Bizzare PS1 Game, Fluid | Octavius King 

These young whippersnappers will never know the joy of waiting through every silent ten second track on a new CD, only to discover a secret song or message hidden on Track 99.

Christ I remember playing this on a demo disc and it was one of the most surreal and confusing experiences I ever had as a kid. I didn't understand the abstract nature of the thing so I spent ages thinking that I just couldn't get it as I went swimming around for an objective or a score marker or something traditional. I think I also spent a few years growing up thinking that this was Ecco the Doplhin...

Why don't we get the full intro song anymore? I like the intro! It is cute and cheesy as fuck and just makes me go "aww"...

Music 2000 was actually really good for making some banging choons! You could put cds in your PS and channel your inner Jazzy Jeff and layer up the samples like a proper jam master!

Just had a horrible day at work, my dog has been in pain recently, and I feel like the world is on top of me. Fortunately I have just had a nice uplifting video from my King Louis, thank you my Liege, your content has made me smile.

I would also recommend checking out Vib-Ribbon, a PS1 rhythm game. The game is small enough to be loaded into the RAM entirely so discs can be hotswapped to load in custom tracks.

11:46 There's something about these chunky, heavily bitmapped menu interfaces in PS1 games that's so nostalgic. The game itself is like a meld of MTV Music Generator and LSD Dream Emulator. There's also a very similar title on the 3DO called Digital Dreamware - it's basically the Visualizer from Windows Media Player 6 years early.

Do you really think Peter would miss it?? I doubt he would ever find out it's gone under his piles of Hardware...😂

You are one of the most relatable content creators on this platform

So good to see Mr. Squishes again! Thanks for sharing this video, Octavius... and much respect to you for being able to get through those two weeks of depression you'd mentioned.

I'm delighted you've done this fab review, I sent this game to nostalgia nerd and I remember you unboxing it with him in a video! Wire was always my favourite

Your video is a balm for my unquiet mental state right now. Thanks for the upload. Also, thanks for bringing Fluid to my attention, I passed it by thinking it was going to be a load of baubles. (I ended up buying Syphon Filter 2 instead.) I now know what I missed out on and how wrong I was back then.

The visuals dont look as weird if you grew up on late night music cable channel electronic music blocks (like MTV Chill Out Zone), a lot of early to mid 90s electronic music (usually rhe more IDM, trancey and chill stuff) relied a lot in very surreal early 3D renders, or stuff ripped from the Mind's Eye series. I think this is what it was aiming at

Music 2000 was my first entry into making electronic music.

I'm gonna open the world's first "Dial-Up Pub" for Octy...

9:10 - The Spotify Playlist Mockup straight cracked me up.

I have this game still and I even released an EP of it simply called 'The Fluid EP'. One of the tracks is still on my RU-vid I made a jungle track on it by playing all the sounds like from the beat grid with an audio lead from my TV into my pc and pressing record on audacity. It sounded bit crunched and dated but that's part of the nostalgia and fun. I also got it mastered so it sounded pretty good. Fluid is a simple game where you can get lost in the melodies and the nostalgia. A mate of mine had an emulator on his pc and managed to rip all the samples from the game and we made proper tracks on FL Studio :) was a nice little project. I love the old sounds in it and sometimes still use them in my productions to this day. I did release a hardcore tune on a label using music 2000, once again using the samples and getting the tune mastered. It's mad what you can do with less amounts of samples it makes u more creative instead of having millions of samples and plugins of all the sounds you want in the world and no idea what to do with them. Simplicity sometimes is a great way of improving your creativity :)

Just found the channel and binge watched all afternoon and evening! Love the style, humour and personality of these videos.

I'll admit I'm a sucker for trippy stuff, ESPECIALLY in underwater environments, so...yeah, this is kinda up my alley. Nice job!

