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Matt McMuscles (Web Video)	comment	Matt McMuscles (aka The Flophouse) is the Canadian YouTube channel of former Two Best Friends Play member Matthew "Matt McMuscles" Kowalewski. Unlike TBFP, The Flophouse focuses more on pre-planned recorded content, such as examining major gaming flops and bugs, and video game "fashion" reviews with his wife, Crymetina. Flophouse Plays also produces edited playthroughs of games while Matt is intoxicated and occasional Let's Plays, usually with a guest commentator of some kind.He is also the producer of The TakeOverSeries on this channel: Wha Happun?note Stylized as "What Happened?" in the title and video thumbnail beginning in mid-2022 in order to make the videos easier to appear when searching for them; within the video itself, it retains its original title: Matt's flagship series. A Video Review Show chronicling "the missteps of the entertainment industry", discussing the histories of projects which suffered from Troubled Productions of varying degrees or languished in Development Hell. While primarily focused on video games, the show occasionally branches out to cover gaming consoles and films.invoked Crymetina Critiques: Matt's wife, Crymetina, gives her honest critique of the costumes worn by video game characters (usually fighting game characters) through her experience as a fashion designer. Gone Too Soon: Matt provides retrospectives on the rise and fall of video game developers famous for making multiple Cult Classics and/or Acclaimed Flops.invoked Flophouse Funsies/Flophouse Plays: One-shot Let's Plays with no particular theme. These eventually got their own channel in 2022 under the latter title in order to separate the Let's Plays from his video essays, as he noticed his viewers individually tended to favor one over the other. The Flophouse Files: Themed in the style of a noir detective story, Matt investigates odd patterns in the behaviour of publishers or the industry at large, such as Acclaim's insane marketing stunts, Midway's attempts to copy their own Mortal Kombat success, or how the car combat genre (Twisted Metal, et al) pretty much disappeared after the PS1 generation. Bug Report: Matt plays a buggy video game and shares his experience as a video game bug tester to explain where bugs in video games come up, why they do, and how they affect gameplay beyond the obvious. Matt's Nightmares: Matt plays a horror game, either as a one-shot or a short series. This format originated as a full Let's Play of Rise of Nightmares (then titled Rise of Mattmares), and retains a variation of that series' titlecard. Wii Remember: A spotlight series based on playing underrated titles that premiered on the Wii or Wii U. Edgelords: Matt, as "Ashen the Vileblader", discusses over-the-top anti-heroes like Spawn, Guts, and Shadow the Hedgehog, then judges whether they're edgy enough to earn a spot in his "Edge-atorium". The Mediocre Spider-Matt: Matt plays one of the many Spider-Man video games. Simpsons Reference: Matt plays one of the licensed games based on The Simpsons. The Worst Fighting Game: After playing the dreadful PlayStation Fighting Game Criticom, Matt reviews bad fighting games on a quest to find a one thatâ€™s even worse than Criticom, one dud at a time. Criticom was officially dethroned by Expect No Mercy, which itself was dethroned by Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft, but Matt proclaims that there are still a ton of other games to review to challenge it.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_11a74598	comment	Became Their Own Antithesis: In "Ubisoft Used To Be The Most Insane Publisher Ever", Matt delves into the history of big-name publisher Ubisoft, and discovers to his surprise that they were responsible for publishing a dizzying variety of titles and genres over their history, from a bevy of Batman adaptations to Peter Jackson's King Kong to even the European release of Armored Core 2. He notes that, in 2001 alone, Ubisoft published over twenty-eight different games. However, Ubisoft's acquisition of (and increasing reliance upon) a handful of cash-cow franchises (such as Tom Clancy, Far Cry, and Assassin's Creed) led to the company gradually phasing out its use of third-party titles and homogenizing its own output, until Ubisoft ironically became infamous for its lack of variety.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: This trope has been a topic in some videos, whether it is due to negative PR or the publisher invoking this to get more people talking about their games, and is subverted in some of these examples. The Flophouse Files episode Remember when Acclaim advertised on people's tombstones? chronicles a few marketing stunts by the UK branch of the titular company. Wanting to mimic Mortal Kombat's success through controversy and desperate for profits, Acclaim pulled a few insane and tasteless marketing stunts, including pouring red-dyed water (called bloodvertising) on a street and attempting to advertise on tombstones, to drum up attention and game sales. These stunts, however, failed to help game sales in the slightest and, in the case of the bloodvertising, backfired when they were forced to pay for cleaning.invoked The Wha Happun episode on Dante's Inferno shows just how much EA embraced this mentality throughout the game's pre-release cycle (where the company encouraged people to commit "acts of lust" with female booth attendents and hiring fake protestors to protest the game during E3 being the most cringe-inducing examples). While Dante's Inferno didn't sell terribly, the costs of all of these stunts (as well as a Super Bowl ad) meant that its profits weren't very high.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In his The Worst Fighting Game episode of Rise of the Robots, he proclaims that he'll get to playing the infamous Fight For Life since it was set to appear on the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration compilation collection. And he was... he just didn't expect to play it five days after the video came out.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Matt's episode of Cooking Mama Cookstar was only about a few months after the game's disastrous launch, which also resulted in strange rumors cropping up about the game. Matt prefaces the video by admitting that his take on the game's production could be rendered outdated at any moment. Matt's coverage of The Day Before has him admit that despite that the game having a lot of coverage before its eventual release and un-release, Matt is doing this episode a few weeks after the fact and that he himself had never heard of the game until the controversies about it being a scam came to light, outside of the trademark dispute over its name.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: In The Worst Fighting Game episode featuring Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22, Matt constantly refers towards Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budoten, the Sega Saturn Updated Re-release of UB22 as this, constantly belittling the former for the flaws that Shin Budoten fixed and a sign of the Creator's Apathy held for its release in the States.invoked The game that followed this, War Gods is equally treated like this. Being a Midway Games game created by a B-Team aping on Mortal Kombat's success. Not helping matters was that, during creation, Namco released Tekken 2, making things even tougher. Matt even suggests that if another company like Data East had made it, it wouldn't have been given the scorn it was, but as it stands, being who it was harmed it in the long run. Matt points this out as to what contributed to Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects' failure as it released the same day as Ultimate Spider-Man (2005) and X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, with Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, Burnout Paradise and Ninja Gaiden Black earlier.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_19ebddab	comment	Guilty Pleasures: For Matt, it's what he calls "poverty fighters", fighting games that were not well-received by critics or even most players, but are charming to him in spite of or even because of their jankiness or game design. Two prominent examples are War Gods and Street Fighter: The Movie, which he's not only played numerous times on his channels, but when putting them under the Worst Fighting Game microscope, both games avoided the bad tiers entirely and into its own category called "That'll Be Just Fine". For Crymetina, any clothes with jungle animal prints. She admits that they're incredibly tacky, yet she can't help but love them anyway. This leads to her often giving a pass to characters wearing tiger stripes or leopard spots or the like.