I'd say "ineptitude." The poor schlubs who got roped into making Action 52 had about, maybe, 3 months to work on it, and I heard they weren't allowed to debug.
From what I understand, the main guy behind Action 52 (I forget his name, and I think he’s dead now) had NEVER previously been involved in anything related to video games or computers at all. He got the idea for A52 from a bootleg NES cartridge he came across that contained like a dozen or so (already-released) titles. This seemed to him like an easy way to get rich very quickly, so he hastily gathered whatever programmers and designers he could find( totaling to four at most), and gave them only three months to make an NES cartridge with 52 original games. It’s clear that this guy had no idea just how much time and effort it takes to make video games, and kept thinking about all of the millions of $ he was going to make from this genius idea. After the idea didn’t turn out to be as genius as he thought it was, he eventually left the public sphere entirely and hid from anyone looking for information on A52. In other words, A52 sucked so horribly because it was being headed by a used car salesman who didn’t really know what he was doing.
Flippy did end up beating Ooze and taking the screenshot, sending it to Active Enterprises in the hopes of claiming that moolah. Whether Active Enterprises made good on their words is anyone's guess.
it seems odd that you would know that part of the story but not that part.. surely anyone who documented themselves beating it and submitting an entry also documented whether or not it worked.
@@KairuHakubi Eh, who knows if the dude got served an NDA (Non disclosure agreement) as a condition to receive his prize. Which rather likely was NOT a 100K, lolz.
Holy moly! My mom used to do taxes and had a client who said he was in the lead for a “win an island contest” in a video game. She didn’t tell us which game, because confidentiality, but she did say that the guy said that if he won there would be an option to just take 50k usd-which he would have taken to make a down payment for a house.
would there be confidentiality issues for being on a leaderboard? I mean surely the damage is done just by mentioning the contest, which would make it clear which game it was.
@@KairuHakubi I’m not that big of a gamer, so I never thought to look up which game it was. And I just assumed that any leader boards would have had their profile name or something vs real/legal name. Especially because Mom mentioned which chain department store his wife worked at, our home town has less than 15,000 people btw
Well, at least the guy had some sense. Though i'm kinda wondering where in the world Squenix would have found something that is simultaneously an island and small enough to only be 50k while still being considered as something sellable.
@@Llortnerof ironically enough, there is an island around here that you could get for 50k with money to spare, it has been for sale for about 20 years, it’s about 3 acres of sand and bushes. No one wants it and you can only get to it about 8 months out of the year because Michigan.
Kind of a special case. It wasn't that the games couldn't be completed due to bugs or difficulty. It was that the fourth one was never finished/released. Due of course to the crash. There's no solid evidence that the third game's prize wasn't awarded in the form of a cash replacement (Atari would have been legally responsible for ensuring that at least that much occurred).
@@Asterra2 They would? Even with the crash? I’d love to hear the story on how that went down. I know Swordquest is legendary but I’m not super familiar with all the details
If I ever find a partially melted trophy with the words Karnath written on it, I'm assuming there's an ancient curse on all those that look upon it and getting the fuck out of there.
It would be a novelty more than anything, plus again I could see somebody getting quite excited to actually own one, cause people collect a lot of different stuff, including food branded merch like Coca-Cola or Fast Food stuff like McDonald's...
I feel like the entire internet won with that contest. We got a solid three years of creepy and hilarious fun. Now it's just all creepy and depressing.
Back in 1980s, the magazines had programming contests that no one won. If you happened to send in the right answer, it either didn't arrive in time, or someone already sent it in...as told to me by one of the editors.
While not intentional, Gamepro had an unwinnable contest in 1994. Shortly after Mortal Kombat 2 came out in arcades, they had an article showing how to unlock the fights against Jade, Smoke and Noob Saibot. Since at the time we didn't know that was every secret fight, they had a contest where you could win an MK2 arcade game if you found a fourth secret fight.
there's something hilariously ironic in a company dipping their toe in edgy water and eating shit so hard they find better success in a game about a polite japanese stay at home mom.
Is it just my imagination, or are Guru Larry's "But...HELLLLLOOO YOOOUUUU"s getting longer and longer? By next year I wouldn't be surprised if 2 minutes of his next video's run time was him just saying that. 😄
Get him to team upwith the lock picking lawyer. 4 minutes of helllllloooooooo yoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuu” followed by 8 seconds of: “today we have for you a lock that I picked while reciting the intro. In any case, that’s all for today.”
idk, I like that it's slowly getting longer, makes me laugh... though I might be in the minority so don't take this comment seriously (also sorry that this reply is coming a month late, I've only recently started binging him)
Larry, I honestly have to periodically take breaks from your vids just so that I can binge watch them later without running out. You're brilliant, loved, and appreciated.
Larry says he is working on a video about that. Swordquest is a different case in that due to the Video Game Crash happening during the contest. Atari got sold and the last game never got released. So it wasn't about the games themselves, but outside circumstances ended it prematurely. We can only imagine what would have happened if it was able to be finished.
@@ClockWithoutNumbers that's funny! also if the parents put shoes on, they would be able to get through the Legos. that's why the kids should fill the parents shoes with thumbtacks or dog crap, and then they could cover their floor with Legos! that way, they won't be able to get across the Legos and it would be too unpleasant or too painful to put shoes on, making them unable to reach the kid. (DISCLAIMER! I am joking. do NOT do this. if anyone actually does it, I'm not responsible for ANY medical bills, shoes being ruined by dog shite, or any situations where any kid dumb enough to do this got their ass kicked by their angry parents for putting thumbtacks or dog feces in their shoes. also, to anyone who sees this funny comment and does this, it's your own fault for doing it in the first place. I'm only joking, not actually suggesting that anybody do something this ridiculous. )
Dear Larry, its only come to my attention recently that you are still on the Channel Awesome website. I just want you to know, from the bottom of my heart... Well played, sir.
