7 Surprising Ways Games Were Changed for Other Countries

[@MetalmcBiff]

The fact that the Biker Mice from Mars game got sponsored by Snickers instead of Mars bars is an absolutely devastating miss, even after all these years.

[@toratio8547]

Biker Mice from Snickers doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?

[@lmcgregoruk]

Well I mean since Snickers is made by the Mars corporation, it was sponsored by Mars, but yes I know what you meant.

[@ferd617]

@@lmcgregoruk Is it!? I couldn't remember, but that does make M&M Mars' decision on which product to place even more baffling.

[@jeffbrown3009]

Mars bars aren't really a thing in the US and it was an American show, so it wouldn't really have worked.

[@danielreed5199]

Probably was going to be called Marathon Mice from Mars, but they took so long to get it sorted that Snickers changed it's name in the meantime lol

[@radioaftermaththeband]

“Don’t worry about it, there’s simply no time” That line got me

[@CelticVictory]

But, what if I want to worry about it? The differences were somewhat interesting.

[@radioaftermaththeband]

@@CelticVictory I think maybe the AVGN did an episode on this awhile ago? I say that because I felt like I knew this already and have no other idea how I could have!

[@expendableindigo9639]

To quote Destiny, “I don’t even have time to explain why I don’t have time to explain.”

[@ancerus]

Michael Eisner is under pressure from Mickey Mouse in the car outside, "My foot is on the gas Michael, it's going to press down at any moment Michael"

[@federicomachado811]

​@@expendableindigo9639Destiny 🤢🤢🤢

[@Dribbleondo]

Was not expecting a near-one-take rant about an obscure game from Mike of all people.

[@Mr_J_Ralph]

Did anyone else get the impression that was the start of his nervous breakdown?

[@azuredragoon2054]

I managed to follow what he said. But I couldn't retain most of the information.

[@MrMBinder]

Mike's on fire, and I'm here for it 😂

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

​@@azuredragoon2054 I watched this while working and had to keep pausing to take calls, so that didn't make things easier with trying to follow all of that 😅

[@dragonusa]

Check out AVGN's take on the Crazy Castle series.

[@RekkaZaal]

Absolutely a standing ovation for that last one. Fantastic work all of you who had to sort that out, and Mike especially for having to present it.

[@iandoddsblah]

Love the idea of Mike, a corkboard, a load of red string and the Crazy Castle series...

[@kadosho02]

It is all true, it actually happened. It is completely nuts

[@BazTardSword]

Mike's mic 2 (not that mike) feat. bugs

[@katria2412]

I think I have never seen Mike closer to having a mental breakdown 😂

[@BlueJaybeard]

I'm pretty sure Mike is the real Pepe Silva.

[@MikayaAkyo]

@@katria2412 Mike probably needs 5 months of Vacation after this XD

[@amayaakane7216]

Mike’s sanity is in another Crazy Castle

[@oxfanblink4115]

Did he have sanity in the first place ? 😅

[@DirgeTV]

Which means naturally, we're gonna have to buckle up for yet another licensed character as the main star.

[@Lord_Of_Night]

Mario, your sanity is in another Castle

[@Strigulino]

Mike deserves some kind of award for that final segment.

[@soulreapermagnum]

honestly, i wouldn't mind them doing more in that style.

[@lucgav]

and Jane for the coldest sign-off yet

[@ka-mai]

He got the award: his brain exploded!

[@photoo848]

When he said "there's no time" I saw a glimpse of John Oliver in Mike's mannerism

[@ancerus]

I would happily watch infinite episodes of "Pepe Silva" Mike and pay for the privilege

[@PKMNwater]

I actually experienced anecdotally the whole Crazy Castle thing. When I was younger, I was gifted one of those pirate mega-carts that claimed to feature like a 999 games in one. A lot of the "games" were palette/sprite swap bootlegs of real games, so I figured the Crazy Castle "clones" were in a similar vein. However, my child brain did notice that usually the bootlegs ran and/or controlled terribly, but these games ran perfectly, but chalked it up to maybe whoever made those sprite swaps just really liked the IPs or something. It wasn't until a long while afterwards when I learned of what actually happened there.

[@marhawkman303]

yeah, the old days of the game industry when people didn't just DL a copy off the 'web. Physical copies might be the only way to play, even if a bootleg.

[@zacharysmith4856]

I really enjoyed the alliteration of “from York to Yokohama.” Whoever wrote that… 👏

[@kyoyaootori1104]

That line, too, caught my attention. Hats off to them.