I'm in the demoscene and seeing something this... for lack of a better word, presentational and technical, is so marvelous and beautiful to me. Lots of 90s demos from that era have these beautiful vista-like environments with electronic music that you can just watch and get yourself lost in. I have to imagine the developers of this game were at least cautiously observing the demoscene and fueled this with some of that love.

always good to see good to see your vlogs and you thank you Xx

this looks so soothing great vid again octavius

As always well done, I wish we had this in the states I would of loved it. You rock, you made my day with this video. Much love and peace, take care.

I'm so old I remember playing the music tracks from my Sega CD games! Love the content as always, you have an awesome personality!

I'm really tripped out. I remember playing this for hours on end but have no recollection of the dolphin bits lol! Music and Music 2000 though, that's what I first started producing music with. Then got the third one on ps2 called 'mtv music generator'. You could mail order a sampler for it turning the ps2 into a legit usuable DAW. Ahh memories. Thanks for the vid octavious 😊

9:13 That playlist in full: What in the Utter S*1t is Going On 1 Peace 2 Erm, what, sorry? 3 FU

Yay another video! Thanks! As always, I hope all is well for you.

Reminds me of those electonic music visualizer vhs's you could get and use them for ambience when your having a party back in the day when jungle and house music where huge and everywhere.

This is why the PS1 era was number 1 for me, the shear creativity and new ideas made the console.

Love your videos. You have amazing Charisma! Stay Awesome!

One of my favourite things to do with a PS1 was to put the original Wipeout game in, wait for a track to load, and just before the race starts, pause the game, open the PS1 and change the disc for one of my own CDs. then unpause the race and voila, you've got your own soundtrack. Because it plays the tracks in order it works better with CD singles rather than albums. I had every Prodigy single on CD, which are what I used most of the time, which is funny 'cos one of those songs was eventually put on one of the sequels.

That was a delight! Thank you!

I dunno about the death of CDs... I do keep encountering Gen Zers who are rediscovering the joy of physical media.

Cheer1 Moving the dolphin up and down. 7:18 That's quite the euphemism. I remember when you played this on Twitch and chat was absolutely losing it. Great video! ❤

You should heck out the digital audio workstations for the PS-1 & 2 (Mtv's Muic Generators) & E-Jay programs.. you could write classic jungle, hip-hop, trance, techno, and drum n bass. They taught and inspred me to buy my first PC and contiue to write till today. Love the channel x cheers it's certifiable bobbins asf!

Far out, man! Honestly though, some of that looks really soothing. I can imagine losing the occasional hour or two monkeying around with that.

Track 1 was always Data, if it had "CD Audio" then yes, it would work on a CD player. However, some games used a Midi-like audio system, Much like the N64, and was much harder to recreate outside of the game engine.

OCT you mentioned in previous Vids about your health issues and I want to say a MASSSSSIVE thank I also have the same Issues and Mentally I thought I was Alone I understand you x x

Had never heard of this one before, as you said, more art piece than game but well worth the look. Great video.

Your intro sequence is legendary to me 👌🙌🙌🙌

Christ, I thought this game lived in my insane imagination. I remember seeing it as a youngster then never seeing it again. Thinking I had made it up. Looking at it now, young Ry would have loved it in between trying to become the new Paul Oakenfold while making some cool trance on Music 2000. :) Cracking video btw. Thanks!

I loved Fluid. Used to set it up in a multi-sensory room day centre, using a modified Playstation controller so a group of players could interact with it as a band using head-switches and the like. We used Music 2000 too, but Fluid was best for flowing music. You can do a 360 degree flip jumping out of the water if you're going fast enough by the way.

And if you put a game disc into an older CD player that didn't filter out the data tracks you got treated to some horrible noises!

Woot! The algorithm officially made up with me! Your video make me laugh for real and I love it so much! Cheers octavius 🍻

Another great video and a game that i would most likely buy, for when the brain fog hits and I don't have the energy for a challenge.

I used to play a lot of CDs on my PS1 octavius king a great cd player nice to see a new video by you 👍

The PS1's library was so vast that a bunch of random oddball stuff like this just flew under everyone's radar.

Loved trying out the different sound options on the ps1 for my fave CDs.

