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Fun references to pop culture or blatant cash grabs? Much like in TV and film; there are a surprising number of games that feature product placement. This week, we each rank our Top 3 games that snuck in brand deals.

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00:00 --> 00:07 Alrighty. But wait, there's more. But should there be? Today on.
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00:40 --> 00:48 Welcome to another episode of Press B to cancel. Today I am joined by Jake and Chard. How you guys doing tonight?
00:48 --> 00:49 Great.
00:49 --> 00:53 Podcast or no, I will not bow to any sponsor.
00:53 --> 01:02 He says wearing it the shirt and drinking the drink at the same time. Dr. Pepper in another universe would totally advertise on Press B.
01:02 --> 01:03 They better.
01:03 --> 01:39 So today's episode, it's a new format and there's the subject. So the format is we're going to go around, share our three picks each for this one at a time, go through our, you know, number threes, go around to our number twos, come around to our number ones, discuss and so on. Maybe poke fun at each other for our selections, whatever have you. The source materials tonight are product, tie in, video games. So we had to, like, scrape the barrel a little bit for this, which was kind of the point. A little bit.
01:39 --> 01:42 I had five picks. I have five.
01:42 --> 01:45 I don't know how you had five. Honestly, I was.
01:45 --> 02:07 I was thrown into this last minute because you guys are supposed to do this, like, three weeks ago when my parents were visiting. So I was like, I don't know what we're talking about. And then it was like, oh, no shit, we gotta come up with something. So I have pilfered a couple of Sinistar's picks because he's not here tonight, and then found a few of my own, so. And one of them is fairly relevant, so that'll be pretty good.
02:07 --> 02:14 All righty. So who wants to go first? Chard, I feel like you should go first since you're all advertised up.
02:14 --> 02:16 You and I. You and I did the homework.
02:17 --> 02:21 Yeah. I feel like we should clarify. This is absolutely not sponsored.
02:21 --> 02:22 Yes.
02:22 --> 02:51 No, no, it's just. It's fun because, like, you know, much like TV shows and movies, sometimes there's just product placement in games you don't realize, and sometimes you. It's really in your face. So. Yeah, I think some of the. Some of the examples I picked are really in your face, and I'm curious to see what you guys picked, but sometimes it's not so obvious. I have. I have a. I don't want to say it now because something tells me Chard might have picked it already, but if there's any. If it's not brought up during the episode, at the end of the episode, I'll talk about one kind of sneaky example I came across while doing my research because I did my homework.
02:51 --> 04:03 This one could be just a little bit sneaky. But I just recently, like, I remembered this, there's been a lot of talk because Death Straining 2 has come out, just not too recently. And both sick Jake and I have been. We have our FOMO problems. So he and I have gone back to play the original Death Stranding because it's gotten rave reviews. It's. Everybody loves it. Wolf. Wolf has talked very highly of it. He has finished it and enjoyed it as well. So we were like, let's get through the, the, the dream of weirdness of this game and see what the heck is going on with this and why it's getting so much love. Well, it's a great game, but for this episode, we're going to talk about a little product placement that's put in that game that is not so subtle. They've actually removed it in the director's cut. But in the original version of the game, your character needs energy to keep on going through. He has a canteen that fills with water, gives him some energy and boost. But when you're sitting in your private suite waiting to go on to your next adventure or just resting it up so your BB isn't freaking out anymore, you drink monster energy drinks to get yourself going again. And he's got like five of them on the table and you could slam all five of them in a sitting if you so desire to do so.
04:04 --> 04:04 I haven't done that.
04:05 --> 04:17 After one monster energy drink, my day's pretty toast. I don't think I can go any further beyond that. I've had two energy drinks in my life in one day and thought I was going to actually have a stroke and die, so.
04:17 --> 04:18 Oh, wow.
04:18 --> 04:41 I've limited myself. Yeah, I don't, I don't do well with the energy drinks very much so. I just thought it was kind of funny to be like, why is, why is Monster here? Why is there monster energy drink in this thing? It's a, it's a funny choice. And now, you know, if you go on TikTok, there's a lot of jokes about finding that 25th hour of the day. And it's somebody pouring a white monster into a coffee, mixing it together and drinking that.
04:41 --> 04:42 What? Really?
04:42 --> 05:40 So, yeah, yeah, there's, there's a lot of. On. I'm on Monster Talk apparently, because I send a lot of that to an old buddy of mine who used to work the 2:30am shift with me. And we drink. We drink monsters and Red Bulls all the time. So there's. I. But I, I'm a little sad that they removed that. I, I mean it's, it's a silly thing because it's just a product placement and it's not like I'm. I think it's a Coke company that does Monster. If Coke is Coca Cola, I don't remember. Yeah, that's what I thought. So. But they took that out. However, when you take a shower to have the little sensor in Normus, Norman Reedus's motorcycle show, AMC is also advertised on that. So Death Stranding has some weird pick and choose like what they want to do. So you're living in a post apocalyptic world, but Norman Reedus's motorcycle channel is still very much available on amc. So go check that out. Well, that's, that's my. That was my first one that I wanted to talk about today is just the monster energy drinks getting stuck in. Yeah, that would nerve three. Yes, absolutely.
05:41 --> 06:22 So that one is interesting too, because that's the one I was talking about. There's a company, I think they're called acronym I think is the name of the company. But they're like a leather jacket company or a jacket company. They do Ziner jackets and they did a deal where they designed jackets for the first game, but also for the second game. And so they're in the. So they design clothing that are featured in the game. So I thought that was kind of sneaky. I've never heard of the company before, but designer stuff is big bucks, right? The Monster Energy is funny to me. I'm kind of annoyed they took it out because I thought it was so funny that you might as well just leave it in there. It's one of those things that's so stupid. I wish it was still there. You can mod it. There's no less than three mods on Mod Nexus to bring the Monster Energy drink back. It's so stupid.
06:22 --> 06:28 I mean, why not? I mean, honestly, it looks like. Have you guys heard of the Rain energy drinks? Have you guys ever heard of those guys?
06:28 --> 06:29 No.
06:29 --> 06:57 Yes. The new ones kind of look like that because it's got the black can with like. Some of them have the. It's like Astro Pop or, or whatever. The, the red, white and blue popsicle that is very popular here in America. It's got that same kind of coloring because it's based in, you know, the new America. And I, I was like, is that rain? Did they just switch one energy drink to the next one gotta put that one in there. But it's a no namer that. That he drinks for the master's director's cut.
06:58 --> 07:01 Okay. I've seen rain energy drink, now that I see the logo.
07:02 --> 07:03 Yeah.
07:03 --> 07:25 Yeah. It was a weird amount of real world advertisement in this game for a post apocalyptic civilization. You know, like everybody's just trying to survive. If somebody dies, they got to be taken somewhere. Otherwise they're a nuclear bomb. Potentially. Yeah. No, still monster energy drink.
07:25 --> 07:28 Like, maybe that's why they're gonna get.
07:28 --> 07:30 That body to the furnace.
07:30 --> 07:30 Too much.
07:30 --> 07:31 Yeah.
07:31 --> 07:43 When you're drinking too many energy drinks, you turn into a nuclear bomb. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe of like Idio. Idiocracy. Idocracy. That movie where it's like. It's what plants crave.
07:43 --> 07:45 Brondo's got what plants crave.
07:45 --> 07:48 It's got with plants Crave, though. Got electron.
07:48 --> 07:54 You know what's missing? There's pizza delivery missions. Or at least I've come across at least two of them.
