Is The Incredible Crash Dummies [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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- čas přidán 15. 01. 2024
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Fun fact: The crash dummies weren't just a series of PSAs. The success of those ads eventually led to a licensed toy line, which I believe is where "Junk Man" and that professor character originated. The toys were then successful enough to get a TV special based on them, but I think the games are specifically an adaptation of the toy line, not the animated special.
Weird franchise, huh?
I came in here to reference the toy line. It was a lot of fun. I didnt have any of the cars, but the few figures I had were loaded with a lot of fun gimmicks
@@hatendiscontent Yeah, I've seen some ads for the toys and they definitely look like the sort of stuff I'd have absolutely loved as a kid. Detachable limbs, bug-out eyes, etc. Unfortunately I've also heard that they were made from cheap plastic that broke easily, so maybe it's for the best that they stopped being sold before I was born.
i still have my crash dummies, cars, playset, and even the JunkMan himself from the 90s!
I had they toys. Later got a vhs of some episodes
I know I watched it as a kid, although in my mind I was thinking that it was a regular animated TV show, not a 3D CGI TV movie. I guess that's why they didn't bother to turn it into a full-blown series, since SGI workstations were very expensive back then and 3D animation took a lot of time to create. They probably would have been better off turning it into a traditional animated cartoon, although I do love that style of early 3D animation. It's available on CZcams for anyone that wants to watch it.
I definitely remember seeing lots of ads for the toys.
Congrats to pootrain for holding the speed run record on this game. I guess that's like saying that you have the record for fastest time you can kick your own ass?
Or having the largest kidney stone.
"Most faeces eaten in an hour"
All aboard the pootrain! TOOT! TOOT!
@@kevinbbadd then don't watch them or do them. Pretty damn simple
@@kevinbbaddOh Boo Hoo. Why don't you complain some more about something that doesn't affect you at all ?
I bet every comment you have made on this channel is crying and whining about something because you are a miserable little goblin who needs to get laid but you never going to get laid cause you are just such a miserable toxic little f**k that nobody in their right mind wants to get with you.
THIS game is one of my rental nightmares. I had the toys, loved how they exploded apart, and thought the game was gonna be a lot of fun. Holy crap was I wrong obviously. I don't even remember beating the first stage as a kid. Years later I saw a cart at a convention and knew I had to prove myself as an adult. What I proved is I am still not good enough to beat stage 1.... But now I have the cartridge to haunt my shelf. Love the channel so much, thank you for all the reviews!
That's the one thing I do miss and don't miss about the 90s. If you got a game, such as this one, your weekend was shot, lol. But, there was a lot of excitement with picking out a game you never played before and discovering it was a gem. I like being able to just play any game I want to at any time these days. But still, I miss those days of childhood.
I used to love the toys too. Luckily I never picked up this game.
Had the game as a kid. I learnt it off by heart, so I was good enough to get to the last level but there are just two many blind jumps. I never found this game fun, I played this just for the challenge.
I know exactly what you mean. I collected game magazines and rented games that were reviewed in it. That's when I learned that just because something looks good doesn't mean it isn't shit.
It’s pretty disheartening to be disilliusoned, especially as a kid. Heckins, as a “grown-up” it can be brutal. To have my/our hopes raised and happiness promised… and then betrayed and disappointed. For games, the NES Double Dragon and TMNT: The Arcade Game ports were like that for me. I expected the awesome arcade versions and got the okay, but way less impressive NES adaptations. It hurt, subtly but a lot, too. 😢I’m good and pretty healed now, 😁👍… but yeah, some tough realities about the world for us kids, and grown-up kids, included.
One day, Summoning Salt will release "The Quest to Beat Pootrain." I cannot wait!
I second this request
Then Bismuth drops "Quantum entanglement and The Incredible Crash Dummies"
I *think* he's supposed to be saying "Cuh-RASH!" (because crash dummy, get it?), but it's way funnier to imagine him saying "Your ass!" instead.