This game looks pretty cool man, in surprised I never heard of it before, cheers for the vid

Oh my god, "literally watered down," absolutely fantastic

Cheers for the chuckles , I hope you are doing well in yourself

The track 'peace' truly used to live up to its name when I listened to it all those years ago It was like the sound of my perfect world

Your content brights my day.

Just discovered this channel and I can already say.... I never thought I'd see a giant Count Duckula in the same corner as a relatively normal sized Rainbow Dash.

While in Japan I went on a nation wide hunt for obscure ps1 dolphin games and thus is one of them. After the first 30 minutes the words “abyss” flashed on screen and then crashed. It really added to an already weird game

I remember playing the demo of Fluid from the official PlayStation magazine. I thought it was pretty cool and enjoyed mixing the tracks. I did get bored of that so never bought it. Thanks for the great video 👍👍

The PS1 is my favorite consoles because it was so experimental. Nobody really understood how to make 3D games so they tried just about everything. Not to mention games started to use FMV or anime for cutscenes which is usually turns out pretty funny.

Looks cool! Thanks for letting us know about this game.

It looks like a progenitor of games like Flow, Journey, and Abzu. I'd never heard of it before, but I love it. Also... Depth: The controls are just manipulating your dolphin up and down, so you think you're making music even though you're not.

I agree. Games like this (along with others such as Flow, Journey, Abzu and Flower) are more akin to "experiences" than games.

I remember that... software. I'm calling it like that because it wasn't a game, it was quite an experience. Actually you were expecting to find a game by putting a disc in your PS1 back in the days. I remember chillin' to the vibes of that thing. I remember also contacting a local radio back then, talking about this software and the PS1 and they even invited me on the air asking about bringing the PS1 to do something at the radio, but eventually I never made it...

PC CD-ROM games from about this era regularly used Red Book audio for game soundtracks - the joy being that if you had a full install on the hard drive, the trick worked both ways: not only could you play the game CD in your CD player, you could eject it mid-game, put in your own music CDs, and have your own soundtrack. The number of games I used to play which were supposed to have a pumping techno soundtrack, except I'd be enjoying them with vintage Britpop. I've also got a copy of NASCAR Racing which came with some bonus audio tracks not used in the game. That felt so cool aged about 12 playing them on my dad's fancy proper hi-fi seperate CD player and amplifier with the massive tall speakers...

Thank you for another great video. Hope you're keeping well.

Great video, as always! I got a lot more fun out of the PSX demo with the T-Rex on than this one. Dolphins are cool and all, but you could open the dinosaur mouth! Roar!

I like that the lighting on the dolphin changes to loosely match the stage.

gonna have to play/experience this...thanks! 😀

I fucking love it when you say "bobbins"

I think back at the time this probably made a lot of sense to some. The boom of rave, acid and pills all over the place. Fractal images all around and music for the jilted generation cranked.. I've never seen it, but i did frequent bedsits full of people off their heads (some who never came back fully, and exist in some between worlds place still today) who'd have happily zoned out in front of this for hours going 'woah, dude, what's it all about, man' at the visuals 🤣 Kind of reminds me of an extended Amiga demo with some interaction. The mixing part near the end reminded me of the loader on the C64 game, Delta.

Octavius out here like "suh dude, I stole your game" to thousands of people, and Peter may be one of her subs.

Loved ASMR when you said Depth 😂

I still remember this game at the time of its release: all reviews were ending without a vote...ehm, yeah! That was the very same situation happened to a very similar PS1 "game" called Baby Universe.

First time I hear about Fluid but I was able to play a demo of the game Vib Ribbon which also made use of music CDs when it was on a PlayStation Magazine demo CD. It sounds pretty enjoyable :). I’m with you on the dial up modem sounds !

I didn’t know Depth could sound that hot. Nice!

I still have my copy of it in a box, along with Music. I think I only got the PS1 as a stop gap between my Amiga and getting a new PC for making music. Thanks to this video, I might have to break the PS1 back out again!

Azure Dreams for ps1 has a genuine computer virus on the official release. Could be an awesome video :). Youre SO FUNNY lil Sarah!!

Looks like Mr Squishes has been babysitting some of the rats.

