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Japan is in panic mode now. They have 5 cities in lockdown after thousands of new covid findings. Also they bar all foreigners from entering Japan for a month or more.
This sounds like the plot of a Christmas movie. Think about it, “ A young man rediscovers a precious childhood game of his, presumed lost for over a decade, has been found, only to find that it may soon be taken from him again; this time permanently. His only hope is to convince the game’s original creator to save it, and make it available to the public. But can a Christmas miracle save this little snowman?” Add in some forced drama between the team, and you’ve got “Chubby’s Special Christmas: Coming this holiday season”
At this point, Nick could find the Ark of the Covenant, a living sasquatch, and all the dads who went to buy cigarettes with his wonderful talents of finding those things once thought lost forever.
The fact that in a 40 min videos, I learned the existence of a game, felt nostalgia for it even though I never played it, got so worked up to the fact that it was going to dissapear forever and then got very emotional when the dev team said they where going to rerelease the game from scratch tells you a lot about the power of this single man and his videos
It's not actually going to disappear though. It will continue to work on Flashpoint. Nick was wrong about how Flashpoint works, they have their own methods of making games like this work, which were apparently blocked by the kill switch thing he used. So, yeah, it will work forever with Flashpoint.
@@babble-on I can't find what you're talking about, but if its on cafepress it may not be official. Anyone can set up a cafepress store and like redbubble, its super easy to sell copyright infringing products.
one of these times nick is going to find out, that the person that leaves clues for him in random places on the internet is actually him from the future.
The devs seem super wholesome. Like how many devs are so proud of their simple flash game to hang the full levels on their walls? AAA companies be trying to sell a product and merch related to the product while these wholesome guys just printed the levels out for themselves.
Glimpses of one's childhood are so precious. People don't realize just how important are the formative years and often dismiss children for their ignorance, when it's children who hold so much potential. If you remember something from your childhood like this, hold on to it and never let it go. Pursue it, keep dreaming on it. I'm so touched by Nick's stories, not only because he becomes so passionate about the various themes he covers in his videos, but because it's so genuine, so childlike in the best way. All of his adventures and stories are whimsical and majestic. He makes his dreams come true and cares about the darkest stuff on the internet. Stuff a few like become loved by millions. Thanks for bringing so much to the light.
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no UA-camr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear pea
I agree, plus the way he goes about editing the videos makes it so enjoyable to watch and fun to be watching from start to finish, with each video I feel like clicking on another, and my issue is, I've already seen the others xDDD so I just have to patiently wait for each video.
@@ScreamingLikeABaby He basically prevented it from ever being lost. If the server it was hosted on shut down for any reason, there would be no way to play it ever again.
@@shan8130 The most commonly used version of Flashpoint, Flashpoint Infinity, downloads the game from Flashpoint's own servers. However, once you've already downloaded the assets, then you can play it offline. This means that Flashpoint already had the original game archived. There's also Flashpoint Ultimate, which downloads all the games its ever archived onto your hard drive
I’m so happy for himmm he’s doing so many great things and he’s fulfilling his dreams and having fun! I bet this feels so fulfilling and so exciting for himmm and I get that feeling whenever I play games like Pokémon
He literally unlocked a memory of mine I didn‘t even know of. And seeing this game getting a remaster just now... is like the perfect opportunity to try this game, I forgot, again! :)
Can we take a second to appreciate “do people care about it and enjoy it? Then I’m fine with it.” It’s so beautiful to see a game dev that actively wants their projects to give joy to others.
Nick is literally turning into a video game restorationist hero. I love the idea of permanently preserving nostalgic games for re-living memories, it’s like seeing your relative wake up from a coma
How? Just how does Nick always get this deep? Always impressed. Says to himself, hey I miss this game from my childhood and literally wills it back into existence.
Because he always tries to make connections. Had he not talked to the programmers of snowdriftland the game definitely would've pretty much disappeared. But nick seems to always be persistent when it comes to trying to make connections and finding or preserving any lost media. It would be nice if more people tried to dig and search as deep as nick, and few other lost media search tubers (such as kenny lauderdale, notelu, and red mango. {or his youtube name mangomation} All of whom have been helping find obscure anime) in some cases all it takes is asking the right person. Whether they were someone who worked closely on whichever media or if they're someone who does actually have a rare copy of something such as a dvd, game disk/cartridge, or vhs. Other times it takes more work to actually search but persistence *is* key. Too many people give up just because of a search taking longer than they want. And that's how media becomes lost forever.
Nick is literally the king of reviving old and otherwise dead games. First Monkey Ball, then McDonalds and now this. For real we need to celebrate this man and what he's done for the videogame community as a whole.
I wouldn’t call super monkey ball “dead”, he just discovered a big mystery between the community, which is still a huge accomplishment. The one I would say he revived is Rusty’s real deal baseball
@@itzhack0861 Nah, he literally revived the series. The series was dead for a good while with no new games except that strange remake, but now they're making a new one, and even the monkey ball announcer VA himself said that Nick was the one who 'lit the fire of interest'.
