Queen's weird PC game

When I think Queen, I think bizarre off-putting 90s PC exclusive adventure games!
Some cool tracks from the game:
The Show Must Go On - • Video
Ride The Wild Wind - • Video
Mother Love - • Video
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[@minimme]

Hello - I just made a video featuring an interview with Richard Ashdown, this game's creative lead! Check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZjCfKpjhKigg5Y

[@TheGoldenBolt]

The mocap part in particular just sounds insane to me, musican-based licensed games from the 90s really do just hit different.

[@WorldFamousJtart9]

Are you doing the PSP Ratchet Games?

[@oribargil3958]

@@WorldFamousJtart9 yeah he does i watched his vids to plat ratchet

[@WorldFamousJtart9]

@@oribargil3958 cool thanks dude I'll check it out.

[@-EJ-]

Kudos to Queen for considering games to be a form of art way back in 97.

[@pafoneto1275]

and they were wrong at that time as much as now.

[@trystero1729]

@@pafoneto1275 ratio

[@PrimetimeZ]

You get no bitches

[@olivercharles2930]

@@pafoneto1275 That is as absurd as saying movies aren't art. I don't know what went through people's minds for this to even have been a debate at any point. Video games are art. Objectively.

[@pafoneto1275]

@@olivercharles2930 How?

[@DCGMatthew1]

David Bowie has/is in a game called The Nomad Soul made by Quantic Dreams. So that's a fun one. He made all the original music and actually appears in it.

[@good_deed]

I never knew this

[@Lozzu]

Entering into Omikron can ruin even the best of Super Best Friends

[@thescotsmantechnologyrevie2138]

He didn’t make all the original music. Very few tracks are by Bowie

[@God_gundam36]

Lmao the game that almost made woolie kill pat

[@minimme]

That game is super goofy and unusual - I should cover it too sometime

[@arciks11]

EYE is probably great resource for samplers since some tracks remove vocals.

[@galacticboy2009]

@@sedme0 I mean.. kind of? But also no. The guitar hero tracks are fairly compressed, for one, so the audio quality isn't great. (They had to fit a ton of songs onto one 4.7GB DVD after all, and a lot of that is for graphics) Secondly, not every instrument is separated in the guitar hero files. They're fairly basic "drums, guitar, vocals" tracks. You can do some things with those, but not nearly as much as you could with the 16 tracks or more that originally made up the song.

[@samprice1302]

@@sedme0 @Galacticboy2009 You're both wrong, the xbox 360 versions had to fit within a Dual layer DVD which is 8.5gb not 4.7GB. And yes, while the PS3 versions were on bluray, they're still the exact same game and didn't have less compressed audio (except maybe Guitar Hero World Tour strangely, but Rock Band and GH3 are bigger on 360 so make of that what you will) . You can verify this yourself by comparing the size of PS3 isos to 360 isos.

[@bjd3707]

Thanks for creating this man. I'm a huge Queen fan, and bought this the first day it came out. Even back then as a little fella, I was extremely disappointed because it was clear the developer had created a world that had nothing to do with Queen. You weren't helping them, you weren't meeting them, it was a big let down. The fact is felt like an experiment more than a game within minutes was the nail in the coffin. But it did allow us to have this awesome video 24 years later! Thanks.

[@nectarinedreams7208]

Eh. I like this more than some cheesy "helping Queen" concept. This actually fits the mood of early prog Queen.

[@jasonblalock4429]

14:14 One historical correction: Use of Redbook audio was extremely common, going all the way back to some of the earliest CD-ROM games like on the PC Engine/TG-16. Some CD-ROM games were identical to their disk/cart-based version except for using Redbook audio, like much of the SegaCD library. If anything, The eYe would have been a bit behind the times in continuing to use it, since better audio compression was viable by the time it came out. (Although it did still offer superior quality.)

[@minimme]

Ah my mistake on this one - thank you!

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

Also many of these disks you could just put in your CD player and listen. Like Quake

[@drojf]

oh my god the text at 12:03 juxtaposed against the gameplay in the background was hilarious

[@igotin9264]

I was laughing during that bit. Just so, so, ironic.

