Zelda CD-i What Happened?

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  • @MattMcMuscles
    @MattMcMuscles  Před 3 lety +164

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    • @kratosgow342
      @kratosgow342 Před 3 lety +3

      Can you cover FUZE a game made by Insomniac game published by EA that have interesting development history and why it become the game that people don’t even remember it existed anymore

    • @STHUltra
      @STHUltra Před 3 lety +5

      Would you ever consider doing a wha happun about Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark. The Spider-Man musical that supposedly caused injury to many people or something?

    • @BOrrellgod
      @BOrrellgod Před 3 lety +2

      Hey Matt I think I have a good idea for a show. Capcoms deep down. It was supposed to release with the ps4 and was looking promising. I saw a demo for it and it definitely had the best ps4 launch trailer but then it disappeared.

    • @asuraichermit878
      @asuraichermit878 Před 3 lety +2

      Please look into Hiveswap. It had a long development hell and delays that involved the game being completely remade from a 3-D platformer to a 2-D point and click and millions of dollars in kickstarter money allegedly being stolen by the developers to finance their other games, which forced the owner of the ip to form a new studio to start the entire project over. Lots of good stuff if you can manage to dig up more info. Especially since the game actually turned out quite good.

    • @bobafett4265
      @bobafett4265 Před 3 lety +1

      Perhaps the disaster known as Crash Bandicoot the Wrath of Cortex, which was the turning point of disaster for the franchise of which a lot of projects that did well critically, did bad poorly because of this, "at the time" next gen console debut on the PS2, with the GC and Xbox ports after.

  • @_pascalwittwer
    @_pascalwittwer Před 3 lety +3078

    What's worse is that the CD-I initially retailed for $799. Not adjusted for inflation

    • @TeruteruBozusama
      @TeruteruBozusama Před 3 lety +314

      And 3DO is mocked for its price...

    • @some_guy117
      @some_guy117 Před 3 lety +141

      @Raiden3651 HA! HAHA! HAHAHAHAH!!
      That’s a good one, everyone knows the most expensive consoles are the shitty ones from the 90’s

    • @sandorenckell5259
      @sandorenckell5259 Před 3 lety +262

      It was released in 1990. In today’s money it would be $1583.95

    • @songohan3321
      @songohan3321 Před 3 lety +69

      @@TeruteruBozusama To be fair, the first time I ever heard about the CD-i was the AVGN.

    • @TeruteruBozusama
      @TeruteruBozusama Před 3 lety +33

      @@songohan3321 I thought that was the first time I heard of it too, then I saw one of the commercials that was was almost a cosmic horror movie and recognized it! I couldn't read back then as I was so young, but I remember the clunky weird controller as I saw it in a store when I was 5 or 6.

  • @elfin2865
    @elfin2865 Před 3 lety +1697

    This whole story is so bizarrely impressive. A team of devs with zero competence or experience in game design, working with no budget for a system that was basically a glorified CD player, and they still managed to create two functional games. Completely godawful games, sure, but their quality (or lack thereof) is almost beside the point, under the circumstances.

    • @PhyreI3ird
      @PhyreI3ird Před 3 lety +238

      Now that you mention it I guess considering everything, they pretty much did outperform Bethesda didn't they?

    • @brianstryker4536
      @brianstryker4536 Před 3 lety +170

      As a former game designer who helped make 3 games, 1 only taking a single weekend to make, the fact ANY video game, good or bad, gets made is a miracle to me.

    • @ralphthefanboy
      @ralphthefanboy Před 3 lety +57

      Maybe there'll be a "Disaster Artist" like movie about the making of this game someday.

    • @elfin2865
      @elfin2865 Před 3 lety +51

      Ralph The fanboy I feel like, for a Disaster Artist kind of scenario, there would need to be far more self-delusion involved in the situation than there probably was... without a Tommy Wiseau figure, it‘s just the story of a really awful pair of games being made, y’know? (I’d still watch a “making of” doc if one was ever made, though!)

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy Před 3 lety +15

      ​@@PhyreI3ird That was the hottest burn since the launch of Fallout 76!

  • @jfbeast
    @jfbeast Před 3 lety +1478

    "YOU KILLED ME..."
    "Good."

    • @CMWaters
      @CMWaters Před 3 lety +13

      twitter.com/MLeeLunsford/status/1266147300436398081

    • @andrewollmann304
      @andrewollmann304 Před 3 lety +41

      “NOOOO.....not into the pit! It BUUUUURNS!”

    • @AguFungus
      @AguFungus Před 3 lety +11

      OAH!

    • @rpghero46
      @rpghero46 Před 3 lety +8

      i quote this at least once a month.

    • @TheLiteralTitanic
      @TheLiteralTitanic Před 3 lety +9

      "YOU, ARE MY PRISONER."
      "sh-IT."

