Context of A Sound of Thunder: It's based on a Short Story by Ray Bradbury who presents this future where folk can pay some guys with time machine access to hunt down certain ANCIENT Specimens, they also established a path that by all means is MEANT to be followed so you don't cause cataclysmic changes. The Educated Future is where they came from and our story's protagonist makes one little, itty bitty mistake...that being stepping outside the path and accidentally flattening a butterfly (And leaving a boot print in prehistoric times) which changes a BUNCH of stuff, including who won the election in their year AND the literacy of the Human Race. And it's implied the PoV character is going to get EXECUTED outright for his fuck-up.

Black Belt Challenge was developed by Guerilla Games, back when they were called "Lost Boys Games".

55:25 Fun Fact: While Galidor _did_ precede Ben 10 by a couple years, the "limbs turn into machines" concept was done in the 90's by M. Rex, a comic that would eventually be the basis for Generator Rex, made by the same guys who created Ben 10 (Which on second thought, might be the reason you thought of Ben 10 there)

Iron Kid was some kind of CGI cartoon that they localized as Eon Kid. i saw a bit of an episode once when i was in middle school. those are all the things i know about Iron Kid

The rabbit hole that is the GBA fighting game library never ceases to amaze me.

Iron Kid has such budget Mega Man Zero vibes that I kinda gotta respect it.

Fun fact, A Sound of Thunder was completed in 2003 but got shelved until 2005 because the movie it was tied into (which was directed by Peter Hyams of Timecop and The Relic fame) got delayed because of the special effects.

A Sound of Thunder was based on a atrocity of a movie based on the iconic short story by the legendary Ray Bradbury. The film was one of the last gasps of breaths by the infamous Franchise Pictures, known for Battlefield Earth, Driven, Ballistic Ecks vs Sever, & 3000 Miles to Graceland Infamy. The film is awful, one of the worst piles of crap I’ve ever watched. I don’t blame Peter Hyams though as there were so many cooks in the soup and broth. And I liked The Relic, Stay Tuned, & Sudden Death.

I used to be a K-1 fan and the two GBA adaptations are among the best based on the license, the two are very similar, the second is just like the first with some updated content. There were somewhat decent and more "simulation" oriented K-1 games on Saturn and Playstation but I found the GBA ones more fun to play. Hernesto Hoost, Remy Bonjasky, Jerome Lebanner, Peter Aerts, Mark Hunt, Mirko CroCop (who also had a pretty good MMA run)... these guys are legends.

A Sound Of Thunder (The Movie) starred Ben Kingsley. It was so mid it was a belt. I’m so glad someone else suffered through the GBA game too!

Iron Kid takes me back, but when I was youngling it was called "Eon Kid on Kids WB"

Dancing Sword, you have to perform the combo shown with the right timing to do the magic stuff. You can practice in the pause menu if I remember right.

Dual Blades is basically "How to Draw Manga or Anime: The Fighting Game", I swear. Then, that Jurassic Park 3 game had the Beheaded Kamikaze scream sound from Serious Sam in it. Truly, this is a gift that keeps on giving!

Mad props to the sprite artist on that last game, those are some great pixel likenesses.

The console/PC version of Galidor is pure *What happened?* material. The game was cancelled in 2002, but a budget pc game publisher managed to get the beta pc build on store shelves in 2004 alongside other Lego PC rereleases. Lego was near bankruptcy when the game was canned, and it was in their product catalogues, so they probably didn't even notice it had been canned while they were rolling in Bionicle money, selling old licenses to budget labels.

Dude, Dual Blades just unlocked an old memory. I played this so long ago as a kid and could never remember the name. I've been searching for this game for probably almost 20 years I guess lol. I knew exactly what it was as soon as Matt sliced dudes torso in half at the beginning! Lol

If there's ever a follow-up to this, I really hope Wade Hixton's Counter Punch is a game you haven't heard of.

Fun Fact: the Ray Bradbury story A Sound of Thunder is the basis for that Simpsons Halloween Special segment where Homer goes back to the time 'when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos' and his actions radically alter the future.

