When All the Bad Coalesces in one Place | Nostalgia Nerd

[@Nostalgianerd]

If you enjoyed this, then you might appreciate the Podcast that Octavius and I do (we'll soon be resurrecting it) www.youtube.com/@Octanerdle

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

Backers would probably appreciate Octavius writing that book she took £25K for..

[@superhetoric]

@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 book?

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

​@@superhetoricGoggle Video Games That Saved My Life, Unbound. YT won't let me put a direct link up.

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

​@@superhetoricpeople have been waiting years, her last update on it, on the Unbound site.. Updates From The Author Book is complete!!! Hey everyone, apologies for the total lack of any updates, buried my head into writing the book so much I forgot to keep afloat of the updates. Please do forgive me. But great news, the book is finall... 11.01.2019 If it was complete 4 years ago, where is it? It was fully funded, written and backers have so far, recieved nothing.

[@SpeccyHorace]

​@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148Innit!

[@Toonrick12]

An executive that knows next to nothing about video games forces a small number of rookie developers to work long hours for little pay that results in a glitchy broken game that is sold at a very inflated price? Some things just never change, it seems.

[@blakegriplingph]

Strauss Zelnick comes to my mind.

[@VascovanZeller]

Let's all laugh at an industry / that never learns anything, tee hee hee!

[@Toonrick12]

​@@VascovanZellerA phrase that never ages, especially what happened as of late.

[@Brian_Rogers]

I'll bet you he could've gone far at EA.

[@dragon1130]

​@@VascovanZellerThis week in, Occasional guide to R word moments in G word H word...

[@donnierussellii4659]

Florida Man corners gaming market with world's first shovelware cartridge.

[@Toonrick12]

Eh, maybe the first to make a cartridge, but not the first to make a shovelware collection. That happened in the UK in the 80's.

[@gregmark1688]

The way you make a cart with 100,000 games or something is by counting all the possible game modes of a game. Like, if a game has a single player and two player modes with 10 levels of difficulty, that's 20 games. And if that game also has 10 levels or maps, then you've got 200 games, right there. And so on.

[@diamondsmasher]

Doesn’t know a “Nintendo” from a “Sega”, but knows what’s illegal. Business Credentials confirmed ✅

[@Topplethepyramid]

Angry Videogame Nerd: What were they thinking?! Nostalgia Nerd: This is what they were thinking.

[@kingdomkey2397]

I never get tired of hearing people talk about action 52. To me it's my holy grail of bad games. Everything about it just intrigues me to no end. Lol you guys did a great job covering it.

[@poppybasers]

Same here, I even have a small Action 52 shrine at home with the original game CIB and all. You may now call for help

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

Action 52 have a "kind" of quality thats for sure..

[@nickca420]

The gag with Ashens just witnessing this madness with a resigned look on his face is funny, specifically because I imagine that his life is really like that. 😂

[@devilinthewoods3809]

I hear they forced inmates to play this at Guantanamo.

[@BeersAndBeatsPDX]

The intro music isn't It Takes 2. It's just the Think break which It Takes 2 also sampled. Fun fact: the Woo and YEAH we're Bobby Byrd and James Brown.

[@gfdggdfgdgf]

As they were using an Amiga for the graphics there's a good chance they heard the loop/song in an Amiga demo.

[@BeersAndBeatsPDX]

@@gfdggdfgdgf Listening to them both back to back I'm pretty sure it is actually It Takes 2. The Low quality makes it sound slightly different.

[@warbossgegguz679]

It's It Takes 2, because it's a pun on action 52.

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

I never knew about the flyer claiming the two games that don't even start were secret bonuses. That's just evil. Clever, but evil.

[@CommandLineVulpine]

This timing is wild, I only recently went back and watched AVGN's video on Action 52

[@Crazy_Borg]

Great outtakes. And ashens cameo was brilliant.

[@pseudotasuki]

He wasn't confused about what they were doing, but because he's unaccustomed to looking at anything except his sofa.

[@Pixelmusement]

I remember seeing advertisements for this thing on TV as a kid and thinking to myself, "That looks dumb." Later in life I found out that my younger self was very much not wrong... :B

[@TheRoberino2001]

I don't usually leave comments and I'm definitely late to the party but that video just made my day if not my week. I get Nostalgia Nerd, Octavius and Ashens all in one video?! That has made me a happy chappy, thank you from the bottom of my heart 🙂

[@HeiligerGrimmnir]

I havent watched this yet but I gotta say... I respect the gumption it took for you to tackle this given how much exposure its already had. I look forward to finding out something useful. ... aaaaand PLAY!