[@sakumaFR]

loved that part, minimme you comedian.

[@nilzero5686]

I feel like using the code "mini me" for a genital related product is someone's idea of a joke

[@Koijn2K]

Hearing that Queen recognized games as art back in the 90's is actually pretty cool tho.

[@stuartwarrington3414]

Hi, I used to work with Richard Ashdown and still speak to him a fair bit. He is a great guy and full of stories about making this game, In his words “more people have watched that video then brought the game” I am sure if you wanted to ask him about it he would be willing to chat.

[@Koijn2K]

Would be super cool to see an interview with him

[@Nitro_Foundry]

@minimme please talk to this man!

[@minimme]

I have and will be uploading it soon - thank you Stuart!

[@Koijn2K]

@@minimme POG

[@Superla]

Glad to connect you both!

[@panelsandbars]

Would love to see you cover the KISS Psycho Circus game.

[@ParasiticFlame]

And the Aerosmith one! If he hasn't already at least

[@blabo6427]

I remember this game asking myself if it was a dream. Thanks for show me it was real.

[@KubesVoxel]

Shout out to KZbin's "New to You" filter. This was my first recommendation. I've never been recommended your channel before and this was right up my alley. I look forward to digging into your content :)

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

Your channel is underrated. You put a lot of work into playing these non popular games and give good inside into what they are. The history to them and also put them into context for when they where out. It kind of teleports me back in time to when these games came out. Thank you for making these for free

[@Kashif96103]

Sounds like the plot is kinda inspired by the story I Have No Might And I Just Scream, which itself had an unforgiving adventure game. That's because the original author Harlan Ellison was a grouchy boomer who DESPISED gamers and gaming so he told the devs to make it as obtuse as possible, which tbh really ties into the story of an omnipotent evil AI god (voiced by Ellison) torturing the last humans on earth for eternity

[@svenbtb]

do you mean "I have no mouth and I must scream"?

[@mvmusic8467]

Lmao, you couldnt have got that title more wrong. Its ‘I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream’.

[@Kashif96103]

Autocorrect smh

[@manufaustino316]

fun fact: if I (eYe) saw correctly, this game's fighting style is resembling of Freddie Mercury's old boxing technique that also resembles Muhammad Ali's boxing technique also, Idk if this is just my opinion, but I think if someone could get the rights to this game and remake it to the new consoles and hardwares, it could work very well and probably sell a lot, it could even look like what they intended to really do back then

[@oh-not-the-bees7872]

No. No one would play that.

[@manufaustino316]

@@oh-not-the-bees7872 well, probably after two weeks they would forget about the game just like every launch title nowadays

[@DEMENTO01]

tbh the company is dead idek who owns the rights sooo...

[@brainglow_lightbright]

@@manufaustino316 attention spans are minimal

[@BlueisNotaWarmColour]

Spectacular Spectacular Spider-Man Spectacular Spectacular

[@sarahcleary7332]

Thank you so much for making a video on this game. My dad had a collection of late 90s video game magazines and a article on the game was featured that really stuck out to me. We sold the magazines years ago but I remembered this game and how interesting the visuals were to me, but I couldn’t find it online because I remembered it being based on a heavy metal band, and had no memory of it being a Queen game. Wonderful to see this game actually existed and I didn’t just make it up or misremember it.

[@brokensewageplant4193]

This game has really good scenery

[@thefactthat3709]

Definitely need to look into the Devo game as well.

[@isinganddootherthings4616]

Welcome back

[@weirdproq]

This was a nice surprise. I had never heard of this game before. This feels like something I would have seen covered by Ross's Game Dungeon or MandaloreGaming. Video games based on bands, that aren't strictly rhythm games, are always fascinating to me.

[@yamato4679]

Honestly I would really love to see this game remastered with modern engines and consoles and I feel we could get a genuinely great and unique game with a lot of character, with the story being a little more revised, but still an amazing little piece of gaming history that tends to be often overlooked.

[@TKsh1]

Early 3D games using 90% of the budget for cutting-edge technology that will be granted in the future but not feasible at their time, and 10% on the actual game. The good kind of overambition that unfortunately still ruin games.

