Imagine DS Games and Other Girly Shovelware

Hey guys! Thanks for clicking on my video. I just wanted to say that I am aware that Dream Jelly recently uploaded a video on a similar topic. I don't want anyone to think I copied them, so I just wanted to make it clear that I've been planning to make this video for months and was already nearly done making it when Dream Jelly uploaded their video. I haven't watched their video yet because I didn't want it to unintentionally influence me, but I'm sure we each have our own unique takes on this topic, so if it's a topic that interests you, I strongly encourage you to watch both our videos! Okay thanks, bye!

Many people don’t know that Imagine Dragons started as a Ubisoft shovelware game.

My favorite era of gaming is easily the “accidental female audience” era! Pokémon, Ace Attorney, Animal Crossing….and then they’re surprised when girls show up? 😂

Give me that girly shovelware.

Hello! I love that so many are getting interested in the Imagine series and loved this video! Just gonna leave a few cool facts about Imagine! I hope you don't mind. I have been researching and playing Imagine and petz games for a few years and there is a lot to say about both franchises. The main thing is some of the imagine games are multiple Japanese game series that ended up being reskinned and localized as an imagine game. (same for petz games) Imagine Master Chef (Imagine Happy Cooking in EU and AU) is from a series originally released in Japan called Oishii Cake Okusan for the Game Boy Color in 2000. It was made by MTO (most petz games are MTO games) Only two of the 10 games released outside of Japan: Touch Pen de Tanoshiku o Ryouri (Happy Cooking-US and My Happy Kitchen-EU) and Edamoto Naomi no Shiawase Kitchen: Kakushi Aji wa Anata ga Kimete ne (Imagine Master Chef-US and Imagine Happy Cooking - EU and AU) Another interesting thing is that some of the Imagine games that only released In EU actually got localized in the US outside of the Imagine series. Imagine My Restaurant was released in the US as Gourmet Chef: Cook Your Way to Fame. Imagine Champion Rider 3D was released in US as Horses 3D and EU as Alexandra Ledermann 3D. (which is also the name of many of the petz horse games in EU) I have more facts but I'll leave them out because they are related to other imagine games not included in this video! I also wanted to say Lets Ride FF is my absolute favorite! I basically maxed out everything in that game and the song that plays is actually one of my favorites 😅🤣

I still have my Petz Bunnyz and its sequel, Petz Bunny Bunch. They actually teach things you are not supposed to do with real bunnies!! You should not be bathing your buns with shampoo, and they don't hold food with their front paws like hands and-- I really hate it when pet sims that wanna be realistic in presentation but do a terrible job at teaching how to manage a real pet. My favorite girly game lately is a fan translation of Sylvanian Families for the Gameboy Color, called "The Fairyland Pendant". It's essentially an RPG where you don't battle, but have certain tasks to complete for the village that level you up. You can collect furniture for your room, like buying playsets for the Sylvanian Families dolls, which have effects on the story. I also like the collecting seeds and growing flowers, too. I know that I would have loved it as a little girl. I'm sad it didn't come out at a time when I really needed it, but as an adult I'm crazy obsessed with it. XD

The only shovelware game I played was an awful wizards of waverly place game for the DS and it glitched to a point where i couldn't move my character so I just gave up lol

Ms Pac-Man was a rom hack that later got licences, that’s why it’s copyright has always been weird. She’s an oc :) and has also been written out of history in recent years in some sort of weird pac divorce

''Like groomers to a SSB Tournament'' killed me 🤣

Man these look a lot better than I thought! The covers of all these, with their realistic look, look so low quality and unappealing. They should have just had the anime art style on the box!

Fun fact: The Imagine series was renamed to "Sophie's friends" in germany, and when I was talking with a friend about DS games, I didn't recognize the game until I looked at my own collection here at home and was like "oooh"

21:50 sorry for the "um, actually" thing im gonna say, but the first pokemon games were gonna have the option to choose between a male and a female protag, but since they run out of space, that had to be postponed until pkmn crystal's release. said games (the ones that didnt have space) had TONS of bugs so i guess they didnt optimize them well until the end of the 90s

Lovely video! My sisters and I had a handful of the Petz DS games when we were growing up, and I even remember being confused then by how vastly different the gameplay and art styles were within the games we had lol!

As a girl gamer. I started playing video games at the age of 2 in 1989. My first game system in order was the NES, SNES, N64, PS1, GBC, Original Pink see through GBA, PS2, Red GBA SP (still have), Crimson red ds lite, blue dsi, aqua 3ds, red 3ds xl, pikachu 3ds xl, wii u, nintendo switch oled, pink nintendo switch lite. As for girl gamers in the 90's I knew very few other girls my age who were into gaming at the time. When I was playing my super nintendo one of my grandma's neighbors who was a girl a few year's younger than me had Sega Genesis & the game gear & loved Sonic while I was into Mario & DK. We played Sega Genesis at her house a few times back then. When I was playing my teal GBC right before I upgraded to the original Pink see through GBA. I accidentally got my younger cousin also a girl hooked on Rugrats Totally Angelica GBC game. We stayed up until midnight at a sleepover at my grandparents house playing it back & forth she kept getting stuck on the pinball mini game so I had to play it then hand it back. Long story short when I upgraded to the original GBA I ended giving my younger cousin my old GBC with either pokemon red or blue also ducktales gb, & mickey speedway gbc so they would have several games to play on it. She gave to her older sister who more so wanted it & told me her parents (my aunt & uncle) were getting her the gba & a copy of rugrats Totally Angelica gbc. I could have gave her my copy because I beat the game 5 times over back then but still my favorite. Ironically I still have all my GB, GBC, & GBA games~ 😁🤣

Great job on this video! If you do make that video on good girly games, you should look into the Style Savvy games. I've played two of those games: Trendsetters and and am currently playing Fashion Forward and those are two games that are girly as well as well made with a well made shop management mechanic that make the games fun to come back to. Also, I'm with you on wanting a Game Girl😁

Amazing as always! I love learning about shovelware whenever I can because there's always a wealth of games I've never even heard of that were probably a huge part of someone else's childhood. I only found it recently, but I love your channel! you deserve more subscribers tbh

It's so validating hearing stuff from a person who likes games casually but is not super skilled or experienced :)

I found your channel yesterday and I love your content. Excited to see what you release in the future!

great video! really enjoyed the topic since I like collecting DS shovelware haha. Excited to see what else you talk about!

If I ever get around to putting together my own game console I'm gonna call it the Gamegirl Or the SuperGamegirl Or the Super-GrannyCom Or The Super Enchanté-inator the last one was a frasier reference i have no good ideas left