I'm not sure how it works, but Nick is able to get me to sit through 30+min videos on topics and games I never heard of or cared about, and begin to care to top it all off
Hey, everyone! Quick correction: During the section discussing the Flashpoint version of Mission in Snowdriftland, I mistakenly concluded that the Flashpoint version of MiS still tries to download the game from the original ExtraToxic servers. I was wrong about that: it turns out that Flashpoint backed up not only the original .SWF, but the level files, too - and the Flashpoint Infinity version actually points to a page on Flashpoint's own servers that has all the stages backed up! That's why, in the video, it didn't work when I disconnected my internet: the Flashpoint Infinity version of MiS was still trying and failing to download the stages - but it was trying to grab them from Flashpoint's servers, *NOT* ExtraToxic's. This is great, because it means the stages themselves are actually very safely preserved by Flashpoint. (Especially cool: once you've downloaded a stage once in the Flashpoint Infinity version of MiS, the level is saved locally and is, from that point on, playable completely offline!) TLDR: the Flashpoint version is actually WAY more robust than I thought, and the original version of Mission in Snowdriftland has officially been safely preserved. Sorry about the error!
That's great news, but it's still a hugely positive thing that ExtraToxic is doing the remaster and breathing new life into the IP. A lot more people will get to experience it on Steam. I really hope it does well.
FFS I've been on a binge of these videos ever since stumbling on to this channel last night and I can't tell you the amount times you've made me feel. With what you do, you truly are a special person.
If you'd like to play Mission in Snowdriftland in your browser, a fan named Minerscale is now hosting a mirror of the original game! You can play it here: snowdriftland.live/
the pandemic and the way interviews are done now make everything so much more real and entertaining.. i cant explain why. people are just more relaxed and its more like a conversation than an interview. i love it.
I dont understand how nick is able to write two emails, and get the attention of the big game dev, while it takes me ten emails to tell my literacy teacher to tell me the homework.
Well, to be fair, your teacher must receive loads of emails from your classmate and has struggle answering to all of them, even sometimes forgetting some... (I'm a teacher, we are flawed, sorry :D) But here these game creators receive an email from someone who is genuinely interested in one of their first major games, one that disappeared and they believed no one care about anymore. It's obvious that they are really happy to talk about it again, they feel that they didn't work for nothing more than a decade ago, so I'm quite sure they were very happy to answer as soon as they could, however big they are today! It's always rewarding to feel that your work had some impact on someone, especially when you think no one cared anymore :)
It's not actually going to disappear though. It will continue to work on Flashpoint. Nick was wrong about how Flashpoint works, they have their own methods of making games like this work, which were apparently blocked by the kill switch thing he used. So, yeah, it will work forever with Flashpoint.
You put into words what I've been thinking after seeing the remastered day of the tentacle game - we know it never looked this good, but this is how we remember it. It's like they reached into my brain & created it the way I remembered it
Things like this make me think about ....just the impact we have on each other Some small group of people made a little game It impacts some kids lives so much that one day one kid reaches out a decade later The love he felt for the game impacts the creators so much the decide to bring it back And now the those same kids who loved this game so much all those years ago get to see it get revived Ya....humans are pretty cool sometimes
I'm relatively young. I have no memories of most of the things you talk about. But I get major anxiety at the thought of losing something forever. I want things to be remembered. And though i have no nostalgia for any of the things you cover, watching you recover them makes me feel like I haven't missed a thing, that I've been there playing these games since the day they debuted. Thank you.
I have been binging your preservation videos, and you genuinely seem like such a cool person. Out of the blue, you had a passing thought about an old-school Flash game, and ended up inspiring the creators to remaster it! You are phenomenal, and you Charisma stat is ridiculous! Stay that way.
@@avantail It’s a game studio, they most likely have posters of every game they’ve made, that’s why, also I doubt they’ve seen much about how much people wanted the games back, before Nick contacted them
I was up until 5 AM last night and came across this video and your channel while I was in bed. I've watched a dozen videos since then, and I found you at the perfect time, since the remaster of this game comes out on steam tomorrow. I will be buying it. Thanks for a great video Nick
I just spent 40 minutes watching a video about a game I’ve never heard of and couldn’t care less about...and I enjoyed every minute of it. You love these games and it really shows.
Absolutely fantastic job there Nick, really proud to have you as part of our community. Watch the vid and went right onto steam and added it to my wishlist. Im so grateful for your work in game preservation. Keep up the awesome work!
So having run out of options, i booked plane tickets to snowdriftland to try and convince the characters to come back to the real world and re-enact the entire game so we could film it
This video is great and all, but I can’t forgive Nick for skipping past snowflakes throughout the entirety of the video. My completionist is killing me right now.
Have you ever heard of the lost old Pokemon flash game called 'Pokemon Garden'? It came out just before the gen 4 games and only in Japan, I only found out like a few months ago of its existence. There is someone trying to recreate the game but I haven't found updates for a while now. It's probably no use now anyway due to flash being discontinued and all. EDIT: I've been made aware that flash might still continue to work on older browser versions. So maybe there is still a point.
never played this in my life but damn even I feel so happy and nostalgic. But honestly those devs must be so happy to know someone actually cared so much for a game they made a long time ago that is supposed to be forgotten. So wholesome
the day there is a game that deserves to be saved and Nick doesn't save it, no one will be able to miss that game, there will be people who remember it, but most likely no one will think of it, that game will just sit in a spaceless void, from where it will not escape...