🙂👍 Lol I think it’s funnier, too, me thinking he’s saying “Your ass!!” as some kind of dying threat/curse! Hmm, also, maybe he’s saying “cuirass”, because he could use one, some extra armor, or because his just fell apart? “Cuirass: a piece of armour consisting of breastplate and backplate fastened together.” Sorry (not really😁), I’m becoming a bit of an arms & armor geek, and that’s what came to mind. …😂Also, when I tried to “Siri” it to bring up the definition again, she scolded me, saying “That’s not nice.” WTHeckin’s, Siri?! I just pronounced it the way YOU just did and now you think I said “Queer ass”?! Well, I never! 😤😂… made me LOL a bit
@@1HolbytlaSounds like someone took an Adderall with a low tolerance.
nothing like getting snesdrunk in the morning
I would argue getting it at night is better like I do due to timezones. I'm pretty much guaranteed to have a good rest of my day.
Hooray for day-SNESdrunkin’! 😂
Imagine you got this shit for christmas cause your parents were thinking "This will be an educational game!"
My parents got it when they got me an SNES. Tbh I've always kinda liked it.
You just describe the exact reason why those crappy educational games are kept being made
It’s terrible that there were/are such disappointing “educational” games. Sheesh, what a terrible thing to sour people on life in general! They CAN arguably be done well: (Albeit for PC)The Oregon Trail, Math Muncher and Cross Country Canada are ones I thoroughly enjoy/enjoy, and enjoyed learning some stuff in, too! I think the Math Blaster game for PC I had was good, too.
Man, I was *obsessed* with the toys as a kid. Smashing the car and putting it all back together never got old. At least as far as Crash Dummies games go, there was a really good one on Game Boy, Master System and Game Gear!
Honestly the toys were pretty good considering you were supposed to chuck them at your furniture as hard as you can to make them fly apart. Mine never broke, I just eventually lost all the pieces. Good times.
The NES one was pretty solid too!
I even remember getting it for Christmas back then, good times
Somewhere Pootrain is shedding a tear. “They finally recognized me!”
😢
The Pootrains are actually one of the old speed running families out of New Orleans. Storied history but some dark stains in their past as you might imagine…
LOL! 😂 Yes, and not to be confused with the Crapcarriage family. Quite all-right upstanding folks, those! 🤣
Oh LOL I just now got the “dark stains” joke! 🤣😂
The evolution and creativity of the chords you sing in the intro makes me laugh so much, thank you 😭
I remember trying this game when I was a kid. I found it incredibly difficult, but so much fun I kept trying anyway, despite very little progress.
I still own a copy of this game from my childhood. Never quite reached the final boss, but remember getting into the final levels as a kid. Game was very hard with some dubious design for sure, but I've played worse games.
Make a drinking contest for every time SNESDrunk says "No, not THAT [proper noun]!"
The toys were a blast - I remember getting the cars, the crash test center, etc. We would set up the family camera, film the crashes, and then watch them back in slow-mo. Ah, the 90s.
I like the Peter Pumpkinhead reference 🎸
I had the GB version & every level was a different genre of games, I loved it as a kid 😊
Yeah the cool sassy music 😂😂 played it so many times the free fall mini game where you had to land on the target on the ground and avoid the windows!
Total length of video: 329 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 5.5 secs.
1.67% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
Dude...nice Peter Pumpkinhead reference. Great ballad.
This was a rental regret for sure. But since "you can only get one" and it had to last the whole weekend, I saw more of that first level than anyone ever should, and now the crappy music is nostalgic.
