On further investigation... Maxis absolutely advertised this crap for a short time. DISAPPOINTED. twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/858115746701955074

@FerintoshFarmsPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Well, okay then...

@megahedgehog2039

7 жыл бұрын

better get started on the other missing maxis games

@TheHordeQ

7 жыл бұрын

I feel conflicted about giving this a thumbs up.

@fastbreak333

7 жыл бұрын

This is probably why Maxis got swallowed by EA... to atone for their sins.

@VermillionR3D

7 жыл бұрын

Knowing his fanbase, I'm sure someone will be so cruel as to send him these.

Whoever was responsible for that empty shrink-wrapped box was clearly trying to do the purchaser a favor...

@1Soniccool

7 жыл бұрын

Karl Baron Yeah the seller is like don't play this shit it is not worth your time go and play Sim City or The Sims instead of this game

@bloodyl_uk

7 жыл бұрын

Life would have been very wrong if it was any other way.

@TheOpponent

7 жыл бұрын

It's like what Yahtzee said about Ride To Hell: Retribution except for real.

@claudiolluberes111

7 жыл бұрын

Why this comment says it was made a week ago? This video was released today...

@minirwin

7 жыл бұрын

Patreon folks get here early

6:45 Crashing. In front of the Twin Towers. As if this wasn't uncomfortable enough, random chance had to intervene.

@swallowedinthesea11

5 жыл бұрын

Final Destination!

@straightpipediesel

5 жыл бұрын

Not really random. The Twin Towers were the most prominent part of the NY skyline. There were a number of fiction books and movies which had planes crashing into the Twin Towers, including "The Lone Gunman" a TV series that aired 6 months before 9/11.

6:41 thats not how i remember 9/11...

@vinesauceobscurities

7 жыл бұрын

Flies did 9/11.

@idnyftw

7 жыл бұрын

well it's a time when you can put out an "Arab-themed" piece of content and not have it associated with terrorism...

@FinestCitizen

7 жыл бұрын

Woowww, LMAO! Even before 9/11, you still had the bombing of the WTC in 1993. This came out in 1995. Poor choices made by the software creators.

@idnyftw

7 жыл бұрын

it was still way before the 9/11 shift, back then "ex-Soviets" were still the big deal

@IsmailofeRegime

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was a poor choice to highlight the WTC, one of the iconic sights of New York City, in 1995. It had been attacked two years earlier, but only the underground parking area was seriously damaged. Plenty of shows and movies continued to display the WTC right up to 9/11.

My favourite part was how the flies have seven legs!

@lando8913

3 жыл бұрын

7th one wasn't a leg. It's a boy fly...

*For the morbidly curious,* I've uploaded the full intro logo "animation" for your pleasure. It is absurd. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dWho18eEpbDOodY.html

@adamthompson6669

7 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews another awesome video mate hope you are well

@shiron222

7 жыл бұрын

...Nah you're the Nostalgia Critic of Retro PC games/hardware...You remember it so we don't have to...

@TKMachine007

7 жыл бұрын

More s***t games please. I dont know why but these "family friendly" channels are so fun when they swear.

@korvasterindar9672

7 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews Maxis must have got a HUGE ammount of hard street drugs to have agreed to publish this

@querpmuerp

7 жыл бұрын

I hope that one day Clint does a review on Klik & Play. It's pure LGR material.

I can count every frame in that opening animation.

@Gojiro7

3 жыл бұрын

so how many frames were there?

6:44 Well ain't THAT a picture!

@DrForrester2001

7 жыл бұрын

What an unfortunate coincidence...

@Offsettttt

7 жыл бұрын

Oh dang that is creepy..

@MangH0

7 жыл бұрын

:THINKING:

@Dewotto

7 жыл бұрын

the flies did 9/11

@ezequielhermoso5954

7 жыл бұрын

Maxis was behind 911 nothing like a picture of the twin towers with what looks like a missile in front of it

For some reason, the game ultimately freezing (?) in a flurry of digital farty noises is one of the funniest things about this.

You know talking about the forgotten Maxis game never advertised, never promoted, with your first lead being a shrink-wrapped empty box really made me feel like this was going to be the start of a creepypasta.

You did a great job of building the mystery and the creepiness. And thanks for uploading them; it's really interesting to browse the Internet Archive's software collection for oddities.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed and have fun with the discs.

