When I was younger I knew licensed games were just ok Now that I'm older I kinda miss having the option to dive into the franchises I already like

As trash as it might be, you can't deny that it's a nostalgic part of our childhood, whether it's on a ps2, gamecube or gba

I swear if I had a dollar for every KZfaq video I've seen that starts with "licensed games have a bit of a bad reception with the majority of them either being rushed or unfinished for a quick buck"

That is literally the first time I've EVER seen someone talking about the GBA Ed, Edd and Eddy game. I remember enjoying it a lot back in the day and playing some it again, it holds up surprisingly well. Feels like a great midterm between an episode from the show (my favorite cartoon of all time!) and a decent, if generic plataformer

battle for bikini bottom was one of my favorite childhood games, but I never actually beat it, I guess I should do that sometime soon lmao

Spider-Man 2 was a pretty cool licensed game! It was the first 3D open world Spider-Man game to have realistic web swinging where the webs attached to buildings

I rarely hear anyone talk about the _Hamtaro_ games, but the first three released in the west were really solid and fun adventure games. I actually got into the franchise because of the games rather than the other way around, and they got me interested in adventure games as a whole. I honestly wish more games had a mechanic similar to the first two's Ham-Chat system, which combined adventure game "action verbs" with a collect-a-thon where you had to learn the words you used to interact with things. My friends look at me funny when I talk about them, since they're based on a somewhat cutesy series aimed at elementary schoolers, but the adventure games were honestly really good, especially for licensed games. (That being said, I could take or leave the sports one, and the DS edutainment game was only good as a time-killer for anyone over the age of 5) (I didn't mean for this to turn into an essay, I just have strong feelings about them that are hard to summarize 😅)

Next to no one talks about the Bratz games. You know, Rock Angelz, Forever Diamondz, etc. kids who played them back in the day, (mostly girls) had a fun time with them and say they’re some of the best licensed games out there!

Theirs something about 2000s licences games that I love. Maybe it's just down to the simpler times or that nostalgic feeling they give.

I dont know why, but Madagascar the videogame is honestly one of the best 3d platformers on the ps2, GCN, Xbox. The main story is fun to play through. The Penguin MGS style stealth mission was so much fun to me as a kid. There was a whole bunch of costumes you could put on the characters. And for no reason a really good shuffle board, mini golf, and tons of random arcade games. For a random ass licenses kids film game, it knocks it out of the park in content

I always remember having fun playing the TMNT movie game on PS2. Last year i bought it for my collection, played it through and yeah... it wasn't good. Also randomly at the last boss the game wants you to pull a manoeuvre that you don't even know about unless you saw like one thing at the very beginning of the game and you never even got to use it... until the last boss.

I was quite a fan of PR Dino Thunder as kid and when I found out about the game I couldn't stop telling my parents to buy it for me. They bought and my excitement could've been higher. Then I played the first 3 missions and realized the game sucked. Never had a disappointment like that ever since

One really good Disney licensed title I don't hear people bring up is Kim Possible on the PS2. It's a side scroller where you switch back and fourth between playing as Kim and Shego and it's a really fun platformer. They even have a ton of unlockable costumes for Kim and Shego in the game from the show.

I had a few licensed games similar to these, but the one I remember the most fondly was Madagascar on the PS2. The game was a fun platformer woth different mechanics for different characters. The best part was the stealth level based on the penguins taking over the ship. I rewatched the Madagascar movie the other day and had to mention the penguin level when it got to that part of the movie. Looking back there were some clunky and fustrating parts from the game (Example: the bee mission), but the game felt unique. There were a couple other licensed games I liked when I was younger, but this is one I enjoy remembering most.

All of your videos are awesome. Even if it's something I'm not that interested in, you're such a great presenter that I get enthralled in whatever it is you're talking about

The people behind the SpongeBob movie game actually did want to use clips from the movie as cutscenes,but Nickelodeon wouldn’t let them because they were afraid it would hurt the movie’s success!

