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00:05 Today's game review, Tom and Jerry House Trap.
00:09 So obviously most people have heard of Tom and Jerry, but if you've been recently born
00:13 or haven't access to a television or computer, how the hell are you watching this?
00:18 Tom and Jerry are a cat and mouse duo who troll each other relentlessly.
00:22 Made by Hanna-Barbera in the 40s, Tom and Jerry have endured the test of time to the
00:25 current day, and would you believe that in the year 2000 someone made a PlayStation 1
00:29 game about them?
00:30 And that game was Tom and Jerry's House Trap, a game where you essentially play as Jerry
00:34 and go around and beat up on Tom with a wide variety of household apparatus, like frying
00:39 pans, fly swatters, and you can also lay traps for the poor fool to fall into as well.
00:44 Apparently this kind of game has its own genre called "Trap-Em-Up"?
00:49 I guess it's like "Beat 'Em Up" but with more soap.
00:52 The Wikipedia page for this game is pretty much non-existent, all it says is that there
00:55 are similar games to it.
00:57 Wow.
00:58 I remember playing this game as a kid, so let's see how this transfers to adulthood.
01:02 Has it aged like fine wine, or has it calcified like Adam Sandler's career?
01:07 There's like ten levels, and the majority of them are the same.
01:14 Basically each level will open up a different room to the house, and you'll get more weapons,
01:18 and things will change, like some rooms will close off, like there's a midpoint about halfway
01:23 through the game where the majority of the rooms are open and you can get pretty much
01:27 lots of different bits and pieces.
01:38 I don't know what that is on the floor, but when any character stands in it, they're just
01:42 like "Ohhhhhh".
01:45 So I have to imagine it's something horrifying.
01:47 I haven't even done anything yet, and he's managed to hurt himself.
01:55 Oh, damn it.
01:57 Should turn that on.
02:05 Now we both got caught by that time.
02:08 Oh, I thought he was going to run back into it, but he didn't.
02:18 Come here!
02:23 You can probably just kill him by hitting him repeatedly, but where's the fun in that?
02:30 Don't worry, oh he's in there.
02:41 If you pass L1, it drops whatever you have, so if you don't want to use whatever I had
02:45 there, I had like one hit with it left, so just wait for him to come in here.
02:51 Surprise!
02:52 Oh, he hit me before I did throw it.
02:56 Walk into the mousetrap.
02:57 Oh, he picked it up!
02:59 Come here.
03:01 He's nearly out anyway.
03:05 Just activate the TV.
03:08 Here we go, here we go.
03:11 Oh, look at that, he's watching his own television show.
03:14 Big headed oaf.
03:17 Oh, the frying pan's this way.
03:20 I didn't have to go for him that time.
03:23 I should have won!
03:26 Bloody won now.
03:27 Victory!
03:28 Anyway, the majority of the games and the majority of the levels are pretty much the
03:34 same.
03:35 There's only one or two where you have to collect something before Tom does.
03:39 It's like a race to get something and you have to beat the crap out of him on the way
03:41 there.
03:42 But the game is dependent on, there's one where Tom's girlfriend, he wants to get as
03:49 many gifts for his girlfriend as possible and there's another one on Jerry's side.
03:54 Obviously you have to stop him from doing that because you're a tiny mouse cockblocker.
04:01 So that's the point of that one.
04:04 Tom isn't going to impress his girlfriend.
04:06 You're going to ruin his entire life.
04:08 Not only have you broken into his house and infested the place, you've also made his life
04:14 really hard.
04:16 I thought you were going to go away with sneaking by that one, didn't you?
04:22 You were wrong.
04:23 Oh, hang on, let's see if I can get the bowling ball.
04:26 The bowling ball's so great.
04:27 Oops.
04:28 I don't want that.
04:29 Where'd he go?
04:30 Oh, he's in the other room.
04:31 I don't know where the fuck he's going.
04:34 Oh, this is the room.
04:37 Ah, dammit, the bowling ball's so, so slow to actually throw it.
04:46 I hope that worked out for you, nicely douchebag.
04:53 For some reason there's a fish in this room and I don't know why.
04:59 Yeah, there's Tom standing in whatever that was.
05:03 God help him, don't know what it is.
05:10 There are sound bites from the actual TV show which make it a little bit better.
05:13 All I've got is the umbrella.
05:17 I'm going the wrong way.
05:21 He's not set off the fridge, but he's set off.
05:23 He's put the bananas- the bananas are already there, I can't remember.
05:26 Are we allowed down to the alley yet?
05:28 No.
05:29 We're not allowed upstairs either.
05:31 I should have hit him.
05:34 I didn't hit him, I pushed the wrong button.
05:36 Ah, dammit, he hit me.
05:40 That's uncool.
05:41 I don't know if there's a damage rating on whatever gets hit with the fish.
05:52 The most annoying thing in this game is once you push the button, the animation to hit
05:58 him is very slow.
06:00 And if you're moving, the animation continues forward in whatever direction you were facing
06:04 whilst you were doing that.
06:06 Oh, crap, I've run out of options.
06:14 So if you're moving forward towards a certain direction whilst you attacked him, you'll
06:18 continue in that direction until the animation is over, which can make it very annoying sometimes.
06:23 If you continue into something you didn't want to go into, like, I don't know, the fridge
06:26 or something like that, the motion will continue forwards and you'll get hurt.
06:31 Or, whilst he's trying, you miss him, which is even more annoying, and he hits you.
06:36 Which I've done a bunch of times already.
