Hello! I'm Japanese, you visiting Toro and Kuro's home town was very nostalgic for me, it's too bad you couldn't enter the Pachinko arcade. My favourite Playstation HOME Minigame was Toro's Banjo rhythm game
Imagine the wild experience of playing on a empty Gmod 9 server no one plays anymore and some random dude just joins, plays perfectly, wins all races, and leaves never to be seen again has to be the most bizarre encounter i ever seen in a game
i think weve all had this experience at some point in older less played games. i joined a dead sven co-op server at 3am one night and played a mega man themed map and some random dude joined and blew through the entire map in one go. Steam has a Recent Players window that lets you find some of the more interesting characters you meet along the way
I once booted up the Vietcong (2003) DEMO in 2015 and found a single guy on a MP server. I had to join. We shot each other, I mostly won, he left. I was left wondering how the fuck this all happened. I don't remember why I booted up that demo.
17:10 there’s something sort of funny in a sad way about someone just appearing in a deserted town that replicates an extremely outdated vision of the future and talking about how bright it’s future is
Thanks for checking out Cybertown Revival! We've been working hard on bringing Cybertown back for about 4 years now and there's still a lot to come! We don't even have items or backpacks implemented yet, but once we do, the world will transform! Edit: (Backpacks and Objects are in!)
I’m too young to ever have played or heard about this game, but i’m glad to see people rebuilding fun things from the past. Keep it up and bring back the memories of those who roamed around this town.
I have never heard of Cybertown until now, but if I could have ever played it, I'm sure I would have wound up stuck to it. It seems so very strange and unique.
>joins a dead server on a dead game >meets the only other person in the world that even thinks about this game >beats him in 1 race >refuses to elaborate >leaves
I now really want some youtuber to try and dig up the story of mingeballs, and why they were playing an abandoned versions of GMod at that exact time, on that exact day, in that exact server, right as you joined.
The Gmod 9 discord is pretty active and theres a couple of projects being worked on off and on. Every now and then when everyones on the servers can have quite a few players.
Project Lead for Destination Home here, I'm glad you got to experience PS Home for the first time! It's super relaxing and, when you're on during the events/meet-ups, a great way to socialise. Thanks for covering us but also sorry you had to experience that Toyota Prius minigame -- I can attest to the *terrible* controls.
The part with Flyby is truly touching. I remember the innocence of the internet in the early days. Because provider charges, a lot of kids as myself were allotted 1 day a week to get on for a few hours. Met some really cool people. It was just insane talking to someone in another state from my computer. What a magical time….
I tried finding more out about this FlyBy character, but could only muster up the information that his name was Steven Alan Kash. Don’t know how he died (I think he was in his 50s), but may he rest in peace. 🙏 Also, there was an article, I believed, that actually did detail his death, but it requires payment for you to access: bummer.
@stonecoldsteveaustin2095 there's a lot of articles about him. From what I understand he was the founder and builder of Cybertown and it started with just his little home in 2000 who anyone could join and chat, and eventually he created the whole town. Then he passed in 2003.
For the two people that care, Doko Demo Issyo is a Sony/Playstation mascot thing that's mostly Japan exclusive. The white and black cats the main mascots, and appeared in Playstation Allstars Battle Royal for some reason.
Total Miner is on steam and is still being updated. I played it with a friend, assuming it was a dead game that no one played, but out of the blue like 6 people randomly joined and they were all incredibly friendly. Probably the friendliest online gaming interaction I've ever had. Literal "If you build it, they will come" moment.
The main fun of ApocZ was that you could rebuild cars with parts you found and refuel them to help you get materials and sort of set up camp at places. this sucked if you didnt have friends, but if you did, trading weapons and ammo, and food, and helping eachother build cars or trucks to get around to specific areas that had higher spawn chances for better guns and items was the whole point
Interestingly this was the entire point of ARMA 2 DayZ vs Retail DayZ, which completely dropped this aspect of the game (cars are TOO difficult to get working and therefor aren't worth fixing up 99.99% of the time) and on top of that cars are weaker, and way buggier and more likely to break either due to them being made of paper, having weak engines, or bugging out. This lead to DayZ Retail (DayZ SA) being more of a "story telling" game, vs the original being more of an atmosphere heavy simulator that was grim and dark, yet rewarding. The gameplay loop was sharper, but retail has a wider range of options even if the gameplay loop is somehow less defined. So I can see why a game as basic looking as ApocZ could be really fun purely because specific aspects were well balanced for fun interactions with friends.
Loved it back then, that military base next to the plan was goated. Camped there with groups and killed peeps as they came in by glitching into the roof of the middle building with a jeep.
@@USERWASBANNED they’ve actually overhauled the whole system recently, the devs have been putting proper work into dayz standalone the past year and a half
The most unsettling part about "dead online games" is that, theoretically, most of them aren't really dead as long as they can still connect to the internet. They're not actually, literally gone like certain shut down MMOs. It is still possible to join servers for many of those games, or otherwise start your own dedicated servers for them. It is only due to our lack of interest in them, either due to their age or due to the playerbase moving on - that those games feel dead to us.
during the cybertown segment when the flyby poster popped up in the locked room i made a joke in my head that was like "RIP my guy flyby" but finding out he had actually passed away and was memorialized in game was actually heart wrenching. Also playstation home was one of my favorite games as a kid and this video brought back good memories. I remember hanging out in the adventure district and the playground, and also the park map with a big lake and bridge in the middle with a tunnel on the side, and i would walk around (and hide in the tunnel) pretending to be nepeta from homestuck with these blue claw gloves you could get free as a reward, because i couldn't afford any of the cosmetics as a kid.
I was on Cybertown when I was younger. I recently rejoined. Not everything is implemented by far, but it's awesome to see the old city come back to life. It's a snapshot of the last days of the wild-west of the web as well as an insight in to how the future was once beheld.
I'd love to go back to those days. It was so much more fun when you had to actually explore the web and find what you wanted whilst also finding so many other unexpected things that you'd never even consider.