  • @brianvaira486
    @brianvaira486 Před 3 lety +973

    They should’ve turned the Zelda CDI games into a point and click adventure game. I actually think the graphics look pretty nice, and the cut scenes are entertaining in a so bad it’s good kind of way. The main thing about these games that are awful is the gameplay, so I think making it a puzzle game would’ve been more bearable

    • @christopherjones8448
      @christopherjones8448 Před 3 lety +43

      Honestly the quality of the games themselves is pretty irrelevant when they were released on an irrelevant over priced pos most people only know about now because of agvn

    • @AceAttorny
      @AceAttorny Před 3 lety +36

      If the games had been good I guarantee you people would've fondly remembered the cheesy animation. See: 90% of old adventure games.

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 Před 14 dny

      you could probably make a pretty functional ace attourney on CDi.

  • @Sozile
    @Sozile Před 3 lety +508

    So basically...The collapse of the Berlin Wall resulted in the CD-I games???

    • @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145
      @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Před 3 lety +29

      And people think that the craziness started with the internet lol
      Nope

    • @josephThaPimp
      @josephThaPimp Před 3 lety +39

      @@RageUnchained no, it's exactly what happened. Freedom fighters are directly responsible for Zelda CDi. We should re-erect the wall for that reason alone

    • @ObsidianJake
      @ObsidianJake Před 2 lety +6

      Obviously we should just burn it all down

    • @e-money9251
      @e-money9251 Před 3 měsíci

      Turns out the commies were really up for something

  • @AirahsELL
    @AirahsELL Před 3 lety +1317

    Nintendo lending out their licenses is just weird.
    I mean, can you imagine, Koei Tecmo making Musou style games based on Zelda and Fire Emblem? Or Platinum making a Star Fox game? How about Ubisoft making a turn based strategy with Mario?
    *_THAT WOULD BE WEIRD!_*

    • @Lozfan5
      @Lozfan5 Před 3 lety +91

      The musou style games were pretty great tho.

    • @HouwariAttack
      @HouwariAttack Před 3 lety +293

      Imagine lending out Zelda to an indie dev to make a weird rhythm/dungeon crawler hybrid

    • @RevyaAeinsett
      @RevyaAeinsett Před 3 lety +152

      @@redrex1208 That's the joke.

    • @AirahsELL
      @AirahsELL Před 3 lety +42

      @@redrex1208 as did the Warriors games and the Mario strategy game.

    • @AirahsELL
      @AirahsELL Před 3 lety +76

      @@HouwariAttack I honestly forgot Cadence of Hyrule was a thing and a very good thing at that.

  • @UltimaShadowX
    @UltimaShadowX Před 3 lety +1017

    Can’t believe you made me grow some respect for these games. Considering the hardware limitations, time, and budget, I am shocked they managed to make these games at all.

    • @Karmy.
      @Karmy. Před 3 lety +17

      Same

    • @chaosdirge4906
      @chaosdirge4906 Před 3 lety +99

      Respect the developers, not the mentality that created them.

    • @Pihsrosnec
      @Pihsrosnec Před 3 lety +16

      Honestly I only knew about these games from the memes, so while I get that some of the animation was lackluster, I also think some of it was pretty competent given the situation.
      Then again, I don't think link is supposed to look stoned 24/7

    • @lucadaversa5301
      @lucadaversa5301 Před 3 lety +1

      Ryyy6 i

    • @samuelvibritannia4831
      @samuelvibritannia4831 Před 2 lety +6

      After seeing the resources they had for this, it's honestly mind blowing in a way, lmao.

  • @tophat3157
    @tophat3157 Před 3 lety +663

    Mah boy, This game is what all true gamers strive for!

    • @matthewpulama106
      @matthewpulama106 Před 3 lety +64

      I just wonder what Ganon's playing?

    • @ruthmcnally310
      @ruthmcnally310 Před 3 lety +56

      Your majesty, Ganon and his minions have seized the Switch of Koridai

    • @CrossoverGameReviews
      @CrossoverGameReviews Před 3 lety +44

      @Bunny Bun
      "Great, I'll grab my joycon."
      "There is no time. That weird spoon controller for the CD-I is enough."

    • @ChromaLuke
      @ChromaLuke Před 3 lety +30

      @@CrossoverGameReviews Squadala~! We're off to Final Destination!

    • @mamamurphy3860
      @mamamurphy3860 Před 3 lety +24

      @@ChromaLuke here are the maps. Which ones do you wish to play?

  • @scribblewell
    @scribblewell Před 3 lety +185

    I’m friends with Dale DeSharone’s son. Dale unfortunately passed away in 2008.

    • @klinewolf4254
      @klinewolf4254 Před 3 lety +79

      Rest in peace, Dale. He came across as a real professional here. If you could, could you let your friend know that his father had a lasting impact on society and culture? It might seem silly but this hard work deserves honoring.

    • @chrismorris6865
      @chrismorris6865 Před 3 lety +16

      F

    • @DinnerForkTongue
      @DinnerForkTongue Před 3 lety +25

      RIP to an unsung legend.