07:54 --> 07:55 Yeah.
07:55 --> 07:58 So they should have tied in Pizza Hut or Domino's.
07:58 --> 07:59 I'm surprised that wasn't Domino's.
07:59 --> 08:00 Would.
08:00 --> 08:02 Would definitely be a good marriage between the two.
08:02 --> 08:08 It is strange that that didn't happen. And it would have to be Pizza Hut because Domino's and Pepsi are the same company.
08:08 --> 08:11 Oh, are they? That's what I figured. Okay. They got the same color schemes.
08:14 --> 08:20 It's a weird one. I can see why they took it out. But it is weird. In the director's cut, they didn't take out Reus's TV show.
08:20 --> 08:27 Yeah. Maybe they missed that code. Maybe they're like, let's. Let's. Let's swipe it clean. Oh, we forgot about the ad.
08:27 --> 08:30 He just had a better contract than Coca Cola.
08:32 --> 08:45 This. It's true. This is also the game too, where Kojima's stolen people's souls and there's like celebrity cameos. Right? Like Conan o'. Brien. I just found Conan in the game a couple days ago, and it just. That kind of stuff is. Is.
08:48 --> 08:52 But I think he's voiced by somebody else. I mean, there's a bunch of people in there that are just floating around.
08:52 --> 08:57 When we beat this game, Charred, you and I and Wolf need to do an episode on it. This game is too weird not to.
08:57 --> 08:59 Talk about, but yeah, absolutely.
08:59 --> 08:59 Yeah.
09:01 --> 09:05 All right, Jake, you want to go ahead and share your number three?
09:06 --> 10:16 Yeah, my number three. Final Fantasy 15, which is a game I played through a number of years ago. It was on my list of Games to play through. And it's not one people might think oh, that doesn't shut out product placement to me. But if you go back into your memory palaces and you look at Final Fantasy 15, one of the most impressive things in it graphic wise. Not the summons. No, no, no. It was the cooking. The art team behind this game, I don't know what their food budget was but they have some of the most awesome looking, shiny, greasy, beautiful looking food that you cook at the camps. One of the characters in your party is like constantly talking about food stuff and one of the product high ends was cup of noodle and cup noodles. Huge in Japan. You might remember now there's one food truck in the game and I remember even playing it back then I'm like what the hell are you doing? Why is there a cup of noodle here? And it only stood out to me because when I went to Japan ages ago, I remember on the flight over the in flight meal, one of them was fucking cup noodle. It's so ingrained over there. They love it over there. It's like craft dinner in Canada. It's pretty crazy.
10:16 --> 10:20 Forgot about that truck being in there, that steps. That's right. That's right.
10:20 --> 10:34 So not only is there a truck where you can actually get in game food cup noodle, there is also a quest called the perfect cup where your party member is like wanting to find out. I think it's like three special ingredients to up your cup of noodle game. Because that's the big thing, right? Mix ins for them.
10:34 --> 10:35 They love the recipe.
10:36 --> 11:02 So yeah. So you have to go through the a quest and hunt down a monster to get all these fixings to do the quest. And there is some other stuff too. Real quick. Let me see if we can pull it up. It's very short so I can do this really quick. There it is. I forget who the commercial for of the tie in but you can also get a hat. I think the hat was something you unlocked in the game outside the quest. So I'm not wrong. It's been ages but it's actually a giant cup noodle hat that goes on Noctis's noggin. Which is wild.
11:02 --> 11:03 Yes.
11:03 --> 11:27 But yeah, it's a cup noodle tie in. It's stupid and it's brief. There wasn't much else. I don't believe product placement wise in that game but they could have slipped it in. But it's Final Fantasy especially the more recent ones like 15 and well maybe not 16 but 15 had that. It's Present day, but not quite kind of look to it, which is always interesting. Like, there's cars, there's mechanics, there's gas stations and cities.
11:28 --> 11:35 There's that Magitech steampunk thing that they got going on where there's steamy robots walking around. But you drive a car, like a.
11:35 --> 11:48 Legit car, and you have a leather duster jacket and freaking. Like it's. It feels like on almost like an alternate reality of. Of present day. It's. It's kind of interesting take to it. So to see Cup Noodle was kind of jarring at the time. So that's my number three.
11:48 --> 11:59 That's a good one, man. I completely forgot that that was. That was dropped in there. That's funny. That's a good bag, man. I should have known that. Now I feel bad. I feel like my street cred's getting pulled.
11:59 --> 12:14 So I. I now. I think I now realize why I had such trouble adhering to this list and coming up with enough. Because I went for the games that are like, centered around a brand.
12:15 --> 12:16 Oh, I see. Okay.
12:16 --> 12:31 That's what I did. So my first one is a little game called Town and Country Surf Design, Wood and Water Rage, or as we knew it as children, probably just called it TNC Surf.
12:34 --> 12:36 Yeah. That's a whole clothing brand, right?
12:36 --> 12:36 It is.
12:37 --> 12:46 Yes, it is. That's funny. You got. You really went in. You went full bore wolf. And that's what we love about you, is that you don't play around when.
12:46 --> 12:47 You do this stuff.
12:47 --> 12:49 You are committed and sold.
12:49 --> 13:03 Honestly, as a kid, this. The name of this game I thought was so odd. I was like, why is it such a long name for a surfing and skating game? But everybody loved it. So it was like, well, whatever, let's play some TNC surf. Right?
13:03 --> 13:04 Right.
13:05 --> 13:10 It was years before I knew it was a clothing brand.
13:10 --> 13:19 Yeah, I used to have the. I used to have some of their shirts with a little checkered yin yang on there. Yeah, I remember all that. That's funny.
13:19 --> 13:21 Oh, Jake, you're muted.
13:22 --> 13:23 Oh, Jake, you muted again.
13:25 --> 13:36 Sorry. I. Like, I was just saying I was an adult when I realized it's a clothing brand. I do remember the yin yang logo, which is pretty distinctive. But I don't remember any of these characters being part of the clothing brand. Or am I wrong there?
13:37 --> 14:08 So they were. My other two picks are a little more, you know, the brand wanted something, but. But this pic was the developer reached out to Town and Country and was like, hey, you have these characters that you use in your advertising. And branding called Da Boys. And we would like to make a game focused on these characters. So the characters in the game, Thrilla, Gorilla. Cool. Cat, Tiki Man. Joe Cool. These were Da Boys.
14:10 --> 14:18 I remember Tiki Man. I think I actually had a Tiki man shirt, if I remember right. That's so funny.
14:18 --> 14:20 Who made this game? Was it Epics?
14:22 --> 14:31 No, was it? I think it was. Atlas developed it and LJN published it.
14:31 --> 14:32 Ljn, of course.
14:33 --> 14:33 Of course.
14:34 --> 14:40 So that's interesting, though. So that's not a case of the brand coming to the game company saying, hey, we want to sell you something. This is literally a developer saying, hey.
14:41 --> 14:42 You have a brand new one.
14:43 --> 14:45 Yeah. Okay.
14:46 --> 14:48 Crazy at this.
14:48 --> 14:49 Was this game good?
14:50 --> 15:06 I liked it. I remember really enjoying it as a kid. I found it a little difficult, depending. I'm sure if I went back and played it now, I would not find it nearly as difficult as I did then because I'm sure I didn't quite understand the concepts entirely at like 8, 9 years old, but.
15:07 --> 15:07 Right.
15:08 --> 15:16 Yeah, it was. It was basically a surfing game and a skating game. And so it was like only part of California Games. Right, right.
