Licensed Games That Don't Suck! - Game Sack

Episode 68 - Nothing like an extra brand attached to your game to help make it sell. But not all games rely on their license, many also rely on good gameplay!
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[@GiggaVega]

Can we discuss how rare is is for a channel that has 8yr old videos like this one is still watchable & enjoyable? Game Sacks rocks!

[@jw6588]

Make that 10 years ^.-)/

[@GiggaVega]

@@jw6588 I’ll see you 10 and raise you 10 years lol

[@MetalJesusRocks]

I had Rambo Part 2 on the C64 as a kid, and it was brutal! But the music was great. Awesome video, as usual guys \m/

[@jw6588]

These guys' channel is ridiculously good. Great to see you here, Jesus!

[@MrFacundo7]

@@jw6588 Jesus is everywhere✝😆

[@tetrisdave]

Yep! Gotta have a SNES in EVERY room. It's like my security blanket.

[@tetrisdave]

Thanks and Merry Christmas! I wish I would have been able to play the first Goonies game. I remember the Nintendo 10 in 1 cabinets but I don't ever recall the Goonies game. At that time I was always focused on the Mario Bros. one up trick.

[@chayreece7709]

Micky Mouse Castle of Illusion is probably one of my favorite licensed games

[@RetroJonesy]

I always remember in arcades hearing "daytona" from across the room. fantastic game

[@Matrilwood]

"... And is the worst Rambo game out there" Not anymore!

[@GameSack]

Thanks for the comments! That's not a bad idea. Might take a while to dig up some US-exclusive games and I think that most were released abroad in one way or another.

[@rbust]

DAAAAAAYTONAAAA! without a doubt a soundtrack I will never forget.I never knew who sung it until I saw this video.Thanks.

[@bradgarrett5786]

Daytoooooooooonaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I've completely forgotten about that song and that game! My friend had a Saturn and we used to play it all the time!

[@GameSack]

I dunno, but Dave seems to like it. Apparently my family did that as well but the generation before mine saw to it that that particular tradition ended.

[@hecosean]

Gremlins 2, a forgotten NES gem. Had amazing cinematically at the time and it was a great game too. Made a few game magazine covers if I recall. Great game. Us soft hit out of the park with that game and Batman on the NES.

[@liquid4058]

Rambo on the sega master system is one of my earliest memories of playing video games. Thanks for covering this guys!

[@taffysaur]

Haha, friggin' LOVED the Daytona song as a kid. I still do!

[@DailyCorvid]

I managed to win the prize cars from Daytona in Forza Horizon 4! Love it. They look 500 times better in PC graphics though!

[@MizfitZer0]

You really need to do another part to this as there are soooooo many good games you missed

[@MrJechgo]

Ducktales, Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck... Nuff said ^_^

[@GameSack]

Yeah, Super Off-Road also has Mickey Thompson's name plastered everywhere.

[@alexlecy4252]

Love this channel. I fall asleep watching videos and I can rewatch these all day. I miss Dave but I’m glad the channel is still around.

[@GameSack]

We talked about Duck Tales in a previous episode about Disney games.

[@ZPEntertainment]

Also, another thing: I actually found an arcade with Daytona USA 2 this summer! I don't think the tracks were as good as the ones in the first game but, man, the music and the controls were incredible!

[@crackcorn0404]

I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the code for Daytona USA (Saturn) that lets you race as a horse. Loved that.

[@GrumpyTy34er]

I like that he crashed in the same point in every version. Also, I never knew that the NES had a 4 player adapter but it makes sense.

[@rars0n]

The Daytona trick, hold up and rotate the stick to steer, is so genius yet so simple I feel stupid for not having figured it out 20 years ago. It's a great way to tone down the twitchiness and will likely work on a lot of racing games.

[@grubbergamer]

Another great episode, guys! Nice to see such a wide net when considering licensed titles - celebrity endorsements, racing, etc. Daytona has one of the strangest, best soundtracks in gaming. :) "Daytonaaaaaa," "Rolling Staaaaaaaaart," "G-A-M-E-O-V-E-R" - all of it nutty but so damned cool. Loved the great comparison of Daytona games, Joe. I've tried several home versions, but my fave is still the first, fugly Saturn release. Probably 'cause it was freebie when I bought my Saturn system.

[@gamernaut8864]

That's AWESOME how you guys wrecked the car in ALL versions of the game AT THE SAME TIME IN THE SAME PLACE in the Dinosaur Canyon Track! Very Cool! That corner right before the tunnel has always been a tricky one. Haha.

