Video games with pop stars are insane

Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday: http://bit.ly/19jUASK Long before Rock Band's plastic drums were piled in the corner of your living room, OG developers like Midway and Ocean were trying to shoehorn popular musical artists into their games to gain an edge in the arcade. Keep us alive on Patreon:   / thisexists   SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter:   / samsthrlnd   Facebook:   / whoathisexists   Reddit:   / whoathisexists   Instagram:   / samsthrlnd   Snapchat: samsthrlnd Goodreads: http://bit.ly/1vEDRJf ---------- Links: Atari 2600 - Journey Escape -    • Atari 2600 - Journey Escape   Sssnake (Atari 2600) -    • Video   Journey (1983 Midway) -    • Video   Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (original version) -    • Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (origina...   C64 Longplay - Frankie Goes To Hollywood -    • C64 Longplay - Frankie Goes To Hollywood   Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol Playthrough Part 1 -    • Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patr...   Playback Episode 3: Games based on musicians -    • Playback Episode 3: Games based on musicians   The Residents - Bad Day On The Midway -    • Video   Michael Jackson Moonwalker level 1 (Sega mega drive) -    • Video   Michael Jackson's Moonwalker - Full Game - Part 3/3 -    • Michael Jackson's Moonwalker - Full Game -...   Mega Drive Longplay [211] Michael Jackson's Moonwalker -    • Mega Drive Longplay [211] Michael Jackson'...   Journey Escape game play on the Atari 2600 -    • Journey Escape game play on the Atari 2600   ---------- Watch another episode of This Exists: Bronies have a thriving music scene:    • Bronies have a thriving music scene   The Hobbit is more hip-hop and satanic than you think:    • The Hobbit is more hip-hop and satanic tha...   ---------- Daily news, interviews, and more: http://www.aux.tv/ FREE AUX MAGAZINE (APPLE): https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/aux-m... FREE AUX MAGAZINE (ANDROID): https://play.google.com/store/magazin... SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter:   / auxtv   Facebook:   / auxtv   Tumblr:   / auxtv   --------- You're ripped your way through Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero: Van Halen and you're holding out for the previously announced but still unreleased Guitar Hero: Red Hot Chili Peppers. But if you're truly dedicated to artist license-abusing, you own all of those Micheal Jackson games. Both 50 Cent games. And Journey's Escape. Long before Ringo Starr's plastic drums were piled in the corner of your living room, OG developers like Midway and Ocean were trying to shoehorn popular musical artists into their games to gain an edge in the arcade. But it was Data Age, creators of the Atari mega-bomb Sssnake who claimed first console blood with this other non-classic. Released in 1982 for the Atari 2600, Journey's Escape finds you dodging, quote, "Love-Crazed groupies" as you make your way to the Journey tour bus, which is a giant Scarab beetle (   • Atari 2600 - Journey Escape   4:16 -- 4:18). Along the way you gain invincibility by touching either roadies or your manager, who is the Kool Aid Man. Midway released another Journey game only one year later, this time with the band searching for their instruments in outer space. Ocean developed a game based around Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1985. You know - That band. The game, creatively titled "Frankie Goes to Hollywood," tasks you with reaching the mythical Pleasuredome by fully attaining four attributes -- sex, love, war, and faith -- and bringing an atheist murderer to justice. Who knows. With the growth of PC gaming and, eventually, CD-Roms, these games started to... basically all be exactly like Myst. You know -- mysterious and full of puzzles and very atmospheric. Myst. Written by Devo, Devo Presents: Adventures of the Smart Patrol drops players into the troubled world of Spudland, at risk of destruction from Turkey Monkey. Pretty Devo. Not a very good game. Prince's Interactive is another Myst-style weirdness trove. You walk around Paisley Park and solve puzzles to collect pieces of Prince's symbol. But the best of this era is Bad Day on the Midway, a legitimately groundbreaking piece of multimedia art-gaming from avant-garde Eyeball-wearing weirdos, the Residents.