    • @nopatiencejoe6376
      @nopatiencejoe6376 Před 3 lety +9

      F

  • @SEiMEi_EXiSTS
    @SEiMEi_EXiSTS Před 3 lety +115

    "You killed meeeeee...."
    "Good."

  • @SuperNerdDaniel
    @SuperNerdDaniel Před 3 lety +376

    Hey, listen, the CD-i Zeldas may be rife with mediocre music, bland/static backgrounds, voices that almost never match the characters, and inconsistent level geometry, and were overall not even remotely close to the standard of quality of the Zelda franchise as a whole, but I think we can all agree that they were responsible for a massive positive contribution to the art of memes and the video sub-genre of CZcams Poops, so...you know, swings and roundabouts?

    • @theshyguy1580
      @theshyguy1580 Před 3 lety +57

      The CD-I Zelda games are literally woven into the fabric of the internet as a whole.

    • @anitamihholap5926
      @anitamihholap5926 Před 2 lety +9

      Pretty sure the music, backgrounds and cutscenes are the best part.

    • @Spider-Nalgas
      @Spider-Nalgas Před 2 lety +4

      GREAT!

    • @rurio3723
      @rurio3723 Před 2 lety

      that, and if hadn't been developed and completed considering how little time and even smaller finite resources they were given, we wouldn't have gotten it's so bad it's fucking funny animated scenes including the pig guy that deflates like a balloon and says, "lucky shot" or even the dude in the hard-to-miss blue-colored armor that says, "YOU MUST DIE"
      "Are you staying for dinner? y-you must die." "here's your gift bag. you must die."

    • @vjspectron
      @vjspectron Před rokem +3

      This peace is what all true warriors strive for.

  • @blackvetteface
    @blackvetteface Před 3 lety +1119

    GOLLY FINALLY AN EPISODE ABOUT ME!

    • @saltshakerstudio2190
      @saltshakerstudio2190 Před 3 lety +47

      whens your next game buddy?

    • @blackvetteface
      @blackvetteface Před 3 lety +85

      @@saltshakerstudio2190 golly it's coming soon!

    • @brux357
      @brux357 Před 3 lety +21

      @@blackvetteface golly!

    • @joefrew1614
      @joefrew1614 Před 3 lety +43

      @@blackvetteface I double golly that Link. You really are the hero of Koridai.

    • @TheLiteralTitanic
      @TheLiteralTitanic Před 3 lety +27

      I just wonder what Ganon's up to

  • @Haysey_Draws
    @Haysey_Draws Před 3 lety +148

    "I WON!" ...but at whu cost?

  • @darrinfromvault801
    @darrinfromvault801 Před 3 lety +226

    Spiderman Turn off the Dark would be perfect for Matt to cover.
    Still waiting for him to go Broadway

    • @MatanVil
      @MatanVil Před 3 lety +13

      Fan fact: Bono and The Edge did this just becase Andrew Lloyd Webber (probbaly joking) thanked rock stars for leaving the theater all for himself for 30 years.

    • @Flood520
      @Flood520 Před 3 lety +1

      Brilliant!

    • @kylejones8289
      @kylejones8289 Před 3 lety +4

      This is pretty similar and might be what you're looking for:
      czcams.com/video/j6bxB9vTToQ/video.html

    • @hambor12
      @hambor12 Před 3 lety +10

      @@MatanVil i mean if i had the means, clout and capital to make a musical solely to spite Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber I would do the same

  • @princesssweepzzt5502
    @princesssweepzzt5502 Před 3 lety +338

    Arc System making a Punch Out game actually sounds amazing lol

    • @joesomenumbers
      @joesomenumbers Před 3 lety +62

      Mac, this guy's a dream of a dead god trapped in the body of a department store mannequin, so watch out for his hook

    • @samouflage99
      @samouflage99 Před 3 lety +4

      @@joesomenumbers (Commences rolling everywhere in the ring)

    • @DinnerForkTongue
      @DinnerForkTongue Před 3 lety +2

      So would a Frictional-made Eternal Darkness sequel.

    • @PlahaKumar
      @PlahaKumar Před 3 lety +7

      How about Arc system making a Pokemon fighting game? Or a Fire emblem fighting game? That would be cool.

    • @DinnerForkTongue
      @DinnerForkTongue Před 3 lety +2

      @@PlahaKumar
      Or Firaxis making a Pokemon title.

  • @TheLastBabyMan
    @TheLastBabyMan Před 3 lety +136

    One good thing? Zelda and the King are actually going out DOING STUFF instead of sitting on their asses and getting in danger.

    • @aprinnyonbreak1290
      @aprinnyonbreak1290 Před 3 lety +46

      This is STILL the only time Zelda has ever been the main character.

    • @bificommander7472
      @bificommander7472 Před 3 lety +56

      Zelda finally gets to be the main character in a game called Zelda. That's worth something.

    • @dusklunistheumbreon
      @dusklunistheumbreon Před 3 lety +16

      @@aprinnyonbreak1290 And the *only* other time she actually did in-game stuff was Spirit Tracks.

