10 Weirdest Licensed Video Games of All Time

Whether they’re based on unusual subject matter or just make some unique choices with their gameplay, there are a whole bunch of licenced games out there that are worth a second look ... if only because you can’t believe you saw it right the first time. Here are the 10 Weirdest Licenced Video Games of All Time!
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Kiki McIntyre
Video Editor: Leonardo Bacalzo
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[@teamtim87]

Even weirder: Akuma was included in Street Fighter: The Movie - The Game, though he wasn't in the movie.

[@shawnfields2369]

I'm sure Akuma was planned for the movie, too, but they didn't have time to include him maybe? Either way, SFTMTG, sucks and there's literally no reason to ever go back to it, over other SF games. Not even as a joke game. And not even because it tells you what happened to Guile's brother, a dude named Gunlock, from some game called "Saturday Night Slam Masters", who'd been in a deep cover assignment for years, and then goes back to being a pro wrestler. The Akuma in SFTMTG,(or Street Fighter The Movie: The Game, if you don't like acronyms), looks more like a bad cosplay of Akuma.

[@luhyzi5012]

I’m glad you mentioned Darkened Skye. Not only is it hilarious that there’s a tie-in game for Skittles, the game itself is both fun and rather well written

[@shanenice5380]

I loved that game.not to many good and funny games not coming out

[@alanfike]

Home Improvement for SNES. Easily one of the weirdest ideas for a game ever made.

[@Ungabunga707]

I wonder what came first. The video game idea based on the show, or the video game styled casting card(?) for one of the kids in the credits

[@TrashTalkin]

Street Fighter the Movie the Game has 2 versions, too. Console and arcade play entirely differently, developed by different companies, and look differently too.

[@DanicaDaystar]

To be fair, the Def Jam games had the massive benefit of running on the greatest and most fun grappling game engine of all time and in any known alternate dimension. The mechanics of that engine are just fundamentally fun and any license could have made a fun game with it.

[@kattphive]

The mummy demastered is really a good and fun game. Though it is a little short, and kind of easy. I still do totally recommend it as a cheap play

[@ChanningKing]

Does the existence of “The Mummy Demastered” validate Universal’s whole “Dark Universe” project?

[@shawnfields2369]

Nope. Tom Cruise's "The Mummy" still sucks so bad, it killed off that possibility.

[@audiooddities9982]

I actually played Darkend Skye when it first came out, rented it from blockbuster. Imagine my surprise when I found my first Skittle in it! For years, I would tell people about this weird ass Skittle themed game on GameCube, and no one believed me, I feel vindicated that so many people know about it now! Lol

[@leesherman5192]

Do the dino-headed space slugs ever show up?

[@thekingofoldskool2]

I had Motley Crue Pinball on the SEGA Mega Drive. I still have it in my loft.

[@SoCalJellybean]

I will only ever hear 🎶 “PEPSI MAAAAN!!!” 🎵 for the rest of my life.

[@bellers01]

Yes haha

[@mattalan6618]

Its the main reason I drink Coke

[@BigAL68xyz]

Pepsi for TV game!

[@YesOkayButWhy]

Main reason I snort coke

[@trickbaggames6579]

I feel like the skittles game probably didn't start as one. The devs probably needed money so they got money from skittles and were required to include it somehow in the game.

[@Dargonhuman]

That's honestly the case with a lot of the stranger licensed games - the devs wanted to make an original game, got a contract for some other IP with an impossible deadline, then just worked the IP into the already developed game.

[@peacemaster8117]

The truth is way more insane, minimme did a video on the game and spoke to some of the people who made it. Basically, the publisher (Simon & Schuster) paid the Mars company for licensing rights to the Skittles brand so they could put Skittles in their game, thinking that a recognisable candy IP would somehow make the game sell better. Some time late into production they realised how stupid this was and removed most of the overt mentions of Skittles, as well as removing it from the game's name, but it was too late to remove them completely and that's why the product inclusion is so hilariously half-assed.

[@ShenDoodles]

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand will always be my pick for this, but it’s been talked about to death. Darkened Skye is possibly the weirdest.

[@MrBeardsley]

Fun fact, it was partially 50’s son’s fault that game was such a mess. When the developers gave him an early build to play he let his 12-year-old son play it, and his son said there should be helicopters and Halo-style drivable vehicles. The game wasn’t designed to include anything like that, but 50’s kid wanted it so they had to force all those vehicle sections in.

