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Though the Looney Tunes characters shone their brightest during the Golden Age of Hollywood, they wouldn't reach critical mass until a few generations later, when seemingly endless reruns, revivals, and spinoffs made them inescapable throughout the '80s and '90s. And with this new era of old cartoons came the rise of video games, and a shocking amount of adaptations that tried to capture gag-based violence in an entirely new medium. On this episode, join Bob Mackey, Henry Gilbert, and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes creator Ian Jones-Quartey as the crew examines the history of Looney Tunes games to find out which ones are good, and which ones are dethpicable.

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SilverHairedMiddleAgedTuxedoMask

I looked it up and apparently there was a Looney Tunes game for VITA of all systems released as a physical game in Europe, which might be the most modern physical game ever for any of these licensed property episodes.

Michael Castleberry

My middle school mascot was the Road Runner, just recolored Green and Gold for our school colors. Also "Death Valley Rally" was my first rental disappointment. First time I went back to playing my normal games before the rental period was over. I have complicated feelings on the character lol

Thad Komorowski

As a '90s Looney Tunes kid/Warner cartoon historian, I have a TON to add, but I'll just say this was an incredibly fun trip down memory lane and incredibly fair to some fairly mediocre-and-worse titles. Thanks, Bob, Henry, and Ian. The Sunsoft games were worlds improved if you had a Game Genie. And easily the best Looney Tunes game of all was Sheep Raider for the PS1 - exceptionally dated polygonal graphics, but it got the feel of '50s Chuck Jones-Mike Maltese-Maurice Noble down as well as anything.

crystalhearts

This was really great - Ian is always a fantastic guest.

Jared Blankenship

Looking forward to this episode! Grew up with Looney Tunes and it's close cousin Merry Melodies so I'm all about filling in the gaps in my knowledge!

Paul

The only game I was surprised that didn't make the cut was the Wolf and Sheepdog for the PlayStation, which is still notable for how great its graphics are, having a Windwaker cel shaded style years before Windwaker.

Frank Keller

My brain recognized the voice, but didn't put together that it's Wallow from Bravest Warriors until like halfway through the episode.

Phoequinox

The only one on this list that I ever played was Rabbit Rampage. It was one of my "dad rentals", where I would ask my dad to rent something for me without having any idea what I actually wanted to play. Overall, it was a decent game. Surprisingly hard, though. I couldn't beat it, but I think I got very close. One of my favorite things was reading EGM in the late '90s and seeing 20-something dudes struggle to write previews for bad Bugs Bunny games.

Andrew Grieve

This podcast reminded me that the Looney Tunes GB game is great, haven’t played it since I was a kid but it was a really solid platformer back then. Back in the day I never knew Road Runner was originally an arcade game, I totally had that renter’s remorse when I rented it for NES over a weekend. Finally tried the arcade game a few years ago at an arcade exhibit in Flint, and enjoyed that a lot more. And I’m probably the lone person who still enjoys Crazy Castle, it’s a mind numbing puzzle game where it’s easy to get in the zone, it’s not great but I enjoy the series for what it is, I know what I’m getting and it’s settling for mediocrity! I also was given copies of Los Gatos Banditos and Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday because a friend couldn’t stand them anymore...with Ian’s anecdote I’m sure I wasn’t the only one gifted or traded these games. At least Haunted Holiday has an interesting ambience and a weird selection of music.

Diamond Feit

Very glad to hear TAZ was not overlooked, it was the first game that came to mind when I saw the episode title!

Goosetime

Great work! I remember Bugs Birthday Blowout as being the most mediocre platformer I’ve ever played, and thinking: that’s all... folks? Awesome work on the podcast as usual Bob and Henry

Ryan Middleton

Really enjoyed this episode! I am compelled to note that Looney Tunes B-Ball was a defining crossover event of my childhood, even though Bob referred to it as "not notable" more than once. This game is no NBA Jam, but it does transform into something completely different with multiplayer. My brother and I religiously play it to this day when we visit each other. It's a blast, and makes me miss local co-op in the age of online battle royale. And yes - his main is Taz, while mine is Marvin. We were very much forged in the fires of WB Consumer Products.

Ben Love

Great episode! Disappointed you guys didn’t cover the trio of Looney Toons games on the PlayStation (Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time, Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters, and Sheep Raider). They are fairly competent 3D platformers developed by Infogrames. I highly recommend checking them out, especially Sheep Raider which is notable for being a late PlayStation game with a beautiful art style, it has the same sort of cell-shaded look as Mega Man Legends but with even more impressive textures and polygon count.