Did You Know There's a Beetlejuice Game on the NES???

Did You Know There's a Beetlejuice Game on the NES??? | Ranking the NES, Episode 56

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The Jeff Gerstmann Show

Күн бұрын

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@Bedlam83 Ай бұрын

I hope these videos never stop. Such a comfy treat after a hard week. 🥰

@rygar8bit2 Ай бұрын

Yeah after NES I hope he moves onto another system. Ranking games every Friday is the best. Should get out there and rank some of the lesser talked about stuff like Jaguar and 3DO.

@Achoohorsey Ай бұрын

“Oh boy I’m not having a good day” is a classic line from the movie The Beetlejuice (1988)

@steve43ful Ай бұрын

“The Juice is loose!” - Beetle “The Juice” Juice

@viclange3826 Ай бұрын

It's somehow a very licensed game of this era thing to make Beetlejuice the main character of the licensed game even though he's the antagonist of the movie, just because he's the most distinctive looking character.

@konga382 Ай бұрын

I am begging the Gerstmann Advisory Panel to give him some good games for next week. The man needs it.

@hideokojimajr Ай бұрын

You too can be a part of the Gerstmann Advisory Panel…

@justsignmeup911 Ай бұрын

He should get to have a recess and just color a dinosaur.

@MNeely Ай бұрын

Remember that part in Alien 3 where Ripley fell down the stairs and died? Brilliant film.

@Arenow Ай бұрын

Spoilers dude!! Geeesh...

@andrew77961 Ай бұрын

The… halfway point? So another year+ of Friday NES rankings? Sounds good to me!

@matthewkemmer Ай бұрын

I can't believe you got Michael Keaton on his Beetlejuice Beetlejuice promotion tour!

@Spirit0f Ай бұрын

Amagon, but not Amagotten.

@kevinkuenn5733 Ай бұрын

Spondylus, Spondylus, Spondylus!

@knightdehumidifier Ай бұрын

YEAHAHAHAHA, IT'S DYNOWARZ TIME!

@Arenow Ай бұрын

SPONDYLOUSIANS REUNITE!! 🦖🦕🐢

@furrymessiah Ай бұрын

SPONDEELOOS

@BDreGameplay Ай бұрын

Love that Lethal Weapon movie that took place in Egypt.

@jeffreyonline Ай бұрын

I loaded all of the games on the list onto my steam deck last night. My wife asked me what I was doing and I said SCIENCE???? Time to play 15 seconds of every game. TGIF

@d.s.i.6722 Ай бұрын

Absolutely depraved behavior

@Mr.J.Anthony Ай бұрын

I can’t wait for the list to be done so I can finally know, scientifically, what the 14th greatest NES game of all time is.

@BaldingSasquatch Ай бұрын

The worst type of hot is when you go into your car for the first time and roll down your windows and there's no cool breeze it's just the same hot

@UberNeuman Ай бұрын

I just realized I've played more games with Michael Keaton in them than I have those with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

@MissAshley42 Ай бұрын

Only an unlicensed NES cart can give you trees that turgid.

@uncertainultradian Ай бұрын

I can't believe how to some developers the next musical frontier after blues was unresolved discord. "The main character can have a gun, he gets big like Mario, and for the music we brought in Tone-Deaf Tony the mad dadaist"

@RetroDrew Ай бұрын

Gotta disagree, Amagon has some bops but I will admit the tones are a bit harsh and shrill at times

@JazGalaxy Ай бұрын

I can’t say for sure, but I think some games music gets destroyed by the clock speed of the game. I assume that’s the case when you play those early nes games and the music is just like something cutting your ears and brain. I don’t think that’s intentional.

@trickvondoom2354 Ай бұрын

Highlight of my friday as always, thanks Jeff!

@Karasellers-jg3bp Ай бұрын

Thank god it's Jeff!

@LarryDavis2099 Ай бұрын

Amagon seems to have a mystical power where, as soon as you stop playing it, you forget about its insane amount of horseshit and only remember "funny chin guy with gun turns into Altered Beast uppercut man" I am guilty of this too, every time I revisit it I think "wow this is GARBAGE" and then later I'm going "hey Amagon is pretty cool"

@AlexRowe Ай бұрын

The high quality of the Lethal Weapon soundtrack significantly improved my day.

@spewp Ай бұрын

"Riggs! Cop Killers!" - Murtaugh.

@Lupinvej Ай бұрын

Winona Ryder.

@kiloyardstare Ай бұрын

...used to be hot!

@Arenow Ай бұрын

@@kiloyardstare She still hot

@drmariomariomd6733 Ай бұрын

Amagon? More like Am I Gon’ play some good games?

@drmariomariomd6733 Ай бұрын

Oh Jesus no we aren’t I just looked at Dash Galaxy

@dangrel Ай бұрын

Not this week!

@kevinkuenn5733 Ай бұрын

I like that Dash Galaxy stops at the third-to-the-top step when he climbs a ladder. Safety first, even in an alien asylum.