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: For the Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu episode of The Worst Fighting Game, both KaiserNeko and Takahata101 of Team Four Star briefly reprise their roles as Nappa and Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Z Abridged to point out how much better (if only a little bit) the game would be with voice clips.invoked Civvie 11, tends to appear for short cameos regarding FPS games based in '80s and '90s video game culture, like Doom (2016). Super Eye Patch Wolf and Jay Hunter make brief appearances in the WCW and Shenmue III episodes respectively before Matt reveals the true special guest of the Episode. During the Wha Happen? episode covering Street Fighter III, Matt details the impact that Third Strike would contribute to fighting game tournaments like EVO, complete with the famous Daigo Parry that was executed on Justin Wong, before Wong himself pops up to point himself out. Derek from Stop Skeletons From Fighting makes a brief appearance during the GoldenEye (1997) episode when Matt brings up an alternate control scheme that would have seen players removing and inserting the rumble pack into the N64 controller, demonstrating said method. The Wha Happen? episode for the original Resident Evil 4 features both Maximillian Dood and Derek of Stop Skeletons From Fighting making quick appearances, with Max showing up during a bit that had him dressed as Leon, and Derek popping up whenever the Zeebo console is mentioned. The Wha Happen? episode for Final Fight Revenge has a brief appearance by The Angry Video Game Nerd, revealing he had a copy of the game that Matt gave him... after Matt reveals how ridiculously expensive it is now. This also serves as a Call-Back, because in the Nerd's episode, the Nerd kept casually dismissing Matt's protests about how much money he paid for that copy and wanting to have it sent back to him.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: In his Flophouse Plays of Gex: Enter the Gecko, Matt sees a sign in a "Scream TV" stage that says "Go into the light". Matt believes this is a Shmuck Bait trap and that doing so will let the ghosts get to him, but in reality, the advice is sincere, as the light prevents the ghosts from attacking the player.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Several times, during Wha Happun?, there will be someone who seems to realize and point out that the game's development or overall quality is lacking, but is ignored. Examples include Andrew Bado from the Drake of the 99 Dragons episode explaining that IdolFX didn't do a lot of fixing bugs and were more focused on creating a franchise over polishing their game, and Aaron Webber's pre-release notes on the script of Sonic Forces mirroring fan complaints post-release (such as Tails's Badass Decay).invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_265112ff	type	Creator's Apathy
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_265112ff	comment	Creator's Apathy: This is one of the main reasons why Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 was part of the The Worst Fighting Game - the game was originally released as one of the earliest PlayStation games and it shows. However, Infogrames/Atari and Funimation, wanting to cash in on the exploding Dragon Ball Z boom and not wanting to wait for a Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2, decided to haul this out at the tail end of the PlayStation's life. Even worse, instead of trying to polish it up and give it a little love, they instead removed things from the game, making it obvious it was a cash grab.invoked Silicon Knights and Dennis Dyack were, behind-the-scenes, incredibly indifferent about the development of X-Men: Destiny. SK only took the project on in order to just stay afloat while Dyack attempt to pitch projects to other publishers, which also affected the studio's general morale. The standout instance of apathy, recalled by assistant director Julian Spillane, was when he was asked to review a boss fight against Juggernaut, where the player needed to attack him until his health bar was depleted. When he stated that Marvel would never approve of this fight, due to Juggernaut being magically invincible, even suggesting an alternative method of defeating him, Spillane was told he was focusing on "unimportant details" and submitted the build to Marvel and Activision anyways. After that incident, the studio received copies of the hardcover X-Men encyclopedia, and the final boss fight against Juggernaut was changed to what Spillane had suggested.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Matt occasionally sneaks in some references to his days in the now-defunct Super Best Friends Play channel: Wha Happun? was named after one of the group's longstanding Running Gags, and the concept of using it as the title for a series looking at what went wrong in the development of video games was something they'd once joked about while the channel was still active. Matt's persona of Ashen the Vileblader for Edgelords, who originated as a Running Gag during the group's let's play of Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE. At the start of the Def Jam: Icon episode of Wha Happun?, Matt briefly monologues about how some of his viewers might have fond memories of playing Def Jam with their friends years ago. During this, a small window shows footage of the Best Friends' playthrough of Def Jam: Fight for New York, featuring their custom fighter and Breakout Character Rage of Africa. He references "lousy Smarch weather" while playing Peter Jackson's King Kong. In his quick look video on Metroid Dread, he references Liam "clowning on" the SA-X, from the LP of Metroid Fusion. The intro to The Mediocre Spider-Matt originally depicted Matt as his TBFP avatar, but has since been replaced by a Super-Deformed Spider-Man drawn in the same style.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Matt will occasionally feature a guest host with knowledge of or attachment to the subject for some of his videos. The following have been a guest on the channel: Caddicarus for Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly Derek from Stop Skeletons From Fighting in the DmC: Devil May Cry episode, with a small appearance in the Donkey Kong 64 episode regarding the game's usage of the N64's Expansion Pack. Maximilian Dood multiple times, specifically for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, Killer Instinct (2013), and Final Fantasy VII Remake episodes of Wha Happun?. Max would appear for the Street Fighter: The Movie episode of The Worst Fighting Game as well. Scott The Woz for the Wii U. OSW Review's Jay Hunter during the WCW episode. Super Eyepatch Wolf for Shenmue III. Angry Video Game Nerd's James Rolfe in the episode for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Some Call Me Johnny for Sonic Chronicles. Nitro Rad for Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. GuileWinQuote for the Worst Fighting Game episode of The Masters Fighter.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Matt makes his displeasure about Deadly Arts not involving anything deadly in it known.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_2a552d44	comment	Recurring Element: In Wha Happun?, nearly every disaster he covers usually involves one or more of five things: A major game engine change and a requirement to throw out nearly everything the dev team worked on and start from scratch. A publisher change, usually to a company not well known for their patience. Overpromising features or becoming overly ambitious with new, untested technology. A small team produces the game for multiple systems at the same time, leading to a rushed product. Severe crunch driving the developers to their breaking point, usually mandated by upper management.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: A couple episodes of Wha Happun? involved development studios (Silicon Knights and Factor 5, specifically) breaking their ties with Nintendo after getting an early look at the Nintendo Wii and immediately concluding that it would be a failure. In both cases, this arguably marked the start of their own downfall. Alien: Resurrection's dual analog control scheme was frequently cited as one of its strongest negatives, with reviews calling it difficult to get used to. Such a control scheme would eventually become the standard for the first-person shooter genre, especially after Halo: Combat Evolved would popularize it the next year. Nintendo dismissed DVD-ROM disks as being a fad that wouldn't last long, which led to the Nintendo Gamecube using its own proprietary set of disks. These were smaller disks that, while holding more space than normal CD-ROMs (~1.8 GB compared to ~760 MB), held less space than DVD-ROM disks (~4.7 GB). This ended up damaging the Gamecube's potential, as while the special disks prevented piracy, it limited what could be put on them, especially with third-party developers. Meanwhile, the DVD-ROM would become a standard media disk that the PS2 and Xbox would run their games on.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_34a48e00	comment	Vaporware:invoked Various games spotlighted on Wha Happun? were ultimately never released, such as Scalebound, Thrill Kill, and Sonic X-treme.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Whenever a character has epaulettes (a type of decorative shoulder pad often found on military uniforms) on their outfit, Crymetina usually goes out of her way to pronounce it en franÃ§ais.