Did you know this thing had a virtual movie theater? You could rent movies from PSN and watch it simultaneously with your buddies. I personally thought this was ahead of its time. Not only that but like you could play pool and bowling and air hockey and stuff. It was actually pretty neat. That whole era was magical to me. I remember booting up Warhawk for the first time and realizing what online gaming was. That and Home and some other experiences, it was a good time to be gaming.
I only got to play for a couple of minutes back in 2012, but I still remember those few minutes pretty well. Sadly, the step parent I had to deal with at the time hated anything involving online gaming, so I couldn't even get away with playing games like Mario Kart Wii without her turning off the Wi-Fi.
I always find it so cool when UA-camrs/online people bring awareness to forgotten media/social groups/things lost in the past, thus bringing awareness and renewed interest to them like you did with these online games in this video. Like you pointed out with these groups of people working so hard to keep these games alive and running, having them get shout outs here is super nice and I really appreciate you doing so for them. :)
As an old time former player, Garry's Mod brings a tear to a glass eye. I was the Zombie Survival type of player, would later play Fretta, as well as Zombified World which was a custom gamemode built from scratch which was a cross between roleplaying, and zombie survival. It was around 2011 where it died for me, I can't remember the exact year. Basically there was a huge update, the kind that reset a lot of the previous foundations which a lot of servers had been built on. Players had came and went since 2006, which I believe had been the last time an update of such magnitude had been implemented. The issue? A lot of maps, gamemodes, skins you name it, were no longer compatible or created bugs/errors. Many coders had moved onto college/university and weren't just about to come back and relearn and redo all of their previous work. Furthermore, we'd grown accustomed to our servers and communities. We knew it would never be the same without them. Sure enough, Gmod finally fell from the top spot and would never recover it's once long held place at Steam's pinnacle. Honestly, I still miss it.
So glad you bought up ps home this was a game me and my older brother uses to always play together when we were young after school. Such a positive world and a fun game. Made so many friends me and my brother would play anything else with as well. I miss it
Mr. Kash, a 49-year-old locksmith in Napa., Calif., is also the mayor of Cybertown, a virtual village. In addition to its main plaza, city hall and residences, the town's 3-D elements include the on-screen avatars for Cybertown's 450,000 residents. The avatars circulate in the digital setting while their human controllers chat with one another through typed exchanges. At Flyby's Hangar, a gathering might be attended by a bikini-clad beachcomber, a floating cube with sides made of live Webcam images and, if Mr. Kash is present, an F-17 fighter jet. ''It's exciting because you never know who's going to drop in,'' he said.
Always wanted to go back to PSHome cause I used to love it even though I was far too young in 2010 to understand or remember much My biggest memory was when the Nick Cage ghost rider was being advertised on it and they accidentally played the entire movie without sound on a small screen somewhere in the main hub world or the mall and my friend and I sat there, watched the entire thing, then watched the live action Garfield
I remember they had other hubs like some bar (also had a serving and drinking minigame) in the middle of the desert that had small to large scorpions and one from the game of Siren and actually played with other people to escape the hospital. I also remember having a mansion with everything from a pool to a home theater. Remembering that made me feel young and sad at the same time.
Just an FYI, I was following the development of apocZ when it was out and I’m pretty sure the single dev died in a car crash or was at least in a pretty fatal one. I remember his wife or something posting about how he had been in a car crash. No clue though, hope he’s okay now
Hey I'm the author of that buggyracer gamemode from 20 years ago as well as a few others in the list (and actually active ones on the steam version of gmod). Funny seeing a server still up for it.
I often think about what happened and if I should hop on to play this game i fondly remember loving back in Xbox 360. It was Aliens vs Predator back in 2010, the Multiplayer & plethora of game modes for all races, human, predator & alien was some of the most fun i've had in a multiplayer game.
I loved the fact that when playing as the xenomorph, you could run on every surface, even ceiling. One of my favorite moments in an MP game was in AvP playing as the alien on that one xeno map (i forget the name). had this big central chamber with a pit that was open to all 3 or 4 floors of the map. I remember running along the ceiling and a group of humans came out onto the ledge that ringed the pit. I tried to sneak up along the ceiling, but they saw me and started shooting. I thought i was dead so made a desperate lunge off the wall toward them. I fell short of them, but ended up catching the very edge of the lip of the ledge to the pit and ended up on the ceiling of the floor under the humans. i then ran down the tunnels and got away. was the hypest escape i ever managed.
The Alien campaign was too cool for this world. I'm sure they added the Marines campaign to complete the triad, but it always felt like such a let-down to go from one to the other. The Predator campaign didn't really get my interest, but it was also neat.
same, i also thought the Alien campaign had the best story. and I liked the possibility of kind of getting a good guy xenomorph that would help some humans. The marines campaign had that nostalgic coolness factor, tho, with the sound effects for the guns and the motion tracker.
I love watching these dead game videos, but god- I got a chill when I heard PlayStation Home. I have so much memories of just wondering around that game or just spending hours on the little big planet hub playing the sticker minigame! It got shut down when I was aroouuund 11years old? And to hear it categorized as ‘dead’ feels so weird and to see it so… empty… it’s like seeing this part of myself become overgrown. Plants taking over and breaking down what was built there. There’s still remnants of what used to be but now it changed, it feels different. But hey! We always need room to create something new, right? Maybe we can use what’s there to make something even better than what stood before.
hey i have schizophrenia. it actually sucked pretty bad b4 i got put on meds to make it temporally go away while i take it. i been subbed since under 20k to so your def big enough to have a viewer thats legit schizo lol
There is an element of nostalgia to this that is hard to explain. It's like revisiting an old apartment or home where you used to live but is now unpopulated and barren. I actually get similar feels when places like restaurants and stores close down, like what just closed was a business but there was a dream behind it that just went puff. And as far as I know, there is no one recording these happenings in the cities so there's even a deeper sense of the brevity and fragility of dreams, in how they can be so easily forgotten.
