Reality TV Show Video Games - The Lost Era

we've all got vices and unfortunately

mine is probably reality television from

the tame stuff like Jeopardy and Wheel

of Fortune all the way to the trashiest

of the trash there's nothing quite like

dinner and a whole bunch of drama I'm

heavily invested into with the magical

power of editing sometimes you gotta

turn the brain off and watch a bunch of

people get way too upset at each other

over fishing symbol flourishes and all

personally I blame Nick arcade I mean

you had this fun and peppy host and

Fillmore running around and challenging

kids to this messed up board game and if

they won they got to play inside the

totally real video game I wanted to be

on this show so bad I'd sit around

watching the kids try and do the actual

video challenges fail miserably and be

yelling at the TV that I could do better

you suck at Sonic sorry kid okay she

grabbed some rings she lost the Rings I

think most people know that this whole

genre of Television is low brow minimum

effort and probably causes a lot of

brain rot but what about video games

based on reality TV yeah that's a thing

that exists like a lot well there wasn't

one for Nick arcade or Legends of the

Hidden Temple there was one for

Nickelodeon guts even if it barely

functions reality TV games come in a few

shapes and sizes there's competitive

game shows that have been around since

the 80s but when the latest Century came

around and garbage television came

rolling in In Waves so with the licensed

video game adaptations while we may not

have gotten a playable version of Jersey

Shore we did get Duck Dynasty two of

them one with more snap auto aim than a

console Call of Duty I never really

thought I'd have enough to make a full

video on this but it turns out I

actually do strap in it's garbage day

it's about how hard you can get hit and

so yo it's Austin and today we're going

to be playing as many reality TV show

based video games as we can possibly

find hopefully all the notable ones with

one goal in mind to find a good one if

it even exists growing up I didn't see a

majorities on store shelves because they

were either PC exclusive or Argan been

shovelware and getting one was kind of

like a curse it was something you get

for a bad birthday from a grandparent

that doesn't quite understand the hobby

like ear kiddo have a copy of Deal or No

Deal thanks Grandma did you ever get one

let me know I got the weakest link for

the PlayStation one one year which got

played a grand total of one time we'll

be going over the whole spectrum of

reality TV games which is the perfect

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we need to sink back down to reality