[@MadPanicGaming]

Great episode, guys. One odd but fun licensed game is Major League on the Famicom, it's based on the movie of the same name and even has a likeness of Charlie Sheen. Also, Heavey Metal: Geo Matrix on the Dreamcast, it's based on the Heavey Metal comics series, really cool.

[@Wyrdwad]

Thumbs up for mentioning Goonies 2 (one of my favorite NES games!), as well as name-dropping Tim and Geoff Follin as composers for SNES Super Off-Road. Technically, that game was licensed as well, just not with Ironman. Instead, it was a Toyota license! Everything in the SNES version is branded with the Toyota logo, and the shop music is an arrangement of the "I love what you do for me, Toyota" jingle. Other NES licensed favorites: Willow, and Spy vs. Spy. Willow, in particular, was amazing.

[@GameSack]

Of course it is. In fact Sega had to get the Daytona rights from Hasbro in order to release the Dreamcast version because Hasbro owned them at the time.

[@tetrisdave]

I have Biker Mice SNES game. It's a decent rock 'n roll racing style game. Thanks for watching and Merry Xmas!

[@GunstarHer0X]

Thanks guys for another fantastic year. Game Sack continues to be highly informative and entertaining; definitely the most underrated show on KZbin. Merry Christmas to you both from Ireland, can't wait to see what you've got for 2013!

[@FallicIdol]

The underwater theme in Goonies 2 is amazing.

[@nohomers100]

The Rambo where he helps the missionaries in Laos? I forget the country but that is one of the most violent movies I’ve ever seen

[@tetrisdave]

You're right about the Kemco sound. I have the Shadowgate main theme for my phone ringtone. I love it.

[@dualsporthooligan9515]

I just found your guys channel a few days ago (I think it was Radical Reggie I heard mention your channel), I just wanted to say I've been watching episode after episode and I've enjoyed every single video so much. Has really made me feel better watching and has opened my eyes to many classic games I've missed. Thanks a ton guys for all your hard work, you both have amazing personalities and I just love the vids.

[@sjake8308]

To be honest, I've never really been a fan of licensed games, but one I did really enjoy was the Mega Drive version of Alien 3.

[@tubularLeah]

OMG I have Super Offroad for NES

[@zetmoon]

Great to see the Daytona singer!!!!

[@rars0n]

My local mall arcade had Daytona 2 at some point. Probably when it was pretty new, because I hadn't even HEARD about it when I saw the thing! I was blown away! I'm probably mistaken, but in my mind it looked a lot better than your video of it. I played it only a couple of times, and it was gone not long after (although I didn't go to that arcade all that often). I later ended up working there, and was friends with the manager. I told him one day "I remember when you guys had Daytona 2, I thought that was awesome because I had never seen it or heard of it before." And he was like "What? I don't remember that game." It seemed to vanish as quickly as it had appeared. Definitely not the staying power of the first game. I was always sad that the game didn't seem to get the same love as the original.

[@rars0n]

@@Gatorade69 The footage looks fine, except that it's much more aliased and not nearly as sharp as I seem to remember it being. It was running on Model 3 hardware after all, so it should resemble something as sharp as the Dreamcast version of Daytona. Joe's video is from 2012 so I'm not sure what state the emulator was at that time, but it looks like the resolution is fairly low as well. I just fired it up under Supermodel and it looks every bit as sharp as I remember it.

[@0smundSaddler]

As far as great licensed games go, Ghost in the Shell for PS1 is a fantastic action game with great controls, smooth visuals, great presentation with the voice actors from the movie, just all around great to play. I think it's legitimately one of the best games for its system.

[@rickylovesyou]

I think its ok, but not that good. Lol

[@OliverHarper]

Was the music at the end of the video from the Superman game?.

[@leethompson-kolar6333]

2:38 "They drew first blood!" "What is that? Is that, uh... Is that Rambo?" "No, I made that up."

[@ashfoxx85]

I never knew about the joystick trick for Dreamcast Daytona USA, I'll have to try that now. Thanks Joe and Dave!

[@tetrisdave]

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too!

[@8-BitEric]

DAYYYY TONNNNAAAAA

[@horusksa1983]

when it first played it in the arcades back in 1995, I thought he was saying "Baby Hondaaaaaa!!!"

[@NEON_ZEX]

***** DDDDDDAAAAAYYYYYTTTTTOOOONNNAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GiordanDiodato]

8-Bit Eric GAY BONAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[@minayukiyukisato659]

The Daytona games are far better than any NASCAR game.