[@Hadraedan96]

14:53 Hugo was a popular cartoon character across most of Europe appearing in comics, video games, and TV shows. He had his origins in Denmark, but was easily licensed and dubbed into many languages. Mark is unaware of him as he never really took off in the UK, but he was huge pretty much everywhere else in Europe during the 1990s and early 2000s. I grew up in Ireland where Hiúdaí, as we called him, was the host of the Irish language kids show Cúla4. He interacted with the human presenter in real time, introduced programmes throughout the day, and hosted a call in call-in gameshow where kids could win prizes (which is how I won my iPod Shuffle in 2006). He won Irish TV Personality of the Year in 2001 and 2004.

[@sarowie]

funny how Hugo to me - grown up in switzerland - feels very German. It shows how well Hugo integrated into the TV landscape he is presented in. Hugo having a bit of a "home grown" "unpolished" feeling helped with selling it as a local thing - it never looked like a big thing, but something that naturally exists and has it simple fan base.

[@CodecrafterArtemis]

Hugo was very popular in Russia. At least his game show was. I remember even getting a Hugo platformer as a kid, though I didn't play it for very long.

[@TheHUEZOX]

Here in Argentina, there was a TV show from when I was young, with this character, it was called "A jugar con Hugo" (Lets play with Hugo), however, it never got very popular.

[@anthraxous]

​@@TheHUEZOX I'm from Mexico and that is how I know Hugo, because of the argentinian show. There was also Kito pizza hahaha

[@FfejOnYT]

I really think Mike did fantastic explaining crazy castle. It makes me want to go hunting for the whole series.

[@AdrianColley]

Be vewwy vewwy quiet!

[@sdaubs]

Do you really need the entire series? Wouldn't just one of them be all of them?

[@dbadilotti]

Ok, this was just a wonderfully written episode. From "catchier than chickenpox" @1:07 to "from York to Yokohama" @3:03 to all of Mike's rant. Kudos to the writer(s).

[@kitestar]

The crazy castle rabbit hole is a tale as old as time, one tries to tell it only to go as crazy as them castles themselves

[@roguishpaladin]

Rabbit hole? I see what you did there.

[@chrislin2663]

Holy sh!t the last entry is 100% “researching weird Wikipedia articles at 3:00 a.m.” energy and I’m absolutely here for it

[@AlienBemular]

Mike went down too deep in the rabbit hole.

[@RecyllandHyde]

That was a genuinely confusing rabbit hole. Maybe Bugs Bunny dug it.

[@edwardling9614]

Rabbit/mouse/cat/ghostbusters/kid-clown/bunny/woodpecker hole and Hugo?

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Bugs Bunny hole.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Okay, maybe I should rephrase that... lol

[@CainPaisley]

Or mouse hole depending on where you are in the world

[@nicht-registrierternutzer4464]

I did not expect Mike: Beleaguered Game-Historian, but I am so here for it. :D

[@lacytaylor1501]

There's something hilarious about them changing Peach's animation to the point of making it look like she drank the entire bottle between getting off the track and to the podium

[@begoodjohnny1866]

And then had the nouse to put the cork back in

[@dft3091]

@@begoodjohnny1866 And somehow injected compressed air in.

[@DrZaius3141]

Due to centrifugal force, flipping a full bottle like she does would not necessarily mean that any liquid comes out. So there is no reason to suspect that the bottle is empty when she throws it.

[@fendrel]

Oh wow, a Hugo mention! Wasn't expecting that! The Hugo franchise was surprisingly popular in Scandinavia (not a MAJOR franchise, mind you, but recognizable enough) in the early 2000s, but I never knew they made a Hugo crazy castle game

[@petesmart1983]

It was on a popular kids TV show as a competition which they moved him with tone phones

[@wertyppl]

In Poland too! We were all screaming at the kids playing the game, not knowing that they were terrible mostly because the input lag was huuuge.

[@csvidal7375]

@@petesmart1983 In Portugal too. I feel old now.

[@ivanrojt1862]

​@@csvidal7375in LATAM too, especially in argentina (My country), chile and Uruguay i don't know much in bolivia or Venezuela, but in Perú wanst, crazy thing that in LATAM Hugo was really segmented bye country

[@toumabyakuya]

@@ivanrojt1862 It was popular in Venezuela as well.

[@ShaggyDogPhilosopher]

I've been watching this channel for, like, six years. Mike will be missed. His sacrifice was the best thing I've ever watched on this channel. More of that? Please?

[@darthsirrius]

More of Mike dying? Maybe re-watch 3-ways of Hitman lol?