with the most bottom of the barrel video

games possible but if we're reaching

down I want to get this thing started

with some competition of all the reality

shows I watched as a kid I was the most

enamored with ones that resembled a

sport not actual sports but like

climbing a mountain and getting hit with

paper mache rocks well I never got to

search the Hidden Temple for a silver

monkey I do get to pretend I'm an

American Gladiator you know everyone's

dream American Gladiators was one of the

strangest things growing up I had only

ever seen your more kid-friendly sport

reality TV shows like wild and crazy

kids or Legends of the Hidden Temple so

seeing something where you actually get

slapped around was a little baffling

sheltered totally but just like hockey

you'd occasionally get a full-on fight

which I guess makes sense considering

half the show is competing against

strangers to get points well this hot

program got an NES adaptation and would

be the first in the line of what I'm

calling reality TV sport games prior to

the drama and dating pact 2000s most

reality television was based around

competition is it possible for me to be

better than you at thing well I'm gonna

try American Gladiators the video game

wanted to recreate that feeling you

booted up it's like hoorah America you

got a bunch of incredibly ripped people

on the main menu though I'm not really

sure what that's supposed to be

developed by incredible Technologies

Gladiators let you pick one of five

different mini-games of varying

difficulty you don't get to pick who you

play as that's determined for you you

wanna joust you're playing as nitro oh

yeah and every time someone presumably

dies from this height you get to hear

this

that is surprisingly good for the NES

also a little terrifying this is a cool

concept it just unfortunately kind of

sucks like a lot most of the games here

are really repetitive very hard to pull

off and you'll run out of lives in a

jiffy it's hard the wall game has you

climbing a wall while avoiding dudes and

you have to alternate pressing A and B

as fast as you can it's really easy to

mess up and fall as literally everything

will knock you down so uh good luck

American Gladiators isn't very good and

neither are the other versions that came

out on 16-bit consoles the following

year but when it comes to reality sports

games this was one of the first unless

you count wrestling which I mean kind of

though speaking of sports entertainment

what about something that wasn't as

popular American Gladiators might have

ruled syndication in the early 90s but

roller games did not y'all want violence

how about violence on Wheels while the

legitimacy of roller games is up for

debate with its extremely cartoony

presentation these men and women were

definitely beating the crap out of each

other and beef and over canned cheers

[Applause]

this thing ran for a single season with

13 episodes which makes the fact that it

has not won but two separate video games

even more surprising especially because

they were developed by Konami yeah like

Prime classic Konami roller games for

the NES and arcade two very different

titles the Orchid version is trying to

do something similar to the television

show where you spin in circles while

beating the ever living snot out of

everyone in sight it's not bad there's

just not much substance here besides

running and punching for points roller

games for the arcade seems like it would

fit in as a nice one-off level in a

classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

game the scrolling visuals for each

level look nice too just remember to

pick the Maniacs for your team so you

can play as the wild green-haired woman

Now flip it over to the console version

and this is where things get cool here

listen

[Music]