[@MarcomixToons]

Many have heard of Omikron for its ties to Bowie and the whole "future of entertainment on a CD-rom" hype but I've never heard of this game at all. Was the lack of marketing really such a powerful hit that it never gets mentioned at all these days?

[@charlottecorday8494]

Yes.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

When people say EA never published good games Don’t point to this as an example

[@MrDrainy]

Such a strange game, good video minimme!

[@BananaSchoolBus]

In the early 2000's I found the art book at my local Dollar Tree store and bought it just because it looked interesting. I never saw the game for sale anywhere and didnt know anything else about it before this video. It's a shame that the game couldn't live up to what the developers had dreamed, but its place in games history is undeniable

[@BanCorporateOwnedHouses]

Ayyy, you got another sponsor on board. Congrats dude!

[@Powers3848]

I remember Brian May was hired to do the music for "Rise Of The Robots" video game back in the day, but it fell through. I think his only input was the guitar track in the intro of that game. Never knew that Queen licensed a game back in 1998. Thank you for posting and reading that piece of information in game from the developers was quite interesting. Thank you and god bless.

[@telophasemusic]

Why tf isn't there a side scrolling beat 'em up where you play as The Ramones? Id pay for that, lol.

[@butcherhiya]

Wow, great to see this game covered! I finished the game back in the day but with heavy use of walkthroughs! The weirdest thing is that there was a demo on some pc mag compilation cd, and the demo was parts of the first awful level. They really didn't want to give of a good first impression, the rest of the game isn't that great but it sure beats the tedious janky combat-focused first level.

[@ezrabarry4038]

Watching your videos reminds me to appreciate features and aspects of games that I would otherwise consider pointless or gimmicky, and consider how much work and creativity went into even the most lacklustre games. Thanks a lot.

[@danyelgrace4251]

another interesting game to maybe look into is “The Thompson Twins Adventure” it came out in 1984 for ZX spectrum and commodore 64 as a freebie magazine promotional for TT’s album “Into the Gap”

[@rabbi4skin666]

Holy shit I've been looking for this game forever but never knew the name.

[@steveaustin819]

I am the exact same. When I seen this video with the blue guy jumping around my memories came flooding back! I found out what game it is finally!

[@godspeedyoublacknerd]

Much like every other minimme video, this is very good

[@Nicolette.hummel]

Well shit… I love old pc games, Queen is my favorite band… this video is the best thing I’ve seen all month. Queen is a band that has always tried to be at the forefront of things, whether that went well or not. They have had some real failures like this game but it’s still so artistic in nature you have to enjoy it for what it’s trying to do.

[@TheBeardGaming]

Never heard of this game but you made it super interesting. Great video!

[@Hack_The_Planet_]

I was just wondering where you were when Mr Sunday movies mentioned you a few days ago. Perfect timing!

[@Akahigep]

I love Queen and I had no idea about this game🤯 lol. Thanks for your work

[@Freezer94]

Using Manscaped to shave my mini me.

[@nathanwalker7983]

On the topic of "interactive CD-ROM's by rock musicians", the avant-garde band The Residents made an entire trilogy of interactive CD-ROM's/games that would make for interesting topics.

[@isinganddootherthings4616]

Can you review the X-men movie tie in game

[@FluffySakii]

I have to wonder if the install/uninstall per disk is over concerns over hard drive space.

[@gelatinouscatgirl8369]

Yes, most likely. It probably copied all 300 mb of game data to HDD and played video from CD. And 300mb install was insane amount back then.

[@marreco6347]

@@gelatinouscatgirl8369 Johny Mnemonic couldn't have handle the file size for all the CDs.

[@sangan3202]

i was like "why is this thumbnail normal" then i looked closer

[@synthnation9857]

at least he's not giving Freddy his signature "curse" eye tho lmao

[@raeganj6744]

I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that the plot of this game went on to inspire the plot of We Will Rock You the musical. The basic premise of the world is really similar. I tried playing this game and didn’t get very far before quitting out of frustration, but from what I remember the opening cutscene of the game is pretty similar to the opening of act 2 of the musical

[@Spectralhyena]

Have you done the Iron Maiden game? If not that would be a great video.