Great video with mostly stories I'd never heard of. The only one I had even a vague knowledge of was the weird "win an island" contest for Just Cause 3. I'm surprised you didn't bring up Hareraiser, the 1984 computer game game that was supposedly part of a puzzle to win £30 000 except... it just wasn't. Not only was the game, and therefore the puzzle, released in two parts, forcing people to buy two games for the price of one for a total of £17,90€ (again, in 1984 money), but it seems very likely that there was nothing to solve, as the "game" consists entirely of a few screens of borderline empty landscapes so devoid of any detail it seems unlikely to have any actual meaning, let alone form a puzzle, so a lot of people today believe it may well have been a straight-up scam (which might be why Larry didn't include it as he seems to have gone for contests that were just not thought through as opposed to intentional scams). Oh and I should mention, looking at pictures is ALL the "game" is. There's no gameplay to it otherwise, the only piece of interaction is to press a button to get the titular hare to move to a different location. Adding to the accusations of it being a scam is the backstory of the person who made the game. For you see, part of the prize you could supposedly win is a jewel called the Golden Hare, which the creator of the game won in a similar puzzle years earlier. It was a sort of ARG before ARGs were a thing, as it centred around an art book called Masquerade, where each piece contained a hidden clue which, when put together to solve the puzzle, would reveal the real-world location where the aforementioned jewel was buried. Now, that contest was completely legit, and was actually a very clever way to get people to look more closely at art books rather than just flick through. Where it gets screwy is that the winner turned out to have cheated (I'll leave you to look it up if you're interested as that's quite a story in itself). So the guy had already "won" the prize in a fraudulent way, so it doesn't seem like a stretch to assume that Hareraiser was another scam by the same grifter.
I'm surprised there was no mention of the Wolfenstein 3D competition. For those not in the know, Apogee had a competition where the first person to call Apogee with the correct phrase (Aardwolf) would get free Apogee games for life. This phrase was hidden in a pushwall maze in Wolfenstein 3D (specifically Episode 2, Level 8), with the maze designed so that it was possible to prevent yourself from reaching the phrase. The problem? Before the contest was even announced, people had made level editors for Wolf 3D and hacked their way through the maze, and were already calling Apogee to say Aardwolf. They cancelled the contest before it even started, and later releases of Wolf 3D don't even have the sign anymore, as it's been replaced with a pile of bones.
I love your content Larry, wish you would upload more often but I know how hard it is to make videos. Already watched your backlog, thanks for the good times and looking forward to the next one.
@@MrNightshade2010 Advent Rising would have never "killed" Halo; gameplay wise, they fill two different niches. That's why Mass Effect wasn't a "Halo killer," but Call of Duty (and Bungie/343 trying to turn Halo into Call of Duty) was. Instead, like Mass Effect, Advent Rising would have ascended along side the two... had it not been the first game ever developed by a studio that had only made cinematics and published by a company that seemed to only release good games by accident.
Red Steel 2 in the intro makes me happy. As for the contests... I remember when Runescape held Deadman Tournaments that ended up becoming a complete mess with a single clan holding the safe area with mules giving items to the leader so that they could win and split the money with the clanmates... fair play indeed.
You know Larry, not only was I thinking how nice it would be to have another one of your episode for once today, but how I also love it when you tell a bad joke and go, “I’ll get me coat.” And here we are right here within the span of even the first entry. P.S. Could you ever possibly do a big docu episode about the career of Peter Molyneux, your favorite punching bag? I just love hearing you educate on things in that awesome voice and charm. What better subject to listen to you ramble on for an hour or so with sharp wit and snark than that bald headed buffoon.
I would like to add two games on that list : "Hareraiser" and "Hareraiser Finale" on multiples 8 bits computers. It's games only made solely for competition purpose where you have to find an actual treasure location. I heard of those games from Ashens video at the Norwich Gaming Festival (Link : watch?v=ouvi-fwrfIY). I won't go into details about the (really bad) games but here's the reason why it goes from almost impossible to impossible : - Incomprehensible game - Expected the players to buy 2 AAA priced games - The necessary 2nd game "Hareraiser Finale" simply don't exist on some machines despite having an existing first one.
This is why I LOVE YOU. Advent rising bring back nostalgia from staring at it in the hastings display showing win 1 million dollars. I thought about asking my mom to buy it but the cover just looked whack af
Should you be so inclined, you can buy Advent Rising on Steam for $10. However, be warned; the game is every bit as bug infested as people say it is. You'd almost swear it was an alpha build for a Bethesda game. But when you can get it to work (the bugs are annoying, but not impossible to wrangle), you just might sigh in disappointment knowing that the genuinely good mechanics of it's game design will probably never be used again.
Pre-Order the Guru Larry Plushie... makeship.com/collections/featured/products/larry-bundy-jr Only available to order until Friday 30th April, then it's gone forever :'(
brings to mind Rockman Dash 3, which had a contest winner's design in it or something like that.. what a thing to cancel. Capcom's shareholders should sue them for gross mismanagement.
@@danielotano8677 yes, however youtube will not allow me to post any links otherwise I would have given you the contest page for information, and the voting page. The site is now removed so you need find both of the urls and then put them into the internet archive. I even tried linking the archived urls pastebin with no luck sorry :/
While not a contest grub a game, I remember a contest that was constantly being run in gaming magazines where you could win every console, including a neo geo, computer, accessories, etc. I think you were supposed to answer some trivia questions. If I'm not mistaken it ended up coming out that it was a scam of some kind. Maybe you had to pay a couple of bucks to enter or something. This contest was constantly getting retooled and presented in slightly different ways every few months.
That plushie looks so damn creepy!!! That it's beyond creepy and goes the full spectrum, from blasting beyond creepy!!!!!!!!!!! and back again to kind of cute
I can't ever seem to win any video games or contests, so now I don't feel so alone lol. Thank you Guru for more great content! Oh and first time I've ever been nearly first in a comment section! 🤯🥳
Don't forget about the Atari 2600 SwordQuest games. Each one offered a prize for completing the game, and then the four winners would compete in an ultimate challenge for $50k. But two of the four games in the series were never released, so their prizes, as well as the grand prize, have gone unclaimed.
Glad you acknowledged that the Trending tab of UA-cam is filled with utter garbage videos. You have to be extremely lucky to find anything there worth watching.
Dishonorable mentions: Hareraiser (a scam said to have intentionally been made unwinnable) Swordquest (the fourth game of the series was never released, or even developed for that matter) Treasure Master Wolfenstein 3D's "Call Apogee, Say Aardwolf" secret (cancelled due to too many cheaters)
I thought Jet Set Willy might be on here. Me and my friend used to put in pokes randomly and actually saw him run to the toilet and be sick. Of course we had no idea how many bottles had to be collected, though. I've never seen Advent Rising and it looks good to me even now. I wanna play! So great to see The Last Story in the opening roll. Oh Syrenne, so much more interesting than that simpering princess.
