"Blues Brothers 2000": An N64 Game that Really Exists
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Perhaps the strangest premise for any N64 game, Blues Brothers 2000 lets players control Dan Aykroyd as they punch skeletons in a 3D graveyard. What exactly is this game, why does it exist, and how does it adapt the movie? In this episode, we get into things.
The real conspiracy is whether or not if this game shared assets with Earthbound 64.
Why does this game look like the 64DD version of Mother 3 lol
Clicked on this video and saw the way he runs and I was like “thats muddah 3”
Runaway 5 64
it's funny because when i first saw mother 3 screenshots i thought it was the blues brothers game, i rented it a few times from the local grocery store.. they had glover too, that was my favorite one
I can't believe Miyazaki took inspiration from Blues Brothers 2000's prison level for Tower of Latria
In all honesty, I had to restrain myself from making this comparison in the video, because it does actually remind me a bit of Latria!
''Come on Reggie give us Mother 3 64''
''It's already been made''
Mother 3 64 that was made:
To be honest, I thought this game was a weird horror ARG rather than a playable video game when I first heard of its existence. Like Petscop but with the Blues Brothers.
I have to wonder if this was intended to be part of a different franchise, and then got blues brothers slapped onto it for purely business reasons
Seeing urban environments on the n64 like townscapes, with vehicles and roads, is something novel. As flawed as it may be, it's really charming, visually, with the "chibi" human characters and all that.
The fact that Titus made THREE Blues Brothers platformers over the course of a decade (spanning the NES, Game Boy, SNES, and N64!) certainly seems to imply that this was a *successful* licensed property for them - or at least it was “successful” by whatever limited measure a developer like Titus measured “success.” But I wish someone could talk to the devs of those three games and really get details on whose idea it was to license this 10-year-old game in 1990 for their first BB. game, and WHY. I sort of expect that the answer is “It was a cheap license to get” but like… none of the games in question are GOOD.
I, weirdly, saw Blues Brothers 2000 in its theatrical release as a kid. lol.
Loved the video-was not prepared to dive into the various game inspirations, creator nationalities, and cultural influences involved. It is…. quite a cocktail.
Prison, Chicago, graveyard, and swamp, finally the variety in levels we’ve been asking for
Despite their name, the Blues Brothers are more of a rhythm and blues band, rather than straight blues, with some soul and rock 'n' roll thrown in. While blues did originate out of the experiences of poor black Southerners, these later genres were frequently performed by multiracial bands in the 50s and 60s and often used their music to promote racial harmony and friendship. So the critique of the Blues Brothers being white guys performing "blues" music is a bit misguided.
Just so you know, the "rhythm" sections are imitating Bust-a-Groove, not Parappa.
no wonder blockbuster went out of business if they were making deals like that
probably the real video game with the most "30 Rock cutaway" energy
Great content for all the Blues Brothers 2k heads out there.
I like how a picture of Dick Dastardly and a laughing Muttley in the Nintendo Official Magazine is right under the percent score for Blues Brother 2000. Darn you Dick!
this feels like a mega64 gag but its real. my jaw dropped when i saw that youtube recognized the game in the description
Wow, I wasn't even aware the Blues Brother was an SNL skit. I just thought it was an orignal movie.
For me a thing that beats the Drake And Josh one is the Japanese RPG Earthbound having the Runaway 5 be a homage to The Blues Brothers with one of their songs (Runaway Five's Final Performance) sampling "The Changeling" by The Doors.
"no half measures" I mean, it would just be a whole measure of 2/4
Sounds like great AVGN material
You say this game is bad and yet... it looks so utterly captivating to me.... I think it's pulling me in......
Saying that we live in a remix culture now is odd. "Remix Culture" has always existed. Things would spread from one place to another and be used differently as far back as cultures have existed. Like how Italy and China/other asians countries have different uses for pasta/noodles. Or how rock and roll was descended from blues, which itself would form into many different genres and subgenres. Or how the car was invented by germans, but has had improvements and modifications from many other countries.
As a kid, I rented this game from blockbuster. I didn’t have a memory card and could not beat the first level. I’ll never forget that childhood gamer rage lol
I remember this, but I didn't remember ever seeing it on store shelves...now I know why
I have only ever seen this game covered by DarkLordJadow1 before, and he couldn't get past the final world. The fact that you managed to see it through to the end is impressive in its own right.
I rented this from my local video store back in 2001 and had no idea it was a Blockbuster exclusive. Makes me wonder why the local Mom and Pop shop had it, lol.
But yeah, I actually played this game back in the day. I only rented it once but never forgot how bizarre it was.
Maybe Blockbuster had too many copies and sold some. I remember buying DVDs when they were done using them. They still said Blockbuster but obviosuly didn't belong to the store.
If another store bought it they would have put it in a proprietary case and removed name labels.
Or maybe it was pirared or something. :B
I wanted to mention that this was not a Blockbuster exclusive in my country of Canada. I bought it at an electronics store.
Oh my fucking god is that Earthbound 64
Today on “I can’t believe it’s not a romhack!”