[@ShaggyDogPhilosopher]

@@darthsirrius (It was less the dying than the performance)

[@CandidOrphan]

I'm surprised Pikmin 2 wasn't on this list. The treasures you get in the game vary based on whether you were playing North American, European or Japanese Version, due to both cultural differences and licensing. Not only that, the value of some of the treasures varies based on the region version as well.

[@dancingllama2392]

RIP Mike. Crazy castle was just to much.

[@toratio8547]

F

[@TheycallmeMrWonka]

I remember Hugo. He had his own game on Saturday morning tv. Kids would call in and shout commands to move him. I think it was maybe Live and Kicking or the itv show equivelant.

[@toongrowner1]

I remember the kids pressing the numbers on their phone to play, maybe they did it this way early on or I remember it wrong. Always wanted to call their too but never had the guts to ask my parents for permission XD

[@Kamakiri86]

@@toongrowner1 Never heard of this but it sounds kind of like a precursor to "Twitch Plays Pokemon" lol

[@roguebanshee]

@@Kamakiri86 Not quite the same, mostly due to the short duration of each game and being limited to one player at a time (due to technical limitations back in the early 90s). The duration was almost certainly due to the game show nature of the tv shows where the franchise was featured, with minor prizes for people making it to various points. The Hugo games shown on tv were quite simple arcade style games. Most were 3-4 levels of a mix between a precursor to endless runners (going at a pace where you could watch live tv and react on the phone) and simple labyrinths with a timer. Each run would last around 5 minutes at most before the victory/fail screen. I mostly watched because "OMG, computer game on tv and it looks better than what my C64 can do." I never called in though. There were also harder versions for home computers as well as other more elaborate home computer games in the franchise. I expect it was extremely cheap to use for that Crazy Castle game, at least compared to the other non-Nintendo franchises ones used.

[@TemariNaraannaschatz]

There are over 25 Hugo games, so I'd persume the rights for Denmark (where Hugo is from) were brought from them.

[@Kraleck]

For the commenter edition - Super Mario RPG: Bowser's victory pose was originally a bicep grab. A gesture showing one's strength in Japan, but an obscene gesture in some other countries.

[@adam-vm3zj]

Mike , big respect for the Crazy Castle deep-dive

[@StigmaticClown]

I really want there to be another Crazy Castle game with another totally random licensed character to drive Mike closer to the brink of insanity.

[@marykateharmon]

The Professor Layton series were another one that had different British and American voice actors. Was never really sure why since I'd assume the British acting would be more proper for an English setting, though I have to admit to really loving the American voice acting especially when comparing Luke's American voice to the British one they used for the movie.

[@TyphinHoofbun]

There were American voice actors? I only remember the characters being excessively British. Maybe I had the European version without realizing it. But then, I didn't buy them in stores. They fell off the back of a truck. A truck named "The Internet".

[@thegeneralpopulace8513]

​@TyphinHoofbun Yup. The Professor himself is played by American actor Christopher Robin Miller in both English language versions.

[@notenoughmonkeys]

Garfield and Real Ghost Busters were both licensed for Crazy Castle?!? Proably saved money doing that, as I think that only counts as one pay cheque for Bill Murray.

[@Tyr_Magnus]

Also, the voice actor for Garfield in all the old cartoons, Lorenzo Music, also voiced Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters cartoon. 😁

[@boobah5643]

I can't help but think that since those were the animated versions of those properties, the check should be addressed to Lorenzo Music.

[@igamealex]

Hugo was a huge thing in Denmark in the 90s, possibly 80’s… People could phone in and control him live on tv. I (born in 1989) played him on the Commodore 64, and later the ps1.

[@jonasgustafsson9807]

God i remember that. The latency was probably ass but man i loved watching it

[@archellothewolf2083]

I'd like to submit Tharja from Fire Emblem: Awakening for consideration. The already risque character had a scene that was censored in such a way that actually implied it was even more risque than it already was. If you know, you know.

[@supervegito2277]

The funny part is she got hit twice. One bit of censorship for the EU (boingy bits) and the other for the US, whilst each got the other uncensored. ...japan to west censorship is one thing but eu to us, and vice versa, censorship is just weird... espicially when its hilariously inconsistent.

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

I'd also like to submit the Soleil bit from the same series.

[@supervegito2277]

@@user-xu2pi6vx7o Could make a whole damn video exclusively for Fates... I dont remember everything i read, but i do remember there being a LOT.

[@censorerik9601]

That "RIP Mike, you'll be missed" caught me off guard. Wasn't expecting Jane to slip one in like that at the end. 😂

[@Minilena]

Hugo!!! Us Swedes know him! He had a couple of games which had highly memorable voice acting :)

[@chuckpunk3272]

Danes as well; all there was on library, school and after-school-club PCs for a good few years

[@toongrowner1]

germany as well, still remember the tv show where you could call and play live.