15:16 --> 15:21 Well, that's what I was saying because the surfing reminds me very much of California Games.
15:21 --> 15:25 Two thirds of California Games. Yeah. It's just missing Hacky Sack.
15:25 --> 15:28 It's just the New Mexico games. That's all. That's.
15:28 --> 15:45 So the surfing was literally just making it to the end and scoring as well as you could along the way. And then the skating, I think it was also making it to the end, but jumping over pitfalls and avoiding obstacles and stuff. So it was like slightly different, not quite California Games.
15:47 --> 15:48 California Light.
15:51 --> 15:55 Nice. That's a good one. And you're right, that is central to that game.
15:55 --> 15:56 Yeah.
15:57 --> 15:57 Yes.
15:57 --> 16:03 Like, more so than I realized because those characters were TNC surf brand characters.
16:06 --> 16:06 That's funny.
16:07 --> 16:10 All right, Char, do you want to go ahead and give us your number two?
16:11 --> 16:42 Sure. My. This next pick that I do have is pretty much centered around a food item. This is. It's gotten popular that I've seen on. On Twitch. It's an older retro game. I've seen people speed run this game, but I'm going with Yo Noid. And if everybody who knows who the Yo Noid is, that's the. The Pizza Hut avatar that would steal pizzas from people. And you know it is. I don't know what the hell he is. He's a dude in a red jumpsuit with rabbit ears.
16:42 --> 16:44 It's annoyed concoction.
16:44 --> 18:20 He's annoyed he's annoyed. And it's a side scroller where you're jumping from platform to platform. You use your yo. Your yo yo to knock, you know, people out and attack. And then after like each, each level there is a, a pizza eating contest that you have with another noid and you try and eat. It's Capcom game. I realized it was a Capcom game. It's you. You try to eat the right amount of pizza so that the other guy doesn't have any more pizza to eat. So you're stealing pizza for one another. This game is tough as nails, man. This game was. It is, it is retro difficult and I don't know, like I said, I watched a few people speed run this thing and it's incredible. I think I've played it for a couple charity events and like randomizers and, and, and this. I could not figure this game out. I would pretty much fail at the first level every time. But Yonoi Pizza Hut mascot and his very own domino scrolling game. This was a domino's. Domino's. Yeah, he. I mean he. This is a legit game. This is not just a. I got it out of a box with Tide. This was, this was a long, you know, long standing plane. There's gonna be a lot of Wayne's World references tonight. I'm sorry, but it's like you get this with Frampton Comes Alive and Box of Tide. But yeah, I mean for, for being a pizza character and a full length couple hour long game, that's pretty crazy. Well, a couple hour when I play it because I suck. But this is, this was actually pretty good. This is actually a pretty legit platformer.
18:21 --> 18:35 So for those watching the YouTube video and then for audio listeners in Yo Noid, at the end of every stage there's a pizza eating contest. I for the life of me couldn't figure this thing out. Did you guys know what the hell this thing was about? It's like a mini game where you have cards with pizza numbers on it.
18:35 --> 19:24 This is a game I had as a kid. So I had the benefit of the manual and the benefit of being able to play it whenever instead of just being a rental or borrowing it or playing at a neighbor's house. Right. So yeah, I, I was able to get. I, I was usually able to get pretty far. I don't know if I ever beat it as a kid. If I did, I forgot about it. But yeah, I would get pretty far in this. And yeah, that pizza eating contest, it's weird because you have to sort of like Take the hits and strike big when they use little numbers. Right. Like that's how it is. So it's, it's a weird like semi card game kind of thing. It also, the cards you have in your deck are affected by the things you pick up through the levels.
19:25 --> 19:25 Right.
19:25 --> 19:35 So all those scrolls and such and items you pick up are attributed to your deck at the end of the. At. At those combats.
19:35 --> 19:37 As the card building platformer.
19:37 --> 19:40 Yeah, it's a deck building platformer.
19:40 --> 19:45 Before deck building was a thing perfect for next fest. Yeah.
19:46 --> 19:50 Except it has Domino's mascot in it. Sure, whatever.
19:50 --> 19:50 It's all good.
19:51 --> 19:52 Yeah. Okay.
19:52 --> 20:11 Now you could pick up like peppers and stuff that you can sprinkle on their pizza, which would basically like void out their number round and then you get to go again. So it's kind of like nobody wins. It's a tie. So you could do all kinds of stuff to kind of cheat. Cheat into the game to win into that. It's, it's, it's pretty interesting. It's, it's a fun little mini game that goes.
20:11 --> 20:34 It's a legit game. And like you said, it's from Capcom. Capcom knew their platforming. Right. They were really good with that kind of stuff. It's. It's one I've never been able to beat, but it's, it's, it's solid. It's just weird that it's like I. It's one of those things where I wish I was in the back rooms when they decided to say, hey, we need some more money for development. Can we just find a pizza company? It just dominant the idea. Yeah.
20:36 --> 20:39 All right. That's a good pick. All right.
20:39 --> 20:41 Jake, you want to share more mascots?
20:41 --> 20:42 Yeah. Right?
20:42 --> 20:42 Yeah.
20:43 --> 20:48 To be fair, I loved the Noid as a kid anyway. Jake, you wanna, you wanna share your number two?
20:49 --> 21:08 I didn't like the Noid. Before we get to my number two. I didn't like the Noid because we didn't really have them in Canada because we almost never had dominoes when I was out here. At least in my era, we didn't have dominoes. It wasn't until I was much older when I started eating Domino's. Probably too much dominoes. And by then they got really annoyed like they scrapped him as a mascot. I don't know. I don't know what the deal was. Maybe he was too scary looking for kids.
21:09 --> 21:30 But I think, I mean, listen, if Quiznos can play some weird chinchillas and sing a song, which I think is the reason why the world has gone hell. There's a curse in that song somewhere. We've been hexed by the Quiznos commercial. Yo, Noid is. He's a. He's a beautiful individual compared to those things.
21:31 --> 21:34 Yeah. Not. Not the worst transcut I've seen for sure. So I miss him.
21:34 --> 21:35 No.
21:36 --> 21:45 Okay. My number two. My number two is Mario Kart 8. Do you guys know the product placement on that one?
21:46 --> 21:48 No, I don't because I have not played Mario Kart 8.
21:49 --> 21:51 Really? Well, if you've played Mario Kart, right?
21:52 --> 21:57 Yeah, I played Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U. I don't remember any advertising in that.
21:58 --> 22:05 Was it Chiquita blacked it out? No, it's BMW. They had a BMW DLC from Mario Kart 8.
22:06 --> 22:08 Oh, I didn't buy any of the DLC.
22:08 --> 22:12 It was three spins. That's a Mercedes, not BMW. Mercedes.
22:12 --> 22:13 Oh, sorry. Mercedes.
22:13 --> 22:23 It's okay. Good, because I said Pizza Hut and I was wrong and you said BMW and I corrected you, so everything's backward again.
22:24 --> 22:45 But yeah, in the Wii U version of Mario Kart 8, it's Mercedes DLC. I remember when they announced it and they released it and I thought it was the dumbest thing then, and it's still dumb now. The DLC has the gla, the Silver Arrow, and the Roadster to the game as cars you can play. And in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the switch, they still have the cars. They don't really call it out, but they still have those cars in the game.
22:47 --> 22:48 Wow.
22:48 --> 22:49 Yeah.
22:49 --> 22:50 I did not know this.