  • @enlongjones2394
    @enlongjones2394 Před 3 lety +123

    I’m expecting Link’s “What happened?” line to be used.

  • @JimmyDPooper
    @JimmyDPooper Před 3 lety +84

    I genuinely don't know what I'd be doing with my life if it wasn't for these glorious works of art

  • @satin8683
    @satin8683 Před 3 lety +272

    Who else enjoyed the Re-Animated Collab last week?

    • @delfinodurians
      @delfinodurians Před 3 lety +10

      Me! What were your favorite re-animated segments from it?

    • @pocketlint60
      @pocketlint60 Před 3 lety +10

      I'm gonna need a link to that please.

    • @entruh4520
      @entruh4520 Před 3 lety +7

      @@pocketlint60 its literally the first result when you search 're animated collab'

    • @spyrofrost9158
      @spyrofrost9158 Před 3 lety +3

      Some of them were worse than the original

    • @Ramsey276one
      @Ramsey276one Před 3 lety

      Heading there after this!

  • @skullface2694
    @skullface2694 Před 3 lety +27

    Nintendo should remake these in their style...
    They can call it the "Link snorted too much magic powder" timeline...

  • @Kramdaddy
    @Kramdaddy Před 3 lety +93

    When I was 10, I remember seeing a CD-i kiosk in the wild at a Sears and was blown away by the Zelda animations. It sounds silly, but PCs were niche back then, and seeing the FMV on a 'console' was crazy. My father had to ask for a price on the system since he used to play games with me and went "nooooope."
    Years later, when the games started to show up all over the internet, I was shocked to see how bad the actual gameplay was. Early Oculus VR kind of reminds me of those days, if you want a good comparison.

    • @davidjsaul
      @davidjsaul Před 3 lety +7

      Yep, your dad made a wise move I think!

    • @dinohermann1887
      @dinohermann1887 Před 2 lety +9

      @@davidjsaul But only because the price of these "consoles" were really expensive at that time! Otherwise he might've said "yes".

    • @user-yg4kj2mf1p
      @user-yg4kj2mf1p Před rokem +1

      You'd think that after the $1 billion dollar failure that the CD-i was, other consumer electronics companies would learn a thing or two about turning overpriced and overengineered video players into lame consoles, but nope... we also got the Nuon (from VMLabs, the most notable OEM was Samsung). But at least that one had one good game: Tempest 3000

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 Před 14 dny

      @@user-yg4kj2mf1p the point of building them into video players is, if the games flop, you can always re-purpose them as something else. Hundreds of that weird amiga-cd system got used as showroom monitors and stuff.

  • @orbusg8451
    @orbusg8451 Před 3 lety +55

    It's kind of funny that phillips halfassed the games so hard when any company today would be tripping over themselves at the chance to make a game starring any of nintendo's big icons and would spare no expense doing so.

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 Před 14 dny

      let me put it this way: the CDi project began 1987. Almost nobody had remaining enthusiasm for it by the time it limped onto shelves. Anyone could see how far extant systems had already outstripped it but they'd also put too much damn money in in it to justify abandoning it to their shareholders.
      I think they partnered with the wrong people (Nintendo). Philips should have partnered with Commodore and gotten in ground-floor with a real graphics giant, the Amiga. Which was damned similar graphics hardware actually used competently.

  • @blackoverblueskies6221
    @blackoverblueskies6221 Před 3 lety +47

    "Man, it sure is boring around here"
    "My boi, this peace is what true warriors strive for"

  • @Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r
    @Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r Před 3 lety +304

    The best thing this game gave us were the memes

    • @borby4584
      @borby4584 Před 3 lety +21

      *the only good thing

    • @wubbawubba3396
      @wubbawubba3396 Před 3 lety +1

      Some guys have managed to do that without being bad lol (like metal gear or yakuza).

    • @Leonidash15
      @Leonidash15 Před 3 lety +12

      The Soundtrack is pretty darn good too

    • @SuperDrunkdragon
      @SuperDrunkdragon Před 3 lety +13

      MAH BOI
      these memes are what all true warriors strive for.

    • @ther0n1nnamed47
      @ther0n1nnamed47 Před 3 lety

      Games guys there were sadly 3 (he mentions them)

  • @Diorm
    @Diorm Před 3 lety +133

    Good timing with the reveal for Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity

    • @ThePkmnYPerson
      @ThePkmnYPerson Před 3 lety +22

      But the real calamity is having your unencrypted private data harvested by hackers, governments, and corporations.