roller games for the NES is what happens

when you take a small concept and a roll

with it rather than trying to replicate

the show this is almost like a Side

Story the character likenesses are here

but the goal is to try and defeat aliens

that are attempting to destroy the sport

the words radical and tubular and don't

even begin to describe this it's a beat

em up platformer all built around the

roller skates there's momentum to

everything you do there's a bit of a

startup required to get going which

means you can also do some funky stuff

with the platforming we got Auto

scrollers we got team and T style levels

we can grab dudes and throw them all

while zooming around on eight wheels if

there was ever an example of a reality

television show getting an actual good

video game adaptation this would be it

roller games is a seriously underrated

gem on the NES and considering there's

absolutely no way it ever gets ported I

think y'all should all hit up your buddy

vim and give it a shot it's not too NES

difficult and I think you'll be

surprised maybe he watched the show too

if you want to see Bizarro world as well

as the feature from the green Lagoon

doesn't stop there there's been reality

sports TV shows for several decades each

with their own games battle robots

beyond the battle box on the Game Boy

Advance that's a lot of bees who doesn't

love watching machines fight to death

all for the sake of squishy human

enjoyment sorry I just gotta take a

stance for the future robot wars well if

you do don't play this game though it

might be a little bit better than robot

wars extreme destruction that's right we

got games for both the American and

European versions seriously though if

you make one of these a bit closer to

Twisted Metal you'll have my money which

unfortunately I gave to American Ninja

Warrior Challenge on the switch one of

my worst games of 2019. it's pretty

funny how Ninja Warrior transformed from

this joke mxc type of show where you'd

laugh at the contestants to a legit

thing that people open schools and train

for while things change but if there's

one wacky obstacle course reality TV

show Game to talk about here you know

it's Wipeout oh sorry ABC's Wipeout it's

different Wipeout as you're going

through obstacle courses and getting

knocked out in all sorts of ragdolling

Glory no matter the entry you know

you'll be picking some random Goofy

character getting smacked so hard if it

were reality you'd definitely definitely

be dead and falling into a pit of water

for most Gamers these are the kind of

games you play with your family as a kid

and don't think much of then for freaks

like me who whip out the Xbox 360

connect to cleanse my palette we've got

Wipeout 3 connect required we ain't

inside scrolling it anymore I am the

controller and as you probably expect it

barely works man I got like 10 feet

between me and the camera and it still

loses track of me you run by wiggling

your arms walk by doing some biker

motions and crouched by uh crouching

except the connect keeps losing me

anytime I crouch a quality product let's

go I do like the free motions I can do

with this thing though lets me do dumb

dances and obscene gestures on the fly

like a lot of reality TV games Wipeout

and it's a wow six different versions so

the type of thing that go in one ear and

out the other it's just a shame they

stopped making these before John Cena

joined the show we could have had some

crazy Cena rag dolling but to be honest

the shows got more than enough halfway

there Living on a Prayer

alrighty that's enough sports and sports

entertainment man it's time to abandon

the rules and get a little trashy like

really trashy reality television does

have a bad rap and rightfully so but

what happens when you take those tacky

drama-filled TV shows and shove them

into a video game well I guess you get

something like the bachelor the video

game

experience the drama of dating

I'm gonna buy this game alrighty Gamers

get ready to find your soul mate by

playing a Wii shovelware minigame

collection that's right dating really is

just like Mario Party you've battle

other suitors out for the affection of

one person all while taking severe

psychic damage by sharing a house with

all 27 of them dating reality television

has been around forever with shows like

the dating game but something like the

bachelor and bachelorette or really

kicked the absurdity into another level

if you've never seen the parody of it

burning love you really should and then

another car came and hit it again yeah

I'm sure it was dead after that I don't

think so I've been known to play me some

shovelware and the bachelor is

absolutely that you pick your character

then engage in a series of mini games

with up to three other players each of

the suitors is trying to get the best

scores in order to get awarded hearts

and the person with the most stars Parts

at the end of the game wins the

affection of The Bachelor and or at you

got group dates and of course the fabled

one on one which in order to spice

things up with some excitement you uh

