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Thanks to mass advertising from certain publishers, we're led to believe that only a few gaming franchises are majorly successful, when anything could be further from the truth.
So this episode Guru Larry takes a look at five much lesser known, but still incredibly successful franchises that you might be surprised at how big they actually are.
Special thanks for Dan Ibbertson on his help with research for this episode: / djslopesroom
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▶ 4 Shitty Patents that Ruined Gaming:
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▶ 5 Game Consoles Literally Rotting Away:
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▶ 5 Purposely Broken, Unbeatable Games by Dickish Developers:
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▶ 5 Mascots Cancelled by Incredibly Messed Up Reasons:
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▶ 3 Major Gaming Scandals That Were Buried:
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▶ 5 Insane Reasons Games were ported to the Same System Twice:
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▶ 5 Hilariously Idiotic Gaming Screw-Ups:
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▶ Top 5 Stupid Things Said by Games Journalists:
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▶ 5 Games Recalled for Shocking Reasons:
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▶ The Driv3rGate Scandal: The Full Story:
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▶ Top 5 Pissed Off Programmer Rants (UK Edition):
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▶ Top 5 Pissed Off Programmer Rants (USA Edition):
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▶ Top 5 Pissed Off Programmer Rants (Japan Edition):
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▶ 5 Movies You Never Knew had Video Games:
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▲ Ubisoft’s First Ever Video Game:
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▲ Don’t Buy This: Five of the Worst Game Ever:
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▶ 4 Games Cancelled Stupid Reasons:
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▶ 4 Shitty Patents that Ruined Gaming:
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▶ 5 Purposely Broken, Unbeatable Games by Dickish Developers:
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▶ 3 Major Gaming Scandals That Were Buried:
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▶ Top 5 Offensive Cheat Codes:
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▶ 5 Games You Never Knew Had Sequels:
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[@jayjayrocket]

the algorithm really wants me to go through your back catalog..... it's working

[@Larry]

The algorythm gods are smiling upon me today! :D

[@vovabars1234]

Same lol

[@Stu2be2]

It’s got me and may I say hello you…….. All

[@skeeterbaba1164]

Same

[@NobleKorhedron]

You don't spell algorithm with a 'y', ​@@Larry... 😜

[@AlbertCalis]

I can only imagine how many people learned about Dysentery because of The Oregon Trail 😁

[@samuelthehobo4441]

I know I did

[@Morgil27]

I only knew it was some kind of disease from the game. I didn't find out what it actually did until many years later.

[@colinmartin9797]

My favorite memory from Lineage 2 is a great, great bug. The game had "jiggle physics" which were literally just a set of boobs rendered as a separate model to the character model. So once, I'm running along, my character gets stuck on a rock, she stops moving but her boobs just keep on running, wobbling off into the sunset. I couldn't stop laughing for a good half hour.

[@Lewisking50]

Lineage 2 was just awesome in that way xD

[@YourCrazyDolphin]

I was expecting an entire list of games that never left Japan. #1 Is a game that never left America. I find this amusing.

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

CrazyDolphin Well, considering Larry is based in Britain....

[@Mcyxof]

I'm in Britain, too. I've heard of Oregon Trail, but I only thought it was one game where you died of dysentery a lot from a long time ago, since all the graphics I've ever seen are on the meme of what is probably the original game. I didn't realise it was a long running series or even that it was used for education.

[@exodous02]

I think Oregon Trail(Trail was one of three suggestions my phone gave me after Oregon) has been played by every American from the 80's to present. I was amazed by the graphics in the later versions, I played it on a Apple II with one of the monitors that only displayed green and black.

[@toomanyaccounts]

i had no clue they made more then one of that series. wonder if any of them have been rereleased to steam.

[@Inko21]

Game: Do you see a cave? Person: No. Game: Yes you can.

[@segamatthews5023]

9:57 Oregon Trail I remember playing that back in Elementary School in the early 90s. I'm from Canada I remember every computer had it on it in school. Same with cross-country Canada

[@Larry]

Did it seem odd having locations not in Canada? I think they did make a later Canadian variant where you work for the Hudson Bay Company or something.

[@segamatthews5023]

@@Larry no I didn't really think it was odd it was like learning stuff from another country and about their past.