@joonaasd1856

7 жыл бұрын

Patreon rewards

@knubbin1827

7 жыл бұрын

Patreon patrons receive early access to video uploads. ;)

@bushwickbillOG

7 жыл бұрын

how is this comment a week old already?

@joonaasd1856

7 жыл бұрын

Dude.. Patreon. You just replied on a comment that already has an answer on it..

Pretty sure these games violate the Geneva Convention.

@jonnyblade3234

3 жыл бұрын

Well I certainly wasn't expecting to see you here

@marius35mm

2 жыл бұрын

It's pure torture

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonnyblade3234 ;)

No fresh oats?

This game is literally hard to look at.

This game feels like it shouldn't exist. It seems like one of those fake games, like Kekcroc or one of those many creepypasta things. I have a really hard time believing that I'm not just sleeping and dreaming this entire video :|

@CptCPT-dl9lh

4 жыл бұрын

definitely a fever dream that just...manifested. I don't think anyone made the game.

@chosentonessournotes

4 жыл бұрын

Like Petscop. Odd, it’s almost like inspiration for Petscop.

I've got a hypothesis about both of these games since I vaguely remember playing them as a kid either at school or at a library. Essentially, for a while back in the late 80s and 90s, state governments were handing out grants like candy to any company offering educational software to kids, and it resulted in a lot of lemons that everyone forgot, probably still sitting on 5-1/4" floppies in a file cabinet somewhere. Others resulted in companies like Davidson and Associates (of Blaster fame), The Learning Company, and Knowledge Adventure taking off. Also the voice of one of these flies is familiar. I think the lady went on to do more stuff.

@YamiSatoshi

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, she did. As far as I know, she's still active to this day -- in much, much better roles.

5:00 Rainbow Girl looks like somebody's first Deviantart OC

@kris_0520

5 жыл бұрын

You are partially right.

@PCGamer77

4 жыл бұрын

Rainbow Brite + Jem = the "hot" cartoon chick *nobody* wanted.

Delisted games are a treasure enough, but when they're *this* strange it's a treat, holy fuck this is weird

This is like one of those things you bury deep in the back of the mind from your childhood and like, have nightmares and flashbacks about it at random

It's almost like this was made by aliens doing a poor job of convincing people they are human...

You must admit the soundtrack is boppin’

You know that a game is crap for real when Clint curses it by swearing.

@BBHood217

6 жыл бұрын

When LGR uses the s-word, you know that s-word's getting real.

@ideitbawxproductions1880

2 жыл бұрын

I think this is the first time I've heard him swear in a video that a) wasn't made like 12 years ago, or b) wasn't a collab on someone else's video (like Larry Bundy Jr's pissed off programmer rants - "We made Amiga. They fucked it up")

You and Ross Scott are like Software/Game Archaeologists, digging up ancient (by digital standard) and forgotten items and putting it on exhibit. Just another reason why you guys are probably my favorite Gaming/Computer channels on KZread.

@BrenTenkage

4 жыл бұрын

check out Mandaloregaming he does the same thing as Ross's game dungeon

Did I just see two flying.....things crashing into the World Trade Towers? Oh dear.

@win132001

7 жыл бұрын

So IT wasn't because they were actually bad games... never forget, 9/11.

@HaydenX

7 жыл бұрын

Never forgetti...

On the (very marginal) other hand, the main tune was kinda catchy...

@Bread-TM

7 жыл бұрын

The only thing they kinda got right

The off-putting weird 3D graphics in Read-A-Rama made me think of Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou. ..Now I kinda want to see LGR review *that!*

@camwoodstock

7 жыл бұрын

The difference between this and Eastern Mind is that Eastern Mind is actually a good and well-crafted game, if a very surreal one that can be off-putting to some. This game is just awful on various accords.

@camwoodstock

7 жыл бұрын

Really? Once you get used to the setting, I'd say there's only one "confusing" puzzle in the game, with the rest being rather straightforward if you know what you're doing. It's also rather short; I've spent about 2 hours on one playthrough, and speedruns go as low as 13-minutes. It's obviously not for everyone, heavens no. But to call it "bad" and put it on par with *this* is to basically completely be ignorant of what Eastern Mind is even like.