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Discussed in many episodes of Wha Happun?, when the production issues are caused by the project leaders or executives mistreating their employees, such as George Broussard with Duke Nukem Forever, Brendan McNamara with L.A. Noire, and publisher Eidos Interactive with developer Core Design. Arguably one of the worst bosses featured would have to be Jeff Spangenberg, the founder of Retro Studios. Despite being the boss at Retro, he barely showed up to work, blew most of the money the studio got from Nintendo on strippers, sports cars, and drugs, and made incredibly risky moves for a studio that hadn't even put out a single game, such as working on four different titles with only one development kit in the studio. (Ironically, this actually saved Retro in the end, as the game codenamed Action-Adventure would be turned into Metroid Prime) After Metroid Prime started development, Nintendo kept a closer watch on Retro, making sure they were actually working, but the divide between them and Spangenberg became bigger and bigger, eventually culminating in Nintendo discovering Spangenberg was hosting a porn site called Sinful Summer on Retro's servers. Nintendo followed up this discovery by buying out his shares, and kicked him out of the company. Eventually, he would found Topheavy Studios, and make The Guy Game, which is an entire other can of worms to open.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Matt's episode of Cooking Mama Cookstar was only about a few months after the game's disastrous launch, which also resulted in strange rumors cropping up about the game. Matt prefaces the video by admitting that his take on the game's production could be rendered outdated at any moment.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Sometimes on Wha Happun?, the game of interest is released to critical praise, but didn't sell enough copies for the studio to continue on, with only a cult following loving the game, as is the case with Panzer Dragoon Saga.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4129b2d7	type	B-Team Sequel
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4129b2d7	comment	B-Team Sequel: A frequently discussed reason on Wha Happen as to why games end up going through troubled development, where the original developers or studios move on to other projects, with a publisher searching for someone else to take up the reins. While this has resulted in classics that managed to stand out such as Metroid Prime, there have been just as many games that were covered that didn't earn the same critical or commercial acclaim. Examples include Yuke's being dropped from the development of WWE 2K20 in favor of Visual Concepts, or Traveller's Tales developing Crash Twinsanity after Naughty Dog's departure from the series.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Keepin It Cereal is a live-action series where Matt (and a different guest in each episode) critique different breakfast cereals. It's also a hilariously unprofessional mess, with whiplash-inducing editing, Bad "Bad Acting", and obvious placeholder art for the episode intros.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_43844bd7	type	You Fight Like a Cow
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_43844bd7	comment	Randomly inserting "I have SEEN the amateur and it is YOU!" from Expect No Mercy whenever it's brought up during its reign as The Worst Fighting Game.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Brought up in the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation episode of Wha Happun?. When Paul W.S. Anderson, the director of the first film, declined to return, producer Larry Kasanoff decided to save on time and money by promoting the inexperienced Director of Photography to the position, and did the same for several other subordinate crew members. In hindsight, Larry admits that doing so hurt the project.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: As scripted and planned out as Wha Happun? is, Matt will go off-script to delight in schadenfreude, such as when telling of Devil's Third's infamous difficulty in finding a publisher.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4b9aac14	comment	Christmas Rushed: Another common reason for games discussed on Wha Happen end up being a buggy, broken mess is that the higher-ups mandated that a game be released by a specific season or date regardless of its current state during development. Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy â€” The Definitive Edition, and Warcraft III: Reforged are some examples that were discussed on the show.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4df919c9	type	Repressed Memories
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4df919c9	comment	Repressed Memories: In The Worst Fighting Game of Expect No Mercy, Matt explained that he bought the game for Windows 95 back in the '90s and enjoyed playing those fighting games instead of more mainstream games like Diablo or Quake. As he analyzes the game more and more, it occurs to him that he had blocked out just how horrible the game actually was.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Any Wha Happun? episode that doesn't have a Bittersweet Ending has a 95% chance of having this, though some stick out in just how catastrophic the featured production turned out to be for everyone involved. Too Human, already marred by its extremely prolonged production cycle, proved to be the breaking point in a chain of consecutive disasters and poor decisions that led to the demise of Silicon Knights. While the game's actual reception was average at best, it proved to be a significant commercial disappointment; this, topped off with a lawsuit between Silicon and Epic Games that the former lost miserably, led to the closure of Silicon and the destruction of any and all unsold copies of Too Human, which ran on a modified version of Unreal Engine 3. X-Men: Destiny was also in development at the same time to help keep the studio afloat, but it was both a commercial and critical failure, with any unsold copies also needing to be destroyed due to the aforementioned lawsuit. Sonic X-treme is an especially bitter case, as the development team spent months in grueling crunch time to the point of endangering their own health only for the game to never be released, leaving nothing to show for their hard work and the Sega Saturn without a main draw, effectively dooming the console and spelling the beginning of the end for Sega as a first-party company. To add insult to injury, X-Treme's lead designer Chris Senn would eventually get another shot at a Sonic gameâ€¦in the form of the disastrous Wii U exclusive Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. TimeSplitters is an incredibly disheartening episode, with Matt starting off the episode by noting how the series' longtime developer, Free Radical Design, was closed down by the Embracer Group before the video was published. While Timesplitters' sales weren't as strong as other competitors, the series had a strong cult following that continued for decades. However, Free Radical Design would end up being shuffled through different publishers, which led to the series going dormant and Free Radical being restructured as it worked on games for Crytek. Fans were given a bright spot of hope in 2021, as Free Radical Design was reformed and a new TimeSplitters game was announced, with even the original creators, David Doak and Steve Ellis, coming back to work on it after they both took a break from active game development. Unfortunately, due to the Embracer Group's mismanaged business decisions with its reckless acquisitions and failure to secure a 2 billion dollar investment, many studios were shut down and employees were laid off, Free Radical Design included. The TimeSplitters game that was previously announced was cancelled in the middle of development. Matt notes this is an incredibly downtrodden end for the series, as it had an intensely positive start, only for it to be thrown through various troubles, then given a second lease on life, before that lease was promptly taken away in short order. Poor Darkwatch and High Moon Studios, went through hell and dodged being shuttered by Sega during their Dreamcast-era financial woes and dealing with the difficulty in finding a publisher to get released, and despite having high ratings and (allegedly, as Matt couldn't find any reliable data) good sales never saw a sequel because Vivendi was more interested in forcing them to make spinoffs of The Bourne Series than they were picking up on what could have been a lucrative franchise. Despite having started and put in a lot of work on the sequel in hopes of impressing the higher ups into greenlighting it, Vivendi was never willing to approve of the alpha builds of Darkwatch 2. And then the Activision/Blizzard merger happened and Activision forced High Moon to abandon development of the game entirely to make High Moon work on the Transformers Cybertron series, a decision which lead to the four leaders of High Moon leaving the company in disgust at their passion project being stone-walled. After releasing the Deadpool video game, High Moon Studios was quietly forgotten about by Activision Blizzard and, like many development teams that they acquired, milked and forgot about, currently languishes making cosmetics for Call of Duty.