10 Licensed Games You Didn't Know Existed! (Probably) - Austin Eruption

[@vaugna1620]

Fun fact: the PS2 Bebop game was completely translated and dubbed but never released in the west. So there's a whole lot more Steve Blum as Spike out there that we will NEVER see.

[@lnsflare1]

Not if my Kickstarter to kidnap Steve Blum and make him record every word in the English language in every possible inflection so we can make our own Spike Spiegel Vocaloid gets off the ground

[@wizgi7201]

That makes me sad

[@matthewmegonigal247]

yeah I've heard the story behind it. it was so close to completion and it looks so good too ugh!

[@djlaw56what]

Download the rom!?

[@PosthumanHeresy]

Perhaps it'll leak one day. It tends to happen.

[@Babbleplay]

'As much as I love Mad Max, well, everything besides Thunderdome'.... Awww, come on, Austin, you've got to get over it..... You've got to get ( *sunglasses* ) Beyond Thunderdome...

[@ShinigamiKristak]

YYEEAAHH!!

[@MushaGundamMKIII]

As the self proclaimed biggest Rave Master fan in the world, I was glad to see this gem pop up on here. I actually took this game to go get autographed by Yuri Lowenthal a few years back and his face lit up when I handed it to him to sign. Apart from having J Micheal Tatum sign my microwave, that was the best experience I’ve had getting something autographed before. Giving a VA something that’s so obscure that they did but something they loved doing is always a great experience.

[@TheAmazingSpiderPunk]

OKAY THAT JUNGLE BOOK GAME CAME WITH MY WINDOWS 95 AND I NEVER COULD FIND INFORMATION ON IT SO I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST SOME WEIRD FEVER DREAM! Thank you for proving to me I haven't gone insane yet, Austin.

[@evanrobbins5915]

Same dude. I've tried to play it again forever. Haha I loved this game along with another pack in game little Howies playhouse

[@ashleybreadgirls1228]

Legends say, if it's a superhero, LJN used to have the rights to it at some point.

[@eaglebladedolphinbrother4611]

Laughin Jokin Numbnuts

[@angelriverasantana7755]

Unless it's a DC game

[@jackmaster3134]

@Gyllen Stålson shut your filthy mouth

[@austinnorton7518]

It's because most of the time LJN bought the licencing rights so they could make action figures. The games were just an after thought.

[@Portly]

that ending.... was unexpected...

[@keybladeMasterNadroj]

The only thing unexpected would be if someone didn't like Mexican food because I'm making FAJITAS!!!

[@christinarawlings948]

I hate Mexican food lol

[@Portly]

Christina Rawlings 😱

[@Fieryone233]

I unironically like the theme song for Rave Master, but I'm also a fan of Reel Big Fish so I suppose I'm biased.

[@Nelkhael1]

That part where you flash a scene from Scalebound made me cry. I still want that game.

[@mcFreaki]

>says forrest law >shows marshall law forrest is the one who appeared in tekken 3, and is marshall's son, he's based (a little) on Brandon lee.

[@alanzapreservationtheythem2861]

BROTHER GARY a fellow Tekken fan!

[@austineruption]

My bad.

[@mcFreaki]

​@@austineruption it's all cool my dude, nobody's perfect!

[@TheReZisTLust]

Aren't we all our father though

[@eb-the-gamer6287]

They did make a driving batman game for arcades, where the goals are more like stopping bane from getting away with a tanker full of venom (?) One of my favorite simple boasts are from that game. "You cannot stop me, but i implore you to try!"

[@Daitomodachi]

0:49 Nice wallpaper

[@hairy_cornflake]

For some reason, I was expecting the N64 Evangelion game.

[@JetWolfEX]

I've played it and had completely forgotton about it until now, it was such a strange game, very odd that it came out on N64

[@hairy_cornflake]

And the gameplay itself is weird. It's some sort of fighting game but not only, it's over complicated. There are also Saturn games, mostly dating sims if I'm not mistaking.

[@GanjsmostPrime]

Possibly the first game I remember seeing emulated on pc. Most people I knew who ran Project 64 had a rom of it!

[@SullivanDoesGames]

I found the Napoleon Dynamite game sealed 5 Below and couldn't help but buy it out of sheer disbelief despite not owning a psp at the time. I was more excited to find that then I was when I bought Smash 4 immediately after

[@Benjimon2514]

Did he say 57yrs of living?