22:50 --> 22:55 Did not realize that. Was that on the Wii U as well, or was that just on the switch?
22:55 --> 23:20 It was with Wii U. It was like back when Nintendo was barely touching DLC for Mario Kart 8, they give you this as your DLC. Granted, it was free, but the fact that this was what they gave as their idea of DLC was mind blowing to me because Nintendo's like the last company I expected to do, like, product placement in one of their tentpole games. Right. Like advertisements in a Mario game Seems unheard of to me.
23:21 --> 23:33 I. I wonder if I got that and just forgot about it because I didn't play a whole lot of Mario Kart 8. Like, I did everything I could and that was. That didn't have people to play with. So I was like, eh, I'm done.
23:34 --> 23:45 To be fair, I'm not sure this is dlc. As if not an actual reality of watching people drive Mercedes around, because that's. That's kind of how they drive so it's perfectly understandable.
23:48 --> 23:51 Jumping in front of Mercedes drivers are known to throw the blue shells from the window every time.
23:52 --> 24:04 They don't need blue shells. They just. They just T bone you in their car. One of these days, I'll tell you my story about a Mercedes and why I don't like them very much.
24:06 --> 24:45 We're sorry. YouTube in advance for me. Mario Kart 8. I love Mario Kart 8. I loved on the Wii U. I played it to death in the Wii U. When they. When they announced it for the Switch, I'm like, I'm not gonna pay twice for it, but, you know, I paid twice for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe because they added, like, extra items and shit. And then, of course, by the end of the system's life, they doubled the track count. They doubled the tracks. If I didn't buy it at release and switch, I would have by the end of life. So there's a ton of DLC in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe now, but back on the Wii U, this was pretty much it, I think. I think they might have also added Link dlc. I think that was on the Wii U, if I'm not wrong. If not, that was just another Switch thing.
24:46 --> 24:53 Yeah, they did have that. I think it was Link and Isabelle. Isabella, I don't remember.
24:53 --> 24:54 From Animal Crossing.
24:54 --> 25:03 Yeah, yeah, I think. I think those were on the Wii U, but I don't think I bought them. I was like, I don't play it enough to buy the dlc, so I didn't bother.
25:03 --> 25:35 But, yeah, one of the best tracks in the game actually, is Link's Castle. Like, Hyrule Castle is really good. But anyway, it's. It's weird. It's. It feels weird. I know there's a New Mart game out on the Switch 2, and I know there's food items in that you can eat. I don't think there's anything product placement in that one, but I could. I could see it. I could see them dropping in McDonald's or something. I don't want it. But it's. It's weird. It still looks dumb as hell. Seeing Bowser in Mercedes does not. It does not fit anybody's head canon for what Mario Kart should be, but it's there. So that's my number two.
25:36 --> 25:37 Fantastic.
25:37 --> 25:42 All right, well, my number two is, interestingly enough, also. Yo, Noid.
25:45 --> 25:45 Great.
25:45 --> 26:05 But wow. In. In looking into this game, I liked this as a kid. So it was a game I had, and it was years before I realized what happened to it. I had Lent it to my cousin and never got it back. And he told me years later, yeah, you lent that to us and never took it back. So we just got rid of it. And I was like, the fuck.
26:08 --> 26:10 Lending works, right?
26:11 --> 26:15 But there's a cartridge that is very similar storyline.
26:16 --> 26:23 There is a reason that game feels like such a fully fledged game is because it was not originally Yo Noid.
26:24 --> 26:25 That makes sense.
26:25 --> 27:10 It was a game translated into English called Masked Ninja Hanamaru. And it's the exact same gameplay, but very different stylistically. Right. And so when they wanted to bring it to Western audiences, they reached out to Dominoes. So no money apparently was exchanged in this game being made like you do. They were like, we need something that people will gravitate toward more in the west and want to buy. So they had a partnership with Domino's, and Domino's was like, yeah, use the Noid advertise for us. So it was just a free exchange of information.
27:13 --> 27:22 This game looks cool. Why do they do this? Why do they just release the original game? This looks cool. You got a bird.
27:22 --> 27:27 Yeah, he's got like a little falcon or hawk or something. He shoots out instead of the Yo Yo.
27:28 --> 27:29 It's much better than it was.
27:29 --> 27:31 Easier than Yonoi, too.
27:31 --> 27:50 And so the. The pizza battle thing, the pizza eating contest as it was, that's actually still a thing in the original game, but it was a ninjutsu battle. And so the strength of your ninjutsu would cancel each other out or, you know, overpower the other. So it was the exact same game.
27:51 --> 28:03 I know that character, the dude on the toad, he play. He's. He's in another game. He looks. He looks like Major or Mr. Higgins or something from Adventure Island. The Toad at least does. But Master Higgins.
28:03 --> 28:07 Thank you very much. Show the respect to Higgins. He's deserved as Master Higgins, please.
28:08 --> 28:11 Or as shrum calls him, Mr. Crisco. Feet.
28:12 --> 28:26 Look at those fleet feet fly. This is crazy. I didn't realize this was a thing. Yeah, this is much better as a ninja game than is as a pizza game. The first stage and Yo Noi was a city stage for some reason, was flooded and the streets are moving up and down.
28:26 --> 28:26 Yeah.
28:26 --> 28:32 But in this one, it looks like an island. A beached island. And that makes a whole lot more sense mechanically. It does what they're doing.
28:33 --> 28:48 The same with the ice level right on in the ninja game. It's like it's an actual ice stage. And then on Yo Noid, it's like there's ice platforms and Then glass rooftops or something.
28:48 --> 28:50 Yes. Yes.
28:50 --> 28:51 It was odd.
28:52 --> 28:56 There's a flame. There's a flying level in there too. This looks like battletoes, but it.
28:56 --> 29:07 Yeah, it's literally the same game, just with redesigned artwork. And so the stages will be thematically different, but the same stage.
29:08 --> 29:21 And I will give them that. They definitely did a full re. Like graphical update. This wasn't just the sprites. I've seen other games where they swap out the sprites for something unrelated. Right. But this is like the full graphical overall.
29:21 --> 29:24 Yeah. Looks. Looks like they really put some work into that.
29:24 --> 29:50 Yeah, they did. And then I don't like even the. The enemies. Even if they were the same type of enemy, they were changed. Like on the ice stage in Ninja, in Mask Ninja, there's polar bears. Well, on the ice stage in Yo Noid, there are polar bears, but they are hockey player polar bears. And so this. The sprite is entirely different. It's not even slightly the same sprite.
29:51 --> 29:51 Right.
29:51 --> 29:53 It's kind of wild that they did that.
29:54 --> 29:57 They really. They really went for it instead of. Like you said, instead of a reskin.
29:57 --> 30:07 Yeah, it's. It's just the same game. And then a few of the tracks remain from the original, but a lot of the music got changed as well.
30:08 --> 30:09 It's crazy.
30:10 --> 30:13 You annoy. It's got jamming music anyway, so I'm fine with that.
30:13 --> 30:17 Yeah. So.
30:17 --> 30:21 All right, so that's number two for both of you then. That's.
30:21 --> 30:21 Yes.
30:22 --> 30:25 That's funny. Taking the same game. Wow.
30:26 --> 30:29 You said it. And I was like, I gotta keep my mouth shut. I can't say anything.
30:29 --> 30:30 Such a rarity.
30:30 --> 30:34 And it's not even game of the year and we're still in picks already. This is great. I know, I know.
30:35 --> 30:37 All right, Char, do you want to give us your number one?