5:42 - "...well, have a nap, ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES"

@kirby28645

6 жыл бұрын

Omg, I thought I was the only one who recognized that

@Fakan

5 жыл бұрын

@@kirby28645 And Australia was like "Wot the fuck, mate?"

Take a nap then FIRE ZE MISSILES!

@AgsmaJustAgsma

7 жыл бұрын

AAAAH MOTHERLAND

@Murrlin27

7 жыл бұрын

F***in' kangaroos

@TheHordeQ

7 жыл бұрын

WHAT YOU!?

@whoijacket

7 жыл бұрын

But I am le tired.

@moosemaimer

7 жыл бұрын

WTF?^^ mate

I think this is the first time I've heard LGR just straight up call something a piece of sh*t

This is the kind of animation Dingo Pictures makes fun of.

At 5:58, that "Stop" Button blends in so much with the puzzle pieces, I would have clicked that so many times!

So it was two mutant flies who crashed into the WTC ? Conspiracy solved !!!...

@paulnash9851

7 жыл бұрын

(Apologies for bad taste)

@gyrfalcon16

7 жыл бұрын

paul nash just what I was thinking!

@GanjsmostPrime

7 жыл бұрын

Fuck wrong universe. When I find rick I'm gonna kick his ass

@emerald.n7852

7 жыл бұрын

what a difference moddern context makes

@mariopikaman1

6 жыл бұрын

Mutant flies can't melt steel beams.

Ahh, breakfast, an Ale-8, and a new LGR vid; today's starting out great.

"Talk about vaporware." I legitimately laughed out loud. Honestly the bit at 3:30 is a pretty kickin' tune.

at least the opening animation's music is cool

Jazz Jackrabbit's Poker Broker? Wat.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Haha, yep! I also have Commander Keen's Trek from the same developers. They really liked ripping off shareware game titles.

@1Soniccool

7 жыл бұрын

Amayirot Akago Jazz Jackrabbit playing poker?! Someone needs to play that game and hear the music that is so horrible that you want to play the real Jazz Jackrabbit by Epic Games

@LeonardGr

7 жыл бұрын

I want see JJ's Poker Broker and Commander Keen's Trek gameplay.

...Is that boy fly in Spell-A-Rama voiced by the same chick who voiced the main character in Bubsy 3D?

@TheRealLumpySpirit

6 жыл бұрын

iHodor WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!

@Hawkfire360

4 жыл бұрын

I'd know that voice anywhere. SO, YOU WANNA BE A VIDEO GAME STAR?

@n00dl3gal

3 жыл бұрын

Lani has some great roles to her name, Bubsy... is not one of them

I'm going to guess that Selena Studios's logo took over half the CD-ROM space by itself

@gymnasiast90

4 жыл бұрын

It's 11.6 MB. What's interesting, though, is that it's a video file. Nope, the 3 FPS intro is not rendered by your computer (which would normally explain sluggishness), it's a video that has this abysmal framerate baked in. To top it off, the audio even skips right at the start.

@rommix0

2 жыл бұрын

@@gymnasiast90 Now that's a level of incompetence that has to be seen to be believed.

I'm willing to bet that the box actually *was* in the original shrink wrap. You're likely supposed to send that registration card to the developer and they would send back the "game". This was probably an attempt to avoid wasting money from burning excess copies of the "game", since they can just make an individual copy for each registration card they get, a sign that they very well knew what they were making and how likely it was to actually sell. The pretense for this was, of course, to combat piracy (though in this case, my reaction after playing would've been to make the discs walk the plank). And since it's an edutainment "game" designed for really little kids, they're probably also hoping that clueless parents would pick it up for, say, Christmas or birthdays or whatever, and would then be pressured into sending the card off instead of getting a refund when their disappointed toddler bursts into tears over their new "game" being taken away by Mommy. Of course, they had to actually have a "game" of some kind or they'd be thrown in jail, so they slapped together whatever they could using the cheapest methods humanly possible and called it a day. Never before have I seen a "game" this old scream "sham" so loudly.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Neither the registration card or the box make a single mention of anything like this so I doubt it's the case here. At the same time, that still wouldn't surprise me from Selena Studios, haha.

Another wonderful video! On a side note, I didn't know you were a curator on steam. You were on their main page yesterday while I was game shopping, and I was like "Hey, news I actually care about!"

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, cool!

