Finding Nickelodeon's LOST PlayStation Game | Finding CatDog: Saving Mean Bob [LOST MEDIA]

[@k-trashradio5163]

It was really cool hearing all those lost media youtubers who joined you in the project. Really gave this video a sense of community.

[@phantomstrider]

Hats off to the hard work you putting into finding this game. It was a pleasure to watch your search 😃

[@CartoonReview]

Thanks for helping out!

[@swaysway1362]

Wow low phantomstrider is here.

[@andykishore]

@@swaysway1362 He's also at 45:20.

[@unseenphantomamvsytp2186]

If he wants to retire I understand. I just hope everythings okay with him.

[@acmeanvil3022]

I find it interesting that CatDog's design made it hard for the team to animate them and get them working in a game, and how around two decades later Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl's developers were able to use that design in a way that lent the duo to becoming the best fighters on the roster.

[@andykishore]

That's a very good point. The video games Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway use 3D models of CatDog and are able to work just fine.

[@ClassicGamer1983]

It was harder to animate stuff in the PS1 era, that's why a lot of it's games animations haven't aged well, these days most youtubers can do good animations.

[@thegreat1007]

I can only suspect that Charlie Adler voiced cat ...he sounds like a lot like Charlie Adler

[@alchemistofsteel8099]

Its jim cunmings ​@@thegreat1007

[@PablosonicLike]

Yes that. Is cool

[@genyakozlov1316]

A MASSIVE shame the game wasn't leaked, as I'm sure some homebrew developmer would be willing to finish it. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. I love Catdog. I even have a headrest pillow shaped like him, er... I mean them. Shame I never even heard of this game until now. Always figured the character design would not let the game exists. I grew up on the Rugrats PS1 games, all four were my childhood, even if I didn't like the France one much, so I would have loved this.

[@okamiodonnell9153]

Very good watch! Although it's disappointing we don't have concrete answers or footage/screenshots, it's interesting to see the working environment and how the game got abandoned and lost. Here's hoping this video will lead to more answers! And thank you for spreading the word on it's existence!

[@RoyStorey]

Hearing about how terraglyph operated gave me vibes of Hi-Tech Expressions, another licensed game developer from earlier in the 90s. Their employees were mostly local musicians, some of which never even touched a computer ever before working on their first games, their library had a mixed critical reception, and they just barely lasted about six years. And yet they managed to work on MASSIVE licenses; Disney, Sesame Street, Barbie, even ports of Mega Man and Street Fighter. It just makes me wonder if HTC, and even other licensed game devs of that era, also did the "get as much licensing investments asap" process that Terraglyph was doing. And like Terraglyph, Hi-Tech also had multiple unreleased/lost games before they shut down as well, some of which were even fully finished and ready for release. Maybe just me, but at the very least I wouldn't be surprised if Terra wasn't the only ones operating that way.

[@giftskull]

Awesome documentary! About the two different box arts- I'm fairly certain the one in the advertisement was a prototype/mock-up cover. It hadn't been finalized yet. The second one probably would've been the final had it gotten released. The bare bones listings and developer mix-ups remind me a lot of the situation with the EEnE "Junkyard Scramble" game that eventually became Jawbreakers for the GBA. Development was rocky and preorders had a developer listed that wasn't set in stone, thus no ex-employee from that studio knew anything about it. Glad that's not the case with the preview and Terraglyph. Can't wait for the video on Backlot Party and I hope gameplay or a playable version of Saving Mean Bob sees the light of day soon.

[@CartoonReview]

I like your theory about the box arts! A prototype and final version would make a lot of sense, especially because the first box art seems a lot more simplistic

[@joannamother2432]

I've done tons of research on Carnivale; the two games for it and the film itself. It's a fascinating film that deserved much better. Hearing that Terraglyph with this game was involved immediately made me feel somewhat validated. Super awesome video, you did a great job.

[@theblarneystone1023]

I wish more people talked about this show this way. CatDog has such an interesting history behind it. Especially during its first year and two on air.

[@maxwellmeows]

I hope that we get footage soon! Thank you for your effort!