Hearing you refer to the Mos Eisley cantina as "that little bar where the little aliens place music" is hilarious. This brings us to a game you missed that is sorta dead (you sadly cannot play the original but there are player-rebuilt private servers now which have decent playership) but also sorta in revival mode is Star Wars Galaxies.
I used to play PlayStation home as a kid and I used to play for hours just customizing my character. I was also 6 at the time of this, but I still remember how expansive the world was with all the houses and shopping centers and other things the game had.
I remember back when I was maybe 10 or 11 when PlayStation home was out. At the time I just thought it was cool to get kinda of a wee world feeling of alot of advertisements of games into one virtual hang out place. All I knew as a kid was dress up get funny dancing moves and have wings I miss this era of PlayStation 3 back then it brought back soo many memories and I thank you for visiting one of my childhood games I really Hope this game does come back alive soon or try to restore it as if it was really janky but very nostalgic for my childhood! Never forget my ps name at the time “ TheRealDeadlox “ 😂
Total Miner is actually still around today! It has a Steam version, and the devs are still updating the game (be it not super consistently); it's kind of crazy to think about. I was a massive fan of Total Miner when I was a kid and have lots of nostalgia for the game today. I sometimes pull up the Steam version to get a little nostalgia hit for about 30 minutes.
Not sure if anyone has brought this up yet, but one of my favorite game(s) to play on my xbox were Castleminer and Castleminer Z. Something about playing a clone of minecraft as my xbox avatar, and shooting a dragon with a laser gun, just felt really fun. The best part was when you'd manage to find people to play with, or get your friends to play with you. I still have fond memories of making a "hotel" on the spawn tower with an old friend, and it's memories like that which made me decide to buy Castleminer Z on steam. TL;DR Castleminer Z is a fun minecraft clone. Castleminer not so much, since it was essentially just creative mode and nothing else.
i have distinct memories of watching my brother play castleminer z with his friends on xbox live. that dragon was fucking sick. glad to see someone else actually talk about it for once
I loved the acknowledgment you included for the mayor of that virtual town. Touching how niche communities like that honor their lost members. Also I was just in Peoria IL and didn't see a PS3, and trust me I looked (but only in the immediate area around Hoops). I feel a little cheated.
So I originally got my degrees in History and Library Science, but wound up doing IT, but between you and Majuular, now now Redlyne who I'll check out later, it's really cool to see people doing this kind of video game archiving/excavation. Because of how fast the tech industry races to be bigger and better all the time, stuff like this abandonware is just neat to see, like a museum exhibit.
I can still remember pshome vividly, doing out of bounds glitches as a lil kid, making my friends jealous and mad that i didnt tell em, and now seeing those worlds completely dead is such a painful thing to see
Rat im binging your videos and I just wanna say how much I love the aesthetic or your title and transition scenes. It hits be right where G4/TechTV used to live and I appreciate that style immensely.
Praying that you make some sort of part 2 of this video because this was hell of a nostalgia trip and I loved imagining how these worlds felt when they were still active. The Flyby part got me really emotional. For the next one you could probably do games like Whirled or Microsoft's V-Chat.
Man, seeing Total Miner Forge again brought back some memories. I loved building stuff in the creative mode, which carried over to my Minecraft playing. Once had a guy join my server late at night when I was alone. He set up a little challenge and said "first person to destroy this column of blocks wins. Winner chooses a prize." I agreed, and he won. He wanted me to give him admin status. Being a naïve teenager, I did just that. What did he do? Showed me some great tricks to use certain building blocks for other purposes, and showed me how to use the command blocks. His advice helped me build better things in that game, and later, in Minecraft. Now, I have Minecraft maps with sprawling cities, cozy little townships, and sail ships in the harbours. All because of one random stranger. I can't remember his name or username, but I'll always be grateful.
Please do more of these! Even if it is games redyne had done on his channel. Because you spent more time in each one it feels like. Id love a video sereies that dedicates more time to each dead game and its oddities
Apoc and Total Miner was a big blast from the past for me. Glad to see I wasn't the only one wanting a DayZ and Minecraft experience back then. Total Miner was a fun time sink back then and definitely left it's mark in my memory.
It gives me a sort of nostalgic feeling to see this. I have done this kind of things myself with old games i used to play. Seeing places with abundant life in the past, now desolated...It makes me sad but also makes me realize how nothing is eternal.
These videos always make me think of playstation home. Would be interesting to see again if we could. Hardly remember much about it but some fond memories
Never thought I'd see ApocZ again. I vaguely remember playing that game when I was younger and it feels like a fever dream. Thanks for reminding me of it lol.
My favorite aesthetic of any channel! Probably because we seem to have had similar childhoods growing up on gmod although the vibe is more old internet than gmod focused, you are very talented man keep it up!
I really liked both looks at Cybertown and PlayStation Home. Cybertown for the 90s vibes that I do remember from back in the day, though having never played Cybertown. PS Home, as someone who was also a X360 guy and jealous of it, was nice to get a view of, and I kinda liked the vibes there as well. Made me feel like going for a visit myself.
ps home for me was the biggest thing and what i went to after a long gaming session just to chill and just meet new people I used to go to "The Playground" most of the time because its small and very crowded with people most of the time especially at the roofs, when i discovered that there was a community to revive it i was SUPER happy and thrilled, I couldnt stop thinking about going there just to see The Playground one more time just to remember the good old days.
Posted only 4 days ago? Guess I'll see you in Peoria my friend! Jokes aside this is a great video. As someone who really enjoys VRChat the stuff about Cybertown strikes a chord as they fill very similar niches a few decades apart. Neat to see people are still trying to keep it alive and I appreciate the commitment to such a platform.
I had a prison RP server in Total Miner that was on the top of the list for weeks, you could earn your freedom and I built houses for people who did and gave them jobs in the town. There were multiple ways to get out, but my favorite was a PvP arena that I memorized a handful of layouts I could speed build between matches. Really fun memories with that game before Minecraft.
seeing toro in the ps home level was such a nostalgia trip. I only used ps home once, and I couldn't figure it out at all so I just kept playing uncharted 3 death-match like a dunce
bro i remember playing a game called castle miner z in the xbox 360 it was a weird game but was good it basically was minecraft but "survival horror" you got guns the farther you went from spawn enemies will get harder, there was some kind of nether if you dig too deep, it was nice i think they eventualy even did a steam release
I loved Total Miner Forge and Castle Miner Z. Bought it because I wanted Minecraft haha. One thing I remember was that Total Miner had these characters that you could place and I'd create towns with them since I didn't really play online at that point.