[@bugwandis]

Andy with the perfect mock up KZbin thumbnail and Mike's rant at the end. Amazing work. Also hard luck for Mike's brain explosion to be terminal. Who would have thought.

[@TheLoneGameMan]

I want Glasses Mike to explain more things. Can you do the Zelda Timeline next?

[@stevecole90099]

Or the Metal Gear timeline.

[@TheycallmeMrWonka]

What we're saying with that Peach change is, rather than reaponsibly drinking AFTER she had won the championship, Peach downed that bottle BEFORE the race, got shitfaced and still won. Impressive skills.

[@hya2in8]

powerful lesson about the counterproductive consequences placing too many restrictions can have

[@mouthyschannel2474]

Reminds me of how the US got its first gold medal in the last Olympics.

[@sdaubs]

So what I'm getting from this is "Not enough people learn how to drink drunk properly"

[@moheyden5804]

Mike's voice cracking during his timeline rant about a series of game boy games made my day! That's dedication to the craft

[@nathanielwiens]

I not only love the idea of the Ape Escape US vs UK dubs, but now I really want actual "regional" dialects for dubs. Both countries have such a wide range of phonetics to pull from. Boston vs Deep South vs West Coast along with Cockney vs Northern vs Scottish would make me absolutely giddy. Additionally, Australian!

[@gothnerd887]

I feel exactly the same way

[@rorywalsh1985]

And some of the Australian dialects too

[@Kamakiri86]

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 does this pretty well.

[@zifendel2675]

Cockney rhyming Ape Escape. Not even the civilized English will know what they’re saying

[@KeithFraser82]

I've definitely played some games, like Baldur's Gate 2, which allow you to give your character different voices, and not just male/female voices (like in Mass Effect). So you could make your CHARNAME in Baldur's Gate 2 gruff and shouty or smooth and sardonic.

[@VIPER0308]

The one that comes to mind for me is Nier. We got Gestalt with dad, but Japan got Replicant with brother. You could tell that the writing was for a younger character. We never truly knew until we got Replicant 1.22 remake. While it technically is a separate game, it was changed for the Western audience so we could get Kratos Dad Nier.

[@madamminalost]

I LOVE Dad so much better than brother. It really did add something with it being a more gruff, worn out, still kind guy and then have EVERYTHING pull out from under him in the end. He doesn't get Ending E either. Every time I hear something about NieR I wait with bated breath to be let down with news about Dad. (At LEAST put Dad in KH, Square. It's non canon anyways. Maybe he ends up there instead of Ending E)

[@VIPER0308]

@madamminalost I was confused when I saw a boy at the beginning of Replicant. I wanted dad so badly! Brother Nier has grown on me, though. I actually booted up my Gestalt copy recently. He is something else. The writing had its moments too, although I think I prefer Replicant more now. I Haven't played that since Automata came out. It was fun to see the differences. Dad gets the short end of the stick. We need something new with him. At least he was in the Recycled Vessel.

[@madamminalost]

@VIPER0308 like I said, I've been rooting for him in KH, but he isn't even in Reincarnation. Automata at least didn't erase him... but since then it's all brother. Yeah. The gruff Dad figure wasn't that common then, he still has an inborn critique on JRPG's being much older than the typical protagonists, and as a result of his age he ends up being a mentor to Kaine, Emil, etc. Add in the fact his age also adds a question about "what does he want his legacy to be/what world does he want to leave his daughter" and it ends up as very tragic in it's own way.

[@VIPER0308]

@madamminalost he should have got something in Reincarnation. I'd love to see him kick ass. And give him some threads like Kainé and Nier. He'd look badass. I like them both now. At the end of ending E, when the administrators told Kainé that possible timelines were merging, that is how I think of Gestalt and Replicant. They are both their own thing but could be placed together without ruining anything. At least, in my opinion. The only issue I have with dad is that they kind of made the love story with Kainé rushed. Brother seemed more natural to me. You are right. I do love that father relationship he has with Emil and Kainé. Even Weiss is sort of there. I'm glad to see dad still gets love. I like Ray Chase, and he made brother great to me. I do love brother, but dad is the grizzly man this series deserves. I love talking about this series!

[@nonspiderweb]

It's a shame because I prefer dad Nier personally. There are plenty of RPGS with anime hot boys as the protag trying to save their sister, I can't think of many with a dad trying to save his daughter, heck beyond GOW and RDR I can barely think of another game where the protagonist is a parent. GTAV?