30:37 --> 32:16 I am. And this. This one is an honorable mention for Sinistar. Because he told me about this game and I had to go look it up. And I was like, there's no way this one doesn't shoot up to this top. Because this is such a random ass game. And I dip some dig in and watch the videos. And I looked into it. This game, this game is called Check Quest and it is. It is themed around the Checks Mix game. A Check Mix serial, Check cereal, all that stuff. Yeah, but it is a Doom reskin pretty much. So it's a. It's a first person shooter, I. E. Doom. You've got. Instead of the Doom guy's face, you have a Checks mix with eyes. That's representing his face. Looking around side to side and you're fighting slime monsters and beating, beating up slime monsters with a remote control. You get instead of like the punching, your melee weapon is a spoon. Not kidding. And it's about a 30 minute plus game. This came free in a box of checks mix and it was, it was a legitimately first person shooter. This, this game is. This game's insanely fun for, for it being a checks game. Yeah, it's so it's too good to pass up. I. I had to. Once he sent me the three that he was going to do, I looked at him and one of them was pretty married. He actually was talking about a yo Noid game. Not, not ours, but a different one.
32:16 --> 32:18 Oh, probably Avoid the Noid for dogs.
32:18 --> 33:02 Avoid the Noid. Yeah. He was, he was dropping that one because of course it's Dawson. But I was like, I gotta look for a third one. And I looked this up and I was like, this is perfect for a number one pick of this episode. It's a shooter. Boomer shooter about checks. I mean, I think, I don't know the date. I think it probably. I'd have to. It'd have to be around that time because that's when Doom and Wolfenstein, all that stuff were getting like their real popular stride. So I love it because it's got the same. It's the 2D, you know, the 2D sprites in the 3D world. You look at the spaceship and you run around it. You're always looking at the same part of the spaceship because it moves with you.
33:02 --> 33:08 I think billboarding, as they call it for that. I remember, I remember that being all the rage because you could have. It's 3D but it's not.
33:09 --> 33:10 It's just one sprite.
33:10 --> 33:11 This moves around.
33:11 --> 33:18 Absolutely hilarious. This was, this was too, too, too funny. I. I had to go with this one. So this, this is my number. Easily my number one.
33:19 --> 33:33 Yeah, I've. I've heard a lot of people gush about this game. I tried it. It was not for me, but it was very easy to be able to try it because it's on Steam and it's free.
33:33 --> 33:34 Is it really?
33:34 --> 33:34 Yeah.
33:34 --> 33:39 Chex Quest HD came out five years ago.
33:39 --> 33:43 Oh. They remastered it five years ago for Steam.
33:44 --> 33:45 Wow.
33:45 --> 33:47 2000 and 2020s really were a wild time.
33:49 --> 33:51 You gotta scrape that bottle of that barrel down.
33:52 --> 33:57 The world shuts down and what do we get? A remastered version of Chex Quest.
33:59 --> 34:01 Do they even still sell Check cereal?
34:01 --> 34:12 Like I've never I've never had. They've got like, yeah, 20 flavors you could get in cereal and then you could get flavor. 40 flavors of the party mix. Chex is. It's a staple in this house, my friend.
34:12 --> 34:13 And I love Chex mix.
34:13 --> 34:17 I've had party mix. But yeah, the, the cereal definitely still there.
34:17 --> 34:18 Yeah, absolutely.
34:18 --> 34:21 Crazy checks.
34:21 --> 34:26 Chocolate, quick chocolate checks. Ooh, that's some good. Yeah, you know what?
34:26 --> 34:40 That's, that's American grocery stores, though, you guys had 50 flavors of everything, right? Like, there's one brand of pop Tarts my mother in law loves. They're the strawberry ones without the icing. They do not sell them in Canada at all. So whenever somebody's in Florida, she always wants a few boxes of them.
34:40 --> 34:51 Honestly, even up here. And Wolf can probably contest. I don't. I don't think I've seen very many unfrosted Pop Tarts float around anymore. Everything's got a damn layer of frost.
34:51 --> 34:58 We actually, when your wife was pregnant, we bought some for you and sent them up to you guys.
34:58 --> 35:05 Yeah, we cannot get them in Canada at all. It's crazy. And that box, the boxes you sent me, you sent me a few. They did not last very long.
35:09 --> 35:12 We found all of them at one store. We were like, get them.
35:13 --> 35:27 No. Whenever somebody brings up boxes now I have to keep telling my daughter, just don't eat them. They're for Gran or they're for mommy. Don't eat them. No. Are you gonna have one? But the other 12 leave for somebody else.
35:27 --> 35:29 You guys don't have all dressed up Pop Tarts up there.
35:30 --> 35:35 You have the icing ones. That's it. That's all we have. I don't know.
35:35 --> 35:40 Wild berry is pretty good. Yeah. So checksques.
35:40 --> 35:44 Alrighty. That's a good pick. Okay, Jake, what is your number one?
35:45 --> 36:01 My number one? Honestly, I can't think of any game that better shows product placement blended with gameplay. And unlike my other two picks, this one's exclusively a game based around its brand. And that is pepsiman, which you guys have played.
36:01 --> 36:02 Pepsi man.
36:03 --> 37:28 Yeah. It was like when we started doing the research. This episode, he does the. He just inhales. It's the creepiest thing I've ever seen. But this game, like, it starts off with the commercial, but it's not. It wasn't a commercial aired in the US they actually filmed video segments for this game. And it's like. It's like they have the game taking place in North America, but the game is very much Japanese. It was never released in North America. It's only a Japanese release, but they did the trouble of getting all, like, you know, American actors in American settings, like the stages you're running through suburban America. And it's. And it's for those who don't play, like, for those who've never played this, which you gotta go play pepsiman. The game Temple Run, which was all the rage on mobiles years ago, is basically a spin off of pepsiman. They took the idea of pepsiman and made Temple Run is, from my understanding it. And it's just you're this dude. You're a. You're very much a Japanese man. A Japanese mascot for Pepsi. It's a guy in a latex uniform, blue and white, no eyes, just a mouth, and he just inhales very creepily. But his whole purpose in life is to bring the joy of Pepsi and refreshment to people who are in need. And that's the story of the game. And I think. I think there's four stages or four worlds, and it's always trying to get rushed through a stage, voting obstacles and delivering Pepsi to whoever at the end of the stage. This game is fun for what it is. Yeah, it's a wild speedrun. If you haven't seen the speedrun of this at games, done quick.
37:28 --> 37:29 Yes, yes.
37:31 --> 37:31 Yeah, this is.
37:31 --> 37:34 Tons of people do retro achievements for this stupid game.
37:35 --> 37:52 This is a game. I think I remember reading about the magazines and I knew we would never get it in North America. And I was sad about that. I was like, this guy looks so freaking cool. Like, why don't we get Pepsi man in North America? What is Pepsi of the US Doing? Like, what's going on here? Because.
37:54 --> 38:04 Well, because when this came out, there was no mascot for Coke and Pepsi in North America. It was. Was it just the old white delivery guy was the mascot for Pepsi at this time? I think that's all it was, wasn't it?
38:04 --> 38:07 Was it not still Cindy Crawford, she.
38:07 --> 38:08 Might have been on there.
38:08 --> 38:15 That was earlier. That was 80s, right? This was 90s, I think. Yeah.
38:15 --> 38:15 PS1.
38:15 --> 38:22 So this was PS1. So it was like 95. Okay. Yeah, probably not. So, yeah, it was just delivery guys, right?