[@drewbarton196]

Hmm... actually how would Terraglyph translate CatDog, themselves, as a playable character in a PS1 video game? I think its admirable that Jeff wanted to be faithful to how CatDog was animated in their show but again it was a license game made for the PS1, a console that has limitations. Then again there was that Looney Tunes game Sheep Raider that was able do squash and stretch despite being a PS1 game. But like you mentioned in the video Terraglyph had money issues meaning Saving Mean Bob might had a limited budget and wasn't really a top priority for them.

[@CartoonReview]

I think the fact that they wanted to get that squash & stretch animation AND have both Cat and Dog be playable individually was just too much for this game. Their ambition to have a two-player mode where players could control each character at the same time sounds like something that wouldn't have been possible to truly achieve until recent times

[@drewbarton196]

@@CartoonReview Crap forgot about the two player aspect. And yeah too difficult. I can't think of any video game that tries to do that, unless it might be a mini game in a party game. But I do remember playing an arcade style game made by a college student in which it requires 3 players. First, the players played 3 separate characters then the next level the characters are mash together and the players take control certain movements: one controls left, one controls right, and one push the jump button.

[@MASF_]

Thank you for trying to find answers on this mysterious game. I came across this listing back in during the Gamecube era while searching IGN and it at the time had the 2nd box art from the fansite interview. For 17 years I thought back to what was that game about, even as recent as in December 2022. I did mention the game once in 2021 and showed a screenshot of the box art in the NASB Discord Server to people. No one knew what this mysterious cancelled game was. The only thing I knew was it was for the PS1 and it was about CatDog looking for Dog's Mean Bob action figure. There is not full answers but it is new info we didn't know before. It is still a victory in my opinion.

[@WhoMikeJones21]

Great work! I love the dedication from everyone to keep media from being lost.

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

Good year for long deep dives about finding stuff.

[@OnDVD]

What are you doing? Uhhhh….flight simulator?

[@Julianmario]

Man, this has been a great watch. Love this!

[@CartoonReview]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@edtouchables]

Thumbs up: I watched the whole thing. I had to take a break for a few hours, but I finished the video. I loved the video, but it was very frustrating no one was able to show you footage from the game. I can't imagine how you feel about that. I wish you the best with your search. Thanks for the hour of entertainment. --Reginald Cosmic

[@ABlueyFan]

Update: The Lost Media Wiki has added 2 new screenshots from the game which tell us more to it. The first shows that there was gonna be boss fights, the one shown is from Taco Depot where we would fight Rancid Rabbit. The 2nd one shows that there were gonna be 2D cutscenes as it depicts the dump.

[@DM_GLAUCON]

Awesome work on this! Great insights on development too. So much more to this game than I realized

[@CartoonReview]

Thanks so much for being a part of it!

[@linknknight]

hello, i usually don't look into these types of channels, but i enjoyed your pokemon content and was big sad seeing the channel dead when the person had put in so much work. i'm glad i found it was just a side channel, and you're still doing well. i haven't watched anything on this channel yet, just wanted to say excellent work so far.

[@kaobunn]

incredible video! wish this game could've made it the anticipation when the QA guy said he might have a playable copy was huge but it sucks he didn't actually have it hopefully someday someone randomly throws a playable version out there! it happens haha

[@CartoonReview]

The fact that while making this video somebody from Terraglyph leaked a playable version of Carnivale gives me hope that the same could happen to Saving Mean Bob!

[@EvaFull]

😂 I was 17 almost 18 at that point. So interesting to hear about that time from a younger perspective. Especially considering I am working full time & trying to finish High School, so I didn’t have much time or passion for gaming then.

[@bert949]

Keep up the hard work! Loved this.

[@soulman3729]

Holy shit I remember playing Quest for the Golden Hydrant as a kid. I can't believe I forgot about that gameuntil now, I will see if I still have it, but I cant recall where any PC games are these days.

[@fictionalmediabully9830]

Wow! That is one spectacular documentary. I can relate to the frustrations of researching and reaching dead ends. A few years ago, I tried to look up any additional info on one of the Zelda CD-i games (Zelda's Adventure). I didn't find much except for an unsecured article and a positive magazine review published in the UK. I'm still interested in finding out more, albeit not as much. My attention has shifted to a dissolved UK studio, Asylum Entertainment Ltd. I own two games they made (Sabrina and Powerpuff Girls on PS1), both of which are terrible, and I'm intrigued to research their development.