Loved Music 2000 on the PlayStation, with a Bong and a bagel.

Fluid is cool, a lil abstract if you looked at this kind of "game" as a means to make music, but that wasn't a bad thing. My friends and I had a really fun time chilling out with this after a session of Music / Music 2000 (Jesters / Codemasters). Music 2000 was a great DAW, only let down by RAM and sample storage on memory cards.

It's interesting to me how the Playstation had this raft of experimental experiential games unlike the sort of thing that had made it to earlier consoles, like this or Kaze No Notam or LSD Dream Emulator. People just excited to see what new and dreamlike things they could make with the expanded technical horizons. Also this reminds me of an anti-drugs CD-ROM I was given in school called D-Code, where at the end for completing all the tasks you get to enter the "Arcade Of Sound", a peculiar little graphical sound-mixer that didn't really QUITE function as an actual music maker but definitely gave me an early taste for manipulating audio into strange new things. I keep meaning to send a copy to Nostalgia Nerd for him to hopefully make a video (apologies, I would send it to you but I do not know how well it works on modern PCs and Peter does own every model of PC since 1972 so he has a better chance of getting it up and running)

Nice. I think the trippiest games, for me, are Weird Dreams on the Atari ST and Trip-A-Tron by Jeff Minter, Llamasoft.

Regarding playing music on the PS1, I remember my mind being blown when someone told me that if you launched Tomb Raider II but re-opened the lid afterwards (or propped it open from the start, I don't remember exactly. Either way, not actually recommended as I believe that can damage the laser and your CD), you could access the PlayStation's BIOS thing (you know, the menu you'd get if you'd turn the PS1 on without a game in) and play it like a music CD, allowing you to listen to the full soundtrack as well as all the sounds, including cutscene dialogue.

Ahhhh, the bobbins madam. Always good for a laugh and lashings of oddities and unorthodox pseudo swear words.

It blew my mind when i first got a PS4 and popped in an audio CD only to be told that the format was not recognised. Defo made me feel like i was getting old.

Ahhh get home to find a new Octavius vid.. reviewing "fluid" errmm oh oh ooooh dolphins

I don’t know if I would say this really qualifies as “a game” considering you can’t really win or lose and there’s really no end goal. Like you said it’s really more of an interactive screensaver playing a round with lounge / elevator music than anything else. I am still not sure I understand who the intended target audience for this was, but maybe it was one of those “Japan only trends” at the time that you never got to see anywhere else or maybe it was just a developers attempt at testing the market for interest in such a thing….who knows Anyway, thank you for the video and keep up the good work 🍻

I have in fact played this while under the influence of LSD and it was quite the experience. Kept me intrigued for several hours, I quite enjoyed it all. lol

That bit from 7:18 hits differently when you're Dutch and followed the news in early 2016.

Oh that's what your supposed to do, I had no idea when I played it, even though you have shown me how to play it I don't see myself giving it another try, waaay to trippy!!! lmao

That relaxing movement feeling is why I'm a Warframe player, though it gets fast enough that people have trouble keeping track of everything.

Love the game much, that and Ghost in the Shell. Chill as can be, loved to get pissed and just "play"

Must say.. some days I feel like a male 'Octy' Thank goodness for this channel!!! PS Oct reminds me of Betty Boop!!

I saw a dolphin and immediately got nightmarish flashbacks to Ecco, so glad it's just another submerged fever dream starring a tiny whale

It's like somebody looked at Ecco the Dolphin and asked, "What if we make *this* but with less gameplay?"

That dolphin is going places (one must assume)

I could see it: 1--get stoned. 2--"I bet Fluid would be fun. 3--"Woah." And finally, five minutes later--"This isn't fun anymore." I would likely then eat two bowls of cereal and play Age of Empires.

Ho ho, I'm more intrigue at looking your Count Duckula plushie. Hmm, I've never come across this game before. It's nice if you have something to relax to I suppose.

Hail to the King ☺️

"Fishy mammal lad" 😅

I really enjoyed that 😄

Great video, Louie!