My parents would get on to me for not playing a rental even though it was a terrible game. It really was a crap shoot sometimes if the game was going to be any good lol
This is one of those "both copies of Super Adventure Island and Beyond Oasis are checked out, and someone stole the only copy of Chrono Trigger" kind of rentals
Lol 😂I watched this like a month ago and just now re-watching got the Crash Test Dummies band reference to Peter Pumpkinhead. I think I was confused by it at first, and had it rolling around somewhere in my head unconsciously. Anomaly resolved!Brain feels satisfied now! 😂 Also, “hats off” to Pootrain made me think of the plastic hospital poop sample “hats” that fit in the toilet. Some nurse/s called it that!
I got this for Christmas as a kid... There's a silver lining though. I took it to the market and swapped it for a game I'd never heard of called A link to the past. One of my all time favourites
Nice turnaround! 🙂 I’m glad for ya’!
I actually had the Junkman action figure and one of the cars. The car was actually kinda cool because you could crash it and the airbags would deploy and stuff. They really taught me how cool and rad car accidents are.
Lmao sounds like they failed at their only purpose if they made u think car crashes are “cool” haha
I remember seeing an eBay listing for a Super Nintendo, which came bundled with a copy of The Incredible Crash Dummies. I truly pity whoever ended up with that being their first SNES game.
The Peter Pumpkinhead reference is gold 😂
Came here just to make sure it got recognized.
I sadly grew up with this game. My mom got it for me from a bargain block buster bin. I played it over and over and never brat it.
"And where's Peter Pumpkinhead?"
eyyyyy. i see what you did there.
Happy belated new year, drunk. There were also animated commercial shorts which felt like blatant ads for a crash test dummy cartoon show which were as charming as the games. Not sure if an actual show was planned or not.
Another grumpy SNES Drunk video. Love it! 😂
He’s evolving into an angry video game drunk
When you hear of that massive droning open 5th like a Gregorian Chant of monks to start a SNES Drunk Video, you know you are going to have a great day. 🥁😎🥁
These toys are my favorite toy line of all time. I received the red crash car for my 4th birthday and was instantly obsessed. I have about a half dozen photos of myself playing with these in the early 90s, and probably have one of the biggest CIB collections in the world
"Hooray! For Peter Pumpkin head..." Sick reference
I had the Gameboy version and it wasn't any better from what I remember. Like this, it was the typical licensed game that was shoved out the door as quickly as possible.
The GB one at least did something creative with the license. In it, you played a dummy for hire doing odd jobs like falling from a rooftop for a movie shoot, test driving a car, skiing through an obstacle course, or QA testing tank shells on an assembly line
Yeah, I tried that game once and was in disbelief at how atrocious it was. AVGN's review of it was also completely spot-on. On another note, I loved those Crash Dummies commercials with Lorenzo Music doing the voice of Larry the Crash Test Dummy. "You could learn a lot from a dummy. Buckle your safety belt." Classics!
The guy that decided to break the speedrunning record because nobody else had done it reminds me of that old Guinness World Records Prime Time TV show on Fox. People would do weird stuff that nobody even thought of before.
One guy could snort milk up his nose and squirt it out of his eye, so he broke the record for squirting milk out of his eye the furthest distance.
Another guy could swallow coins and then retrieve coins with specific years on them on command. I guess he did this the most times in a specific amount of time.
I dug the heck out of the Crash Test Dummies toy-line. Action figures and vehicles you can smash apart again and again? Yes, please!
The NES version of Crash Test Dummies (far different than the SNES) is actually a lot of fun! Check it out.
And yet neither Transformers nor My Little Pony had their own SNES games.
Nice Crash Test Dummies band reference
I had this growing up!! I loved this game.
This video is a nostalgia trip from the beloved early 90s. I only playef this once. My brother was suppose to be babysitting me as my single mum was supposedly going on a hot date, but he dumps me at his non-girlfriends place (had potential for a relationship but never happened between them). We rent movies, she got Boxing Helena (with the late great Julian Sands (RIP)) I hired the gate 2. After watching my movie the girls thought Boxing Helena was too racey for a boy my age so she lets me play in her sons/younger brother/some random young teen living with her whose relation I never really thought about till writing this comment's room. He had the Crash rest dummies toys and SNES game. So after ramming the shit out of the cars I gave the game a go. I remember it being OK but then again, all games I have no tolerance for today was OK back then. I remember liking the novelty of losing limbs as a sign of damage. And that was my only experience with this game. The memory ends with me half asleep watching hot athletes on the Doug Mulray show (this was Australia BTW) when my brother returned to pick me up.