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first couple episodes of The Worst Fighting Game were done in a "letâ€™s play" style (a la Flophouse Plays) in the continuity of the Criticom test, before the show settled into a more structured written format (a la Wha Happun?). Wha Happun?'s intro initially started out with human!Matt standing at a podium before shrugging his shoulders and the set appeared around him. The series had a copyright-infringing theme (whose removal consequently has led to all prior videos beginning rather abruptly with a half-second still of Matt before cutting straight to the title card) that would be swapped out in favor of the current theme by the Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) episode. The more elaborate current intro wouldn't be until the video for Scalebound.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_4f4602da	comment	They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: What ultimately resulted in Def Jam: Icon, Metroid: Other M, and Ninja Gaiden 3 (2012) getting episodes dedicated to them. While none of these games faced serious issues during development, were made precisely as the developers intended, and are competently made games from a technical standpoint, they're are so incredibly far removed from what their respective series are known for that they were received poorly by fans.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_5056bb2c	type	I'm Not Doing That Again
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_5056bb2c	comment	I'm Not Doing That Again: In his The Worst Fighting Game episode for Street Fighter: The Movie Maximillian had such a horrible time having to relive playing the game again, especially the console version and how he felt that he should be playing any other game instead that he growls out "Never ask me to be on this again" at the end. GuileWinQuote also tells Matt this in the episode for The Masters Fighter due to how horrible the game just plays, being a terrible Korean ripoff of other games made at a time where everyone was going 3D.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_5628a3	type	Vindicated by History
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_5628a3	comment	Vindicated by History: Donkey Kong 64's composer Grant Kirkhope, who— following Rare's use of musical gags as interludes at start up of many of their games— created the infamous "DK Rap" as a joke to continue the tradition. Upon initial release, people hated it and thought it was one of the worst things ever made. Reviews even cited that the game is a blast to play once you skip the opening intro, but he has grown ever thankful that the clunky rap number has grown beyond "Worst Video Game Themes Of All Time" lists and is now unironically enjoyed for its pure cheese factor by an entire new generation of children who weren't even born when he wrote it.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_5b2e1e5e	type	Fake-Out Fade-Out
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_5b2e1e5e	comment	Fake-Out Fade-Out: In the Wha Happun? episode focusing on DOA: Dead or Alive, when he mentions that Mark A. Altman of Mind Fire Entertainment, who optioned for making a Dead or Alive movie, is the same one who wrote and produced House of the Dead, the episode ends there as if just that is enough to prove why the movie was so bad, but stops and reveals there's much more to than than just Mr. Altman.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Isao Okowa, the late president of Segaâ€™s then majority shareholder CSK Holdings, in the Wha Happun? episode on the Dreamcast. Rather than shut down the near-bankrupt Sega, as the public was expecting him to do, he loaned them $500 million of his own personal fortune to help pay off their debts, before waving the loan entirely on his deathbed, allowing Sega to transition into becoming a third party developer and preventing the Dreamcast from being a Creator Killer.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Played for Laughs in the Ninja Gaiden 3 (2012) episode of Wha Happun?. Pausing the list of the super-fast scrolling list of improvements made to the "Razor's Edge" re-release of the game would include "Bigger Ryu Bulge" and "10% More Gamer Juice."
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_652c32fa	type	Super-Deformed
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_652c32fa	comment	The intro to The Mediocre Spider-Matt originally depicted Matt as his TBFP avatar, but has since been replaced by a Super-Deformed Spider-Man drawn in the same style.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Wha Happun? usually covers disastrous video games/movies/whatever, but a few episodes deal with productions that were troubled but ultimately successful, such as Doom (2016) and Metroid Prime. The Demon's Souls episode is a stand-out example, with Matt discussing how the game became a literally genre-defining success in spite of all the forces arrayed against it. By contrast, the episodes on Def Jam: Icon, Metroid: Other M and Ninja Gaiden 3 (2012) stand out because these three games were not Troubled Productions at all. The development processes went about as smoothly as possible, but the creators of these games alienated long-time fans by disregarding the elements that made their franchises popular in the first place and added on unnecessary, poorly-done new elementsnote Icon's Genre Shift from professional wrestling to boxing, Other M's inept (and to some, outright insulting) plotline, and Gaiden 3's clumsy attempt to appeal to an American audience, resulting in their failure without meddling executives, lack of funding, forced crunch time or any of the other staples of Wha Happun?.invoked For the video on Brink! Matt explains that the game didn't suffer from a painful development cycle, had upper management forcing developers to make changes, or was a massive sales disaster that bankrupted one of the involved parties (in fact it sold very well), but its problems were solely due to promising a new, innovative experience but failed to live up to expectations and received a lukewarm critical reception due to some odd game design and a lacking story.invoked The video on Panzer Dragoon Saga stands out for discussing a game that actually turned out really, really well — as in, "probably one of the best games of its generation" well — but had the misfortune of being exclusive to an unsuccessful console that was already being phased out, as well as having a very limited release outside of Japannote Europe in particular is said to have only received one-thousand copies in total, making it one of the rarest games in that region.invoked The episode on The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC was less about the game itself but the painful localization process and getting the massive amount of text translated and programmed into the game. Subject wise, Wha Happun? has covered video games, movies, some consoles, and occasionally developers, but the topic most outside the norm was covering the downfall of WCW.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: The "McMuscles" last name was always a joke. Matt was pretty fat when he first started using the name, back in the Two Best Friends Play days. He's since shaped up and lost a lot of weight, but he's still not particularly muscular. The name's become even more ironic since he's adopted a skeleton man as his avatar for his solo channel. It even gets a Lampshade Hanging in the Crymetina Critiques episode on Guilty Gear -STRIVE-: Then averted in the Monday Night Muscle Madness and The Worst Fighting Game series, where Matt's avatar gains a suitably Heroic Build as a parody of pro wrestlers and stock fighting game protagonists, albeit still with the skull head.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC episode of Wha Happun? describes a near example due to the sheer massive amounts of text found in the game putting quite a strain on localization team Carpe Fulgur and, more importantly, Andrew Dice. The looming deadline to translate the remaining 50% of the script outside of the main story itself sent Andrew into a depression, and he was fully intending to take his life as soon as he walked back to his apartment after delivering a suicide note to translator Robin Light-Williams, who lived in the same apartment building. Robin found the note immediately and rushed over to convince Andrew to change his mind. Thankfully, he succeeded, and Andrew stepped down from the project for the sake of his own mental health.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: From the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning episode of Wha Happun?: The episode for Advent Rising describes the development process filled with "long hours, crunch, long hours, crunch, and crunchy hours that were long."
