When All the Bad Coalesces in one Place | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Try Readly, with my link you can get 2 months free, which can be cancelled at any time: AD readly.com/nostalgianerd ~ We don't often venture into Nintendo on this channel, but I feel that Action 52 on The NES really needs to be looked at, in excruciating detail. So @octaviusking has helped me and here we are. God help us all.
Big thanks to @ashens and Coconut for their superb acting.
Thank you to @octaviusking for their superb writing, editing, directing and performing.
Octavius' full length Action 52 Video: • Action 52 Review - Eve...
Octavius' Cheetahmen Video: • Action 52 Cheetahmen r...
Octavus' Acton 52 Genesis Video: • The Awful Action 52 on...
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0:00-09:33 Part #1
09:33-10:54 Readly
10:54-28:57 Part #2
28:57-29:31 Credits and Outtakes
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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
Backers would probably appreciate Octavius writing that book she took £25K for..
@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148 book?
@@superhetoricGoggle Video Games That Saved My Life, Unbound.
YT won't let me put a direct link up.
@@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.
@@thefurthestmanfromhome1148Innit!
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.
Strauss Zelnick comes to my mind.
Let's all laugh at an industry / that never learns anything, tee hee hee!
@@VascovanZellerA phrase that never ages, especially what happened as of late.
I'll bet you he could've gone far at EA.
@@VascovanZellerThis week in, Occasional guide to R word moments in G word H word...
Florida Man corners gaming market with world's first shovelware cartridge.
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.
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. 😂
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 🙂
Doesn’t know a “Nintendo” from a “Sega”, but knows what’s illegal.
Business Credentials confirmed ✅
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.
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
Action 52 have a "kind" of quality thats for sure..
Great outtakes. And ashens cameo was brilliant.
He wasn't confused about what they were doing, but because he's unaccustomed to looking at anything except his sofa.
This timing is wild, I only recently went back and watched AVGN's video on Action 52
Well, that was fun. You and Octavius make a good team.
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
To good of a team some might say?
Yes!
I agree but there's not enough rats in the video XP
and more.
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.
As they were using an Amiga for the graphics there's a good chance they heard the loop/song in an Amiga demo.
@@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.
It's It Takes 2, because it's a pun on action 52.
3 months for 52 NES games.
I created the NES homebrew Force Bot and this single game took me 3 years.
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!
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!
Hey look... it's Shit Pickle!
Octavius is a Latin name. A gendered language...
Angry Videogame Nerd: What were they thinking?!
Nostalgia Nerd: This is what they were thinking.
This was really entertaining. That last bit made me literally lol. 😅
Top work guys. 👍
Wow! I’ve never watched a “nerd” video about nes action 52. This is soooo original 😅
A Nostalgia Nerd video and Octav1us video all in one. Can't get any better than this...... Wait, Ashens is there too? Epic
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
Fantastic. Great to see this covered in such detail.
Nice boxed copy of Westwood Studio - NOX I see in the shelf 👌😌
Brilliant video 😆 I can only imagine the pain you went through to produce this.
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.
Great Seeing Vids Again Sir!
I Wish I had a Genesis Multi-Cart back in the 90s...
It took a while for the Good Games to hit the FunCoLand Shelves.
Really nice to see you enjoying yourself. Keep going matey.
Glad t o see you are back in the swing of things!
Can really see the work that went into this. Great stuff.
But to be honest, I think it was not bad (actually rather impressive) for 4 beginners to finish within 3 months.
This was hilarious and the quality reminded me of CZcams ten years ago.
Which is amazing and much better than today!
Excellent video, perfect review!
That was by far one of the most over the top and amazing episodes of Nostalgia Nerd. Pure Gold.
This one was a plethora of laughs, you've all outdone yourselves this time.
What a fun, star studded video! This made me smile. Thanks for suffering for us!
I will consider this video a great holiday gift.
love how rat at 28:02 is like "YES FINALLY A BATTLE TO THE DEATH!"
You guys are just awesome!
Love the new vids you have been releasing! Cant wait for more!!
so nice to see some new videos. always a pleasure! :-)
I wasn't expecting a multiverse crossover episode!
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 💋
Super pedantic comment correction that only a Floridian would care about, but at 8:05 your reference was the Orlando Sentinel, when it was an article out of the Sun Sentinel. The Sun Snetinel was the 2nd, smaller newspaper based out of the same area as the Miami Herald, just slightly north and based out of the Ft Lauderdale area).
