Left in Japan 15

The Wacky Races games released by Future Pirates on 3DO only in Japan are because of Iwao Takamoto, who created some of the Hanna-Barbera characters, in fact some of the Hanna Barbera cartoons that he was involved were popular in Japan. It did come out in English but on PC and Mac.

The Snoopy/Peanuts franchise is HUGE in Japan. There's a Snoopy attraction in Universal Studios Japan, a Snoopy museum and a ton of official Snoopy store. They were even used in advertisements for MetLife in Japan until 2016. Thunderbirds also still has a following too, since it got manga and the animated series Thunderbirds Are Go is brodcasted on TV there. Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes got a Japanese TV release being supervised by Hideki Anno of Evangelion fame. Fun fact: The late Thunderbirds creator Garry Anderson wrote for an anime series called Firestorm in 2003 that lasted 26 episodes. It failed to gain a huge audience, but Gary's son Jamie made a pilot for a Firestorm reboot on Youtube in 2019. Also, Terrahawks was originally supposed to be a Japanese anime in association with Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (the Japanese film company who would own the Japanese rights to Thunderbirds since 2015), due to the success of Thunderbirds in Japan. Thunderbirds 2086 is just an edited English dub of the anime Scientific Rescue Team Technoboyger and is not canon since Garry and his wife Sylvia Anderson were not involved.

"If this game were better then it would suck less than it does." True words of wisdom from Joe.

Fun fact, I was actually an extra in King Kong Lives. It was shot in Tennessee and a friend of mine's mom was dating someone on the crew (can't remember his title) and he got my friend and I in one scene with a bunch of other people all of us "running in fear" from Kong.

Why sleep when you can watch a new Game Sack video?

Lol, that "Hello You" killed me 🤣 Larry, get out of that body!

Very much enjoy the “BLOW ME DOWN” screen transition in the popeye board game

The lady name is Bonnie Barstow and the elder man is Devon Miles. They both worked for the Foundations in the Knight Rider tv series. As for the game itself, i quite enjoyed it. Better than the NES and Ocean version during that era. You don't have to constantly hold down the d pad to accelerate as it drives on its own (As what KITT usually do) and you have to only worry about steering it. Fun Fact. When you reach Stage 5, you have to lose on purpose because the boss is too powerful for you to beat. Then , your car is upgraded which allows you to fight the final boss.

If you ever run out of Japanese exclusive, there's an entire plethora of American properties turned into UK exclusive games too!

Very nice to see the Peanuts game covered! I bought it a few years back for cheap because the music is great and I believe composed by the same person that did the music for Earthbound 😄

3:15 NEW Ghostbusters II also came out in Europe and there's a North American prototype too.

The idea of using Woodstock as the mouse pointer in that Peanuts game is super cute.

This is an instant classic episode! The combination of familiar IPs with rarely seen games makes it a winner.

I am absolutely incensed over your review of Super Back to the Future II, a game I had no idea existed.

The female mechanic in Knight Rider is named Bonnie Bairstow and was played by Patricia McPherson.

Thunderbirds had a renaissance here in the UK after a well publicised and high-quality repeat from 1992, which would fit with a 1993 game. Of course the question why a Japanese dev and why not a release in the West are beyond me. It was definitely a phenomenon at that time though, a run on toys lead to a special of children's magazine show Blue Peter detailing how to make your own Tracy Island.

Batman cleaning paintings is... Oddly fitting for nowadays. He was trying to warn us from the future!

Lenar is an author, ie game developer. They didn't make many good games, but Gunple Gunman's Proof was a great one at least

Man, Joe has some good taste in music. I caught that rare cut from the sf3 new generation soundtrack, the ibuki bonus AST.

New Ghostbusters 2 was also released in Europe for the NES. Great game.