Dancing Sword Senkou has Noizi Itou's nice character designs, it seems to have been a selling point. Although, the company at the time (MTO) was more known for girls games including dress-up games and the dog games that got exported under the Petz games label, so I guess it was an attempt into a new genre.

It was wild to see who directed Black Belt Challenge when the credits came up, since that director would go on direct Killzone 2 & 3 and Horizon 1 & 2.

I remember reading A Sound of Thunder back in sixth grade. It was... nothing like this.

K1 was a pretty brutal kickboxing show, i can't believe they released such a cartoonish game. Mark hunt is a terrifying knockout machine, as are most of the fighters in there!

An exquisite dash of Hot Import Nights in this collection. Well done, sir.

Dude, i never know Iron Kid has a game? When i was child.. i watched the animated series and it's awesome. Glad you open the memory.

Wow a K1 kickboxing game with Mark Hunt, CroCop, and other famous fighters many who fought in MMA/UFC later. Pretty awesome. And yes K1 in Japan in the 90s and early 00s was huge, fighters became household names.

Nothing like a good old gba play through.

These are straight up my favourite videos on KZfaq. Thanks for making them! Any chance of a Saturn one some day?

Crouching tiger actually looks like it's based largely on the Shinobi gameplay from Genesis/Mega Drive. Especially that downward jump kick.

The super bar on Black Belt Challenge works like this: - Once is full do down+HP+HK to do the supper uppercut - One in mid air, repeat the button sequence that show in the bar, it will be the one made by your attacks when filling it, minus the final 2 letters.

Had no idea Mark Hunt and Mirko Cro Cop were in a GBA game... might have to find it for myself 😅

I liked the look of Black Belt Challenge, Dual Blades and Dancing Sword. I'll be looking for the ROMs for these!

From the one piece of dialogue in the beginning, I think the Sound of Thunder might be loosely and I mean loosely based on the short story the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this story, there is a company that figures out time travel, and then decides to use this technology to host safaris across history. But because they don’t really know how time travel works, they can only allow you to shoot animals that are about to die anyway, and they make a levitating path that you have to follow during the safari. The main character goes back in time to hunt a T-Rex, but during this safari he steps off the path and steps on a butterfly, and then when he gets back to the present everything is slightly different, for instance the President of the US is a fascist. Simply because of the line “STAY ON THE PATH” and the how every million years ago cutaway, the Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury may be a loose inspiration.

I remember playing a ton on my Gameboy Advance. Good stuff!

Black belt challenge such a hidden gem. Deserves to be big for esports

I totally forgot there was a GBA port of Flashback, it looks so weird. The old animations of the characters with the new artstyle somewhat clashes to me.

"Iron Kid" was a mid popular 2000s cartoon show from South Korea. Also, I had no idea Big Joel had a Lets Play channel...

The GBA has always been known to have one of the most solid game line ups. It seems like, somehow, everyone was determined to put their best on this system. Another GBA video like this would be a good idea.

That Flashback game is not a finished game. It is a beta leaked by the development team and it was supposed to be a sequel of the original (ignoring the events of "Fade to black", I guess) The character of Conrad from the first game it's just a placeholder because that rom was a work in progress It's sad that the studio went bankrupt and that game was never finished, because the backgrounds looked dope! The Flashback games would be great material for a "What happened" episode, Matt! The first one initially was a licensed "Godfather" game (years before the EA one) that went wild on the development and ended up being his own thing. The sequel "Fade to black" was one of the first 3D third person shooters ever made, being in development way before "Tomb Raider" There was some kind of reboot of the first game made by Ubisoft that was hated by everyone and the recent sequel was delayed many times and when released received very bad reviews... There's material in there!

heya man, I've watched so many of these and never commented, but you are really great at what you do. You've managed to play so many of these random ass games and always keep it relevant and break down the design whilst never seeming tired of it all. Love your work man and keep it uppp

I see we had the exact same experience with Dancing Sword. It seems you just have to do a combo and the lava freezes and you can walk over it from what I saw in a video, but I could never make it work. A shame because a beat 'em up with five playable characters might have good replay value.

