I'm so glad that nexpo is bringing everyone back to this vid. the game's a perfect time capsule, and vin has some great moments to add to this utter insanity.
I think the corpse part shocked people so much that they're kinda sleeping on the school bit. It was probably innocent enough, with a normal intent, but with the rest of the context of the game, it takes a really sinister light
It really does. It's such a weird combination of footage and things just mushed together on a CD-ROM. Thought I'd be the only one who'd be horrified by the fact that there were head-on interviews with kids, letters about drug use and then so much death. I mean people say it probably was just meant for people being high on LSD, but.. mmh. Oh well. I honestly don't wanna know what happened with the author.
...Or is that just the _vibe_ this game puts out? Is it just that the rest of this game is so surreal and unhinged that it makes us too paranoid to take anything at face value?
I agree, it doesn't look like a pig, but more like a leg. Besides, there's absolutely no proof that it was a pig, or a human for that matter. There's close to no info about this game on the internet, so no one can say for sure.
This is my single most favorite Vinesauce stream of all time. It's like a comfort food, I don't want to eat it too often, but when I want something to really make me feel better, I just want this. It's a high nothing else can give me.
same, I come here pretty much bi-monthly whenever I feel terrible because this game gives me a weird sense of nostalgia, and vinny fucking with it is great too.
I understand this comment no more than today. I needed something silly but not over the top, just kind of leisurely background noise. This is the perfect video for that between the insanity of the game and Vinny’s on and off bewilderment.
Yup, and I decided it was time for my first full rewatch. Last time I watched this stream in full was around the time it was uploaded lol Honestly I can rewatch almost any sunday stream material
I've never been able to put my finger on why so many "90s interactive CG" things unnerved me so much, but I think this one finally nailed it down for me. It's what makes something like this so supremely unsettling while your average Weird Abstract Indie Game #497 just rolls by me like a light breeze. It's this weird blurring of the line between what's real and what isn't that you can only find in things like this. It wants to exist in the real world, with the CG mimicking commonplace locations and things, alongside there being plenty of pictures and video of real people to sort of further that goal of feeling real. However, the CG is too weird and plastic, and the photos and videos are just way too grainy and choppy. It doesn't look like you're looking at an image of the real world, it feels like you're trapped a million miles away, viewing a distorted image of the real world through a bad radio transmission. On top of that, could you imagine being stuck in this boundless world where the way everything functions is just ever so slightly off from the way you think it should? You're there, trying to talk to these things and people who seem to move and have real sentience, but all they can do is the same jerky movement alongside a canned, fuzzy voice response. It's the kind of weird thing that makes for an actual, terrifying nightmare. Nothing cliched like monsters or things chasing you, just this awful sinking feeling of being trapped in such an alien place. It's not going to hurt you, but everything is still so wrong and you won't be able to leave. Something about this 90s multimedia style really instills that in me and it's as fascinating as it is haunting.
THIS. This is the explanation I've been waiting for someone to put into words for YEARS! I have this fear, and it's really creepy, thank you for being able to actually explain it. though. It's something I've never been able to do.
Honestly, theres more to the fear than just the corpse scene. The entire game felt mildly unsettling, because it is so unpredictable, and throughout the stream i felt slightly disturbed but didnt really think much of it. theres a lot of factors that play into the creepiness, for example the target audience cant be determined, the unclear and sometimes eerie graphics, bizarre sound effects and weird poetry shit at times. This game gives off this incredibly creepy vibe, not scary, just creepy. And the corpse is just the icing on the cake.
+Ben Link you know vaporware it's INSPIRED from these kind of things, right? and that it was developed in 2010... right? :3 but godamn, I fucking love all this web weirdness.
Vinny: "Did not expect to actually _think_ a little bit during this...ᵉˣᵖᵉʳᶦᵉᶰᶜᵉ..." _A bulbous gray creature serenely floats across the screen._ Creature (while shooting out completely fucking random pictures from its mouth): "Hoonk gaga gaga gaga. Hoonk gaga gaga gaga. Hoonk gaga gaga gaga."