@RetroDrew Ай бұрын

The NES port isn't great but For what it's worth, Alien 3 SNES is actually a pretty good game with small levels full of open exploration and a set of missions to tackle, no time limit either. Had some decent music, too

@justsignmeup911 Ай бұрын

The bit in Beetlejuice where the explanation of how to defeat bees is given at the boss door after you've already killed bees: classic bad game design

@SatNightSpecials Ай бұрын

Even though I'd never seen the game before, the ranking process for Silent Assault was an emotional rollercoaster. What a competitor, what a season.

@Budaniel Ай бұрын

I loved the falling-down-the-stairs animation in Alien 3, and Silent Assault must have the most pink sprites of any NES game not named on Kirby or Barbie. It heavy reliance on cyan and pink/magenta gives it a real CGA/EGA look.

@Ghadius Ай бұрын

Time to break out and shake up the Yoo-hoos for some NES ranking

@travisdunsmuir806 Ай бұрын

The lethal weapon soundtrack is so sick

@dyscostic Ай бұрын

Given the way the xenomorph is depicted in the movies as persistent and intelligent and lethal it's crazy how every single Alien video game until Isolation chooses to depict them as easily dispatched cannon fodder. You'd really have thought someone would have gone "what if we make it scary like movie alien and see if that's not a much better kind of game" at some point between 1982 and 2014

@trillian-g Ай бұрын

As an Amagon fan, I have to admit I'm shocked it cracked the top 100. Was thinking 150 and below

@never4ever8 Ай бұрын

Silent Assualt had the opportunity to do the funniest thing by dropping you into more and more unhinged scenarios. Like at some point you should just be dropped into a bar mitzvah or like, an actual level of Super Mario Bros or something.

@AlchemicSoul Ай бұрын

They should sell black "Beetlejuice" orange juice for the movie promotion. Wait, where are you going I have more ideas to tell you

@__redacted__ Ай бұрын

Jeff's deadpan reactions after the cartoon falling death sounds were priceless. "Oh right select, that's, natural."

@Mrster Ай бұрын

Alien 3 for the SNES is pretty good actually.

@richglix Ай бұрын

“I ran out of lips juice”

@aceking121212 Ай бұрын

Lethal weapon sound chip giving me PTSD to that Wolverine game

@fredriksahlstenglimmevi3259 Ай бұрын

My brother brought Silent Assault from some sketchy place in our small town and we were so excited to try it because the cover art looked awesome. Then we played it and just became baffled by its awefulness. It made me so happy so see Jeff realize that many of the bosses could be beat just standing in the same spot.

@JZekis Ай бұрын

I remember the Alien 3 on the SNES actually being kind of okay

@Vlokiv Ай бұрын

Friday the 13th NES actually a great movie game of the time. Would be good to stream.

@ironmanTetsuoTV Ай бұрын

Amagon? Am I ever!

@ericfuchs123 Ай бұрын

Alien, Beetlejuice, we just need him to review the Wolverine games to really cover the late summer.

@devinmulrooney Ай бұрын

The music in Dash Galaxy feels like it’s from a PAL game that was just sped up for its NTSC release

@therealbluedragon Ай бұрын

As a Britisher I give you full permission to talk shit about the ZX Spectrum.

@cazazzadan Ай бұрын

No no, listening to distorted fridge noises for ten minutes before you can do anything is the optimal way to play games.

@JamesInDigital Ай бұрын

Dream Team is an old favorite. Terrific cast.

@VinnyVance Ай бұрын

A leathal weapon was used during the destruction of Spondylus.

@slicknicdwyer Ай бұрын

I'm kinda surprised that Beetlejuice game isn't just a reskin of Fester's Quest

@Jagerbomber Ай бұрын

"I'm getting too old for this shit" - Shadow - Homeward Bound

@justsignmeup911 Ай бұрын

2:34:25 "That's fire" when he sees fire

@morsdraconis Ай бұрын

When I was like 10 or 11, I BEGGED one of my aunts to buy Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum brand new. Boy was it the worst video game purchase ever. That said, because it was one of the 10 or 12 NES games I had as a kid, I played the ever-living shit out of it. I could never get past floor 5 trying to beat each of the levels. No idea how many levels there are and how many keys you need to beat it. Never could sit through enough of it to actually beat it.

@furrymessiah Ай бұрын

There are 120(!) levels in that god forsaken game. I had it too, and likewise never finished it. Apparently if you are psychotic enough to speedrun it, you can finish it in about ten minutes.

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

Would you believe that the budget re-release of Lethal Weapon is one of the rarest games on the C64?

@RetroDrew Ай бұрын

Growing up, my dad had a very limited NES collection but the top 3 among them all for my friends and I were Castlevania 3, TMNT, and Amagon. So, deep down I have a massive love for Amagon as I played a ton of it with my Dad and friends but it is not a good game. It's a shame because with a few tweaks like unlimited ammo, a health bar and slightly better jumping you'd have a solid little game.