[@GiordanDiodato]

I remember playing it in the later 90s and early 00s.

[@TheOneTrueDragonKing]

So do I. Brilliant old game, wish it would continue.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Played it the same way - the class was called Keyboarding lol It was a treat to play Oregon Trail after doing all the WPM guff.

[@charlieogre4537]

Japan really loves their baseball, even more so than the Americans. Caribbean countries seem to love it as well, judging by how many MLB players hail from that region.

[@davidnotonstinnett]

Charlie Ogre I was really confused by the baseball part... Baseball isn’t just huge in Japan and the US. It’s huge in most of Latin America and the Caribbean

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@davidnotonstinnett I always thought Soccer (aka non-American Football) was more popular in Latin America? Or am I just thinking of Brazil and Argentina?

[@Markski]

Lineage II was insanely popular in South America as well, although mainly on massive donation-funded private/pirate servers, since Lineage had no official servers on that area. So while the sales were 41m, I can assure you the actual ammount of people who enjoyed the game were at least 5-7m more

[@pdmayton]

I'm the demographic for Oregon Trail, being a 33 yo American, and I've never considered Oregan Trail to be educational at all. I'm sure I've committed a 100 hours to the game throughout my youth. It was just a fun game to me.

[@123till321]

Who hasn't heard of The Oregon Trail? "You have died of dysentery" memes are everywhere.

[@CreeperAssassins1]

though most people dont know about anything other than the original

[@pierredelectojr6340]

Elementary schools across America used Oregon Trail to teach kids how to use computers in the 80’s.

[@nidohime6233]

And also how deadly dysentery is.

[@yumemirai4419]

"Can you see a cave?" No. "Yes you can." Well I'm sold.

[@upinarms79]

"Rescue children from a witch by being as polite as possible" --You couldn't make a more British children's game if you tried.

[@MapleLunii]

Granny's Garden was the first game to ever terrify me. We had a 'HD' version on our computers at school back in the early 2000s and I have a vivid memory of choosing the wrong broom in a cupboard, seeing the text 'You should not have done that.' and being jumpscared by the witch.

[@bangerbangerbro]

"PS2, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS-the holy trinity of shovelware magnets". 😂 So accurate!

[@CityofButterfly]

I remember PBG covering Imagine Party Babies. Who would have thought there was an entire franchise of those things.

[@Hundeputzmunter]

One year, Ubisoft released so many Imagine games that I joked that the next one would be called "My Surprise".

[@TheHauntedMouth]

Granny's Garden looks pretty intense. "Can you see a cave?" No "YES YOU CAN"

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

I just had the biggest 'idiot' moment I've ever had. And believe me, I've had a lot of them. The reason so many companies have 'soft' in their name is because it stands for software. I've never thought about it before. I just... I can't believe it's taken me this long to figure that out.

[@TheBattlesword]

TigirlakaLaserwolf6 still, you'd think they'd come up with something more original

[@jonathanbalcewicz9740]

I was expecting to see the Touhou Project on here because it's the most prolific indie game franchise in the world, but the only people who have heard of it in the US are extreme bullethell enthusiasts or (after one of its themes was used as a backing track in a couple meme) a small subset of music nerds and know-your-memers. Being from the US and in school well after it's peak of popularity had passed, I never played oregon trail personally, but EVERYONE knew it by reputation: "YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTERY" didn't need the internet to go viral.

[@graytiamat]

Jonathan Balcewicz Yeah, I was also expecting a Touhou hijack. Aside from massive bullet hell enthusiasts, only those who found out about it through the OST know about it in the US. It's kind of sad when you consider how good of a series it is.

[@Darthpathfinder]

Oh good lord..... Grannys garden...... Now there is a name i have not heard in a long time.

[@Heymrk]

A long time.

[@CodaGardner]

- creates drinking game based on Larry mentioning Peter Molyneux - dies of alcohol poisoning

[@luisgonzalez5482]

Coda Gardner Its a good way to go out.

[@Rhino-n-Chips]

Larry just accidentally helped me find a game I've been looking for, for 19 years, holy shit. We had Granny's Garden windows version on our school's PCs, I could never figure out what it was called. I think my "wtf was that old game" bucket list is complete, and it was because of a random reference. Cheers, Larry.

