♂️ What I did NOT know till now is that the movie actually got a game. 🧐 Looks like some sort of Pitfall meets Blackthorne but bad. Thanks, SNES Drunk! Always fun to find out about stuff like that. 🙂👍
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I vividly remember 2007~8, a friend of mine had just discovered SNES emulators and had downloaded about a zillion ROMs, so of course we went through all the ones we didn't recognize, and I remember when we booted up this game, neither of us had ever heard of the movie, and we were floored by the long well-made intro that actually seemed to have an interesting story... and then as soon as gameplay started and we tried to move the character and get a feel for the controls... we exited and moved onto another game
I love the animation where the guy sticks his arms out and crouches to walk, it looks like Scott Hall (RIP) making his wrestling entrance
I like this movie. Ray Liotta was awesome. And Stuart Wilson as Marek was very memorable. RIP Ray.
“Marek! You want it? Come and get it!”
KA-BOOM!
Stuart Wilson clearly had a fun time in that role
Searched for years to find this movie on Blu-ray, finally tracked it down a few weeks ago. Definitely a hidden gem in the film world.
@@gearhead22harley I only have it on DVD. Bought it many many years ago.
Just watched the trailer for this movie, it happens in 2022. Got this review out just in time. Oh man, I have seen this movie. It is one of those movies you kinda remember but when you try to explain it people look at you weird. Now I know the name and maybe I'll watch it again one day.
Ha, really smooth timing indeed that what may be the last (or maybe second-last) video of 2022, is about a game set in 2022. Man, the 90's vision of the future... I guess corporations running prisons happened, but no cool island-prisons... that we know of.
Are you sure they're looking at you weird because of the way you're trying to explain the movie? Did you check for boogers? Or maybe you have food stuck in your teeth...
This seems like one of those games that could use one of those improvement fan patches, but that would require someone to care enough about this game to make one.
Hey hey hey, Time Trax is not forgotten. The adventures of Darien Lambert and his living AI Selma always have a welcome home in my heart. I know its been almost 30 years but I am still confident for a season 3.
Hey, it worked for Twin peaks.
But would modern Hollywood be OK with a story about a dark future where white people like Darien are banned from ever taking political office (which is a mostly forgotten, but real plot point from Time Trax)?
Very underappreciated series. Some cheesy effects, but the characters and stories were quite enjoyable.
Six seasons and a movie.
Who remembers the film Fortress with Christopher Lambert?
Loved that movie as a kid.
it's awesome. it's a similar concept to no escape. both are good movies. Fortress is more futuristic/sci fi.
For almost 30 years I had no idea that a game for the movie No Escape exists. What a great find !
The cover @ 01:30 ist marvelous btw 😄
Same here. Wild.
Same. Seen the movie a million times growing up
Yeah, same here
That dude’s shirt is VERY low cut lmao
Sometimes I come to a SNES Drunk video to learn about a game I didn't even know existed. Sometimes I come to a SNES Drunk video to be told to have a great rest of my day. Today it was for both reasons!
I really like the extra humor you injected into this review with the occasional jokes/funny observations you threw in there!
A game based on a movie I didn’t even know existed. If not for that cover art clearly being a movie poster, I do not think I would have suspected that.
@@rosselliswilkinson hey with a two dollar rental price tag on UA-cam I bet it’s worth it
@@rosselliswilkinson oh, if it was called Escape from Absalon or something in Australia then yeah I saw it too. Thought it was cool, remember Ray Liotta jumping into the ocean that's about it.
I knew about the (hugely underrated) movie, but had no idea there was a (somewhat mediocre) game for it
@@samuelallen2831 for $2 it’s definitely worth it. Really cool 90s action / sci fi flick. I just rewatched it recently, came across it on Cinemax by chance
@@samuelallen2831 I'm not sure it's even worth the time even if you get it on the high seas
I have not seen the movie but i have one particular memory of No Escape. The corner store near my house had a small section of VHS rentals and they had a few movie posters up to promote it. This film's poster was quite large and situated right in the center where it grabbed your attention the second you entered the store. As was not uncommon with small time video rental at the time the staff were not that quick at updating the posters so the No Escape poster was up for probably a year, for a film that despite being new on video was obscure enough that I didn't remember its theatrical run at the time. But as a result if I see that poster now my mind immediately goes back to grade 8. So the poster is nostalgic for me but it has nothing to do with the movie itself.