If you want, you can -acquire an over glorified rental- buy Advent Rising on Steam for $10. But to give you fair warning, its infamy for bugs and glitches is well earned; it's like an alpha build for a Bethesda game. But with enough perseverance, you can muscle past/through its code errors to have fun with it's legitimately good gameplay design... and that'll probably just fill you with the disappointment people like me have felt since 2006, knowing the game will never get a sequel.
Well Done, Larry! ❤ EDIT: Vyvyan Basterd at 10:52 was a bit of a surprise. Maybe he finally got someone to Patent "Jelly Botti" as a Videogame. (Jelli Botti: The Game where you have to eat 18 Curries)
15:43 Wouldn't be the end of legal troubles tied to Majesco considering TVTokyo and NAS sued 4kids for unauthorized GBA Video releases which they never paid royalties for (as well as shady stuff involving Funimation and apparently even Cartoon Network). Apparently Konami also sued 4kids over the GBA video releases too because Majesco is competition to Konami.
@@Larry As someone who was playing Chaotic when the game was shut down, I have a vested interest in the topic as 4kids tried to desperately grab some extra cash to help with their bankrupcy by suing TCDigital into banrkuptcy. The annoying thing is that the moderators on the Chaotic forums were acting like everything was fine even after parts of the site started breaking and weren't getting fixed and Chaotic Coins never had the functions that were promised to us. It was the very essence of that dog that says "This is fine" as his house burns around him except at least there was no one around to hear his lie and his lie had no impact on anyone else. Needless to say, when I first heard of the possibility of Chaotic coming back, I was insanely skeptical. They kept trying to do it and it has yet to happen, even though it's been officially announced this time as opposed to how the diehard fans found it listed on the Kodo Studios (literally who?) website but nothing was heard about it and nothing came of it. A spokesperson, the former Organized Play Manager, Dragonix was giving non-updates on a Discord server before mysteriously quitting shortly after the pandemic started. The pandemic itself gave them a convenient excuse to delay the supposedly existing news even further. At most they've just officially released the existing episodes of the cartoon (seasons 1 to 3) on UA-cam. Not sure who actually owns the rights to it right now though. 4kids and Saban Brands are both gone now and I don't know what of 4kids' former properties Hasbro actually owns.
Yeah I heard about that contest where the contestants got a handgun and sat in front of a Nintendo and whoever played it the longest without blowing their brains out won. It was a real tragedy because it was one of the biggest mass suicide events of the century so many people entered and only one made it out alive. #sacrism
@@krimsonkatt I'm literally sitting here laughing my butt off because of the irony of your statement because literally the next comment after you commented is a person believing that what I said is true and I meant it as a dark joke. And so I'm laughing so hard that before I got a chance to do anything and see your common asking me to do something someone already commented thinking it was real.
I had a friend that was really excited for Advent Rising and remember the contest being pulled back then, but I thought it had more to do with low sales and cancellation of the sequels.
Some good videos end up on trending from time to time. Pretty much every AVGN, OSP, and TheOddsOneOut video gets put on trending and those videos are pretty good. Though 99% of the time it's complete crap. Even still, Action 52 is still worse. Literally the only good thing from that game was the Cheetahmen theme, which is legitimately amazing, but otherwise it's quite possibly the worst game of all time. 52 terrible games that can barelly even be called "games" for $250. ($470 in today's money, a little less than the price of a PS5)
@@kamikazilucas them other guys fuckin ruined it. The one dude is cool, but the rest of them guys try to act like they are as smart as James & its just pathetic & sad. Im still upset they got rid of Mike's artwork for those terrible thumbnails. Its like they want Cinemassacre to be like nostolgia critic🤮
personally i liked what Active Enterprises LTD was trying to do, compilation games are all too commonplace on the PC, so they tried to bring that to consoles, it was way too ahead of it's time, but even with the shoddy execution it was a solid idea.
To think, it all came about due to a pirate cart that Vince Perri’s son had. He figured why not make something like it that was legal. It’s a shame the whole thing was a dumpster fire.
“Sounds great, right? Your own private island to relax and socially distance yourself from the rest of humanity? No!“ 😆😂🤣 I love your videos for ever, Larry 🔥 🤟! Peace ✌️!
Having owned a zx spectrum and loading games off tapes, listening to screech coming through the computer rather than the TV and having to watch the representation of the game loading as a photosensitive epilepsy inducing border, seeing you use this as an episode cutter, brings back so many memories.
Oh god I would love to hold a contest and put in the fine print "all costs associated with this prize are the responsibility of the winner" It is kind of depressing though that since score hacking is inevitable now, we can't have fun contests like that. used to feel cool potentially being part of some big thing a lot of gameplayers are involved in.
Imagine having plush likenesses of yourself and people excitedly paying for them, spreading your dopplegangers throughout the world like a secret, cuddly army. That's living the dream, no lie. I love Larry Mini.
12:52 "Desperately appealing to SJWs" Seriously Larry, I thought you are better than that?! What is exactly "SJW" in Mass Effect Andromeda unlike other Mass Effect games?
The joke is that Orson Scott is often viewed as right and religious leaning vs mass effect is nearly anthicial to one another. It’s not a blast on either. One gets you reliably religious bookstore sales and the other gets you blue check mark praise. I thought it was a clever quip but you’d have to know his prior history and controversy.
@@bashildy "blue check mark praise" Is that some kind of terminology in American politics or something? What Harry said it still pretty lazy and nonsensical.
God, I remember the hype leading up to Advent Rising. It was like nothing I had ever seen. I lived in an area where commercials for video games just weren't aired. I legitimately didn't even know video game commercials were even a thing until I saw a random Halo 2 ad at like 3 in the morning one night. But for whatever reason, Advent Rising was EVERYWHERE. The ads were all over tv, posters in walmart. Radio ads. It was insane. It was a hype train that I don't think was matched until No Man's Sky came around.
Majesco was a fun place to work due to my coworkers there. It’s been just over nineteen years since the layoffs that ended it. I’ve had great jobs since, but I still miss that one the most.