All i can think about now is how eerie that lonesome flaming garbage can in Cyberhood is and how it's animation just keeps looping year after year with no one around to see it.
These are the observations I like to see. Someone made that looping fire once upon a time and now they've probably long forgotten it existed. It's times like these that I wonder "what is that person doing right now?"
HOLY SHIT RATLOBBER THANK YOU! I would've never found total miner forge if not for this video! Good god I remember that game so fondly.... this made my day!
don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. I will never forget the memories I made on CS:S servers... I miss dedicated servers so much. matchmaking was a mistake.
The cat sign at 32:51 says something like "Weekly Toro Station Notice", "Termination of Service", and the text with the link is just mentioning visiting that website. The sign with the dog says something like "When you really fall in love with someone, your mind becomes filled with things like that person's neck and the nape of their neck."
dude seeing ApocZ brought back so many memories holy shit, I remember using a sniper to stare at zombies from far away because if there was a horde it would be this shitty 2D texture and they would wave in the wind like some minecraft shader grass lmao.
I miss Playstation Home so much. I had tons of fun hanging out in the main hib area, with my UFO costume, jamming to music and chatting. Every once in a while going to a specific world and playing mini games. Such a fantastic concept. When I think of the metaverse, that's what comes to mind.
I literally played PS Home maybe two times just because, I didn't even know that it existed. The last time I played it was LITERALLY the day before they had shut it down. There was actually a lot of people online and playing it.
What a fun throwback video to some of the old games I remember playing in highschool. I was the xbox kid in my friend group where my buddy had a ps3, I remember thinking 360 was cooler because of all the indie games that let you use your avatar in them, looking back there was a ton of shovel ware in it but there were some fun titles regardless.
I remember playing ApocZ back on my old xbox with a friend. We was dumb kids not knowing what the hell we was doing, but it was good memories non the less
the song that was played at 3:25 was so nostalgic for me, its called "taking the hobbits to isengard" i remember back in the day when this was played a lot in some games i used to play and it was the best
i was little during the huge hayday of gmod, i was never able to afford a pc so i only had second hand experience of everything gmod via youtube, good times, good times
Mingeballs
>randomly shows up
>smokes your ass in the races
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
Yes, we all saw the video
@@jjmah7 You are the greatest guy at parties. People like you so much they choose to ignore you.
@@godfrey4461on god
Mingechad
Classic Mingeballs
Hello! I'm Japanese, you visiting Toro and Kuro's home town was very nostalgic for me, it's too bad you couldn't enter the Pachinko arcade. My favourite Playstation HOME Minigame was Toro's Banjo rhythm game
what did the dog say
@@Akkerixx If you really love a person, something about them will fill your head, their ears, their neck... You'll never forget!
apparently that dog wasnt actually feeling pain lol@@SkySpiderGirl
Hello! You, are Japanese! 👍
Hello 👋🏻 you are Japanese!
Imagine the wild experience of playing on a empty Gmod 9 server no one plays anymore and some random dude just joins, plays perfectly, wins all races, and leaves never to be seen again has to be the most bizarre encounter i ever seen in a game
Gmod9 is still very active surprisingly
i think weve all had this experience at some point in older less played games. i joined a dead sven co-op server at 3am one night and played a mega man themed map and some random dude joined and blew through the entire map in one go. Steam has a Recent Players window that lets you find some of the more interesting characters you meet along the way
@ProtoMan0451 oh yeah I forgot about recent players
I once booted up the Vietcong (2003) DEMO in 2015 and found a single guy on a MP server. I had to join. We shot each other, I mostly won, he left. I was left wondering how the fuck this all happened. I don't remember why I booted up that demo.
Especially because his avatar was a big red "ERROR"
17:10 there’s something sort of funny in a sad way about someone just appearing in a deserted town that replicates an extremely outdated vision of the future and talking about how bright it’s future is
Thanks for checking out Cybertown Revival! We've been working hard on bringing Cybertown back for about 4 years now and there's still a lot to come! We don't even have items or backpacks implemented yet, but once we do, the world will transform! Edit: (Backpacks and Objects are in!)
I’m too young to ever have played or heard about this game, but i’m glad to see people rebuilding fun things from the past. Keep it up and bring back the memories of those who roamed around this town.
I support video game necromancy
@@TheSpookiestSkeleton awesome way to put it
Thank you for your preservation efforts.
I have never heard of Cybertown until now, but if I could have ever played it, I'm sure I would have wound up stuck to it. It seems so very strange and unique.
>joins a dead server on a dead game
>meets the only other person in the world that even thinks about this game
>beats him in 1 race
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
2 races* 🤓
I now really want some youtuber to try and dig up the story of mingeballs, and why they were playing an abandoned versions of GMod at that exact time, on that exact day, in that exact server, right as you joined.
It’s possible it was a slot owner , or the slot owner. And he saw he had someone on. Idk just trying to make rationale of it
It's his alt account
The Gmod 9 discord is pretty active and theres a couple of projects being worked on off and on. Every now and then when everyones on the servers can have quite a few players.
@@Brainles5 that sounds kickass
Probably very bored or craving some nostalgia
Project Lead for Destination Home here, I'm glad you got to experience PS Home for the first time! It's super relaxing and, when you're on during the events/meet-ups, a great way to socialise. Thanks for covering us but also sorry you had to experience that Toyota Prius minigame -- I can attest to the *terrible* controls.
By the way, the "Bot" you encountered wasn't actually a bot, it was one of the members making a joke.
Edit: I'm talking about cybertown
Which one are you referring too??
@@USSCYTcybertown boy
@@USSCYT Cybertown
That’s crazy
lies
Rip Flyby. Really appreciated that part of the vid. Well done man.