I still use this movie as a prime example of how great of an actor Ray Liotta was. The whole movie is silly, but he sells it %100. He gives a fantastic performance, and you believe him.
...and yes, I know and love him from other movies: Goodfellas, Cop land, NARC, etc. But this specific movie was one where he sold it while everything around him was almost laughable.
I haven't seen the movie of this in a long time, but I remember liking it. Ray Liotta has one of the craziest filmographies ever. He was in all time greats like Goodfellas, Blow, John Q., and Field of Dreams, but he also in No Escape, Operation Dumbo Drop and his last movie was the upcoming Cocaine Bear. As for the game, I've known about it for years but never played it. Now I'm glad I never did.
I am from the future and Cocaine Bear is an all-time classic. There are fan conventions, whole extended universe of side media, and an entire industry of people who make their livings completely off of Cocaine Bear discussion, cosplay, analysis, fan merch production, etc. It's bigger than Star Wars.
@@ValkyrieTiara You have NO IDEA how much I want this to be true! I'd probably end up being one of those cosplayers. As Cocaine Bear, of course. 😆
@@chaospoet the best coke bear cosplayers come prepared with real simulated cocaine!
Ray Liotta was in Blow? Wasn’t that Johnny Depp? Or was he a different character and not Boston George?
@@MerkhVision He played Johnny Depp's character's Father. The one who tells him money isn't important it only seems like it or something like that.
Dear Diary,
Today I learned about a video game that I never knew existed. I also learned about a movie that I never knew existed.
No Escape is a GREAT film. One of the best actions films of the 90s.
I always love it when a new episode of sners drernk is out
Omergherd! Germsberms!
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@@guybrush1701 early 2000s called and would like there meme back
@@mattalan6618 still funny tho IMHO. Actually I just saw a video interviewing the girl in question. Really cool.
@@guybrush1701 wasn't funny then sure as shit ain't funny now
@@mattalan6618 you're entitled to your opinion
Whenever SNESDrunk does that "totally rad" voice, he sounds like if Pauly Shore and the Macho Man had a love child.
This movie is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. it's always been
right on the edge of cult status and now that Liotta has passed will
probably get there. Fun action flick. Definitely nothing else like it.
Absolutely agree on the movie, I loved it the first time I saw it and I've seen it several times since.
But omg, how did I completely miss that Ray Liotta died?? I loved him (and not just because he's a fellow Jersey guy)!
GI Joe and Transformers were on their way out during the SNES era. TF came back a bit with Beast Wars which did get a couple games during PS1/N64 era. But overall there wasn't even much in the way of enough nostalgia for those properties at that time. They weren't old enough to be retro-cool and they were just seen as replaced by the likes of Power Rangers and TMNT (which did receive many games on SNES and other machines of the time).
Yeah. It's sort of like how people wonder why there was never a Masters of the Universe NES game since both were huge in "the '80s." It's because the MotU cartoon and toys peaked in popularity between roughly 1983 and 1986, while the NES only became a true phenomenon in America around 1987. The windows of opportunity just didn't line up.
@@willmistretta it's the perils of just remembering the whole of the 80's as one continuous "chunk of childhood", instead of as it's own thing with it's own distinct moments. It's like with the NES, which I for a very long time just thought of as having "one look", only to then read up more about it and realize that after Super Mario Bros they started making a LOT of games with graphics boosting chips that allowed the machine to do far more than its earliest games could, so games before SMB looked and played quite differently than games after it. And just as such, the "80's kids cartoons" were also of different eras and from different circumstances.