Dude I loved The Movie The Game. Everything in there was just so so SO fun. The platforming was good, the locations were incredible, the clam slide sections were just so fun, and each level felt so uniquely crafted. The boss's as well were so unique and fighting on David Hasselhoff's back? As a stage? Dude it doesn't get more creative than that. PS2 licensed games were the AAA games that people thought we would get today.

The SpongeBob movie game is one of my major nostalgic games and weirdly that's why I couldn't get into Battle For Bikini Bottom

I remember playing Power Rangers Dino Thunder so much cause i loved dinosaurs as a kid and there surprisingly weren't that many besides the PS Land Before Time racer, Portal Runner, Dinosaur GBA or Arcade Jurassic Park. I never beat it but finding the new dinos to play was amazing despite the bare bones combat and world. Kinda deserves a remake.

Honestly, the PS2/GC/Xbox era had some of the best licensed games. It was an odd mix of the higher quality productions and more experienced developers, with the frequency and variety where basically any licensed property would get a game, so we ended up with just...overall better titles, but the same kind of constant, unceasing releases we'd seen before. Oh sure, there were awful ones, but there were plenty that were decent that fans could enjoy. Not to mention some real gems, some of the absolute best licensed games came out of the early-mid 2000s. I think that the only other generation to have a similarly higher quality would be the SNES...Or, rather, the Super Famicom. It was still shit in the U.S., but there were buckets full of 7/10 to 8/10 licensed anime and manga games.

I never knew that there was a version other than the GBA one for Power Rangers Dino Thunder. But now that I know, I'm kinda glad I wasn't exposed to it back then.

the Spongebob Movie game is MEGA underrated yo ive always enjoyed it a bit more than BFBB because of how much of a love letter it was to the movie itself, which i fuckin love. that and Creature from the Krusty Krab especially are underground gems

The final mission of PR Dino Thunder is actually surprisingly technical. Throughout the game you get more Zords with different powers and the final mission has you utilize the PachycepholZord, the strongest in the game. So you have to destroy bombs before they go off in a volcano and kill you with the Zord’s ultimate. The problem is, they’re on the walls, and Pacycepholozord can’t fly… but the Pterazord can! So you have to fly around with the Pyerazord then switch in mid-air to the Pacycepholo and use you’re ultimate and then quickly switch back or die to the lava

Great video dude. i grew up with all these games and it was nice to see you revisit these. If you plan on tackling more Licensed games i'd like to see you cover The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, a fun, destructive superhero game similar to spider-man.

star wars battlefront II and battle for bikini bottom are still some of the best games I’ve ever played!

I love your videos you explain so well on game topics I care about

Happy to see a video on licensed games finally. (battle for bikini bottom is one of my favorite games of all time)

I had quite a few Cartoon Network licensed games as a kid; the Ed, Ed, n Eddy one, Teen Titans, KND: Operation Video Game, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-AM

Power Rangers games have been incredibly hit or miss over the years, but the most recent one, Battle for the Grid, is easily one of the most fun fighting games I've played.

The one thing I do like about these 2000s licensed games are the soundtracks.

Thanks for explaining what SpongeBob was I didn’t know 😂

*These titles make me think of all the summers playing ps1/ps2 /n64 games eating pizza*

This is how it goes, if a game has a tv adaptation, it's mostly to focus on the story that couldn't be told in a game, and licensed games are the reverse, they let you explore the world of certain cartoons, gameplay wise, they might suck sometimes, but are still very amazing to play through.

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just wanna say that i totaly adore you vids/style

I remember the early movie tie-in Harry Potter games being pretty fun.

The ds was Especially known to be home to millions of licenced games like MILLIONS

Bro pulled out the irl camera for this one

I LOVE the Ed, Edd, & Eddy game, I played it SO MUCH as a kid, so many great memories and fun times