I watched this live and it is the weirdest experience I've seen on Vinesauce yet. I mean even LSD Simulator has some discernible gameplay pattern to it, but THIS is...this is SOMETHING. For a game seemingly experienced by very few this sure feels like the GRAND DAD of the endless indie experiences we've seen every Sunday for the past few years. Regarding the sudden corpse, it's unsurprising given the "message to the future" being full of existential navel-gaving. You learn the dev used to teach tech and computers to 6th graders in a totally underfunded school system and have to wonder if this is some expression of depression and frustration, or an acknowledgment of the human condition, or just some Dadaist art. I hope the dev learns about this stream, I'd love to hear his opinion 20+ years later.
Ellie Eyegore During another stream I saw of this game, a viewer commented that he recognized one of the devs as a professor of his. He asked if he was the same guy who made this game, and the dev didn't want to talk much about it. Could be a bid for attention, but who knows?
I spoke to the dev on Facebook once. Seemed like a nice guy, he’s an artist and filmmaker who was really into technology back in the day (as seen in the game he taught students computer literacy) and was inspired by what The Residents etc. were doing with CD-ROM multimedia at the time. So yeah, bit of a screed from me 3 years later since I’m rewatching the stream :)
@@Dogy0909 The Residents being an inspiration explains everything! This game's existence always fascinated me, and that's the puzzle piece that makes the whole thing make perfect sense.
Game says... "Whatever you do, don't click on the grave! You'll be sorry ....". Right after reading it, the first thing you do is click the grave. Well, it's not like the game didn't warn you!
i have a lot of genuine appreciation for this. it's like one guy's diary/art project/psychological profile laid out as a pre-oughts educational point and click. it has a vibe that a lot of indies now could only try to achieve because of the place and time it was made.
You haven't seen nothing yet until you've witnessed firsthand the terrifying, demented glory of No. 11 Downing Street: The Adventures of Ninja Nanny and Sherrloch Sheltie. At least The Museum of Anything Goes has some comprehensible, coherent themes, for all its amateurish surrealism. Ninja Nanny, however.......Oh, dear, it seems like something that only pigs and sheep could even make head or tail of.
Difference with that game is that they tried to make it like a fun interaction movie type game that ended up being a total disaster. This was just, hey let's see how much crap we can fit on one CD.
This was in my mind the best most accurate portrayal of what a "weird sunday stream" really can be like. Absolutely everything was here. The entire emotional spectrum of reactions had been experienced. The game left everyone wondering what the FUCK we all just watched, and I really don't think anyone will ever forget it. Man this was a good find. Wherever this came from, we gotta find more.
i saw this live and once the funeral part started i had a feeling something bad was gonna happen it did look more like a pig/dog corpse but yeah, that moment turned around the chats mood fast haha
The Warner Bros. letter talks about making a film about a child who is left behind when his parents go on a Christmas vacation to Europe. Within 5 years of when that letter was sent, Warner Bros started production of Home Alone (before Fox ended up getting the rights)... shit dude
What about the Wayne's World reference in the letter or the Malcom X movie? Were those out when the letter was written? The dude also predicted Hollywood making reboot movies of old tv shows, lol.
I have a feeling that all of those letters were fake, I tried googling some of the names and they don't seem to be real people. When the game was made, all those movies already existed. The letters just seem to be parodies of what people would write in different time periods.
Original Memetics in Pompeii there's tons of walls filled with graffiti, the translation is nothing but insults and calling each other shit millennia old shitposting
My brother played this game in the 90's when he was 13. That one scene with the graves traumatized him for years. He was telling me about it an we played it together today. It was truly a horrific experience. No one he talk to about it knew what he was talking about.
There's something that makes me so uncomfortable with old PC games. Like the deafening silence between every action combined with the bit-crushed audio just makes me feel so alone for some reason
When I was a child, what you describe was THE novel experience of games. Nobody had shown us a different way of organizing a 'game experience', in part because earlier computers simply COULDNT run compelling graphics/complex code -- I remember in the 2000s when Half Life came out, it was such a big deal that light sources could render in real time. The standards we hold up today as good game design were non-existent, and in their place, games used tried-and-true templates that always ended up being some variation of point-and-click.
