Note: You get the second ending by entering the code straight away without watching any videos. Note 2: This game is made by the creator of No Players Online, so it may not surprise you that a clue in the final vid is linked to a larger ARG. Read on if you’d like to know more.. *SPOILERS* The final video contains a QR code that reveals the code “U2VnYV9TY” which converts to “Sega_S” if you decode it from Base64. Now, you may already get where this is going… There are many more codes hidden within the games created for the Haunted PS1 Wretched Weekend Game Jam itch.io/jam/haunted-ps1-wretched1 “aHR0cHM6Ly” found in Ashimeyama translates to “https:/” “9TYXR1cm4=” found in Frontier Diver translates to “aturn” (if you remove the “9T”) “nL3dpa2kvU2” found in The Graveyard Shift translates to “/wiki/S” (if you remove the “n”) “aWtpcGVkaW” found in A Structure of Unknown Origin… translates to “ikipedi” Also, you can link together the codes “nL3dpa2kvU2”, “U2VnYV9TY” and “9TYXR1cm4=” to get “L3dpa2kvU2VnYV9TYXR1cm4=” which translates to “/wiki/Sega_Saturn” There are clearly more games from the jam that contain more pieces of the code, but just by what’s been found so far it seems pretty obvious what the code is a website address: https:/XXXXikipediXXXX/wiki/Sega_Saturn And most likely that website is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn So the ARG for a PS1 themed game jam leads you to a SEGA SATURN Wikipedia page. That’s either a massive case of trolling or the next game jam will be Sega Saturn themed. I’m pretty confident it’s just a little trolling joke, but would love to see a Sega Saturn style game jam (though it is quite tricky to differentiate between PS1 and Saturn graphics). Please note that the majority of the work cracking this ARG is down to Psychroclasm. You can see his working here: itch.io/post/1349266 Also on the Sega Saturn Wikipedia page it notes that the Hepburn translation of Sega Saturn is Sega Satān, which is pretty cool (if unrelated).
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@@DukeoftheOtherworld In this case, a game within a game? The only other time I encountered something similar was when I started looking up solutions for the game, "Fez". I found more than I initially expected, back then. I mean, who could've known that you could hide an image in an audio file? Games that hide such secrets intrigue me, but I've never actively participated in the treasure hunting that some people have done.
can you guys recommend video with this type of slow and relax vaporwave? i look through some of vaporwave genre music videos on youtube but they kinda faster rythm than music in this game
I kinda of wish when the tape owner came inside you could see them peaking around the corner before it cut to black. Cool game design, but the tapes and the story was lacking.
Some of these creepy games are really cool and creative. This seems like a 17 year old hipster with a bit of programming skill tried to make a found footage game and never finished it
2:55 Weirdly enough, we have a similar symbol (upper left) drawn up on one of our walls. The only difference is that the circle had a little dot. *Welp, I guess it's time to move to another neighbourhood*
It's cheaper and easier than making current generation-graphics from scratch if you're not an AAA studio with the software and money. I guess. You can't expect two random programmers making a video game in their home computer for fun to pull off something like Red Dead Redemption 2
I'd have to second the ghost of John Wick's puppy, but also there's some neat research on the psychology of fear. Basically says, if it looks real, but isn't completely real looking, it's creepy. Like a human face without eyes for example, why is that creepy? It's technically not even a human face upon speculation. It's a group of shapes that are familiar in patterns we are familiar with, but something is slightly off. Not only that has brought the horror genre great success, but also the easier-to-program completely game style allows programmers of all types to compete in a game jam in fair conditions.
I'd also like to add that fear is close to comedy in a psychological sense. If these shapes and patterns are portrayed with funny music and a colored atmosphere where gameplay is on your time, you're going to most likely feel differently than if they were portrayed with scary music in a monochromatic atmosphere where gameplay is you being chased in intense conditions. A great representation would be Hong Kong 97 vs. Pepsi Man. Or this game vs. Milkman Karlson of ABG's recent uploads are some neat comparisons.