[@jiminycricket5679]

I came down here to say this, i remember my dad showing me the case for Ed Hunter when I was a kid and I've been thinking about it more or less nonstop since then

[@aprofondir]

It's a bit of a monotonous onrail shooter that repeats the level music for each level despite having more music on the CD. I imagine it would've been fun in the arcade but even being the massive Maiden fan I am, the novelty of seeing the iconic art through the medium of 90s prerendered 3D backgrounds didn't really soothe the pain of the monotonous gameplay

[@Spectralhyena]

@@aprofondir thanks for the info about the game. I’ve always been curious as to what it was and I didn’t even think to look up gameplay on KZbin(duuuuuh) I remember seeing the Ed hunter album on the racks of albums at the local record shop I spent a majority of my early teens in.

[@dodgykebaab]

Just found this channel- great content dude

[@Dukefazon]

Whoa, never heard of this game, but I can assure you I saw some crazy werird/rare games out there. Reminds me of Omikron for some reason, maybe because it is music related but doesn't have much to do with the music that is related to and that early 3D is similar, though Omikron is real time. MGS4 did something similar, installing a new chapter and uninstalling when you were loading a new chapter because hard disk space was limited in the early days of the PS3, some models were released with 20GB of HDD only.

[@Beestification]

Man...This could do with a modern rebuild rather than a remaster. Build the game they wanted back then, but with all the polish that modern gaming/engines can produce. But then...who would pay for it to be made?

[@FeatherWait]

A Manscaped adread by an Australian is just what the doctor ordered.

[@TitusReviews]

I was just thinking that I wanted a new minimme vid

[@hfric]

My 11 year old Lp is still here for the folk that want to see it ... in full glory with music

[@dadassery8506]

Thanks. I didn’t know that I needed to know about this.

[@theGodfather5870]

Am I just trippin, or is the 4 semi circle machine with blue sphere in the middle at 8:26 - 8:29 like, EERILY similar to the engineer ship and homeworld docking station from Prometheus/ Alien: Covenant?? Ridley Scott? You big on obscure 90s Queen PC adventure games, my guy?? Hehe 😁👽

[@crabohardman5957]

The sequel is much better imo . EYE divine cybermancy evolves both the gameplay and the plot set up in this game . Although the move to a first person perspective is very much a mid 2000s trend the game really makes you feel like a Queen and its guaranteed to blow your mind

[@cameronravenhilltv7778]

KZbin is fucked. Ive been binging your videos for weeks, but i had to come to your channel to find this one (rather than it being recommended). Instead, my recommendations are ONLY police related, because i watched 1 video of fps russia talking about prison. Very cool youtube.

[@Vulpas]

Somehow I knew this would control like classic Resident Evil before clicking.

[@GinGojira]

love all your vids I watch them all and this was one of the best birthday gifts i could get

[@xingulirou9812]

This game looks so good for its time!

[@TitoSausalito]

The aesthetic of this game reminds me of that Mark Twain claymation. Nightmare fuel lol.

[@hankthefunniesttugboat8916]

Roger: (Destroys His Drums Set In Rage Because Of This Weird PC Game)

[@Yukisomahira]

It gives me strong Final Fantasy VIII vibes

[@BugsyFoga]

Hope you had yourself a good time with it .😄👌

[@tomwhetstone4065]

I am 47 and still love Queen music, generation born right

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

i never would've thought "The Queen Survival Horror Game" would be a pairing of words with context behind it

[@Thriftbytes]

This just blew my mind woah

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

I agree it's annoying, but I wouldn't use a rocket launcher if I didn't have extra ammo. Just used to weird game logic by now

[@muttipi]

This game is kinda like Queen’s Alice in Wonderland, or something to that effect.

[@nectarinedreams7208]

So basically Queen 2

[@caberwikijack]

1:37 What a beautiful Duwang! Chew.