I did not. I worked the tail end of Q*Bert for Dreamcast (some menu effects and high score screen) and start to finish for Soldier of Fortune and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force for PS2 (mostly OpenGL for PS2 VU1, some menu stuff, some optimizations, loading screens, simple MPEG player). They were all ports. We were part of the in-house Pipedream Interactive team.
Since I read the description, and since we're already sort of on the subject, I'd like to see the scam contest video this one was originally supposed to be! I kind of want to see how people reacted to cases more intentional than because people cheated the system en masse.
Advent Rising had to be fixed by players to sort the framerate issues out, and only those with hacked XBoxes could attempt that. You had to extract a txt file from the game, then edit it, and inject it back in.
Loved the "Bad Lip Reading" approach to the sponsor segment. That was a highly entertaining way to promote a service. Also, a plushie? Cool as hell, man!
I'd say "ineptitude." The poor schlubs who got roped into making Action 52 had about, maybe, 3 months to work on it, and I heard they weren't allowed to debug.
Weren't allowed to debug? May as well tell someone they can live but they don't get to have any of their senses.
@@zufieusagi7509 It's the gamepack of the Cheatermen who force devs to suffer.
Then it is a miracle the game ran to begin with
@@rompevuevitos222 Two of them don't work at all, and one of those two can only be made to work in an emulator.
From what I understand, the main guy behind Action 52 (I forget his name, and I think he’s dead now) had NEVER previously been involved in anything related to video games or computers at all. He got the idea for A52 from a bootleg NES cartridge he came across that contained like a dozen or so (already-released) titles. This seemed to him like an easy way to get rich very quickly, so he hastily gathered whatever programmers and designers he could find( totaling to four at most), and gave them only three months to make an NES cartridge with 52 original games. It’s clear that this guy had no idea just how much time and effort it takes to make video games, and kept thinking about all of the millions of $ he was going to make from this genius idea. After the idea didn’t turn out to be as genius as he thought it was, he eventually left the public sphere entirely and hid from anyone looking for information on A52. In other words, A52 sucked so horribly because it was being headed by a used car salesman who didn’t really know what he was doing.
“Pepsi for Funerals”
I mean, I wouldn’t say no if it’s there...
Pepsi for Divorce Hearings
Sick band name brah
AVGN Reference
...TO CAUSE FUNERALS???
XD
Flippy did end up beating Ooze and taking the screenshot, sending it to Active Enterprises in the hopes of claiming that moolah. Whether Active Enterprises made good on their words is anyone's guess.
Who’s Flippy?
it seems odd that you would know that part of the story but not that part.. surely anyone who documented themselves beating it and submitting an entry also documented whether or not it worked.
@@KairuHakubi Eh, who knows if the dude got served an NDA (Non disclosure agreement) as a condition to receive his prize.
Which rather likely was NOT a 100K, lolz.
Andd he's in prison now.
Doesn't the game crash before you can really win?
Holy moly! My mom used to do taxes and had a client who said he was in the lead for a “win an island contest” in a video game. She didn’t tell us which game, because confidentiality, but she did say that the guy said that if he won there would be an option to just take 50k usd-which he would have taken to make a down payment for a house.
would there be confidentiality issues for being on a leaderboard? I mean surely the damage is done just by mentioning the contest, which would make it clear which game it was.
@@KairuHakubi I’m not that big of a gamer, so I never thought to look up which game it was. And I just assumed that any leader boards would have had their profile name or something vs real/legal name. Especially because Mom mentioned which chain department store his wife worked at, our home town has less than 15,000 people btw
Well, at least the guy had some sense. Though i'm kinda wondering where in the world Squenix would have found something that is simultaneously an island and small enough to only be 50k while still being considered as something sellable.
@@Llortnerof ironically enough, there is an island around here that you could get for 50k with money to spare, it has been for sale for about 20 years, it’s about 3 acres of sand and bushes. No one wants it and you can only get to it about 8 months out of the year because Michigan.
Your mom didnt trust you, so why would anyone else? :)
what? no SWORDQUEST ?! please do a full episode on that one, it's such an insane story.
I was hoping it would be here. I’m only on Staff of Karnaff, so now I won’t hold my breath
I recall an AVGN episode about that. Even I want to learn more about this mess of a contest.
Kind of a special case. It wasn't that the games couldn't be completed due to bugs or difficulty. It was that the fourth one was never finished/released. Due of course to the crash. There's no solid evidence that the third game's prize wasn't awarded in the form of a cash replacement (Atari would have been legally responsible for ensuring that at least that much occurred).
@@Asterra2 They would? Even with the crash? I’d love to hear the story on how that went down. I know Swordquest is legendary but I’m not super familiar with all the details
@@Asterra2 The real question is where the last items went, probably melted down and sold for cash
The Ooze one has Flintstones, Puzzle Room and Snow Halation.
SiIcagunnered everyone.
Yup.
TODOKETE
He aware their HQ rips.
If I ever find a partially melted trophy with the words Karnath written on it, I'm assuming there's an ancient curse on all those that look upon it and getting the fuck out of there.
🏆
Horror Movie makers: Write that down, write that down!
@@tammytheranger7645 Would make an excellent idea for another sequel to The Exorcist
F. Would've loved a Pepsi calculator ruler.
Something like that would buy an 8-year old a few weeks of Notoriety back in the day. Who knows what you have to do these days...
It looks like some cheap tat with a badge stuck on it.
It would be a novelty more than anything, plus again I could see somebody getting quite excited to actually own one, cause people collect a lot of different stuff, including food branded merch like Coca-Cola or Fast Food stuff like McDonald's...
Goes with my Dr. Pepper slide ruler.
Anyone remembers that video of CWC winning that SEGA Sonic contest in '92?
_Everyone lost in that one._
this joke has more layers then shrek
Pretty much the high point of his entire life :(
I feel like the entire internet won with that contest. We got a solid three years of creepy and hilarious fun. Now it's just all creepy and depressing.
@@Larry *Her
@@allieginter8438 *Him actually
Back in 1980s, the magazines had programming contests that no one won. If you happened to send in the right answer, it either didn't arrive in time, or someone already sent it in...as told to me by one of the editors.
While not intentional, Gamepro had an unwinnable contest in 1994. Shortly after Mortal Kombat 2 came out in arcades, they had an article showing how to unlock the fights against Jade, Smoke and Noob Saibot. Since at the time we didn't know that was every secret fight, they had a contest where you could win an MK2 arcade game if you found a fourth secret fight.