catch feathers air dropped by other

players I guess that's fun but if you

lose your date falls asleep then this is

dumb when all said and done you finish a

complete season become the perfect

Suitor for uh this person and right off

into the sunset into another season to

do it all again winning the heart of The

Bachelorette over 27 others is something

you're gonna do five separate times I

just wish they would have let me use my

me I almost think it would have been

better than the style they went with

look I'm not above this kind of TV if I

got dinner to Chow Down on and no energy

to absorb an actual content I'm gonna

slap on Love is Blind with my partner in

Revel in garbage games for these pop up

here and there you've got the big

brother MMO that looks like a dollar

store Sims in Second Life and then

there's love Island the game from all

those YouTube ads you've probably seen

before but these are uh not for me not

that I think anyone watching this wants

that

at least I hope not anyways the trash

must continue and what better way than

with someone who would probably throw

you in the garbage yeah best learn how

to cook it's time for Hell's Kitchen

also for the Wii I'm sensing a pattern

here Gordon Ramsay like him or not is

the king of food-based reality

television if there's a dish that needs

critiquing he's gonna slide out of the

darkness and throw it on the ground are

you an idiot sandwich yes yes you are

Gordon's got a ton of shows out there

one of the most famous has to be Hell's

Kitchen so there's two questions here

why would anyone make this and how does

it play the answers are Ubisoft and

Diner Dash we're done wrap it up let's

go but only in Hell's Kitchen do you

have a crappy CGI Gordon Ramsay cursing

at you oh yeah it's rated T for teen

that's absolute rubbish

this is definitely doing it for someone

you click buttons to make dishes and

serve them to the guests all while

getting reamed out by a couple of

pre-rendered Gordons don't worry he says

nice things too and well I've described

the entire game Hell's Kitchen certainly

exists and it actually might be better

than Iron Chef America Supreme Cuisine

the competition's got a game too and it

somehow has a worse art style than the

bachelor I love how Alton Brown just

kind of gyrates in the corner look alls

I'm saying is that cooking video games

aren't very common and it's just weird

that the only two based on reality TV

came out two months apart if you want a

good cooking game try play it up it's

like overcooked did the fusion day into

the roguelite next up it's not a

roguelite but you do get multiple

choices Duck Dynasty I've actually

covered these in the past and these

videos here if you want to see me go

more in depth and yes that does say

Animal Crossing clones Duck Dynasty was

crazy popular in the 2010s and it

somehow got two totally different

releases one semi-open world first

person shooter and the other a bizarre

Community Sim they don't make them like

this anymore now the next show we're

talking about may not be trashy but the

game is spawn sure was back in the 2000s

a lot of people were talking about MTV's

Pimp My Ride just maybe not the game I

mean it was a cool concept while a lot

of the television has come out as

allegedly fake or exaggerated the idea

of decking out a vehicle with

over-the-top stuff is Evergreen content

absolutely Mr exhibit please take my

bottom tier sedan and soup it up make it

shoot out playing cards or something I

don't care I just want to be on

television frankly the idea of this as a

game isn't terrible you take some crappy

cars and you pimp them out unfortunately

there's barely anything to do there's no

racing the actual customization is the

bare minimum the whole thing is picking

a character doing some mini games to

raise money and then rushing to

different spots on the map in order to

purchase the uh the pimping I hope

you're ready to Ghost Ride the Whip you

drive the car all around Pimp City yes

that's what it's actually called and

press buttons in order to qte your way

to a few thousand dollars then pick from

a list of options continue dancing and

riding that Whip and maybe you'll win I

I don't know you don't even have to

worry about taking damage either you

just go on a murderous Rampage through

the city smashing into things left and

right without a care in the world

apparently this is Pimpin the entire

Loop is through in about 20 minutes and

then you've seen a vast majority of

everything this title has to offer well

besides the cutscenes which is just

exhibit making people scream

oh

this job is getting the two danger

ous you can probably expect Pimp My Ride

reviewed poorly like everywhere which

makes it all the more confusing that it

got a sequel Pimp My Ride street racing

on the Nintendo DS and Playstation 2 all

the way in 2009. I'll let you think

about that for a second here's a hint

the show ended in 2007 and the PS3 was

four years old this one's just as the

name implies eraser one where you swap

out a few parts every now and then

