8 Cartoon Games That Had No Right to Be This Good

In the '80s and '90s, if a cartoon, a movie or a pizza chain had a pulse, it got a video game. Built in a few months, shipped for Christmas, forgotten by Valentine's Day. But every so often, a studio got handed a license nobody cared about and quietly made something great. One of them stars Goofy, and it was directed by the man who went on to create Resident Evil. Welcome to The Forgotten Wing — the museum wing nobody visits. Today's exhibit: 8 licensed games that were secretly great. Display Case, Gift Shop, Storage, or Incinerator? The Curator decides. 🏛 EXHIBIT GUIDE 0:00 Welcome to The Forgotten Wing 0:57 #8 Yo! Noid — Domino's mascot, secretly a ninja game 1:41 #7 The Pirates of Dark Water — an arcade brawler on SNES 2:28 #6 Gargoyles — Disney's darkest, hardest game 3:20 #5 Buster Busts Loose! — Konami at full speed 4:07 #4 Bucky O'Hare — the best Mega Man Capcom never made 5:02 #3 Alien vs. Predator — the arcade game that never came home 5:52 #2 The Adventures of Batman & Robin — and its evil twin 6:34 #1 Goof Troop — Resident Evil's blueprint, starring Goofy 7:27 The Appraisal: final verdicts 🗳 THE DONATION BOX IS OPEN Which forgotten licensed game belongs in this wing? Drop it in the comments — the best donation gets its own exhibit. 🔔 Subscribe so you don't miss the next wing. — CREDITS & SOURCES Gameplay footage from longplay archivists; all game footage, box art and logos © their respective publishers (Capcom, Konami, Sunsoft, Disney/Buena Vista Interactive, Sega, Domino's Pizza). Used for commentary and criticism. Archival film (public domain): The Great Train Robbery (1903), via Internet Archive. Image: "Pizza Tradición Napolitana" by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Image: "The Ship Young America at Sea" (1915) by Antonio Jacobsen, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Image: "Dunnottar Castle 2013" by Mimihitam, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Image: "Manhattan from Weehawken, NJ" by Dmitry Avdeev, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Image: "Clapperboard, O2 film, September 2008" by Mattbr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Image: "Fate Grand Order Arcade Cabinets" by Ominae, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Image: "Interior of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum" by Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Stock video via Pexels: Distill, Amar Preciado, Antoni Shkraba, Timyong D, Ricky Esquivel, Tima Miroshnichenko, Rostislav Uzunov, dabatepatvideos, Glen McBride, Dan Butler, Mohammad Yahmadi. #RetroGaming #Batman #ForgottenGames #GoofTroop #SNES #LicensedGames #TheForgottenWing