I am also drunk right now so thanks SNESdrunk for jogging my intoxicated memory of a better time in my life. I owe you a debt of gratitude my friend. I also love your videos since I was a SNES kid and your content is so near and dear to my heart. I've also gotten my like minded friends to subscribe also since you cover a lot of games we never got but only knew about in magazines. Cheers mate.
The crash test dummies had a hit song in the 90s.
🙂 A few, I’m pretty sure. My sister had a (cassette-tape! 😲😂) album of theirs and we enjoyed it. Also, I would play the “…Peter Pumpkinhead” song from her Dumb and Dumber soundtrack a lot!
I played the game so much as a kid I learned how to get through it pretty quickly.
You need to slide and prefire a lot, which lets you dodge most obstacles and destroy others. I don't ever remember having difficulty sliding either, it's just a forward to down-forward motion IIRC.
My favorite levels were the ones with the suds, and the military ones.
Oh and since I'm fixing a typo, I always liked how your wrenches behaved differently depending on level.
When he dies, He's saying "Crash," but he made it sound like he's saying 2 words. KUH-RASH
loved the dumb and dumber soundtrack reference
You should check out the music video. Jeff Daniels is in it as Harry and it's a really good song
@@mrowch9640 You're correct sir
I got a an Incredible Crash Dummies toy for Xmas one year as a kid. It was a destructible toy car with one of the Dummies. Most importantly it came with a VHS tape of the pilot episode of the computer animated series. It wasn’t good but we were poor AF so i watched it 100 times.
“BRILLIANT DEDUCTION SPIN!!!”
I’m pretty sure I ended up recording an episode of “Gargoyles” over it.
I didn't think they would even keep track of speed run records for this game at all😂
Thanks for the video SDrunk, for some reason Crash Dummies is one of those 90s oddities that have never left my headspace 😅
Happy new year and thanks for that speed running fact
(pootrain's biggest enemy tenting his fingers and laughing ominously)
Personal story.When I was around 10 years old I had a neighbor who always bothered my parents to come and play at my house. The kid eventually got what he wanted. His grandma talked with my Parents and convinced them.
I didn't like the neighbors at all especially that boy.
Anyways...the kid came early like around 9am. My mom fed him and we started playing SNES. Different games, he wanted to test all of them. Eventually he saw my Donkey Kong Country 2 and he went wild. He said he has the first one and never played the second one. It was already around 7pm. His parents was gonna pick him up around 8pm.
So we played and guy was stunned on how amazing the game was right? So he asked me...can I borrow your DKC2?
And I was like uh...idk...
He begged me and talk with my parents he said he was gonna trade with me with an awesome game almost as good as DKC2.
I still had my doubts so he ran to his grandma (our neighbor), and came back with guess what game....
So I forcefully traded my Donkey Kong Country 2 with this garbage and he ran off when he heard his parents calling him.
I didn't play this game till the next day. And boy oh boy...what a surprise it was. Garbage at it's worse. I got pissed and the kid was nowhere to be found. Not even the grandmother could contact him(allegedly)
Eventually he popped out of hell again and I talked with gave him his stupid game back and told him I want my DKC2. And he always forgot the game when he was visiting his grandma.
My dad called the grandmother and basically told her listen either you give my son his game back or I will call the cops for theft. Let's keep this relationship neutral.
After that the kid finally gave me my game back.
All because they(my parents) wanted me to be nice to people who I didn't like.