This is, even though I'm watching this 2021 already, the best Christmas gift I could have ever asked for now. I never played the original game, it came out when I was practically a baby. I don't have much personal interest in platformers, but this video, this story, is frankly beautiful. You artistically poured your heart out about this childhood, nostalgic game in this video and got the equally as nostalgic developers involved too to share a sweet and miraculous story about a precious game you preserved. I don't love this because of me, I love it because of everyone involved. It must have been the best Christmas for you guys and that's what makes me so happy. I love hearing people's stories like this, it unfolded perfectly.
Sir, you are incredible. You reignited this passion of theirs. You brought this game back to life. I will be playing this game when it comes out this year.
I love that there are actual internet/game historians who are like “these old mysteries shall remain unsolved :(“ and then this random mad lad is like “and i took that personally” because he’s got a thing for nostalgia
no nick made a mistake it doesn’t download from extratoxic’s servers, it downloads it from flashpoint’s servers, so the game has been preserved. Bluemaxima (the creator of flashpoint) made a video about it
This does hold true for everything else that worked in the same way - using the sites hosting the SWF as a platform to then re-load the files from your own company server.
I was 10 when this game disappeared for the last time in 2010. I never played it but I remember it as if I did. I got literal nostalgia waves from this video and I can't wait to add this game to my steam library. Long live Chubby Snowman.
Imagine if this game becomes a franchise of itself, with sequels, merch, bonus content, lore... All directed by these guys! Seriously I can't imagine something as amazing as this happening to this game!
I can’t even imagine how appreciated those game devs must feel to meet someone and even many more people that still enjoy this little game they put their passion into! This was so heartwarming to watch 🥺
Idk why but when you said they were literally going to remaster it I felt just so happy. I never played this flash game, but just the fact that you made possibly to get in contact with the devs of this tiny flash game and make them get the idea of remastering so the new generations could have it to play, it's all just so wonderful, this is what internet was made for damnit
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Woah
Did you know: I'm the 2end reply ever!
Dude, I am so excited for this game. Never thought I could get a flash game on steam that I used to play when I was 10yrs old.
4th reply woo
Just felt I wanna watch this video and sure enough you decided on commenting in it as well
the lost media life-giver
This is Nick's job now
gaming
gaming 2
I like your memes
Yes. This is Nick’s job.
It’s amazing how much he does to save games like this one. And he didn’t even have to fly to Japan.
He definitely thought about it, though
Or get it out of Japan
Japan is in panic mode now. They have 5 cities in lockdown after thousands of new covid findings. Also they bar all foreigners from entering Japan for a month or more.
ah yes mcdonalds
@@kos2919 Didn't stop him from saving the McDonalds game...
This man really is the Indiana Jones of semi obscure media.
IT BELONGS IN A VIDEO ESSAY
true
Yeah...
Nick Robinson: Raiders of the Lost Game
When there's something lost, inquire Nick 'bout it
(but make sure it's interesting enough)
shoutout to P-P for starting this, just imagine if that link was never found
Thanks pp
P-P has biggest pp
P-P truly dropped this 👑
@@othersideguy16 yEs
@@othersideguy16 My childhood self definitely laughed at this.
*Nick calls*
Random outsourcing company: Oh not this guy again.
Boss: No wait, I see opportunity.
Ironically, the team "Extra Toxic" honestly seems like anything but
Unlike some ....
@@noobler8394 and then a team "not toxic" is the most toxic team ever
@@awesomestuff9715
that’s just Twitter
@@thatoneguy9582 bruh
@@maxblusky911 hey hey
He's got a point
This man takes "Would you like to save your game?" to a whole new level.
this is so fucking underrated
666 likes :O
@@qsyki shut up
@@emmetlorenz4393 i only sent 1 reply but ok bro
@@qsyki go have ADHD somewhere else
My man's convinced a dev to make a Steam remaster of a 14 year-old game. Very cool indeed!
Really felt like a "They pulled me back in for one last job" - moment.
@@dermathze700 that actually happen in McDonald's ds video which is hilarious
I love how this series inexplicably keeps leading to obscure German developers/modders, who turn out to be super helpful nice guys.
It appears that germany is a fisherman, bait is games and the fish is him
That's what we are. :3
us germans r nice asf
@@okidgaf7643 boy that's probably a hard concept to get across with the past reputation and all
@@phoenixgoss55 You really didn't need to say that.
Why does Nick revitalise everything he touches. He literally saved this game
Because he's a UA-camr with a sizable following. Plain and simple.
now he needs to save kill switch
Now there's 2 more games I know
Tremulous and No heroes allowed
are you complaining about him saving stuff
@@bobkinect5254 i think it’s more disbelief and surprise, its not a bad thing tho!!
For a flash game, it's pretty damn impressive for it's time.
i strongly agree!
You do be right though
@@babylonian yes
It still it
@@babylonian YES
This sounds like the plot of a Christmas movie.
Think about it, “ A young man rediscovers a precious childhood game of his, presumed lost for over a decade, has been found, only to find that it may soon be taken from him again; this time permanently. His only hope is to convince the game’s original creator to save it, and make it available to the public. But can a Christmas miracle save this little snowman?” Add in some forced drama between the team, and you’ve got “Chubby’s Special Christmas: Coming this holiday season”
Not gonna lie, it's actually very similar to the plot of most of Hallmark's catalog.
