Snack Video Games: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)
John Oliver explores the lost world of snack-sponsored video games, and pitches some ideas to today’s snack brands.
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Can’t believe there was no mention of the killer Pepsi man theme song. Nor did he mention the incredible kfc game where you try to seduce colonel sanders himself. That is a real game that exists, along with a kfc lifetime movie, the lore of kfc runs DEEP.
Is it weird I read your comment in John Oliver voice?
@Gabriel Chia shoutout to wayback machine for having archived the Feast of Legends pdf’s.
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PepsiMan has a non-ironically large speedrun community.
There is only so much time.
You didn’t mention the single greatest snack video game: Darkened Skye, a 3D, Zelda-esque adventure game. The story of the game is that tyrannical goblins have banned all color from their kingdom, and it’s up to Skye, an elf from the forest of Lynlora, to bring color back to the world using the power of magical Skittles.
That fits…🤔🤪🌈
I was going to post the same thing. Great game but hard, thought I’d never beat it.
Loved Darkened Skye!
@Socially Distant It was released on pc and Gamecube.
In USSR, the workers proved that they can live without capitalists.
But mind you, not a single capitalist has proved that he can live without workers…
“Taste is one of the senses and honestly its overrated”
When you thought he couldnt get more British.
At the point the 7UP game was shown I was like, ‘they have to include Pepsi Man’ and they did. Actual proof that John Oliver is an alien that can read our brainwaves.
Also the spaghetti o’s game sounds like an indie masterpiece waiting to happen tbh. John and his writers are damn good at what they do.
I’d love a follow up episode where John talks about fast food brands getting into games. There’s the nightmare inducing burger King game and the (in)famously bizarre KFC dating sim and the more recent KFC gaming console that plays games AND keeps your chicken warm
Seriously, there could be a segment all about KFC, I know it!
“When you want to get it done, look for a teenager.” The military has known that for centuries !
It also helped Chex Quest that the Doom engine was highly moddable and said teenager probably already had experience making Doom mods.
Ahahaha so true
Instead of asking, “Why is a kid too young to vote old enough to die in a war?” we asked, “Why is a kid old enough to die in a war too young to vote?” We lowered the voting age when we should have raised the dying age.
The winter doesn’t begin because the snow is coming or because the ground is freezing or because the leaves fall off the trees. No, the true arrival of winter is when John Oliver says I’ll see you in February. It sends a chill down my spine. My Monday mornings are now irrelevant
“John Oliver’s Twist” An exciting Action Adventure game where you have to take over ALL the other Late Night Shows until John is the only one left Standing! I suggest going after Colbert first, he’s had it coming for awhile now.
John knows EXACTLY what he’s doing when he says “…played Pepsiman to completion.”
As a teenage programmer who started a company at 17, this is accurate. The benefit to business for young coders is: we don’t know how to say “no”, love to impress, and already have been coding for a few years. So we can be overworked and usually still finish.