🥺😲 Thank you for sharing…Wow, that’s dang awful! I feel for ya. That was pretty well-intentioned, I’m sure but *very* wrong of the supposed “grown-ups” to do that to you. I’m glad you eventually got your game back but man, force and control is never a good way to do relationships. I’ve learned the hard way/s on both sides of it: Respect human free-will, even to do objective wrong/bad. Be genuinely, caringly persuasive *not* selfishly seductive; If ever necessary, warn firmly but kindly, *do not!* force or threaten through fear-manipulation/entry-level terrorist tactics. Leave the choice to them and ride out the results.
Hope you didn’t get too messed up by all that, and that you are doing well. 🙂👍 Cheers and all the very best to you and yours!
I used to have the Game Gear version of this game. I loved the toys! I had an action figure where you’d push a button on his chest and his limbs and head would go flying
I remember Crash Dummies toys being a thing in pre-school back in 1994.
I am glad the intro isnt no longer 20 seconds long but only 5!!!! SNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNES DRUNK!
Me and my brother never played this game but I remember my brother got a Crash Test Dummies toy for his birthday one year back in the early 90's. Pieces got lost really fast among all our toys
So you’re saying we won’t see a 2 hour video from Summoning Salt on the history of crash test dummies speed runs?
I remember playing this game when I was like 8 or so. It was okay fun for about 10 minutes, then I was off to other classics like Secret of Mana/Evermore, Zombies ate my Neighbors or Turtles in Time.
Compliments on the harmonic intro ❤🙌
5:02 - we need to talk about the hand motions that the player character is making.
😲 Oh my! LOL! 😂 … I like to think he’s shaking his fist defiantly at his foes or fist-pumping to psyche himself up but… yeah 😂
🤔🙂… maybe he’s pretending to hold a microphone and commentating & narrating on his adventures, or beltin’ out some sweet vocals to intimidate his foes?
Welcome back from vacation!! We miss you!!!!
Great review 🎉😊
I was a huge crash dummies fan. Had a ton of the toys, some bedsheets, some colorforms, and went as one for halloween twice. after only having the truly abysmal NES game for years, this one was actually a decent play. It is a bit of a pick up and die game, but I wouldn't say the controls are bad once you get used to em and while there are some parts than can be frustrating, it's definitely closer to the top of the licensed platformer 16 bit heap than the bottom. In fact, I'd go as far as to say this is by far the best LJN game. The limb loss gimmick is actually kinda neat because it affects how your character moves and their hitbox and screwdrivers (health) are plentiful enough that rather than worrying about your limbs, it's more like you have to strategize when you can afford to get hit.
Pootrain has always been and will always be the Incredible Crash Dummies GOAT.
Remember picking this up a 2 night rental one weekend. That was an unfortunate mistake. I liked the one-off CGI special on Fox Kids so I figured it’d be awesome.
this was also in aus around 93-94 era, i remember it as a young lad
My childhood best friend and I liked this game, but I haven't played it since I was like maybe 7 or 8. I didn't realize it was bad. Same thing happened with Hook and Home Alone on NES.
I remember the Saturday morning cartoon for this series. It was... there.
I absolutely ADORED the toy line growing up. Still do. ❤❤
Dummies is based on a cg cartoon/toy line. The toys were pretty great they had to buttons on their chests that, when crashed would cause their arms, legs and heads pop off when crashed. Cars, bikes and planes would crumple or have parts fly off when crashed.
This has to be one of the most confusing games I own.
Random villain yeets the professor into his vehicle, leaves, only for the two guys to show up with the villain returning to ram them down, and leaves again. 😂
My mom bought me this when I was like 3 or 4. I liked it as a dumb kid, but I'm kind of surprised I actually beat it at that age.
Reminds of of how I loved watching Captain N and the Game Master as a dumb kid back in the 90s when I was 5-6 years old. Loved watching it as a kid, but it’s so bad when you watch it as an adult.