[@HeiligerGrimmnir]

Hey look... it's Shit Pickle!

[@HeiligerGrimmnir]

Octavius is a Latin name. A gendered language...

[@dagnisnierlins188]

One of the best things I got as a kid was a bootleg 200+ games cart, and none of the games repeated.

[@erockbrox8484]

3 months for 52 NES games. I created the NES homebrew Force Bot and this single game took me 3 years.

[@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472]

Pause for one moment. When my ENTIRE neighborhood got the N.E.S. - most kids said, "you wanna play Nintendo?" I don't think we said "N.E.S." or "ness" as kids.

[@Colin_Ames]

Well, that was fun. You and Octavius make a good team.

[@llMarvelous]

Giving team of 3 amateur computer enthusiasts objective of creating 52 games in 3 months - is now on top of my list of optimistic business plans by a long shot Mind you, they first time saw development kit while already been hired and working on this project This is insane

[@15-Peter-20]

To good of a team some might say?

[@tstahlfsu]

Yes!

[@CompComp]

I agree but there's not enough rats in the video XP

[@gluttonousmaximus9048]

and more.

[@JodyBruchon]

I love learning everything I can about Action 52. It's amazing. The coders involved might have seemed incompetent to the gaming public, but they accomplished absolute miracles...which becomes clear when you learned that they made 52 games in a few months with 1 week of training on how to make a game.

[@Sinn0100]

Hold on a minute...the average Nes game was not 25 dollars in the US. Cheap games cost you roughly 30 to 40 bucks and new releases had been known to hit the 80 dollar mark. Phantasy Star for the SMS was 80 bucks brand new as an example. Most of my games were in the 50 to 60 dollar range back then. The cheaper games didn't really start to hit until CD gaming took hold. Post 1995 we began seeing games top out at 50 dollars with budget titles landing in the 20-30 dollar sweet zone. I remember this happening quite well because when I first saw it I went nuts. I was like a kid in a candy shop and I had money to burn. I grabbed so many "Greatest Hits" games it was crazy. Anything I missed or traded in over the years I bought back...was it '96 or perhaps '97? Addendum- This is a fantastic video and I thank you for making it!

[@Doperooni]

Ashens is like salt. A little bit makes everything better.

[@Doperooni]

@mipmipmipmipmip Now I'm just picturing Ashens as the Hulk picking up a car and setting it down nicely. Unless its cheap tat then off with it.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

@@Doperooni Hulk smash Smart car

[@richardwillson101]

A little bit makes everything better, but too much and it's not pleasant. Been watching Ashens since 2006 and his shorter content is the best!

[@mightyfilm]

I like how the take away from illegally pirated multi-carts of familiar games was the multi-cart bit and nothing else. I can't even give them credit for making "original" games here. Even if they stole the code from popular games and rom hacked them until they were just distinguishable enough to not get their asses sued clean off, they would have had a much better game than what they gave us. And at least the Genesis version feels like a cheap collection of DOS shareware instead of a get rich quick scheme.

[@striderskorpion]

Revision B allows you to finish Ooze. It also makes Alfredo and Jigsaw playable. A few more bugs were also fixed in this version. You can check The Cutting Room Floor for more information.

[@mstandish]

I love the baby pacman deep cut.

[@ryanmassey1441]

I always forget nerd shares an office with Ashens. And then I’m always surprised when he shows up in every other video.

[@kirgahn]

You actually made octavius play action 52... Again! You sadic bastard😂 great video, hope to see part 2 with the cheetaman review and the kiss 💋

[@Takato]

About Meong, you actually can know which squares are bombs: if you wait a little, some squares will blink. Those are the bombs. It's stupid.

[@lassie6]

💚 Help, please someone call me a cab. Really infuriating that I might have wasted my formative years on this. So fortunate to have dropped out of college for beloved Sinclair Spectrum. Happy memories of Planet Lave.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

I mean, I understand people that refer to any console as a Nintendo, but as a kid I referred to my NES as a Nintendo.

[@BRUXXUS]

What a fun, star studded video! This made me smile. Thanks for suffering for us!

[@wolfmerrik]

That was by far one of the most over the top and amazing episodes of Nostalgia Nerd. Pure Gold.

