I'm glad Corax is using his platform to talk about important subjects like lego videogames

Seeing Corax animate AND talk about LEGO games is one of the few things I need in life.

My heart goes out to the families of the developers of Island Extreme Stunts. God only knows what that psychopath Joshua Tomar must have done to force them into giving him a voice acting role.

Hey everyone, thank you for watching! I know this format might be a bit different from the usual Jermas, but I had fun making it and I think it's got potential! EDIT: Free Gamer Supps samples are done! You can still get a 10% discount on your order at gamersupps.gg/CORAX (or use code CORAX at checkout)

As a former lego store employee, the new Stuntz sets with the motorcycles are genuinely the most actual fun thing in the store. We destroyed our demo ones with how much we played with them. There were skid marks on our demo table and the ramps. Other Lego are fun to build, but Stuntz are actually fun to play with.

gotta say, your creativity, work ethic, and willingness to branch out despite the risks of moving away from whats popular is really impressive. i cant wait to see everything you have planned for all us loyal followers :3

18:41 “Tomar what would you do if you were a LEGO man?” “Yeah Tomar what would you do? Would you plant lots of bulbs?” “Wait but Tomar what if they didn’t grow as expected, what would you do?” “Yeah Tomar, what would you do?”

Lego Universe... I loved that game so much. It just had such TERRIBLE marketing. I happened upon it by pure chance on a trip to the Galleria. I went by the LEGO store and I saw the game on shelves. Grabbed it, played it up until it shut down. I had two friends.. that were mythran in that game I ran into by sheer chance and deduced " You're too nice and well spoke. You're a mod " - and one of them spilled the beans. Loved that game so much. Best community I was ever a part of.

Holy shit, a 25 minute Corax video?! What did we do to deserve this?

Hearing "I'm the king. Welcome to my castle!" for the first time in 20 years just unlocked a core memory

I didn't realize how MANY LEGO games I played as I kid. It feels like every minute of this video new memories are being unlocked.

My favorite Lego games have to be Lego battles (2009) and Lego Ninjago battles (2011). I loved how many factions/characters you could unlock and play as, and the strategy aspect of the game really sold it for me

Corax talking about old LEGO Games? I think this is a dream come true. What a blessing.

the geometric density of lego island was pretty crazy for 1997. the game invented (edit: did not invent, my bad, merely created) an LOD system for distant objects to be simplified further away from the camera, I think it might be the first game with that.

I hope you continue doing these kinds of videos, they really took me back to the early video game reviewer era. If I would be allowed to have this impression there were one or two moments in this video that reminded me of old JonTron, like up to his 2013 period and earlier even, like really in a good way.

My first lego game that got me really into Age of empires and starcraft was a weird little DS RTS lego game called lego battles. Was a really cool game

Jesus christ, what demon did you make a deal with to absolutely DOMINATE every animation style you try? i wanna have a word with him.

I used to call electronic music "Junkbot Music" as a kid, since that was one of the few places I heard that style played. Even two decades later, introducing my own child to Lego through the toys & games has been a blast. Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)

I heard cat facts, I have been summoned. @7:50 -- if anyone is wondering, there is in fact a train station in Japan where a cat works as Station Master with her own hat (with summer hat for warmer weather) and own office. She worked at the Kishi Station in Wakayama Prefecture. Her name was Tama and she worked from 2007 until her death in 2015. She was originally a stray cat that would hang around the station. The station was actually very close to closing for a while before they appointed Tama. Once the word got out, the station got an insane increase in visitors. Tama basically saved the station from closing which is regarded as a good example of the "nekomonics"/"cat economics" where cats have played a part in helping the economy. After her death, Tama was buried and enshrined, so she could look after the station after passing away. They visit the shrine on the anniversary of her passing every year. People visit the shrine year round and provide offerings as a "thank you" for Tama. Currently, the new station master is Nitama (second Tama), who worked with Tama before she died. There are a few cats that were trained with Tama who were sent off to different stations. Nitama is currently training Yontama (fourth Tama) to take over when she passes. You can follow the Station on social media and see the different Tama themed cars and keep up with Nitama. (ekichoTAMA or sometimes wakayama-dentetsu) It's also important to note that all cats were calicos -- which are considered extremely lucky in Japanese folklore. They're said to bring good luck and prosperity. All of the beckoning cats statues (maneki neko) are calicos or tri-color. Perhaps the station finding Tama was fate.

