Black Belt Challenge was developed by Guerilla Games, back when they were called "Lost Boys Games".

Iron Kid was some kind of CGI cartoon that they localized as Eon Kid. i saw a bit of an episode once when i was in middle school. those are all the things i know about Iron Kid

The rabbit hole that is the GBA fighting game library never ceases to amaze me.

Iron Kid has such budget Mega Man Zero vibes that I kinda gotta respect it.

Dual Blades is basically "How to Draw Manga or Anime: The Fighting Game", I swear. Then, that Jurassic Park 3 game had the Beheaded Kamikaze scream sound from Serious Sam in it. Truly, this is a gift that keeps on giving!

55:25 Fun Fact: While Galidor did precede Ben 10 by a couple years, the "limbs turn into machines" concept was done in the 90's by M. Rex, a comic that would eventually be the basis for Generator Rex, made by the same guys who created Ben 10 (Which on second thought, might be the reason you thought of Ben 10 there)

"Iron Kid" was a mid popular 2000s cartoon show from South Korea.
Also, I had no idea Big Joel had a Lets Play channel...

Mad props to the sprite artist on that last game, those are some great pixel likenesses.

Context of A Sound of Thunder: It's based on a Short Story by Ray Bradbury who presents this future where folk can pay some guys with time machine access to hunt down certain ANCIENT Specimens, they also established a path that by all means is MEANT to be followed so you don't cause cataclysmic changes.

The Educated Future is where they came from and our story's protagonist makes one little, itty bitty mistake...that being stepping outside the path and accidentally flattening a butterfly (And leaving a boot print in prehistoric times) which changes a BUNCH of stuff, including who won the election in their year AND the literacy of the Human Race. And it's implied the PoV character is going to get EXECUTED outright for his fuck-up.

Fun Fact: the Ray Bradbury story A Sound of Thunder is the basis for that Simpsons Halloween Special segment where Homer goes back to the time 'when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos' and his actions radically alter the future.

That Flashback game is not a finished game. It is a beta leaked by the development team and it was supposed to be a sequel of the original (ignoring the events of "Fade to black", I guess)
The character of Conrad from the first game it's just a placeholder because that rom was a work in progress

It's sad that the studio went bankrupt and that game was never finished, because the backgrounds looked dope!
The Flashback games would be great material for a "What happened" episode, Matt! The first one initially was a licensed "Godfather" game (years before the EA one) that went wild on the development and ended up being his own thing.
The sequel "Fade to black" was one of the first 3D third person shooters ever made, being in development way before "Tomb Raider"
There was some kind of reboot of the first game made by Ubisoft that was hated by everyone and the recent sequel was delayed many times and when released received very bad reviews... There's material in there!

I remember Iron kid was a cartoon that was brought over to America but the title was changed to "Eon Kid" possibly to keep the Marvel lawyers off their back

A Sound Of Thunder (The Movie) starred Ben Kingsley. It was so mid it was a belt. I’m so glad someone else suffered through the GBA game too!

The console/PC version of Galidor is pure What happened? material. The game was cancelled in 2002, but a budget pc game publisher managed to get the beta pc build on store shelves in 2004 alongside other Lego PC rereleases. Lego was near bankruptcy when the game was canned, and it was in their product catalogues, so they probably didn't even notice it had been canned while they were rolling in Bionicle money, selling old licenses to budget labels.

Dude, Dual Blades just unlocked an old memory. I played this so long ago as a kid and could never remember the name. I've been searching for this game for probably almost 20 years I guess lol. I knew exactly what it was as soon as Matt sliced dudes torso in half at the beginning! Lol

I used to be a K-1 fan and the two GBA adaptations are among the best based on the license, the two are very similar, the second is just like the first with some updated content. There were somewhat decent and more "simulation" oriented K-1 games on Saturn and Playstation but I found the GBA ones more fun to play. Hernesto Hoost, Remy Bonjasky, Jerome Lebanner, Peter Aerts, Mark Hunt, Mirko CroCop (who also had a pretty good MMA run)... these guys are legends.

The Flashback Legends GBA game is just a prototype, it was never finished because Delphine Software, well......y'know.

If there's ever a follow-up to this, I really hope Wade Hixton's Counter Punch is a game you haven't heard of.

Iron Kid takes me back, but when I was youngling it was called "Eon Kid on Kids WB"

I looked into Dual Blades and apparently it was actually rated M! It's also a Turkish game.