The part with Flyby is truly touching. I remember the innocence of the internet in the early days. Because provider charges, a lot of kids as myself were allotted 1 day a week to get on for a few hours. Met some really cool people. It was just insane talking to someone in another state from my computer. What a magical time….
I tried finding more out about this FlyBy character, but could only muster up the information that his name was Steven Alan Kash.
Don’t know how he died (I think he was in his 50s), but may he rest in peace. 🙏
Also, there was an article, I believed, that actually did detail his death, but it requires payment for you to access: bummer.
@stonecoldsteveaustin2095 there's a lot of articles about him. From what I understand he was the founder and builder of Cybertown and it started with just his little home in 2000 who anyone could join and chat, and eventually he created the whole town. Then he passed in 2003.
@@Rykiz_Vidzdamn he would’ve loved 2023😢
@@Sai.Divine he'd be ashamed of what cutting-edge technology was wasted on...
Seeing that Black Ops 2 map pack hit different. Still feels like yesterday lol 12 years ago
Same
The drone swarm is RL now...
For the two people that care, Doko Demo Issyo is a Sony/Playstation mascot thing that's mostly Japan exclusive. The white and black cats the main mascots, and appeared in Playstation Allstars Battle Royal for some reason.
I wish gaming companies werent making things edgy for the west I wish we could have them as mascots
@@roguedragoon9212me too, I still have no urge to buy a PS5 unless they start making quirky Japanese games again like the PS2 era
@@DouglasQuaid999the best games
@@DouglasQuaid999have fun not playing the latest games at 120 fps loser
@@DouglasQuaid999or games in general
Total Miner is on steam and is still being updated. I played it with a friend, assuming it was a dead game that no one played, but out of the blue like 6 people randomly joined and they were all incredibly friendly. Probably the friendliest online gaming interaction I've ever had. Literal "If you build it, they will come" moment.
Thanks for the info!
The main fun of ApocZ was that you could rebuild cars with parts you found and refuel them to help you get materials and sort of set up camp at places. this sucked if you didnt have friends, but if you did, trading weapons and ammo, and food, and helping eachother build cars or trucks to get around to specific areas that had higher spawn chances for better guns and items was the whole point
Back during the early days of the 360 that game was kinda cool.
Interestingly this was the entire point of ARMA 2 DayZ vs Retail DayZ, which completely dropped this aspect of the game (cars are TOO difficult to get working and therefor aren't worth fixing up 99.99% of the time) and on top of that cars are weaker, and way buggier and more likely to break either due to them being made of paper, having weak engines, or bugging out.
This lead to DayZ Retail (DayZ SA) being more of a "story telling" game, vs the original being more of an atmosphere heavy simulator that was grim and dark, yet rewarding. The gameplay loop was sharper, but retail has a wider range of options even if the gameplay loop is somehow less defined. So I can see why a game as basic looking as ApocZ could be really fun purely because specific aspects were well balanced for fun interactions with friends.
Loved it back then, that military base next to the plan was goated. Camped there with groups and killed peeps as they came in by glitching into the roof of the middle building with a jeep.
@@USERWASBANNED they’ve actually overhauled the whole system recently, the devs have been putting proper work into dayz standalone the past year and a half
@@spiral5819 Indeed. They’ve been consistently pushing out mostly good updates for DayZ.
The most unsettling part about "dead online games" is that, theoretically, most of them aren't really dead as long as they can still connect to the internet.
They're not actually, literally gone like certain shut down MMOs. It is still possible to join servers for many of those games, or otherwise start your own dedicated servers for them. It is only due to our lack of interest in them, either due to their age or due to the playerbase moving on - that those games feel dead to us.
during the cybertown segment when the flyby poster popped up in the locked room i made a joke in my head that was like "RIP my guy flyby" but finding out he had actually passed away and was memorialized in game was actually heart wrenching.
Also playstation home was one of my favorite games as a kid and this video brought back good memories. I remember hanging out in the adventure district and the playground, and also the park map with a big lake and bridge in the middle with a tunnel on the side, and i would walk around (and hide in the tunnel) pretending to be nepeta from homestuck with these blue claw gloves you could get free as a reward, because i couldn't afford any of the cosmetics as a kid.
I was on Cybertown when I was younger. I recently rejoined. Not everything is implemented by far, but it's awesome to see the old city come back to life. It's a snapshot of the last days of the wild-west of the web as well as an insight in to how the future was once beheld.
I'd love to go back to those days. It was so much more fun when you had to actually explore the web and find what you wanted whilst also finding so many other unexpected things that you'd never even consider.
As someone who loved pshome, seeing the mall completely abandoned made me feel more emotional than it probably should have
i fr teared up i used to play ps home for hours when i was a kid bro
:( ps home was my first real “game” on the PS3 because I didn’t have any games at first.
Don't be sad it ended, be happy it happened!
Did you know this thing had a virtual movie theater? You could rent movies from PSN and watch it simultaneously with your buddies. I personally thought this was ahead of its time. Not only that but like you could play pool and bowling and air hockey and stuff. It was actually pretty neat.
That whole era was magical to me. I remember booting up Warhawk for the first time and realizing what online gaming was. That and Home and some other experiences, it was a good time to be gaming.
I only got to play for a couple of minutes back in 2012, but I still remember those few minutes pretty well. Sadly, the step parent I had to deal with at the time hated anything involving online gaming, so I couldn't even get away with playing games like Mario Kart Wii without her turning off the Wi-Fi.
I always find it so cool when UA-camrs/online people bring awareness to forgotten media/social groups/things lost in the past, thus bringing awareness and renewed interest to them like you did with these online games in this video. Like you pointed out with these groups of people working so hard to keep these games alive and running, having them get shout outs here is super nice and I really appreciate you doing so for them. :)
these intros are so amazing. would be nice if we got a compilation of all of them
invite me to your house bro. we cant have everything in life I guess
@@jazz8000 He did on his second channel.