[@phatmanpushimbak8903]

You just scored yourself a subscriber. My friend GAVE me this cart when we were 14. What a mess. We aren't friends anymore.

[@meatbeefindustries862]

I found this in a thrift store for $5 in 1999, and I still have it. I remember feeling ripped off even at $5... like, I had heard it was bad, but Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick, it made "Billy the Kid" by Alive Software look like Doom!!!

[@nannerthepuss]

Hello, fellow Dead Milkmen fan. We are internet friends now. I swear to god, Stuart.

[@povilasstaniulis9484]

Heck, the majority of carts I played on my Famiclone were multicarts. I had some single game carts too, but since the carts (even the Famiclone ones) were expensive, it often made more sense to get a multicart which had the game you wanted on it. Those carts were also a good way to discover new games. The main problem with many of these carts was that they often listed many multiple copies of the same game with different romhacks as separate games, making it hard to find the game you wanted to play.

[@6Stevo]

This was really entertaining. That last bit made me literally lol. 😅 Top work guys. 👍

[@fattiger6957]

The Action52 publisher had $5 million??? I don't know how much a game cost to develop back then, but I assume it was significantly less than a million, let alone five million. When I heard this story before, I thought it was a fly by night arrangement with a shoe string budget. With that kind of money, you could have made a hell of a game back then. That is, if the company was run by someone who actually knew the first thing about video games and didn't hire the first guy to ask for a job.

[@Toonrick12]

Let's be honest, most of that 5 million was in production and marketing. I doubt the development was even 1% of it.

[@fattiger6957]

@@Toonrick12 Yeah. It's just like modern mobile games where the publisher spends millions to market some low effort puzzle game or farming game or clash of clans ripoff.

[@JohnKelly2]

​@@Toonrick12more like $1m for production and marketing and $4m in his salary

[@alexanderseton]

Wow! I’ve never watched a “nerd” video about nes action 52. This is soooo original 😅

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

Hey! It's Octavius! Nice.

[@frankowalker4662]

It's always fun to see you and Octy in a vid together. Ashens is the cherry on top.

[@pgj1997]

To be honest, a collection of small original games in one package sounds like a great concept that could work nowadays. Maybe as like a sort of anthology title by a group of indie devs. That'd be interesting.

[@wisteela]

Fantastic. Great to see this covered in such detail.

[@Palooka37]

Can really see the work that went into this. Great stuff.

[@johannweber5185]

But to be honest, I think it was not bad (actually rather impressive) for 4 beginners to finish within 3 months.

[@ChatookaMusic]

That tiny off beat loop point on the menu song kills my soul

[@krizzys]

I wasn't expecting a multiverse crossover episode!

[@dchardin1]

We in the U.S. had to deal with this AND "Achy Breaky Heart" at the same time. It was a war with two fronts.

[@wearecity]

This made me laugh, I had a feeling Ashen, was going to appear at some point and the humour when he did didn't disappoint. You always put together interesting stories and the chemistry between you and Octavius is excellent to.

[@pankero1]

Nice boxed copy of Westwood Studio - NOX I see in the shelf 👌😌

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Glorious. And as there are three Cheetahmen, I'm expecting the three of you in appropriate Cheetahmen outfits for next time...

[@hicknopunk]

Super Mario was 59.99 here when it first sold, not $25. I bloody wish.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

That's a nice 🐈! Best thing I've seen today, honestly.

[@RidgeRacer]

This one was a plethora of laughs, you've all outdone yourselves this time.

[@ralphybean]

Really nice to see you enjoying yourself. Keep going matey.

[@tiberiusbrain]

You guys are just awesome!

[@edwardburek1717]

Ah yes - blackmail. The best way to get a classic collaboration of two amazing KZbinrs.

[@tyrkukulkan]

Glad t o see you are back in the swing of things!

[@XX-sp3tt]

0:36 That was actually becoming the norm. Nintendo launched an obscenely massive propaganda campaign and orders down to the retailers to crush this budding form of thought (like a Kleenex being a hanky), to avoid losing their brand recognition. So your observation doesn't work in context.

[@jukkapiispanen123]

Imagine getting this cart as a Christmas present,back in the day 😂

[@somethinggeeky]

That dude had the 10,000 yard stare, anything is possible with that human condition

[@Killatia]

love how rat at 28:02 is like "YES FINALLY A BATTLE TO THE DEATH!"

[@StefanEdek]

I think Terminator Future Shock had mouselook before Quake...

[@javidaderson]

We only invite Octavius over so we can play with the big rat.