[@V1VISECT6]

I rented Blood on the sand from Blockbuster many years ago expecting less than what I really got. Don't get me wrong it's a dumb game that I had a blast playing with my friends. I've played worse games, both liscenced and original. Blood on the sand isn't one of em. 7.8 outta ten, "too much sand".

[@anotheryoutubeaccount5259]

​@@MrBeardsley I mean, it makes sense. What'd a fiddy game be without some big baller military SUV action

[@surtech5]

Intro 1:05 - #10 Journey 2:32 - #9 WWE Crush Hour 3:52 - #8 Street Fighter: The Movie 5:14 - #7 Blues Brothers 2000 6:38 - #6 Pepsi Man 8:10 - #5 Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn 9:40 - #4 Super Godzilla 10:58 - #3 The Mummy Demastered 12:30 - #2 Def Jam Vendetta 13:48 - #1 Darkened Sky

[@felman87]

Street Fighter The Movie The Game feels like it comes from another multiverse. A world similar to ours but different in a few unique ways. One of which is that their Street Fighter featured digitized actors while Mortal Kombat was the game with cartoony sprites.

[@bebopblue]

The Journey sprites looks like the mini games that use photos of your head from Gameboy Camera.

[@metasteelgaming4373]

I still get stupidly furious that they never released Game Boy Camera as a Virtual Console title for 3DS. Game Boy Camera was unrivaled, until maybe WarioWare.

[@MrBeardsley]

Street Fighter: The Movie- The Game is surprisingly fascinating, both the development process and the game itself (technically games, the console version of SF:TM-TG isn’t a port so much as it’s a reskin of Super Street Fighter II Turbo). Matt McMuscles has done several videos on it including episodes of What Happened and Worst Fighting Game, they’re highly recommended.

[@bychrischannel]

You know a game that's MUCH weirder than Super Godzilla? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Adventures in Tinkertown. An educational PC game based on the 1968 movie, but it doesn't follow the plot of the movie at all. In fact, the only thing it has in common with the movie is the title car. It's like the Stuart Little Numberland & Wordland games (Apparently reskins of older Numberland & Wordland educational games.) that I played as a kid, turned up a few notches!

[@elyjahkidnot]

You have no clue how long I've been trying to find that Stuart Little game, omg hearing the sound effects totally takes me back! Now if I could only remember the game we had which included a plastic keyboard that you'd put over the existing one...I want to say it was called 'easy keys keyboard'

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

Another fun fact about Darkened Skye is that it features the voice of Paul Wann, one of the voice actors from the Zelda CD-i games in his only game outside the CD-i.

[@dylanogg347]

While Raul Julia's performance stands above everything else, the Street Fighter Movie is a classic in its own right. With memorable characters and dialogue, it has a sense of fun that permeates throughout the movie. After thirty years, it remains one of the most accurate movie adaptations of Video Games. I ain't kiddin'.

[@johnbuck4395]

Funny how the narrator of this video pronounced his last name as Julia and not the Hispanic Julia lol😂

[@joelrisky]

I know it sucks but I have such a soft spot for Street Fighter: The Movie- The Game

[@MegaShingo97]

Arcade or PS1/Saturn ?

[@renatotavaresdasilva5164]

Waiting on Sawada for Street Fighter 6!

[@camerongist2159]

Looks better than the weird realistic/cartoony style of the newest Street Fighter

[@prettytone2089]

Lol I had that trash for Saturn as a kid

[@MegaShingo97]

@tone2089At least the Saturn's version played like normal Street Fighter II

[@christianlorre]

you missed some other great ones - gilligan's island had a game for the original nintendo, there were games based on the mascots cool spot for 7 up and the noid from domino's pizza.

[@leesherman5192]

The Noid was quite the celebrity in his day.

[@heebusjeebus64xxjivo70]

I can kind of understand the final game. Around that time there were these dark fantasy Skittles commercials where it always showed someone traversing a fantastical world where it rains skittles. Edit: As for the Blues Brothers game I heard somewhere that the N64 game was going to be based on a Fox Kids animated series that never got off the ground. I couldn't find any info on that so that might be true or false.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Another one I feel is worth mentioning is Ecks vs. Sever, an FPS game for the GameBoy Advance developed as a tie in with the movie Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. Despite the movie completely bombing, the game actually got a sequel!

