The thing about Lego island is that it encapsulates the attitude of the time. It's really a product of that manic over the top early 90's / late 80's sense of humor that was in other media.

Great video! Top notch editing!

I'm surprised that Lego Island failure cutscene didn't traumatise an entire generation lmao

The cinematic opening of Lego Racers was such a blast to watch. Never skipped watching it on our family pc with W2000nt os😂

This video is criminally underviewed, the production value alone is amazing and I love the amount of info being delivered. I only ever had Lego Island so learning about all these other Lego games is really cool. Keep up the great work!

The bad ending was actually shortened and less obnoxious in the final game. Still managed to be traumatizing though, and what the Infomaniac said to the player afterwards never made up for it. I always quit out of the game with the escape key and try again later, whenever I was about to lose.

The in-game engine introduction of the N64 LEGO Racers was copied from the demo release of the PC version, which also used in-game renders instead of FMVs. That's probably why it was the only LEGO game on Nintendo 64, as LEGO games at the time relied heavily on FMVs, and LEGO Racers was the only one that could take the easy way out in that regard.

Using a song from 009 Sound System with the Movie Maker outro at 17:55 shows how much attention to detail you have. Just brilliant!

Lego Island 1 was the first Lego game? That's absolutely wild to think about.

Loved _Lego_ _Racers_ . Such a great game. Wish they'd refined the concept; the second game didn't do it justice.

5:22 This is uncut version and was only in BETA versions, in Final versions it was cut to some seconds to not traumatize and scare children Final version Bad Ending: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6udasiLkrG8aIU.html

6:40 Tbh. that Bad Ending fitted the Brickster perfecty: He was Chaos and Doom!

I found myself pausing and rewinding at so many instances throughout this video, just to appreciate the 3D animations and special effects! SO GOOD! Even from the very beginning with the recreated Lego logo animation I knew this was gonna be a great video. Admirable and entertaining throughout, mister moons!

That intro unlocked a feeling I haven't felt I years

This deserves so much more viewership. An incredible analysis of a bygone era of Lego that so many of us fondly remember, even if some of it has aged a little bit rough. Rock Raiders and Lego Racers were always my favorites, though Lego Island had its charm too, as a zany adventure that leaned hard into an utterly massive amount of audio for a game of its era.

omg the lego island 2 super stationmaster scene makes so much more sense after seeing lego loco. i always thought that was so random - even as a 7 year old

The crazy thing about Lego Friends is that it seems to have absolutely ZERO to do with Lego at all. Like, aside from the title, there's no legos in the game. And it predates the Lego Friends sets by more than a decade. Very strange.

Warp to now and Manic Miners just got it’s 1.0 release that includes multiple campaigns and all the core features. The only thing missing is mod support that’s coming sometime down the road. Hopefully the guy also adds cut content to better flesh out the game and allow map makers to create cool levels. Great video. It was definitely interesting.

Did you know that in 1991 developer FarLight created a Lego Game and that Lego never used it? From 1991 to 1992, developer FairLight worked on a Commodore 64 platformer titled Linking Leroy Visits LEGOLAND, expecting the LEGO Group to approve it. If published, it would have been the first LEGO video game. Nonetheless, the LEGO Group never in any way endorsed the game or approved of the usage of the name and logo, and the project was ultimately cancelled

I remember playing these Lego games in my youth. Good times.

Not to be a stickler, but the bad ending video you showed for Lego island was actually cut from the final game and changed for a much shorter, lighter in tone ending that’s more wacky than depressing, cause they were worried about upsetting kids

Lego Island remains a favorite of mine.

Ahhhh fuck that intro is awesome, brings back lots of memories

Dude I loved Lego island

The editing and presentation in this video is absolutely impeccable, cannot wait to see the algorithm finally give you the attention you deserve man, it may take a long time but it does eventually reward consistency from what I can gauge. Keep it up bro, absolutely stellar work 👍

10:06 but the biggest mystery forget the Footbridge the biggest mystery is why did the train in the intro continue to 10:11 run down the too Minifigs on the hand car hang on a second enhance that frame it's the dude with the food Pepper Damn, he used to be such a good kid!

I’d love to see one of these videos for the other original Lego titles before they started their licensing model.

The Lego island ending is a fever dream

this was super cool! id love to see a sequel video about the games from the 2000's, pre TT!

I’d love to see a follow-up to this video including some of the 2000s games, like Legoland and Drome Racers This was such a fun look at the old games, and left me wanting more!