Orlando is an entirely different market.
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.
Great fun. Best yet. Thanks. It's made a.cold damp Sunday seem less cold and damp.
💚 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.
Glorious.
And as there are three Cheetahmen, I'm expecting the three of you in appropriate Cheetahmen outfits for next time...
This video made me unreasonably happy!
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.
Ah yes - blackmail. The best way to get a classic collaboration of two amazing CZcamsrs.
that was a really fun episode! thx!
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.
Let's be honest, most of that 5 million was in production and marketing. I doubt the development was even 1% of it.
@@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.
@@Toonrick12more like $1m for production and marketing and $4m in his salary
Brilliant video
One of the best things I got as a kid was a bootleg 200+ games cart, and none of the games repeated.
Ashens is like salt. A little bit makes everything better.
And a lot helps with road traction in winter.
@@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.
@@Doperooni Hulk smash Smart car
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!
Hey! It's Octavius! Nice.
We only invite Octavius over so we can play with the big rat.
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.
Good video as usual
I crapped my pants last night and now Action 52 is in my youtube feed.
What did i do to displease you, god? 😂
I love the baby pacman deep cut.
Bonus legend appearance!
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.
Hah, I've got the same pizza Oodie as Octavius. Don't blame them for not wanting to move.
Octavius and Nostalgia Nerd, this is top quality teamwork - funny, silly and just the right amount of the word bobbins... 12/10
Agreed!
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
Bruh, that ain’t Rob Bass. That “waoh! yeah!” was a sampling trope of that era. Lifted from the break in “Think” by Lynn Collin’s (well, mostly by James Brown’s house band the week of the recording).
Weird sexual energy, with you, Octavius and Ashens. Also, there is something weird going on with the subtitles, they skip a lot of dialogue, get out of sync, then get back. Maybe check that.
I think Terminator Future Shock had mouselook before Quake...
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
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.
Not necessarily It Takes Two, but Think by Atrtha Franklyn where the "Whoo , yeah" sample was taken from.
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!!!
Good wholesome stuff
You two match each others energy perfectly
That dude had the 10,000 yard stare, anything is possible with that human condition
Ugh, my favorite bad game
Nicely done. :3
"Utter Bobbins". Please, children could be watching this!
Reminds me of those Cascade 50 cassettes you used to see advertised in computer magazines back in the mid 80s. 50 games on a cassette and perhaps 2 were playable. I borrowed one when I had my Amstrad 464... I wouldn't have paid for it.
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.
Today I learned that 9,999,999 games is really only "ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine" games. Damn
Lol the acting is epic. Reminds me of the old Channel Awesome golden years before the Falling Out
Super Mario was 59.99 here when it first sold, not $25. I bloody wish.
That's a nice 🐈!
Best thing I've seen today, honestly.
Man, I chuckled hard when Ashens appeared!
Hi, Stuart.
Bye, Stuart.
Don't make it weird, Stu--you made it weird, Stuart.
It's always fun to see you and Octy in a vid together. Ashens is the cherry on top.
Action 52 could very well be called Dunning Kruger Effect 52.
Love these unexpected videos 😊
You just scored yourself a subscriber. My friend GAVE me this cart when we were 14. What a mess. We aren't friends anymore.
I love the British slang word "bobbins" 😅
Ashens the cryptid is making me laugh so much, lol.
Nice, always love to see Octavius, and you playing with the rat was adorable
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.
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).
Coconut and bonus Ashen? Sir, you spoil us!
He's. So. Chubby. I love him.
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.
those are games worked on my action 52, interestingly alfredo seems to has a title screen that doesn't work. there are at least TWO versions of this abomination which means they paid for at least two runs of mask ROMs! they must've spent boatloads of money on these. also, most of the music is the demo tunes for music construction set. since the graphics were done on an ST with deluxe paint, I guess they just lifted the music from the ST version of music construction set.
I'm finishing the night watching avgn after this.
In South Africa we 32-in1 50-in1 100-in1 500-in-1 we even got a 10000-in-1 'nintendo cartridge'
8:42 because that's about the only song you can sample for 1 or 2 seconds, put in a loop and still get away with it.
oh hey its the tinned chicken man