[@SkyloftHero456]

Was I hearing the Junes theme from Persona 4 at the beginning there? Had a wonderful wave of nostalgia hearing that track.

[@SgtTwilight]

Ayyy I didn't notice that. "Every day is great at your ju-nes"

[@aleblasco39]

It was also at the end

[@ericlueck5838]

A really decent licensed game that's pretty obscure is Wendy: Every Witch Way on the Gameboy Color. It was made by Wayforward a few months before Shantae. It's a Metal Storm clone with gravity flipping as the mechanic. The graphics are really great for the console, the controls are tight, and it's all around a cute game. It's very, very easy, but there's bonus levels if you play it on a GBA that make it a challenge. Shame it's not more well-known, the physics engine would make one hell of a romhacking scene.

[@tonizamboni7362]

i rented that izzy one when i was young because i wanted to play a more recent game on the SNES, thinking it was made in 1995 or something, since he was the mascot of the 1996 olympics. I was so disappointed and confused to read that it was made in 1992 once i started it up, and also disappointed that it sucked. why did they make an entire game based around a mascot that wouldn't even be at the olympics for 4 more years? that's.. kind of a long time.

[@BigAL68xyz]

They actually introduced Izzy at the Barcelona closing ceremonies in 1992. I guess they just couldn't wait to crank out a game with him in it.

[@kretesWMV]

*Has JOJO in the background* *Doesn't talk about JOJO* *Still makes an enjoyable video*

[@Loveistheirwholehapp]

Jojo is trash. Makes this vid 10x more watchable without referencing it.

[@kretesWMV]

@@Loveistheirwholehapp But, didn't he already refer to it by putting it as his background?

[@ItsRetroPlanet]

@@kretesWMV I'm with the guy above. JoJo is fucking terrible. I don't mind if the music is in there though, but so long as I don't have to be constantly reminded or somebody explaining something is a JoJo reference, the better. Seriously, annoying.

[@sopothetocho]

@@ItsRetroPlanet Disgusting comment, you should be ashamed.

[@sopothetocho]

@@Loveistheirwholehapp Im calling the police. Delete your account.

[@Steadysphere]

Dam yo look gud for fiftay seven

[@alanzapreservationtheythem2861]

Steadysphere a denizen of the planet Wiseau! Allow me to speak your language! “Oh hi Mark!”

[@erinrulezok]

@@alanzapreservationtheythem2861 haha nice story Mark

[@alanzapreservationtheythem2861]

K -Game “I did naht hit her, I did naht!”

[@Steadysphere]

@@alanzapreservationtheythem2861 YOURE TEARING ME APART LISA!

[@alanzapreservationtheythem2861]

Steadysphere “everyone betrayed me, I’m fed uhp with dis worald!”

[@teh_supar_hackr]

That Jungle Book game looks like it would fit perfectly as a Sega CD or CD-I game.

[@DarknessViper99]

FYI, the Napoleon Dynamite movie did end up as a separate UMD release…found a sealed copy at a flea market for $3.

[@mesousagaby740]

Jeez, even in the Rave Master game, Elie was inexplicably stacked.

[@bloodrunsclear]

I like how Road Raiders straight up rips off Mad Max ON THE COVER

[@lwvmobile]

I had the Mad Max game as a kid on NES, I didn't even know there was a part where you get out of your car. I just kept running out of fuel. I think I bought it second hand for dirt cheap though, so it only got played a few times until I gave up on trying to figure out what to do in it.

[@Screwy]

>57 Can't believe Austin is a DILF

[@Kreeschon]

same tho??

[@violetshadowstone5250]

It's free not to say that

[@cass____7907]

I think he misspoke. I can see 37 but 57 is a stretch.

[@BullyHunter-sj3hm]

@@cass____7907 Especially, at 57, sporting blonde highlights? That just isn't right

[@MerkhVision]

Oh man I remember those old 90’s live action Jungle Book films! We used to rent a different one every few weeks from the local Blockbuster and my whole family would watch em together. Good times :)

[@RandA5156]

Just here to say, Wow someone talked about one of my most nostalgic childhood games, Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian. Had it on Wii and I spent so much time on those puzzles.