38:24 --> 38:32 I mean, they could be in this game. You could. You could swap out Pepsi man for the. The old white guy doing deliveries. That could still work. I could still see.
38:32 --> 38:36 But, I mean, I understand that pepsiman is a very Japanese creation.
38:37 --> 38:37 Yes.
38:37 --> 38:44 But he's not a far cry from, like the honeycomb weevil thing, whatever the.
38:44 --> 38:45 Hell it is, the weasel thing, the.
38:45 --> 38:48 Big hair, the Furball thing, the honeycomb furball. And like.
38:49 --> 38:49 Yeah.
38:49 --> 39:02 Annoyed and like, it. He would have worked in North America. Just bursting. He's the Kool Aid man. Just in, like, metallic play in metallic spandex, all shiny and in streets.
39:02 --> 39:03 He's just buff, that's all.
39:04 --> 39:44 Yeah. Burst through the wall, giving people Pepsi. Like, it would have worked here. I don't know why we didn't have it. I remember learning of this game, and then I also remember learning of pepsiman being in Fighting Vipers, but only in Japan. And so there were like. Apparently it was the same machine in Japan and North America. So there was a switch that could be flipped at arcades to where it would be the Japanese version. And then you could play as pepsiman. So the magazines were like, so if you ever see that, definitely play it. But also, know what that arcade is doing is illegal.
39:46 --> 39:51 When you switch it to North America, does it just take the character out or is it swapped with something else?
39:51 --> 39:54 No, it just takes the character out. He's not replaced with anything else.
39:54 --> 40:03 I don't think that's just sloppy. I hate when games do that. Give you a character. Don't rob with the North American audience of character, even if they don't know who he is.
40:03 --> 40:06 Yeah, but they couldn't put him in.
40:06 --> 40:10 The North American version for pepsiman. I'm sorry, go ahead.
40:10 --> 40:15 They couldn't put him in the North American version because I think Sega had an agreement with Coca Cola in North America.
40:15 --> 40:16 Yeah.
40:17 --> 40:18 So that's why.
40:19 --> 40:59 Okay. That's still very odd, though. Weird. Well, like, I guess that makes sense because you have, like. Was it Final Fantasy 7? I think that had a Coca Cola deal. I want to say. I know it's. It's pretty wild. I do remember the Pepsi man commercials. I sat and watched them all on YouTube the other week. Just. And they're all funny, but I just find it wild. That is very much, like you said, a Japanese mascot. But then you have, like, all the commercials taking place in the United States for some reason. It is. It is very strange. It's worth watching them out. They're all pretty funny for what they are. And, yeah, Pepsi Man's my pick for my number one pick. I can't think of any other game that has more product placement than pepsiman. Or at least not in your face. In it with it.
40:59 --> 40:59 Right.
41:00 --> 41:06 All right, so my number one pick is. Jake. You're gonna love this. It is cool spot.
41:07 --> 41:08 Which one?
41:09 --> 41:10 The Genesis version.
41:10 --> 41:11 Genesis 1.
41:11 --> 41:14 Oh, not the good one, then. Not the board game one. I love so much.
41:14 --> 41:42 No, and I mean, to be fair, the Genesis version, the SNES version, they're basically the same. But I don't know, something about the Genesis version clicked better with me than the Super Nintendo version when I was a kid. But yeah, this has got 7Up all over it. It's got the spot from the 7Up bottles that is apparently missing now. So what happened to Spot? He went up somebody's.
41:47 --> 41:48 That's funny. Oops.
41:49 --> 42:44 But yeah, this is. This was actually not a bad game. The music was pretty decent. The level design was pretty good for the most part. It had the bonus stages that were pretty satisfying to try and navigate and find all the goodies and get the one ups and keep going. And it was funny because, like, if I'm not mistaken, most levels, you started by a giant 7Up bottle and then the bonus stages were in a 7Up bottle. Like they were. They really leaned into that 7Up theming. Right. And then there was like another one. Spot Goes to Hollywood came out years later and it has 07 up branding in the Saturn version and just a barely visible seven up on the stage select screen on the Genesis, which was wild to me. Like, it's barely branded.
42:47 --> 43:11 It's like almost like we've made something that we want to be not just a commercial, but just a commercial for your product. I had to look it up to remind myself. But I remember this one now. This was Virginia because this was programmed by David Perry, who is the Earthrem Jim guy. That's how I know David Perry. And was it the Genesis Aladdin? I think they also did as well. And how does that feel? Like the physics in this game feel like Aladdin and feel like Earthworm Jim to.
43:11 --> 43:22 The animation was really good quality animation. Like, the little Spot character moved real smoothly and he was hit like a ton of frames and he was very well animated. It was great.
43:24 --> 43:27 Yeah. Yeah. I don't think. I don't think I've ever played much of this.
43:28 --> 43:28 Really.
43:28 --> 43:31 Might want to check it out. This is actually pretty legit looking as I'm watching this.
43:31 --> 43:35 Yeah, I played a lot of this on my. My Genesis.
43:36 --> 43:49 It was. It was a pretty good game. I remember when it came out, I was thinking, why is the Spot getting a video game? What is this? I thought it was so stupid and then I played it and I was like, all right, this is less stupid.
43:52 --> 44:13 I still like the Spot. The cool Spot, the. The board game on the nes. I know it's just Virus re themed with Spot. And I know the budget Was really low. But I still. I really dig that board game. And again, much like this, the animations of the spot flinging across the board are pretty well animated for the nes. But this is like a full on platformer. This is. This is a game. Yeah. Cool.
44:15 --> 44:46 So, yeah, similar. You were talking about Final Fantasy having a connection with Coca Cola. I think that was Final Fantasy 9 because they did the commercials with Donna running around town. And then you'd see the fireworks in the sky in whatever the first city was. I don't remember anymore. Alexandria maybe. But Square just had a thing with Coca Cola at that time. Because Coca Cola was also in Paris that I. Parasite Eve 2. It was a healing item of all things.
44:47 --> 44:48 Yep.
44:50 --> 44:54 Of course. I mean, if monster energy drink can do something for, you know, Norman Reed.
44:54 --> 44:55 Norman Reed is. Yeah, yeah.
44:55 --> 44:56 For sure.
44:56 --> 44:58 Coca Cola will do something for Aya Brea, I guess.
44:59 --> 45:04 Healing. The healing power of Coca Cola products sponsor us.
45:04 --> 45:07 The Rat Kingdom is better off with Coca Cola.
45:09 --> 45:09 That's crazy.
45:09 --> 45:10 All right.
45:10 --> 45:11 I have some honorable mentions if you guys want.
45:11 --> 45:13 Yeah, let's. Let's hear them. I'm curious.
45:14 --> 45:15 I've got one too, actually.
45:16 --> 45:45 The first one actually didn't actually come out. And it's the California Raisins. It was actually. There's an NES prototype. You can play it, but it never actually made it to market. But yeah, it's the California Raisins, which was one of the few brands I remember as a kid not realizing it was a brand. I didn't realize it was actually for legitimate a brand of raisins. I just thought it was a fun claymation thing on TV once in a while. So I saw that. I'm like, oh, it was just a commercial all along. It's just like GI Joe's but worse.
45:45 --> 45:56 No, that thing was those. Those. Those raisins were marketing genius. There were shirts with them and everything. They were just everywhere. It was.
45:56 --> 45:58 It was stupid, but like it was.