7:50 Did not expect such a great reference in the midst of such a fun, nostalgic video.

I would love to see Corax tackle the subjects he wants to tackle in place of the Jerma animations, as funny as they are.

This video feels like it was made by 2012 PBG and or JonTron. An immaculate job as always Corax.

I can tell you put so much effort into this, and I love the animation! I've enjoyed many of the TT Lego games, but I also hope they branch out again. Also, you didn't mention Lego Battles. It wasn't an early game but still very different from your typical Lego game of the mid-late 2000s.

We used to own Lego Creator when I was a kid. I didn't play it very much, but I was impressed by how complex it seemed. It was pretty much just building legos but in digital form, plus you could do things like take control of characters and walk around, and you could control how different mechanical bits should work.

As a lifelong BIONICLE fan, I hope that those fangames that keep getting teased year after year bring that potential right back :)

Eating fritos with shredded cheese while listening to a master animator talk about the history of LEGO videogames for about half an hour. This may or may not be the life

18:42 Look, Tomar, it's you!

lego creator was the first video game I had ever played, this was a nostalgia trip like no other

Lego Universe was and always will be a source of nostalgic joy for me! Hearing you mention it brought a big smile on my face! If only it lasted a bit longer…

Dude, this is excellent. You really have a talent for this more long form type of video. I really hope that you put out more of this. I think your background in high-quality animation really sets you apart from other big players in the gaming video-essay space. I hope that you really use that to your advantage going forward to further make this format of video your own (the bit showing how your old disks ended up getting destroyed in animation sticks out particularly to me). I know that the animation is likely the most time consuming part of the process, but I think that I speak for most of us when I say that your animation style is truly special and adds so much to your content. I'm proud to be a subscriber and I hope you find a lot of success with this.

Came for the legos. You have a really cool style, dude. I almost missed all the little hand-made animations that hold the video together, but then I went back and looked at them. They're great, and don't get in the way of an excellent script. Sticking around.

I had the original Lego Creator as a kid, along with Lego Loco. Can confirm that even when you got it to run, Lego Creator was buggy and prone to crashing out of nowhere. Lego Loco had a cool feature where if you did an “online” map you could send a train out and get a postcard back in response!

One of my favorite lego games when I was a kid was lego ninjago for the ds. It was an rts that must have been really easy considering i beat it as a kid. It was such a fun game with cool levels and secret collectables hidden in the levels. It gives me such nostalgia. I remember trying and failing to 100 percent It as a kid lol. The reason that game is so easy is that enemies don't actively attack you, i think, unless you played king of the hill, so you could just spend x amount of time building up units. I found it so fun.

I'm a Lego Game Vet. Lego Island, Racers, and Stunt Rally were all incredible as a tiny child on my mom's PC. Mind you I got to them after my brother who was born in '96.

You continued to pass the vibe check as soon as you called Racers a banger. That menu theme is ingrained in my brain and sometimes I awake from slumber with it stuck in my head.

Something interesting about Rock Raiders, it also got a PS1 release but instead of it being a rts it became an action collection game when you directly control one of the main gang and collect energy crystals and save lost rock raiders on your way to the end of the level. Always baffled me as a kid, seeing two of the same game but with completely different gameplay

This was hella entertaining, I always love how you add the little Lego animations in between of your character. W commentary, wouldn’t mind seeing more of these 😼✨

editing is fantastic. great video

12:45 this was way more elaborate than i thought you could do with that software, I LOVE IT

You're sfm video actually got me into making animation, I am doing, okay, but you keep inspiring me to make them, and I can't really say I'm good at animating, but I have definitely gotten a lot better. Thank you Corax!