It always amazes me just how deep the GBAs library is. This video unlocked so mamy obscure childhood memories. In regards to the K1 game, I think the meter thats next to your life bar represents overall body health. The top is your head, the middle is your body and bottom are your legs. You take alot of damage in one area itll change color, which I also assume effects how well you give/take damage.

Amazing run, loved it! The last one was surprisingly charming. Wish there was more of those.

I remember Iron kid was a cartoon that was brought over to America but the title was changed to "Eon Kid" possibly to keep the Marvel lawyers off their back

Unfortunately "Johnny Flashback and the Flashbacks of the Flash Backigans" is an extremely unfinished prototype. Never got finished.

Hey, Matt McMuscles. You should play some arcade games you have never heard of. I have some suggestions you should play. Suggestions: 64th Street: A Detective Story Numan Athletics Twinkle Star Sprites Karate Blazers In the Hunt Windjammers Last Bronx

I completely forgot about Galidor! It even had a little MMO game I used to play

Dual blades is rated m and has a sequel called Slashers: The Power Battle. Only 9 gba games were rated mature.

The devs behind Juka did Racing (Orbital Media) Gears Advance which is the best GBA racer and also the pretty good Scurge:Hive which was kinda Metroid but isometric.

"Maybe we can put some generic GBA music over this footage." Puts in one of the best tracks from Metroid Fusion.

I agree, "Black Belt Challenge" sounds like it would be more based in reality. They screwed up with the name

I lol'd when you hit Dancing Sword because I knew what was coming. To get past the lava you have to select the ice magic and then do the 6-hit combo AS FAR AS I CAN TELL because the controls are so poor the combo is impossible to perform for all practical intents and purposes.

I looked into Dual Blades and apparently it was actually rated M! It's also a Turkish game.

DUDE! Jurassic Park 3 was one of the first GBA games I ever played!! I wish I still had my copy but, and this is going to sound crazy, but I lost it in my Dad's car one day. We just got home and I unbuckled myself and somehow the game slid onto the seatbelt as it retracted back into the car and I was never able to find it. I think it might've been a birthday gift too, either way core memory unlocked.

Simply put, A Sound of Thunder is the original source material for The Simpsons Halloween Special with Homer and the time traveling toaster.

The Dual Blades art reminds me heavily of 'Diesel' of all things

Galidor was a line of Lego toys. It had a tie-in TV show, as I recall. It’s certainly not something I was expecting to think about today.

Thank you Matt for the compilation videos. Love seeing obsure games.

MFW Black Belt Challenge was developed by Guerilla Games. THAT GUERILLA GAMES. 😮

There actually was a cancelled PS2 game called Jurassic Park Survival. It looked like a cool Dino Crisis-esque action game, and you can even find a trailer on it! Its a shame, despite the fact there are SO MANY JP3 themed games, its hard to point to one as "the game" for the movie. Its not like the SNES/Genesis ones or TLW on PS1/Saturn. Most of them for JP3 are decent/cheaply made at best.

there is like three Dual Blades games, and the last game in the series (The Dual Souls) was released 2 years ago

just because of the size of the sprites Black Belt Challenge gives me NeoGeo Pocket Color vibes.

Hold up, this is crazy. The guy from Denmark you played as in K1 GP2 is Nicholas Pettas, who now has his own KZfaq channel call Junk Food Japan! Friggin crazy!

Love the fact you whacked a clip of Garth Merenghi in there!

I love this series!

THANK YOU! Gonna totally check this out later tonight.

Oh holy shit, A Sound of Thunder was developed by Mobius, aka Rockstar Leeds, aka the developers of GTA: Liberty City Stories, GTA: Vice City Stories, and GTA: Chinatown Wars.

Try the GOG version for Pray for Death, the reviews seem like they made it work over there. Also, speaking of portable fighters, did you see that game Pocket Bravery on steam? It's like, going for the Fatal Fury Pocket look, I think you'd be into that.

The Flashback Legends GBA game is just a prototype, it was never finished because Delphine Software, well......y'know.

0:15 now hold up. Didn't BAM! Entertainment help publish the Game Boy Advance versions of Fire Pro Wrestling outside of Japan? Aren't those entertaining games?