[@retrogaminginsanity7585]

daytona is nascar fuckin idiot lol

[@MagmaMKII]

Capcom's Disney games (every single one of them), Sunsoft's Batman games, Konami's TMNT games, Michael Jackson Moonwalker, Judge Dredd (SNES), Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City, Capcom's Marvel games, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Super Star Wars, Injustice. The original Goonies game originally came out on the MSX. I think you guys should really do an episode on the MSX and MSX 2, it has some amazing games!

[@tetrisdave]

Thanks! Happy Holidays to you too!

[@TevorTheThird]

Holy crap. You guys just legitimately blew my mind. I had no idea that there was an original Goonies game! I'd entirely bought into the notion that Goonies II was some ill conceived tie in meant to serve as a sequel to the film.

[@IbodhiFreire]

You can change the sensitivity of the steering on dreamcast version of daytona. Much more playable.

[@superbros64deluxe]

Would love to see a sequel to this about 2000's-2010 games that don't suck

[@Harmik2]

Another awesome show thanks for all the time and effort you put into these. :)

[@wrestletube1]

You guys haven't had one of those random game battles in ages now. Oh, the flashbacks from the 5 minutes mark.

[@SavageMontreal]

Movie-to-game adaptations started to get good in the mid 90's as they became more tailored to the source material as opposed to just re-skinning a platform or shooting game. Die Hard Trilogy was great, with three separate games each based on one of the films. Two other really good adaptations were Alien Trilogy and The Warriors, but unfortunately those games gave me motion sickness and I was unable to finish them.

[@Captainkirk923]

The Japanese-only Back to The Future II game for the SNES is one of the best examples of a perfect licensed game on a 16-bit console.

[@UrbanBassMovement]

Cant believe ive only just found you guys, i like the subjects you cover, great job, subbed.

[@GameSack]

Perhaps. If anything we strive to have more Sega and other coverage as everyone else on the internet already does Nintendo (especially the NES) to death. But we do have to have Nintendo stuff as well. At the same time we need to be realistic and acknowledge that not all Sega games are pure gold. But you probably haven't seen too many of our videos as I give the NES and SNES lots of grief. Dave gives Sega grief. But when something is clearly bad, we'll both admit it.

[@AidanBarnard]

Biker mice from Mars on snes was the best! I'd like to see that one in a future episode.

[@THEONLYGORE]

Goonies 2 was my first game I ever purchased :D Beat it with NO guide help :D ohhh 1986/1987.... those were the days....

[@tommyhatcher3399]

I own Gremlins 2 on a bunch of different formats. Even laserdisc. Love the movie. Like all franchises, I would say the second is my favorite but the first is the best.

[@OR2891]

Merry Christmas Game Sack. The Biker Mice From Mars racing game on the SNES. That was definitely my favorite licensed game at the time and I found myself playing it often when I just wanted to race and have fun killing an hour or so on the weekends as a kid.

[@GameSack]

Easy. There was no room to talk about EVERY licensed game that doesn't suck that ever existed. We'll revisit this topic a few more times I'm sure. :)

[@Dick_Valparaiso]

Really dig the show. I think it would be cool if you guys did some hour long specials like covering the Sega vs Nintendo console war, or even make a series covering the evolution of gaming.

[@canag0d]

This show is the best! And I'm just play trolling ;) but when you talked about the "marble" games not having a story, you guys even said "but who really cares about a story in a marble game". And thus, you classified the game!!! ;) hehehe ;) I love you guys and hope you never stop!!!

[@tristanuki1975]

Another great episode, thankyou both!

[@KevinTwiner]

Great video! Rambo 3 on the Genesis looks awsome.

[@tetrisdave]

Thanks and Merry Christmas!

[@SamuraiCypher]

I played the HELL out of Daytona 500 for the Saturn. Loved the music and feel of that game growing up.

[@DiGiTyDarKMaN]

Currently in a marathon of every Game Sack video. Juat stopping by to comment.

[@kiarov]

I'm from Argentina and here we had the famicom as nes, i have to say that the goonies 1 was a really great game i didn't know that it was a sequel. I definitely have to give it a try. A recommendation for a licensed game that doesn't suck is true lies in the sega megadrive, i had so much fun with that one back on the day. Thank you guys, your reviews are by far the best ones on the internet, very professional and objective i'm allways looking forward for your next video. Happy Holidays!!!

[@atarileaf]

Good list. I always remember playing the arcade version of Off Road about 25 years ago in the mall. I should look into find a SNES copy, you're right, it does look like the best of the bunch.

[@BologneyT]

Tim Follin made music for SNES off road?! I think that's the guy who made that great music in Plok!