Subbed for the funny 2D Jerma Animations Now completely excited for more The Missed Potential of Old LEGO Games videos.

Man, I had Lego Island 2, Extreme Stunts, Alpha Team, and the soccer game as a kid. Honestly beautiful memories. I wasn’t quite old enough to play Lego island 1, but I think in hindsight, 2 was the better one so I don’t feel too bad about missing out.

Corax, you really read my mind on a lot of this. I've been severely disappointed that LEGO has almost completely abandoned their original IPs in favor of licensing deals. I grew up with LEGO Island, LEGO Racers, LEGOLAND, and Soccer Mania, and they're all very dear to me. Not to mention all of the flash games on their website! I feel this isn't just an issue with LEGO Media, though. Even the physical LEGO sets seem to lack much originality now. Most are based less on things you can actually play with, and more on models of cars and other static objects. While cool, the creativity and intellectual stimulation just seem lost now. I love that you put this video together. It's something I've been feeling for years at this point, but didn't really have anybody to tell. Hopefully we'll see some more original stuff from LEGO in the near future.

The online lego games (mostly old flash games) such as Junkbot (which had a brief cameo in this video), Bricklot and the Mata Nui Online Game were iconic. Well worth revisiting, though there are so damn many of them

I am all here for Video essays AND animation. You killed it dude.

Lego Island 1 & 2, Lego Racers, Lego Loco, the Bionicle Mata Nui flash game... I spent SO many hours on these games as a kid. They really take me back to another time. I'm glad other people have lots of nostalgic memories for them too!

I grew up with the Lego Star Wars format, and I missed out on every game that was different from that format other than a web browser game were you drove Lego cars around a city. Your optimism for the potential of an experimental age for Lego is really exciting and I’m now hopeful for that as well.

honestly a Lego game that plays something like SIM city where you can design (and save/copy/paste) buildings and such seems like it'd be very popular

The animation youtuber - to - video essaist pipeline never gets old. but yeah the whiplash is insane, Bionicle Heroes and Lego Universe were my straight up favorite games but its a shame that Bionicle Heroes was never explored more, it seemed like the perfect blend between shooter and LegoTM game, but the auto-aim doesnt let it age too well

I was not expecting this kinda content from you but I'm glad you posted this, it was a fun watch.

This was a pleasant surprise. I was even just thinking about some old Lego games recently and I agree that the old games had something going for them, at least in potential. Especially Rock Raiders. Never played it myself, just watched, but I really hope that Lego revisits it some day, even if just the genre itself. Lego star wars on the 360 might have been the first time that I genuinely loved a Lego game _(ah, the good old days of trying to play co-op with a Rockband drumset, cause we had one controller)--_ not that I didn't like any of the others, but as a kid, games like Lego island were appealing less because they were fun and more because of the charm, atmosphere, however you can describe it _(that and there wasn't much else that we had to play; also, my copy of Lego Island was also eaten by the optical drive_ :( I always like when animators do these kinds of videos, it adds a lot to it, I hope to see more!

12:46 Okay this whole part with Cedric and Richard is great and also hilarious. Oh and that voice impression for Cedric is awesome!

love the videos, the animation is 🤌

I love the idea of Corax doing what MeatCanyon does, doing fun videos like this in between animations. I'm totally here for it.

i got surprised that when i looked your channel and this is the first time this format was made, i didn't recognized/remembered you as the funny jerma animator but as someone who actually was one with this format, i also like that you started it with a subject im recently into again, that is lego games, this is a really great surprise for sure