This game is incredible. It's such a product of the times but its also a fucking incredibly time-capsule. I wish something like it could be made nowadays
the skeleton man is the first introduction you get to the madness of this game, but he turns out to have been your last glimpse of humanity and any amount of normalcy/familiar connection
The part with the kids at school was really interesting because that was the point I actually realised he had this whole life thing figured out, he didn't want to bring someone new to the world, he didn't spend the rest of his life trying to invent some magnus opus (unless you count this game), he realised that the best thing he could do is give the next generation the chance he squandered when he became a boring middle aged man.
1:24:22 I'd like to imagine that the guy realised that he was being filmed, so he straight up punched the cameraman in the face. *I mean look at his expression!*
Honestly I don't think I've ever been more unsettled by a game before. Everything about it felt wrong and then when shit really went down it just felt like all the disturbing strangeness reaching some kind of fever pitch.
Vinny, I love how silly you are, but I also love the fact that you will also be more serious or show us something more interesting. You are not overly silly, nonstop, all the time. You can be serious, silly, mellow, hyper, and you can be pretty interesting. I love that about you! Keep streaming, I love your work!
No. I'd give him all the frappucinos. Lol! I love him when he's crazy. The only time I don't like Vinny is when he's upset or sad, like when his dog paseed. And it's not because i'd want him to shut up and be happy, (everyone has their problems, and when they do, they should never ignore or hide them, or pretend to be fine.) but because if he is upset or sad about something, it kinda makes me sad too. I just want him doing ok, and not feeling upset or weighed down when he's streaming. And if he really isn't in a good mood, or is sad, or something comes up, i'd be all for him not streaming and just relaxing. Sounds weird, I know, and possibly creepy. I don't mean it to be at all, if it is.
This game just straight up pulled a "hey kid wanna see a dead body?" and got away with it. I wish Vinny would play more 90s PC games like this I would love to see the Atlantis series. this game is as old as I am
I actually love this. Something about the atmosphere and the fact that it's weird, old projects with abstract messages and meanings make it kind of fascinating. I can dig the overt San Francisco stuff, too.
I tried looking into the .iso file for this game, and every file is just raw data that you have to pretty much guess what it is I tried importing one of the files into Audacity and what I got was a fucking assault on the senses
It's funny how all of the "WhoOooA a DEAD HUMAN BODY!" comments seem to bury the comments pointing out that it's an animal. I mean, it's still pretty disturbing and creepy-looking, but this game isn't going so far as to show a corpse... Well, I don't know if that guy getting CPR died of "TOO MUCHA PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN", so maybe there's one human corpse.
this is an annual re-watch for me, which i just finished doing. absolutely divine. some of the quotes from this have permanently damaged my vocabulary and that of my friends'
Picture this: It’s 1995, you’re eating pizza lunchables and sunny D in your elementary school cafeteria. You’re bragging to your classmates about your new Windows 95 IBM computer, and how you can’t wait to install your new “Museum of Anything Goes” CD-ROM game.
I am 90% certain a classmate of mine back in the ancient past had this. I distinctly remember it purely thanks to this one memory about him covering up the screen with the pig corpse.
1995 didnt exist, only 2012 did, we all died on 12 of december of that year, and there was nothing before that year, you are still Wearing your Kony2012 shirt with a horse head while dancing gangnam style and criticising obama on Tumblr on Limbo
I'm desperate to know more about this game. It's really unsettling and strange? Who made this.. why did they make it.. why do some of the song clips sound so fuckin familiar?
bismarck buckley The guy who made it was a 6th grade teacher. He said it in one of the panels. He was feeling trapped in his job and made this game to vent his existentialism. I'm guessing
I come back to this video when things are rough. I'm not entirely sure why but this game has a sort of calming effect on me. Something about it just kinda helps me to forget everything going on in life. What a truly unusual game.