[@SollowP]

I do find it rather funny that a game that started out using Roger Rabbit would end up shifting between different pop culture characters. Seeing as Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the only time Buggs Bunny and Mickey Mouse (along with Donald Duck and Daffy Duck) has ever appeared on screen together. And yes I do know Hugo, he was very popular here in Sweden back in the late 90s. Especially his PC games.

[@zulubunsen9067]

A lot of others have already said it, but Mike's tangent about the Crazy Castle series was amazing.

[@claratalbot7613]

Mike definitely needs an achievement for that last segment for presenting all of those license shinagans for the different crazy castle games

[@Betta66]

You could do an entire episode about this with just Germany. I don't know if its still like this, but Dorkly made a video some time ago about the types of changes made to video games in order to be sold in Germany. The two most notable types of changes were as follows. Firstly, the elephant in the room: they are still super sensitive about Nazis and swastikas for understandable reasons, which meant developers have had to censor any reference to Nazis. This is despite the fact that if you have ever seen a Nazi in a video game, it's as a bad guy who you can kill with no mercy. The Wolfenstein series has unsurprisingly had to do this for years, but another example was the video game tie-in for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The Nazi flags prominently displayed in the book burning scene had the swastikas censored in a pretty lazy way. Secondly, speaking of killing, Germany is very squeamish about violence in video games. While some games got around this by replacing the NPCs you killed with robots, removing the perceived problem of taking human life, that was not what happened with every game. Valve took a lot of gore out of the German release of Left 4 Dead. German players wouldn't be able to legally obtain the uncensored game until eleven years after its first release.

[@tubensalat1453]

I thought about changes for Germany, too, but they have been widely covered; so I liked that this list was not full of less swastikas & and less blood for Krauts. Who'd be surprised by that now?

[@theprofessionalfence-sitter]

They have certainly become less strict on violence.

[@toongrowner1]

in god of war (the original) one guy that has to be brunt got replaced with a regular undead warrior. Though I think we are a bit more open now about violent and nazi stuff in games.... its still funny to think about that thanks to my stepdad, I was able to play the original wolfenstein on emulator just to find out years later that this game was banned XD Yep, emulators where already a thing when the internet was pretty much still in its baby shoes.

[@anna-flora999]

Nazis are now no longer a problem, hence wolfenstein new blood actually calling them by their name. They would have always been legal had a publisher made enough fuss about it because you can use nazi symbols in works of art so long as its not glorifying it The problem was that no publisher wanted to be in the headlines as "that company that sued Germany because they wanted to show the hocked cross" The clarification on the rules came after an eastern European edutainment game about the German occupation won a German video game award. Without the game being shown to the public. That kinda annoyed some people

[@keit99]

​@@anna-flora999well swastikas still get censored in games though. But a lot of stuff has been removed from the index (e.g. fallout 3 and new vegas were on it, but aren't anymore [steam sells the old German version still though])

[@ReverendTed]

Mike channeling a little bit of Brian David Gilbert Unraveled energy there at the end! It suits him.

[@AngelBeatYunara]

When Mikes takes his glasses out, you know [bleep] gets serious.

[@renammartinez]

Hugo was a videogame character in a game in Brazil. Back in the 90ies there was this TV program you could call and play the game live, controlling the character over your phone keys and watching the character move on live TV. Never knew it existed anywhere else

[@eshelynn]

Super Mario RPG. Bowsers victory stance in Japan was reminiscent of him throwing the middle finger, where, internationally, he does a muscle pose.

[@lordzeppelin3824]

Props to Mike on that closing monologue/rant. It reminded me of John Oliver in its crazy-eyed presentation. Bravo.

[@eh5732]

I actually think its quite cool that Ape Escape got two different English dubs. The sinister guy in the chair sounded way better in the British dub to me at least. No disrespect to the voice actors but some of them get overused to the point I hear a character open their mouth and I go 'Oh its him/her' and it takes me out of it. When I play a game that avoids the usual stock of video game/anime voice actors it genuinely makes the game feel fresh.

[@CelticVictory]

No one can beat Nolan North.

[@ASpooneyBard]

I love Steve Blum, but recently, whenever I hear his distinct voice, I've gotten into the habit of saying, out loud in an empty room: "Hi Steve Blum." as deadpan as possible. It just amuses me. Obviously I've been saying that a lot.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Yeah, Steve Blum really needs to do more almost unrecognizable voice roles akin to the Laughing Man (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Leeron (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan).

