Rayman Pirate-Community

First of all,I need some context:
I'm european,I've never seen any of these ''videogame tv shows'' that were popular back in the 2000's. But there was one clip on youtube that I have been DESESPERATE to find again. First time I saw it I would say it was 4 or 3 years ago, I think it was a recording of a segment on the american channel G4 (i'm mostly saying this because I remember that the narrator used in their show, ICONS, sounds close to the narrator i remember from this clip) , it shows a girl close to somekind of studio/green screen, where she claims ''He's set the rank for the most handsome european man on the field. David Beckham? No, Rayman! And he's not afraid...''

Blablabla, it proceeds to show a little backstory on Ubisoft as a company, (how they mostly made educational games), how Michel Ancel got into the company, show the development of Rayman 1, mentioned Tonic Trouble and talked about Rayman 2, also exclaiming ''its considered to be one of the best videogames of all time''. I can't really date that clip, but by the quality and how they talked about Rayman 2 as a ''new game'', I would date it around 1998-1999.

I'm mostly trying to find it because I wanna have the pleasure of looking at it again, additional info that I remember is that there was french stereotyped music (you know,the accordion thingy) and that there was like somekind of intermission at the beggining at the clip. Thanks in advance!

Haven't heard of it before but we may need to find people who have seen it or heard of it. I will also try to keep the thread alive.

Keeping thread alive

Hi guys! Wanted to give a little update. I still can't manage to find the video, but I can assure you one thing:
With this investigation, I've realized the clip I saw 5 years ago, probably fits with the style of the channel ''ZDTV/ TechTV'', listed as G4 in archive sites. The voices are similar, that rowdy attitude where they put music all over the place seems to fit in with the clip, and lots of random edits.

Things that I remember appearing in the video:
-The old Ubisoft logo intro, from 1998.
-Deep dive into the development of Rayman 1. Shows music production process.
-Disusses and mentions the original prototype for Rayman 2, also Tonic Trouble.
-Shows clip of Rayman on a lilypad when the narrator says ''Considered to be, one of the best videogames of all time''.
EXTRA INFO: I remember watching this video on Haruka's channel. I remember she also posted content related to promos and commercials, including multilanguage versions of the Rayman 3 commercials.

Found these two really interesting clips during my research:
https://youtu.be/eNbF_dhAFYA --- Bumper G4TV (uses the Rayman 2 1998 E3 PROMOTIONAL COSTUME)

https://archive.org/details/g4tv.com-video6614 ---- Everybody Loves Rayman, this one in particular, was SHOCKING, it was so close to the original video I'm looking for, the only difference being the focus on Rayman 3 because of the date.

For now, I'm specially looking for reports and episodes around 1998-1999.
I won't give up on this search! As silly as it sounds. Thank you guys for the help! Much appreciated.

Thanks for sharing! I've never seen that video so I won't be of much help but I hope we can get our hands on it at some point.

Okay, so this doesn't mention Tonic Trouble and it is on 2D version of Rayman 2. It has kind of the music you said. This could be it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQIhBTFgYbw

If not, worth a shot anyways.

arnoldfranklin wrote: Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:10 am Okay, so this doesn't mention Tonic Trouble and it is on 2D version of Rayman 2. It has kind of the music you said. This could be it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQIhBTFgYbw

If not, worth a shot anyways.

Thank you so much! Sadly this is not the video, and I did actually see it before, it's super interesting.
Thing is, this was probably made or requested by M6, the Métropole Television, to make a documentary about world of videogames in France at the time, which included Michel Ancel and his work on Rayman. The video I'm searching for is more of a promotional video of sorts,trying to sell Rayman 2 to future consumers.

Even though I haven't found the video yet, I won't lose hope! Lots of people help me and that means the world to me

Yeah, sorry that that wasn't it. I'm glad you told me, though. I hope it is found. It has to be somewhere, somewhere, right?

great