Man that’s all my childhood. I’d be like 4 or 5 playing Loco and Creator

I wish they remade Lego Island, but with the ability to build anything rather than the default models. Imagine the one-of-a-kind buildings you could construct. Or wacky Mad Max style vehicles

Watching this and thinking back, Lego clearly had a bad habit of releasing games with broken or missing features, sometimes still advertised in the booklet or opening video. I am bothered to this day by the 5 new locations they said would appear on the map in Lego Island when I captured the Brickster.

This games were my childhood. I grew up with so many of them. What a great video and naustalga trip.

God this brought back a lot of memories, now thinking about it Lego Island must of been the first PC game I ever played, had all the other ones but Racer, favourite had to be Rock Raiders (PS1) man I loved that game

9:21 so cool, love secrets like these

Holy shit that intro... You unlocked memories. Lol

Pepper is the same kid as Andy in Toy Story. I was floored when I found that out.

Youre like a modern day jason bradbury, I love this and I am so glad you spoke about Racers

I played Racers, Rock Raiders, and Drome compulsively. I loved those games. I pulled so many crazy stunts in lego racers... I don't think they should have been possible. 😂

This video is amazing and it was worth the time you have spent to it! I really like it and watch it over and over when I wanna find out some details of the Lego games!

Man. This is so underrated! You should have more subs mate!

7:10 my stepdad actually had huge nostalgia for this game because its the first game he ever played at the ripe age of 8 in second grade and because of this games genre hes huge into strategy games like age of empires which is also a nostalgia crown jewel of his

That perfectly-recreated intro is worth a sub by itself. Also mechanically, Lego Racers is actually more of Diddy Kong Racing rather than Mario Kart specifically, since both games have upgradeable powerups (with DKR you have to run into multiple balloons of the same color, rather than "upgrade balloons")...

I spent so much time playing Lego Island when I was little. Love this video!

Great video, you were able to translate my thoughts on these games really well!

I'm midway theough and already love what youve put into this. Amazing work!

I had lego island 2. And racer. The island was kinda good. But mechanics felt budget.

omfg i forgot about lego loco. i had all the other lego games from creator to island to racers, but we could never find loci anywhere & this was before we even had internet - and even if we did, we didn’t know of any websites where we could order the game online

Very great video. Nice overview of the old lego games I will play later

Lego Racers was my childhood! I would kill to see a remake of it

10:11 my god, the dude with the food

This was a awsome trip down memory lane and a awsome video

I dont understand why lego doesn't remake these games

Great Video. I still play Lego Racers 1 this time😅 Idk but i love it.

This is really well done, but I wish you talked about LEGO friends lol

24:38 You can powerslide for parts like these (And the game is called Lego Racers btw)

Loved lego island 2 and lego rock raiders, so manny hours of fun. Remember playing g-mod on a TTT server with a lego island 2 map. The pizzeria had a button you could press to play the lego island2 song. Everyone was just chilling around there not fighting. Anyone that tried to turn it off got killed 😂

Lego racers and Lego Loco were so much fun. Got them with christmas

Great production, I'm glad I stumbled upon this video. Lots of nostalgia

also the loco office talking sound effect sounds just like the talking sound effect from the tonka game where you could build a road through a desert & build a skyscraper & something in the snow or mountains or something

Amazing video. That video games were my childhood 🙂

I played a lot of these classic Lego games as a kid. They were popular among my group of friends. An irl friend thought it was odd that Pepper Roni was not in Lego Star Wars II.

just so you know, lego racers 1 actually is playable with a controller, but youd still have to use the keyboard and mouse for very few important things but the mouse definitley was better for doing stuff,

This video is brilliant, man.

Amazing editing in this video!

dude this channel is so underrated you put so much effort into your videos and you’re really entertaining i enjoyed watching this as my first video in your channel keep it up!! :D

You forgot the best one, which is Lego Legoland as a building game.

Holy shit, amazing video man, you deserve more viewers. Thank you for creating this. :)

This is an amazing video! Randomly came upon it in my feed and to my surprise it only had 200~ views. Bloody brilliant! You got yourself a new sub!

Fantastic video. You are a real American wizard with the funny editing

All six of these need to be put on GOG.

both my kid brain and my current less kiddy brain thinks older lego games were more charming/interesting/creative before the licensed era of games (lego star wars, lego harry potter, etc). they all just became the same game!