You reckon they just made a mistake?
That sounds more scammy more than anything.
@@KairuHakubi No, it was GamePro, they knew there wasn't a 4th secret fight.
I think it was an April Fools article.
Every time Larry says “I’ll get me coat”, my soul becomes a little more enlightened.
It's a fast show sketch from the 90s
@@mscanlan3287 It's a saying from well before that
Why is the Cheetahman theme such a FUCKIN' JAM?
It's so good, that it's actually become a meme in Japan. No joke.
It had more time put into it than anything else.
@Otaking are there any other doujin scenes based on obscure American video games?
It is permanently associated with that one rage inducing version of 1-1 that also used battle cats
@@otaking3582super syobon moment
The Guru Larry plushie is the perfect gift for the child you want to have daily nightmares.
I've just ordered two for my little basssstaa... lovelies!
Fun fact: The creator of the Zero Escape Trilogy's first game was actually Pepsi Man as a 3d model maker!
Which is how I found out about Pepsi Man.
I can't believe nobody talks about the hidden Funyarinpa in Pepsiman.
@@ThatguycalledJoe IKR
wait... pepsi man made 999?!?! 😳😳😳
If true, that’s awesome.
there's something hilariously ironic in a company dipping their toe in edgy water and eating shit so hard they find better success in a game about a polite japanese stay at home mom.
Is it just my imagination, or are Guru Larry's "But...HELLLLLOOO YOOOUUUU"s getting longer and longer? By next year I wouldn't be surprised if 2 minutes of his next video's run time was him just saying that. 😄
Get him to team upwith the lock picking lawyer. 4 minutes of helllllloooooooo yoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuu” followed by 8 seconds of: “today we have for you a lock that I picked while reciting the intro. In any case, that’s all for today.”
@@MisterCasket Yeah, he was a lot snappier in his older videos. What happened?
idk, I like that it's slowly getting longer, makes me laugh... though I might be in the minority so don't take this comment seriously (also sorry that this reply is coming a month late, I've only recently started binging him)
@@PyroShadow117 unforgivable
4:24 oh crap I heard siivagunner, he got siivaed
Highlight of my childhood (in terms of winning stuff) was getting a copy of Sonic 3 from a McDonald's contest
Nice 😎
Larry Bundy Jr: *says "I'll get me coat" the first time*
Me: hue hue
Larry Bundy Jr: *says "I'll get me coat" the 7583838825th time*
Me: hue hue
I absolutely LOVE Larry's terrible puns, they're Dad Joke tier
You should look up the movie prop guy who does shorts I can't remember the channel name. Super dad jokes.
It's not a Fact Hunt video until Larry gets his coat.
'Curly Wurly on a log'. Priceless & also accurate 👍😂
Finally, a guru Larry video I can actually predict one of the entries for. It’s Action 52’s “Ooze”
My first guess. Let’s find out.
Came lmao.
To be fair, we all knew Ooze was going to be on the list.
I came.
I actually predicted that one too. I remember looking up history videos on the game, and the Ooze crash is something that has come up
Larry, I honestly have to periodically take breaks from your vids just so that I can binge watch them later without running out. You're brilliant, loved, and appreciated.
Ha, thanks dude! Yeah, there's quite a few of them now! Seen people on here say they lost a whole weekend watching them! But thank you!
I love how every Larry video starts out with myriad footage of unrelated games just so you'll go "wait what game is that? That looks pretty cool"
I'm kinda shocked the Atari 2600 Swordquest games weren't on here.
I know that's about as common knowledge as the Action 52 one, but still.
That was the first game I thought of when I saw this video drop.
Larry decided to save that one for its own video - would've taken too long to do it justice here.
Larry says he is working on a video about that. Swordquest is a different case in that due to the Video Game Crash happening during the contest. Atari got sold and the last game never got released. So it wasn't about the games themselves, but outside circumstances ended it prematurely. We can only imagine what would have happened if it was able to be finished.
Those games are even included on the Atari Flashback Classics compilation for switch
Action 52 was the topic of an episode of From Concept to Console. The programmers got SCREWED royally!
That Guru Larry plushie would make a great companion for an OneyNG plushie
no Tomar one though
Omg, that Orson Scott Card line is one of the best you've ever written! 🤣
Wait until you hear about what my mom wanted me to do as a kid. Cleaning my room? Good luck
There are some kids that took it to the next level dumping all their Legos on the floor so their parents won't be able to whoop them
@@ClockWithoutNumbers that's funny! also if the parents put shoes on, they would be able to get through the Legos. that's why the kids should fill the parents shoes with thumbtacks or dog crap, and then they could cover their floor with Legos! that way, they won't be able to get across the Legos and it would be too unpleasant or too painful to put shoes on, making them unable to reach the kid. (DISCLAIMER! I am joking. do NOT do this. if anyone actually does it, I'm not responsible for ANY medical bills, shoes being ruined by dog shite, or any situations where any kid dumb enough to do this got their ass kicked by their angry parents for putting thumbtacks or dog feces in their shoes. also, to anyone who sees this funny comment and does this, it's your own fault for doing it in the first place. I'm only joking, not actually suggesting that anybody do something this ridiculous. )
@@tylerkovalskas9780 Thumb tacks is just evil.
I'll never grow tired of Larry's alliterative elocution's at the top of every episode.
i could guarantee you that ooze from action 52 will be on this list
edit: i was right 5:08
Pretty sure everyone called it.
The smile on your plushy reminds me of the smile of an evil crazy character from 90's cartoons. Nice.
" more crap then the trending page of youtube" there it is , the realest thing I've ever heard
I was expecting the Hold Your Wee for a Wii challenge, which was so poorly thought out that a woman died trying to win it.
Dear Larry, its only come to my attention recently that you are still on the Channel Awesome website. I just want you to know, from the bottom of my heart...
Well played, sir.
May the odds be ever in his favor.
Great video with mostly stories I'd never heard of. The only one I had even a vague knowledge of was the weird "win an island" contest for Just Cause 3. I'm surprised you didn't bring up Hareraiser, the 1984 computer game game that was supposedly part of a puzzle to win £30 000 except... it just wasn't.