@@goranisacson2502 That's true. A lot of people are surprised when I tell them I was never really that into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles despite growing up in the '80. Thing is, I was born in the late '70s, so the peak of my 30-minute toy commercial watching, action figure coveting phase was the early-mid '80s, encompassing stuff like He-Man. G.I. Joe, and Thundercats, but waning right before Turtlemania.
The gaming landscape changed especially fast back then, too, and that's not just an artifact of memory. It's pretty wild to think that Pac-Man and Super Mario World came out almost exactly one decade apart, for example.
@@willmistretta And then we have to take into consideration how the eighties could have looked very different depending on where you were. I for one was born 87, and in Sweden. Turtlemania rolled RIGHT in around here to hit during my "action figure coveting"-phase, but I think that it might have faded sooner than that in the US (even if Turtles then happened to become one of those franchises who keep going throughout the ages, and I think we got all the Turtles videogames EXCEPT the third one for the NES). But even so, a game or toy could be "big" later over here, than it was over there. Thundercats, for instance- it didn't make it over here to Sweden until Turtles was already big, and that was practically early 90's!
@@willmistretta Yeah, there was a MotU live action movie in 1987 (which did receive a lil game on the 8-bit home micros) but it was a bit of a low budget affair and a bit of a bomb (even though it is certainly enjoyable in it's ways) and MotU as a brand was at a bit of a low point overall and the New Adventures of He-Man in 1990 didn't come even half close to achieving the same level of popularity that the first MotU wave had hit. No company wanted to put any money into making a NES/SNES game (the 8-bit home micro computer games were easy to make and release and cost just a couple quid to buy so much less risky that expensive cartridge manufacturing costs and such). The 2002 reboot series got a couple games before that show got axed halfway through it's second season due to low ratings and the toys not selling well.
In fact we're very likely in the most popular time of MotU since the original mid 80s popularity. Two popular Netflix cartoons that began in 2021 (Revelation and the CGI kid's show, with the She-Ra one from 2018 still popular with some folk too), several different popular toylines (Masterverse, Origins, Mega Construx being the main ones that I have and there's the more costly Mondo collector figures and all sorts of other merchandise available), I think there's a She-Ra live-action show being made by Amazon? I haven't kept up with that. And always talks of a new He-Man movie. MotU is doing alright for itself these days. Again not as huge as it was in mid 80s but it's doing better than it has in decades.
Now could finally be the time for a MotU NES game!
Well... I mean... a NES-style one perhaps. NES has become a popular retro aesthetic in indie video games (or games made by larger developers/publishers like Mega Man 9/10 by Capcom or those recent Bloodstained - Curse of the Moon games) anyways. :D Or go extra with SNES-style but that requires a fair bit more work. Maybe start with the NES-style, see how it does and then if successful, invest in the more time-consuming SNES-style. :)
I dunno. I'm just thinking out loud. In text form. So not loud at all. Except for the tapping of these keys. I shush now. :)
There's only one scene I remember in the movie and that's when one guy cuts off another guy's head and says, "Ha! Now that's funny!" 😂😂
In the pantheon of long forgotten movies, No Escape has always been up there for me as one of the premier disappeared-from-the-public-conscious movies. It's a fun flick, I saw it in the theater, It has a very well rounded cast, Liotta, Lance Henrickson, Ernie Hudson, Armand Assante and Kevin Dillon, a ridiculous sci-fi premise and some fun action, yet in spite of this, I have seen zero people talking about it, it's never every played on TV, and even when Liotta died it was never brought up anywhere. That it wouldn't appear in Nintendo Power doesn't surprise me.
I like how you were just endlessly kicking the final boss in the shins while you were talking about the helicopter.
I really like these in dept analysis of some unknown games. Its easy for us to pass by but not really think about it. Hope to see many others videos like this
Total length of video: 355 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 4 secs.
