It doesn’t get any grander than the licensed videogame where Kevin Costner squeezed into his tights and plucked up a longbow to kick ass in the name of the proletariat! Let’s take a blast back to the past and relive the horror that is… Prince of Thieves!
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Actually there is a password system, but its hidden for some reason:
At The Start Screen: press A(x8) B(x8)
The Password are also real stupid…WEDDING for example lets you see the end of the game, LOCKSLEY will take you to the Castle.
Hey, great review, but I’m British…so British accents are gay, huh? Remind me to smite you for that one :p
Anyway, love your work! Boo to YouTube for removing your videos because honestly, they’re just being wanks about the whole thing. I’m trying to convince my friends to start visiting this website and I’ll be buying some stuff from your store soon hopefully if I get a job soon (2008 = worst year ever).
All the best for 2009!
Steven, Newcastle England
Sheriff Hans for the win, lol. Alan Rickman is awesome.
Anyways, for some reason I like this game. I shouldn’t like it, because the menu system is so clunky and the dueling is complete crap, but I have fun with it…except for the dueling.
Daaaaaamn. The combat looks like a crapped out version of the original Prince of Persia, if the characters of Prince of Persia had a broom stick up their asses and out their nostrils. Has anybody noticed the swords are as big as their bodies?
lol great review spoony, your choice of music pushes the funny meter over the top lmao
spoony
i love all of your work
you are a true inspiration to me.
the way you pulled this review together, its truly amazing
keep it up bro’
Josh (the frustrated gamer)
This one hits pretty hard at home for me. I had this game for the NES when I was about 6 years old.
I never got past the fucking sewer level.
Haha good review, but im british and i like the accents, but im not offenced :p
Nice review Spoony, thanks *claps*
Hey, wheres my million bucks? XP
Great review, you had me laughing all the way thorugh.
Why a spoon brother?
Read the FAQ’s sister.
LOL at the end (SPOILER)
He headbutts her :D.
hey spoon u know in your review you had to do whole parts of level again why dont you get an emulater?
you can save at any piont in the game
Is it just me or does Robin’s pic look eerily like the Hoff?
Why a spoon? Why not a….fork?
BECAUSE IT’S DULL YOU TWIT! IT’LL HURT MORE!
Oh man this game made my child hood.. Me and my friends tried for like 2 years to finish this game, but never made it..
the dueling walk reminds me of MC Hammer XD
I remember many people complaining about Robin Hood not having a British accent, but the interesting thing is the current British accent sounds nothing like it did a couple hundred years ago. It actually used to sound more like the current American accent until the Queen had it changed in the 17th or 18th century, I can’t remember which. Basically, she changed the “er” and “aa” sounds to “ah” to make it sound more “beautiful”. So Kevin Costner’s American accent was actually an accuracy rather than an inaccuracy of the film.
Mistah. Thats a load of crap. Get an education dude.
look i love the spoony 1 dude u is th e shiz bomb
Hilarious, another great video! What a shitty game!
It looks really hard, thanks for finishing it!
lol, he looks like John Travolta when he headbutts her XD
Oh my god, that game SUCKED! I remember not being able to keep from shitting myself playing that peice of crap.
Wow this had me wet eyed.
Actually looks like my kind of game lol >.> If i hadn’t of watched this i might have skipped over the obviouly unforgivable errors they made. Keep them comming!
British accents = gay !? at least we can spell, ass hole . just remember yank, without us you’d be talking German, bud
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I sincerely hope you are joking because it was obvious Spoony was being sarcastic. And if he really hated British people why would he pay tribute to Benny Hill, and Monty Python in the review?
is it just me or does robin hood look like david hasslehoff (when his head pops up during dialogue) ?