[@evolancer211]

I remember playing blue's Brothers on the GB. Great and difficult game lol

[@LoverOfBellies]

Pepsiman seems more like a precursor to the endless runner games not Crash Bandicoot

[@listerofsmeg884]

He said that...

[@YesOkayButWhy]

That's what she said...

[@Darkreaper1982]

Monty Python's Flying Circus for the Commodore 64. Don't feel like i need to explain why that's a weird game!

[@leesherman5192]

I totally thought Pepsiman was a KZbin comedy sketch pretending to be a weird Japanese thing. Now I have to go look up Italian Spider-man to see if that was real too.

[@ScumDog420]

Wow you really had me with that Journey bit lol

[@ShenDoodles]

I was wondering what Journey was a tie-in to

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

Street Fighter The Movie on PS1/Saturn was actually pretty amazing. 1 of my favorite games in the series! It looks different but, it plays like a cross between SSF2T and Street Fighter Alpha

[@Bullman422]

Rap Jam: Volume One (1995). It Merged then current 90's Rap/Hip Hop artist with Basketball. Rap Artist included Coolio, House of Pain, LL Cool J, Naughty By Nature, Onyx, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, Warren G, and Yo-Yo. Publisher was Mowtown Game (okay?). Despite it being labeled Volume One for some strange reason there was never a Volume 2. Really?

[@burtblando8806]

Also even though the game starred hip hop artists it had very little music of any kind. They must have spent their whole budget on buying the rights to use everyone's likeness.

[@listerofsmeg884]

1:45 trampolines? surely they are meant to be bass drums/kick drums, given the band asthetic?

[@andredavidkilian4607]

Pepsi Man is one of the legendary games still loved by people today

[@MadsterV]

"any popularity the movie might have had, which wasn't much, was long gone" (2 years) Blues Brothers. Yeah, you're probably very young.

[@therunawaykid6523]

Imo one of the best games based on a movie is matrix the path of Neo the beginning actually has you making your way out of your office as Neo in his suit to escape the agents while being guided by Morpheus on your cell phone it feels very authentic to the beginning of the first film and I love how your other work colleagues react to you creeping around

[@Jolis_Parsec]

You can also manage to get yourself caught like how it plays out in the film if you don’t feel like going through the entire level trying to escape, but where’s the fun in that? I remember getting Neo shot by one of the popos towards the end of the level by the way since instead of ducking past him to run out the nearby door and thus escape the building, I instead thought it would be a great idea to run up to him and try to make Neo shove him since you could do that with the police officers earlier in the level. Needless to say, Neo wasn’t able to dodge bullets this early into the game and I got forced to start over from the last checkpoint, all the while laughing at my own goofiness for not simply running out the door to begin with.

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@Jolis_Parsec yeah it’s really cool how they put the other ending to the game based on your choice shows the devs loved the source material , I’m also sad I missed out on that amazing looking matrix unreal 4 demo but at least I got to try out the demo that let you chat to ai character who would respond to your questions in real time which was based in the same unreal 4 built world on my handheld pc - would love a brand new matrix game made today I think it could be incredible especially what is possible in games now

[@justinebartlett3714]

Why did I laugh out loud at “Shaqstory”? 😂

[@LilleyComix97]

The thumbnail was enough to hook me

[@coryautote]

LOL I was ready to make a nasty comment at the beginning of the Journey section. You got me! 😂

[@danielaart9779]

I thought for sure that the Tim Allen Home Improvement game would be on here. This was a very interesting list

[@leesherman5192]

I thought for sure that The Berenstain Bears: Extreme Sports would be on here.

[@dmcgee3]

That Journey game doesn’t need no instructions to know how to rock!

[@turdferguson2]

That's Foreigner

[@YesOkayButWhy]

That Journey game has been waiting for a girl like you!

[@marktheroux9465]

A few more I'm aware of: Earache: Extreme Metal Racing (vehicular combat game licensed by extreme metal label Earache Records) Drac's Night Out (unreleased NES game about Dracula wearing Reebok Pump sneakers) The Adventures of Gilligan's Island (NES) The Three Stooges (multiple platforms) Laurel and Hardy (Commodore 64) Chase the Chuck Wagon (Atari 2600 game only available from Purina by sending in dog food UPCs)

[@YesOkayButWhy]

Earache game?? Mad, gotta look that up

[@satanicgrizzlypuss8737]

I had blues brothers on N64 as a kid. Never got passed the first jail level. Could never figure out wtf to do.