    • @brycebitetti1402
      @brycebitetti1402 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ThePkmnYPerson Okay, now someone has to use that transition into an ad at some point

  • @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145
    @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Před 3 lety +32

    I'm old enough that I remember as a kid when the CDI came out.
    I was in one of those big old electronic stores, maybe it was a Circuit City?, and they had a demo unit set up for the CDI playing a video of what the CDI was supposed to be & do.
    They talked about the interactive encyclopedia and other things and at one point the guy in the video plays part of the Zelda game.
    I remember watching it wondering what this was cuz I knew it wasn't a Nintendo system. It was only a short clip of him playing the game before the narrator told the guy in the video that they were going to come back to it later that he wanted to show him other things about the CDI.
    After that I left the store and for years I told friends about the non Nintendo Zelda game I saw ...they all thought I was making it up as many games had rumors & legends back then it could easily have been so.
    In time I began to assume that the game must have just been some Zelda like characters that the CDI had used.
    Then when the internet got big, especially after CZcams began, I found the truth! I was right....but sadly after waiting so many years to find out the truth of the games and so long to even try to play them well turns out it wasn't worth the wait the games suck!
    Lol
    But at least I wasn't wrong in my memory

  • @hypernova_119
    @hypernova_119 Před 3 lety +34

    I respect Zelda CD-I for single-handedly starting the glorious genre of YTP.

  • @cedifonei9270
    @cedifonei9270 Před 3 lety +383

    "Can you imagine Namco making a Zelda fighting game?"
    > One day after Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is announced
    Actually on topic tho, I love this series. I find it the most empathetic look at dunking on horrible games I've ever seen. It's been extremely refreshing to see a look at the history of bad games that unilaterally respects the developers who worked so hard on these games and instead looks at the bigger reasons why they failed so hard. Thank you so much for making these!

    • @chompompcharly
      @chompompcharly Před 3 lety +44

      Yeah the fact that he really looks into the development of these games with a heart, instead of just "shaming" them is literally my favorite aspect of this series. Making games is hard and nobody makes a bad game on purpose. If people were just stupid/lazy as one may think, they would just get a different job.

    • @seanmaher1307
      @seanmaher1307 Před 3 lety +17

      @@rubiesncreme you forgot peta

    • @demiliomason1565
      @demiliomason1565 Před 3 lety +10

      I wouldn't consider hyrule warriors a fighting game. It's almost nowhere close to the genre.

    • @SpookerDoom
      @SpookerDoom Před 3 lety +14

      I thought that was a reference to Soul Calibur 2

    • @Nervar
      @Nervar Před 3 lety +2

      Demilio Mason I mean it’s a fighting game just not 1v1

  • @emiliofedele3428
    @emiliofedele3428 Před 3 lety +18

    I’ve never played these games but there is definitely something undeniably charming about them. I also think the hand-painted game worlds actually look pretty cool for the time they were made.

  • @CrossoverGameReviews
    @CrossoverGameReviews Před 3 lety +43

    "They had permission to use franchises whose roster of level one enemies would have far more fans than their entire console ever would."
    DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNNNNNN! You just dug up the CD-I from the grave just to spit on it and bury it upside down!

    • @PrototypeSpaceMonkey
      @PrototypeSpaceMonkey Před 3 lety +9

      Actually... I wouldn't mind a Goomba Simulator on mobile. Imagine a tower defense game where you have to defend against waves of increasingly skilled mario's.

  • @unclebiff424
    @unclebiff424 Před 3 lety +89

    Man, these games make me nostalgic... for classic CZcams Poops. My favorite was the one where Link had to work at a fast food restaurant to get the money to buy a Playstation 3.
    "Link, mah boi, this WII is what all true warriors strive for!" "But I can't - USE THE CONTROLLER - I need a PEE ESS 3!"

    • @angelsartandgaming
      @angelsartandgaming Před 3 lety +7

      I LOVED that YTP.
      Classic WalrusGuy

    • @Workman743
      @Workman743 Před 3 lety +12

      "I'll take a potato chip-"
      _"There is no po-ta-to chip."_
      *"Damn it!"*

    • @KaiserMazoku
      @KaiserMazoku Před 3 lety +1

      Sucks his channel got taken down :(

    • @unclebiff424
      @unclebiff424 Před 3 lety +3

      @@KaiserMazoku He fought a losing war with Colgate over his Dr. Rabbit YTPs. He died on his hill like a real legend.

    • @benbuurman254
      @benbuurman254 Před 3 lety +2

      Hyrule Dating Videos was my personal favourite

  • @Harukurochan
    @Harukurochan Před 3 lety +11

    I had no idea the animated segments of these games were inspired by Soviet era Russian animation. Can you imagine a Zelda game or animated film using top-tier traditional animation reminiscent of that era? That would be so freaking *gorgeous*!
    Also my jaw dropped upon learning about just how relaxed Nintendo was with giving up their licenses! That is downright absurd, but as you said it ended up working for the best in a very roundabout way.

  • @songohan3321
    @songohan3321 Před 3 lety +98

    I had suppressed all three of the Zelda CDi games into the darkness levels of my subconscious. To the person that suggested this, I will come to your house and hide all of your TV remotes and rearrange your pots and pans.

    • @jimbob1862
      @jimbob1862 Před 3 lety +13

      Don't forget to slightly tilt every ornament they have hanging on the wall

    • @joehayes9933
      @joehayes9933 Před 3 lety +5

      Im glad you've been nerfed now, that is the most evil thing you can do

    • @ZeroCanalX
      @ZeroCanalX Před 3 lety +1

      @@joehayes9933 You forgot what happens when Gohan is angry (as Cell had to learn the hard way)?