[@nobel11]

Man, the best part of the NES Rambo is that sweet, sweet theme.

[@Serros13]

You guys are awesome! Your show is incredible and deserves much more views. I discover it recently and I can't stop watching it, and of course, I subscribed. Keep it up! Greetings from Greece. PS: Would you guys consider to make an episode about good games that released only in USA and not in Europe and vice versa?

[@tetrisdave]

Thanks! and Happy Holidays.

[@Dimensiom]

Some "dial-up only" games could be made to work with the broadband adapter with a bit of fiddling. I was able to play Phantasy Star Online using the BBA despite the US release only having dial-up support. I cannot say whether that was the case for Daytona USA.

[@ArgieReviews]

Jurassic Park On Sega Genesis. The game sold over a million copies and is a solid side-scroller with great variety in the levels, and you can play as a velociraptor! It's a bit slow and the first level has jumps that are impossible to get through without taking some damage, but it's a great game.

[@ningygamer]

great episode guys and Merry Christmas to you!!!

[@idonotloveofficial]

woah. that genesis superman song is awesome. you guys always choose real gems for the soundtrack.

[@renualdo]

Some games I remember, SNES: Alien 3, Batman Returns, X-men Mutant Apocalypse, NBA Jam T.E., Suzuka 8 hours, N64: Goldeneye, GCN: The Two Towers/The Return of the King, King Kong, Hulk Ultimate Destruction, X-men Legends 1 and 2, Rogue Squadron II...

[@tetrisdave]

Thanks, we appreciate your kind words.

[@subhumantype]

I agree with you about the original Daytona for the Saturn. I own all versions of the game except Daytona 2 arcade . There is something about that game that makes me enjoy playing to this day. It still has a good sense of speed great controls and awesome music. I always liked the blue car on Saturn mode!

[@bboy187skillz]

loving the ghostbusters genesis music at the beginning noticed that straight away

[@bluetheelf4655]

If you guys ever talk about this subject again, I suggest that you talk about the Adventure Time games, especially Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know. That game is pure dungeon crawling fun!

[@Zeldaschampion]

My mother likes to put salt on Oranges. A habit she picked up from my grandmother. The funny thing about it is that it actual tastes good sometimes.

[@BonoboBerry]

You guys are awesome! I watch more Game Sack than I do Netflix and Tv!

[@BrooksterMax]

Top show chaps, only recently discovered your work. Goldeneye on the N64 redefined licensed games for me and very closely followed the film too.

[@-DeScruff]

Great Daytona is stuck in my head! Ahh well Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy new year.

[@BasementBrandon]

Great episode guys.

[@Angie2343]

I had Daytona USA. It was awesome! Just envision Desert Bus at 200 mph, and you got a great game!

[@tommy1973able]

i remember a different goonies game,on the atari 800 xl,and probably c64 etc,much closer to the moviescript,hard to find though...defintly worth while for you guys!

[@TrickRider58]

TRON 2.0: Killer App is a really enjoyable isometric action game for the GBA. It also does a great job of breaking up the action with light cycle, tank, and minigame segments.

[@RarefoilB]

Bugs Bunny: Lost In Time (PC & PlayStation 1) and Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters (PC & PlayStation 1). Maybe Taz: Wanted (PC, Gamecube, PS2, & Xbox) also.

[@0ring0]

Good ep, guys, merry X-mas to you guys too. Thee are definitely many good licensed games out there (Duck Tales and Batman or the NES come to mind). You should continue adding volumes to this topic. See you next year!

[@voxpopuli000]

Loved Birthday Blowout as a kid, great platformer

[@ReddieBeaty]

You should definitely do Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

[@DnekarAtkinsonVeriusz]

That ending is hilarious, kept rewinding it.

[@mmmsome]

Yeah dude I think it must be the videos you've seen :-) these guys love to talk about both Sega and Nintendo. The whole gag is that one of them always roots for Nintendo, the other always roots for Sega. They're always fighting over which version of a multi-platform game is better (overall they USUALLY agree in the end :D) but the guys are always clear and honest in giving their reasons). They do cover plenty of Sega/Genesis games though, don't worry!

[@VGamingJunkie]

Peter Jackson's King Kong (Except the DS version) and The Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction are two good Ps2/Gamecube/Xbox era games, in my opinion. The former was even ported onto the 360.

[@shinmusashi44]

The Goonies did come to America, but was only in the Players Choice-10 arcade.

[@tbb033]

It was also released as VS. Goonies on the other Nintendo arcade system.

[@weirdproq]

Merry Christmas Joe and Dave!

[@MrKroogur]

Great vid! Merry Christmas guys.