[@blackwing320]

Medievil is another game with surprising changes. Main change is that the protagonist Sir Daniel Fortesque wears a helmet in the Japanese version. Also during the tutorial you receive an empty health bottle in japan but in all other regions it's full.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In Fallout 3, the quest The power of the Atom was changed for the Japanese version of the game.the player is unable to detonate the atomic bomb sitting in the middle of Megaton as the character of Mr Burke is not present and thus unable to give the fusion pulse charge needed to detonate it. The japanese version of Fallout 3 also changes the name of the Fatman to the Nuka-Launcher since that's one of the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@happy_fecker]

And the Brahmin. There were quite a few changes made to Fallout for other countries (especially Japan). I can't remember the source but I remember something about violence being changed.

[@bigboybaggins8993]

I find it very strange how this channel is so underrated. I’ve been watching since like 2015, when I was a kid. I don’t even game anymore I just like these guys a lot.

[@umbraestragis]

Same, since a bit earlier though.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

Sweet summer child. These guys (and Jane) have been doing this from before they even had a KZbin channel. I still remember them from when they were an Xbox Live exclusive show that you'd see on your 360 back in 2010-11! They've been at this game for over a decade, and have been both extremely consistent and consistently entertaining.

[@ka-mai]

I wouldn't call 2,7 million subs underrated.

[@bigboybaggins8993]

@@ka-mai in 14 years with High quality content it is underrated. Maybe British humor just isn’t that popular.

[@umbraestragis]

@@bigboybaggins8993 I love it though, and the consistent quality is not only present, but also unique. Few other gaming channels have the same energy.

[@kharthicthiagarajah3500]

Mike's rant about Crazy Castle reminded me about AVGN when he played Crazy Castle. One of the classic AVGN episodes.

[@Yaarmehearty]

Honestly, the guy they had doing the British voice vs Nolan North's sounded really good, that wasn't a loss at all.

[@InfamousAtom]

WOW I remember playing that Woody Woodpecker game as a kid and thinking it was so bizarre and confusing. I'd basically completely forgotten about the game, and I had NO idea that's where that last story was heading towards until you got there and all the memories came rushing back lol.

[@jennah7215]

Mike mentioning Hugo flooded me with nostalgia, that character was a way bigger part of my childhood than it had any right to be

[@Tompughsinging]

Mike deserves an Emmy after that performance.

[@n-rage531]

Gotta love the detail of Mike putting on the glasses to become smarter to try understand the craziness of crazy castle's timeline.

[@samgonzalez8662]

I’ve never heard of Crazy Castle before and now I want to play all of them

[@SolaScientia]

I dug out my Game Boy Color and its games, because I thought I recognized the Bugs Bunny clip. Turns out I have Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2, but that's the only one of the series I have. I do remember being awful at it, but I was awful at games as a kid.

[@marhawkman303]

@@SolaScientia ironically... of the games they talked about... Crazy Castle is the one I knew best. it's not that I've never heard of Mario Cart or Soul Calibur... more that I've never played the first ones in the series. But this is about the ENTIRE Crazy Castle series which... I've played at least one of those.

[@dorabrooks76]

We (my sister and I) had the Gameboy Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle as kids. I wasn't very good at it, but still had fun with it. I was better at Dr. Mario. Lol

[@HUYI1]

the NES OG one, bugs bunny, a good time sinker if you are bored but i did grow up with the OG gameboy version and completed half the levels at least and it had a lot

[@4amlibra]

Hats off to you, Mike. You got through the whole entry, and even managed to keep hold of one tiny sliver of sanity throughout; Congrats!! 🎉

[@AlmondLBD]

Yeah I remember Hugo. It was a gnome? Kobold? type thing that had an audience participation/phone in show featuring various different videogame adjacent things. It definitely aired on German TV and I SWEAR I am not making any of this up! Oh the 90s

[@illise]

Same here in Chile. I loved watching the show but never got to participate lol

[@SarimDeLaurec]

Boy am I old. Wasn't this on Kabel1? I remember my brother and his best friend tried to get trough to play it on the show.

[@HCBYRD]

Yup, Hugo (called "the Screen Troll", pre-internet) was big in Denmark in the 90's - early 00's. Mainly on TV and in a series of very popular video games. Never knew about the Crazy Castle one, though. Actually didn't even know Hugo was a thing outside Scandinavia, so I learned a thing today!

[@AlmondLBD]

@SarimDeLaurec yeah I did a google and turns out it was Kabel1 though I somehow have distinct memories of it on ZDF???