45:58 --> 46:27 A brand of raisins you could buy. Or just raisins from California or something. Yeah, yeah, because. Yeah, because like up here we have Canada. We have more than one brand of raisins. I'm sure. But I only remember the red box raisins. And that's the ones we buy today. It's. There's no really mascot. Mascot like some old lady on the box. Like it's. It's weird that these were selling fruit. The thing they heard the grapevine. Oh, boy. There you go. Yeah, that was what they always saying.
46:27 --> 46:33 Yeah, we always written by the California Raisins. Not the actual people who wrote it.
46:33 --> 47:01 Yeah, real quick one, we did an episode on it, Zool Ninja of the Nth Dimension, who get the first stage, which is nothing but Chupa Chups or Chupa Chops. Yeah, yeah, the Sucky Tucks. But that was such a weird thing. And they. I mean, they removed some of that in the SNES version we saw. But it's every other port of that game, all 20 ports, has the Chupa Chups in the beginning of the game.
47:01 --> 47:02 Yeah.
47:03 --> 47:14 And then the other one I have, which is a fun one, is for Yakuza. There's a lot of product placement in Yakuza, but there's one that I was familiar with because I got to visit there and it's a store, Don Quijote.
47:14 --> 47:16 Oh yeah. Don Quixote.
47:16 --> 47:53 Yeah, yeah. So when you go there and. Which is like, I don't want to call it a dollar store because the stuff there was much more than a dollar. But there's just a wide variety of just stuff in a store. And much like the game Don Quijote and Yakuza, just like in real life, it is like several stores, like all floors packed with stuff, the shelves, nothing is labeled. It's wall to wall crap and knickknacks and souvenirs and cool stuff. And like, I got so much of my shopping done at that store and I love it. So when I saw it in Yakuza, I'm like, I've been there. I mean, not this exact one, obviously. The store I went to in Tokyo, very much what you're showing in the game right now. And it was kind of funny to see.
47:53 --> 47:54 Yeah.
47:54 --> 48:02 So I love that that's there. Right? What do you got, your honorable oh, yeah.
48:04 --> 49:10 So I've stumbled upon this and it needs to be talked about. There's a game that is. It's a retro mashup of one's favorite beverage and a horror classic. And it's called Dr. PT or DPT. And the concept of the game is you take on the role of little Billy, a young kid who has been staying at his grandpappy's house over the summer. And all Grandpappy wants who's obsessed with Dr. Pepper is some Dr. Pepper. And you go into his shed and you wind up in a PT style loop of trying to find Dr. Pepper memorabilia and solve puzzles and try and run away from little sweet, the monster who is apparently. This is actually quite horrifying from what I've been reading about. But yeah, DPT, Dr. Pepper themed PT clone that you can get real. Yeah, this is a real thing. This is. I'm looking at it now.
49:10 --> 49:12 I'm guessing this is a fan game though, right?
49:12 --> 49:30 Yeah, it's definitely like a fan game that's been made. But seeing as though we all love Dr. Pepper so much in this game or in the show, and I'm also a big horror fanatic, this just. Just grabbed me and I had to bring it up because this shit's funny. But I'm sure I thought you're like.
49:30 --> 49:33 Giving your pitch to Dr. Pepper for a friend or something.
49:33 --> 49:36 This is a real thing. This is a real thing.
49:36 --> 49:36 Interesting.
49:36 --> 49:42 Yeah. PTS looping corridor horror game themed around Dr.
49:42 --> 49:48 In PS1 style graphics. I see, like, even the resolution. That's pretty cool.
49:49 --> 49:50 Yep.
49:50 --> 49:51 So it's pretty crazy.
49:51 --> 49:55 Apparently there's another game. I didn't look into it, but it's called Pepsi Pepsid and evil.
49:58 --> 50:09 Well, there. So there is an actual soda game that was made with zombies. Can any of you guess which soda that is?
50:10 --> 50:13 Oh, is it Plants versus Zombies?
50:13 --> 50:14 No pop cap.
50:15 --> 50:16 No. Okay.
50:16 --> 50:18 It is Mr. Pib.
50:19 --> 50:20 Yeah. Okay.
50:21 --> 50:23 Yeah. So we don't have Mr. Pib up.
50:23 --> 50:26 Here called Mr. P3D interactive games.
50:26 --> 50:29 Dr. Pepper's strange cousin. Oh, like.
50:29 --> 50:31 Oh, like RC Cola. Okay.
50:31 --> 50:32 Yeah.
50:32 --> 50:39 You're going around belching Dr. Or Mr. Pibb at your schoolmates who are zombies to de. Zombify them.
50:42 --> 50:49 What does that say about Mr. Pibb as a beverage being bad for your breath that it can kill the undead? Like, is that something you want to have in your brain?
50:49 --> 51:01 Apparently the way it worked is you'd mix the soda with the. The. The cure and then drink it and then belch the cure at them.
51:03 --> 51:05 Like, Friday, I'm in love. Or like.
51:08 --> 51:09 No, just green gases.
51:09 --> 51:11 Like Robert Smith.
51:11 --> 51:17 Yeah. Robert Smith might as well be a zombie with a hair. So it's okay. Wow.
51:17 --> 51:25 I mean, they had that hair. All the zombies have that hair. There's that game.
51:25 --> 51:31 You guys like the product placement in games? Like, do you find it like. Like, for me, when I see Don Quixote and it's like almost like a weird nostalgia.
51:31 --> 51:38 But yeah, I'm. I've never played it. I've never played Death Stranding going, you know, it sounds good. A monster.
51:39 --> 51:39 No.
51:39 --> 52:22 And then I go, oh, he's got on the table. I think I'll go grab one. Like, it's. It's never done. I don't know if I see something like, I. I went and looked for a Dr. Pepper themed video game because I didn't think I mean, it's popular and people love it down here, but I just didn't think that anybody would do anything with it. And the closest thing I can get is a fan made, you know, Silent Hills ripoff clone that's kind of goofy but probably pretty scary. So. Yeah, I don't know. I've never been like, you know, it sounds really good. Whatever I see in this game, I should get a 7 up while I'm playing Cool spot. You know, it just doesn't. It just. To me, it's just another. It's a character from. Or something like. It's like playing a TV show character, you know, something like that.
52:23 --> 52:39 Yeah, no, I, I agree with that. I've never been like, like, you know, playing your. Annoyed. I'm not like, oh, Domino sounds good. You know, it's. I'm like the noid is annoyed. Like, that's where I, my brain is like the anything.
52:39 --> 52:45 It makes me want a pizza, but not like from that Pacific brand. I'm just like, you know what sounds good? Pizza. After watching, I don't even.
52:45 --> 52:47 Well, I don't even do that because I don't care for pizza much.
52:47 --> 52:55 But man, you're breaking my heart. Wall. At least you like Dr. Pepper. At least we can, we can lean on that.
52:55 --> 52:58 Do you guys know Taco Bell had a first person shooter?
52:59 --> 53:00 Yes, I remember that.
53:00 --> 53:01 No, not, not Taco Bell.
53:01 --> 53:11 And it had no score to it. You were walking around this very quiet temple picking up chalupas and hot sauce packets and shooting things like you do.
53:14 --> 53:15 You absolutely do.
53:16 --> 53:20 What was the. I'm trying to look it up. What was the MMO that let you order pizza in game?
53:21 --> 53:21 That was wow.
53:21 --> 53:22 Was it EverQuest?
53:22 --> 53:23 That was wow.
53:23 --> 53:30 It was wow. Slash, pizza would open up your browser, your default browser, and take you straight to Pizza Hut dot com.