there's no exhibit there's no music

beyond the main menu when it does

nothing to resemble the show in the

slightest how are you gonna make a Pimp

My Ride without vehicle customization

Activision pimpless

alright and trash let's move on

something a little more educational well

educational I don't think many people

expected the history and Discovery

Channels to become this weird Vortex a

reality TV shows over time but it

happened I mean what better way to get

the kids learning about the

Revolutionary War than with a video game

although I'd hardly call out of the

History Channel's releases of reality

television with the exception of Pawn

Stars the game for mobile look I've

played some good mobile games I'm sure

you have too Pawn Stars is not one of

those though how they got away with chef

and Mario into this I'll never

understand there's not much on the

history front but change the channel to

Discovery and here's where things get

wild the Discovery Channel went from

weird outdoorsy documentaries and

dinosaur specials to stuff like

MythBusters which was cool that actually

got itself a game in the form of a

shenanigans simulator we gotta go back

to the turn of the century though we

need strong personalities nauseating

editing and something that hasn't been

thought about in 20 years Monster Garage

a show that feels like a mix of rocket

power and a you YouTube poop hillbilly

hillbilly style

for those who don't know Monster garages

basically Pimp My Ride except instead of

exhibit it's hosted by the

self-proclaimed great great grandson of

Jesse James uh Jesse James each episode

they'd assemble a team of people give

them a week and three to five thousand

dollars a vehicle and one simple Mission

make it a monster to whatever specific

guidelines sometimes you just want to

put a minigun on top of a car like

Twisted Metal just in real life so what

happens when you turn that concept into

a full video game well you get Monster

Garage only on Xbox that's right Jesse

here joins the ranks of Crimson Skies

high road to Revenge as stuck on the big

mean green machine with its 38 on

Metacritic the concept here is not

terrible you got a mission you deck out

a vehicle and then you take it into this

abandoned dockyard the only level they

designed to test the abilities

flamethrowers explosives you gotta

destroy stationary objects it's just

everything about it feels good bad the

car is controlled poorly the vehicle

Creations just pressing buttons on a

menu and watching it happen car mechanic

simulator has a lot more in the gameplay

Department that's really sad I don't

know why this was an XBox exclusive or

why they presumably paid money to make

that happen but it's definitely the

reason Sony made Final Fantasy 16 an

exclusive 20 years later Monster Garage

is at least my research the first

Discovery Channel reality television

show to become a video game a lineage

that's still going to this day and

nothing says lineage more than American

Chopper

what happens if you take a Monster

Garage take out the fun game show aspect

of it and instead focus on the

day-to-day life give it a little pinch

of domestic arguments and fighting and

you get yourself American Chopper

because yes my son we need to capitalize

on how much I hate you this thing's been

on and off the air for decades now but

in the mid-2000s we'd get not one but

two different video games who asked for

this I'm not sure but Activision was

more than happy to make them both happen

as you can probably imagine American

Chopper is pretty terrible the first one

has you playing as the latest Tire of

the Orange County Choppers and the

entire video game is a series of point A

to B fetch quests and janky racing

there's a surprising lack of motorcycle

Creation in a game about a TV show about

creating custom choppers I mean I guess

there's cutscenes but that's something

Choppers is a nothing game that doesn't

have much to do but it was a step above

some of the shovelware you'd expect from

this type of thing there's multiple

places and different maps to explore it

just has really poor controls which is

not what you want from a racing title

but at the very least we've got a style

point system one that'll reward you for

scaring pedestrians which I did by

crashing then it got a sequel one of the

only ones in this video with one

American Choppers 2 full throttle Paul

and Paulie are back and this time you

can actually customize your Choppers

this thing came out a mere year later

and according to the internet and the

little bit that I played is actually a

little better instead of playing as a

Discovery Channel original character

this time you pick your poison from the

cast each with their own intro video

I don't want to ask the same thing twice

the second time I'm going to use my foot

in case you guys weren't aware Paul

Senior has anger issues wow Full

Throttle No not that one feels a little

more like they wanted to create

something resembling the TV show but

with a bit more arcady action I mean

it's still American Choppers the Caster

arguing competing with each other and do