[@AlmondLBD]

@HCBYRD yeah I actually was aware of tge crazy castle one because I very distinctly remember trying to play it and constantly dying cos I didn't know what to do

[@skypaul24]

Without taking anything away from the other list videos on this channel, this was definitely one of the most well written one!

[@ManOWar96]

Can't have enough of Mike!😂

[@oxfanblink4115]

😂 Especially if it’s been a few days since last at least hearing him

[@ManOWar96]

@oxfanblink4115 truee!!

[@soulreapermagnum]

but now we will get no more of him, r.i.p. mike. /j

[@unstrungzero]

Jane: "RIP Mike, he will be missed." Suddenly I'm missing old school Show of the Week. 😂

[@javilorenzana]

List idea: 7 Best Motorcycle Sections in Video Games. Bikes are inherently cool. I have a Bonneville Bobber Black in my garage that's its own argument. However, think the motorcycle sections in FFVII Remake, the connecting sections in Transistor, etc. Not motorcycle games, but the cool motorcycles our cool protagonists ride.

[@rebeccah4732]

i started off wanting only to comment mostly on the fact i am admiring Andy's Magnum PI vibes and that Jane looks lovely in that shade of green, but Mike's monologue has me floored. All around an Excellent episode

[@VonBlade]

Mike gives, in two minutes, the kind of infodump lesser KZbin channels would take 60 minutes and three videos to explain.

[@YayDee85]

Hey, I recognize Hugo from my childhood! Born in 1985, grew up in Sweden, there was a children's TV show where on of the segments involved kids calling in and trying to control a Hugo in Real Time, through pressing the dials on their fancy new button phones. This was after rotary phones started falling out of fashion. I said "trying" because the lag between pushing the button and Hugo actually making the jump meant that more often than not, Hugo would get horrifically mauled by whatever log, rail cart, monster, or hole in the ground happened to obstruct his path.

[@jcxtra]

I loved Mike's section at the end, it was the epitome of Moss from the IT crowd's "Let me put on my slightly bigger glasses." Amazing

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

"Hugo, anyone?" Yes, I remember Hugo the Screen-Troll! He's an IP from my native Denmark! His animated TV show and his morning talk show appearances were a big part of my childhood. In fact, his plushie is still in my closet after all these years.

[@Cheekyos65]

You can't change oxbox for other countries because it's perfect already

[@CelticVictory]

@@SimuLord I'm actually disappointed that people aren't talking about Andy holding up a mushroom while talking about an eggplant.

[@Bullman422]

Knowing full well that Ash was being omitted from the NA version of Streets of Rage 3 was the reason why I imported. There were other changes as well. In the Mega Drive version Female fighters had partial nudity, cut scenes were either altered or removed entirely, and the General you try to save in the game is now the chief of police in the NA version. Funny how you mentioned that NA sort of got it easier in the game since there was no battle with Ash; however, our version got an overall bump up in difficulty making it actually more challenging.

[@ChainsawGenie]

It will be interesting to see if Roger, Mickey, Bugs, Woody and other licensed characters will be selectable in the Crazy Castle 'reboot' (single player and co-op/multiplayer). Then again, if the Castle itself contains every stage from past entries, perhaps nostalgia will fuel the game's (future) sales? - *Multi-studio Crossover Games* - True love letters to classic & modern animation (when made well).

[@lamestraw6409]

Hugo was featured in Danish (maybe other places as well) television in the early 90s where people could call in and conroll him using numbers on their phone. They had to navigate him in a gold mine, collecting gold and dodging dynamite.

[@toratio8547]

I don't know about other regions, but in Australia I played Cool Spot with no idea it has ever been a 7Up tie-in game, because they stripped the branding here

[@mclarge90]

Andy’s thumbnail bit is exactly why I love you people

[@myth8644]

"Nolan North, aka everyone from every game" got me good.

[@BeaBea-54]

Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 was my first game boy colour game! It was a lot of fun and Mike losing his mind over all of it is a hilarious bonus!

[@SanderEvers]

That is indeed a Crazy Castle 😉

[@DrRank]

Another thing the Ape Escape sequels did in the UK was change the character names to their Japanese counterparts. Which can make things very confusing, as Katie and Natsumi's designs are different enough that you'd be forgiven for thinking they were different characters. Ape Escape P didn't help things by calling Buzz "Jake" and Katie "Natsumi" either.

[@timothyroush7589]

Press F to pay respects to Mike's Sanity.

[@randomusernameforchris3392]

Mike's finale rant about Crazy Castle makes me think of all the 'asset flip' titles available (especially on PlayStation Store)

[@theprofessionalfence-sitter]

Honestly, British English dubs are something that also needs to be implemented for all American films and TV shows.

