8 Times Beetlejuice Appeared In Video Games

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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we're taking a look at 8 Times Beetlejuice Invaded the

00:12Realm of Video Games.

00:18Before we begin, we publish new videos all week long, so be sure to subscribe to Mojo

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00:28Adventures of Beetlejuice – Skeletons in the Closet

00:31Beetlejuice's very first outing in the world of gaming was not as warm of a welcome as

00:35it could have been.

00:36Based on the often-forgotten animated series, Adventures of Beetlejuice tasked players with

00:41hacking loogies at monsters while protecting Lydia, who had a strange habit of wandering

00:47around the map aimlessly until it was time to clean up corpses.

00:51And that's really all you do.

00:54Yeah, it isn't the most engaging game to have released on MS-DOS, and honestly, Beetlejuice

00:59could have been better if it was just a regular platformer instead of… whatever this is.

01:05Beetlejuice!

01:12Odd how the TV show got a game before the movie did, but better late than never, right?

01:17Oh, if only.

01:19If you've ever heard the name LJN, then you may already have an idea as to how Beetlejuice

01:24for the NES turned out.

01:26Well, we got that platformer, but it came in the laziest way possible.

01:32Beetlejuice has almost nothing to do with the movie in any way.

01:35Sure, there are bugs to squash and houses to run into, but it's just your run-of-the-mill

01:41platformer with an arbitrary license slapped onto it.

01:44Same old story, same old song and dance.

01:47Nothing tells us this was just a cash-grab bit of contract work, because we know Rare

01:51— yes, that Rare — would have never put out something this haphazardly cobbled together.

02:04Beetlejuice!

02:05Horrific Hijinx from the Neitherworld.

02:08We aren't out of the shovelware just yet.

02:11Horrific Hijinx was the very last video game centered entirely around Beetlejuice and only

02:17Beetlejuice, and unfortunately, it wasn't any better than the previous games.

02:22Like Adventures of Beetlejuice, the game based itself around the animated series.

02:26Like the LJN-published Beetlejuice game, it was the most subpar game you could imagine.

02:32Yep, another platformer that did next to nothing in taking advantage of the IP to make something

02:38unique.

02:39Just more jumping around houses and squashing bugs.

02:42Look, we understand that you could only do so much with the Game Boy, but even so, you

02:47could do something a little more interesting than this, Rare.

02:50LEGO Dimensions.

03:03Beetlejuice didn't make an appearance in video games for over twenty years.

03:07Granted, the IP hadn't been relevant during that time, but LEGO Dimensions would get the

03:11ball slowly rolling for a possible renewed interest.

03:15In year two of its post-launch support, TT Games launched Beetlejuice as a new playable

03:20character along with a mountable Saturn sandworm and spider.

03:25Buying this fun pack not only got you Beetlejuice and the mounts, it also granted you access

03:30into the Neitherworld so you could acquire even more gold bricks.

03:34We only wish the bioexorcist had gotten some role in the main story, or at the very least,

03:38a whole level of his own besides the free roam.

03:41The service is complete.

03:44By the power vested in me, I now pronounce this gold brick yours.

03:55Fortnite.

03:57We've often joked about who hasn't been in Fortnite yet, and Beetlejuice himself has

04:11yet to make an appearance.

04:13However, Fortnite's save the world mode did have a whole character inspired by him.

04:18Meet Beetle Jess, a legendary outlander who was only obtainable during the 2017 Fortnite

04:24Mayors via Loot Llamas.

04:26Sadly, there isn't much else to love about this character outside of the overall design.

04:31Of course, we won't be surprised if the next Fortnite Mayors event finally puts in

04:35the man of the hour.

04:44Fallout 76.

04:47The Fallout games are no stranger to movie references, and of them all, we wouldn't

04:51have expected a Beetlejuice reference to pop up in Fallout 76.

04:56In fact, there are two references to the movie.

04:59The first one can be found right outside of Wayward, where a car has collapsed through

05:03a bridge and sent two bodies out of the driver and passenger seats.

05:07This accident was exactly how Adam and Barbara died, as they tried to swerve from hitting

05:11a dog while crossing a bridge.

05:13The second reference can be found in Pleasant Point.

05:17Find the cemetery next to the church and look for a chalk outline of a door.

05:21This door is exactly how Adam and Barbara traveled to the Neitherworld, and that burned

05:25book on the ground could probably be their copy of the handbook for the recently deceased.

05:31Roblox.

05:45As a means to celebrate the release of 2024's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie, Roblox hosted

05:50an event where players got to explore and experience a campaign within the franchise.

05:55Players could run around in both the miniature model of Winter River and the Neitherworld

05:59as they searched for keys in an effort to free Astrid.

06:03The campaign ran for roughly a month up until the movie's release, so if you missed out

06:07on calling the bioexorcist yourself, you may have to wait until the third movie, if there

06:12will be one.

06:13Multi Vs.

06:39Roblox was not the only game to capitalize on the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

06:43As the movie ramped up for release, Multiverses was in the midst of its second season,

06:48debuting with Samurai Jack with the main man in tow. As an assassin class fighter,

06:53Beetlejuice is able to utilize his arm mallets and horrifically sharp spikes to send rivals flying.

06:59Christopher Swindle, who voiced Beetlejuice in LEGO Dimensions,

07:03even returned to voice the character again for this outing.

07:06We just wish he wasn't so freaking expensive at launch.

07:10So tell us, from all the times we have said Beetlejuice in this video,

07:23have we accidentally summoned him or did we say his name enough times to keep him in the neither

07:28world? Let us know down in the comments and be sure to subscribe to Mojo Plays for more great

07:32videos every Beetlejuice day. Bet you weren't expecting another one to get added to the counter.

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