Not only was the game, and therefore the puzzle, released in two parts, forcing people to buy two games for the price of one for a total of £17,90€ (again, in 1984 money), but it seems very likely that there was nothing to solve, as the "game" consists entirely of a few screens of borderline empty landscapes so devoid of any detail it seems unlikely to have any actual meaning, let alone form a puzzle, so a lot of people today believe it may well have been a straight-up scam (which might be why Larry didn't include it as he seems to have gone for contests that were just not thought through as opposed to intentional scams). Oh and I should mention, looking at pictures is ALL the "game" is. There's no gameplay to it otherwise, the only piece of interaction is to press a button to get the titular hare to move to a different location.
Adding to the accusations of it being a scam is the backstory of the person who made the game. For you see, part of the prize you could supposedly win is a jewel called the Golden Hare, which the creator of the game won in a similar puzzle years earlier. It was a sort of ARG before ARGs were a thing, as it centred around an art book called Masquerade, where each piece contained a hidden clue which, when put together to solve the puzzle, would reveal the real-world location where the aforementioned jewel was buried.
Now, that contest was completely legit, and was actually a very clever way to get people to look more closely at art books rather than just flick through. Where it gets screwy is that the winner turned out to have cheated (I'll leave you to look it up if you're interested as that's quite a story in itself). So the guy had already "won" the prize in a fraudulent way, so it doesn't seem like a stretch to assume that Hareraiser was another scam by the same grifter.
Ashens did a talk about that at the Norwich Games Festival, and it's on UA-cam.
I'm surprised there was no mention of the Wolfenstein 3D competition.
For those not in the know, Apogee had a competition where the first person to call Apogee with the correct phrase (Aardwolf) would get free Apogee games for life. This phrase was hidden in a pushwall maze in Wolfenstein 3D (specifically Episode 2, Level 8), with the maze designed so that it was possible to prevent yourself from reaching the phrase.
The problem? Before the contest was even announced, people had made level editors for Wolf 3D and hacked their way through the maze, and were already calling Apogee to say Aardwolf. They cancelled the contest before it even started, and later releases of Wolf 3D don't even have the sign anymore, as it's been replaced with a pile of bones.
I love your content Larry, wish you would upload more often but I know how hard it is to make videos. Already watched your backlog, thanks for the good times and looking forward to the next one.
man, I remember advent rising. Even though I was 14 at them time. The wrecking that game got was relentless.
yeah it could of been a halo killer if it wasn't done by a bargain bin publisher .......I wonder if it could be remastered by someone better ....
@@MrNightshade2010 Advent Rising would have never "killed" Halo; gameplay wise, they fill two different niches. That's why Mass Effect wasn't a "Halo killer," but Call of Duty (and Bungie/343 trying to turn Halo into Call of Duty) was. Instead, like Mass Effect, Advent Rising would have ascended along side the two... had it not been the first game ever developed by a studio that had only made cinematics and published by a company that seemed to only release good games by accident.
15:21 The graphic of Larry's expression when giving a cheeky comment is slowly becoming my favorite thing of all time
Psyconauts, that was a good game
It was made by one of gaming's greatest storytellers after all :D
There were a couple good (or at least decent) games in that mix for the consolation prize selection.
Red Steel 2 in the intro makes me happy.
As for the contests... I remember when Runescape held Deadman Tournaments that ended up becoming a complete mess with a single clan holding the safe area with mules giving items to the leader so that they could win and split the money with the clanmates... fair play indeed.
wow, that Action 52 one...
This was the best ad intro I've ever seen. Genius. Also, great video, as always. Thanks Larry
thank you :)
You know Larry, not only was I thinking how nice it would be to have another one of your episode for once today, but how I also love it when you tell a bad joke and go, “I’ll get me coat.” And here we are right here within the span of even the first entry.
P.S. Could you ever possibly do a big docu episode about the career of Peter Molyneux, your favorite punching bag? I just love hearing you educate on things in that awesome voice and charm. What better subject to listen to you ramble on for an hour or so with sharp wit and snark than that bald headed buffoon.
I would like to add two games on that list : "Hareraiser" and "Hareraiser Finale" on multiples 8 bits computers.
It's games only made solely for competition purpose where you have to find an actual treasure location. I heard of those games from Ashens video at the Norwich Gaming Festival (Link : watch?v=ouvi-fwrfIY).
I won't go into details about the (really bad) games but here's the reason why it goes from almost impossible to impossible :
- Incomprehensible game
- Expected the players to buy 2 AAA priced games
- The necessary 2nd game "Hareraiser Finale" simply don't exist on some machines despite having an existing first one.
This is why I LOVE YOU. Advent rising bring back nostalgia from staring at it in the hastings display showing win 1 million dollars. I thought about asking my mom to buy it but the cover just looked whack af
Honestly the game itself is pretty whack too, but it was at least a decent premise (It really is Mass Effect before Mass Effect)
Should you be so inclined, you can buy Advent Rising on Steam for $10. However, be warned; the game is every bit as bug infested as people say it is. You'd almost swear it was an alpha build for a Bethesda game. But when you can get it to work (the bugs are annoying, but not impossible to wrangle), you just might sigh in disappointment knowing that the genuinely good mechanics of it's game design will probably never be used again.
The first time I ever watched a sponsor plug just to look at the old computers. Well done, Larry. Well done.
Advent Rising wasn't even a bad game, but it's a shame the sequels never got done. It had some promise.
I remember playing it; it wasn't glitchy, good story but the actual game play was a little monotonous once you got the super powers.
'Utterly pointless trivia on obscure video games' is my favorite kind of utterly pointless trivia 👌
No way did I ever think I’d hear “Eye of the Chicken” again
This MMO called R.Y.L. 2 had a fake million dollar contest around 2006 -7 as well. I remember having some fun in the tutorial level, though.
Pre-Order the Guru Larry Plushie...
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Only available to order until Friday 30th April, then it's gone forever :'(
Ordering now good sir!
I didn't know I wanted a huggable larry until now
So close to 200!! I NEED THIS PLUSH ASAP! lol
Big fan
@@serveaux Ooh, thanking you kindly sir!!! :)
And just like that......my weekend is absolutely complete.
The fact I saw footage of The Last Story got me excited already, even though I know it has nothing to do with the video.
I knew Advent Rising would be here from the moment I read the title.
That game should be blacklisted from these lists from now on. The horse has been beaten into vapor.