[@BJGvideos]

Ever hear the British dub of Invader Girl Lum?

[@KeithFraser82]

CSI Miami Scottish dub: "Aye richt. Ye're no gonnae tell me some minted lassie wid top hersel' richt aifter she she bought a load ae kit..." *sunglasses* "she wis never gonnae wear?" (YYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!)

[@BogeyTheBear]

Truth be told, the first time I ever watched _Life on Mars_ I had to pause, turn on the subtitling the moment DC Skelton opened his mouth, and kept it on for the rest of the series. *Sam Tyler:* "Don't leave me here! I'm in BUPA!" *Me:* "You're _where?"_

[@Nynzy]

One game I would put here is Xenosaga Ep. III where they removed blood. The character Shion (as a youth) sees her mother die horribly, walks over to her and starts saying "I need to put it back in". Here in the U.S. I was quite confused to what she meant, as there was... nothing there. However, in Japan it was blood and made way more sense. Not the only changes made in the series, but the one that baffled me the most~

[@thanksgivingoracle6880]

I remember Crazy Castle 3, with Bugs Bunny. It was okay. Had no idea it was so different in so many regions, though! Bravo for doing the research!

[@striumvar]

Wow biker mice from Mars and Hugo. Damn the nostalgia hits hard this time

[@matiaspereira4128]

Absolutely genius Mike's Exposure of the Castle that crazed him... Ah, and just to add. Hugo was a popular character here in Argentina, it had a tv show where kids played interactive games through phone calls and won prices. The game was rigged actually and the impronts kids press through their phones never worked. So, you know. Life sucks, specially if you spended like $100 dollars on the phonecall just to lose on a rigged game

[@highspotplays]

That Mike bit at the end might be my favorite Mike bit on the channel.

[@finnover9781]

How do they change the OxBoxers for other countries?

[@somniloquous0]

And then there was a Kid Klown game for the PS1 called The Bombing Islands: Kid Klown's Craze Puzzle, but in the West we didn't know who Kid Klown was, so it was renamed The Bombing Islands. Later, it came to the N64, where for some reason Kid Klown was replaced with an equally unknown character called Charlie Blast, and so the game was renamed to Charlie Blast's Territory. It's all very straightforward, really.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

There was a SNES game called Kid Klown in Crazy Chase that was released in Japan, US and PAL regions but it was a bit of an odd-ball - an auto-scrolling isometric platformer that didn't seem to garner much attention (its sequel was Japan only)

[@AllLip]

How many donations would it take to get Mike to play every different version of the entire castle crashers series ?

[@PriffyViole]

I only know of one Castle Crashers game, so probably not too much.

[@illise]

Hugo? Here in Chile we had a TV show where you could play Hugo (not the craazy castle one though) from your land phone to the game on TV. We also had the same thing for Sonic 2 lol

[@MrMBinder]

We had that in Denmark as well. Kinda logical, since the character was a Danish creation along with the interactive television concept.

[@illise]

Thats cool@@MrMBinder

[@natesmith7599]

Janes green top is back 👀 Also, the crazy castle stuff is so bizarre. What an absolute nightmare if anyone ever looks to rerelease them 😂

[@Cyklopz007]

I loved crazy castle but had no idea the mythology went that deep lol! Awesome vid!

[@CainPaisley]

Mike's voice breaking at Mickey Mouse V killed me 😂

[@sherb1750]

3:06 York to Yokohama is a delightful bit of alliterative wordplay.

[@hiccup247]

Thanks to Mike, I know more about Crazy Castle than any living person should know.

[@gamerkitten6480]

Fun Fact: In the Ghostbusters movies, Peter Venkman was played by Bill Murray, & in the live action Garfield movies, Garfield was voiced by Bill Murray, & in Garfield & Friends (& the Garfield TV specials as well), Garfield was voiced by the late Lorenzo Music, & in the first 2 seasons of The Real Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman was also voiced by the late Lorenzo Music, & also there is the connection between Garfield Labyrinth & The Real Ghostbusters (game) (also you play as Peter Venkman in that version of the game) mentioned in the video.

[@williamguyton349]

The fact that it was clearly an all one-take shoot for the Crazy Castle segment with no jokes just goes to show how absolutely bananas the whole thing is.

[@TonViper]

"Skærmtrolden Hugo" is a character from a game played on national TV in Denmark. That version of Crazy Castle must be a danish localization.

[@fameasser123]

2:56 "So long gay Bowser." Lol yay Mario XD.

[@animetrashamvs]

I didn't expect to learn more about the Crazy Castle series from Mike than AVGN, but here we are!