[@Larry]

no worries dude!

[@invisiblehand13]

I wish there was a "Konami is a bunch of twats" joke in every episode

[@GiordanDiodato]

well it is true. Making games more difficult in the international version (though i think Contra Hard Corps was made more difficult because of Sega) botching the localization of Symphony of the Night Bullshotting screenshots for British home computers and let's not forget the recent fallout with Kojima

[@kerororinchou9610]

Here's my list: 1. The last game came out in 1996, way before I was born, so that why I've never heard of it. 2. The character designs look so cute! They kinda remind me of Bomberman (another series owned by Konami). 3. I remember playing the Imagine games as a kid. Don't know if they still hold up today, though. 4. I don't play MMOs, so I haven't heard of it. 5. I don't think any American has forgotten about The Oregon Trail except for maybe really little kids.

[@conradojavier7547]

They could have Localized it as Bomberman Baseball.

[@RadioactiveMoth]

"The legendary Pac-Man series." *shows the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man*

[@randominternetsurfersurfin7595]

PelswickFan123 kek

[@Larry]

:P

[@TheHoagie13]

As a Minnesotan, I just wanted to say [regarding _The Oregon Trail_ & Stuff]: *YOU'RE WELCOME!!* 💜😄😸

[@lucaslovely]

If I remember correctly, Oregon Trail came with almost every computer in the mid to late 90's and early 2000's here in the U.S, when computer's were becoming more prominent. Maybe that is why is it has so many sales?

[@marscaleb]

"One Batman is more popular than another bat man." That one made me laugh out loud!

[@Volcanic_Rave]

All puns are "rubbish puns". In my opinion, the "worse" a pun is, the better it's quality. So that was a good pun

[@shadowspider9]

The Fire Emblem series has taught me not to be shocked at how massive a series can be in one region while being unknown in another.

[@jonforbing9998]

As an American, "Granny's Garden" is entirely new to me. Now part of me wants to find it somewhere on the internet to see more of that scintillating dialogue... "I am a hungry giant. Shall I eat you?" "Yes."

[@GiordanDiodato]

the concept for Granny's Garden sounds like something Canadians would play.

[@nortonsegahippie4574]

I have died of dysentery and the banker has a snake bite

[@jasonfox6932]

Oregon trail is a triple A game confirmed.

[@shaunmcisaac782]

Larry, #1 needs an "unless you're a yank, in which case you DEFINITELY heard of it". The game got to its sales numbers, by selling 1-2 copies per school... multiplied by most of the elementary schools in the United States.

[@nixietubes]

I'd like to see a video along the line of "5 Video games that should have been given the mature rating but weren't" or vice versa

[@WyldAli]

Great idea. For starters, you'd have to stick Xenogears on there. How that didn't get a Mature rating back when it released in '98 is baffling to this day.

[@nixietubes]

Yeah.

[@NextGen_Pants]

Ah Oregon Trail. Anyone who ever set foot in an elementary school in the US has played that one. I remember slipping that 5.25" floppy disk out of its paper sleeve, loading it up and basking in the green glow of the Apple IIe's screen. Poor Butthead, taken by a snakebite, my sweet sweet boy...

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

NextGenPants You named your characters Beavis and Butthead too? *sniff* My brother from another mother!

[@NextGen_Pants]

Haha not that particular Butthead. Just those classic names a 3rd grader would find hysterical like "Butthead" and "Fart".

[@GiordanDiodato]

nah that's the name of your rival in Pokemon gen 1.

[@Sly88Frye]

Wait what? Did I really just read that towards the end of the video? " I'm a hungry Giant. Shall I eat you?" "Yes" "Don't be silly." That is just weird and bizarre. Totally came out of nowhere.

[@stormerbuzz352]

In my school we had a game about the food chain. You picked a critter and ate the food animals while avoiding predators. For 7-year old me, it was rather challenging and now I'm trying to find it again

[@radhewcolumn1891]

Stormerbuzz FyfEnDertig Try Odell Down Under. That might've been it.

[@JohnDoe-pt7ru]

Oregon Trail was awesome back in the day. All these kids these days don't know.