[@maxtubegaming12]

where have you been, brandon?

[@timwittman2881]

Hope all is well Brandon

[@roguegoat9756]

This was awesome! Great job man

[@CartoonReview]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DKMix358]

@@CartoonReview can you make more videos?

[@baretjenar4454]

I don't know if that rendition of the CatDog theme in the intro is an original mix or not, but it sounds great!

[@Ryo]

Props to the dedication for trying to figure it out

[@DanielSantosAnalysis]

Great video! I hope this does numbers and more developments with the search happen.

[@maxtubegaming12]

please come back Brandon, we really miss you! 😥

[@vanessanessa2761]

i don't know if the channel was active or not

[@kirbynat493]

Ohh, this was so cool!! This channel has come a long way, love it

[@JomasterTheSecond]

He did it boys, he saved Mean Bob.

[@Retrodan680]

amazing documentary dude

[@CartoonReview]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Retrodan680]

@Cartoon Review dude, it's your channel and a couple of others that's got me deciding to make some of my own content now.

[@JasontheCartoonFan]

Wow, I’m surprised that I’m the first one to leave a comment on this! All joking aside, this greatly-edited and throughly researched video was well worth the wait. If this doesn’t lead to a major subscriber increase for you, I don’t know how you’ll ever get it!

[@chesspunk489]

I am also a big cartoon fan. The nostalgia seems to help with my depression. My latest purchase was a bootleg with every Recess episode/movie. Do you also have a huge dvd or blueray library?

[@andykishore]

I'm also surprised this video wasn't from a bigger channel.

[@samwill7259]

If your media preservation methods are illegal, then that's the law's problem, not yours Protect art, uncover it, release it, circulate it. Preserving art is more important than any copyright law will ever be.

[@CartoonReview]

100% agree. If the official copyright holders are just burying a piece of media then fans preserving it via their own methods is always fair game in my book

[@TheSultan1470]

Haha, this guy's about to have a legal battle over some made-for-bargain bin game. That's funny.

[@anthonymarziano9984]

More people should talk about this lost game because I'm interested in what information about the project they have to share.

[@connerdude100]

Hey man we miss you. Any update would be cool😢

[@lucavalente6620]

I think he is burned out with youtube.

[@saltycomet]

I've been on KZbin a long long time, idk how I've never heard of your channel. Glad to have found it! Earned a sub. I have so much to binge to bring me back nostalgia

[@levipayne801]

Judging by my experience with Toonenstein... Saving Mean Bob probably wasn't gonna be all that great unfortunately

[@fictionalmediabully9830]

It looks like it would have been an average Crash Bandicoot clone with some good animation.

[@levipayne801]

@@fictionalmediabully9830 the good animation being the star feature (and maybe good music too)

[@TECH097]

Coulda been a Pocahontas situation where the team with more focus and a more valued concept failed while the lesser focused on title actually had more of a cultural impact...still shocks me that Lion King was the one Disney had less faith in..

[@fictionalmediabully9830]

@@TECH097 Not too shocking, really. The less focused and valued project is less likely to fall into corporate traps, especially when the intention of the main project is Oscar bait.

[@levipayne801]

@@fictionalmediabully9830 from what the screenshots show, I feel like this would have been similar to the extremely strange PS1 experience known as Incredible Crisis

[@BuckBumbleYT]

Whatever happened to this channel?

[@ClassicGamer9044]

Why did you stop making reviews? I miss your daily uploads 😢😔

[@rugratsthebrothersflubcats5966]

What's next? Doug for gameboy color or Martin mystery for Nintendo ds? But both doug and Martin mystery are on Nickelodeon, one is doug for Disney and other one is Martin mystery is marathon media.

[@jessejones1783]

I guess that CatDog Ps1 game will stay in development hell for all time that sucks

[@3Hunna-sosa]

Awesome video! I'd love to see this be a series of sorts where you cover lost/cancelled licensed games! Maybe a Spongebob Gravjet Racing one? Or that cancelled/lost Ren and Stimpy atari Lynx game! Who knows? LOL

[@emogamerdad2591]

Well u get a like and sub, here I was thinking I must've went crazy bc I was looking all around for catdog psx and getting nothing. Love the video and the presentation.

[@jetforcejuno7166]

But when the world needed him most, he vanished.

[@gligarguy4010]

At least he left with a bang

[@CrystalOmega]

Absolutely fantastic video!!! >:3 👏👏👏👏👏💜💜💜💜

[@customsfornewbs9067]

Hey any updates on the next video it’s been a bit

[@yaroslavus7380]

I can't describe in words how impressed I am with this video

[@jadenrobertshaw3545]

come back :,(

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

Good news he's back

[@jadenrobertshaw3545]

@@JuanGomez-ke5py where? i need to see

[@LOSTMEDIASPAIN]

We need a similar project to find more info about de Spongebob Nicktoons Gavjet racing game. Also it would be could have more info about the Nicktoons photo game por Ps2 or a more complete playable version, I loved too much the gba version.

[@CartoonReview]

I definitely plan to tackle Gravjet Racing at some point

[@adultmoshifan87]

What I don’t get about the 32 bit era is, whereas the 8 and 16 bit eras had no shortage of kids games even in the early years, (not counting Japan exclusives) why did it take the PlayStation, one of the most successful consoles EVER, to get a sizeable amount of games based on kid-targeted IPs? It got a Mickey Mouse game within its first year on the market but it was a PAL exclusive. Only the outdated-by-this-point 16 bit consoles got a Toy Story game. We did get a few kids games here and there like ReBoot, Casper and Blazing Dragons but there were few and far between. The 2 major standout releases were Space Jam and Hercules, knowing how big the movies they are based on are, but they were still among a very small few of this game category! It wasn’t until after the release of the console’s A Bug’s Life game that we got MANY games based on kids movies and TV shows! Personally, I think at the very least, on the Disney and Nickelodeon sides of things respectively, Toy Story and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters both should’ve been released on the PlayStation as well as the 16 bit Genesis and SNES. They might’ve hurt the PlayStation’s reputation as a 3D console but how come Rayman was released for that console with no issues? Had the 2 licensed games I speak of each have been released on PlayStation as well as 16 bit consoles, I wouldn’t mind if they were each just the SNES version at Genesis resolution with a CD soundtrack and FMV clips from the corresponding source material! Being a Sega loyalist, I went for a Saturn instead of a Genesis back in the day and seeing as I was 7 going on 8, I just HAD TO question “Where are the Disney games? Where’s the new Sonic game?” Yeah, the Saturn was VERY badly handled outside Japan. I REALLY wish Sega of Japan and Sega of America were able to work together better!

[@3Hunna-sosa]

Late but some new images were posted on the lmw page about the game mysteriously

[@kaktus2872]

That ending was so good

[@csharp3884]

When is the next episode???

[@chesspunk489]

Please do a review of the Doug gameboy color game!

[@arkmainable]

The fact that an esrb rating exists suggests the game Is very far along, if not done.

[@the-nina-beans88]

0:00 - 0:04 November of 1999… Correction I was 11 years old LOL but I know what you mean Other then that interesting documentary. Altho this won’t help with the search but I remember in a video rental store among the PS1 section I did see a physical copy of a CatDog game and on the back it showed the screen shot of their house and that you can play as ether Cat or Dog. I think it was a PS1 release of the golden hydrant unless that game never got a Ps1 release but I definitely remember a CatDog game on the shelf in the Ps1 section of that video rental store ( which has now turned into a laundromat..

[@devonwilliams5738]

Maybe we can find it in a Playstation 1 lotcheck leak like we did with the N64 and GBC versions of Carnivale.

[@WyattZirb]

in that one magazine you looked at, the one owned by the Playstation magazine DID HAVE CATDOG in it. It was under Nickelodeon Cat Dog near the bottom. Doubt that helps but maybe

[@vanessanessa2761]

for some reason, he did not make a new video, i think that the video is still in prodution but i don't know if the channel was active or not

[@MikeFlamingo]

Damn I used to have a copy of the April 2000 issue about 10 years back but I'm pretty sure it got thrown away at my parents house :(

[@LittleTrashKing]

You doing okay? Just found this account but you seemingly have been inactive for a year

[@xplodax]

He quit KZbin

[@gnbman]

I wonder if the finished game would have played like the game Phogs.