53:30 --> 53:35 Pizza Hut. Okay. I guess it wasn't very effective because.
53:35 --> 53:36 I forgot the brand.
53:36 --> 54:23 I just remember the idea. The idea was very clever. Yeah, it's. It's weird to me. It's weird to me because. Not so much lately, but I know about five, six years ago, pre Pandemic, there's a bit of controversy with some of the sports games, like driving games and sports games that were going to build in dynamic billboards that could pull ads online occasionally. So. And people are like, well, if it's not baked into the game, as if that made it any better, I guess it was kind of weird. So. And like some games I could see, like, I wouldn't like it, but I could see Grand Theft Auto using real products somewhere in their billboards, in their game, as an advertisement. And I would probably largely not pay attention to it. I ignore it. I think I always liked it better when they make their own brands for satire in that game, right?
54:23 --> 54:45 Yes. When they do like that in Grand Theft Auto, like Piss Foster. That is hilarious to me. Like, all the stupid. Like when you hear the. They even have commercials and, and actors in the commercials doing them. I think the satire of doing product placement in, in. In a Grand Theft Auto, I think that shit's brilliant because it's so spot on. Right. For what it actually is.
54:45 --> 55:06 It's. It can also be jarring with, you know, if. If there's product placement in a game, like let's. Let's go back to Parasite Eve 2, for example. There's just Coca Cola strewn about, glass bottles or cans. Like you could just come across them. And it's like, how are there no other soda brands in this place? How is it just Coca Cola?
55:07 --> 55:08 Because it is the apocalypse.
55:08 --> 55:15 It's a little immersion breaking, right. When it's like here, this one brand, see it, consume it.
55:17 --> 55:20 The mitochondria, it reacts to Coca Cola.
55:22 --> 56:28 It's funny because, like, gaming, like trying to identify gaming culture, right? It's not just Doritos and. And Mountain Dew. Trying to get other brands into what. And to attract gamers as customers because, you know, they have a lot of money, I guess. Twitch. I used to be in Twitch's RPG program, which was. They do surveys. I used to get bits for it. So I used to do it all the time. And it was always the same thing. They give you five to six different brand names. And then the first question was always like, how does. How does. How's Wells Fargo banking relate to gamers? 1 to 5. When you think of gaming, do you think of Wells Fargo Like 1 to 5? Like. Like that. And it was always something so asinine, like really stupid. Yeah. So like when it occasionally was one for like, energy drinks and like, oh, yeah. Okay, this makes sense. Red Bull Monster. Like, you could see the brand that was paying Twitch to do these market research things, but some of the, some of them, it was like one was a grocery delivery service. I'm like, which of these grocery delivery services do you recognize? And which one do you think best references gaming as part of gaming culture? And some like, doordash delivery service. Like, no, man, it's crazy, but when.
56:28 --> 56:34 I'm done beating the final boss of Doom, I always think, Fred Meyer needs to deliver my milk.
56:34 --> 56:41 Yeah, boy, I'M hungry. Let's call hello Fresh and make a great, nutritious deal.
56:42 --> 57:20 I will say. I'll spin that on its head a little bit. The first time I walked into a big Fred Meyer, it felt like I had fallen into Dead Rising. Yeah, I believe it because it was late at night. It was empty. Yeah, we had just stopped to get something on our way somewhere. And so we had just moved to Washington. And going into the. It's everything. It's a jewelry store, a clothing store, a grocery store, a furniture store. It's hardware, gardening. It's ridiculous. And I was like, what is this place? And there was like, four people.
57:21 --> 57:21 Yep.
57:21 --> 57:23 I was like, it's Dead Rising on the Wii in here.
57:24 --> 57:34 Yes. It is massive, yo. Low poly. Can't have that many zombies in the screen of this processor.
57:35 --> 57:49 Yeah. All righty. Well, I think that was fun. That was an interesting way to do this. I look forward to revisiting this format. Tear Pressure, we called it, I think.
57:50 --> 57:50 Yes.
57:52 --> 58:04 I want to throw this out there for those of you who are still here. We almost, almost called it Rank and Spank. That was a legitimate idea that happened today.
58:04 --> 58:06 It was actually. Actually a legitimate idea.
58:06 --> 58:15 Maybe next time we do one of these episodes, we'll call it to your Pressure, but I'll put Rank and Spank on the thumbnail and see if we can get away with that one. Just so you get the clicks.
58:15 --> 58:19 Look at all the views we got from that one episode about product placement.
58:19 --> 58:22 How many dislikes when they realized it was not about spanking.
58:22 --> 58:35 Right. All right, well, thank you, everybody for listening. This has been another episode of Press B to cancel. We'd like to throw a shout out to. Oh, my gosh, my brain is failing me. I'm sorry, Jake.
58:37 --> 58:40 Super Pod Networking. We are so good at networking.
58:40 --> 58:52 No, I didn't get enough sleep last night. I've been fighting, like, lacking words for everything today. It's not just this. Superpodnetwork.com I found it and I shouted it from the rooftops, my friend.
58:57 --> 58:57 Great.
58:57 --> 59:56 Yes. There's lots of fine shows about games on the SuperPod network. A lot of folks just like us talk about games. Thrak has a new podcast, Actually, I listened to the first episode. He's going through all the Call of Duty games, and I listened to the first episode because I've played the first Call of Duty. That's pretty much the only one I've played, and I really like it a lot. But it's interesting that he's going through all the Call of Duty Games because that's another franchise. I feel like I'd like to do an episode on it. But I'm so underqualified to talk about COD because for what it was in the beginning alongside Medal of Honor is like a serious war game to whatever the fuck it is now in the latest game where I'm seeing like they're almost fortnite levels of cameos. Like I think, is it Family Guy they added recently or I thought I saw that. It's so weird. But COD is a. Is a. Is a trip. So I listened to that episode of his new podcast and of course we've had Dave from Remember 64 on our show a few times that Remember 64 is great. And then go to the webpage. There's tons of great shows. Or listen to more press B because we need to get our views up.
59:56 --> 59:58 Yeah, go back and check out our.
59:58 --> 01:00:00 261 other episodes out there.
01:00:03 --> 01:00:22 And you can also find us at our Discord, which you can find the link to on pressbtocancel.com and you can also find our social there. But I'm not super active there. I don't know if you guys are. Social networking has kind of gone to shit lately.
01:00:23 --> 01:00:59 So we still have a Twitter Presby to cancel and there are posts there and I do check it occasionally and I dive into that sea of fascists and toxic everything to look at posts. But ideally you come follow us over on Blue Sky. Blue sky is where we are mostly active. I post in Blue sky all day. It's probably a problem actually at this point. I know Chart occasionally checks out in Blue sky as well. But you can find us just go to bluesky app and then just search for pressby.org, presby.org and you'll see me in chart there. I don't know. I think Sinistar has an account, but he has to link it. No, he linked it. Chart has not linked his account.
01:00:59 --> 01:01:01 I haven't linked mine yet. I need to get to do that.
01:01:01 --> 01:01:03 I should get on that as well.
01:01:04 --> 01:01:17 Yeah, B Sky is great. B Sky is Twitter from 10 years ago, before I was so angry all the time. The dumb cat memes and recipes and bad takes about video games. Mostly from me. That's why I like B Sky. So yeah, come check us out over there.
01:01:18 --> 01:01:24 All right, well, thank you all for listening. We'll see you next time. Have a good one. Pepsi Man.
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