[@luyandolove]

John Doe I love Oregon trail

[@erinkennedy6476]

I cried of laughter at "human vet"

[@CommanderWiggins]

Every time Guru Larry releases a new video, I end up watching a ton of his videos. I call it my Saturday Larry Binge.

[@CAMZAB]

He hasn't got enough videos for you to do this on a consistent basis, are you just watching the same ones over and over or is this something you've done twice?

[@OnlyGoken]

"than insert popular KZbinr who said something stupid last week" this is why I watch your stuff, it's all fantastic stuff

[@redblack8766]

"Sitting on babies" I'm dead.

[@thebestcentaur]

Nah, they didn't sit on you😂😂😂

[@NeflewitzInc]

Oregon Trail represent! We sharpened our fps skills in the computer lab every week with that game. We would compete with each other to leave the most amount of buffalo meat behind because we killed too many.

[@nonphilter5709]

Larry, great stuff, as always. I want to say, showing the "sales sandwich" (sold more than, sold less than) is a pro move, all the way. A rookie would have said, for example, only that Oregon Trail sold 65.5 million. We would be left to ponder the large number and simply accept it is impressive, having nothing much to compare it to. But, as I said, you are a pro. Thats why your channel is so popular. Heres hoping more and more people discover you.

[@Larry]

Thanks bud, I think putting them in adds some context on how successful they were.

[@RaxiazRedux]

They definitely serve to further enlighten and educate. Always love watching your videos Sir Larry. Keep them coming please!! Fact Hunts are so much fun. I've even rewatched a few because they're so in-depth.

[@xtremekirby07]

who would have more sales? -a series about Sci-Fi space soldiers in a hi-tech war story with deep philosofical reflexions and character development. -a series about oregon farmers travelling through the old west with a rifle.

[@handsomebrick]

As a general rule, video games are terribly written, so games less reliant on their writing are more appealing.

[@kylemccall4306]

i smile every time he says hello you. it just makes me happy.

[@kylemccall4306]

omg larry liked this :D keep up the good videos, your stuff is among the little i still watch

[@Nizondo]

I don't know why it never occurred to me that the Oregon Trail might be unfamiliar to people outside of the states. It probably doesn't help that I live in Oregon and own an Oregon Trail t-shirt.

[@ingonyama70]

I feel the same way; at first, I was irritated it made this list, and then I remembered, "oh yeah, the British guy's actually talking about the global gaming market." ...I am not the most observant.

[@Sobernic1982]

I miss The Oregon Trail. I remember we were supposed to type in computer lab in school, but we always ended up playing this.

[@MiroFloydtan]

Good list, but i am slightly disappointed about the lack of Hugo the Troll, who might as well be the most obscure platforming franchise. Hugo was born from a danish TV show which was adapted into a very tricky minigame series, since then, it has spawned at least 5 PSX titles, a racing spinoff, a battleship spinoff, dozens of edutainment games, a reboot where Hugo is a secret agent for PS2 that had like 3 games, and just recently another reboot that makes series a more honest platformer. Also a movie is coming out of it, titled "Hugo - The World's Worst Comeback". The franchise is pretty well known in Scandinavia but very forgotten everywhere else, despite having a rather wide and varied library.

[@TangoBunnie]

I'm fairly sure Larry knows of Hugo too, it was a feature on UK Saturday morning TV shows for a couple of years as a phone-in game. They changed the witch from having normal skin tone to a green skin tone for the UK version for some reason! I think we only got a few of the games in the UK, whereas the rest of Europe got tons of them.

[@surroundgatari]

FortanNothingGod Yeah, you're right, that show was pretty popular among kids in Sweden too

[@yrobtsvt]

That would be more interesting than Oregon Trail, which everyone in the USA knows is a longselling series.

[@panclark8975]

I recently stumbled on your channel and I've been enjoying it immensely. Now I finally have something to comment about! As an American I can give you a few reasons that Oregon Trail does so well. As a kid it was one of the most frustrating games to play according to those that played it at school (as I was raised in a cult I didn't play it until I was an adult). As an adult there's the nostalgia factor at work for those who played it. As, basically, an outsider to it it's not only frustrating but also bizarrely addictive. Everyone dies of dysentery. Repeatedly. I only played it after a boss who insisted I actually play it, instead of you know work, on the clock got me the handheld version a couple of years back (yes she was a cool boss and yes she basically paid me to play a video game for three weeks straight until I actually beat it instead of answering emails and other correspondence like I was hired to do).