things in a way that more resembles a

video game the bikes control a bit

tighter and it's weird to sit here and

be like yeah American Choppers 2 isn't

terrible I just don't know if anyone

would want this over the many many good

racing games that released before and

after it even though you could tell they

tried I mean if you look at 2005 alone

you got Burnout Revenge Midnight Club 3

Mario Kart DS Need For Speed Most Wanted

and Juiced but only full throttles got

full motorcycle customization put your

beef up by getting style points this

game's a weird one there's a few more

Discovery games here you got Deadliest

Catch there's a handful of those a few

of which are fishing simulators the

other being a Wii mini game collection

there's Gold Rush the game diesel others

the game and one of the newer releases

Street Outlaws which sorry that's enough

vehicles for the day but the final

Discovery Channel reality TV show game

that I want to talk about is about a guy

that drinks his own piss I couldn't

believe it when I saw it Man vs Wild the

video game The Adventures of Bear Grylls

trying to survive in wacky situations

now playable from your smelly futon Man

vs Wild was wildly successful television

for several years so if there was one

reality TV show that was gonna get a

game this was it it's just as you would

probably assume God awful clocking in at

a girthy four hours Man vs Wild the game

feels like a hidden object title shoved

into a janky platformer one where bear

looks totally normal and has a model

that definitely blinks in Man vs Wild

you go through different levels that are

essentially survival scenarios can you

do certain objectives in certain

environments without well dying this is

meant to be an educational experience

for kids and young adults gamers need to

learn those survival skills too you know

and you do that by killing a snake

peeing into its skin and drinking it yep

that's the game mechanic barely restored

any thirst either shame well enough that

you could tell what year this came out

based on the Sprint animation camera's

shaking more than a Bourne film man

versus wild as the sports entertainment

version of a life and death situation

for sure is the first thing you do in

every level are airborne tricks while

skydiving for points just make sure to

open your parachute in time otherwise

you'll crash right into the side of a

tree and live of course that's always

fun you eat millipedes make fires build

shelters and try to live on the land

around you in a video game Minecraft

only wishes that survival gameplay was

this intense the better you are the more

you unlock though this thing is glitchy

not just on a like clear licensed

shovelware Jank level but hey you

accidentally broke the sequence of

events and cannot finish the level

anymore Jake I was supposed to grab a

rope at the beginning which I did but

for some reason I went back too soon and

now bear just keeps pointing for me to

go back I can't exit this area so I'm

here forever nice I don't really know

why crave entertainment made this but

Man vs Wild the game definitely seems

like something you'd find on a Shelf at

a Bass Pro Shop or Cabela's right next

to the Wii hunting rifles and the NASCAR

simulator this thing kind of like bear

after spending several days drinking his

own urine is kind of smelly but it does

have the honor of being the only game

out there where the first extra you

unlock is a shirtless photo of Mr grills

who is this for well

that was wild yeah let's uh speed things

up a bit we're approaching like full

shovelware territory so going forward

there's gonna be a couple things that

I'm not gonna be able to say much about

some show concepts are really one note

and don't necessarily lead to good video

game ideas like for example hole in the

wall yeah you know the show where you

try your best to uh fit into a hole in a

moving wall originally brainwall from

Japan this thing got adapted overseas in

multiple locations it just goes to show

that watching people get slapsticked

around will always be funny so bringing

back everyone's favorite the connect

hole in the wall for the Xbox 360. is

exactly what you think it would be and I

guess it kind of works though my

favorite part is how it keeps losing

track of me so I can't fit into anything

this Haul is for me at least I thought

but falling into acid and dying is close

enough at the very least this thing

takes real screenshots with the camera

so you can see my dead eyes my body was

the controller we mentioned it earlier

but reality game shows have been in

gaming for as long as it's been around

you're able to find a version of

Jeopardy your price is right on just

about every platform but there's also

the occasional fad rolling around and

getting itself an adaptation like double

dare on the NES a trivia and obstacle

course platformer one with some of the

most unsettling kids I've ever seen

there's also MTV remote control a trivia

show about television and music guess

the music video win the prize the police

yeah

[Applause]