Lego Island was one of the three first games I got for PC back in 1997. Over the following years I got Loco and Rock Raiders, those three were the Holy Trinity that I would go back to play again and again. Rock Raiders has to be my favorite and I couldn't beat the 2 second to last missions until I turned 16 and decided that I had to beat it, so I looked it up and realized that you had to kinda exploit some feature to be able to pass.

Great video, the editing and humour are great! This video has nowhere near as many views as it deserves. This is such an interesting period of LEGO for me because of the range of different things they tried, throwing everything at the wall to not be bankrupt and stay relevant. I wish we could return to this era of such a variety of games, instead of the TT usual.

The bad ending of lego island would have made me cry and shit myself cause even as an adult that shit was fucking scary to watch

This is so well presented. I'am impressed.

Of these six Lego games from the 90s, I recall I played the following ones: Lego Island, Lego Chess, Lego Creator, and Lego Rock Raiders.

Pepperoni will sound a lot like Andy from Toy Story because its the same voice actor, John Morris.

25:25 this is really funny to me because I AM 23 and I’ve played both Lego Island 1 (also 2) and Lego Chess, but never Lego Racer. I’m pretty sure both were borrowed from a family friend with a kid 5-6 years older than me though. I they also straight up gave me my copy of Zoo Tycoon 2. Having a brother 6-7 years older than myself gives me some rather unusual nostalgic games for someone my age. The basement had the Windows 98 and I played the games my parents had already bought for my brother when he was small. 🤷‍♀️

From what I remember of Lego Loco, it seems like that same concept could be remade as a city builder app, like SimCity. It’s weird Lego doesn’t have a game like that anyway, although I guess TT Games has never been an ‘app game’ type of company.

7:58 I gut laughed at this so hard that you don't even know

Diddy Kong Racing had a similar weapons system with colour coded balloons the main difference being picking up a balloon of the same colour makes it more powerful. Basil and Gypsy Moth are my biggest sources of rage in Racers though mainly more on Gypsy Moth. The PS1 version of Lego Racers is really bad due to the controls having an actual delay to them which makes some of the races even harder then they should be (especially Basil and Gypsy Moth's tracks). Stick with the N64 or PC versions. Captain Click was actually a skeleton pirate in the final version of Lego Island. Him looking like Captain Redbeard in the early idea for Lego Island was just the devs being lazy as Redbeard had been around since 1989. A lot of old Lego themes tended to give characters totally different names in different regions (in magazines and catalogues). So Redbeard was his US name while Roger was his UK name. No idea why he was called Roger in Chess. Baron Von Baron having multiple different names has become a well known joke to Lego fans. Another name to add to the list is Samuel Von Baron (this name was used for the 10273 Haunted House set). Also notice how he's missing his hook hand in Lego Racers 2? I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

As a seasoned LEGO Racers speedrunner I approve of this video 👍 Brilliantly edited! P.S. LEGO Chess is awesome ~

This video is way too good for only 11k views.

Great production and I loved your sense of humor. Good job, my man.

If you remember the kart racing games from the era of Lego racers.. Lego racers was just better. The powerup system, atmosphere, music, and the FANTASTIC worlds! I kid you not, my facination with immersion came from LRs worlds. They took the sets and expanded upon them. Mariokart 64 has only battlemode over Lego racers. The cars would even handle different depending on how many bricks you had and where to place them. (The original print of the game, not the 2001 rerelease.)

Manic miners is a great recreation. I only play that. It doesn't crash like the original game did a ton

Lego needs to do proper remakes of all these games so gamers from this era can experience these gems.

Lego island shows that it can be good meme material

Wow Lego Chess just unlocked long lost memories for me!

3:56 great!

11:56 banger song edit: 12:30 yet another (this time original) banger

Dude, what about Lego Team Alpha? That game was sick.

Yay! It has been done and finished. Glad you gave Lego Friends the time it needed to shine!

loved lego island, couldnt figure out how to beat the brickster back in the day :D lego loco was also great, just like you I couldnt sent an post card to a friend

I remember Rocket Racers most because the game was an attraction at Legoland Windsor for the majority of the 2000s.

Awesome video! Love the animations in between the sections. Great design at 21:55 using the hats for champions. Also at 25:53, where did you learn that? I'm curious. 😋

Rock raiders and the Digital lego are the only ones I did not spend days playing

How did you create your intro? That was really awesome! 🎉