Whoah… they’re called “Crash Dummies”?? I recognize those guys but in Canada they were called “Crash Test Dummies”
This makes me think of that bit from the Mr Plow episode of the Simpsons, where the German car is shown with a crash test dummy video that they cover up when one of the dummies starts crawling away from the wreckage.
I loved the crash dummies as a kid. I had a plush toy with velcro limbs and head that I could wholly dismember with a single well-placed punch and the VHS of an animated pilot that didnt seem to get picked up for syndication. I was so excited to find this game at my local 4-Star Video Rental and subsequently dissappointed to the point I felt like my own limbs were going to fall off.
Ive had this game since 96. Still cant beat it to this day
I'm wondering what Venkman from the Ghostbusters cartoon sounds like flying through a car window.
Bro, these guys had a great cartoon and toy line. I loved them as a kid.
i loved the crash dummies as a kid.
Crash Test Dummies: Exists
Pootrain: "It's free real estate"
I loved this game so much as a kid 😂
Video count starting with following intros:
SNES drunk: 854
Segadrunk: 69
Steamdrunk: 42
Without any kind of Intro: 41
Switchdrunk: 4
Previously on SNES drunk IS drunk: 2
SNES drunk IS drunk: 1
Previously on SNES drunk plays StarFox: 1
Previously on SNES drunk plays Final Fight: 1
3 Hours of the SNES drunk Intro: 1
A four minute and 30 second long SNES drunk Intro: 1
Videos completely about Clyde T. Dog (No Intro as well): 3
I actually remember playing this on SNES, I kinda liked it lol. I rented it like 3 separate times
I grew up with the original Gameboy version, i still have the cart for it and also the tiger toy version too, i wish i still had that, it's a shame the console versions are different compared to the handheld releases
I borrowed the Gameboy version from a buddy and enjoyed it okay myself. Haven’t played this SNES one, though.
What a way to start the year!
The intro was perfect - always make them exactly 5 seconds so I can hit right arrow and skip it without missing anything, please
Good job on these chords
I've been wanting to get this maybe it's time to try it out!
Super Mario deserves some blame for making "you bounce on their heads" the default way of dealing with enemies in an awful lot of platformers. But Mario had the sense not to make a significant number of enemies who tumble all over the screen in an unpredictable fashion, without taking the size and speed of sprites and the amount of screen "real estate" they take up into account.
Happy new year Snesdrunk! Have you thought about making a GBA review about Mother 3?
I remember playing this game and the Game Boy game
I chortled my way all through this video. Great job with writing it.
It's no surprise the people that did Wayne's World did this. It looks like a palate swap of Wayne's World.
I had one of the action figures. As one of those kinda dark kids, (or standard Mortal Kombat fan) I loved being able to "dismember" my action figures. "The Terminator launches a missile from his... missile arm... and blows up the enemy robot with a direct hit in the torso." The old Beetlejuice figures I got on sale all had detachable heads, too. Great for "death matches."
This was one of the first games I rented from the video store back in the day. Took me a few rentals to finally beat it. Was not worth it, but I was a determined kid!
Solid video as per usual!
If someone had asked ME "what kinda game should we make out of Crash Test Dummies?" my initial instinct would have been to make it an obstacle course designing game where you send a car with a dummy inside through an insane gauntlet of ramps, loops and hazards, and get scored at the end of each one for spectacle and survivability.
Funny story about Lorenzo...that everyone knows, is that he voice Venkmen in the real Ghostbusters cartoon as was fired cause Bill Murray said he sounded too much like Garfield. Then the universe imploded on itself...also this is no way related to cid the dummy. He's a crash IMPACT dummy...that dies to fall damage....
And we lost Lorenzo's quality Venkman and were given Uncle goddam Joey.
@@zennyspent true indeed.
@@FatGitLovesThe80s Absolutely!
its a great game when it is one of the only ones you own as a kid
i liked this game, ive finished it several times... yep
Ahhh, so you loved it .