4:15 Can confirm - Lego LOCO was the one classic Lego game I owned as a kid, but I spent so much time with it, mainly just building whacky train tracks and watching all the little vehicles and people walking around. It was my first exposure to a city building simulator, and along with being really into Legos at the time, I was also just really entranced by all the little animations and activity going on with every building and minifig pedestrian. Made my little custom towns feel alive in my young mind. It also helped that it was really easy to get into. Didn't have to deal with budgets or needing to build one thing to build another thing. You had all the tools at your disposal, which made me click with it. I would mainly grow up with the Traveler's Tales line of Lego games, at least up until Lego Indiana Jones 2, when my interest in Lego started to wane a bit. I did check out Skywalker Saga more recently, after Covid and an unexpected gift from my Dad rekindled my interest in building Lego sets. It was quite an experience seeing how much Skywalker Saga improved on the gameplay loop compared to what I remembered from the original Lego Star Wars games, and I had a lot of fun with it.

I kinda like the direction of this channel. When I watched the SFM video I got hooked on Corax style of narration. I hope you make other cool projects like this in the future!

I'm a simple man: I see Rock Raiders in a Corax thumbnail, I hit that play button faster than a left hook from Muhammad Ali

There's something distinctly interesting about the late 90's and early 2000's lego games. They were all experimental but usually did what they set out to do well (Except for Lego Rock Raiders). A lot of non-lego games from the era were also extremely interesting to me, the likes of HotWheels Stunt Track Challenge for example, which were surprisingly advanced games for their time thanks to being on the PC. I think if there's one thing I appreciate about growing up the time I did, I think it has to be these unique opportunities I only experienced thanks to the early Windows gaming scene. Things you'll never see again like kids flocking to big dedicated and decorated stands just for Lego games. It's a unique and quite obsolete time in gaming but it was charming and to this day I go back to a lot of the titles, even as DVD ROMs go obsolete and scarce.

My family bought a LEGO games collection in a box, so I have some fond memories with a lot of these. LEGO creator (the original) was, in hindsight, probably also just a tool to create short videos in lego city. But we always just used all the spinning action pieces on top of another, or tried to crash vehicles. The thing I remember most about it however is that at some point, every time, we were flung uncontrollably in one direction and had to shut down the computer, losing most of our progress. Maybe it was just resetting the deadzone between building and playing, but I was 10 and couldnt figure out at all how to prevent it.

Never thought that Corax making a video that isn't an animation about Joey or jerma would be so entertaining/informative :)

Would love to see you do more of these every once in awhile, this was a fun dive considering I only ever played Lego Island and Lego Racers growing up!

Him being born in 1998 means that some of his earlier animations were made in High School, definitely impressive.

Dude this is great stuff i would personally love to see more of this kind of stuff from you bro

Holy shit this is an absolute win. Your animation is clean and gorgeous and this is the exact type of content I want to hear about. If you ever want to talk about the TT I’d be here as soon as. Also this vid is LEGO Battles erasure and I will not stand for it there’s your real hidden gem.

Wait, a long form video from Corax? Gonna have to pay close attention to ensure this video gets the viewership it deserves!

I clicked this video to talk about the Manic Miners fan game that's basically a renewed version of Rock Raiders, when i saw you included it in your video i simply watched the whole thing. I am happy you are so well informed, Lego games deffinetly were a big part of my childhood, especially Rock Raiders and the first Lego Racers game

1:32 I was totally expecting your character to do the Lego Racers main menu animation when presenting the video title, but Lego Movie styled animation ft fingerprints and smudges are equally fun. Great watch!

