I’d throw in REM’s “The One I Love” onto that playlist.

Let’s see, the contents of the comic were about Cap fighting Nazi spies who infiltrated the US military and perpetrated acts of murder, terrorism, insurrection and sabotage.

And what a lot of people nowadays miss is that that cover was actually really controversial at the time. There was a sizable group of Nazi sympathizers in the US who were livid. The Mayor of New York actually had to put both Jack Kirby and Joe Simon under police protection because they were receiving death threats.…

Unless it is specifically trying to ape the style, designs, or iconography of a specific Batman movie, I would argue that it isn’t. Batman has been immensely popular for decades and decades. Films sometimes give him a popularity boost, but he was still extremely well known amongst the general public before even the…

Some members of the American bund (essentially the American wing of the Nazi party) once went to protest out in front of Timely Comics headquarters (the company that would eventually become Marvel comics) because of Captain America. They had to physically restrain Jack Kirby from going out and beating up the crowd of…

I genuinely didn’t know it sold that poorly. I just knew that it seemed to be generally loved, so I apparently thought that it was more commercially successful than it was. I only played it very briefly when a friend brought it over and quickly found it wasn’t my thing (I don’t really like horror games, too stressful…

There is plenty of (admittedly cartoon and lightweight) fighting in Ducktales (although the focus is usually more on adventure and comedy), but the game definitely took a lot of liberties with the property. I could see a pretty good classic point-and-click adventure game being made based off of Ducktales, but I don’t…

I never claimed that it wasn’t. My original post said that “it is so obscure, that it may as well be,” which in fact implies that it is not technically an original IP, but that it functionally is for the purposes of this discussion.

For those of you have not seen said excellent video essay, here it is:

For the purposes of what this article is talking about, which is licensing really popular, somewhat overexposed IPs to make games that the companies are sure will succeed because of their IP’s extensive popularity, it really isn’t remotely the same. It was a tabletop RPG that has at best a cult following. Even among…

Buchanan and Nixon were never impeached. The only Presidents before Trump who were impeached were Johnson and Clinton.

EA can still make a JFO2. Once the contract expires, EA can still make licensed games based on Star Wars, it’s just that Disney can license other companies to make games as well.

It’s obscure enough that to most of the gaming public, it might as well be.

It’s a movie tie-in in all but name. It may not have direct connections to the MCU, but there is no way that Square Enix would have forked over so much cash for the property if the MCU hadn’t made the Avengers so popular, and the art style seemed to want to make the game look as much like the MCU without violating…

A lot of the Capcom licensed games in the NES and SNES era were quite good, with Ducktales especially being acclaimed as one of the best 2D platformers of all time. Almost all of them were much better than the soul-less dreck that became typical of licensed games.

I think that it is a reflection of the blooming budgets and production times of all but some indie games now. Most licensed tie-ins were usually cheap games that were made quickly with little effort (there were some exceptions, obviously, but they were exceptions, and even some of the good ones were rushed, like Spider…

No problem.

Their lack of boxes for otters is definitely otterly ridiculous.

A Hat in Time. I just love how that game handles overall, and the jumping controls are the best in any video game that I’ve seen.