Between this and no players online, this dev really needs to come out from his own ass ARG isn't good design, its good marketing. There's a reason it's used in ad campaigns and not games. "Woooaahh dudes the game references things outside the game woooah" has not been novel for 15 years. This would be forgivable if there was literally anything else worth talking about in these games, but they are devoid of plot and content.
Actually, I've kind of enjoyed this concept. I haven't seen it before, even though you said this is an old/overused concept... Do you know any other games like this that I could check out? Thanks.
This scenario is one of those two-face set that often is used to film commercials or those closed-angle scenes between two people, without showing the other sides
Do you know what old horror is ? When you watch porn video then your parent come to home. You try to eject the video in hurry but it suck inside. Kids now days dont know that.... Damn internet
It's a style that isn't really gonna go away though; Since the beginning of indie horror game development people have been making lowres/poly horror games, the PS1 style is just an evolution of the previous pixelated 3D horror games of the early 2010s. Whether it looks overused or not it's still a charm that, when used effectively by the developer, is still freaky.
Dev: Hey man I watched this really awesome creepy movie called "The Ring" which made me soil my knickers! Dev's mate: You wear knickers?.... Dev: Yeah man it's about this videotape with all this random and creepy footage on it made my this little girl who drowned in a well! Dev's Mate: How long have you been wearing knickers? Dev: Well I'm gonna make a really scary game about it where you watch some really fuckin' boring tapes filled with random things I think people will find scary! BECAUSE IT'S ALL FILMED IN THE 80'S. And kids of today find that stuff scary because the video footage is old and outdated! Also some guy calls you at the end of every tape you watch! Dev's Mate: Dude, why do you wear knickers? Do you want to talk to me about something? Dev: And there's these little symbols hidden in these boring tapes so you have to watch all of them to end the game! And at the end of the game NOTHING HAPPENS! So you sit through it for like half an hour all for nothing! This game is gonna be amazing! I can feel it in my third testicle! Dev's mate: Bruh....I'm leaving
I don't why this Dutch guy is so protective of these tapes. I don't wanna watch your tapes dude, stop acting like they're so special. As if they contain valuable information
Was kind of hoping for a big scary ending...but nothing really happened. It set a good tone though and I liked the oddity and retroness of it all but...yeah...I didn't understand the ending. Oh well...
I did not get what the hell just happened, or what the mechanics of the game are. Or how this game is horror. Maybe because I skipped through some of it's parts but still, what the hell?
Actually there very much was an internet back in 1986 (just no world wide web)... though it was used largely by corporations and academia. Cute joke though.
![VHS, 1986 - horror VHS tapes you shouldn't be watching [All Secrets - U2VnYV9TY / Sega_S]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2dVZZgqOzPU/mqdefault.jpg)
Note: You get the second ending by entering the code straight away without watching any videos.
Note 2: This game is made by the creator of No Players Online, so it may not surprise you that a clue in the final vid is linked to a larger ARG. Read on if you’d like to know more..
*SPOILERS*
The final video contains a QR code that reveals the code “U2VnYV9TY” which converts to “Sega_S” if you decode it from Base64. Now, you may already get where this is going…
There are many more codes hidden within the games created for the Haunted PS1 Wretched Weekend Game Jam itch.io/jam/haunted-ps1-wretched1
“aHR0cHM6Ly” found in Ashimeyama translates to “https:/”
“9TYXR1cm4=” found in Frontier Diver translates to “aturn” (if you remove the “9T”)
“nL3dpa2kvU2” found in The Graveyard Shift translates to “/wiki/S” (if you remove the “n”)
“aWtpcGVkaW” found in A Structure of Unknown Origin… translates to “ikipedi”
Also, you can link together the codes “nL3dpa2kvU2”, “U2VnYV9TY” and “9TYXR1cm4=” to get “L3dpa2kvU2VnYV9TYXR1cm4=” which translates to “/wiki/Sega_Saturn”
There are clearly more games from the jam that contain more pieces of the code, but just by what’s been found so far it seems pretty obvious what the code is a website address:
https:/XXXXikipediXXXX/wiki/Sega_Saturn
And most likely that website is:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn
So the ARG for a PS1 themed game jam leads you to a SEGA SATURN Wikipedia page. That’s either a massive case of trolling or the next game jam will be Sega Saturn themed. I’m pretty confident it’s just a little trolling joke, but would love to see a Sega Saturn style game jam (though it is quite tricky to differentiate between PS1 and Saturn graphics).