[@Larry]

Ah thanks Pan, so pleased you're liking my stuff :) I must confess I never heard of The Oregan Trail until the early days of the internet, (though I imported the handheld version from the US not too long ago) but but what kind of job were you doing if you were paid to play it??? :D

[@Raichu159]

You were raised in a cult!?

[@dankellogg]

As a kid that played it in school, I think a big part of the popularity comes from the fact that Oregon Trail is truly a game and it was fun, versus the other educational software we were exposed to that was generally not very entertaining and felt like schoolwork. Playing a video game at school was something that did not happen since taking a Game Boy to school was asking to have it stolen, or taken by a teacher and only returned to your parents. Discovering and being allowed to play a fun game AT SCHOOL was mind blowing for a lot of kids, so I think it was a major highlight of many people's experience in mid 80s-90s American public school.

[@masonasaro2118]

Teen titans go did an episode where robin forced them to do a parody of the Oregon trail game. It was more of a skit-based review (a la bad nostalgia critic) than anything. Frankly the show can be decent when it's doing parody stuff, that's what the writers are good at. It just fails when they try to be meta, or when they acknowledge they're a DC show.

[@masonasaro2118]

to clarify, robin forced them to go on the actual trail, and restricted them to only do the stuff you could do in the game.

[@lukaspatrickson4776]

Yeah, I actually think the best episodes are the ones about the Oscars, Oregon Trail, The Goonies and other video games and WB properties

[@squirrel7t7]

Grannys' Garden..Jesus that brings back memories. We had that Suburban Fox and Flowers of Crystal at school on the BBC

[@lukefonfabre6331]

I am surprised that the Namco Tales Of series isn't here. that is such a fantastic series with brilliant games, and yet it is so underrated despite having such a big fanbase...

[@markula_4040]

The entire Castlevania series has only sold 20 million? Most Call of Duty games sell that individually. Well that just ruined my day.

[@dstarr3]

Well, most of the Castlevania games come from an older era where even the best-selling games sold much fewer than a modestly-selling game today.

[@handsomebrick]

@@dstarr3 Also, the post-SotN games don't sell at all, and even SotN itself sold only a hair better than the original on NES. The original Metroid sold more than both of them put together, although Metroidvanias in general aren't too well liked.

[@BJGvideos]

When I was a kid in Indiana, we always had Oregon Trail to play in school. If anybody was near the end of the game, the entire classroom would gather around the computer to watch. Meanwhile later on, I moved to Oregon. When we started passing things like The Dalles, I was shocked. I thought the game ended when you reached Oregon! Imagine my surprise when it turned out that the last several parts of the game were past the state line and your real goal was the Willamette Valley, far to the west of the state (the actual end is in a place called Oregon City). The game never told us this. So much for an educational game!

[@thesupremenecroticdakimakura]

The Oregon trail was when the States and Canada were not sure where the line was, and Oregon was just open to gold seekers and settlers from both sides. The game took place right around the time bounderies had just been drawn (and still before statehood), and the trail existed before what we know as "Oregon" today was formed.

[@SECONDQUEST]

almost every public school in North america had oregon trail. shit man they even named a state after the game

[@jsmith5212]

Stupid Joke

[@GANONdork123]

"5 Unbelievably Massive Franchises You've Probably Never Hears Of | Fact Hunt" You'll never live that down.

[@dstarr3]

As an American, I'm sure that the vaaaaaaaaaast majority of Oregon Trail's sales were schools and libraries. Because every school and library had dozens of copies, but I never knew a single individual that owned their own copy.

[@veraxis9961]

I'm pretty sure I still have my original disk somewhere, but yeah, the majority were probably sold to schools.

[@muchkasolo8915]

"Sitting on babies"

[@YourCrazyDolphin]

The Kasolo "Human Vet"

[@Spidert4nk]

Lineage was huge here in Argentina in the early 2000's, in the era of cyber cafés (though they were more of cyber drugstores here). With our weak currency and economy, paying for wow was out of the question. Plus the more serious aesthetics when compared to wow attracted many teenagers.