@@Pluveus this could’ve been the plot of Jacksfilm’s Hallmark Christmas Movie YIAY if the stars aligned.
...How much you charge?
I would want to watch this ngl
“chubbys special christmas” lmao did him dirty
At this point, Nick could find the Ark of the Covenant, a living sasquatch, and all the dads who went to buy cigarettes with his wonderful talents of finding those things once thought lost forever.
And even find Atlantis
Spear of destiny
Ngl the dads who went to buy cigarettes hit me hard, once my mom left to get “milk” she came back though. With a cat.
Went to buy milk*
@@wellsilver3972 those too
The fact that in a 40 min videos, I learned the existence of a game, felt nostalgia for it even though I never played it, got so worked up to the fact that it was going to dissapear forever and then got very emotional when the dev team said they where going to rerelease the game from scratch tells you a lot about the power of this single man and his videos
That’s how I felt too 💯 I never heard of this game but now I want to buy it in 2021.
Lol I was only 1 month old in December of 2006 so I wouldn't know what this game is
It's not actually going to disappear though. It will continue to work on Flashpoint. Nick was wrong about how Flashpoint works, they have their own methods of making games like this work, which were apparently blocked by the kill switch thing he used. So, yeah, it will work forever with Flashpoint.
Omg same!!!! Made me wanna throw money at them to get it made. Kickstarter anyone???
seriously, same experience, by the end of the video i was on the brink of tears; the passion of this man _feels_ me with joy
Nick at 8 minutes: “and then the game disappeared forever”
me: checks to see how long the video is
fun fact: they still have merchandise for that game, the website is still up, the merch is still in stock :)
Now that you’ve said that, it won’t be for much longer
Do you have a link?
@@be_an_rm youtube won't let me post it, but you can look up cafepress and search for the game on there!
@@babble-on I can't find what you're talking about, but if its on cafepress it may not be official. Anyone can set up a cafepress store and like redbubble, its super easy to sell copyright infringing products.
Hmmmmm
Imagine getting him to be a spirit in smash ultimate.
He looks like Hakkun lol
Or a fighter in fraymakers
Onyx Fusion Yes
That would be pog.
Sprite
one of these times nick is going to find out, that the person that leaves clues for him in random places on the internet is actually him from the future.
Love this so much
This actually was really heartwarming to read for some reason
Woah
@@lolkayleen2757 ya, I said "aww" in my head and then realized "wtf why" lol
That has some real Steins;Gate vibes.
Broke: Geno for Smash
Woke: Chubby Snow for Smash
Stroke: Pepsiman for Smash
Bloke: The Queen for Smash
Choke: new super mario bros u deluxe switch cartridge (PAL version) for smash
YESSSSS!!! WE NEED CHUBBY SNOW IN SMASH!!!
@@fongyuinjing9756 Too OP, she'll never die
Nick: "there was an old obscure childhood game I loved that was going away, so I willed a HD Remaster into existence"
"Oh no"
"Anyways..."
Nick: ! merry Christmas. Here's a remaster of a long lost game
The devs seem super wholesome. Like how many devs are so proud of their simple flash game to hang the full levels on their walls? AAA companies be trying to sell a product and merch related to the product while these wholesome guys just printed the levels out for themselves.
Just because there's an industry, doesn't mean there are the artists, the smaller people making their games with their own heart and soul.
@@btf_flotsam478 I absolutely agree, this was heartwarming to watch ^w^
“Tip: Game running slow? Best played on Microsoft’s internet explorer”
Lol
That game aged poorly.
didn't age well
Lol
The irony.
That way, it'll be impossible to tell if it's the game or the browser that's slow.
Glimpses of one's childhood are so precious. People don't realize just how important are the formative years and often dismiss children for their ignorance, when it's children who hold so much potential. If you remember something from your childhood like this, hold on to it and never let it go. Pursue it, keep dreaming on it. I'm so touched by Nick's stories, not only because he becomes so passionate about the various themes he covers in his videos, but because it's so genuine, so childlike in the best way. All of his adventures and stories are whimsical and majestic. He makes his dreams come true and cares about the darkest stuff on the internet. Stuff a few like become loved by millions. Thanks for bringing so much to the light.
Then boi I have 2 games for u
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no UA-camr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear pea
@@AxxLAfriku Charisma.
I agree, plus the way he goes about editing the videos makes it so enjoyable to watch and fun to be watching from start to finish, with each video I feel like clicking on another, and my issue is, I've already seen the others xDDD so I just have to patiently wait for each video.
Jack's unfinished main pub what are the games?
this dude literally almost singlehandedly saved this game and is more then likely the main reason they revived it to begin with.
Flash point saved the game, not him
@@ScreamingLikeABaby He basically prevented it from ever being lost. If the server it was hosted on shut down for any reason, there would be no way to play it ever again.
@@shan8130 the levels are alredy stored in flash point, and anyone can download them
@@shan8130 it was all just a video to sell a game
@@shan8130 The most commonly used version of Flashpoint, Flashpoint Infinity, downloads the game from Flashpoint's own servers. However, once you've already downloaded the assets, then you can play it offline. This means that Flashpoint already had the original game archived.