[@pickleman40]

Glad I'm not the only one haha

[@DTM-Books]

This video misses the weirdest of the weird tie-in videogames: White Men Can't Jump on Atari Jaguar. Yes, you read that right. It's an NBA Jam knockoff named after the movie, and it's as odd as you'd expect. God Bless Atari Corp, those guys could be counted on to deliver the weirdness.

[@EddwardScissorhands]

I can’t believe I rented bluesbrothers 2000 from blockbuster and beat it. Ten at the time. There must of been like no games to rent that day lol!

[@chrisbellon3739]

90's street fingther movie is true guilty pleasure movie

[@grantorino2325]

2:34 Who remembers *WCW Motorsports* ? 🤦🏻

[@YesOkayButWhy]

Who remembers R Kelly Extreme Watersports?

[@RetroBratRose]

Odd one out, but liked Def Jam FFNY better than Vendetta. But never knew Shaq-Fu 2 had an Obama vs. Kanye mode, I may now have to give it a chance 🤣

[@jinstinky501]

Omg. How am I just hearing about this BB's game for the first time. My rom library thanks you :)

[@trevorstevenson4038]

That was exceptionally fun to watch. Cheers

[@dominicrowley3659]

I've legit been looking for a copy of darkened skye for the 2024 tat appeal

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

I remember seeing the cart for that Blues Brothers game in the old game shop I grew up with for years, always being curious what the hell the actual game was but never bought it. Man, I honestly wasn't about to guess it was a Banjo-esque platformer.

[@ratinthecat]

I recently learned that Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel had a tie in with Bawls energy drinks. Not quite a licensed game, but some odd product placement. Also, I was genuinely confused for a moment when Tom Cruise came on screen after the star of The Mummy was mentioned. I was fully expecting Brendan Fraser or The Rock.

[@EEazyM0neySniper35]

I remember one Christmas when I was 8 I wanted "Smackdown here comes the pain" arguably the best WWE game ever. That Christmas there was only 1 gift that was wrapped that resembled a video game and when I opened it it was WWE crush hour...... I was so heartbroken the next day my mom went out and got "Smackdown here comes the pain"

[@leonardobonino7929]

You should’ve added “Living World Racing” and “Habbitrail Hamsterball”. They were both made by Data Design Interactive which essentially means the games suck but it’s weird they got the license to a pet supply company…?

[@buffynatorofficial]

Pepsiman is a God-Tier! PEPSIMAAAAAAANNNN!!!

[@shawnallen1639]

Cornel Sanders’s was a fonder /creator not a mascot

[@bluedistortions]

Well, he was both. Much like how Chester Cheetah invented Cheetos.

[@jeremywilliams5141]

Wayne's World gets an honorable mention from me.

[@kingsmiles1]

the def jam games were SO GOOD

[@BigAL68xyz]

I'm surprised you didn't take it all the way back to the early 80 with Kool Aid Man and Chase the Chuck Wagon for the old Atari 2600.

[@ObiKKa]

TL;DW list: 10. Journey (1983 arcade game) 9. WWE Crush Hour (2003) 8. Street Fighter: The Movie (1995) 7. Blues Brothers 2000 (2000, of course) 6. Pepsiman (1999) 5. Shaw Fu: A Legend Reborn (2018) 4. Super Godzilla (1993) 3. The Mummy Demastered (2017) 2. Def Jam Vendetta (2003) 1. Darkened Skye (2002) Great list. Love you all in the TripleJump team! I haven't even heard of Darkened Skye and its obscure origins from a confectionery brand! Sad to see that the weird ones seemed to have died out somewhat after the sixth generation (after mid-2000s). Now it's only the small budget fare with a couple side-scrollers?

[@julienneaves790]

Calling Steel a mediocre superhero movie is most generous.

[@bojackhorsematt2315]

For you, the day Street Fighter - The Movie - The Game grazed your village was the most important day of your life. For Capcom, it was... Friday.

[@shawnfields2369]

But it's Tuesday...