1.13% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
I actually think it's a pretty good game, though i had SEGA version. Controls are "meh" but i've seen much worse. Delay is here but it is nowhere near the levels of Flashback or Prince of Persia. Combat becomes far too easy once you learn that you can kick instead of punching, or know where to get a knife.The best quality of this game is that it's non-linear: it's fun to explore the island, visit different locations, find new items and experiment with crafting. Once you figured what you need to do it is actually possible to finish it in 15-20 minutes.
MERRICK!!!!!!! You want it? Come and get it!
I might be in the extreme minority that I own this game, but have never seen the movie. My mom got it for me, not knowing anything about the game or movie. I think it must have been in a discount bin or something.
Happy to see your review aligned with my experience as a kid. I always REALLY wanted to like this game because of the crafting and trading, but it just felt impossible to progress anywhere.
3:44 this screen does reminds me of Mary Shelley Frankenstein. Maybe because it was made by the same studio ?
Never seen the movie or played the game but damn is the image at 3:36 familiar to me. It had to have been in either Gamepro or EGM somewhere because this image is kinda burned into my brain.
With the snes coming out when it's did, it's no wonder we didn't get a gi joe or transformers game. When it's got its main stride, both cartoons were dead, on on it's way out. (Here at least) reason why we don't get a transformers game on the nes. The series was done in the states in 1987. And the nes blew up 87/88. Yes we got famicom transformers and fds. The fds game was based on the headmaster series, which we never got
Watching him crouch walk, are we sure that isn't supposed to be Scott Hall?
Hey yo
Seriously that is a laugh out loud funny observation and I'm disappointed I didn't see it myself
Never heard of this movie & game until now
Out of all the video game reviewers on UA-cam, SNES Drunk is the G.O.A.T.
A big producer produced this movie, Gale Ann Hurd, and going by my memory from childhood it had a pretty decently big marketing campaign with a lotta commercials and whatnot, and I assume the game was a part of that marketing budget. She produced Aliens and other James Cameron movies (they were married for a lil' bit and she co-wrote and produced Terminator), so that's likely the Lance Henriksen connection.
It never looked that interesting to me as a kid, and after all the ads and marketing push it seemed to fade pretty fast. Martin Campbell directed it, he was up n' coming then, and right after No Escape he had a hit with Goldeneye and then the Mark of Zorro before kinda fading away (but still working) in the 00s. Gale Ann Hurd produced a trillion things, and The Walking Dead TV series is prolly her main thing now. I wouldn't mind seeing No Escape again, it was at least a decent movie to half-watch on HBO!
I love movie trivia, thanks for this.
The same Gale Ann Hurd from carlito's way?
Great trivia! Gale Ann Hurd is awesome. I actually used to work directly for her once upon a time (on her homes, not film). Spectacular lady IRL. SUPER accomplished with an insane filmography under her belt.
It is known as Escape From Absolom outside of the US/UK.
@@2WhiteAndNerdy extremely underlooked name in the industry for sure
Wow, how did I not know this was a game. I picked up the movie on Blu-ray, and it looks fantastic. I highly recommend it for anyone who hasn’t watched it.
@@AsylumSaint 🙏🏽
@@AsylumSaint i didnt even know about the movie until this video
I’ve been a big fan of your channel for a long time now, but after finding out you’re a lebatard show fan… I’m a biggest fan yet!!!
I suspected from the movement and sound font that this game might be from Bits Studio, the same folks who did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, but that crafting system is a dead giveaway. Seems like they didn't learn their lesson from those games, which have identical issues to this one.
This is truly an excellent review and explanation of No Escape, but I feel like this must have been just a massive struggle to push through and learn like you did. You're the SNES Drunk. You play it, so we don't have to.
Ahhh a nice relaxing day with a new vid
A little late but... MERRY CHRISTMAS friend!!!! and I wish you a happy new year!! thanks for your videos.
We had this movie on VHS growing up. NEVER knew there was a SNES game for it. Not surprised, just surprised I never knew.