There's also Flashpoint Ultimate, which downloads all the games its ever archived onto your hard drive
I like how Nick can make us care deeply about a game we've never heard about
I’m so happy for himmm he’s doing so many great things and he’s fulfilling his dreams and having fun! I bet this feels so fulfilling and so exciting for himmm and I get that feeling whenever I play games like Pokémon
Ikr and I am not sure how
He literally unlocked a memory of mine I didn‘t even know of. And seeing this game getting a remaster just now... is like the perfect opportunity to try this game, I forgot, again! :)
Can we take a second to appreciate “do people care about it and enjoy it? Then I’m fine with it.” It’s so beautiful to see a game dev that actively wants their projects to give joy to others.
Isnt that the point?
@@ylondes9927 yes, but unfortunately seeing a game now thats actually made for the players is starting to become a very rare occurrence
@@ylondes9927 Nintendo disagrees with that which is why we love hearing it
@@ylondes9927 well yes but actually no
I think devs mainly care, it’s execs that are focused more on making money.
Nick is literally turning into a video game restorationist hero. I love the idea of permanently preserving nostalgic games for re-living memories, it’s like seeing your relative wake up from a coma
"We're just obscure Flash games sir, we're meant to be expendable"
Nick: "Not to me."
Dang.
"This was just an advertisement with Domino's."
"NOT TO ME!!!"
Is this a clone wars quote omg
How? Just how does Nick always get this deep? Always impressed. Says to himself, hey I miss this game from my childhood and literally wills it back into existence.
Because he always tries to make connections. Had he not talked to the programmers of snowdriftland the game definitely would've pretty much disappeared. But nick seems to always be persistent when it comes to trying to make connections and finding or preserving any lost media. It would be nice if more people tried to dig and search as deep as nick, and few other lost media search tubers (such as kenny lauderdale, notelu, and red mango. {or his youtube name mangomation} All of whom have been helping find obscure anime) in some cases all it takes is asking the right person. Whether they were someone who worked closely on whichever media or if they're someone who does actually have a rare copy of something such as a dvd, game disk/cartridge, or vhs. Other times it takes more work to actually search but persistence *is* key. Too many people give up just because of a search taking longer than they want. And that's how media becomes lost forever.
from the look of it, email is nick's greatest tool when it comes to digging for info. email and skype.
There are probably many things he tries to recover but can't do it. He only posts his successes
@@shadowwwwwwwwwww he said skype, but that looked like discord....
@@arjix8738 the skype ringtone played so i just assumed.
Nick is literally the king of reviving old and otherwise dead games. First Monkey Ball, then McDonalds and now this. For real we need to celebrate this man and what he's done for the videogame community as a whole.
I wouldn’t call super monkey ball “dead”, he just discovered a big mystery between the community, which is still a huge accomplishment. The one I would say he revived is Rusty’s real deal baseball
@@itzhack0861 Nah, he literally revived the series. The series was dead for a good while with no new games except that strange remake, but now they're making a new one, and even the monkey ball announcer VA himself said that Nick was the one who 'lit the fire of interest'.
He even recovered lost Hatsune Miku songs
Well Monkey Ball was never really dead though
“Monkey ball dead”
It’s not dead. It’s just not for normies like you, lol
I'm not sure how it works, but Nick is able to get me to sit through 30+min videos on topics and games I never heard of or cared about, and begin to care to top it all off
dude same! i even bought the game on steam after watching this LOL
"So I booked a flight to Germany."
Where is your pfp from
@@timegear6322 Nichijou
“So I booked a flight to Antarctica and now I’m gonna freeze to death from frostbite. Whoops.”
So I booked a flight to japan. From there, I booked a flight to Germany.
Awww Sakamoto!! I love your pfp
"hello! yumi?"
"she is half japanese"
* pauses as he remembers going to japan to revive trivial yet important to him things *
"ah!"
Even in a video with almost zero connection to Japan (Nintendo is very briefly and not truly connected) there's still small traces. :')
Hey, everyone! Quick correction:
During the section discussing the Flashpoint version of Mission in Snowdriftland, I mistakenly concluded that the Flashpoint version of MiS still tries to download the game from the original ExtraToxic servers. I was wrong about that: it turns out that Flashpoint backed up not only the original .SWF, but the level files, too - and the Flashpoint Infinity version actually points to a page on Flashpoint's own servers that has all the stages backed up!
That's why, in the video, it didn't work when I disconnected my internet: the Flashpoint Infinity version of MiS was still trying and failing to download the stages - but it was trying to grab them from Flashpoint's servers, *NOT* ExtraToxic's. This is great, because it means the stages themselves are actually very safely preserved by Flashpoint. (Especially cool: once you've downloaded a stage once in the Flashpoint Infinity version of MiS, the level is saved locally and is, from that point on, playable completely offline!)
TLDR: the Flashpoint version is actually WAY more robust than I thought, and the original version of Mission in Snowdriftland has officially been safely preserved. Sorry about the error!
Thanks for admitting to your mistake.
You never see big UA-camrs do this stuff.
yay... maybe i shouldn't use Microsoft Edge to play the game anymore
That's great news, but it's still a hugely positive thing that ExtraToxic is doing the remaster and breathing new life into the IP. A lot more people will get to experience it on Steam. I really hope it does well.