Please note that the majority of the work cracking this ARG is down to Psychroclasm. You can see his working here: itch.io/post/1349266
Also on the Sega Saturn Wikipedia page it notes that the Hepburn translation of Sega Saturn is Sega Satān, which is pretty cool (if unrelated).
Love this~
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What's an ARG?
@@DukeoftheOtherworld
In this case, a game within a game?
The only other time I encountered something similar was when I started looking up solutions for the game, "Fez".
I found more than I initially expected, back then. I mean, who could've known that you could hide an image in an audio file?
Games that hide such secrets intrigue me, but I've never actively participated in the treasure hunting that some people have done.
Can you play "gone home" last I knew it was on PS4, but it's quite the mystery, not quite horror but very... Interesting, idk.
Most of the tapes feel like just an "indie vaporwave music video" lol
True
True
Probably because of the 1980/1990 setting.
And I love vaporwave
can you guys recommend video with this type of slow and relax vaporwave?
i look through some of vaporwave genre music videos on youtube but they kinda faster rythm than music in this game
"Give me back my tapes. You have two hours." Watch short videos no longer than a minute long. "Dude, he's at your house!"
Some people....
Don't need friends like that In your life
I kinda of wish when the tape owner came inside you could see them peaking around the corner before it cut to black. Cool game design, but the tapes and the story was lacking.
When I was young I love the homes with green carpets, and with the walls being plank wood
Them vibes man
not_ herobrine you know what I’m talking about?
@@sammytimgaming2947 Oh we know what you're talking about.
The carpet was brown with light plank wood. The planks always came off. Once, my father beat me with one of those planks when I was 5.
Krystal Myth what kind of basements are those called
This is the weirdest porno collection I've ever stumbled into.
It's called vapornwave, and it is art.
Well you're one to complain while putting on a hentai thot's pic
some old ♂ h o m o e r o t i c t a p e s ♂
Some of these creepy games are really cool and creative. This seems like a 17 year old hipster with a bit of programming skill tried to make a found footage game and never finished it
rude
"DUDE HORROR FISHING GAME LMAO"
Fuck off
This isnt creepy. The VHS tapes makes it not creepier at all.
@@1989Ezal that is subjective
Gimmix89 yeah, you’d think some scary stuff was about to happen on the tapes, but you put one in and watch it, and it just doesn’t really go anywhere.
2:55 Weirdly enough, we have a similar symbol (upper left) drawn up on one of our walls. The only difference is that the circle had a little dot.
*Welp, I guess it's time to move to another neighbourhood*
This new Brutalmoose video is extra strange
No wonder the vhs said “raid shadow legends”
Wut
As someone who lived through the 1980s I just want to state for the record that the decade was boring but nowhere near this boring...
Was the decade of thrash metal and cyberpunk and futuristic ideas boring?
@@thepotatoof4219 Pass on the first two, but I'll agree with the futuristic ideas
Scott L. Pass on the first two???? Thrash Metal is the best thing to ever come out of the 80’s
@@PotawatomiThunderNew Like I said, not my thing... I'm more of a rap music aficionado.
Scott L. So am I, Hip-Hop is my favorite genre. As a Hip-Hop fan, Thrash Metal is awesome
1:30 when it plays my head immediately sings Slow Dancing in the Dark. Catchy
a lot of these is made in vhscam.
and that app produces the most unoptimized mp4 ever so i wonder what's the size of this game.
.....How is this a horror game? This actually felt relaxing as hell to me.