content im fucking *here* for baby lets go

Corax is such a true Lego fan that he become what he loves, oh how I envy him.😺

7:08 I played Lego rock raiders a lot when I was a kid. The game had a system where you were able to name your workers/lego figures if you trained them and leveled them up. Naming 12 or so Lego dudes was the best choice I ever made back then. Stories started developing all on there own because of this. You had Ted who would constantly screw up everything and trip on spiders every opportunity he got, Bill who had the habit of carrying TNT to already destroyed sections of wall due to my poor commands. He tragically died in a mining accident when he blew himself up with said TNT. Lastly there was Bob. My go to guy for fixing the messes Bill and Ted would make. Bob died though when he got hit by 2 cave ins at the same time. So I ordered a lunch break in his memory and made another Bob. In my head it was Bob's son, Bob the second stepping in to fill his father's shoes. Somehow Bob the second was even more competent than Bob the first. He never died either because the disk became unstable and we couldn't run the game anymore. So technically he's still alive to this day on some dusty old save file. Lastly, to anyone who just got a hit of nostalgia and is off to download the game did you know that the laser beam can be used on lava monsters? It does a measly 2 damage per hit on something that has 200 or so health, but the animation the lava monster does when you shoot him is pretty funny. He'll get flung up in the air, do a triple backflip and land on his ass. This makes me think that the game was already finished, and the programmers put this in as an easter egg. Because combat wise the tactic is pointless. The freezer beam already stuns lava monsters with each hit.

I had LEGO Creator growing up, and remember playing it quite a bit. Something I remember: Once you'd assembled bricks into a structure (or whatever amalgamation you wanted), you could copy and paste it as many times as you wanted. I assume the intended function was to facilitate city building. My dad built a small multi-story office building; it's only features were the windows and an internal staircase. My siblings and I would copy the structure and paste it on top of itself, attempting to build the tallest skyscraper we could. Good times. I haven't heard of Rock Raiders before, but it's obviously the original precursor to Power Miners. As an RTS, I wonder how much its design influenced CrystAlien Conflict. On that note . . . Would you consider doing a similar video on some of the LEGO Flash games? Obviously one couldn't cover every one that ever existed, but I think some stand out as more noteworthy. Alpha Team: Deep Freeze seems especially relevant considering its featured counter-part in this video.

Damn. This video really unlocked some core memories of my childhood; I can't believe I completely forgot about Lego Creator, Football Mania, and Stunt Rally! I remember playing/watching my brother play a lot of these older Lego titles, but there were Lego games in this video that I didn't know about like Alpha Team and Lego Island Xtreme. I was really fond of Lego Racers 1&2, Lego Island 1&2, Rock Raiders, Bionicle: The Game, as well as the GBA Bionicle: Quest for the Toa (or Tales of the Tohunga as it was originally named). Also, I love that you mentioned the fan-remake of Rock Raiders, Manic Miners by Baraklava! I played through a lot of it when it officially released- it was a blast reliving some childhood memories- and I would recommend downloading it if anyone reading this has played the original! Edit: These weren't commercial games but I also remember playing a lot of the Lego web games like Lego World Builder, Mata Nui Online Game (MNOG) 1&2, and Voya Nui Online Game (VNOG).

Fantastic video, so glad to see you branching out because you're genuinely a super creative person edit : Holy shit, Soccer/Football Mania was my JAM

The lego flash games were surprisingly solid as well. The Lego Mars game still goes so hard.

I hope you keep talking about games in videos like this. This was incredibly enjoyable

And now..... LEGO FORTNITE

Why does this guy have such a pleasant and nice voice when his animations are always batshit insane

LOVED this video, such a great trip down memory lane, and loved the beam-up exit. Rock Raiders had two different games with the same name. The PS1 version was like a top down action strategy rather than an RTS

The flash games were so awesome, I loved Mars Mission and Supersonic RC so much when I was a kid, actually just downloaded Flashpoint to replay them

In 20 years, Lego will be making a video about THIS period of experimentation by Corax.

Dang! I hope you revisit Creator with a virtual machine or somthing, it was my favorite game ever when I was a kid. I remember building airships I could control, a battleship with rotating turrets, everything could be automated and programmed, it was so great!

One of my favorite "Lego" games was this Bionicle game on the Gamecube where you were facing off against the Baraka who were reviving old villains to fight alongside them. One of my favorite parts of that game was the park you could make that had a bunch of unique animations for every park attraction all used by the Baraka.