@synthraofficial5366

7 жыл бұрын

Yea It was pretty awesome. I actually managed to get a screenshot. It's still up their today. Pretty cool!twitter.com/ZhiteraWiggins/status/857979726404755458

Fresh Oats.... Fresh Oats....

I guess you could say that intro cinematic really did "Chugalong"

Dude, I love all your reviews good or bad - no matter what it is, your epic voice and snarky sense of humor makes these a joy to watch!

Amazing work as always, LGR! Love you

H-how is this real? My god that art. That voice acting. This is unbelievable. I'm weeping and laughing.

Maybe the tired characters in the games are representing the state of the development team after making these? Completely tired of life.

Bless you for playing through this, LGR. This was an excellent upload. B-)

Super entertaining review, thanks for all the little fine touches that made it great.

That wheeze after opening the empty box was sublime.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Glad it was appreciated ;)

"Great thank you so much would you like to play agai..." "NO!!!" God that made me laugh

Ahhhhh, my day can commence and be awesome now- now that I have seen a brand new LGR video. i Love this channel:) Thanks for being awesome Clint!

Your uploads are crazy fast this week! Thank you!

Hey, Clint, or anyone here that may be able to help. A long time ago I played a point and click adventure game that I have been trying to find for, years. I only have vague memories. I remember that you were playing a psychologist or psychiatrist. You had a pendulum that you were hypnotizing people with. The story revolved around these kids that have seen something traumatic, and there was a big mystery, and a millitary base, some kind of rocket. That is pretty much all I remember, my last hope is that someone from this community knows this game. It is the first adventure game that really excited me to the point that I wanted to finish it. Please, if anyone has an idea of what this game might be called tell me!

@Todd_Coward

7 жыл бұрын

any idea what year it came out?

@CowboyPete

7 жыл бұрын

"Overclocked: A history of violence" Seems to fit the bill Check this out: www.unigamesity.com/overclocked-a-history-of-violence-pc-review/

@JcGross93

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! I think that's it! Overclocked, now that I saw the name I remember it. :D Thank you very much, sir!

@CowboyPete

7 жыл бұрын

Hey, no problem, I know how it feels to remember a game you played and not being able find it.

6:43 If they had known what was coming 5 years later after having released this.

YOU sure weren't sleepy when you made this video. Love your energy, keep it up!

LGR I just want you to know you make such awesome videos and you got me more into Maxis then I ever was LOL funny you posted this video today, because I just got a big box copy of Sim Copter off ebay with all the goodies plus the catalog! got it installing right now and so stoked to play!

I could of sworn I've seen read a Rama in a maxis catalog before

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

If you can find out which one, lemme know! Haven't seen it in mine.

@Dewotto

7 жыл бұрын

I'm currently away from home until Sunday but when I get back I'll look through my catalogs and send you a tweet.

Looks like great source material for some KZread poops.

Your outro perfectly summarises my mindspace throughout this video, what am I?

The way those two flies just crashed in front of the image...... wow :(

Time for someone to interview someone at Maxis to figure out how this got the Maxis logo on it.

@1Soniccool

7 жыл бұрын

ItinerantSoldier Well some of the people who work for Maxis are retired or working on other things

That reminds me a lot of Dingo Pictures' mockbuster movies, that, after just seeing one or two clips, made me hate the fact that I'm German and actually understand them (not that I know if the English dubs are any better, I'm too scared to look them up. Or look at anything Dingo Pictures-related ever again.) Seeing something like that as a game is... not pleasant. I honor your sacrifice.

@uubrmanx

6 жыл бұрын

Myro Kratios Don't worry, the English dubs are even worse than you could imagine. :D

These are my absolute favorite kinds of videos. Where do you even find such insanely weird titles?!

Oh wow, you even shared the disk archives? You are LEGEND

Oh, I had forgotten about Ninja Nannys... This one is right up there with it in the crappy "educational" games list.

7:33 Damn man, this is AVGN level of articulation.

That was the most expertly performed slow clap I've ever heard. I'm dead.

Thank you for sharing the files! :)

Did you buy the game's box on purpose, or did you seriously get sent an empty box?

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

I bought it on purpose, but there was no way to tell it was empty until I opened it!

@yo-kaishopper5049

7 жыл бұрын

That's kind of shady on the company's part ...

@Toonrick12

7 жыл бұрын

Oh hey! Never thought to see YOU here!