[@matiasfpm]

BOI. Dont forget the MU. That shit was a fever around

[@CorvodaPop]

I'm sure the only reason the Imagine series sold well is family buying the game for their kids. I was the kind of kid playing Pokemon, Sonic, and Parasite Eve, but around the holidays after the DS came out my aunts, uncles, or anyone outside of my immediate family would always buy me Imagine games. all they knew was I was a girl who played games and figured "I gotta get her a game about raising children, Imagine Babysitter it is!" they were also getting games for my sister, who never played games. she ended up getting that party babies one. she often forced me to play with her.

[@XenoParadox]

same here I was one of those kids back in 2012-2013 where all I would was sit on booty all day and play Pokemon Black version and White, becuase Pokemon was the stuff back in those times. The Imagine series just aims for teenage girls (no offence), but why would your aunt and your uncle wanna teach you babysitting? (Just trying to ask a question) I know my parents wouldn't wanna get me games like the Imagine games on DS, and besides, I'm 12-years old, I SUCK AT BABYSITTING

[@CorvodaPop]

Idk. I was about 13 when the ds first came out, and aside from direct family (mom dad and sis) nobody knew what kind of games i played aside from pokemon. they just knew i liked video games. I'm sure they saw a ds game about babysitting cute babies and grabbed it for me. That same year I got all 3 Gen4 pokemon games from my parents, so my other family members probably had no idea what to get me. Aside from Imagine they also got me Nintendogs and Cooking Mama, which were both great.

[@XenoParadox]

Cola-Star eh makes sence, I guess 😞

[@Arizonitan]

***** any response

[@eight8qa592]

Granny's Garden! I've been wondering what the hell that game was from my school days. Probably the first game that a lot of people played.

[@DialgoPrima]

"Can you see a cave?' "No." "Yes you can."

[@stokesa3122]

That Granny's Garden game is the single most British thing I've seen this week.

[@hiyosee2082]

Lineage II was also HUGELY popular in Russia, especially in the 2000x. Even more popular then WoW, everyone were playing Lineage.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

IGN gave Imagine Babyz a higher score than the amazing god hand and I will never forgive them

[@greysonbreazeale2242]

... I was actually wearing an Oregon Trail t-shirt when I watched this 😹

[@Motolmang]

it's not a guru larry video without a peter molyneux joke

[@PowahSlapEntertainmint]

*Hears Larry's voice* This is gonna be a good video.

[@FantomFoxIRL]

when a brit pronounces oregon like an Oregonian

[@FantomFoxIRL]

One thing though Larry pronounces most states countries and counties correctly. Mad Props Larry

[@illmatticx]

He pronounced Oregon correctly, are we watching the same video? Lol

[@pmurtnidalaP]

Playstation 2, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS: The Holy Trinity of Shovelware Magnets. Stuff like this is why I love you lmao XD I'm *so* using that term

[@Zagill]

"Into the world of the round-eyes" caught me off guard, that was hilarious

[@OrangeyChocolate]

The fact you included a Leeroy Jenkins clip makes me happy.

[@Larry]

I had to use the most famous clip ever :D

[@OrangeyChocolate]

Good call, friend. Good call.

[@rozharris6834]

Back when I was in school in the 90s, those edutament games were hugely popular. We had both Oregon Trail and Amazon Trail even though I'm Australian. I also remember Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, Math Blaster and the I Love (Science, Maths, Spelling etc.) games. ...The only thing vaguely Australian I remember was some touch typing program with an emu in it.

[@freedomperson1012]

5: J.B. Harold Murder Club 20,100,000 copies sold 4: Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yakyu 20,500,000 copies sold 3: Imagine 21,400,000 copies sold 2: Lineage 43,000,000 copies sold 1: The Oregon Trail 65,500,000 copies sold (You all probably know this one no matter where you are)

[@tbb033]

There goes any notion that "piracy" hurts sales. For every legit copy of Oregon Trail there must be dozens of unauthorized copies.

[@Melkac]

I don't think anyone cares enough about those shitty games to pirate them.