There was a lot of good and decent license games back then! One problem I remember was sobby game critics who made a career to bash on all license games - even those who where not that bad gameplay + price wise. You can't expect all games to be masterpieces, only decent gameplay and content that resembles what they are based on. Disney had some decent titles like; Donald Duck: Quack Attack, Mickey Mouse and the Magic Mirror, Disney Extreme Sports, The Incredibles, Cars, etc or DreamWorks games with Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and Bee Movie Game. Or Cartoon Network games with Cartoon Network Racing, Ed, Edd & Eddy, Cartoon Network Speedway, Wacky Races, The Shadow of Aku, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy etc. Or all the Marvel & DC games like the Spider-Man 1 & 2 on PS1, Spider-Man Trilogy, Ultimate Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, X-Men, Batman Vengeance, Batman; Rise of Sin Tsu, Hulk the game, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death etc. Or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games based on the 2003 series, Or the Simpsons games like Simpsons Road Rage, Simpsons Hit & Run or Simpsons the Game or the Family Guy game or the Futurama game etc. So yeah there was a lot of entertaining license based games!

I miss "shovelware" like this. My entire childhood up till about High school was made up of games like these with a few bigger 1st party games in there too. From gba and gamecube my first console and handheld, to the wii, ds, ps2,ps3,psp, 3ds, games based off my favorite shows, movies, characters were fun even if i only beat some of them. Now after years of hearing 30 somethings online saying how the golden age was 16 bit era i feel i cant look back at my childhood with such passion despite basically being spoiled by my parents and having so many games. Im going back to these systems to relieve them and see what i think about them but honestly after being told so much that my childhood games were basically garbage its really nerve wracking to to back to these games.

Pretty good video! Licensed games are very fascinating too me, you never really know what they're gonna be like. That's kinda why i started my channel, too showcase and see what these games were all about, it kinda caused me too become a huge licensed game enthusiast!! XD. Also i gotta say, yeah the dino thunder game sucks soo much, you can literally beat the whole thing in 50 minutes! Anyways, pretty good video, definitely gonna watch more of your stuff! >:3

The goofy goober second mission playing as Patrick in the SpongeBob movie game. I’ll never forget that

i actually want you to make this video thank you for making what i want

I like how much u say super at 8:04

Surf's Up and Sharktale were so good. It's kinda crazy how good some of the liscensed games were

the fucking boss battle with yumi and odd in quest for infinity annoyed me so much because i didnt know what to do

I live for this kind of content! ❤

I loved Ed Edd n Eddy The Mid-Edventures when I was a kid but looking back those character models are the stuff of nightmares XD. Still loads of nostalgia seeing gameplay footage. I miss the 2000s so much.

Old video games I just enjoy more then the games we get today but I respect your opinon on the 2000s licensed games

For me The Simpsons Hit and Run, Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Were-rabbit and Wacky Races Starring Dastardly and Muttley are my favourite 3 licensed PS2 games ever.

I definitely missed out on those games back then. The license games I grew up with were from the nicktoons of the '90s. I'm over there being one for not a nicktoon but one that I remember seeing syndicated on Nickelodeon called tiny toons adventures. That one was really good but I never finished the game as I only rented it from Hollywood Video. Aaaaahh!!! Real Monsters was also a really good game. I had eventually bought that game during the 2000s or the late '90s I forget when I got it but it's a hard game but rewarding to beat.

The first licensed games I ever played were the phineas and ferb movie game and wipeout (the game show with the giant red balls) on wii

I remember renting Ed, Edd, N Eddy from blockbuster and trying to play through as much as I possibly could before I had to return it.

The title lead me to believe that there was going to be more than just 3 titles discussed

0:17 i love them all

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Disney Tarzan Untamed, a launch title for the GameCube. It’s a pretty good platformer, and I had a lot of fun with it. That is, playing the first few levels since I could never get past the stupid skiing level! Aside from that, I didn’t really have any other licensed GameCube games. But for the Wii, there was Chaotic Shadow Warriors, the Ben 10 games, Generator Rex, and a couple SpongeBob games.

I had a blast playing the Ben 10 and the Naruto games when I was a kid

Hearing kiro get mad abt the lobbers in power rangers is so funny ☠️☠️

A Series of Unfortunate Events on GC was awesome!