[@BullyHunter-sj3hm]

Doritos Crash Course was a fun, free Xbox Arcade game that used your Xbox Avatar as the character. It was fun competing against leaderboards for the fastest times on various courses similar to the courses found on shows like American Ninja.

[@SgtTwilight]

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief on the DS was an obscure one I owned. It was a turn based JRPG based off the film that was surprisingly decent. Fun little romp based off the film that actually expanded the universe in cool ways by introducing other demigods and even had a robust post game where you fought the other Olympians.

[@rusha1737]

Seeing you talk about the night at the museum game was the biggest nostalgia bomb ever I remember playing it over and over again as a little kid

[@BayviewGhost]

I didn't expect the title to be accurate, but I have to hand it to you: I only recognized three out of ten (Mad Max, Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon, and Cowboy Bebop). All the rest were totally new to me.

[@Vanisonic]

Wow! Someone talked about the Gamecube Rave game??? Thanks, Austin! Best thing about it was my surprise seeing it at a flea market for $3 when my young mind didn't know a game of it even existed.

[@briteboy6131]

My older brother had Mad Max on the NES when we were kids for some reason! I remember it being needlessly hard but eventually figuring it out

[@nonnonyabuisness1510]

I literally had nostalgia spazz attack when you mentioned the jungle book game. I played that game so many times and yet I STILL forgot it existed!

[@DallasHustla2000]

In defense of Cowboy bebop I can kind of see what they were trying to do with the flying. They were trying to make it look like the dogfights from the show.

[@S1ckbassplayer]

Great video. It reminded me of a demo I played of a MIB game that came with a PC World magazine in the late 90's. Had nothing to do with Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones' characters at all!

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

Man, I remember Izzy very clearly. I was at a young age when cartoons dominated my life, and seeing one about the Olympics was something special. That game, was alright I guess. I remember renting it, and that's it.

[@jamesburgan8794]

Holy shit the Izzy game was one of those odd games I was bought by my grandmother. I thought it was pretty damn hard but it played better than half of the odd games I had. Its actually surprising that you mentioned it considering how lost to time it is.

[@mtallmen184]

15:53 I actually DID start dancing because Reel Big Fish is my favorite band

[@jamess.3013]

Am I the only one that thinks the NES mad max game actually looks pretty damn ambitious and impressive for the time?

[@Hyperfludd]

Rave-o-Lution is a dang classic in this household, mister! (Loved the vid, nice work.)

Jeunes!!!! Everyday’s great at YOUR Jeunes!

[@jimmy3people0]

As far as obscure anime tie-ins go, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra for PS2 is a pretty solid fighting game.

[@ZaptheZombie]

So I spent this whole time thinking “oh, I remember there was this Cowboy Bebop game. I wonder if anyone’s ever really played it.”

[@Witchsnitch666]

story goes: every time someone mentions cowboy bebop someone needs to rewatch it... this time it's me

[@eaglebladedolphinbrother4611]

Just found your channel and man I love it. Great stuff, bro. Liked and subbed. 😀😎👍👍

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

The night at the museum game reminds me a lot, of the museum sequences from the ghostbusters video game.

[@aiodensghost8645]

YES, a new video to sink my teeth in after my Tharsis binge!! (It was frustrating too, I was so close and then it killed me cause it wanted to...)

[@xandervampire195]

I don't know about games based around vehicular combat. I've never played twisted metal or similar games. Although, I have often thought that a game based on the movie "Death Race" with Jason Statham would be pretty awesome. You could create your own character, have lots of on foot side quests in the actual prison to earn new armour and weapons for your car, customize your own vehicle in the workshop and engage in the titular death races with icons for you to run over in order to activate your weapons, tactical items like smoke grenades, defensive abilities, track hazards and traps among other things. I think it could be great fun to play a game like that if it were done well.

[@SatoshiKong]

I had this exact thoughts a couple of days ago.

[@zoenicoletv]

The original death race has a game on nes.

[@lain328]

I actually enjoy the Cowboy Bebop PlayStation 1 game very much but I do agree that the controls are very quirky and it takes awhile to get used to them.

[@NemesisTWarlock]

-under a second of OMF:2097 music -still recognise it -proceed to rock out Thanks, Austin!