@superstarichiban Ай бұрын

I had a copy of Dash Galaxy sealed and I made 30 bucks on it when I sold it. So glad I chose the emulate it first

@pointblank0020 Ай бұрын

Silent Assault is amazing

@blakejohnson4713 Ай бұрын

As a kid who owned Uncanny X-Men, I, too, would absolutely suggest someone play Silent Assault over it. At least you and a room of people can look at SA and agree on enemies in the game like "Jet Pack Guys" or "Mime". As kids, we had to squint at the screen and talk each other into whether we were fighting the Juggernaut or White Queen and it didn't really matter cause you couldn't control anything anyway.

@Retro64_ Ай бұрын

Been after Beetlejuice to add to my collection for a long time but it's one of them expensive NES games.

@khanvlad Ай бұрын

Finally Dash Galaxy! A terrible game I played way too much of because it's what we had. Growing up I just thought video games sucked, but it was just that the games we had where trash because that is what my parents could afford, bargain bin things no one wanted. I never owned Zelda, Contra, Mario, or Metroid. But I sure as hell played alot of Dash Galaxy, Yo-Noid, Back to the future, and karate kid. Thanks for the nostalgia, and keep up the science!

@furrymessiah Ай бұрын

Your parents hate you? The NES came with bloody Mario!

@khanvlad Ай бұрын

Nah just broke and 2nd hand/clearence everything. Although there is video evidence of me slapping a controller with Mario on the screen when I was about 2 or 3 years old, just don't remember owning it.

@Shiftygism Ай бұрын

The Genesis and SNES versions of 'Alien³' (different games) are great. NES...not so much. Probe also did the halfway decent 'Judge Dredd' movie game on 16bit consoles. Side note: 'Alien: Infestation' on DS developed by WayForward was pretty rad, wish SEGA would remaster that for the Switch.

@schtive81 Ай бұрын

I remember seeing that Beetlejuice game advertised in gaming magazines, but I never played it. The gameplay reminds me of 'Haunting starring Poleterguy' on the Genesis. This is also the second game that Michael Keaton is technically in, the other being Batman. NES Lethal Weapon is pretty middling. But it has a nice soundtrack. That Aliens game is a lesser port of the Genesis game. But this version ended up on various microcomputers too. The SNES game was more of a Metroid-like.

@ryanfb Ай бұрын

Never expected to hear a PR#6 Apple II joke on a ranking the NES video… 😅

@Jagerbomber Ай бұрын

Watch out for snakes!

@richglix Ай бұрын

I think that should be the new metric for the science. What percentage of the game needs to be overhauled and made good instead of bad. 😆

@sandwedge Ай бұрын

Amagon looks like a caveman with a gun which is pretty cool

@manoiumusicgames5763 Ай бұрын

Without naming them, how many formative NES games of your childhood (good or bad) has Jeff ranked so far? For me, he ranked 6 out of 13 of the game cartridges I owned, which statistically makes perfect sense as he just said we're around the halfway point. The lowest ranked game I owned at this point is #233 (which was actually one of my favorites as a kid).

@daneofurexistence Ай бұрын

My Dad showed me “The Dream Team” There are some good bits in it fo’ sho

@esmerylan Ай бұрын

Feels like it was a bad idea for Amagon to have one-hit kills for the small-guy form, a lot of the frustration could have been alleviated if they'd had life meters for both the small and large forms.

@Jagerbomber Ай бұрын

AMAGERD

@MrDowntemp0 Ай бұрын

If the instead of trying to jam 52 games on one cart, the active enterprises instead focused on one set of shooter mechanics, and used all that art to just make 52 levels, I think you'd get something comparable to Silent Assault, and it would've certainly been better than Cheetahmen.

@Fitser Ай бұрын

Beetlejuice should only be playable for 7 minutes of this game. Micheal Keaton would be PISSED if he knew this existed

@BDreGameplay Ай бұрын

I guess I'll take a break from playing the brilliant Astro Bot, to watch this awesomeness!

@RT55J Ай бұрын

2:50:56 i felt that

@Jagerbomber Ай бұрын

InBeetlejuiceScrutable I always say

@Jagerbomber Ай бұрын

Turn off the autocorrect settings completely if Notepad is sluggish. Because apparently Microsoft hasn't figured it out

@CoobaJ Ай бұрын

Abuse IS a hell of a game.

@MrGreedylou Ай бұрын

I’m shocked! Silent Assault is better than Robocop !

@avelon_hs6030 Ай бұрын

Huh anyone else thought silent assault was gonna do way better in the rankings?

@knightdehumidifier Ай бұрын

Amagon was clearly made by Craig's dad from Friday. Guns are for punks and those afraid of an ass-whoopin'. Now pick up your dukes.

@sleepwalkusa135 Ай бұрын

I bet jeff of today kicking off his yearly 2 straight months of being sick is envious of jeff of 2 weeks ago merely complaining about the car being hot

@teeveeparty Ай бұрын

Ha! Never thought I'd see a game selected for the algorithm! How long have you been sitting on this one waiting for the movie to release?! :p

@OrinLinwe Ай бұрын

this game, something, something, the reboot of Beetlejuice, something something which one is more ill-conceived, am I rite, something something. There, that's all the recognizable parts of a joke. Have at it! (I don't have the energy).