yeah ah yes Joni Loves Chachi trivia I'm

sure this will hold up in the 2020s a

lot of these are just Mini-Game

collections like minute to win it then

you've got dealer No Deal why why does

this need to be a game maybe it's bobble

head Howie Mandel I have no idea just

like I don't know why anyone thought

that Cesar Milan's Dog Whisperer should

get a video game no I'm not joking if

you're thinking to yourself why would

anyone make this my answer for you is

Ubisoft Dog Whisperer is a show about a

guy that works with dogs he takes the

so-called problem animals and does his

best to help them correct the behavior

be it psychological and serious or the

fact that they're just little sucky

babies these are Milan's on the case now

all I can think about is that war

flashbacks Dog gift from the old

internet well we're taking that show

concept which was actually wholesome and

turning it into a video game Cesar

Milan's Dog Whisperer the game this is

like one of those things you saw sitting

at Circuit City up into the day it

closed it is an Earnest attempt to be

educational while doing the most mundane

things like walking a dog or taking a

food bowl away from a dog certainly

someone buddy enjoyed this but all I

know is that there is a submissive

dominant meter on the top right of the

screen at all times and that's enough

for me and the internet bad boy never

say that unless you're saying in the

theme song and what's the total opposite

of wholesome television cops actually

had an arcade game one published by

Atari I just unfortunately can't seem to

emulate it for any actual footage the

cabinet has a steering wheel and a light

gun but there's just no good gameplay

out on the internet for this thing so I

can't really get into it so if you want

a title based on a reality TV show about

cops you gotta get yourself a copy of

world's scariest police chases ah yes

inappropriate fear-mongering television

everyone's favorite world's scariest

police chases for the Playstation One

never before has a television show been

translated so perfectly into a video

game oh yeah perfect police chases is

actually a little ambitious for a

Playstation 1 release it did come out

all the way in 2001 a tiny bit before

Grand Theft Auto 3 but it has this free

Patrol mode where you roam around in an

open City looking for suspects what do

they do wrong doesn't matter get them

there's not too much to do in this one

you just find guys and RAM them or Blast

away in order to make an arrest the

lock-on system works better than you

would expect and it actually supports

two players for whoever's got a suck a

friend to do that with there's a mission

mode which serves as training with a

variety of map Styles and there's a

decent idea here but it's severely

limited by the hardware the concept's

not my favorite but it's definitely

impressive and unlike most of the

shovelware products in this video it's

an actual video game with things to do

at a certain point it stops taking

itself seriously and has you chasing

down tanks and driving a pizza truck

you'll just be done with it in less than

two hours you can roam around in free

Patrol and I guess for the 100 people

that played this growing up it's

probably a big dose of nostalgia anyways

no more actual video games it's time to

talk about a big old nothing like The

Amazing Race for the Wii I loved

watching the show Growing Up you take a

bunch of teams of two and then have them

compete to get to whatever destination

first while performing ridiculous tasks

it's like someone took Street Fighter

and turned it into a tourist trap and I

myself wouldn't mind a free vacation

while terrorizing other players at every

detour and U-turn published once again

by Ubisoft I'm noticing a trend The

Amazing Race is not playable by yourself

elf it's like the show requires a second

player which is weird considering the

only thing to do here is basic math you

spend a little more money for a slightly

faster flight how many objects are on

the screen what's the sum of the cars

minus the trucks Amazing Race for the

Wii is a nothing experience meant to be

shared with someone you presumably like

but I'd never do that to somebody so I

just had to plug in two WeMo to make a

little magic happen but if you are gonna

play it I hope you like low resolution

photos of beautiful Vistas that you're

never gonna visit yourself you smelly

gamer speaking of sitting comfortably

from your own couch there's one reality

show that found a way to commercialize

the concept of suffering for other

people's enjoyment and that's gonna be

our last topic for the day I think the

world's most popular reality TV show and

the one that's been on the air the most

consistently has to be Survivor you take

a bunch of contestants put them on teams

strand them in the middle of nowhere and

give them the bare minimum billions of

viewers each week good old Jeff Probst

has been there the entire time and it's

got not one not two but four four

different video games and for reality TV

show games that's a lot I think most

people know the concept of Survivor

these days but in case you don't it's

simple split into teams compete against

others in obstacle courses and physical

challenges for immunity the losers pick

somebody to vote out eventually you try

to be the last one standing the Soul

Survivor also you're probably really

hungry if you've ever wanted to hear

people moan inappropriately over a slice

of pizza this is the show for you

massive ribs oh my God and a cold beer

so starting out in 2001 pretty much

right out of the gate we'd get Survivor

the interactive game published by

infograms of all people which of course

means it's not better than God Hand this

first attempt is rough you pick from a

mix of contestants from the first two

seasons and do the whole of the