[@Adam-cq2yo]

There was this one licensed game that was weirdly alright. Monsters Inc. Scream Team for the PS1. It was easy and short, even if you 100% it, but I remember it being a good time last I played it.

[@Winter_337]

Guess some people just have trouble getting beyond thunderdome

[@Dorelaxen]

We don't need another hero, man.

[@OdaSwifteye]

YES.

[@Dinker27]

There's a few Tenchi Muyo games for the snes that aren't too bad. Granted, you'll need to understand Japanese or get some kind of patch, but I recommend the strategy one. Can't remember the name, but the gameplay was pretty solid. I'd say it's sort of like that Shaman King game on PS2.

[@otaking3582]

I knew about the Olympic mascot game thanks to Guru Larry

[@MJTRadio]

I attended a panel hosted by John Heder a few years ago specifically so I could ask him if he knew about and had any opinion on the PSP Napoleon game. Considering he was pretty open about the positives and negatives of his career, I have to believe his fond memories of playing it must have been honest.

[@hprvideos1846]

Not only did I know about gotham city racer, I played it! And it wasn't as bad as you're making out to be ...it was even worse.

[@c-puff]

OMFG!! SOmebody actually remembers the Jungle Book FMV game!!!! Holy shit!!! I played the HELL out of that as a kid!!!

[@asherael]

That Night At The Museum game was for sale at the Smithsonian Museum's gift shop at the time.

[@meaninglez100]

I remember renting the Izzy game often as a kid because I loved the character so much.

[@0rderSol]

2:37 The song is from One Must Fall 2097 Odd that I picked that up so quickly....

[@SetoKaiba342]

It’s funny cause “Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout” is what I had as a kid. I didn’t have the main titles so that’s all I knew about the series lol. I actually recently rediscovered it. It’s really good actually. Really immersive.

[@FoxMan_FF]

I hope you talk about more Monster Rancher games in the future. The Battle Card game was wild in that it received two spinoff games but _never actually had a physical card game,_ that I know of. I know there were collectible figurines (which were WAY higher quality than the TOMY Pokemon ones at the time) but I never remember seeing the card game in any physical form. Plus the Solomon's Key clone they made was pretty tight.

[@alexb3863]

Those flashing lights at 12:30 caught me by surprise 😂

[@user-yk9yz8jk2u]

You made me bring back some crazy suppressed memories I had, I used to spend hours and hours playing hop-a-bout. It is the most annoying non fun game I've played in my life. Only reason I played it is cause I didn't know back then what a good video game was. I swear if I ever have to spend another day playing Hop-a-bout, I will lose my mind! I had forgotten about that game until I now saw your video

[@5Porygon]

Awesome piece of content. Keep up the great work! :))

[@rdarkstorm8414]

Here's a fun Izzy fact for everyone. Busch Gardens Williamsburg, an otherwise good amusement park, had an Izzy coaster. It was. Uncomfortable. A small steel coaster that constantly felt like it was going to fly off the rails. They rebranded it after the Olympics and then just yanked it out a few years later.

[@clutchyfinger]

Google heard the Junes theme looping cus i had it paused on that screen...then this video from a channel I've never seen got reccomended with the junes theme...coincidence? I think not.

[@Dominion_Hawks]

Holy hell I haven't heard about monster rancher in forever

[@RayzoomLynx]

Austin can you turn the volume down of your intro a little bit. Everyone I start watching a video from you.... It always kills my ears just a little bit

[@austineruption]

I usually do. Must have slipped my mind this time.

[@RayzoomLynx]

@@austineruption awww it's okie love ya

[@kainhighwind2]

You know, not many people know about the Captain America MCU game. It was on PS3/360, and was basically Arkham Asylum, but you're Captain America, which meant no gadgets, but a ton of Shield tricks and throws.

[@strippinheat]

I was aware of some of these. Rave Master looked to be a four-player version of the One Piece Grand Battle games. Also, you're still super fun to watch and adorable.

[@BEEEELEEEE]

All I saw was Ben Stiller in the thumbnail and I somehow instantly knew that I'd be finding out about a Night at the Museum game.

[@heroshadow42]

I played an SNES version of Izzy's Quest. I remember getting lost on the second level. It was a rental so I could not go back to it when I got older.

[@Voeris1]

Great video Austin. Missed ur videos.. Haven't appeared in my recommended in forever. WTF KZbin!?