    • @joehayes9933
      @joehayes9933 Před 3 lety

      @@ZeroCanalX didn't they lead to Goku bailing out the earth? Both times.

    • @PhyreI3ird
      @PhyreI3ird Před 3 lety

      @@jimbob1862 Just every other one so they don't know which ones they need to correct and which ones are actually normal.

  • @miqwerty
    @miqwerty Před 3 lety +9

    "The Berlin Wall was coming down" is about the last thing I expected to hear in a quote in this video.

  • @LevelUp_ErikJ
    @LevelUp_ErikJ Před 3 lety +12

    You might want to add that Dale DeSharone sadly passed away in 2008 from Leukemia, shortly after the interview.

  • @drkarate5219
    @drkarate5219 Před 3 lety +81

    I owned a CD-i as a kid, specifically because my dad loved all the Zelda games. Boy were we disappointed. I dont think there was a single redeemable game on the thing, I remember we got a thing in the mail YEARS later where we could just pick a free game from a list of CD-i games, and they were all just.... awful. Now do one for Zelda's Adventure, a game somehow worse then both these Zelda games! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda%27s_Adventure

    • @PhyreI3ird
      @PhyreI3ird Před 3 lety +13

      I was about to say that its one redeeming feature was that it wasn't Zelda's Adventure

  • @dr.polaris6423
    @dr.polaris6423 Před 3 lety +15

    “Nothing short of poetry!”
    James Rolfe, 2010

  • @SwishFilmsinc
    @SwishFilmsinc Před 3 lety +4

    Haha, I was wondering if you'd mention YTP, but seeing you use my stuff as an example made me mark out big time! Awesome work, Matt!

  • @jonahfiden2625
    @jonahfiden2625 Před 3 lety +66

    Ah yes, what a great video to wake to... let’s find out WHA HUPPEN

  • @DrewPicklesTheDark
    @DrewPicklesTheDark Před 3 lety +9

    When you stop and think about it, they were tasked with making a video game out of a DVD menu.

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 Před 14 dny

      pretty much. t hey were designing a computerized video player and realized, with a little thought, the same hardware could make mediocre games.

  • @worldofthought8352
    @worldofthought8352 Před 3 lety +18

    Phillips is also seemingly distancing themselves away from medical products, the amount of times my area has had had a three month shortage of FSE's and other foetal equipment is shocking but we can't use an alternative as all the CTG monitoring systems are Phillips. For a medical supplier they are quite unreliable but they have a monopoly, so there's not much we can do!
    (On topic, really surprised Nintendo was that open in leashing out games, one can only wonder how things would change had they stuck with Sony)

  • @g0ddish434
    @g0ddish434 Před 3 lety +23

    I bet this is the production of the video
    Matt: Ma boi, this job of editing will be about the cdi
    Editor: Cool, I'll grab my stuff.

    • @ncant
      @ncant Před 3 lety +4

      There’s no time, your old pc is enough

  • @ThymeSplitter
    @ThymeSplitter Před 3 lety +66

    I'd... I'd take a Punch Out! game by Arc Sys :')
    (I'll take any Punch Out I can get)

    • @dnmstarsi
      @dnmstarsi Před 3 lety +8

      Same. It may be another 2D Fighting game but an all boxing game like that is interesting.

  • @RoninCatholic
    @RoninCatholic Před 3 lety +15

    As Link said in one of my videos, "Oh boy! I can't wait to break that ol' Gannon's nads!"

  • @Real1Gaming
    @Real1Gaming Před 3 lety +45

    OAHOHOHOHOHO... Man I love the CZcams poops these games spawned. People are still making them! Thanks Animation Magic

  • @MatteoTomatto
    @MatteoTomatto Před 3 lety +9

    16:33 "The King's Unreasonable Demands" by SwishFilmsInc, one of the best "Spadinner"-style YTP makers from the late 2000s.

  • @NecoLumi
    @NecoLumi Před 3 lety +41

    Wow, I am actual legitimately surprised you found ANY info about the creation of this treasure of a game, lmao.

  • @smashbreault4051
    @smashbreault4051 Před 3 lety +28

    I cant wait to watch some wha happun!
    -cdi link probably.

  • @rev0lve638
    @rev0lve638 Před 3 lety +44

    I really don't see enough people putting respect on the 'new' intro

    • @rev0lve638
      @rev0lve638 Před 3 lety +3

      @@lirfrank I did, little to no love back then either :(

  • @Pooper
    @Pooper Před 3 lety +9

    18:29 Next Level Games is a Canadian company, but I appreciate the love you're giving it!

  • @mthiyanendaba48
    @mthiyanendaba48 Před 3 lety +24

    Soul calibur 5 what happened?

  • @justanotheryoutubechannel
    @justanotheryoutubechannel Před 2 lety +16

    This is a really fascinating story, I loved hearing about the developers and how they did all of this without just hearing people complain about how garbage the games are.