In the early 2000's, I had this as a ROM and loaded it up during a vacation out in the middle of nowhere with my wife. I got about a screen in when the character start raising his arms up precipitously; I guess I got him into a crouch walk or something. I just screamed, "Look at me! I'm an airplane!" and we just started laughing so hard I shut it off. That was my experience playing No Escape.
I would watch this movie for Marrick alone.
"I've had a long night, so I'll make this simple. I really want to be in charge."
I never heard of this game! I really enjoyed learning about this game! Thank you for giving us some cool details! Awesome content yet again!
great video
lol the high security guard
No love for 16 bit Ernie Hudson? I loved this goofy movie as a kid, totally forgot they made a game.
I don’t know, I like the concept of a gritty action movie platform on the SNES being connected plot-wise to an Atari game which features a guy riding a Pegasus on the cover.
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice might be 'forgotten', but at least the theme tune is a banger.
Uncharted for SNES, brilliant!!
Fantastic video. As a fan of Out of this World I think I will have to give this a try. Seems like it would be fun to try out the crafting system in an early game.
I loved this movie when I was younger. One of Liotta’s best
This is like the perfect opportunity for one of the developers to pop up in the comments. Love it when it happens!
The movie was called "Fuga de Absolom" here in Mexico. I remember watching it on a bus when I was a kid and never seen or heard of it again. I didn't know there was a videogame, though.
I've always seen this game around but I never played it, kinda glad I missed it, looks like I didn't miss all that much
I wanna chill with the security guard
Farm for lives on the platform at 2:30 and the became becomes beatable and a lot more tolerable. If you don't then you pretty much have to master impossibly sluggish controls and levels full of easy to fall into death traps. You also won't find health very often so just do yourself a favor and farm and the game suddenly becomes oddly enjoyable 😁
Se alguém do Brasil viu este vídeo. O nome do filme que jogo em retrata em BR é:
"Fuga de Absolon" de 1994.
When grading a game on a ten-point scale, the presence of Lance Henriksen necessitates at least one point tallied in favor.
I remember renting this movie as a kid, because it starred Ray Liotta, who I was a big fan of. He sadly passed away this year on May 26th. Never played the SNES or Genesis versions, but was familiar with them, because there were always ads for it in comic books and video game magazines. 😁👍
Interesting fact: the story takes place in 2022, the same year Ray Liotta passed away.
90s games based on 90s movies, what a time capsule
Wait... we got a Ray Liotta game about a Ray Liotta movie that wasn't Goodfellas?! (Shut the hell up about Vice City. Tommy Vercetti was not Henry Hill in the least.)
0:18. That is not true. GI Joe got their own games on the NES.
Transitional animations are the devil. I consciously stripped them out of my game. It's so much work to make a game feel sluggish.
In hindsight it seems so obvious. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself as a kid that every game based on a movie or TV license usually looks way better than it is because it has tons of production value but the game developers don't really care about making a great game.
As a kid I probably would've loved this game. I grew up mainly playing the more cartoony-looking SNES games aka the more fun ones. This one I would've liked for its dark, gritty and realistic looking sprites and in-depth gameplay. Never heard of the movie either but I think now it might be worth checking out.
*spits out coffee*
LAWNMOWER MAN?!?
I saw this movie in Australia where it was known as "Escape from Absalom". Pretty forgettable film, but it did have a great cast.
Didn't even realise there was a SNES game until now.
great channel. great videos. no e begging either. youre one of a kind!
Now that you mention it, I’m surprised no one ever made a Nightmare Before Christmas video game! Not that I’m a HUGE fan of it, but it seems like a perfect fit.. all of the characters and the setting would made for a really cool game… not to mention it’s popularity. Even today I’m sure such a game would sell really well.
the Villain from No Escape movie was the Villain from Mask Of Zorro! :)
God I remember this movie. But I think it was called Escape from Absolon, or something like that, here in Australia. And yeah, same deal. It was advertised for a bit then completely forgotten.
I didn't think it was old enough to get a snes game.