[@Stilvoid]

Brilliant video 😆 I can only imagine the pain you went through to produce this.

[@rolux4853]

This was hilarious and the quality reminded me of KZbin ten years ago. Which is amazing and much better than today!

[@MsNosis]

just imagine how far one could get with 52 games, if they were all proper games. play one every week, rince and repeat, one has enjoyment for a lifetime. football game week 1, space invaders week 2, and so on. :)

[@volvo09]

Haha, the "lifetime cart" never gets old 😂

[@jettesides420]

I advise people to lookup that multi cart that Hulk Hogan was shilling.

[@DeaD1te]

loved the vid, especially with the bloopers LOL

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

The fact that most NES copies can't play either Alfredo and Jigsaw results in the game being called "Action 50". (15:05)

[@thatzapherguy4066]

i have had this game since i was a kid. every my friends break out my nintendo to check out my games i always make sure they play this one

[@MikeDest]

You could write a sad story / movie about a low income family having hard times and the parents spend the entire Christmas budget on that game for their children thinking they did a great job and the kids just have to pretend

[@MrClawt]

I will consider this video a great holiday gift.

[@slipperynickels]

9,999,999 games!

[@sergioestrada7459]

$199 for 52 games: that's $4 for each game. What a great deal! #moregamesmoregamesyeah

[@c3cris2]

Yet again another interesting story.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Why thank you, and thanks to Octavius

[@Toonrick12]

I'm actually curious of how Action 52 gets around the 10NES chip. Did they take from legit carts, try to zap-stun it like Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree, or something else?

[@Discospawn]

Presumably the game's title music was intended to replace the lyrics "It Takes Two to make a thing go right..." with "Fifty Two new games at one low price..." or something equally cheesy.

[@chris_is_here_oh_no]

Excellent video, perfect review!

[@SINfromPL]

that was a really fun episode! thx!

[@ruglund]

Octavius and Nostalgia Nerd, this is top quality teamwork - funny, silly and just the right amount of the word bobbins... 12/10

[@sparkleglitch13]

Agreed!

[@AndyDoz]

Great fun. Best yet. Thanks. It's made a.cold damp Sunday seem less cold and damp.

[@RaposaCadela]

0:26 THAT'S Vince Perry?? Finally we know what he looks like?

[@RaposaCadela]

is that ashens why he step so hard

[@UltimatePerfection]

As bad and glitchy as Action 52 is, it has some of the most kickass music on the system (particularly I like Dam Busters theme).

[@MRX-cw1cy]

I can't believe you made Octavious play action 52 again isn't that cruel and unusual punishment 😂 Thanks for more info on this horrible abomination on the NES

[@klarfindel]

This video made me unreasonably happy!

[@Chaos89P]

I take it y'all finally found an image of the man behind the madness.

[@LordZordid]

"Utter Bobbins". Please, children could be watching this!

[@WoodsPrecisionArms]

My ex wife had a cart with 120 games on it all of them premium commercial releases - it blew my mind to realize how much those carts could hold. It wasn’t a boot leg it was some type of commercial product but can’t for the life of me remember what it said

[@robmortimer4150]

Bonus legend appearance!

[@NumptyMcNumptyface]

Coconut and bonus Ashen? Sir, you spoil us!

[@bradswim]

I liked the video right at 12:20 top notch stuff, Peter

[@artebirklaus]

Fun collaboration 🙂

[@EditorJohn_TIRL]

You two match each others energy perfectly

[@rainydayman2k]

Hi, Stuart. Bye, Stuart. Don't make it weird, Stu--you made it weird, Stuart.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I crapped my pants last night and now Action 52 is in my youtube feed. What did i do to displease you, god? 😂

[@Juanknes]

It's really interesting to know how this horrendous product was born.

[@MrTomFTW]

Hah, I've got the same pizza Oodie as Octavius. Don't blame them for not wanting to move.

[@Caolan114]

Is there a single wall In that house that doesn't have a CRT TV on It? I'm Impressed

[@VelvetTeacake]

"The one that eats tinned chicken. from a tin." 😂

[@bewilderbeestie]

The games on the Action 52 are like the living embodiment of what non-games-playing parents from the 1980s thought video games were.

[@morebasheder]

Haha this was a great video Pete 👌🏼

[@Mrnotpib]

8:42 oh I can answer that one. The game uses “It takes two” on start up because that song absolutely slaps raw cheeks. Next.