[@Shawnchapp]

that jungle book use to come in some cereal boxes as the "prize" i had like twenty of those dam things HELL i might still have one lying around in a box somewhere....

[@loneronin6813]

Although I'm sure a good number of people know about it by now, one licensed game I actually really loved playing (even though it wasn't all that great to most) was "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon." As I recall, some of the boss battles were kind of cheap in their idea of difficulty so I often resorted to winning by way of knocking them off of the environment. (Waterfalls for example are the bane of a couple of them.) Apart from that, the controls took a little getting used to, but all in all, I still don't think it was that bad of a game. ^_^

[@strain42]

"As much as I love Mad Max...well...everything besides Thunderdome." Awww, c'mon Austin. Haven't we gotten...BEYOND THUNDERDOME!? (This comment brought to you by MST3k. I've waited 20 years to use that joke)

[@lennytv15]

Recently found your channel (don’t know how I’m so late) but it’s amazing . You are amazing . And cute to boot hah. Hi from the Philippines . Also, I use to run a gamecrazy outside Seattle where I’m from . Cool you worked for the chain as well :)

[@ryancurtis5425]

I had that Izzy game growing up. I don't think I ever played it but I originally thought he was supposed to be Sonic. I guess that's because he has the blue color scheme, and red shoes, and he collects rings. I should really look for it on eBay or something.

[@ToruKun1]

The music in the Cowboy Bebop game sounds more like it came from Outlaw Star

[@Kinaldio]

I actually hadn't heard of most of these! Good vid, Aust

[@AnxiousG]

Did Night at the the Museum at least give you flashbacks to the museum area in Parasite Eve? 😊

[@captainnintendo]

Ghost in the Shell on PS1 tho Mmm, mighty fine game right there Also, Reboot was another weird licensed game that exist

[@dbspaceoditty]

nagano 98 was one of my all time favorite games as a kid.... it was like, the first game that was just a bunch of mini games... also, this game trained us in the skill of button mashing, and the wonders of curling.

[@Asgard314]

Oh shit, I HAVE played that Jungle Book game. It was on my local YMCA's computer, and all I really remember from it is that the Narrator was named iglwom and the end revealed he was Mowgli the whole time (However you spell that name, it's been like fourteen years).

[@Micah__]

Funny thing is Izzie was one of the first games I’ve ever played. Lol I have very vivid memories of playing this with my mother on the SNES. Thankfully she also bought Super Mario All Stars for us to play.

[@LodanSD]

The Success of Raiders of the Lost Ark inspired the rush to make ET. Who remembers Raiders of the Lost Ark?

[@IrieVibez0520]

Not gunna lie I loved that live action Jungle Book when I was a kid. That snake always blew my mind as a child lol and that brisk tea commercial with cartoon Lee was amazing and I’m a huge SKA guy so give me Reel Big Fish anytime 😂😂

[@dragonedges]

Damn Rave Master. Been a while since I’ve heard that name

[@ObsidiusFan]

Sick JoJo wallpaper dude!

[@joshnixon91]

Dude when you brought up the izzy Olympics game I had a flood of childhood memories of this game!

[@bwackbeedows3629]

0:42 A game where Michael confronts crying children and they run away in fear. Uh huh, yep.

[@austinparks7428]

Sorry Austin... Pretty sure AVGN mentioned Mad Max briefly in a video and showed some short clips, I believe it may have been the Darkwing duck episode

[@gcforreal]

I used to borrow that mad max game all the time from a cousin of mine, had no idea it was supposed to be obscure

[@natkatmac]

Captain Crunch's free PC game took up way more of my time than it deserved.

[@Laizerdisk]

Take a shot every time Austin says “we’ll talk about that in another video/that’s for another time”

[@austineruption]

theres 2 many gamez

[@apleasantghost422]

The three games for PC you had as a kid explains so much about you.

[@Butterflylegs]

Woah that Izzy game brought back some memories (not of the game, just that I had an Izzy plush toy as a kid cause my nickname was Izzy)

[@michaelpitcher2820]

For real my heart hurt when you took a dig at car combat games. Lol. I love Tristan metal 2 and vigilante 8.

[@LeahtheReds]

oh my gooooood i used to play that jungle book game at my friend's house! I haven't thought about it in years