I actually really like the movie. Lance Henriksen, Ray Liotta, Ernie Hudson, Kevin J. O'Connor. Fine cast and goofy fun. The game blows, though.
The movie, released in Australia was called ‘Escape from Absolom’
I remember seeing this movie on HBO (or equivalent) way back and thinking how I couldn't recall it coming and going like so many other movies. As stated, it's very serviceable in terms of it being and action movie and that's about it.
I forgot this movie had a game.
I did love the movie and still remember it.
How can people not know about this game?! It was massive when it came out, there were even TV ads running for a couple months. Surprised if it was never in Nintendo Power, I guess their advertising budget was blown on the TV. Very strange that the review is so negative about it, it's one of the best games on the SNES. So much replay value too. If you don't have this game you should definitely move it to the top of your list to get, you're truly missing out.
It's a good game, but not without it's flaws. I played SEGA version and did not have any issue with controls. But there are problems that are shared by both versions like obscure item placement and badly implemented trading.
@@JohnDoe-lb2hp It does have some obscure parts, but I think that comes down to people's taste in games. I like the exploration and puzzle solving elements that provides, but I appreciate that could be tedious to others, especially if you're expecting an action platformer
the combat roll is so wonderful
Love that movie, still have the vhs rental I never returned.
How did this Ray Liota movie get a licensed Super Nintendo game, but not Good Fellas??? I demand to play as a 16 bit Joe Pesci.
I think his likeness is in one of the Home Alone SNES games
1:10 Is that Morris (from Joja) in a golden look?
Request: Do you think you could save your videos at a real 4:3 format? It'd be 960 x 720.
YT would add black bars and it would look the same as now on 16:9 screens, but those of us with an actual 4:3 monitor could gloriously fill it up entirely :P
Never played this game or saw the movie. The 90’s was awesome and weird all at once.
This is a very paradoxical comment. "I never saw anything, and it was very weird..."
Awesome review man!
The helicopter sound effect sounds like it belongs on a Sega Genesis game... since this was actually released on the Genesis, it may be that the noise was designed for the Genesis sound chip and actually sounded halfway decent on the Genesis.
happy new year!
This was my favorite movie growing up!
I love your videos. Thanks for that.
The amount of "finding the sweet spot and cheezing an enemy" is off the charts in this one. I guess I played it on genesis.
I love that movie.
Another great Ray Liotta movie of the 90’s. RIP Mr. Liotta. Thanks for the video. Never rented the game as licensed games have always burned me. Might have to fire the rom up on this one though. 😀
4:52 was that a fork in the Garbage disposal song reference 😂😂😂
Your videos are so entertaining
You say Lance, I think Pumpkinhead. Where's the Pumpkinhead game? Fans slapped it into a fighting game!
I am oddly nostalgic for this period. For about two years, every single video game was exactly this. Sprites with too many frames of animation so they looked nice in the TV commercial, but were unplayable, in a realistic style based on some live action licensed property, but with nonsensical unrealistic 2D action platformer level design, trying to be more "cinematic" than was possible in 8 bit hardware, but with no idea what that means, and one weird game mechanic based on one scene from the licensed property so they could say it wasn't just an action platformer. I think there are like 300 of this game. By 1995, they were all gone because everything had to be 3D if you were making a licensed cash-in trying to chase the trends. It was pretty much only late-1992 to early 1994. But in that period, it was all games.
I remember this movie, not great but entertaining to watch. RIP Ray Liotta
I actually know this movie as „Escape From Absolom“. Didn’t know it was simply called „No Escape“ elsewhere. 🤷🏻♂️
What I did NOT know till now is that the movie actually got a game. 🧐 Looks like some sort of Pitfall meets Blackthorne but bad.
Thanks, SNES Drunk! Always fun to find out about stuff like that. 🙂👍
This movie is called Escape from Absolom over here. No idea why, they used to change movie titles all the time back then
Man, Time Trax was one of my favorite shows ever.