The UK'S Nintendo Official Magazine was famously a shill magazine that would rate every single game it reviewed pretty high. I remember realising this as a kid and abandoning it very quickly in favour for the much better N64 Magazine. Can imagine working at NOM when a bad game came in for review must have been an absolute test on their writing abilities sometimes
Wow, this is a great video UA-cam randomly suggested to me. I really like your vocal tone and oration, and appreciate how you covered the topic from all angles. Pretty easy subscription from me!
i won’t lie saying the game controls “almost exactly like mario 64” is a bit of a stretch considering this game seems to have a moveset of about one move
I saw this game on the shelves at Blockbusters when I was a kid. I remember being confused by it, and ignoring it completely.
Woot! Your Quest 64 video was great, and now I'm sure you've got the content type that I want. You've entered my consistent list. I hope to see you skyrocket in subs! The information you gave on the background of the game's existence and the Blues Brothers was excellent as someone who only knew them from the first movie.
Weird. I remember seeing that game for sale an Meijers. Like everyone else my first that was, "Why? Who asked for this?"
The blues Brothers are a ska band but without the ska music, somehow making them more palatable for mainstream 80s suburbanites
This feels like it was meant to be something completely different then slapped the Blues Brothers license onto it last minute
Such a weird game 😂
I’ve been meaning to say this for a couple months now-your channel provides such a fascinating perspective on gaming with great production values. I know it’s going to blow up soon! Currently at 4.37K but I can see it adding a few zeros to the end of that very quickly!
Great video! I first heard of this game through a podcast but I didn't realize how deep the rabbit hole of weirdness went
13:12 I ruined one of my favorite songs doing this, too! The first phone I used as a replacement for a physical alarm clock was extremely quiet, so I ended up using the most immediately loud song I had for an alarm; "Hikari" by Utada Hikaru, a song from the video game series Kingdom Hearts.
Absolutely RUINED that game series for me because of my overexposure to the song (and the prevalence of it within those games), but damn is it still an effective alarm after over a decade at this point.
I’m so glad people are talking about this game! I always thought it was super interesting for its backstory alone and how Titus made this a year after Superman 64 and how unknown it is despite it being a very interesting moment in n64 history.
Ugh. I bought this game new back in the day. The only thing worthwhile about it is that it introduced me to some amazing music. I adore Cheaper to Keep Her.
You may be the first gamer who knows how to use JSTOR
My parents didn't know much about videogames but they liked the Blues Brothers, so they picked this game up for me from a pawn shop. Not being able to save without a controller Pak really sucked a lot of the fun out. I really enjoyed how zany it was. Genuinely thought it was a pretty great game with some challenging boss fights. But the game was really difficult so I kept dying and getting sent back to the start, so I only ever played the first few levels. No wonder this game was pretty common in pawn shops.
You want to know something weirder? There were other Blues Brothers games released earlier for the NES and SNES. They are also quite bad.
Man i have this game, grew up with it. Never got far into the game but it did give me very memorable dreams (nightmares?) with the main character being a giant in my house out to get me
I feel like the movie was cursed because of John Landis. I saw it on TBS when I was a kid and deemed that it was about as funny as Austin Powers, whatever that means. I didn't learn about the Twilight Zone movie for like another decade.
God, I played the hell out of this as a kid.
As a fan of both the original blues brothers and n64 collectathons: it truly is bizarre this exist and I love hating it
They made a game adaptation of my favorite movie, Blues Brothers 2000, released in 1998?!
I remember reading about this in Nintendo Power but never saw it as we rarely went to Blockbuster (the local rental shop was closer, cheaper, and had a window connecting it to the Domino’s next door!)
Discovered your channel with the Quest 64 video (and subbed), and this one's right up my alley too! Love finding out about obscure classic games like this, and you covered it really well =)
This game sounds like more than the sum of its parts but in a bad way.
Fascinating video on a bizarre topic. Nice job.
For one second I thought it was the original Mother 3 64 or some reference of the "band guys" from Earthbound lol
horrible game, I couldn't even get through the whole second world without feeling nauseous. The 4.4/10 is generous. I personally give it a 2.5/10. Updating sound effects, fixing hit boxes, and adding more soundtracks would make it more bearable. But the camera and awful framerate "laggy" is what just ruins it.
I always thought they were a band from the 70s that spawned a movie and not a SNL skit that turned into movie
You just unlocked an old memory of mine
I remember seeing this game promoted on a N64 magazine back in the day, I had no idea what Blues Brothers was and I never heard anything about the game afterwards so it's funny to find out what the game was about decades later
Also cut Titus some slack, superman (it never had 64 on the title ever) was the result of DC actively sabotaging them during development, their initial concept had a lot of potential
I had totally forgotten this game even existed until this popped up on my home page. I don't know why but this was one of the games that came from a hand me down N64 my brother used to own, along with some actually good games.I tried to play this several times out of sheer curiosity but not being able to save since I didn't have a controller pak made this a living hell, I could never get past world 2 because of it.
Eventually I got so angry at it that, after getting a game over yet again, I ripped it out of the console and flung it into my bedroom wall as hard as I could. I don't know if I broke it because it promptly disappeared and I have no idea where it could have bounced to lmao. Kinda wish I didn't lose it as its such a weird game that simply owning it is a novelty in and of itself.