Nice
FFS I've been on a binge of these videos ever since stumbling on to this channel last night and I can't tell you the amount times you've made me feel. With what you do, you truly are a special person.
If you'd like to play Mission in Snowdriftland in your browser, a fan named Minerscale is now hosting a mirror of the original game! You can play it here: snowdriftland.live/
Happy holidays
Does this work on mobile? Or is it still flash based?
I really wanna record a let's play of this 😄😄😄
@@Lunaero I clicked the link and its still flash based
*FLASH IS DYING!!!*
“Because we are GAMER, and we know what’s important.” Words to live by
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Moo
Ah~
I wouldn't be surprised if Nick finds the Malaysia airplane in the near future
By flying to japan
But.. but...pp is the one who found the link
@@-shakir5152 and he found pp's post
@@dl5498 fair enough
same
the pandemic and the way interviews are done now make everything so much more real and entertaining.. i cant explain why. people are just more relaxed and its more like a conversation than an interview. i love it.
I dont understand how nick is able to write two emails, and get the attention of the big game dev, while it takes me ten emails to tell my literacy teacher to tell me the homework.
because he has roughly 1 million UA-cam subscribers. Simple. Not to discredit his awesome work ethic and perseverance though.
@@prodjoshkta Yea that makes sense
Teachers don't get paid enough to check emails everyday lol
Well, to be fair, your teacher must receive loads of emails from your classmate and has struggle answering to all of them, even sometimes forgetting some... (I'm a teacher, we are flawed, sorry :D) But here these game creators receive an email from someone who is genuinely interested in one of their first major games, one that disappeared and they believed no one care about anymore. It's obvious that they are really happy to talk about it again, they feel that they didn't work for nothing more than a decade ago, so I'm quite sure they were very happy to answer as soon as they could, however big they are today! It's always rewarding to feel that your work had some impact on someone, especially when you think no one cared anymore :)
IKR
"Mission in Snowdriftland is getting its "Sonic CD" moment"
Only one's good and the other is Sonic CD
@@cooperartsmith HEY!
@@cooperartsmith Haha! True.
Am I the only one who enjoyed sonic cd? (Especially that amazing soundtrack)
@@Helicopter7 no people just say it’s bad because it doesn’t live up to the extremely ridiculous hype people give it
The way he almost singlehandedly reignites people's love for the things they created, developed, gave voices to, etc. is inspiring. Truly amazing
Ikr?
Crazy to think had he hadn’t gone done the rabbit hole, they wouldn’t have remade the game.
@@davidjulian8643depression
17:49
Someone flew to Japan, and this time it wasn't Nick!
"This time, it wouldn't be coming back."
- Nick, for the third time in this video
It's not actually going to disappear though. It will continue to work on Flashpoint. Nick was wrong about how Flashpoint works, they have their own methods of making games like this work, which were apparently blocked by the kill switch thing he used. So, yeah, it will work forever with Flashpoint.
"best performance with Microsoft Internet Explorer"
well that did not age well
legit has trouble running youtube nowadays
It doesn’t even support UA-cam anymore lmao
I was using Firefox that time.
It's acturally still true when it comes to flash content anyway .
Netscape Navigator ftw! \o/ :D
They should 100% make a kickstarter for this if they need money.
It is coming to steam as we speak
If they remake this game, it should include round 2 (the wii ware levels) as well as the original ones
People should suggest for Chubby Snow for Smash Ultimate.
@@ancientone5903 fuck imagine if Chubby got even a Spirit in Smash Ultimate. That’d be wild.
@@SethDanielSkits and more levels
You put into words what I've been thinking after seeing the remastered day of the tentacle game - we know it never looked this good, but this is how we remember it. It's like they reached into my brain & created it the way I remembered it
exactly! i think the 3DS version of Ocarina of Time is another great example of this
This dude literally made a remaster happen the absolute lad
Things like this make me think about ....just the impact we have on each other
Some small group of people made a little game
It impacts some kids lives so much that one day one kid reaches out a decade later
The love he felt for the game impacts the creators so much the decide to bring it back
And now the those same kids who loved this game so much all those years ago get to see it get revived
Ya....humans are pretty cool sometimes
*toontown 2.0 sad noises*
Can’t believe I’m crying over a lost promotional Flash game from 2006
Dude promotion games from that period were weirdly good. Anyone remember Nightfall Incident?
@@LimeyLassen *never have I thought I’d find someone... so... cultured*
Frosty the Snowman had to hurry on his way
But he waved goodbye, sayin', "Don't you cry
I'll be back again some day"
Yeah ads were good back then. When u beat a level you get ringtones and posters and screenshots of games you might want to play
I'm relatively young. I have no memories of most of the things you talk about. But I get major anxiety at the thought of losing something forever. I want things to be remembered. And though i have no nostalgia for any of the things you cover, watching you recover them makes me feel like I haven't missed a thing, that I've been there playing these games since the day they debuted. Thank you.
"I needed to stop the snowman from melting. So I bought a plane ticket and flew to the sun."
Deadly lazers
@@LuEz49 Not anymore, there’s a blanket
R.I.P Adobe Flash. Godspeed on your journey to the afterlife...
BlueMaxima's Flashpoint has collected some of the flash games. Around 500GB for to download all or lighter version with launcher itself.