@@Theshawnusgames I hadn't heard of it before now
@@loganrenfrow2544 so, you've never watched a list video about game contests then? Lol
@@Theshawnusgames that's a weirldly specific thing to expect everybody to have done
@@TheshawnusgamesActually no, not that I recall.
In the Mega Man X Dive art contest that I entered I heard there was no winner and many of our submissions were not shown including mine.
Wait there was a megaman x contest?
brings to mind Rockman Dash 3, which had a contest winner's design in it or something like that.. what a thing to cancel. Capcom's shareholders should sue them for gross mismanagement.
@@danielotano8677 yes, however youtube will not allow me to post any links otherwise I would have given you the contest page for information, and the voting page.
The site is now removed so you need find both of the urls and then put them into the internet archive.
I even tried linking the archived urls pastebin with no luck sorry :/
@@Digiflower5 oof that is sad 😞
@@danielotano8677 Put this at the end of the pastebin url. After the slash. F4faxdc5
While not a contest grub a game, I remember a contest that was constantly being run in gaming magazines where you could win every console, including a neo geo, computer, accessories, etc. I think you were supposed to answer some trivia questions. If I'm not mistaken it ended up coming out that it was a scam of some kind. Maybe you had to pay a couple of bucks to enter or something. This contest was constantly getting retooled and presented in slightly different ways every few months.
That plushie looks so damn creepy!!! That it's beyond creepy and goes the full spectrum, from blasting beyond creepy!!!!!!!!!!! and back again to kind of cute
I remember that music at the start from WWF Attitude, think it was a custom entrance theme. Classic game!
I can't ever seem to win any video games or contests, so now I don't feel so alone lol. Thank you Guru for more great content!
Oh and first time I've ever been nearly first in a comment section! 🤯🥳
Don't forget about the Atari 2600 SwordQuest games. Each one offered a prize for completing the game, and then the four winners would compete in an ultimate challenge for $50k. But two of the four games in the series were never released, so their prizes, as well as the grand prize, have gone unclaimed.
I was expecting this one.
Glad you acknowledged that the Trending tab of UA-cam is filled with utter garbage videos. You have to be extremely lucky to find anything there worth watching.
More like Trending for Morons
Dishonorable mentions:
Hareraiser (a scam said to have intentionally been made unwinnable)
Swordquest (the fourth game of the series was never released, or even developed for that matter)
Treasure Master
Wolfenstein 3D's "Call Apogee, Say Aardwolf" secret (cancelled due to too many cheaters)
I thought Jet Set Willy might be on here. Me and my friend used to put in pokes randomly and actually saw him run to the toilet and be sick. Of course we had no idea how many bottles had to be collected, though.
I've never seen Advent Rising and it looks good to me even now. I wanna play!
So great to see The Last Story in the opening roll. Oh Syrenne, so much more interesting than that simpering princess.
If you want, you can -acquire an over glorified rental- buy Advent Rising on Steam for $10. But to give you fair warning, its infamy for bugs and glitches is well earned; it's like an alpha build for a Bethesda game. But with enough perseverance, you can muscle past/through its code errors to have fun with it's legitimately good gameplay design... and that'll probably just fill you with the disappointment people like me have felt since 2006, knowing the game will never get a sequel.
Well Done, Larry! ❤
EDIT: Vyvyan Basterd at 10:52 was a bit of a surprise. Maybe he finally got someone to Patent "Jelly Botti" as a Videogame.
(Jelli Botti: The Game where you have to eat 18 Curries)
I live to hear that "Hello You". It makes me grin like an idiot everytime I hear it
Is it bad that I try to mimic him when he says it?
@@gnerkus If it's bad, then I don't want to be right. I do that too
15:43 Wouldn't be the end of legal troubles tied to Majesco considering TVTokyo and NAS sued 4kids for unauthorized GBA Video releases which they never paid royalties for (as well as shady stuff involving Funimation and apparently even Cartoon Network). Apparently Konami also sued 4kids over the GBA video releases too because Majesco is competition to Konami.
Ooh, I never knew that.
@@Larry As someone who was playing Chaotic when the game was shut down, I have a vested interest in the topic as 4kids tried to desperately grab some extra cash to help with their bankrupcy by suing TCDigital into banrkuptcy.
The annoying thing is that the moderators on the Chaotic forums were acting like everything was fine even after parts of the site started breaking and weren't getting fixed and Chaotic Coins never had the functions that were promised to us. It was the very essence of that dog that says "This is fine" as his house burns around him except at least there was no one around to hear his lie and his lie had no impact on anyone else.
Needless to say, when I first heard of the possibility of Chaotic coming back, I was insanely skeptical.
They kept trying to do it and it has yet to happen, even though it's been officially announced this time as opposed to how the diehard fans found it listed on the Kodo Studios (literally who?) website but nothing was heard about it and nothing came of it.
A spokesperson, the former Organized Play Manager, Dragonix was giving non-updates on a Discord server before mysteriously quitting shortly after the pandemic started. The pandemic itself gave them a convenient excuse to delay the supposedly existing news even further.
At most they've just officially released the existing episodes of the cartoon (seasons 1 to 3) on UA-cam. Not sure who actually owns the rights to it right now though. 4kids and Saban Brands are both gone now and I don't know what of 4kids' former properties Hasbro actually owns.
Your videos always make me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Like a Guru Larry plushie!
Majesco were behind some of the most astounding mismanagement-related franchise sabotages of the 10's.
I was waiting for the action 52 contest to be placed on this list.
Yeah I heard about that contest where the contestants got a handgun and sat in front of a Nintendo and whoever played it the longest without blowing their brains out won. It was a real tragedy because it was one of the biggest mass suicide events of the century so many people entered and only one made it out alive. #sacrism
@@tomwaters5090 Yeah not true. I know this is satire but some people won't get the joke. please add a /s so people don't get confused. Thank you.
@@krimsonkatt what do you mean?! It is true tho!
@@krimsonkatt I'm literally sitting here laughing my butt off because of the irony of your statement because literally the next comment after you commented is a person believing that what I said is true and I meant it as a dark joke. And so I'm laughing so hard that before I got a chance to do anything and see your common asking me to do something someone already commented thinking it was real.
@@nickyblue4866 not my statement that's 100% fiction right there
I had a friend that was really excited for Advent Rising and remember the contest being pulled back then, but I thought it had more to do with low sales and cancellation of the sequels.