surviving thing there's a mix of tribe

politics and physical challenges all

which have the bare minimum of

interactivity this comes off like more

of a Sim but one with dialogue that

barely makes any sense hmm sometimes I

don't know who to trust don't you trust

me what's it's bothering you I'm worried

about tribal counsel I don't trust you

one bit I hope you don't really believe

that suit yourself what is this a

Twitter interaction Survivor the

interactive game is not worth playing at

all so of course they'd follow it up

with a sequel one year later Survivor

ultimate this one's a little better it

leans more into the puzzle aspect with

the challenges and totally removed any

instance of 3D gameplay instead we get

fun CG pre-renders of the cast doing

their voting you still engage in a

little Alliance drama between the

challenges and episodes but this all

things a lot closer to your Kickstart

fourth grade than you know Survivor

outwit out play out last also not worth

playing

the tribe is spoken

in the 2010s Survivor had a bit of a

Renaissance thanks to a couple players

making things as drama-filled as

possible namely Russell Hance lying

every day baby it's a lot harder than

you really think around the same time

we'd see CBS and mindscape team up to

bring us Survivor and Survivor for the

Nintendo family of consoles two very

different releases first up the handheld

yo this sounds like Donkey Kong Country

too Survivor DS might be the closest any

of these reality TV games has gotten to

replicating the show like legit you

create your contestant and join a tribe

the character creation is about as much

as I could expect out of a licensed DS

game look how huge I am then we're off

to do some Survivor things you pick up

wood build fires scavenge for food he

even talked to other players on your

team in order to try and gain their

favor and form alliances every other day

you've got a reward or immunity

challenge followed up by a tribal

council where you'll vote people out

it's not like the Dog Whisperer or the

existence of a video game makes no sense

this is a decent take on it that is if

you got the patience as this is very

repetitive every single day is spent

running around in a circle Gathering the

same stuff and having conversations with

polygons who like to sit around and

complain the challenges are weirdly

difficult too and I was unable to beat a

single one because well stylus and

emulation but also I guess Austin sucks

I love how Jeff's model is vastly

superior to everyone else's even as

pretty render looks nice as he reminds

you to eat so you don't die I didn't so

I died Survivor on the DS is better than

I thought but how about the Wii version

sharing the same box art developer and

weird model of Jeffrey we viver is not

close to the source material while the

DS version has the day-to-day resembling

the show the Wii release is just an

onslaught of one-on-one mini-games

resulting in your tribe voting off

another tribe's player apparently you

can be the sole survivor as a team yeah

everyone's a winner you don't get to

create a character this time around you

instead pick digitized versions of real

contestants on the show lucky for me

there was actually a guy named Austin

each character has certain minigames to

perform better at so you want to pick

them to do it which also means if you

win you want to try and vote off

characters with minigame specializations

it's actually not a terrible concept for

multiplayer it just lacks uh I don't

know any character it looks like

Survivor it sounds like Survivor you've

even got Jeff doing voice over telling

people they're going home you just won

the immunity challenge with the

character bottles look terrible the

games are all variations of waggle the

Wii moat in whatever Direction and

they're less about skill and more about

hoping the controller registers your

movement properly there's one where you

have to dodge logs rolling down a river

and it's impossible to visualize

properly rowing a boat feels totally

broken and the best ones are all rail

Shooters like we might as well just boot

up sin and Punishment I do like how

extreme they get in the TV show you're

like balancing something for an hour but

here you're moving rocks while defending

yourself from sharks which would totally

not get everyone sued at the end of the

day we-viver is a collection of mini

games and not much else at the very

least it did its best to resemble the

source material but the lack of things

to do makes titles like Duck Dynasty

roller games and even police chases

Stand Out way more we shovel where

minigame collections are at this point

just as lost an era as reality

television games and combining these

together is practically half this video

some of these Concepts deserve way more

for sure I'd love to see a proper

Survivor game something between Among Us

and rust doesn't anyone else want this

am I crazy Survivor on the DS is

probably the best one of these by like a

smidge however when all said and done at

least I got a little treat just for me

Austin they've decided to vote you off

and their decision is final

and so there you have it the Lost era of

reality TV show video games that's a

mouthful while I may have been voted off

the island I think I actually covered

everything for once a few Chef aware

non-games may have slipped through the

crack I mean I'm sure the connect

version of a minute to win it is

somebody's favorite out there but uh but

two connect games in one video is enough

for me let's say that you got to pick

one reality TV show to turn into a video

game what would you go with if I had to

pick one I'd probably go with the mole

but only if Anderson Cooper comes back I

know that he won't I don't I don't even

really want it I think I just missed

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