20:30. There is a spot in Netherlands that looks exactly like that: Zaanse Schans. You could also say the Holland stage from Twisted Metal 2.

yooo. I didnt know that today I would be treated to a Garth Marenghi reference! Matt, I didnt know you are a fan of the masterpiece that is Darkplace! 🤘🤘

The Sound of Thunder was a story by Ray Bradbury about the future where you could go into the past to hunt dinosaurs. This guy in the group is a jerk, messes up the future, so the group leader shoots him - the ending line is “and there was a sound of thunder”

I would love to see some more gba games

There's definitely some Worst Fighting Game content in here, not because the games are particularly bad but just the sheer intrigue of where they came from.

Black Belt Challenge and Dual Blades should be added to the next EVO tournament.

Flashback! Yo! My fav game of all time. WAIT. There was a sequel that wasn't Fade to Black, The XBA remake or the sequel they announced a few years ago???

Great video. Great series 👍🏿

Iirc, Black Belt Challenge was meant to have a different game but the publisher demanded it be what it is cause they wanted to capitalise on the popular sports game market.

The How Did This Get Made episode for the Sound of Thunder movie is hilarious

2:15 Metroid Fusion had music AND sound!

Bam Entertainment 🤝 Gameboy Advance Name a more iconic duo

I assume K-1 Grand Prix is based on the actual K-1 kickboxing promotion (based on the fact that the game has Mirko Crocop in it), and that would explain why there's no jumping.

I think the reason people think that Moloch will be in MK1 is because that era of the series has been getting A LOT of love in the marketing.

Black Belt Challenge is goated

Iron kid(or atleast that was great English translation) was a Korean CG cartoon back in like 2006 lol. Never knew it had a game

Three Anime-based games you've likely never heard of that are kind of interesting: Boukyku no Senritsu, the first Futari wa Pretty Cure game (Futari wa Pretty Cure: Ariena~i! Yume no Sono wa Daimeikyuu) and Mermaid Melody Pitch Pitch Pitch. IDK how blind you want to go into these games but the first is an action game, the second a puzzle platformer and the third a rhythm game. EDIT: These are not great games, but I promise they're not total stinkers.

JP 3 game was my childhood favorite! Game was hard as sh*t though. Someday I want to make a fanmade remaster or remake.

Operation Genesis on PS2 was a Jurrasic Park 3 game ....technically, it had the JP3 logo and a Spino in it

The Crouching Tiger title screen gives off soccer game vibes.

Bam Entertainment wasn’t all bad. They did get us the first English releases from the Fire Pro Wrestling series.

51:56 Oh, I remember the _Galidor_ TV Show from back in the early 2000s. It was, okay I guess.

Will say when you were playing the K1 game, one of the coolest dudes was who you were playing as. Nicholas Pettas now has a channel on KZfaq called junk food Japan and it’s dope.

Oh my God I kinda need that K1 arcade fighter at the end with Chibi Mark Hunt

Duel blades has awesome box art and manual art! I remember playing it as a kid, lol

You ever play Bruce Lee for the Gameboy Advance? It's kind of like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in terms of mechanics, but it plays a lot better. A surprising hidden gem for me. Looking it up now, it was apparently developed by... Blizzard?!

Yesssss more of this

Dual Blades is utterly baffling yet deeply intriguing to me. Like, why is the "Kilroy was here" phrase painted on the wall in that one stage? What significance does an old WW2-era graffiti have in the game's lore? It's so out of place I can't help but want to understand more about it.

I loved galidor show as a youngin ', I still own most of the toys, I actually bought this GBA when I got my console lol

I wish the cancelled Sound of Thunder Ps2/Xbox game could’ve seen the light of day. I’ve only seen a few screenshots and no gameplay footage. It looked like it ran similar to The Thing game, super bummed it was never released. Same with the Thing 2 for that matter

Hey Matt, while you were playing Black Belt Challenge, I noticed that it was directed by Mathijs de Jonge... If I'm not mistaken, he's the dude who went on to direct Horizon: Zero Dawn with Guerilla Games