I could definitely predict Ooze being on here but I’m more excited for the entries I haven’t heard about
C'mon Larry, we are all impressed by that Pepsi ruler calculator...
I don’t think that “containing more crap than the trending page on UA-cam” is even possible...
Some good videos end up on trending from time to time. Pretty much every AVGN, OSP, and TheOddsOneOut video gets put on trending and those videos are pretty good. Though 99% of the time it's complete crap. Even still, Action 52 is still worse. Literally the only good thing from that game was the Cheetahmen theme, which is legitimately amazing, but otherwise it's quite possibly the worst game of all time. 52 terrible games that can barelly even be called "games" for $250. ($470 in today's money, a little less than the price of a PS5)
@@krimsonkatt I don't trust the odd ones out.
@@krimsonkatt avgn is garbage these days
@@kamikazilucas them other guys fuckin ruined it. The one dude is cool, but the rest of them guys try to act like they are as smart as James & its just pathetic & sad. Im still upset they got rid of Mike's artwork for those terrible thumbnails. Its like they want Cinemassacre to be like nostolgia critic🤮
i dont even understand how most of stuff on trending even gets there
then again im kinda into more obscure stuff than most people
Great prizes! The Pepsi Challenge calculator especially sounded cool.
Calculator ruler!
@@Larry That's right. A Pepsi calculator ruler. Awesome thing to have. 😊
personally i liked what Active Enterprises LTD was trying to do, compilation games are all too commonplace on the PC, so they tried to bring that to consoles, it was way too ahead of it's time, but even with the shoddy execution it was a solid idea.
To think, it all came about due to a pirate cart that Vince Perri’s son had. He figured why not make something like it that was legal. It’s a shame the whole thing was a dumpster fire.
“Sounds great, right? Your own private island to relax and socially distance yourself from the rest of humanity? No!“ 😆😂🤣 I love your videos for ever, Larry 🔥 🤟!
Peace ✌️!
Love the “destroy the franchise by desperately appealing to SJW‘s“ line, too 😂!
Larry used a SiIvagunner rip!
He used it when he was talking about The Ooze's contest at 5:42
Having owned a zx spectrum and loading games off tapes, listening to screech coming through the computer rather than the TV and having to watch the representation of the game loading as a photosensitive epilepsy inducing border, seeing you use this as an episode cutter, brings back so many memories.
Oh god I would love to hold a contest and put in the fine print "all costs associated with this prize are the responsibility of the winner"
It is kind of depressing though that since score hacking is inevitable now, we can't have fun contests like that. used to feel cool potentially being part of some big thing a lot of gameplayers are involved in.
That's the end credits for every game show and the fine print for every contest I've ever seen. "Not responsible for tax, title, registration"
@@themonkeyhand right but that's not ALL costs. they pay for the cost of the actual item
This is the best sponsor advert I have ever seen. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fantastic.
Nice one Larry, perfect timing.
Thanks, it was supposed to go up last week, but I wasn't happy with it, one of the segments I scrapped entirely and covered an all new game instead.
@@Larry mm! may i ask which contest was scrapped?
@@yoymate6316 Swordquest
Given the events of the past few months, I feel like a "5 times game consumers overturned corporate stupidity" video is in order.
This is why I expect nothing from contests...
Imagine having plush likenesses of yourself and people excitedly paying for them, spreading your dopplegangers throughout the world like a secret, cuddly army. That's living the dream, no lie. I love Larry Mini.
Well, they all have cameras hidden in the eyes, so it's all to my advantage :D
12:52 "Desperately appealing to SJWs" Seriously Larry, I thought you are better than that?! What is exactly "SJW" in Mass Effect Andromeda unlike other Mass Effect games?
I was wondering the same thing.
Triggered
The joke is that Orson Scott is often viewed as right and religious leaning vs mass effect is nearly anthicial to one another. It’s not a blast on either. One gets you reliably religious bookstore sales and the other gets you blue check mark praise. I thought it was a clever quip but you’d have to know his prior history and controversy.
@@bashildy "blue check mark praise" Is that some kind of terminology in American politics or something? What Harry said it still pretty lazy and nonsensical.
@@Chud_Bud_Supreme Do....do you not know what that means?
God, I remember the hype leading up to Advent Rising. It was like nothing I had ever seen.
I lived in an area where commercials for video games just weren't aired. I legitimately didn't even know video game commercials were even a thing until I saw a random Halo 2 ad at like 3 in the morning one night.
But for whatever reason, Advent Rising was EVERYWHERE. The ads were all over tv, posters in walmart. Radio ads. It was insane.
It was a hype train that I don't think was matched until No Man's Sky came around.
hearing the CheetahMen theme made me smile. The only good thing about action 52 was the CheetahMen music.
Majesco was a fun place to work due to my coworkers there. It’s been just over nineteen years since the layoffs that ended it. I’ve had great jobs since, but I still miss that one the most.
Did you work on Drake of the 99 Dragons?
I did not. I worked the tail end of Q*Bert for Dreamcast (some menu effects and high score screen) and start to finish for Soldier of Fortune and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force for PS2 (mostly OpenGL for PS2 VU1, some menu stuff, some optimizations, loading screens, simple MPEG player). They were all ports. We were part of the in-house Pipedream Interactive team.
My guy its always so good to see a new video from you. 👍🏿
I see you in the comment sections of random videos i stumble upon and i smile lol 😆
Ahh finally! It feels like YEARS between videos!
I disagree Larry, I've watched enough speed runners to know that anything is possible if you glitch hard enough.
And play the Japanese version.
You’re stuff is so consistently good, thank youuuu!
Since I read the description, and since we're already sort of on the subject, I'd like to see the scam contest video this one was originally supposed to be! I kind of want to see how people reacted to cases more intentional than because people cheated the system en masse.
Advent Rising had to be fixed by players to sort the framerate issues out, and only those with hacked XBoxes could attempt that. You had to extract a txt file from the game, then edit it, and inject it back in.
Can't believe you STILL haven't done "top 5 things I've put on me bum". Scandalous.
The simpsons on dvd; season 4 to be precise.
Loved the "Bad Lip Reading" approach to the sponsor segment. That was a highly entertaining way to promote a service.
Also, a plushie? Cool as hell, man!
Glad you enjoyed it!