  • @MrBonessss
    @MrBonessss Před 3 lety +12

    Miyamoto: *angrily walks to Philips HQ with a bazooka and screeches while taking Mario and Link with him*

    • @redwidow1358
      @redwidow1358 Před 3 lety +3

      I thought you wrote "kazoo" at first and it was equally hilarious

  • @KayFiOS
    @KayFiOS Před 3 lety +17

    11:47 Sheik's's spandex's tightnesses is pretty tightses.

  • @bs321321
    @bs321321 Před 3 lety +6

    Every time Matt has said "I'll grab my stuff" has been building up to this moment.

  • @aduty23
    @aduty23 Před 3 lety +46

    I remember when these games came out. I’m so glad my parents didn’t get these awful things for me.

    • @PrototypeSpaceMonkey
      @PrototypeSpaceMonkey Před 3 lety +10

      I remember being SO HYPE for these games when I was a kid. Judging from the ads and pictures in magazines I thought they would be like Zelda 2 except with fully hand drawn art and CD-quality music. Then my local electronics store put Faces of Evil in the demo CD-I player they had on display, and after playing on it for 5 minutes I was cured of my childhood dreams.

  • @fraud291
    @fraud291 Před 3 lety +10

    this game is a classic and one of the best games of all time.

  • @greenfiretornado
    @greenfiretornado Před 3 lety +17

    3:45 ironically nintendo just did this with Koei Tecmo and let them make a new Zelda game that's canon and it was announced yesterday

    • @manuelalbertoromero9528
      @manuelalbertoromero9528 Před 3 lety

      2 Zelda games.

    • @RotaAbyssian
      @RotaAbyssian Před 3 lety +2

      @@doclouis4236 not to mention they generally choose studios that have a decent pedigree or acclaim behind them now.

  • @Stushcinta
    @Stushcinta Před 3 lety +20

    Finally talking about the most legit Zelda games.

  • @GameShark9000
    @GameShark9000 Před 3 lety +24

    I just wondered what Matt's up to...
    ... then I saw this in my notifications!

  • @CiccioImberlicchio
    @CiccioImberlicchio Před 3 lety +30

    Thanks to the cutscenes of these games we got those glorious videos called CZcams Poop and thanks to the CD-I YTP i was able to learn a lot of english by constantly repeating and rewatching them, i will always be grateful to the people who made this abomination

    • @meowmasterL346
      @meowmasterL346 Před 11 měsíci +1

      It's truly inspiring how tragedies can actually bring so much positivity with them

  • @TheGprinziv
    @TheGprinziv Před 2 lety +7

    "The six best Russians that very little money could buy" is an instant classic line.

  • @allanvargastomas3493
    @allanvargastomas3493 Před 3 lety +5

    Dale: "I would imagine anything was going to fall short after that"
    Link: "I WON!"

  • @grimgrahamch.4157
    @grimgrahamch.4157 Před 3 lety +5

    The idea of using hand painted art as levels sounds pretty cool honestly.

  • @Houldey
    @Houldey Před 3 lety +10

    Intro by: [update] - 19:14

  • @xShotgunSurgeryx
    @xShotgunSurgeryx Před 3 lety +4

    Matt predicted the Russian animaniacs episode. Holy shit.

    • @Thephantom95
      @Thephantom95 Před 3 lety

      *Mind Blown*
      The weirdest thing is i saw that episode a few days ago.

  • @sugarfrosted2005
    @sugarfrosted2005 Před 2 lety +3

    The style of their animation kind of works in the right situation. I. M. Mean looked good.

  • @pank3245
    @pank3245 Před 2 lety +7

    Whoever designed and voiced Morshu should get an award

  • @pajamapantsjack5874
    @pajamapantsjack5874 Před 3 lety +5

    I think of all the what happuns, this is probably the one I’m most interested in. Because...the behinds the scenes of these games must be insane

  • @premi949
    @premi949 Před 3 lety +20

    the legend of zelda cdi games will be real in 2 seconds

  • @thisjustin6529
    @thisjustin6529 Před 3 lety +2

    Congrats on 300,000 subscribers!

  • @Outta-hz1ej
    @Outta-hz1ej Před 3 lety +2

    This game brought with the golden era of /b/ and youtube poops. It's a true classic and definitely worth a kiss.

  • @supersonspidey67
    @supersonspidey67 Před 3 lety +4

    "Arc system works developing a new punch out"
    Now hold on that might not be a bad idea

  • @alZiiHardstylez
    @alZiiHardstylez Před rokem +3

    Considering the parameters they were given, they did a hella of an adequate job.

  • @chuckyluvsu13
    @chuckyluvsu13 Před rokem +1

    This video was a lot of fun to watch, I remember at my local "Nobody Beats the Wiz" they had a set up of the Phillips CD-i and I wanted one so badly LoL

  • @Balblair
    @Balblair Před 3 lety +24

    The talk about top-down gameplay being too aged is funny because the CD-I also had Zelda's Adventure.
    Though that also played like ass.