I think my favorite licensed games were the Dragon Ball Budokai games in the early 2000s. I had to annoy my parents to buy them. Then bugged my sister to play with me

The NES era was the golden age of Licensed games. Huge part of that is all games of that era were way smaller and required far fewer resources than games that would come later, so that the extreme limits on funds and time available to build a licensed game (due to the money for the project's budget having to be bid down to the lowest offer against other rival developers to win the contract from the property owner; alongside the property owner's typically strict time limit requiring the game to be completed and released to coincide with the official release the a movie or TV show it is tied-into) were not as crippling as it would be in later console generations. So companies like Sunsoft (pretty much the king of licensed games), Konami, Argonaut Software, and even Rare Limited could churn out fun, well-made, worthy of your time tie-in titles for properties ranging from movie to TV show to comic books, both on home consoles and obviously in the arcades. The Super Nintendo era started seeing more and more licensed games that were average to mediocre either due to time and budget constraints, too-small development teams, or simply flat-out incompetent development teams being awarded contracts, but it wasn't really until the sixth console generation, where the requirements for number of developer team members, funds, and time necessary to build a game grew enough that the tight budgets of licensed games restricted most of them to Subpar Purgatory. Sure you would get a game here or there that was excellent, but that was typically due to the developer having enough people and given either enough budget or time to make it like a regular game. Goldeneye 007 was a masterpiece of its era explicitly because it was allowed to spend two years in development beyond the release of the movie it was based on. And was given the time, leeway, and budget by Nintendo to Rare to let them make the game they thought was mechanically best suited to the property. Argonaut Software in the same era was lucky if they could make a licensed game with that kind of support. There were few of them, most notably The Emperor's New Groove (PS1) and Alien Resurrection (PS1) (Ironically a game far better than the movie it is based on for being faithful to the horror-action roots of the franchise). But most of them were Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge (basic controls and mechanics are unfun to try to interact with as the developers were not given the time to refine even the most basic aspects of the game) or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (PS1) (a very solid core concept for the title, a more linear Zelda-like Action-Adventure game, with far more usable controls and mechanics, but far-far-far too short and limited in scope).

HEY, i'm gonna take this opportunity to be early and kindly say. can we take our time to appreciate "Ben 10: Protector of Earth"? that game FREAKING slapped one of the hecking best licensed games of that era imo!!

The PC version for the Spongebob movie game is a point and click type of game, still was fun to play through at the time

The fact that you explained what SpongeBob was when you clearly didn't have to

Licensed games in the 2000's were pretty weird in the sense that you could get something that surprisingly polished/well made or get a complete dumpster fire (although usually most of them were just mid). Star Trek Elite Force, Simpsons Hit & Run, Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge, Transformers (2004 game), Dragon Ball Z Budokai, Chronicles of Riddick, Scarface, etc. come to my mind as very good ones. In general a lot better than they needed to be.

I definitely recommend the star wars revenge of the sith game. It actually has a really soild combat system and the boss fights are really fun

If you ever plan on getting the Wall•E game, make sure you get the PSP/PS2/PC (Steam! Yes, its on Steam!) version! Its completely different to the PS3/360/Wii versions, which honestly feel and look kinda janky. The PS2 versions were made by Asobo Studios, yes, the same Asobo that made Microsoft Flight Simulator! Meanwhile, the PS3 versions were made by Heavy Iron Studios, which, given they made the SpongeBob games, makes it kinda weird to see their version be the "weirder" one. But yeah, the Asobo version of the Wall•E game is surprisingly good! It even has a cute little surprise after you get through the story!

Why is it that the 3D model of Ed is a perfect translation from his original 2D design but both Edd and Eddy look absolutely unnerving and like they could bite my fingers off?

MX Superfly featuring Ricky Carmichael is actually my favourite motocross game to this day.

The greatest era of gaming tbh. Games for everyone. Licensed games got people into gaming.

Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights is a hidden gem

Who said its bad, there are lots of it that are good, better than what licensed games we have now (only exception being the robocop game)

The Spongebob Movie PS2 game is amazing xD I still like playing it ^^"

I remember playing Nicktoons Unite on the gamecube and it was a lot of fun with the power ups you can get. I remember playing Fantastic 4 on the PS2 which was everything when i was a child, I used to love invisible women

I used to have Toy Story 3 for the ds wasn’t the greatest game but for what it was a fun little fairly polish 3d game for the ds

It's funny because I grew up with the GBA versions of most of the SpongeBob games including the Movie game. They're all 2D platformers and I have fond memories of all of them. But they're all overshadowed by their console counterparts, even the ones where the console counterpart isn't well liked either (like Revenge of the Flying Dutchman) My first experience with a console SpongeBob game was Atlantis SquarePantis on the Wii, and I didn't finish it, iirc it couldn't seem to settle on a gameplay style and was way too gimmicky. But I have such heavy nostalgia associated with the GBA games that I could probably never gauge how good they are objectively (probably nowhere near as good as I consider them)

The licensed games I remember playing are the mis-edventures, a few spongebob games, a Disney trivia game for wii, a bratz GBA game, a winx club GBA game, open season for the Xbox 360 and one Naruto Xbox game that I can’t remember the name of.

This doesn’t really count but I saw a comment on how someone used a action replay on Mario 64 ds to try to make it like a smg4 video

Thank you for the memories I actually loved coder lyoko on the wii Ig cause I was young but also cause I loved the show that intro made my year

I take some satisfaction in knowing that 3 of the licensed games I've owned and grew up with for GameCube are now considered to be among the best games ever made for each of those respective franchises: the Spider-Man 2 movie game, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, and The Simpsons: Hit & Run. If you're into video games and love a particular show or movie then no reason you wouldn't want to enjoy a game based on that property. Just that you would want the game in question to actually be good and more than just a quick cash-grab.

I really liked SpongeBob: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman as a kid. That shit was fire.

I consider many to be good, but my main games are Lightspeed Rescue on PS1, incredible music and realistic visuals, this game was always a trip to play. Secret Agent Barbie on GBA, a stealth game that's very easy to get into and just have fun. Zatch Bell MF, a 3D action game that more accurately represents the fighting from the show than the 1:1 fighter that released first.

I just had the weirdest feeling ever when you showed db sagas cause I remembered playing it as a kid and didn't really remember it's name , I always thought it was just a weird fan game that i somehow found

Me and my little brother loved the GBA port of Mis-Edventures he got it for Christmas when that 101 mode of the SP came out it was such a fun game

I still have my GameCube copy of Ed, Edd N Eddy back from when I was a kid, I was a fan of the series but the game was never released here in England on GameCube but a local game store sold Action Replay multi region unlock discs and imported games from USA and Japan.

Love this video insane good idea

Dam I love this channel

You might potentially want to check out the PC versions of Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban. Chamber of Secrets on PC is basically an improved version of Philosopher's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban had the best combat in the Harry Potter games for many years. The Simpsons Hit and Run is a well regarded parody of GTA. James Bond: Nightfire isn't based on any specific movie, but is based on a book and movie series. The home consoles version could be considered the best James Bond game to this day or at least the best one after Goldeneye 007 (Nightfire's controls haven't aged as much as Goldeneye 007's). Batman Vengeance is based on BTAS and generally does a faithful job of translating the universe into playable form. On home console; not as well on PC. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 game adaption actually was one of the greatest Spiderman titles back then.

At one point I mocked games based on popular media, but now I wish there was more, like most anime should give them a shot, same for modern tv shows and movies, just with people that understand the thing in question and how to make it work as a game. These days the gaming world just doesn't have a lot like back then in competition aside of oversaturated franchises like Pokemon, Madden and so on.

2:46 That animation technique is called "boiling".

“It’d be easy to buy games for content, so instead I’ll just use the few examples I already own” 😂

The Hey Arnold Movie game on GBA is one i remember pretty fondly.

Nobody needed a recap on sponge bosb back story 😂

Quite A Few Of Them Were Actually Fun To Play.

Ed Edd and Eddy game was the first game I played on my first PS2. It will always have a special place in my soul.

I know exactly what jawbreaker you're missing, had 99% completion for ages until I realised it's an offscreen one lmao.

As a Japanese, I’m so happy to watch you mentioned Super Sentai

The SpongeBob game went crazy ngl and the gameboy games went crazy so many random games I used to play growing up

I loved those games so much that i brought a PS2 two years ago and i still have the games ❤ Especially the spongebob games!