[@morganneher8643]

Raul Julia = FLAWLESS 🔥

[@tupacca5136]

surprised the burger king games aren't on here. Sneak King became something of a meme for a while there when it came out.

[@baldpipesmoker1]

I liked the Mummy Demastered. It was a pretty good Metroidvania. I bought the Limited Run physical version. Or was it Special Reserve Games? I don't remember lol.

[@Mrchair905]

I vividly remember playing the Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events movie ps2 game, it was bad. Ten year old me loved it but I’ve looked at gameplay of it now and I can’t believe I enjoyed it lol.

[@Ohms_vs_Draaggs]

I remember the egg gun being a pain in the ass to fire

[@MysticWolf1223]

I don't care what anyone says, Shaq Fu was one of my favorite games growing up.

[@R3AL-AIM]

Crush Hour was a blast at its time. Me and my cousins played it often. Gave you something other than Twisted Metal lol

[@Gunh3d1]

The BLUES BROTHERS game for the SNES would have deserved being mentioned. As it is equally bizarre and has nothing to do with the movie its supposed to be based on.

[@TheDidymusBrush]

How's about The Eye, an awkward scifantasy action game for PC so bad the console ports were cancelled... but all based on the music of Queen? Also, Def Jam games were predated by a disappointing Wu Tang Clan beat em up.

[@TheConcertCruizer]

I contacted WayForward and had the development team sign my NES box set

[@kyleelduen4576]

I feel like you guys have done Shaq a greave injustice by using the movie “Steel” as the example of his acting/movie career instead of the 100% certified fresh absolute movie classic “SHAZAM!”

[@ericthompson5468]

I remember playing Shaq-fu on genesis. I loved playing as a kid.

[@Diwasho]

My guess for Darkened Skye was cereal. Close enough.

[@Copperyfoxx]

You totally j’baited me with Journey 😂😅

[@bobojenkins5805]

crush hour had way better controls than twisted metal

[@jimmcclements5229]

I remember playing Darkened Skye it was strange. Journey wasn’t that bad it was very memorable brings back memories when I would go to Fun ‘N Games the local arcade.

[@MountaineerVapes]

Lol Chester cheetah, dot from 7up. Sega genesis and super Nintendo days were wild with what was made into a game

[@ChaseOakley-rw2lx]

Fun fact: Crush Hour was more fun and more broad than twisted metal.

[@MAGA_Patriot2024]

I always thought the band members in the Journey game reminded me of a Monty Python cartoon, though not nearly as good.

[@butterbagboy]

I love journey, it’s like tron meaning several smaller games, and it’s pretty hard and challenging

[@unavailable1902]

Keep up the work

[@teresaweigel3611]

Thank you so much 💖🔆🤪

[@PlatyNews]

The March of the Penguins documentary had a DS game. It is not a documentary

[@Retro_Impulse]

When I was a kid I loved the tie-in game for Power Rangers The Movie

[@RIP19851]

I have both versions of Shaq-FU

[@johnbuck4395]

That Journey game looks like Gameboy Camera

[@MFNDman]

1 vs 100 was a great game for the 360. Bring it back

[@guillepankeke2844]

Cobra? the first game i finished, that i remember? On the Speccy? Licensed from the movie with Stallone?

[@cowpuddles4851]

BB 2000 had an amazing soundtrack.

[@w3bbi3]

I cant see ken in street fighter without seeing blood in blood out haha

[@DolphLundgrensDolphinDungeon]

I used to play Journey on a mame emulator stoned with friends when I was a teenager

[@ragcat3732]

I guessed m&ms for the last one but I guess I was wrong

[@Spacething7474]

where was house md on the ds for this list?

[@RETIREDAMATUER]

Burger King pocket rocket racer was my favorite

[@runningmanli6538]

Holy shit, Shaq can do a Rasen-Shuriken 🥷

[@MFNDman]

Brink was one of my favorite games. No joke

[@user-ch9gm3mj1j]

Can you get primal rage for the Sega genesis or auto destruct for the Playstation

[@ultraflamz64]

Blues Brothers 2000 sure is a game that exists

[@mattalan6618]

Kinda wish it didn't

[@javierserrano5706]

Gotta Love “Cool Spot” on Super Nintendo, that game rocks

[@reeceandben4876]

Shaq a doctor.