    • @Geospasmic
      @Geospasmic Před 3 lety +1

      It was so bad that the creator of the other two Zeldas couldn't finish it.

  • @guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285

    Do Shadowrun FPS for the Xbox360! it deperately needs to be reviewed and explained for how they took an amazing setting with interesting mechanics and lore and then turned out... that.

    • @guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285
      @guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 Před 3 lety

      @@sunburst8810 And DK4, Daikatana and CDI zelda hadn't been previously autopsied?
      Besides, Mat has a style that the others don't which would be great to see for this, so once again I call out for it to be Next :)

  • @psychromaniac3525
    @psychromaniac3525 Před 3 lety +5

    Okay, to be fair, the animations for the FMV bits aren't actually all THAT bad. They're colorful and dynamic, even if they're hilariously cheesy and tacky.

  • @omn1cr0ngaming66
    @omn1cr0ngaming66 Před 3 lety +2

    0:27
    I clicked on this video without reading the title, hearing that legitimately made me respond with “oh god no”

  • @ozmafire101
    @ozmafire101 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Well we got Arzette out of these abominations so I'm happy.

  • @glitchedsushi
    @glitchedsushi Před 3 lety +16

    I’ll come back when the comment section is a little MMMMMMMMM... richer!

    • @skinnysnorlax1876
      @skinnysnorlax1876 Před 3 lety +4

      Morshu is legitimately a top tier Zelda character, don't @ me lol

    • @glitchedsushi
      @glitchedsushi Před 3 lety +1

      SkinnySnorlax Yeah, I would love to see him in an actual Zelda game

  • @castironbandito
    @castironbandito Před 2 lety +1

    11:33 Wendie Mallick as Eda Clawthorne in a nutshell. She most definitely has a voice that doesn’t match her monster-like appearance.

  • @CaptainGriffin
    @CaptainGriffin Před 11 měsíci +1

    and now we're getting Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, a spiritual successor to these games

  • @TheLowBrassDude
    @TheLowBrassDude Před 3 lety +5

    What Happened: The Dark Tower (2017)

  • @TrueShilic
    @TrueShilic Před 3 lety +52

    Last time I was this early, people still used the CD-i Zeldas for CZcamsPoop. (Unoriginal comment ahoy!)

    • @SEiMEi_EXiSTS
      @SEiMEi_EXiSTS Před 3 lety +4

      Mah boi! This peace is what all true warriors strive for!

    • @donkarasu-9644
      @donkarasu-9644 Před 3 lety +6

      Jimmy Davis would say otherwise

    • @cuppajj
      @cuppajj Před 3 lety +4

      They still do, because the cutscenes are internet treasures.

  • @WillieManga
    @WillieManga Před 6 měsíci

    9:28 You knew we were expecting an AVGN moment! You did us proud.

  • @vincenzomottola7778
    @vincenzomottola7778 Před 3 lety +1

    Have you seen a Philips CD-i game called "The Apprentice"?
    I never played it, but from what i've seen, it looked really impressive for a CD-i game

  • @AlexSpalex1
    @AlexSpalex1 Před 3 lety +13

    Do a What Happened on The Black Cauldron!

  • @lovestruck5346
    @lovestruck5346 Před 3 lety +3

    1:30 excuse you Matt, Laser Lords was on CD-I

  • @axllaw427
    @axllaw427 Před rokem +2

    Years later, both games got remastered with better controls and balanced difficulty and they're actually pretty fun now

  • @irkalla100
    @irkalla100 Před 3 lety +1

    A friend of mine had a CD-i and let me burrow it for a week with a ton of games for it. I played this back in the day.

  • @nomadicmonkey3186
    @nomadicmonkey3186 Před 3 lety +3

    To be completely fair I find the animation part kinda impressive after getting to know it was done by six Russian animators with varying degrees of experience.

  • @namagem0
    @namagem0 Před 3 lety +17

    This is a series I've wanted to know more about since it became a meme generator! Thank you for covering these games :)
    I C A N ' T W A I T T O B O M B S O M E D O D O N G O S.

  • @sleepytreeguy
    @sleepytreeguy Před 2 lety +1

    Angry Video Game Nerd!!! That episode is so hilarious. It's a great companion piece to your video.

  • @CheeseBlaster
    @CheeseBlaster Před 2 lety +2

    without the cdi zelda's we wouldn't have those truck load of glorious YTP's

  • @m.s.e.advanced2842
    @m.s.e.advanced2842 Před 3 lety +31

    What happened? Nothing good

  • @VGPorage
    @VGPorage Před 3 lety +4

    12:10 I mean that was exactly what people on youtube did back in the days

  • @ZaGorudan
    @ZaGorudan Před 3 lety +1

    6:46 The Room only cost $6 million because Tommy Wiseau was in charge of the funds and was also very poor at planning. To this day we still don't know where he got that money.

  • @kurtcobain279489
    @kurtcobain279489 Před 3 lety +1

    The Town With No Name needs to be talked about someday.