Eu relaxo assistindo isso, é como um passatempo mental e é muito bom
Longest video of “wait, can I click this?” I’ve ever seen
Another indie horror game set in the 80s and prominently featuring VHS tapes? What a novel and fresh concept
It’s always cool when’s game has an ARG fr
"The once I gave you weren't mine to give." Got a typo there...
Hey man don’t you know, This guy are sick.
nerd
Hahaha English exe has stopped working
One
The music in the March 13th tape tho 👌👌👌
The footage reminds me of the feeling you get when you have a cutting edge technology and no idea what you want to use it on first.
I just want to know the name of the music put into the tapes lmao
Angie Castillo me too😂
What’s with the sudden rise in PS1 styled games? Just curious.
Graphic and atmosphere
It's cheaper and easier than making current generation-graphics from scratch if you're not an AAA studio with the software and money. I guess. You can't expect two random programmers making a video game in their home computer for fun to pull off something like Red Dead Redemption 2
I'd have to second the ghost of John Wick's puppy, but also there's some neat research on the psychology of fear. Basically says, if it looks real, but isn't completely real looking, it's creepy. Like a human face without eyes for example, why is that creepy? It's technically not even a human face upon speculation. It's a group of shapes that are familiar in patterns we are familiar with, but something is slightly off.
Not only that has brought the horror genre great success, but also the easier-to-program completely game style allows programmers of all types to compete in a game jam in fair conditions.
I'd also like to add that fear is close to comedy in a psychological sense. If these shapes and patterns are portrayed with funny music and a colored atmosphere where gameplay is on your time, you're going to most likely feel differently than if they were portrayed with scary music in a monochromatic atmosphere where gameplay is you being chased in intense conditions. A great representation would be Hong Kong 97 vs. Pepsi Man. Or this game vs. Milkman Karlson of ABG's recent uploads are some neat comparisons.
I think it's a game jam theme
Between this and no players online, this dev really needs to come out from his own ass
ARG isn't good design, its good marketing. There's a reason it's used in ad campaigns and not games.
"Woooaahh dudes the game references things outside the game woooah" has not been novel for 15 years.
This would be forgivable if there was literally anything else worth talking about in these games, but they are devoid of plot and content.
Actually, I've kind of enjoyed this concept. I haven't seen it before, even though you said this is an old/overused concept... Do you know any other games like this that I could check out? Thanks.
Those tapes were way too crisp looking for 86 lol.
There was internet in the 80's.
Yes
Thumbs up if you used the dialup internet with AOL back in the 90s.
5:38 That model car (Renault Clio) didn't come out for another 12 years so that dude must be one of the demons. Obviously.
I was thinking the same thing haha
‘That’s when Patrick was on his way to return some video tapes...
Ah yes, another collection of VHS tapes that make me glad I have the SCP Foundation on speed dial.
Unbelievably borning game.
Getting them V A P O R W A V E vibes
Keep these games coming ABG, I love em 👌
If your friend needs the tapes back so badly, why won't he just come to your house?
This scenario is one of those two-face set that often is used to film commercials or those closed-angle scenes between two people, without showing the other sides
........somebody turned James Rolfe's basement into a video game?!?
this game is a vibe. love the sounds whenever you click on something. more games should do that
The last tape makes me think of dreams I've made years ago. It's kinda weird x)
"This creepy dude is inside your house!"
Welp, better watch me some badly montaged tapes
Do you know what old horror is ? When you watch porn video then your parent come to home. You try to eject the video in hurry but it suck inside. Kids now days dont know that.... Damn internet
I think the PS style has worn itself out, sure people can still make them and I’ll enjoy them but it’s starting to get old
It's a style that isn't really gonna go away though; Since the beginning of indie horror game development people have been making lowres/poly horror games, the PS1 style is just an evolution of the previous pixelated 3D horror games of the early 2010s. Whether it looks overused or not it's still a charm that, when used effectively by the developer, is still freaky.
Stale Bagelz No I just think there’s so many of them at this point, they’re gonna pull a five nights at Freddy’s on us and make it less scary
do you guys think this is connected to no players online?
Memory Hole: The Game.