How has he just launched another speedrunning community
Speedrunning flash games xD
@@angela.luntian eh, flash games in *general* are nothing new
He launched the McDonald’s eCDP speedrun community and now he’s also started the Mission in Snowdriftland speedrun community
Nick has powers beyond what our feeble human minds can comprehend
@@Carmisci yeah, that's what I said.
I have been binging your preservation videos, and you genuinely seem like such a cool person. Out of the blue, you had a passing thought about an old-school Flash game, and ended up inspiring the creators to remaster it! You are phenomenal, and you Charisma stat is ridiculous! Stay that way.
“So I booked a trip to Japan to find Nintendo’s forgotten mascot”
*to german
@@Feiku *germany
Nick will do everything to achieve something, what an absolute madman
It not even owned by nintendo
Imagine if the snowdriftland link from ExtraToxic was a rickroll link.
i wish.
I was expecting it to be some sort of virus. Luckily it wasn't.
I THOUGHT THAT TOO
100% expected that.
@@FireflyOnyx i mean, the spriters resource community doesn't do that
Nick is now directly responsible for bringing this game back, as they most likely would not have thought about it at all had he not contacted them.
Totally true
they had posters up homie, he was just the boost of how much people wanted it.
@@avantail It’s a game studio, they most likely have posters of every game they’ve made, that’s why, also I doubt they’ve seen much about how much people wanted the games back, before Nick contacted them
they wont get a better advert for it than this, either.
I was up until 5 AM last night and came across this video and your channel while I was in bed. I've watched a dozen videos since then, and I found you at the perfect time, since the remaster of this game comes out on steam tomorrow. I will be buying it. Thanks for a great video Nick
:’) enjoy
Mission in snowdriftland be like:
“Did you die?”
“Sadly yes, but I lived!”
Hello, I am also a toucan looking to the right.
I have never cringed so much before reading 1 *WORD*
@@tocotoucan7304 nice to meet you other toucan
Well yes, but actually no
And then I died again, but I still live!
Between the McDonalds and the Snowdriftland episodes being so close together, Nick’s life is like a constant, nerdy movie franchise. I love it
"Wake the fuck up Snowdriftland, we have an Internet to burn" - Nick Robinson, 2077
CyberSnowland 2077
@@azku4180 correct!
Nick out here livin in 2077! Only the woke live in 2077.
@@azku4180 Yooo kinda same name
I just spent 40 minutes watching a video about a game I’ve never heard of and couldn’t care less about...and I enjoyed every minute of it. You love these games and it really shows.
You can tell this game was actually made in 2006 from the tip.
"Tip: Game running slow? Best played on Microsoft's internet explorer"
literally said this exact thing to my friend when i played it
I think they mean:"Running fast? Slowly played on microsofts internet explorer"
-salesman voice- Is your game running too fast for you? Try Internet Explorer.
Lmao
@@soullesstomato1669
-bro that voice was on point-
grandma approved
thank you grandma
merry christmas grandma
Grandma = blessed
@@babylonian merry Christmas Nick, and have some cookies 🍪🍪🍪 :)
@@fartbasket92 based grandma
Petition for Mission in Snowdriftland Speedruns
Already is lol
Deadass just speedrunning the month of december
don't need to petition. you just do one
Absolutely fantastic job there Nick, really proud to have you as part of our community. Watch the vid and went right onto steam and added it to my wishlist. Im so grateful for your work in game preservation. Keep up the awesome work!
Nick: Hey Steve can I play Mission In Snow Drift Land again? I loved it as a kid.
Steve: *Makes 60fps remaster*
Nick: :0
I wish Nintendo was like that
I'm surprised he didnt book a flight to germany, then again, CURRENT WORLD EVENT.
TBH one of the biggest tragedies of the year is the lack of absurd travels in Nick Robinson's videos.
Man if he actually flew here I would have died to meet him
literally
Corona Kirbu
the way he was building up the email's I actually thought he was gonna go
This guy's basically a human google. He knows almost anything that almost nobody knows or never thought about
So true
Well he found a charcter that didnt have any results in Google so he is a better Nintendo encyclopedia. XD
@@JustJory 𝕪𝕖𝕡
Wow, not only did you singlehandedly save this game from extinction, you also sparked a remastered version! Well done
So having run out of options, i booked plane tickets to snowdriftland to try and convince the characters to come back to the real world and re-enact the entire game so we could film it
This video is great and all, but I can’t forgive Nick for skipping past snowflakes throughout the entirety of the video. My completionist is killing me right now.
Guess you'll have to buy the game and do it yourself!
@@MudakTheMultiplier "Buy?" The game is free
@@ニンテン_ヨッシー they were talking about the steam port most likely
@@Yumegipsu Oh yea
Game: is dying
Nick Robinson: *so you have chosen life*
Yes
Exactly.
Don't Read More!
Okay this is soooo wholesome!!! I feel like Nick really brought a life changing project back into Steve’s life!
"You were meant to disappear and never be a serious challenger to Mario."
*THIS VIDEO GOES TO SHOW HOW MUCH LIFE IS CRUEL, UNFAIR, AND UNJUST*
Where is this said
IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE!!!! QUA- QUACK achoo!
Nick 3 years later: today we’re going to be curing cancer so I emailed god
If only it was that easy....
