I have no idea who asked for a game about the Incredible Crash Dummies, let alone a NES release in mid-1994, but there you have it.
>>12473376it's a port of the SNES game. a typical Europlatformer meaning the programming is ace but they made lots of awful design decisions.
The toys were really popular when I was a kid and I remember they brought them back in the mid 2000s but now they're just as forgotten as Rock Lords and MASK. Also I rented the snes game and never made it very far
>>12473376Why are you talking like we already know who you are and were waiting to learn what you know? Just say "Why does this exist?" or something if you want to start a conversation about that and not look like a retarded hack.
>>12473382It was the only NES game I ever beat as a kid so I'll always be fond of it, jank and all
>>12473391what kind of medications is this anon on?
>>12473390This. I didn't have any of the toys myself, but I had friends who did and I remember the constant tv commercials.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_QqtEnox8
>>12473382>being able to accidentally crash into a jutting steel pillar
>>12473412I had some of the toys, and unless my mom's chucked those, I still have at least some of them.I definitely have the game still.
never played the vidya but i loved the velcro dolls you could knock the limbs off of
>>12473412>>12473456I was begging my grandmom to buy them for me for a while, at least until they ceased production. By then, most of the dummies had the little plastic bits inside their limbs broken off and so they wouldn't stay locked in their torsos. Loved it when I was able to get Junkman, though, as the commercials made him seem awesome.
>>12473526>By then, most of the dummies had the little plastic bits inside their limbs broken off and so they wouldn't stay locked in their torsosI remember that happening to almost all of mine. I think the only reason the last one didn't break was because I stopped playing with toys short while after getting it.
>>12473376I loved the Crash Dummies as a kid, probably right around 1994. The NES was the cheap, old console at the time, one with a gigantic install base, so they probably thought pumping out a mediocre licensed NES game for it was a good recipe for sales, just like how the PS2 and Wii continued to receive random crap titles well after their lifespan as primary consoles. The toploader model was also a recent release, so it could further capitalize on people who picked one of those up as a budget console or a replacement for a broken or previously sold original NES.
>who asked about a video game based on a toy line and a cartoon popular at the time
Hi, I asked for this, my dad made video games and I asked if he could make me a video game and this was the result, thanks dad! :-)
>>12473376Even the slop was soulful in those days
>>12473514I totally forgot about these. I had one as a kid and it was a ton of fun. Thank you for a blast of nostalgia. I had some of the Crash Dummy toys too, but never played the video game.
>>12473376I have no clue why they released it in Europe, the toys never got released here so even professional reviewers were scratching their heads about the concept of this game and writing some nonsense about how "professional-grade crash dummies were popular to own in America now" that I assume they got from some misinterpreted press release.
>>12474064My only guess would be that NES games were relatively cheap to manufacture at the time, and they thought that households which still only had an NES in the mid 90s were an underserved market, so fuck it, why not.
>>12473802>and a cartoonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06wP5QbjaVAJust a pilot episode. It never got a full series, which is what Reboot's actual claim to fame is: Reboot was the first CGI animated series, not just a short or single episode.
>>12473376If nothing else this game has one of the most incredible soundtracks ever. How the hell they got an NES to play the entire Superman Song still amazes me.
>>12473802>>12474164I'm surprised this isn't more of a Morganella effect thing. If you'd asked me, I would've said that there was a traditionally animated Incredible Crash Dummies cartoon. I know it's just a false memory because of the toy ads presenting characters and scenarios like it was based on some sort of established cartoon, the fact that a lot of toy lines at the time did have cartoons, and the toy boxes themselves having cartoon illustrations, but still, for as cool as I thought they looked as a kid, I'd have thought the actual lack of a cartoon would've stood out more at the time.>it was all based on a PSA It makes sense, but makes it even crazier that it evolved into toys and videogames.
>>12474178I remember the PSAs, they clearly were a hit with kids to branch out into the merchandising like that. It probably helped that one of the Dummies in them was voiced by Lorenzo Music, which kids at the time would recognize as Peter on Real Ghostbusters and Garfield.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQR5ktq7W0
>>12473376the music written by geoff follin is so good that it has no business being in such a shitty game.
>>12473412i still have that red car in my basement
>>12474064>I have no clue why they released it in Europe, the toys never got released hereWe had the toys in Sweden.