My eyes melted because of the intros
I feel like micheal from gta 5
I feel like Michael from GTA V
As an old time former player, Garry's Mod brings a tear to a glass eye. I was the Zombie Survival type of player, would later play Fretta, as well as Zombified World which was a custom gamemode built from scratch which was a cross between roleplaying, and zombie survival.
It was around 2011 where it died for me, I can't remember the exact year. Basically there was a huge update, the kind that reset a lot of the previous foundations which a lot of servers had been built on. Players had came and went since 2006, which I believe had been the last time an update of such magnitude had been implemented.
The issue? A lot of maps, gamemodes, skins you name it, were no longer compatible or created bugs/errors. Many coders had moved onto college/university and weren't just about to come back and relearn and redo all of their previous work. Furthermore, we'd grown accustomed to our servers and communities. We knew it would never be the same without them.
Sure enough, Gmod finally fell from the top spot and would never recover it's once long held place at Steam's pinnacle. Honestly, I still miss it.
Really interesting how buggyracer still holds elements that were used later in the Gmod Racer gamemode.
Haha, you write good comment with deep thought, and the uploader does not even respond. Must love his fans alot.
@@Puxibro what 💀
@@VeryDAWDwhere did that come from wtf
@Morbiusbark why u use this skull symbol? Amrikaan teenager. Hey when does your gender change surgery come? Amerika...
@@Puximate he is not going to respond to 591 comments dawg
So glad you bought up ps home this was a game me and my older brother uses to always play together when we were young after school. Such a positive world and a fun game. Made so many friends me and my brother would play anything else with as well. I miss it
Mr. Kash, a 49-year-old locksmith in Napa., Calif., is also the mayor of Cybertown, a virtual village. In addition to its main plaza, city hall and residences, the town's 3-D elements include the on-screen avatars for Cybertown's 450,000 residents. The avatars circulate in the digital setting while their human controllers chat with one another through typed exchanges.
At Flyby's Hangar, a gathering might be attended by a bikini-clad beachcomber, a floating cube with sides made of live Webcam images and, if Mr. Kash is present, an F-17 fighter jet. ''It's exciting because you never know who's going to drop in,'' he said.
Dope
Goddamnit. Now I’m sad.
Always wanted to go back to PSHome cause I used to love it even though I was far too young in 2010 to understand or remember much
My biggest memory was when the Nick Cage ghost rider was being advertised on it and they accidentally played the entire movie without sound on a small screen somewhere in the main hub world or the mall and my friend and I sat there, watched the entire thing, then watched the live action Garfield
I remember they had other hubs like some bar (also had a serving and drinking minigame) in the middle of the desert that had small to large scorpions and one from the game of Siren and actually played with other people to escape the hospital. I also remember having a mansion with everything from a pool to a home theater. Remembering that made me feel young and sad at the same time.
I remember playing the hell out of the pirates of the caribbean area.
Just an FYI, I was following the development of apocZ when it was out and I’m pretty sure the single dev died in a car crash or was at least in a pretty fatal one. I remember his wife or something posting about how he had been in a car crash. No clue though, hope he’s okay now
Its funny cause fatal means dead.
What's the difference in _pretty fatal_ and _regular fatal?_
@@WxIxLxLxIxAxMxSdead vs extra dead
Why did you type all this when you could have just used a search engine
*Near* fatal, though one woman unrelated to the dev did pass away from the accident.
Hey I'm the author of that buggyracer gamemode from 20 years ago as well as a few others in the list (and actually active ones on the steam version of gmod). Funny seeing a server still up for it.
I often think about what happened and if I should hop on to play this game i fondly remember loving back in Xbox 360. It was Aliens vs Predator back in 2010, the Multiplayer & plethora of game modes for all races, human, predator & alien was some of the most fun i've had in a multiplayer game.
I loved the fact that when playing as the xenomorph, you could run on every surface, even ceiling. One of my favorite moments in an MP game was in AvP playing as the alien on that one xeno map (i forget the name). had this big central chamber with a pit that was open to all 3 or 4 floors of the map. I remember running along the ceiling and a group of humans came out onto the ledge that ringed the pit.
I tried to sneak up along the ceiling, but they saw me and started shooting. I thought i was dead so made a desperate lunge off the wall toward them. I fell short of them, but ended up catching the very edge of the lip of the ledge to the pit and ended up on the ceiling of the floor under the humans. i then ran down the tunnels and got away.
was the hypest escape i ever managed.
The Alien campaign was too cool for this world. I'm sure they added the Marines campaign to complete the triad, but it always felt like such a let-down to go from one to the other.
The Predator campaign didn't really get my interest, but it was also neat.
same, i also thought the Alien campaign had the best story. and I liked the possibility of kind of getting a good guy xenomorph that would help some humans.
The marines campaign had that nostalgic coolness factor, tho, with the sound effects for the guns and the motion tracker.
the deus ex music for cybertown is a fucking great choice, the deus ex ost perfectly fits any media with an old cyberpunk aesthetic
Never thought I'd see JSchlatt in Playstation Home
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"SchutzStaffel" really is everywhere
I came to the comments expecting to see this more often. Thank God somebody had the same idea. 😂
I love watching these dead game videos, but god- I got a chill when I heard PlayStation Home. I have so much memories of just wondering around that game or just spending hours on the little big planet hub playing the sticker minigame! It got shut down when I was aroouuund 11years old? And to hear it categorized as ‘dead’ feels so weird and to see it so… empty…
it’s like seeing this part of myself become overgrown. Plants taking over and breaking down what was built there. There’s still remnants of what used to be but now it changed, it feels different. But hey! We always need room to create something new, right? Maybe we can use what’s there to make something even better than what stood before.
hey i have schizophrenia. it actually sucked pretty bad b4 i got put on meds to make it temporally go away while i take it. i been subbed since under 20k to so your def big enough to have a viewer thats legit schizo lol
Based literal skitzoposter
There is an element of nostalgia to this that is hard to explain. It's like revisiting an old apartment or home where you used to live but is now unpopulated and barren.