So I booked a flight to Japan to hopefully talk to the devs-
and then God agreed to make a 4k remastered version of real life without cancer in it
_But the story didn't end there; as it turns out, I'm Jesus_
Don't forget MrBeast helping him out
“Tip: Game too slow? Best performance with Microsoft Internet Explorer.”
Hahahaha WHAT
Yes
ha ha, what
before google chrome, internet explorer was actually the go-to browser
@@martin0499 that would be firefox, IE was just popular among moms
@@aprofondir firefox is a name I hadn't heard in a long time
This is a really dope video dude. You literally just avoided a timeline where this game died out completely.
Porting this to switch would be like the kids going to stay at their uncle's for another weekend
Well we all know what happens when Nick talks about obscure Nintendo things
**pappy van poodle flashbacks**
Have you ever heard of the lost old Pokemon flash game called 'Pokemon Garden'? It came out just before the gen 4 games and only in Japan, I only found out like a few months ago of its existence. There is someone trying to recreate the game but I haven't found updates for a while now. It's probably no use now anyway due to flash being discontinued and all.
EDIT: I've been made aware that flash might still continue to work on older browser versions. So maybe there is still a point.
I think Nick should see this.
Just because flash is discontinued doesn't mean you can't play flash games. Just that modern browsers won't support it.
@@aprofondir so a downgrade will support it?
@@Dojoge69 yup
@@stayskeptic3923 BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is trying to salvage flash games without older browsers
never played this in my life but damn even I feel so happy and nostalgic. But honestly those devs must be so happy to know someone actually cared so much for a game they made a long time ago that is supposed to be forgotten. So wholesome
One day he's gonna not be able to save a game and we're all gonna cry
Nick: So I traveled at relativistic velocity to travel back to 2003 in order to see if I could steal a copy and get it to the future.
the day there is a game that deserves to be saved and Nick doesn't save it, no one will be able to miss that game, there will be people who remember it, but most likely no one will think of it, that game will just sit in a spaceless void, from where it will not escape...
11:04 "Could it really be so simple?"
**looks at time left in the video**
It appears to *not* really have been that simple.
This is, even though I'm watching this 2021 already, the best Christmas gift I could have ever asked for now. I never played the original game, it came out when I was practically a baby. I don't have much personal interest in platformers, but this video, this story, is frankly beautiful.
You artistically poured your heart out about this childhood, nostalgic game in this video and got the equally as nostalgic developers involved too to share a sweet and miraculous story about a precious game you preserved. I don't love this because of me, I love it because of everyone involved. It must have been the best Christmas for you guys and that's what makes me so happy. I love hearing people's stories like this, it unfolded perfectly.
it came out when I was still inside my moms stomach
Sir, you are incredible. You reignited this passion of theirs. You brought this game back to life.
I will be playing this game when it comes out this year.
I love that there are actual internet/game historians who are like “these old mysteries shall remain unsolved :(“ and then this random mad lad is like “and i took that personally” because he’s got a thing for nostalgia
That part which it was like “almost as if it was connecting to the internet” scared me then I realized I didn’t actually know what was bad about that
Same
Like my heart dropped even tho I had no idea what that actually meant
What do you mean?
no nick made a mistake it doesn’t download from extratoxic’s servers, it downloads it from flashpoint’s servers, so the game has been preserved. Bluemaxima (the creator of flashpoint) made a video about it
This does hold true for everything else that worked in the same way - using the sites hosting the SWF as a platform to then re-load the files from your own company server.
@@davidv2002 it still means that the game is dependent on flashpoint's servers. It is not completely safe and cannot be played standalone.
Nick, the Messiah of old things nobody cared about, has risen with something didn't know i cared about up until this very moment
I've rarely seen a channel with such good production quality and storytelling on youtube. You rock!
I expected his daughter to just start explaining everything for him afterwards.
I was 10 when this game disappeared for the last time in 2010. I never played it but I remember it as if I did. I got literal nostalgia waves from this video and I can't wait to add this game to my steam library. Long live Chubby Snowman.
Why wait when you can play the original 2006 version in Flashpoint right now?
Merry Christmas!
Imagine if this game becomes a franchise of itself, with sequels, merch, bonus content, lore... All directed by these guys! Seriously I can't imagine something as amazing as this happening to this game!
It needs lore, i wanna now what is chubby doing, why is he doing it and how he came to life
@@ーテイル Samee! Things about his world, enemies or heck even allies. There are so many possibilities!
Chubby Snow for Smash
Nah, leave it where it is
@@Northbirdy Heck yea!
I’m watching this and I’m somehow getting nostalgia for a game I’ve just now found out about and never played.
I can’t even imagine how appreciated those game devs must feel to meet someone and even many more people that still enjoy this little game they put their passion into!
This was so heartwarming to watch 🥺
7:33 "The game once again vanished, this time, for good"
Nonono, there are still 30 minutes left
No we have until the end of this year.
I swear to god, Nick is just the main character of our lives
Nick is like out here being extra
@@katebradley9306 The best type of extra
What
We're background characters in his.
Idk why but when you said they were literally going to remaster it I felt just so happy. I never played this flash game, but just the fact that you made possibly to get in contact with the devs of this tiny flash game and make them get the idea of remastering so the new generations could have it to play, it's all just so wonderful, this is what internet was made for damnit