[@Kisai_Yuki]

The school I went to, initially had the Apple II version on flippy disks and there was one copy for every classroom. So if you want to get pedantic about it, most schools had a license for at least one copy, if not a dozen for every school. Of course that never stopped anyone from just running the game and doing a sneakernet to swap the disk around if the machines were all in the same room. As far as piracy though, many people pirated the Apple II version and played them on emulators because of nostalgia. As computers improved many schools switched to "The SuperSolvers" series (Midnight Rescue, Outnumbered, and so forth) which were much easier to for kids to pirate off the machines at school since they were installed to the hard drive, and the "exit to dos" was often not passworded, or passworded as "DOS".

[@Emmycron]

"Imagine Cooking Babies"

[@shamusfarmer]

I thought, for a split second, that you said that that first game sold "a pretty impressive 20.1 billion copies". And I thought to myself, "my goodness, that is rather impressive!!" Seriously, listen to it again. Totally sounds like "billion".

[@Larry]

I did have a cold voicing this video, so that could have played a part!

[@shamusfarmer]

@@Larry You should catch colds more often then, they're unintentional comedy gold!

[@darthpaul99]

I did play a lot of Oregon Trail at school as a kid because it was pretty much the only game installed that you could play. I did have a home pc that came bundled with a later updated version that I introduced to my own children and they loved it. There’s even a card game now and we play it a lot too. It’s just as brutal as the real game.

[@astalavista7251]

My school had Kings Quest 2. We were near the Sierra game studio though. By high school they even gave out games to the school for free to test them. That's how I learned to play poker. :)

[@rofljohn23]

.... Not the way I expected a story about a school kid getting games from the arguebly biggest adventure games publisher would end! Thx for the laugh :D

[@Naterkix]

I'll never understand why I got arrested for baby sitting. I did _exactly_ what the job's title is and _exactly_ what the parents said, so how was I doing something jail-worthy? Allegedly.

[@kykylikeitlikeit144]

The original Petz games, released for PC prior to Ubisoft's purchase of the series from The Learning Company, were very well made 2D virtual pet games with a still very active fan community and countless mods. Ubisoft released one good Petz game based on the engine of the previous two, and then promptly dropped the original series in lieu of a bunch of shovelware.

[@mygaffer]

I've got something unbelievably massive that you've never heard of.

[@danielmesser7812]

When I was in grade school oragen trail was on every computer in the school and it was used as a reward you could play during free time.

[@fishysquidman5689]

Ah, The Oregon Trail. My entire childhood.

[@FrontalCactusForever]

The Imagine series was also highly popular in The Netherlands, where they were called ''Laura's Passie', which Laura's Passion. These games were bloody EVERYWHERE.

[@madsli]

What? No touhou?

[@camerongodsey9847]

"Can you see the cave?" "No" " *Yes you can you little shitnugget* "

[@DaranDragon]

Its really funny to see that XBox controller on that DS case for the Frag Dolls.

[@bodyrumuae2914]

Oregon Trail is probably the only one on this list that also has a board game and a card game.

[@tom4465]

L2 is my childhood game of choice in the MMORPG genre :D Glad to see it did so well

[@sethleoric2598]

I played that game Crossfire and Cabal

[@InfernalMonsoon]

You know Larry I just had an idea for a fact hunt episode; I've been playing a ton of Doom 2016 throughout the entire year and it made me wonder, considering the amount of hate it got pre-release, if there are any more really successful breakout hits despite what they had to contend with. We always hear about the really big and popular stuff that are disappointing flops but we rarely hear about the really pleasant gaming surprises. I bet there are plenty throughout the decades that fit the criteria :)

[@lukecovey8406]

Almost shot my drink out of my nose when Larry started listing Ubisoft games.

[@Wolvenfox]

Oregon trail was a surprising and hilarious entry. Never even considered it'd sold that many units! Still amazing that all these schools had bought copies of it.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

A lot of schools just copied it without paying.

[@Wolvenfox]

Zabeus That explains many things

[@xaxaiuedufraine4897]

Did anybody else catch that starting at about 11:45? "Can you see a cave?" >No "Yes you can." "I am a HUNGRY GIANT. Shall I eat you?" >Yes "Don't be silly." Truly a marvel of idiot-proof gaming.

[@shrimpkraken]

Can you see a cave? No Yes you can