I have that feeling too and it's really strange. I only get that with a few specific videos on youtube. Try checking out YIIK Review by Running Shine, the content is waaay different but the atmosphere is very similar.
Oh, this must be yet another surreal PC indie game. Huh, 90s look, but most definitely just an aesthetic and not from the 90s! Wait, it's from the 90s? ...only 80 people have seen this game before? someone found it on archive? ...am I dreaming or did the dev just...? (Not only did this video entertain me and break my expectations many times, this is proof that THERE'S SO MUCH SHIT FOR US TO DISCOVER OUT THERE.)
Remember that secret Jewish Society of super scientist from Wolfenstein that were hundreds of years ahead of society? This is the meme version of that.
People should just not mention Harambe. And yes, I realize the irony in my post there. I'm just saying more in an earnest nature to just stop this shit from spreading any further.
Hey at least no one made that stupid comment that's going around that's the ENTIRE alphabet without the d and then saying" See something missing? The D is out for Harambe"
This reminds me of another museum-surreal-esc game, it had this part where you're navigating a sinking hotel repeatedly and another where you travel through an entire area made with scribbles. I think it was called The Museum of Broken Memories. Weird game too.
"To those of you not yet born but of the future..... and to those not of the Earth I am a primitive living in an age of post-religious pre-immortal earth-bound anxiety who can be content as just a link in the chain of evolution? W found out that we were wrong We found out the falling(?) throng the fittest survive is the only call Nature does not need us all" Holy shit I feel this deeply, good poetry, weird 90s PC game
Back when this stream was first uploaded I honestly think I watched it upwards of 10 times all the way through, for some reason this one never gets old
I love the juxtaposition of a lively child on a modern tricycle riding near a halted olden days horse-drawn funeral carriage present at the triple trips of 3:33
I find it interesting actually playing this on my own versus watching Vinny play this. The game has a much stronger creepy and unsettling vibe playing alone with no chat, jokes and commentary from Vinny. There's stuff that's been missed here in the stream, but a lot of ground is covered here regardless. Plus it's cozy and fun to watch and experience with Vinny. Best bet is to run this in DosBox. Running this on real hardware, on a PC running Windows 98, the game doesn't seem to have any working mechanism for closing it (pressing Q to quit didn't work for me). Gotta use task manager and wait for Windows to let you force quit. Not a problem in DosBox, but just an FYI.
I recognize a lot of the synth sounds from this game, they're from the Korg M1 which was a really popular keyboard. I think they used some of the sounds from it in Mario 64 too.
I knew it sounded familiar, my uncle had a Korg M1 and would make weird experimental sounds with it. I fucking hate synthesizers now I'm older so I don't think he did a great job at getting me interested
@@JacobKinsley I’ve never heard someone say that they hate synthesizers and I’m tickled that I heard something I’ve never heard before. Out of curiosity why do you hate them?
What does this even mean? You know synthesizers can be incredibly distinct instruments, right? Just because a ton of people abused the default wavetable/sampled sounds on workstations like the M1 doesn't make the entire category generic. Analog and FM synths are all pretty unique and sound different from brand to brand and model to model. What you're doing is like calling electric guitars the "walmart of instruments" because so many people use strats and teles
@@zOMGREI You seem pretty offended for someone who claims to not know what he means. Something tells me you're reading into this just a little too much. Here, let me spell it out for you: McDonalds = well known and ubiquitous Korg M1 = well known and ubiquitous Where did all that stuff about being abused and generic come from? I would argue that McDonalds isn't either of those things. Not that I'm a fan of it, but calling it generic seems wrong to me - it's a very distinct brand.
I've watched this so many times that there's almost nothing in the video where I think "oh yeah, I forgot that happens!" And one of my favorite, stupidest things that Vinny said in the whole thing is... "It should be called... like, 'Nothing... Goes...' because... I don't... know, is anything going?"
I am gradually becoming convinced that this game is an SCP. It will start telling you stories about your own life, the deepest secrets of your past and future if you fuck around with it a bit more.
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