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: In various episodes of Wha Happun?, Matt reacts with a variation as he expresses disbelief at a more bizarre detail of his current subject (such as Daikatana having a Game Boy Color version, or Todd McFarlane being the lead artist behind Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning). He often emphasizes his surprise by speaking off-mic or audibly rifling through notes. A straight example comes from the Duke Nukem Forever episode of Wha Happun?, where George Broussard briefly emerges from two years of radio silence to sharply contradict a public statement from Take-Two Interactive's CEO via an online forum. Matt paraphrases the post: At one point during the first Fallout 76 episode of Wha Happun?, a clip is shown of gameplay lagged down to 3-frames-per-second, with a plain caption at the bottom of the screen assuring the viewer that the clip is real-time gameplay footage and not a slideshow of still images. The opening intro / music video for Atari's Fight For Life has a disclaimer that the footage had not been edited in any way.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_72f98935	comment	Then averted in the Monday Night Muscle Madness and The Worst Fighting Game series, where Matt's avatar gains a suitably Heroic Build as a parody of pro wrestlers and stock fighting game protagonists, albeit still with the skull head.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_74c7bf4e	comment	Forced Meme: Everytime Matt talks about Metroidvania and entries in said subgenre, he is constantly pushing for people to call this subgenre of games "Search-Action" and trying to make it catch on.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Zig-Zagged. Both Matt and Crymetina are okay with large breasts (and are open fans of Hitomi Tanaka, a porn star notable for her titanic bust), but they do call attention to when it would be impractical for Jiggle Physics to be a thing in video games.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_7f64efd5	comment	Enforced Plug: Sometimes the video stops so Matt dedicates a minute for the sponsor of the video. For an example, Evil West being plugged in Donkey Kong 64 analysis.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: While talking about EA's tasteless sin-themed marketing stunt for Dante's Inferno, Matt admits that the Gluttony part (where the company delivered cakes shaped like severed limbs to journalists) to be kinda funny.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: During his introduction during the episode covering WCW, where he has a special guest for it, who loves wrestling as much as Matt, even being called his "favorite Irishman." Super Eye Patch Wolf initially appears from the bottom of the video with a thumbs up, before Matt revealing it to be Jay Hunter of OSW Review. Matt would then pull off this gag in reverse for the Episode covering Shenmue III, where he describes his special guest as someone who is passionate about video games (specifically Sega), has done plenty of video essays, a dear friend of Matt, even noted to be his "favorite Irishman." Jay Hunter pops up as an animated avatar in the corner before revealing it to be Super Eye Patch Wolf, causing Jay to slink away. The video in which Matt announced the launch of his second channel, Flophouse Plays, was set up to look instead like he was announcing his retirement from YouTube. It was (initially) titled "THIS IS THE END..." and opens on an animated funeral scene, with Matt's skeleton avatar lying in the casket.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: His The Worst Fighting Game series was dedicated to searching for a game that could surpass Criticom as the worst fighting game of all time. As detailed in Accentuate the Negative above, after several duds, Matt found that Expect No Mercy had finally dethroned it as the worst of the worst. Matt then decides to try and find a game even worse than Expect No Mercy, which later turned out to be Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9230c618	type	Hypocrisy Nod
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: In a Crymetina Critiques for KOF '06, Crymetina wanted to write Lilly Kane's entire wardrobe off, but felt compelled to give the alternate costume a pass, partially because it didn't weird her out... and because she was wearing something similar that day.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: From his sponsor ad reads: "If you're like me, and I know I am..."
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_94d2506d	type	Can't Catch Up
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_94d2506d	comment	Can't Catch Up: A lot of games featured on Wha Happun? are results of companies or franchises either refusing or failing to adapt to new technologies and trends. Some notable events that are commonly featured are: Japanese companies failing to realize that the US's arcade scene fell down in favor of the home console. Companies failing in jumping to polygons, as demanded by the fanbase or the higher-ups in the company.invoked Companies either failing the jump to HD, or unsuccessfully attempting to reinvent the franchise to fit with the more "realistic" games of the 7th generation of consoles.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_979f41a	comment	Continuity Reboot: One of the many problems that helped wreck Saints Row (2022) and its creator: While the game was initially meant to be a Soft Reboot dealing with one of the endings of Saints Row 4, it was ultimately decided to create a new cast of characters, ultimately meaning that time and resources were needed for world building. Furthermore, the attempt to go back to the franchise's roots instead pushed them back into the crazy superhero-esque styles of the later games without the benefit of a decade's worth of continuity the fans were invested in to fall back on.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9826b657	type	Multilayer FaÃ§ade
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9826b657	comment	Multilayer FaÃ§ade: In the original intro to his Mediocre Spider-Matt series, chibi-Matt gets bitten by a radioactive spider and dons a Spider-Man costume. In the updated intro, Matt starts off already wearing a Spider-Man costume—then he gets bitten and dons a second Spider-suit on top of the one he's already wearing.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: In The Worst Fighting Game episode featuring Street Fighter: The Movie, Matt averts this by asking viewers to go watch his Wha Happun? episode on the game to learn its crazy history so he can skip directly to dealing with the game(s) itself. He does the same with Rise of the Robots, but still briefly goes over its development woes.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: The Midway Games episode of Wha Happun showcases how Midway's overreliance on arcade game revenue at the expense of developing console-originated IPs like what Capcom did during the '80s and '90s contributed to their demise, as when the arcade scene in the west declined due to advances in console hardware and increasing production values blowing arcade games out of the water, Midway was just too late to enter the console game scene, as ascendant publishers like EA, Activision, Ubisoft and Take-Two overshadowed the company. When Midway did try to enter the AAA game industry, all of their efforts amounted in miserable failures that finished the company off.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: In his Wha Happun? episode for The Bouncer, he groans and cringes as he realizes that it was made by the same creator behind one of his most-hated games, Ehrgeiz.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: Matt is dumbfounded when, in his Wha Happun? episode on Final Fight Revenge, he reads a scathing review for it from Gamefan Magazine, which says that the game was so bad that it made the original Virtua Fighter, which was released on the Sega Saturn during its launch, look good. In The Worst Fighting Game episode for Pray for Death, Matt can only sputter in surprise at how utterly over-the-top the game's story is.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In the Scalebound episode of Wha Happun?, Matt makes three references to Trogdor, with him promising that the third is the last. And then he plays the original "Trogdor" song over the end of the video.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a70f9aba	type	Accentuate the Negative
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: Averted generally. Matt's response to most video games that aren't very good is to usually find something positive to say about it, though it often wraps around to Damned by Faint Praise. The Doom (2016) episode of Wha Happun? opens with Matt reaffirming that the series is about examining Troubled Productions of media both bad and good, and pointing out that he's covered games he actually likes before (such as Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning), all because he knows some people will read the video's title and jump to the conclusion that he's calling DOOM a bad game.invoked Played Straight in the Zelda CDi episode, where he makes his contempt for the Philips CD-i very clear. In The Worst Fighting Game for Expect No Mercy, Matt finds himself unable to say anything actually positive about it except that the fatalities were smoothly animated, but rather further brings up the good things that other games had. Criticom at least had individual character endings and the excuse of being one of the first games venturing into 3D gameplay; worse audio quality than Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls; Human Killing Machine had the excuse of being released in 1988; even Rise of the Robots had special move inputs. Matt ultimately decided that Criticom had finally been dethroned. He does this again for Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft when it ends up dethroning Expect No Mercy.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a76de48b	type	Troubled Production
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_a76de48b	comment	Troubled Production: Discussed on Wha Happun? in the form of video essays and mini-documentaries. The series covers how certain games came to be made, including all of the sordid details behind its release. These can include Executive Meddling, crunch periods, lack of creative vision, or frequent staff turnovers as the main culprits as to how a game ended up the way it did. However, just because a game's production was rough doesn't necessarily mean it flopped; games like Doom (2016) and Metroid Prime were covered by the show because of how stressful and sordid their productions were on the staff members who made them, but the games themselves wound up being critical and commercial successes after their releases.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_ae4b1ce1	type	Caustic Critic
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_ae4b1ce1	comment	Caustic Critic: Crymetina does not pull her punches on Crymetina Critiques if the character's wardrobe breaks fashion rules.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: In his The Worst Fighting Game episode for BloodStorm, he refers to it twice as "Bonestorm" (showing the relevant Simpsons clip when he accidentally refers to it as "Bonestorm"), and then realizes he called it that twice a little late. He does it again in his episode for Street Fighter: The Movie, but this time very much aware of it by showing accompanying footage of that Simpsons episode without acknowledging he mispronounced it. Another episode of The Worst Fighting Game with The Masters Fighter has both Matt and his guest host GuileWinQuote both constantly wanting to call it the more grammatically correct "Fighters Master" that it was actually titled for the original arcade release, but was changed over for the ports. The confusion lasts for most of his presence as a guest. The What Happened? Episode of Balan Wonderworld has him mistakenly call it "Balan Wonderland" (mostly because English speakers like Matt are much more accustomed to the phrase "Wonderland"), which he then realizes partway through the video, before playing a clip of Homer yelling "Why didn't someone tell me?! Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself!"
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b20fdfc8	type	Ur-Example
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b20fdfc8	comment	Ur-Example: Per Matt's research into the entire Double Dragon franchise on Wha Happun?, he figures that 1990's Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone is the first, if not one of the first examples of in-game microtransactions. The arcade version of Double Dragon 3 had shops that allowed player to buy extra lives, health, weapons, special movies, and new playable characters, but each one required inserting another quarter into the machine to buy them. The negative feedback from American players was so fierce that the entire shop mechanic was removed from the Japanese cabinets before they were released a few months later.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Matt has something of a penchant for alliteration, which earns a Lampshade Hanging in the Wha Happun? for Mortal Kombat Advance.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Often has a word or two with SEGA's often extremely unusual demands, but has a much more...succinct response to the mere mention of Konami: He then pulls this gag out again, though this time in regards to Activision. It's a Running Gag that Matt favorably compares every videogame shotgun to the DoomÂ³ shotgun. No matter how bad the shotgun may be, he'll always say something to the effect of, "It's still better than the DoomÂ³ shotgun." During the Warcraft III: Reforged episode of Wha Happun?, he talks about the unprofessional CGI on the infamous "Reforged" version of Arthas and Illidan's duel, comparing it to something people would see in a mobile game. Matt then takes this opportunity to take a jab at Raid: Shadow Legends with a fake sponsorship... with the whole duel cutscene in question playing over it. During the Worst Fighting Game episode on Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu, he makes a jab at Jump Force's artstyle while criticizing Taiketsu's own poor visuals. When talking about the Atari Jaguar's ill-advised price-increase, Matt takes a jab at Sony for raising the price of the PlayStation 5 in multiple territories. In the Wha Happen episode featuring the Nintendo GameCube, he takes a few potshots at Yuji Naka, who had been jailed for insider trading within Square Enix by the time the video was filmed.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b558d9b7	type	InterruptedCatchphrase
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b558d9b7	comment	Whenever the show tackles a particularly infamous piece that was heavily requested, Matt tends to cut off his opening spiel and give an exasperated "It's time. To talk. About X."
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b6dd4c51	type	Stillborn Franchise
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b6dd4c51	comment	Stillborn Franchise: Sometimes, there will be a game that the creators will use to begin a franchise like Mighty No. 9, Drake of the 99 Dragons, or Ride to Hell: Retribution. In addition, Matt talked about the Dark Universe and how it failed.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b6de94d1	comment	Severe crunch driving the developers to their breaking point, usually mandated by upper management.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: In his The Worst Fighting Game episode for Deadly Arts, Matt points out that the game actually has a different title for its Japanese and European release: G.A.S.P.!!: Fighters NEXTream. However, not only does he swap between using the two titles, he ends up mixing up their names a bit.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_bc4236a6	type	They Copied It, So It Sucks!
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_bc4236a6	comment	They Copied It, So It Sucks!: The reason why The Masters Fighter ended up being discussed on The Worst Fighting Game. It had shamelessly traced several sprites from various Fighting Games in the '90s, including Art of Fighting, The King of Fighters, and Street Fighter. The game's mechanics are also borrowed from SNK's franchise, but were not properly balanced, making the game an unplayable mess. Of the roster of plagiarized characters, only Gamp seems to be an original creation (with the editor of the Episode theorizing that Gamp was copied from Dee Jay's Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers sprites).invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c3c18143	comment	Matt reading a hopeful quote or describing a project stage that would promise things would turn out well, following up with an immediate "Except it didn't/wasn't!", and explaining what went wrong next in development.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The animated intro for the Simpsons Reference series has Matt, Crymetina, and their cats reenacting the intro from The Simpsons. So naturally, each episode has a different gag when the McMuscles family reach their couch.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Matt's comedy style is pretty heavy on references and clips. In the Scalebound episode of Wha Happun?, he references Trogdor so often that by about five minutes in he has to promise to stop.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Matt's review of Street Fighter 6 starts with an intro of how well documented it is that Street Fighter V didn't exactly have a smooth launch, with many YouTube videos being made in response over the years, some of which he calls "clickbait". Among the examples he floats on the screen is the thumbnail to his own Wha Happun? episode of SFV.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: The Wii U episode of Wha Happun? ends with Matt mentioning the last 3 first-party games that had not yet been ported over to the Nintendo Switch at the time of recording (2020): Xenoblade Chronicles X, Star Fox Zero, and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. If those games were ever ported to the Switch, the Wii U would be truly deadnote Maiden of Black Water ended up getting a multiplatform port in 2021, Switch version included. Then he remembered that the console will never truly be dead, because nobody is going to ever bother porting Devil's Third.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_cd1b0fcc	type	Prima Donna Director
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_cd1b0fcc	comment	Prima Donna Director: Several episodes of Wha Happun? discuss project leads whose vision outstrips their technology or resources. The Duke Nukem Forever episode catalogues the years' long development cycle driven by George Broussard's continually changing desires for the game. The Too Human episode focuses heavily on Dennis Dyack's attitude towards failed business relationships and online critics. The Mighty No. 9 episode focuses on how while Keiji Inafune had the benefit of having the experience of being the shepherd of Mega Man and the backing of Inti Creates, a studio he had worked with extensively before and even developed a well-regarded Mega Man subseries, he was getting too focused on turning the property into a franchise before he even had a game out, with the pressure of making ten different versions and feature-creep overwhelming the studio from meeting the listed stretch goals (including a multiplayer mode when they had no experience with the netcoding required of it). Jay Beard of Splatterhouse (2010) may well take the cake, though, completely ignoring the guidelines set by publisher Namco, and even actively trying to hide that fact from them for as long as he could feasibly do so. When Namco gathered several former Bottle Rocket devs into a temporary studio to assist in finishing the game after Bottle Rocket's closure, Beard was conspicuously not among them.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: A few figures that pop up in the Wha Happun? videos are portrayed in this way. John Carmack to John Romero to some extent, at least in the sense that Romero tends to be The Face of the two. At least some of the problems that plagued Daikatana were due to Romero no longer having access to Carmack's programming talents. With Duke Nukem Forever, we have Brian Hook, a project lead hired on after several employees left 3D Realms. Unlike anyone at 3D Realms before him, he was willing to ignore George Broussard's requests for changes if he felt that they would slow down development, so the game was finally able to start moving forward. With L.A. Noire, Rockstar Games eventually sent a group of producers to help with the issues keeping production slow. In a far cry from when Ubisoft tried something similar with Haze, these new additions not only helped, but Bondi staff credit them for being the main reason that the game managed to finally start taking form.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_d64491d8	type	Meaningless Meaningful Words
Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_d64491d8	comment	Meaningless Meaningful Words: Matt criticizes this in The Worst Fighting Game episode featuring Savage Warriors as the game claims it has "3D Bio Motion", which he easily compares to the Sega Genesis' infamous "Blast Processing". The main complaint comes from the game's infamous ad, which claims that, because Mortal Kombat II doesn't have "3D Bio Motion", Savage Warriors is instantly superior.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_da9d2f16	comment	'90s Anti-Hero: The series Edgelords is a love letter to this character type. Matt narrates the series in the guise of his own edge-sona, Ashen the Vileblader, who is absolutely an example himself. The What Happened? episode for Vexx saw him make a quick cameo.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_db54633f	comment	The Too Human episode focuses heavily on Dennis Dyack's attitude towards failed business relationships and online critics.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_dcd423d2	comment	As detailed under Affectionate Nickname, Matt often refers to the PlayStation 2 as the "PS double ballin'," with the other versions of the console getting similar nicknames, such as "PS singular ballin'," "PS triple ballin'," and so on.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_df1793de	comment	In The Worst Fighting Game episode featuring Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22, Matt constantly refers towards Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budoten, the Sega Saturn Updated Re-release of UB22 as this, constantly belittling the former for the flaws that Shin Budoten fixed and a sign of the Creator's Apathy held for its release in the States.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Matt is flabbergasted at the fact that Fight For Life is a competently made game that had interesting ideas and was only held back by incompetent higher-ups, a faltering company and a system that people didn't care about any more. Probably helped that it was helmed by Francois Yves Bertrand, who worked on Virtua Fighter.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: In his What Happen? episode for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, Matt makes note that it seems that the same thing that befell that game (a brand new Indy game being made and going silent when a divisive new entry makes its appearance) is happening again with a supposed new entry being made and no news being revealed while a divisive new entry appears.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: In the Scalebound episode of Wha Happun?, Matt gives kudos to Microsoft and Platinum for simply cancelling the game when they realized that it wasn't working out, rather than trying to drag it across the finishing line as happens with so many other games.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_e291ba02	comment	Analysis Channel: Several of his shows are of this variety. Wha Happun? reviews the hectic production behind both good and bad media, Crymetina Critiques is a review of the fashions of video game characters, and The Flophouse Files investigates publicity stunts and trends in gaming.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_e39ce9	comment	John Carmack to John Romero to some extent, at least in the sense that Romero tends to be The Face of the two. At least some of the problems that plagued Daikatana were due to Romero no longer having access to Carmack's programming talents.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Has gone through three different style changes for his avatar throughout the years. Throughout 2018-2020, his intro and avatar had utilized an artistic rendering of himself with his former Super Best Friends Play human avatar, with a black hoodie and beanie. He would get a new avatar style, starting with the Scalebound episode, where he would be represented as an blue skeleton wearing the same beanie but with a fancy pink suit and tie, which lasted from 2020-2022. Starting from the episode covering The Quiet Man, Matt has settled into the same avatar, though it is less angular and more round when compared to previous episodes.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: In his Wha Happun? video on Metroid: Other M, Matt declares that the Metroidvania subgenre should henceforth be known as "Search-Action" instead. And in several subsequent videos, he actually does refer to these games as search action, and trusts his audience to know what he means without explanation. In his quick look video on Shadow Man, Matt does mention "Metroidvania", then berates himself for the slip-up, lamenting that the term he's trying to push will never catch on if even he can't use it consistently. He also uses the "Metroidvania" term during his sponsor read for Blast Brigade. In Crymetina Critiques, loincloths or cloth coverings of any kind over a character's crotch are almost always referred to as "puss flaps", regardless of the character's gender. Particularly games where said designs are ubiquitous on a character's outfit like Mortal Kombat 11.