I actually get similar feels when places like restaurants and stores close down, like what just closed was a business but there was a dream behind it that just went puff. And as far as I know, there is no one recording these happenings in the cities so there's even a deeper sense of the brevity and fragility of dreams, in how they can be so easily forgotten.
This is great but I really wanted to see you interview the mysterious strangers that joined you
Hearing you refer to the Mos Eisley cantina as "that little bar where the little aliens place music" is hilarious. This brings us to a game you missed that is sorta dead (you sadly cannot play the original but there are player-rebuilt private servers now which have decent playership) but also sorta in revival mode is Star Wars Galaxies.
It's always the sound of the wind blowing and misc foliage sounds that always makes these games eerie
dude thats what FLIPPING comforts me. i dont know about you but i dont even FLIPPING care about that nonsense
@@-._Radixerus_.- Relax kid!
@@-._Radixerus_.-Gotta censor those f-bombs in your pointless rant before mom grounds you off the computer, huh
I used to play PlayStation home as a kid and I used to play for hours just customizing my character. I was also 6 at the time of this, but I still remember how expansive the world was with all the houses and shopping centers and other things the game had.
I remember back when I was maybe 10 or 11 when PlayStation home was out. At the time I just thought it was cool to get kinda of a wee world feeling of alot of advertisements of games into one virtual hang out place. All I knew as a kid was dress up get funny dancing moves and have wings I miss this era of PlayStation 3 back then it brought back soo many memories and I thank you for visiting one of my childhood games I really
Hope this game does come back alive soon or try to restore it as if it was really janky but very nostalgic for my childhood! Never forget my ps name at the time “ TheRealDeadlox “ 😂
Total Miner is actually still around today! It has a Steam version, and the devs are still updating the game (be it not super consistently); it's kind of crazy to think about. I was a massive fan of Total Miner when I was a kid and have lots of nostalgia for the game today. I sometimes pull up the Steam version to get a little nostalgia hit for about 30 minutes.
Not sure if anyone has brought this up yet, but one of my favorite game(s) to play on my xbox were Castleminer and Castleminer Z. Something about playing a clone of minecraft as my xbox avatar, and shooting a dragon with a laser gun, just felt really fun. The best part was when you'd manage to find people to play with, or get your friends to play with you. I still have fond memories of making a "hotel" on the spawn tower with an old friend, and it's memories like that which made me decide to buy Castleminer Z on steam.
TL;DR Castleminer Z is a fun minecraft clone. Castleminer not so much, since it was essentially just creative mode and nothing else.
i have distinct memories of watching my brother play castleminer z with his friends on xbox live. that dragon was fucking sick. glad to see someone else actually talk about it for once
I love ratlobber’s intros because they are so unique and has that 70’s vibe or something
I loved the acknowledgment you included for the mayor of that virtual town. Touching how niche communities like that honor their lost members.
Also I was just in Peoria IL and didn't see a PS3, and trust me I looked (but only in the immediate area around Hoops). I feel a little cheated.
Someone else must have gotten it first.
I live down the street on Main. so freaking weird that he chose this specific city
So I originally got my degrees in History and Library Science, but wound up doing IT, but between you and Majuular, now now Redlyne who I'll check out later, it's really cool to see people doing this kind of video game archiving/excavation. Because of how fast the tech industry races to be bigger and better all the time, stuff like this abandonware is just neat to see, like a museum exhibit.
Another good channel is MAWK3 if you're more into the console side of things, he mostly covers online games from the 6th and 7th gen console era.
Great vid, love the cybertown segment and respect shown to Flyby especially.
Seeing Cybertown brought me back! Was a citizen back in the day and couldn't remember the name of it for years! Thanks for covering it :D
I can still remember pshome vividly, doing out of bounds glitches as a lil kid, making my friends jealous and mad that i didnt tell em, and now seeing those worlds completely dead is such a painful thing to see
Rat im binging your videos and I just wanna say how much I love the aesthetic or your title and transition scenes. It hits be right where G4/TechTV used to live and I appreciate that style immensely.
Ratlobber has gotta be my favorite UA-camr now. His content is exactly what i want and more every time he posts
Praying that you make some sort of part 2 of this video because this was hell of a nostalgia trip and I loved imagining how these worlds felt when they were still active. The Flyby part got me really emotional. For the next one you could probably do games like Whirled or Microsoft's V-Chat.
I really wish I could recreate your intros for an edit im working on... they really hit home with the sense of nostalgia im looking for.
Man, seeing Total Miner Forge again brought back some memories. I loved building stuff in the creative mode, which carried over to my Minecraft playing. Once had a guy join my server late at night when I was alone. He set up a little challenge and said "first person to destroy this column of blocks wins. Winner chooses a prize." I agreed, and he won. He wanted me to give him admin status. Being a naïve teenager, I did just that. What did he do? Showed me some great tricks to use certain building blocks for other purposes, and showed me how to use the command blocks.
His advice helped me build better things in that game, and later, in Minecraft. Now, I have Minecraft maps with sprawling cities, cozy little townships, and sail ships in the harbours. All because of one random stranger. I can't remember his name or username, but I'll always be grateful.
Please do more of these! Even if it is games redyne had done on his channel. Because you spent more time in each one it feels like. Id love a video sereies that dedicates more time to each dead game and its oddities
will consider it :)
Apoc and Total Miner was a big blast from the past for me. Glad to see I wasn't the only one wanting a DayZ and Minecraft experience back then. Total Miner was a fun time sink back then and definitely left it's mark in my memory.
It gives me a sort of nostalgic feeling to see this. I have done this kind of things myself with old games i used to play. Seeing places with abundant life in the past, now desolated...It makes me sad but also makes me realize how nothing is eternal.
I love when Ratlobber stuffs his content on our mouth and fills it with creativity❤
bro 💀
Overused joke
@@ratlobberi feel like micheal from gta 5
not one original thought in y'all heads
cyberspace looks so much like a liminal space / weirdcore it’s awesome
i love that your playstation home character was literally just jschlatt
This is a concept that's intrigued me since the early 2000. I love dead games.