I laughed at the headbutt joke at the end lol
hey loved the bonus commentary and stuff and you are right about the minnesota nice accent cept i only noticed that in the older generation being from minnesota myself
Scary fact: there IS a password system–hold A, B, and push START at the title screen (I think, it’s been probably 15 years since I played this). The problem: you don’t KNOW the passwords, and they’re all broken. Yes broken. They’ll put you where they say, oh yeah, but with a random outlay of gear. The endgame password makes damn sure to NOT give you the Druid’s Dagger so you can’t beat the Giant Skeleton and finish the game. It’s useless.
If you hold START during the 2D swordfights, it acts as a “Turbo On” button, and if you then jump while holding it, the game forgets to bring you back down after jumps. Do it enough times and you jump up…and wrap around to the bottom of the screen, where you can stab people in the legs with impunity.
And the big thing: if Declan (Duncan? The blind guy) is holding anything super important when the game ‘writes him out’ midway in, you never get it back. Ever. Unless you go into into your inventory and scroll through your men, where you’ll find a guy with random garbage for a name carrying Duncan’s crap. Take it NOW, because it disappears if you switch characters.
The manual had a half-dozen or so items that don’t exist in the game. And worst of all, this thing was delayed nearly _a year_ from its original release date in 1990 to _fix substantial issues_. I own this game, still in the box, and I’ve beaten it without cheating. It’s…not worth it. At all. No way.
Can you name your other favorite performances by Alan Rickman besides this and Die Hard?
I thought he was great in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd!
AHHH PUMPKIN HEAD!!!!11 :O
I remember wasting far too much precious time on this game in the early nineties. I wasted one sunday beating the whole thing. It took me like 5 hours. My nintendo never fully recovered. Needless to say I was pretty sick of it by the end. Still I did like the game because it was the first multi character rpg I ever played.
this review made me have to watch the lancelot scene in holy grail… well done, sir.
I remember wasting a lot of time with this. I didnt understand a goddamn thing that was going on, but i kinda liked it i suppose. I just remember that after little john everything got really easy, aside from the big skeleton thing. It actually got to the point where it was so easy it was boring. I wasnt a bright kid though, so i might be thinking about starfox or something.
Robin says ok and headbutts her
you didnt like the brittish accents?… Robin Hood is from England? why wouldnt he have a brittish accent?
liked the Kevin Costner flic though.
Did anyone else notice that robin looks like david hasselhoff http://www.cognacscorner.tv/news/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/david-hasselhoff-click-los-angeles-premiere-07xqbb.jpg
The video cut out at 12:00. Another clitch from server crash?
I think nobody asked the OBVIOUS question… this is robin hood, and you NEVER USE A BOW! what the hell is up with that????
“who’s your favorite New Kid?” lol love the Mallrats reference
The music at the end of the review is from the Robin Hood Disney cartoon right. I loved that as a kid but that was so many moons ago I cannot be certain. Love your work by the way. I have just spent a lazy Sunday watching your entire catalogue of reviews. I haven’t laughed so hard in such a long time.
Have to say that I am also surprised that there have been a few negative comments relating to the “British accent = gay” thing. Common you brits, with such great comedic works as Monty Python, Black Adder and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy coming from your fine country you should know sarcasm when you see it.
It’s quite hilarious to see the large amount of English people getting angry over a simple sarcastic comment.
Though the English never were too bright, huh?
Considering they let Germany take over quite a lot of England. Funny, seeing as not one German foot was laid in Wales or Scotland. =)
Still, I agree with what’s been said. With such genius as Monty Python and Douglas Adams, why get so flustered over 3 words?
U can’t touch Spoony
Man your reviews own!
amazing, now i have to go watch The Disney robin hood with talking animals, I love that song lol. To prince john the phony king of England
True, it is a painful game. However, I wouldn’t call it bad. More like… unusually advanced, at least when it comes to the NES.
Yea Adarmus it is the song from disney’s robin hood it is called “whistle stop”
Agree about the lack of a bow…it’s supposed to be Robin Hood!
Too many different fight modes. They should have picked one and made it good.
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