I vividly remember renting this from ye olde Blockbuster back in the day. I never actually beat it. Should go back and knock it out some time. Mostly just for closure I guess.
I've been vaguely curious about this game for a very long time, and now I can see that this is one of the fakest looking video games of all time. Huge TV show bootleg video game energy.
I played this gane as a kid
That's like WB interactive making a beat em up video game based on Friday for Playstation.
i remember seeing this game many times at my local blockbuster as a kid but never wanting to rent. even than i was aware of blues brothers 2000's reputation lol
I loved that game as a child
please do a piece of content on gamefaqs. its such a unique slice of history and culture. there was even a scandal near the end where they were paying people in gift cards
i have nothing of value to say but the blues brothers is my favorite movie so thats a fact about me i guess
I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and for you to say, “Just kidding, this isn’t real. Wouldn’t it be funny if it did though?”
It was the graveyard that made me think this was a joke, because that graveyard looked “rejected from Croc” tier and what is that doing in a Blues Brothers game?
Only thing I learned from BB 2000 is that:
"They're on a mission from god"
This...actually exists....but that's amazing
Ironically I was literally just watching someone play it
I discovered your channel when i read a comment you left on some other small media analysis channel about a year ago and you've become one of my favorite channels on Yt, hard to believe you still have less than 5,000 subs, keep up the great work and hopefully the algorithm will increase your reach soon
Honestly, this looks really good rather than what people think. I’d rly love to have this game
It would be amazing if the first movie had a N64 game as well.
I just learned about this game a few weeks ago and now you have a video about it. The same thing happened with Quest 64. It's like this channel is made for me.
This is definitely a game on 'Gaming in the Clinton Years'
I feel like you should try to tie together these documentary style videos with your podcast like videos into an rlm type video. Feels like it might do well.
I knew about it because I took the issue of Nintendo Power that talked about this game on vacation with me. Of course, NP made the game sound pretty cool, but I also never ended up playing it.
"It' bad, and i'll explain why" *takes 4 minutes till he showsit was a TITUS game* x'D
So happy to have discovered this channel from the Quest 64 vid!!!
I played this as a kid, never finished Chicago
I always heard this game was bad so I never rented it back then. When collecting for the system a few years back I played it for the first time, and I was surprised how enjoyable the game is. I really had a lot of fun with it. Not bad game at all.
I think I need this game...
Nintendo Power was the only way any kid would have heard of this game. That's where I saw it and even then I asked why? Having tried it a few years ago I couldn't even figure out how to navigate the first level. A boss fight with a giant evil female prison chef, who wants to cook the one black Blues Brother?, bugged out so I noped out of playing it any further.
Titus games looked horrid even back then. They also had a hideous fox mascot who got an equally hideous game boy game. LJN gets overexposure for making awful games but a special place in hell is reserved for Titus.
I owned two controller paks as a kid. Why I needed two and for what games I don't remember. The only ones that come to mind are the two N64 Goemon games. Virtual Console support was impossible on the Wii so they only ever put out the first SNES game in the West and the awful Game Boy game on the 3DS. It contributes to the spotty exposure the West gets with that fun franchise.
A much better rhythm game to compare this to would have been Bust A Groove. It's visibly strikingly similar to what Blues Brothers 2000's rhythm game sections are like.
I only know of this game because I had exactly one issue of Nintendo Power and it had an ad for this.
This is like a gag game that would exist on the Simpsons.
From the Earthbound Universe: Runaway 64!!
Crap. I missed this Blockbuster hit. I need to pick this up and Indiana Jones.
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i would like to note that nuts & bolts is really good actually
CARS!!!?
too true game is actually good but gets a bunch of hate becasue "not-my-banjo" or "eww cars"
Thank you, Jontron ruined a generation man. Nuts n’ Bolts is not only extremely fun, but it has that Rare styled writing from the other games at full force, funniest one.
I rented this game from blockbuster; I couldn’t get past the 2nd level. That might have been a good thing.
Aint the dance segments just a copy of bust a groove?
I actually liked Blues Brothers 2000 more than the original lol, I know it's infamous for not having Belushi, but I thought it was a very entertaining romp, the cartoonier plot I found more fun than the deadpan plot of the original
I remember seeing this all the time in the video store for rent when I was a kid. I had no idea what the blues brothers was at the time, though the original one's a great movie, but that game just looked like something I didn't want to play. I thought it was some kind of gameshow game or something like that south park game Chef's love shack. I had no idea it was a platformer.
Also, the first mario party destroyed 2 of my controllers and a few of my cousin's controllers because of all the control stick spinning mini games so yeah, that game deserves its rating.
I dunno, I personally really enjoyed Blues Brothers 2000 (the movie). The game looks...interesting. It's got quite the visual style, to be sure.
I actually enjoyed playing this game 🤔 I guess it's because the game is weird and I'm weird too. And it's an N64 exclusive and I really appreciate the console ☺
I always see this game at a retro game shop I wanted to buy it because I am a huge Mother fan but it’s €120
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I like them better as the runaway 5 from Earthbound.