Total Miner Forge is actually available on PC these days and it's still wonderfully nostalgic.
These videos always make me think of playstation home. Would be interesting to see again if we could. Hardly remember much about it but some fond memories
Did you watch the whole video? 😅
the mountain dew jacket fucking killed me 💀nice video one of your best
he does look so cool though
Never thought I'd see ApocZ again. I vaguely remember playing that game when I was younger and it feels like a fever dream. Thanks for reminding me of it lol.
My favorite aesthetic of any channel! Probably because we seem to have had similar childhoods growing up on gmod although the vibe is more old internet than gmod focused, you are very talented man keep it up!
I really liked both looks at Cybertown and PlayStation Home. Cybertown for the 90s vibes that I do remember from back in the day, though having never played Cybertown. PS Home, as someone who was also a X360 guy and jealous of it, was nice to get a view of, and I kinda liked the vibes there as well. Made me feel like going for a visit myself.
ps home for me was the biggest thing and what i went to after a long gaming session just to chill and just meet new people
I used to go to "The Playground" most of the time because its small and very crowded with people most of the time especially at the roofs, when i discovered that there was a community to revive it i was SUPER happy and thrilled, I couldnt stop thinking about going there just to see The Playground one more time just to remember the good old days.
Posted only 4 days ago? Guess I'll see you in Peoria my friend!
Jokes aside this is a great video. As someone who really enjoys VRChat the stuff about Cybertown strikes a chord as they fill very similar niches a few decades apart. Neat to see people are still trying to keep it alive and I appreciate the commitment to such a platform.
to go back to pshome days would be everything
I had a prison RP server in Total Miner that was on the top of the list for weeks, you could earn your freedom and I built houses for people who did and gave them jobs in the town.
There were multiple ways to get out, but my favorite was a PvP arena that I memorized a handful of layouts I could speed build between matches.
Really fun memories with that game before Minecraft.
seeing toro in the ps home level was such a nostalgia trip. I only used ps home once, and I couldn't figure it out at all so I just kept playing uncharted 3 death-match like a dunce
There's something borderline post-apocalyptic about these servers that kind of gives me an eerie feeling
bro i remember playing a game called castle miner z in the xbox 360 it was a weird game but was good it basically was minecraft but "survival horror" you got guns the farther you went from spawn enemies will get harder, there was some kind of nether if you dig too deep, it was nice i think they eventualy even did a steam release
i remember that game!
I loved Total Miner Forge and Castle Miner Z. Bought it because I wanted Minecraft haha. One thing I remember was that Total Miner had these characters that you could place and I'd create towns with them since I didn't really play online at that point.
All i can think about now is how eerie that lonesome flaming garbage can in Cyberhood is and how it's animation just keeps looping year after year with no one around to see it.
These are the observations I like to see. Someone made that looping fire once upon a time and now they've probably long forgotten it existed. It's times like these that I wonder "what is that person doing right now?"
@@Echidneysthey've upgraded to _real_ fire~
lmao this made me laugh @@WxIxLxLxIxAxMxS
I hear Ridge Racer in the background, i just give it a thumbs up, but i stayed for the content, didn't knew your work and i'll sub for more :)
Ridgeeee Racerrrr!
HOLY SHIT RATLOBBER THANK YOU! I would've never found total miner forge if not for this video! Good god I remember that game so fondly.... this made my day!
no problem brah
don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
I will never forget the memories I made on CS:S servers... I miss dedicated servers so much. matchmaking was a mistake.
I love your intros and aesthetic so much. Super jealous honestly
The cat sign at 32:51 says something like "Weekly Toro Station Notice", "Termination of Service", and the text with the link is just mentioning visiting that website.
The sign with the dog says something like "When you really fall in love with someone, your mind becomes filled with things like that person's neck and the nape of their neck."
dude seeing ApocZ brought back so many memories holy shit, I remember using a sniper to stare at zombies from far away because if there was a horde it would be this shitty 2D texture and they would wave in the wind like some minecraft shader grass lmao.
I miss Playstation Home so much. I had tons of fun hanging out in the main hib area, with my UFO costume, jamming to music and chatting. Every once in a while going to a specific world and playing mini games. Such a fantastic concept. When I think of the metaverse, that's what comes to mind.
rip FlyBy the legend
I literally played PS Home maybe two times just because, I didn't even know that it existed. The last time I played it was LITERALLY the day before they had shut it down. There was actually a lot of people online and playing it.
From now on whenever I put an F in chat to pay my respects, that F will stand for my boy Flyby.
Good stuff! I remember playing some playstation home on my grandmas ps3. Good times
seeing that rp map in 9 made me tear up a bit. god i miss the old source days
27:23 is just Jschlatt lmao. awesome video
tip for garrys mod 9:when it is 12:05 on a weekend people with be playing (or after it after 12:05 it will still be active on a weekend day)
What a fun throwback video to some of the old games I remember playing in highschool. I was the xbox kid in my friend group where my buddy had a ps3, I remember thinking 360 was cooler because of all the indie games that let you use your avatar in them, looking back there was a ton of shovel ware in it but there were some fun titles regardless.
24:21 LBP MUSIC JUMPSCARE
Seeing those cybertown messages really hits the heart. Some never came back after that thanksgiving.
I remember playing ApocZ back on my old xbox with a friend.
We was dumb kids not knowing what the hell we was doing, but it was good memories non the less
the song that was played at 3:25 was so nostalgic for me, its called "taking the hobbits to isengard" i remember back in the day when this was played a lot in some games i used to play and it was the best
This is so funny, I actually just sold an xbox 360 the day before this video came out
Very cool and well done video. Had fun traveling along with you on this adventure. Thank you!
Would love a part 2 of your dead online game adventures
i was little during the huge hayday of gmod, i was never able to afford a pc so i only had second hand experience of everything gmod via youtube, good times, good times
Like everyone else here I love your editing. Great job
Hey man, these videos are captivating. I had senses of nostalgia, lonelyness, weirdness, and also laughed several times. Subbed!!
Jschlatt in playstation home be like: