Is Blues Brothers [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk

[@wheatgrowssweet]

Earthbound is the best Blues Brothers video game. Change my mind.

[@MixMasterLar]

I see no lie here

[@mrmusickhimself]

Preach

[@Schmilsson_Comes_Alive]

Definitely!

[@Spanishdog17]

It's also more accurate to the movie

[@zsheets7483]

I would, but I don't want to.

[@gab_v250]

1:27 welp, The Blues Brothers (the movie) is such a cult classic in Italy that is broadcast EVERY December 31st on prime time on one of the national TV channels.

[@elchi2103]

that's interesting to know

[@rezalevi3030]

Hmm... i see

[@Neithan02]

What is on the other channels? Ornella muti and adriano celentano or some carlo pedersoli?

[@heroesoftomorrow3488]

Funnily enough, the movie is often rated green or yellow on TV (so for kids or teenager according to italian television rating), while the original movie was rated R

[@pirateclick1d169]

@Sandman Slim ?

[@kentatm2663]

The fact that they made a Blues Brothers game that doesn't have multiple car chase levels is inexcusable.

[@NickEnlowe]

The closest you can get to a true Blues Brothers experience on the SNES is with the "Runaway Five" from Earthbound.

[@ColonelNegative]

I’ve been collecting records for near 25 years and that line about Seals & Croft and Dan Fogelberg is so on the money. Add in Chuck Mangione and every Christmas record on the planet and you’ve got the Four Horsemen of Record Collecting Apocalypse.

[@marctoad]

That Barbara Streisand/Kris Kristofferson record has to be the most common discount/discard/thrift record I've ever come across.

[@ColonelNegative]

@@marctoad It’s up there. The Eagles Greatest Hits is another one.

[@marctoad]

@@ColonelNegative good call, I'd also throw in Herb Alpert records.

[@ColonelNegative]

@@marctoad Hahaha ain't that the truth! Cheers friend!

[@joelpocalips]

I always find "Neil diamonds: *enter recognizes holiday*"...drives me crazy hahah

[@masterrserch3971]

Duke Silver!! Nice reference... who doesn't love a woodworker with a secret jazz saxophone performing life on the side

[@dvvargas]

Now we need a Ron Swanson/Duke Silver game.

[@SPac316]

Wow, I remember that part in the movie when Jake and Elwood were in a fantasy land hopping on big mushrooms and eating cake to be muscular. Seriously, do the designers even look at the source material?

[@midwestmonster9886]

Okay, that Peter Rabbit comparison was spot on. It'd probably make _more_ sense than having the Blues Brothers jump on mushrooms.

[@tykamen5588]

Probably make more sense than anything in Blues Brothers 2000

[@l.marhault]

What kills me is that the movie has so many elements that would have made a good game: Dodging beer bottles in Bob's Country Bunker while avoiding Good Old Boys Scary orphanage level where you evade the Penguin's ruler attack until you make it to Rufus' basement Driving sections, a la the original Grand Theft Auto, evading police and finding clues to the other Blues Brothers Band members Rhythm games: dance along with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Cab Calloway, And the music - even if you don't license Sam & Dave, John Lee Hooker or Tammy Wynette, you can get somebody to mimic their style. And even Midway could afford to license Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme for crying out loud.

[@l.marhault]

Bonus level: put on blue jeans like Wayne Cochran & the CC Riders

[@miketurns202]

This game reminded me of the Cool Spot 7 up game.

[@Bruwulf]

Cool Spot at least had some nice visual level design at times. Actually, for how utterly bizarre a concept it was, the Cool Spot games weren't awful. Decent visuals, catchy and a little different music, gameplay was... alright, nothing offensive.

[@RappingNinja]

Cool Spot was weirdly good for a generic platformer.

[@greenkoopa]

Minus the cool

[@chrisl5711]

Cool Spot was wayyyy better

[@miketurns202]

@@chrisl5711 I definitely agree..just the game play is a little similar...but cool spot was 5x better

[@marsil602the2nd]

SUPER BLUES: this isnt just your average depression, this is ADVANCED DEPRESSION

[@IsmailofeRegime]

You know your game is screwed when even powering-up sounds disappointing.

[@Funnyman20265]

Good morning snesdrunk and everybody else! Have a great rest of your day.

[@MarcoMazziniYT]

3:16 "...makes your characters bump into each other like *SPEEDBALLS* " I see what you did here Drunk. Speedballs.

[@dexterdouglas]

Hahahahahaha!! I didn’t catch that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@scottnotpilgrim]

Well played Drunk, well played

[@ValkyrieTiara]

I don't know which of you is worse: you for catching that joke or Drunk for writing it. Take your like and go.

[@mrmusickhimself]

Gotta love that dark humor

[@knyght27]

I came here to see if anyone pointed it out! Very dark

[@CiccioImberlicchio]

i remember trying this game on a SNES emulator compilation my cousin gave me back in the early 2000s i remember closing it after 2 minutes because it was so damn bad

[@slick-nh7is]

Any boss fights, like Carrie Fisher with the boozaka, or a smiling John candy throwing orange whips at your character 😂😂

[@barrymurphy4812]

Yeah and the Nazi camp dudes or the country band "The good old boys".

[@kri249]

Or the Nun with a cane.

[@barrymurphy4812]

@@kri249 or Mrs Murphy (Aretha Franklin - RIP) trying to stop you recruiting Matt "Guitar" Murphy

[@barrymurphy4812]

"You better think!"

[@billcook4768]

An actual Blues Bros game would be so cool. And yes, it would be spelled that day. They level where you have to dodge beer bottles thrown by the audience would probably be my favorite.

[@RetroGameNova]

It’s like they had a spare game on a hard drive and they were like “Blues Brothers”

[@UnderTheSkin13]

I remember playing this on the computer of an acquaintance's mom back in the day. He'd let me play for two or three seconds before slamming the instant death key and laughing maniacally.

[@feedthesnake3394]

it's awesome that you post at 6 am then tell us to have a "good rest of your day"

[@feedthesnake3394]

even better!

[@johnm3907]

I love that movie is a classic. The scene where they sing its hard to be a woman is so good, BABYYYY

[@jaymethysell5111]

The sprite work seems perfectly adequate.

[@jordankelsey4501]

“You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg, your zima, hula hoops, and Pac-Man video games.

[@iguardo]

“People today have attention spans that can only be measure in nano seconds!”

[@akalyx]

i say this all the time and no one gets the reference...kudos

[@AJV3000]

"Did I just fart?"

[@KPDempsey]

"You know Remer, someday I'm gonna own a big sports bar."

[@osurpless]

“The Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil... The Minneapolis Lakers moved to LA where there are no lakes...”

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Total length of video: 325 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 4 secs. 1.23% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

[@akalyx]

do this every upload...thanks

[@TimmyB_TV]

I remember renting this game back in the day, I kinda liked it as a kid lol

[@bigedwerd]

I honestly love the small references SNESdrunk makes that I don't get.

[@TopSpot123]

Blues Brothers Maker on Switch when?

[@tjwalker3155]

"Ya Got My Cheese Whiz Boy"

[@l.marhault]

Fun fact: that actor was actually the make-up artist for the movie.

[@DoctorInk20]

Wasn't his name "Shotgun Britton"?

[@Seantendo]

And so I spent my whole life thinking Easy Cheese was Cheez Whiz.

[@TrevorHicken]

Getting SNESDrunk first thing in the morning is my cup of tea

[@j.j.9511]

James Brown better have his own level.

[@beesforbreakfast]

The Stevie Wonder level is _really_ hard

[@joaovictor3312]

There is a Flintstones game where the overworld functions like a board game, and you move through it using a bowling ball dice thingy. It has several sidescrolling levels, as well as a variety of minigames and even a racing mode 7 style level, and of course it is 2 player co-op too. You should definetly check it out, it is one of the coolest licensed snes games I've seen

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

The one on NES is pretty fun too. I should check that one out.

[@joaovictor3312]

@@randomguyontheinternet7940 if you want I can even play it with you via netplay, depending on which emulator you use

[@rars0n]

I was at least 13 when The Power Rangers became a thing, so when I watched the show, I laughed at it ironically. It was just directed at a much younger audience than me. Yet I loved it ironically. Then I got a SNES Power Rangers game for Christmas. I didn't want it, nor did any of my siblings, but it was actually a decent beat-em-up. I still like the game to this day, because it was just a damn fun play through. That is to say, while games can often be beneath you, never count out a game based solely on its subject matter. Although I don't think anyone watching this will get the Dan Fogelberg reference.

[@AlecEagon]

1 Up if SNES Drunk has put a smile on your face more than once during COVID. Love you man. Look forward to every episode.

[@adam_loooong1735]

Great video Drunk as always!! What is wild to me is in 2000... YEAR 2000 there was a Blues Brothers game on the Nintendo 64. Aptly named: “Blues Brothers 2000”

[@deanolium]

Yeah but that’s because they did the movie Blues Brothers 2000 around then - which totally sucked

[@adam_loooong1735]

@@deanolium totally sucked. Why didn’t they at least wait 2 years to produce that movie. It came out in 1998... that should have been a clue the movie was going to be bad

[@barrymurphy4812]

I feel really bad for anyone who paid full price for this back in the day

[@slick-nh7is]

I trust your judgement, but kinda still want to play this. Looks fun

[@barrymurphy4812]

You are sooo wrong. Boredom will kick in, in under 5mins.

[@dexterdouglas]

More please! I have watched all your videos and now have to wait till you upload 🤣

[@aarongaspar]

I wonder if the select + start death was the solution to some bug in the game where you can get stuck. I’ve never played this, but the lazy fix would seem par for the course.

[@kri249]

"Makes your characters bump into each other like speedballs." Haha nice touch. I'm glad I rented this instead of buying it. Not playing this game again is me fulfilling my mission from God.

[@UziGameGP]

I remembed liking this as a kid and thinking damn I had a bad taste

[@mrmusickhimself]

That's how I feel about the SNES port of Out to Lunch.

[@UziGameGP]

@Sandman Slim bruh >_>

[@Davtwan]

I was curious to see what this had to do with the property when I saw screenshots of the gameplay long ago. Good to see I’m not missing anything.

[@frankfortfcgoc]

Blues brothers is a top game on c64 and Amiga, man I really enjoyed it back in the day good memories

[@williamgreen9749]

I couldnt figure out how to get past the first level of this.

[@joegahan7055]

Belushi's character should have beer bottles to collect

[@adam1984pl]

or bags of coke.

[@shooting6lasers]

@@adam1984pl You keep picking them up, but the counter never goes above zero.

[@noahhobson4521]

This is the most paint by numbers liscensed game I think I've ever seen. Cake giving you the super blues is unintentionally hilarious, but only for the idea that the only thing John Belushi needed to become a hulking muscle man was a slice of cake.

[@jwill7998]

"Duke Silver" Love it!

[@CarozQH]

The reason for this game's existence is... France. Titus are French, and over there Blues Brothers became a huge hit and remained popular for many years, so it made a lot more sense to cash in on that. It's one of the first american movies that became far more popular outside of america

[@user98xp]

I played this game for 10 minutes. This review is spot on. Love the channel btw.

[@KakkaRotSRL]

I used to speedrun this game so I've beat it a couple dozen times, actually. It's honestly not that bad

[@blackandredsword2698]

I remember renting the nes version as a kid and barely getting past level 1 it was so hard, but the music was actually pretty good

[@thecunninlynguist]

WedneSNES DRUNK!

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

WedNESday Drunk

[@CarecaRetrogamer]

Yeah, I remember playing Lethal Weapon and also thinking "well, there goes a great chance for a nice game" as well. If you don't believe me, try making a video about it...

[@JanitorsAssistant]

You forgot Jake's "Speedball Screen Nuke"; he cooks up a hot shot and all the enemies OD.

[@Real_The_Goof]

I haven't watched the video yet. But i'm going to say that YES it is worth playing but only IF.. and that's a HUGE IF! you're willing to put in the time it takes to get used to the controls and physics and levels and so forth. it's not an impossible game, but it does require a lot of time, patience and skill.. kinda like Ninja Gaiden...

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

The Amiga look is caused by hardware limitations. The smooth but blinding color transitions in the sky are the easiest co-processor effect, which help distract from the 32 colors a game would otherwise be working with. And the sprites are small because large sprites need to be done in software. The most popular Amiga was using 1985 hardware, after all. Think of it as a Master System on steroids. It's not at all accurate (Limited color counts aside, you'd expect something like Agony on a 32x), but it describes the system you're working with, if you try to program it like an 80's game console. In a sense, it's like the Sega Saturn. Yeah, it could achieve Virtua Fighter 2 in high resolution mode. And yes, that Sonic Jam overworld is doing things Mario 64 can't. But if you were lazy or rushed, you ended up with Virtua Fighter 1 and Battle Monsters, instead.

[@jamesmoss3424]

Blues bothers is a classic 80's movie. 😀👍🎮

[@randomguyontheinternet7940]

The Flintstones on NES is a good example of a quality licensed game.

[@kind2311]

So I recently "inherited" my parent's old vinyl collection and began cataloging them. They have a surprising amount of Dan Fogelberg and Seals and Croft. Good to know our boomer parents were the same people.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Morning all.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

@Ut1F70F Sin Uh?

[@evilblader7]

Good morning my friend ☺️☺️☺️ have a nice day 😉😉😉

[@adam_loooong1735]

Morning!

[@vanx0u]

Morning!

[@matabishippuden6965]

Why is the villain of dragons dogma on a snes drunk video?

[@dstaple3]

The fact that so many games got made that way, it's so crazy

[@GeorgiaRidgerunner]

I'm absolutely trying this one it sounds fun as hell in co op mode

[@MagitekOmega]

I had this growing up, and yeah, this is truly one of the games ever made. What, did John Belushi switch to psychedelics and get Dan Aykroyd reluctantly in on the fun in this game?

[@majorjoe23]

Cake? Why not dry white toast, or 4 fried chickens (and a coke) for the power ups?

[@travisshallenberger9486]

Your Peter Rabbit comparison was spot on. "You play as Licensed Character, and you travel through these wacky worlds, collecting Things! Things are associated with Character so you know we've stayed true to the source material! What does the rest of the game have to do with Character? Fuck you."

[@DoctorInk20]

This almost feels like a "video game" you'd see in the background of a TV show or a surreal gag where characters end up in what '90s writers _understand to be_ a "video game". Oddly enough, I think you could make a quirky little _Blues Brothers_ platformer using the Jake and Elwood sprites. Make the music better, get some coherent gameplay design going, levels that reflect the movie, throw the Bluesmobile in there... Hmm... _(furiously scribbles design document)_

[@redpillcounselling227]

Interesting, I had this on the old Commodore back in 1991 (it was pretty good) but had no idea that the Snes version was a sequel rather than the same game. I actually own the cart too, but never got around to trying it.

[@corydeceased]

Casual shade thrown at Seals & Krofts and Dan Fogelberg

[@DoomRater]

A SNES Drunk video is worth the wait!

[@LeStryfe]

Played through it and Battle toads with a friend one night. You can get infinite lives on a stage with a dragon and it is obvious. This game got some decent reviews when it came out. Fun times.

[@Alloveck]

I'm impressed by how many SNES games SNES drunk has found that I haven't just never played, but have no recollection of them existing whatsoever. I wouldn't have thought there were that many of the latter.

[@raphaelfp]

One thing I'd like to ask you is who takes joystick no. 2 when you get footage for the co-op? Do you actually play a lot of the game together or just for a few minutes for the sake of variety?

[@jodybriggs1075]

Using the term "Speed balls" in a game featuring john Belushi. Dang!

[@carn9507]

Eh I dunno if coming out so long after the film is a bad thing. The Warriors on PS2/Xbox/PSP came out in 2005 when the movie was 1979 and it was a great game and still my fave of that generation and of anything by Rockstar. Completed it on PS2/PSP/PS3/PS4 and I'll prob complete the PS4 release on PS5 (IF I EVER MANAGE TO FIND A PS5) just because. :P

[@jessragan6714]

"Is Blues Brothers worth playing?" SNEEE- No.

[@jessedanger8788]

It reminds me a lot of the game Inspector Gadget, but that was by Hudson Soft

[@Justin-rv7oy]

I remember getting stuck with this game a lot due to rental availability at a local general store. Eight year old me didn't like it. The other game was the amazing Top Gear.

[@monkeyball0204]

And Alien 3 was made by LJN. That’s amazing.

[@listerofsmeg884]

i remember the home computer version of this was quite heavily plugged for the C64.

[@MrYuriTambor]

I had this game. All me and my friends did was trying to get the most funny deaths at multiplayer. Never finished it, but got a lot of laughs.

[@chriscalvert4609]

Always got my fingers crossed I’m gonna open up a snesdrunk “is it worth playing” vid and it’s just him saying nope, then it ends.

[@MarcoMazziniYT]

It already happened, and it was epic.

[@chriscalvert4609]

@@MarcoMazziniYT yeah, true. I mean one without the 4 minute intro I guess

[@tailsgarcia6727]

If I'm not mistaken didn't The Blues Brothers have the most expensive car chase scene of it's time?

[@lucasshaver7789]

I had no idea this was even a game

[@kevinbbadd]

Looks way better than the nes version. That peter rabbit game sounds sweet.

[@xenos_n.]

This is one I remember renting from the grocery store back in the day. I remember it was just ok.

[@homejonny9326]

Have a great rest of your day too!

[@PandaXs1]

man that song in the outro is doing its best to tempt the DMCA

[@CyberattackWorld]

whoa that's crazy that they put in a command to kill both players for no reason, wish they'd done more with that

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Wow, this game looks as original as a glass of water.

[@dr_ubo]

There was supposed to have a sequel on the N64DD. Some footage of that is still out there, at least some magazine prints with screenshots. For some reason the blues brothers license was cheap or something.

[@MW-cx3sb]

When I was a teen when this came out I honestly liked it although way too easy back then. If snes lads are reading this... I am trying to remember this platformer where you are like a rockin wolf dude with a lot of running and the aim is to rescue your woman... I think from a mob boss or something?

[@MrLeo135334]

A Duke Silver reference? Somewhere Ron Swanson is doing his trademark slow blink smirk for that. Bully for you!

[@adam1984pl]

Titus made prehistorik 1 and 2,thats good games.

[@LoneSwordsmanTheory]

I swear that snail sprite at 1:48 shows up recolored in another game. Maybe Maple Story?

[@MixMasterLar]

Yeah it's similar to...something

[@stevieboyXI]

Dude, nice Duke Silver reference.

[@steveb9713]

Blues brothers is still a kickass movie

[@pharmtek]

Fun fact: 1980 was one of the first years after the 1970s

[@kri249]

Fun fact: If you turn off the TV during the game you activate Ray Charles as a secret playable character. But it's only in first person mode.

[@Fakan]

Using records as ammo gave me flashbacks of Shaun of the Dead, haha.

[@MarcoMazziniYT]

No! That's the second album I ever bought!

[@darkestcloister]

Do you play SNES games on Switch Online? I saw Psycho Dream, Doomsday Warrior, and Prehistorik Man are being added Feb 17 and was interested in your thoughts :)

[@kevinstrident]

I saw your earlier tweet and the only thing I can thing is: you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one. 😂

[@kylesatwon1134]

Woah, they made a game based off of those characters from Earthbound? That's crazy

[@greyclouds6052]

I could really use that start select right about now.