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While Wha Happun? is somewhat snarky, it's usually done in good fun and intended to be educational about the pitfalls of game or movie development. The episode on The Guy Game, on the other hand, has Matt's barely contained contempt for the concept, the producer's debauched lifestyle and unprofessionalism, and the juvenile premise boil over and it becomes extremely deadpan mockery.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_ea480f92	comment	Simple, yet Awesome: Wha Happun? delved into how a relatively simple tweak saved Alien: Resurrection. After a tumultuous development where, like GoldenEye (1997), it missed the film's release by several years, the third-person shooter (which was the style at the time) was nearing completion when the developers at Argonaut Games were struggling with two big issues. Their rendering technique was taxing the system to where they were struggling with various technical issues, and as a result, had to limit the enemy AI to basically bumrush the player in low numbers, which made the game not scary. However, they had implemented a first-person view and control scheme when crawling through vents and realized they could apply it to the entire game, which benefitted the build in three ways: they didn't have to throw out their existing work (which had already happened), it would amp up the game's difficulty and scare factor with a first-person perspective limiting what players could see, and the game's technical performance improved with less to display. As a bonus, the game was one of the first pioneers of the now-standard dual-analog control scheme for console FPS games (which would become popularized by Halo: Combat Evolved), though at the time, this control scheme was criticized instead of praised by reviewers.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_eeaeb6df	comment	Appeal to Obscurity: From his Wha Happun? episode on Spyborgs:
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: The Donkey Kong 64 episode of Wha Happen? has a segment that focuses on debunking an Urban Legend of Zelda (with Derek from Stop Skeletons From Fighting), where Nintendo had announced that the Nintendo 64's Expansion Pack was necessary for the game to fix a Game-Breaking Bug, but this isn't the case. The decision to use the Expansion Pack was decided from the start in order to help make it a selling point, which got transformed into the bug-breaking story. As for what the Expansion Pack's extra RAM did and the whole mystery that justified its usage, it was for the game's vertex lighting, which is mentioned with very little fanfare.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: During the Skullgirls episode of Crymetina Critiques, Crymetina admits that judging Cerebella is harder than she expected, because she can't take her eyes off Cerebella's bouncing chest. While critiquing Guilty Gear -STRIVE-, Crymetina interrupts her commentary on Millia Rage's outfit to squeal "Ooooooooooh!" as soon as she sees Millia let her hair down for her victory pose.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Occasionally on Wha Happun?, the featured project had production so turbulent that it was on the verge of cancellation. But by determination and luck, the studio still pulled through and released an acclaimed and profitable game that turned them into a household name, with Doom (2016), Demon's Souls, and Killer Instinct (2013) being standout examples. Certain individuals sometimes find themselves able to weather the storm of a bad game development, sometimes even taking the brunt of the blame, to go on to work on more successful projects. Michael Mendheim was a producer for Def Jam: Icon and admitted there was a lot of squandered potential in the game's development. He developed a successful Kickstarter and went on to reboot the Mutant League franchise that he originally worked on with Mutant Football League in 2017. Joel Goodsell was one of the developers involved in Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly, but Matt himself calls it a glow-up that he moved onto Insomniac Games as a lead designer of Spider-Man (PS4). Jurassic Park: Trespasser is an interesting case, because the final product was completely dragged for being the invokedbarely functioning butchered remains of a pile of lofty ambitions after years of hard work. However... The staff would go on to develop the Medal of Honor series (until they were shut down by EA). Lead Producer Seamus Blackwell was approached by Bill Gates directly in recognition of the ambitious ideas he had for the game, and ended up pitching the idea for Microsoft to enter the video games market and became the man behind the creation of the original Xbox. Gabe Newell cites Trespasser as the key influence for the physics engine in Half-Life 2. Metroid Prime is by far one of the most successful games to still have enough production issues to be worth an episode of Wha Happun? Between a fresh team, unfamiliar developer tools, a deadline creeping up their backs and Jeff Spangenberg's unfathomable mismanagement for the first year or so of the project, Matt mentions it's nothing less than a miracle and a show of the Retro Studio team's determination that the game came out on time, well-polished and handled the Metroid franchise's 3D leap and genre changeover better than many other franchises, earning it critical acclaim. The Mighty No. 9 episode of Wha Happun? ends with Matt noting that despite all the troubles and stress of the game's development, mixed-to-negative reception of the finished product, and their professional reputation taking a hit, Inti Creates managed to bounce back from the debacle. Instead of closing down like other unfortunate developers and/or publishers, the studio is still pumping out well-regarded games such as the Azure Striker Gunvolt Series, Blaster Master Zero and Blaster Master Zero II, Dragon: Marked for Death, and Matt's personal jewel, Gal*Gun. While Rambo: The Video Game was a poorly-reviewed flop, Matt notes that, to his surprise, developer Teyon Studios would continue to work on the game and even release a surprisingly improved DLC for it two years after launch—because fans would want it. He then praises them for continuing on and creating a warmly received game he himself absolutely loved, Terminator: Resistance, having learned from their experiences with Rambo to make a much better game. The original Resident Evil 2 had a lot of things going wrong during its development. It had put an inexperienced Hideki Kamiya in the role of director, with the first build and story outline of the game being scrapped altogether after it had failed to impress Capcom higher-ups, forcing it to be rewritten. This is on top of having an immense amount of pressure to live up to the first game, being behind in development, and even a technical issue that couldn't be fixed in time that forced the game to be printed on two discs. Despite these problems, it resulted in one of the best-selling games in the franchise, and even resulted in pay bonuses for Mikami and his staff. Resident Evil 4 is also one of the most successful examples, where after several scrapped builds, Shinji Mikami working himself to the bone, and several doubts, the fourth entry would become a critically acclaimed breakout hit and being one of Capcom's most commercially successful projects (selling over 11 million copies after being ported to several systems), with a remake released in 2023. Downplayed for Mikami himself, where he ended up being so burnt out with its development that he joined up with Clover Studio to make God Hand (a game that Mikami looks upon favorably, despite its Acclaimed Flop status) before leaving Capcom officially in 2007.
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_f97453eb	comment	Channel Hop: Matt makes note that Rare suffers from this a lot, having started development on one system, only to suddenly jump to another as a new generation of consoles appear. Being bought out by Microsoft specifically threw pretty much every development they had going into chaos. It's pointed out that Kameo: Elements of Power started development on the Nintendo 64, jumped to the Nintendo GameCube and started to form together as a game, went to the Xbox after Microsoft bought them and had a smooth development cycle, before the higher-ups gave the dev team the option to ultimately jump to the Xbox 360 even though they could have released on the Xbox if they wanted.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_f9f2c33	comment	It's a Running Gag that Matt favorably compares every videogame shotgun to the DoomÂ³ shotgun. No matter how bad the shotgun may be, he'll always say something to the effect of, "It's still better than the DoomÂ³ shotgun."
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_fc451ba4	comment	The Flophouse Files episode Remember when Acclaim advertised on people's tombstones? chronicles a few marketing stunts by the UK branch of the titular company. Wanting to mimic Mortal Kombat's success through controversy and desperate for profits, Acclaim pulled a few insane and tasteless marketing stunts, including pouring red-dyed water (called bloodvertising) on a street and attempting to advertise on tombstones, to drum up attention and game sales. These stunts, however, failed to help game sales in the slightest and, in the case of the bloodvertising, backfired when they were forced to pay for cleaning.invoked
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Matt McMuscles (Web Video) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: All of his documentary-style content and everything he talks about on Bug Report comes from both painstaking research and from years of personal experience as a bug tester/indie video game developer.
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