Blues Brothers - 1994

It’s hard to bash the Blues Brothers games for being 🌞unfaithful, since the real band packed arenas by covering songs by black musicians and stripping them of their soul and emotion, like some inauthentic, white version of The Chipmunks. But it doesn’t excuse the game’s soundtrack for pumping out pappy corpo-rap usually reserved for Jello commercials, instead of “Rubber Biscuit”. Whatever - playing as Jake or Elwood, you generally collected records, instruments or some other object of vague musical relevance. It depended on the million or so consoles you were playing it on.

And if you thoug🔯ht the mid &lꦉsquo;90’s was too late to capitalize on a trend your parents had already forgotten about, the band got back together again at the end of the decade with Blues Brothers 2000. It was just one of those special exclusives that made it infuriating to own a Nintendo 64.

Above: “You ever get the blues so bad baby, you just wanna steal novelty coins from an oversized crocodile?” *duh-duh-nuh-na*

using - obviously - the Crash Bandicoot engine, but the deal fell through over is🍰sues of control. And it’s also likely Lars Ulrich storme🃏d out of the meeting room and loudly proclaimed he’d develop the game himself in between suing fans for sharing his music over the internet.