EA Sports BIG's Forgotten Gem and Its Found/Fully Lost Media

[@MuhomonoYT]

UPDATE: New info regarding Freekstyle Crash Pad has been found! Join the Freekstyle Discord For More Info! discord.com/invite/AcbgBgWFHh

[@bigmase502]

Brother, let me tell ya. That Freakstyle intro music struck a deep forgotten nerve in my brain.

[@Larry]

In regards to game sales of Freekstyle, a PS2 game needs to sell at least 400,000 copies in the US to receive a Greatest Hits re-release, so it probably sold over a million world wide at a guess.

[@MuhomonoYT]

That would make sense, I feel like that would be something to celebrate and include in your earnings reports considering it was a new IP, but then again, this is EA of course 🙄 Thank you so much for watching, Love your videos Larry !

[@Larry]

@@MuhomonoYT I'm honestly surprised there was never an Xbox port. I wonder why they left it out? But totally, EA are strange ones. And no worries bud, I really enjoyed the video! Definitely dropping you a sub now! :)

[@Mostillist]

i think there was no xbox port due to the lack of bumper buttons it would of made the xbox version tough yo configure for even on gcn without the extra bumper theres no reset bike button

[@Larry]

@@Mostillist The OG xbox had the black and white buttons in lieu of the bumpers.

[@Mostillist]

that could of worked would of been a tough and fun control scheme probably would of been a shoehorn for backwards compatability on xbox too assuming they didn't run into any issues using the likeness of the racers again

[@Wenjo936]

I know that freekstyle logo. Bought it again on the GameCube. Never touched it. I doubt it can hang with the PS2 version I grew up with. Good shit brother.

[@MuhomonoYT]

Thank you for watching 🫡

[@Mostillist]

gcn and ps2 are the same exceot gamecube loads faster and you have to pause to reset your bike

[@Wenjo936]

@@Mostillist really!? I just picked up the Wii from Ma's house at Xmas. I should finally get around to playing it now huh?

[@Lessthanpropane]

love this game. I remember the bottom of the disc was blue instead of silver/reflective. sleeping in the living room, on the pullout couch bed to play this all night. what a time.

[@12exyou]

i rented this game many times from my local blockbuster years ago - totally forgot about it but I just got back back into PS2 emulation and it's still a blast. thanks for the reminder.

[@Spit1990]

This game lives rent-free in my mind. I've played the demo on PS2 a disgusting amount of times.

[@Wenjo936]

That disc was so good. The splinter cell PSM demo disc and almost all jampacks

[@Th3GamingAddict]

This was a great video man. I had never heard of this game until I came across someone streaming it on tiktok a few weeks back so its cool to hear about how it came to be. Keep it up!

[@MuhomonoYT]

Appreciate the kind words, Thank you for watching!

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

one of my favorites. no other game at the time gave you that sense of air and speed. and the intro music just killed back in the day, ssx had a great one, shaun palmers snowboarding had an incredible one by spineshank. and this one. i remember buying dry cell and spine shanks cds from hot topic because of these games.

[@Steven_Bo1]

I remember as a kid I would’ve killed to get spikes on my chest protector like Brian Deegan at 10:19 I thought they were the coolest thing ever 😂😂

[@Vaultdweller997]

Dude I’ve been waiting for this one

[@joesmith-xu7od]

More of this kind content plz !!

[@MuhomonoYT]

Working on it, Thank you for watching!

[@JohnnyBp36]

Freakstyle was definitely a gem

[@Steven_Bo1]

I recently got this for the ps2 off eBay and it’s just as good as I remembered

[@MachineGunZero]

I feel in love with game when going over to a friends house and then my dad bought a few games off a friend and lone behold freakstyle was one of those games. It’s a masterpiece and I still have it even in 2024!

[@sleyermeister]

"lo and behold"

[@Steven_Bo1]

I raced dirt bikes as a kid and because of this game in my first race ever I thought if you did tricks while racing then you would get a better placement 😂

[@wenchesonstandby]

Such a banger. I miss when video games weren't afraid to be video games

[@Wenjo936]

Also had a classmate named jessica Patterson. That was weird af

[@ignyted1418]

I picked this game up a year or two ago but never got around to it. My backlog is killer 😂😂😂 but I still have memories of when thr ps2 first came out and I went over to a friend's house to play it after his dad finally let us. He had madden. Smackdown just bring it. But then seeing freakstyle blew my mind at the insane twist on fmx. I'll have to fire it up this week. Happy Holidays and good job on the awesome video. I know I got a copy of Shox somewhere 😅

[@MuhomonoYT]

Freekstyle honestly still holds up all these years later so definitely still worth playing. Thank you for watching and good luck on your search for Shox 😂

[@bobheyotue9850]

Ok but do ya'll Remember when Disney Made a Freakstyle game with ATV's man that game was Pure I miss it but I forget what it was called...

[@MuhomonoYT]

Pure was super underrated, great game

[@mightymoe959]

freakstyle my favorite game

[@Mostillist]

hey im not sure if my comments are getting held for review or not but they only appear for me when i reply to someone so sorry if you have read this already but im apart of a small speedrunning group for this game and one of the runners was able to contact the lead programmer/engineer of freekstyle about two years ago im not sure if he will have the answers but he's our only possible lead Michael romero of page 44 studios he has a linkedin page i been trying to link his profile but i think when i do that youtube deletes my comment

[@MuhomonoYT]

We can see them 👍🏽 don't see anything held on my backend

[@WUB_Speedruns]

@@MuhomonoYT​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠yeah my comments aren't showing up either. If you can find them there is important info in them. Me and mostillist have been discussing this topic in the Freekstyle discord. I found a few things

[@MuhomonoYT]

Not sure why they're not showing up. There's nothing showing in my held for review section. I'll pin a comment to the discord 👍🏽