[@JulianR2JG]

You good man? Been a while

[@jabmaster1000]

Guys, it’s probably fine. The last time this happened he said that his computer died and that’s why it took so long for him to make a video. Probably the same thing happened here.

[@ReginaldCosmic]

His last tweets before ceasing uploads said he was really burned out on making KZbin videos.

[@felixleidig8307]

@@ReginaldCosmic aww that is a shame

[@Tornado_Mang]

31:00 wild that right above Catdog is another cancelled lost media game, Beavis and Butthead Get Big in Hollywood

[@h3showh3podcastunofficial]

When are you coming back?

[@KellyJanna]

Hi! Not sure if your still reviewing games but I wanted to ask if you can review Dom Okon’s Beats. It’s a video game that’s free and it’s based off musician Dom Okon. It’s my favorite thing to play rn!

[@PablosonicLike]

I found some info In the Catdog wiki is not much but I did found a page of a magazine but ti dosent work is the story here its what says (lead the quest the find dog favorite action figure six locations 15 sub levels familar locations from the tv show single or two players/cooperative mode)

[@vanessanessa2761]

what is the next new video to this youtube channel?

[@alexkidd8772]

I love licensed games, man

[@Psychkemia]

This vid brought back some memories. I played both Quest for the Golden Hydrant and the Rugrats Mystery game as a kid.

[@abrahamcortina6322]

Can you review the video game adaptations of Nacho Libre, The Last Airbender, Rango, and TMNT (2014)

[@sxmbxdy]

Good video

[@devonwilliams5738]

I finally watched this. So the end teaser explains why you've been gone for three months.

[@MichaelCasey-js9ny]

7 months

[@devonwilliams5738]

@@MichaelCasey-js9ny Damn, it really has been seven months. Fascinating.

[@MichaelCasey-js9ny]

@@devonwilliams5738 dead channel

[@bradythomas234]

"Where were you on the night of November two"

[@felixleidig8307]

fantastic uniqe channel hope you will also do all the disney and all the looney tunes games...oh and of course all of batman games

[@gligarguy4010]

I hear he died.

[@BinglesP]

Never heard of this game or the search surrounding it before. Pretty interesting stuff. Even if you didn't say so, I could already tell you care a lot about Lost Media, including this specific case of one. Also, isn't it a bit ironic how those sources conflicted whether this game was going to be 1-Player or 2-Player? Considering, you know, it's a game where you'd play as CatDog, so you'd be playing as both 1 entity and 2 characters already. (Spent way too long typing this trying to word that right)

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

When's the next review?

[@DKMix358]

Can you make more videos?

[@hectorbravo9855]

I hope one day we will know what happens to cat and dog the PlayStation 1 video games

[@soulman3729]

I FOUND MY COPY!!!

[@3Hunna-sosa]

You have the copy of the game????

[@Jsslade]

43:06 you forgot to credit the va's of the first two employees in this scene

[@hollowinside1962]

remember cartoon network powerplay games?

[@DKMix358]

What's your next upload going to be?

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Bit too similar to Ray Mona's documentaries, and it feels a bit padded at times. Fortunately, it starts getting good when you show the latest screenshots (though you gave away a big twist when you described the PS1 as primitive). Still, I enjoyed your detective work, same as I enjoyed her's. Then again, I'm a member of Atari Age. My interest in Hasbro Interactive is far from that of a neutral observer...

[@arjanvandenheuvel4522]

Will you do more SpongeBob DS game reviews? :)

[@ryland5838]

Oh God no more spongebob videos

[@GIRSAC201]

This Is A FANTASTIC Video That Needs To Be Seen By Others AND NOW THERES GONNA BE CN BACKLOT

[@SamboTron3000]

Come back

[@janick8262]

Very good video

[@konzoljatekos3332]

New video?

[@targettwentyone]

Cool

[@thegreat1007]

So from what I understand hasbro was the publisher

[@RadioBedroom]

Why did you bother including that his fridge was broken? Jesus

[@MichaelCasey-js9ny]

Welp this channels dead hasn't posted in 7 months