Does this takes place in avgn's room?
Do you mean, that furniture channel?
Looks like someone found a way to make people not only watch but pay really close attention to their avant garde short films.
Dev: Hey man I watched this really awesome creepy movie called "The Ring" which made me soil my knickers!
Dev's mate: You wear knickers?....
Dev: Yeah man it's about this videotape with all this random and creepy footage on it made my this little girl who drowned in a well!
Dev's Mate: How long have you been wearing knickers?
Dev: Well I'm gonna make a really scary game about it where you watch some really fuckin' boring tapes filled with random things I think people will find scary! BECAUSE IT'S ALL FILMED IN THE 80'S. And kids of today find that stuff scary because the video footage is old and outdated! Also some guy calls you at the end of every tape you watch!
Dev's Mate: Dude, why do you wear knickers? Do you want to talk to me about something?
Dev: And there's these little symbols hidden in these boring tapes so you have to watch all of them to end the game! And at the end of the game NOTHING HAPPENS! So you sit through it for like half an hour all for nothing! This game is gonna be amazing! I can feel it in my third testicle!
Dev's mate: Bruh....I'm leaving
The music alone is worth playing the game. Amazing.
I thought that it was an AVGN video based on the thumbnail for whatever reason
really feelin those cocteau twins guitars
These sound effects 0:42 to 0:58 are so onirical and futuristic at the same time, something like Twinsen's Odyssey
I need to return some videotapes
Is this in anyway related to the VHS horror movies ?
Where can I find the music from this game?
Those are some very modern 1986 cars lol
13:39 - In 1986 they already have a QR code? 😲 creepy
I just finished the video and they were talking about the internet. 😆
Love your videos!
You cannot convince me that the car at 5:39 existed in 1986
The street lighting's wrong - and while it can't be helped for an indie-budget game, I wish they'd put a color filter in.
Just from the thumbnail, I thought I was watching more brutalmoose vhs tapes.
I'd like to see a remastered version by someone who actually have a VCR...
I really like the game mechanics and the aesthetics, but the story of the game is just boring as fuck, this guy needs a writer.
Back at it again with the PS1 trend
A few of the tracks of music reminded me of Harold Budd's work.
What the hell is this Godlessness? Your boy told you those tapes were someone else's and you just getting all up in his business...
I don't why this Dutch guy is so protective of these tapes. I don't wanna watch your tapes dude, stop acting like they're so special. As if they contain valuable information
Love me some Sega Saturn. I have two and all my games still :3
Good video! looks an interesting game!
Was kind of hoping for a big scary ending...but nothing really happened. It set a good tone though and I liked the oddity and retroness of it all but...yeah...I didn't understand the ending. Oh well...
This feels like, Redlettermedia BOTW : The Game
Nice ending, a self aware game 😆
Alpha Beta Gamer is a Teletubby
Remember be kind rewind?
Hmmm silent hill sound effects?🤔
What's the Internet? This is the 80s
Probaly there is no such cars in 1986 like in 5:38 they come later.
1:19 Nostalgia Samsung SV-151
How to Vlog Tutorial - 2020
hey this game has good graphics
Dr. Strand will be interested in this.
I did not get what the hell just happened, or what the mechanics of the game are. Or how this game is horror.
Maybe because I skipped through some of it's parts but still, what the hell?
im not really sure i get the final tape but it seems neat
downloaded the game and ran it and windows responds with "We protected u lul" i dont know if i should still play it
The soundtrack tho👌🏻
Actually there very much was an internet back in 1986 (just no world wide web)... though it was used largely by corporations and academia. Cute joke though.
I found this so creepy
its 1:32 in the morning bro please let me sleep
Boards of Canada . . .
Resident evil sound effect
V.H.S. The Game
Cool looking game
_v a p o r w a v e_
reminds me of the movie caché
Nice
Creepy.... like the our socio-culture-historical-technologic ultra past. 😨💕
Yeah! =--💀-♥-🌹-->>
But I don't understand. 😅
Well, that was shit.