Also, cool fact about the old Lego games: The big box original releases of the jewel cases had a 1x14 plate on the spine of the case, meaning you could build on the case or vice versa, making a specialised display using any Lego you had lying around.

The AI in Manic Miners, I'm pleased to say, is MUCH better about following orders. Plus you can manually finish a ton more tasks now yourself. Also, it's worth mentioning that part of the reason the other LEGO Island games didn't capture the spirit of the first one because Mindscape, the development studio, had the 'genius' idea of -laying off all the staff- right before they'd have to pay them royalties for their work. This is a particular shame as they actually had plans for a whole slew of LEGO games that never got made, including one involving the aquatic themes and pirates that has a brief teaser hidden in Island 1.

Yeah I'm in the "hope they experiment again" phase too. Both with videogames and sets

Finally someone gets that Xtreme Stunts has one of the best soundtracks in a LEGO game, been listening to it for at least a decade, and almost every track is an absolute banger. Special mention to Minty Fresh (used in this video), Plastic Fantastic, Blue Room, Motorbike Mayhem, all of Xtreme Tower, Blistery Fingers, Daft Funk, Trip to the Hop, US-Punk, Gimme All Your LEGO, Supgee, 2-Step, and any other's I missed.

I'm a child of the 2000s so the Tt Lego Games are my bread and butter, but I still respect the elders like Lego Island. I wanted to play Lego Universe back when it was first announced, but sadly never got a chance before its untimely demise. RIP to a real one.

One series I really miss is the Lego Battles series. I can't tell you how many hours I sunk into the original RTS on the DS.. probably one of the best handheld strategy games I've ever played.

I never thought Corax would make an entire new genere in his channel and hopefully a new series based on Lego games, so excited!

Your tone and how you describe things is relaxing while also being humorous even at a low-energy. I don't really know how to describe it beyond that. This and your SFM video have been great things to listen to AND watch :)

I just want to say that you have a lovely voice for these types of videos! It sounds firm but soothing, with a good helping of nerdy nasalish-ness to it. Keep it up!

Love to see another Corax video! This was really entertaining to watch again with your animation (this time on lego form and it looks amazinG), and just loved your takes on the games and jokes there and there and the soundtracks you pick are greaT, something about your videos feels really unique and i love it!

A cousin of mine had lego soccer on PS2. as a kid I thought it was neat that as you play through the story mode beating all these teams with different themes like cowboys or astronauts, you get the team's players to fill up your roster. However since the stats of every team you play against is better than the last that means there's no reason to NOT replace all your players with everyone from the latest team you just beat. So rather than a wacky team straight out of the village people you're entire team is switching occupations.

Crazy that you upload this RIGHT as I start playing manic miners. It's incredibly fun, and I'm not usually an RTS fan!

Who knew the funny Jerma cartoon guy would make a kickass video about the lego games history, ggs man ( not to discredit his usual works, guy makes crazy good animation )

Lego racers had the most banger soundtrack, it was engrained in my head as a child and at 27 I still get the songs stuck in my head

Drome Racers sure seems like it was suffering from the same identity crisis that LEGO was going through regarding Technic. They desperately wanted it to be the cooler older-kids version of LEGO, but the only way they could think of to chase that image was to sacrifice the all-ages charm that LEGO has in the first place. Realistic humans and textures next to even the more complex Technic elements was just never going to work. Meanwhile they finally managed to hit on something good with Bionicle and hamstrung it entirely by sticking to those same all-ages mandates like "we can't have our characters being too violent, so they aren't allowed to actually use the unique weapons they carry."

Great vid! I didn't play much of the non-licensed Lego games, but one of my favorites was Lego Battles for the DS. That was a fantastic RTS and even its Ninjago sequel was fun. Really surprised you neglected to mention these, but I guess your focus was more so on the pre-Star Wars games. I guess I'm asking for a part 2 then?

Lego racers is so incredibly nostalgic to me, i remember having a lot of fun with that as a kid