[@litarogers3984]

The prog band "Queensryche" put out a myst knockoff based off their album "promised land"

[@lubaylumumba2409]

Nice video .Yo if you ever get ack to reviewing j2me games,I highly suggest the bourne conspiracy java game,the menu soundtrack is way to good for a java game

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

Sounds like the dev were *under pressure* while making this game.

[@rubz1390]

How would someone even discover something like this today?

[@jordanwhite352]

For a second there I thought you were talking about the queen as the Queen of England like the British royal family made a video game I never heard about and I'm like WTH.

[@alexmuratore95]

Correct if im wrong isn't there a kiss fps? Edit: turns out there is kiss pyscho circus the midnight child

[@arciks11]

Wasn't there also Aerosmith game of some kind?

[@minimme]

This one's on the to-do list! Apparently it's based on a comic based on Kiss or something?

[@alexmuratore95]

@@minimme youre right! It is based on a comic series.

[@alexmuratore95]

@@arciks11 yeah revolution x i believe

[@emulation2369]

Played it on dreamcast

[@Siemah]

Spot-on review. The game itself is no fun at all, but there is something amazing about it, that shines through every now and then. As a kid I had the book, but it tooks years to get my hands on the game itself. When I finally did it was a nightmare to get it running. It wouldn't install on a modern OS, but it was too heavy for emulation. My joy when a new system at last made it possible to play the game was short-lived. That first level is tough as nails!

[@CaptainFram]

Oh wow, I had no idea this existed. Gives me huge Bioforge vibes!!

[@whoisthis01]

You should try the Monty Python video games, they're apparently not great but weird.

[@thelonewolf7962]

The artstyle of this game is something else

[@brokenstyx]

you've got the best patreon names XD

[@therealdudeski]

If you haven't yet you should do the Iron Maiden game since you found interest in this game. I had no idea this existed and I'm a pretty big fan of Queen

[@dearhorse085]

time for a remaster

[@johnrossbowness8245]

Another cool game based around a Rick band look at KISS:Psycho Circus

[@summercrews5620]

I remember at Galloping Ghost I played this really weird Journey arcade game

[@dcflake5645]

Now do Kiss: The Psycho Circus.

[@SammyRenard]

oh wow yeah, that's old school EA, I can totally see it making sense to them

[@blakecasimir]

Disappointing that you did not mention the voice acting at all. The two moments of voice acting you show are Paul Darrow and - I think - Jacqueline Pierce. Both actors that featured in the classic British sci-fi series Blake's 7. Which everyone should go and watch immediately because it's incredibly underrated. RIP Paul and Jacqueline.

[@paperclip9558]

Hey minimme do you have any plan to covering Amazing Spiderman game (the first one, not the crappy sequel) in the future? I recently pick it up on ps3 and actually surprised I enjoyed it very much, and this is coming from a person who hate Amazing Spiderman movies with passion. The story is miles better than the movie.

[@obloccfanfiction]

TASM is a hidden gem

[@paperclip9558]

@@obloccfanfiction It's really weird too because the overall theme of the game is about this spreading pandemic. Kinda reminds me of what we all experienced for the last year

[@obloccfanfiction]

@@paperclip9558 it was a shittier web of shadows clone

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

"We Will Rock You" is definitely an underrated musical, imo.

[@raeganj6744]

I love it and I never find anyone else who’s heard of it. I only know of it because I stumbled across it on Wikipedia

[@gabrieljewett4042]

You should play Bad Day at the Midway

[@quinnzykir]

Man I want to play this

[@foscogrubb]

Please cover the game Kiss: Psycho Circus!

[@jackbates7467]

...and I thought Iron Maiden having an fps was weird.

[@medhros]

That's a new for me! The 90's really have this werid vibe!

[@marmite8959]

Not to be confused with the other esoteric sci-fi game of the same name; E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy

[@bubble940]

You should make a video on the buffy or evil dead games

[@_roburpo]

Good to see you again champ 😘

[@Craigmaul099]

I missed you minime

[@RykerFreegeld]

A true work of art indeed! If only games could have gone in this direction ... Instead we are now stuck with the likes of League of Legends and Dota.