@S0LISTARA

6 жыл бұрын

I think it was a favor on their part. To keep you from viewing that abomination. But they're like "hey, at least have a memory of this stuff!"

Did those two flys who fly just crash in front of the Twin Tower? I think we all know who the real menace was on 9/11 now.

That music that played in the beginning when the carpet comes flying in was awesome!

I think that genie was so delightfully unpleasant, almost to a superhuman level. Something we should all no doubt aspire to be.

I read Bread-A-Rama. I'm so disappointed

@camwoodstock

7 жыл бұрын

I have done nothing but teleport Bread-A-Rama for three days.

@camwoodstock

7 жыл бұрын

Whoa! Didn't expect you either, Solar.

@bunnyboyking5215

6 жыл бұрын

Eduardo Abarca That sounds the name of a bootleg BreadWinners game.

This stuff always fascinates me, obscure software, specifically video-games. Clint, I know you have Oddware, which I might add is one of my favorite KZread segments; but would you also consider taking a look at more forgotten video-games, especially ones from the 90s and early 2000s? I know that around the turn of the century all matter of "100, 250, 500, great/classic/action" games discs sporting all kinds of varied shareware were all over the place. Many of these games were very samey (mahjong, puzzles, etc), but there were also all matter of unique, if not hidden gems on the discs. For example, as a child, I can recall booting up an old "100 Great Games" disc and being absolutely enthralled by the somewhat obscure Exile series of RPG (the grand-dad of today's Avernum series). Anywho, I'm rambling, but just something to consider, always love your uploads!

@Yusuke_Denton

7 жыл бұрын

The Exile games were great. I didn't know they were on CD collections though, I just remember downloading them from the Spiderweb Software website.

Well done review, entertaining video :)

Jazz Jackrabbit's poker something LOL. I'm glad you have the patience to play games like this.

6:44 Too soon, but backwards in time.

Holy crap, that 9/11 imagery

@Zach_2026

7 жыл бұрын

The bugs literally smashed into each other in front of the twin towers. o_o

@naranciaisbestboi125

7 жыл бұрын

Selena Studios did 9/11.

@oDTRT

7 жыл бұрын

404 The Errorbot That's why they hid all their names from the public

Oh just look at those lovely jagged white borders around the characters. It really adds some much needed flair to the design. Now the smoothed pillow shading and anatomy on Thunder Drummer is flawless.

I didn’t remember this game until I saw this... remember having it on a few school computers growing up!

I like how 6:07 sounds like lawyer-unfriendly knock-off of Jabdah by Kato.

You have to review Jazz Jackrabbit Poker Broker! :-)

congrats on 600,000 subs!

That desktop brings me straight back to my childhood. 'Tis a thing of beauty!

Flashbacks to the Tunak Tunak video........

@ebbiesoup1862

7 жыл бұрын

CGI was horrible in that music video lol

man, maybe if I ask really nicely in the comments he'll upload it to the internet arcOH MY GOD HE DID IT THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

Bless you, Lazy Game Reviewer, for playing the games we never had the patience to endure. Or even knew existed.

Clint, good work on releasing videos daily this week. If this could become a thing, that'd be great.

Can't believe that piece of crap came out in 1995. It would have looked dated in 1990 lol

I made the mistake of eating breakfast while watching this video

Two LGR videos within 24 hours! if you put up a tech tales tomorrow I'll know I must be dead.

If you had told me that Dingo Pictures made these I would've believed you wholeheartedly.

can you review the secret of monkey island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

0:46 "It's Not About Sex" ...ok good to know, I guess?

@maxmetalknight

6 жыл бұрын

Even funnier, considering that this is Lani Minella's resume :D

love your vids

lol, i lost it when he opened the shrinkwrap and looked inside. i was not expecting that! (even funnier with the under-stated narration!)

Spell-A-Rama did 9/11?

@sameash3153

3 жыл бұрын

You bet

Wow, that looks like a real low budget game. No wonder it's obscure. That Maxis logo seems fishy though, I'll bet it's bogus. I doubt this game would not have past their quality control. It's amost as if the developers of the game "borrowed" the maxis logo to make them look like a credible developer.

I can't believe I ever missed this video. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at a pos game title. Thank you LGR!

Even now, the most notable thing about this game is that this is the video that brought Ninja Nanny to my attention