06:43 The thing is, as the game progresses, as more rooms are opened up, more interesting things
06:48 enter the game to make it more fun.
06:52 But not always, because once they start closing the rooms near the end of the game, some of
06:58 the fun stuff is actually removed and the midway point, like, you only have to play
07:03 like halfway through the game to fully enjoy it.
07:06 That was good.
07:09 He stood on the mouse trap and then goes and...
07:17 Oh, I got him on the way through the door.
07:21 He does these weird little animations sometimes when he goes through certain places, like
07:25 he'll go into a room and then stand there and go do like the...
07:28 Oh my god, he's not here.
07:29 Oh, we've both got each other.
07:34 But I've got the frying pan.
07:36 Oh, and he's gone and fallen over or something.
07:37 He's more beat up than I am already.
07:42 I'm not going to do that, Tom.
07:46 That's like the active zone.
07:48 See, there's like a certain zone you have to be in to set things off, and this thing's
07:52 got one on both sides.
08:02 There's such a great weapon, the frying pan.
08:04 Like in any game, like when they brought the frying pan into Left 4 Dead, I was always
08:08 like "Oh, this is amazing."
08:12 You can just follow him around and whack him for ages, because he's just like, he's trying
08:15 really hard to set traps to make the game interesting, and you're like "Nah, fuck it,
08:18 Tom, I'm just going to whack you for ages.
08:20 Come here."
08:23 You can defeat him really easy as well if you just decide to follow him around and whack
08:26 him.
08:27 The best thing is, like, the weapons come back.
08:28 Oh, the garden's open!
08:29 The garden is open!
08:31 Oh my god, the sledgehammer!
08:34 And the shovel.
08:35 Shovel's pretty good.
08:36 But like, garden tools, like, you thought hitting him with a frying pan was great, try
08:38 hitting him with a sledgehammer.
08:40 This is like going to cause like a brain hemorrhage.
08:43 We've gone from like, hurting Tom to literally like, murdering Tom.
08:48 Look, how can a mouse even hold a sledgehammer?
08:52 This is like, the realism in this game is weak.
08:56 Where'd he go?
09:00 You only have to hit him like, twice with the sledgehammer to just ruin him.
09:07 Actually, I don't think there's any, I don't think there is a damage thing, I don't think
09:11 it really matters how much you hit with whatever.
09:14 There's not really any difference between them.
09:18 Projectiles seem to do a fair amount of damage.
09:20 You saw how much the fish bolted to him.
09:24 Right, now this is, um, this is one of the levels where I was talking about, this isn't
09:30 like the cock block level, which is kind of funny.
09:33 This one is, um, the one where you have to protect the baby ducks, and Tom wants to eat
09:41 them, and I don't know why.
09:45 I don't know what the deal is with the picture on Tom's screen.
09:49 It looks like the duck's either got like a thing over its face, or it's actually melt-
09:54 Oh, he's got, he's gone past it!
09:56 Oh no, he's got it.
09:57 Ah, dammit, he's got the duck.
09:59 Where'd he go?
10:01 Where's he going?
10:03 Oh, what the he- What happened there?
10:07 I haven't got anything!
10:08 He's gonna cook him!
10:12 Doesn't matter how hard you hit, Tom, in this one.
10:14 Look at that, is that like a melting duck face?
10:17 This is what I need to know, things I need to understand.
10:19 Is this a melting duck face?
10:22 Oh my god, dynamite.
10:25 For some reason- Oh, dammit, it had to go off, didn't it?
10:29 I'm gonna lose this one.
10:31 Oh, he's found the other one!
10:34 I've gotta get to the oven before he does.
10:37 Beat the crap out of him to get it.
10:41 Ah, dammit.
10:46 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
10:48 Dammit, that's two!
10:50 I've gotta find the duck- I got the duck.
10:53 Right, now my duck goes in the pond, or wherever it is.
10:57 I put the duck in the pond because I'm a good guy, Tom!
11:01 Right, I'll get the next two, otherwise I've lost.
11:07 If he gets the next- Oh, he's got it again!
11:10 Oh, fucking dick, he's going the other way.
11:18 Throw it, throw it, throw it!
11:20 I got it.
11:26 Too slow!
11:28 Right, all I have to do is- If I get this one, I have to get the next one, otherwise I lose.
11:34 Yeah, just hit me like three times, Tom, I don't give a shit.
11:45 I've got the mop.
11:47 Which isn't a great weapon, but it's a better weapon.
11:50 Oh, it's in the same place every time!
11:52 It's the spin- It's pretty much been the same every time.
11:56 It's pretty much been the same place every time.
11:58 I have this sword.
12:00 He loses instantly, the second that I get three, as opposed to his two, I win.
12:07 But honestly, what is up with that face?
12:10 So what can we take away from Tom and Jerry's House Trap?
12:17 Whilst I didn't play all the levels, there's not much more gameplay variety than what we've seen already.
12:21 The best part of the game comes about halfway through when all the levels are opened up,
12:25 and there's nothing special at the end.
12:27 There's not a lot of replay value in the main game,
12:30 but two-player, you can liven up that a bit by screwing over your friends
12:33 and force them to watch Tom and Jerry while you brain them with a sledgehammer.
12:37 It's not really a bad PlayStation 1 game, the controls aren't bad,
12:41 the only annoying thing is the animation that takes up a lot of time.
12:45 It's... not a great PlayStation game either.
12:49 The comedy value is pretty much it.
12:51 There's a lot, a lot more to it than that.
12:53 I give it a strong 4.
12:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]