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I remember Playing those games wayy back when I was like 5 on my grandma's computer and i would get scared if I got that desert game wrong for some reason
I begged my mom to make my “favorite " purble place cake for my birthday: a yellow cake with white frosting, with the smiley face decoration in it. She made it for me (:
I remember playing Purble Place for hours on end, especially the cake minigame. I find it super creepy how there's pretty much little to no info on the game
Anyone remember a diner game with a conveyer belt and a wiener dog chef????? I swear I remember something like that but there’s nothing online about it
My mother actually invented Purble Place in an attempt to get in contact with her brother who she lost in the foster system. She was going to release a book about it but the publisher screwed her over smh...
@@CricketChirp99 idk if this is it but there was this one person who claimed they wrote My Immortal to find a brother she lost in the foster system (or something like that)
Media and fashion history isn't taken seriously and we lost so much of it due to lack of effort to save it. Absloutely agree, so nice to see people work so hard to save it. :)
I’m starting to get concerned about how many people rely on tech to archive information and memories, that shit is not as permanent as people think it is, it takes one bad virus to loose everything. I get worried that physical copies are going to the wayside for different things
i always thought the last game was to just make your own purble and always wondered why the game kept telling me my character was wrong when i went to say i was done
I used to just ignore the instructions and make the purble how i wanted despite knowing what the game was supposed to be, and then I would start over once it said I was wrong and repeat for hours.
i remember being convinced that there were secret rooms and levels in this game. especially the cake one since when you finish them all a truck appears on the little screen. i thought there was a secret delivery game.
An MMO about building your own town and playing as different jobs including the classic 3+ purble family. You can check other peoples towns and make friends and buy stuff from them
to be honest the feeling of this game is so... magical?? like, it's as if it's some sort of a liminal space or something, it's probably uncanniness of how perfect the world seems, with all the grassy hills, cartoons places and how all the civilians of the place are literally the same model with little changes and features on top of it. it's just so perfect i wanna move to there tbh
it was so basic in retrospect but oddly stuck with us. like an odd middle ground between kid pandering crap and trying to actually treat kids like people
am i the only one that used to completely ignore the instructions and use the cake game as a ''cake decorating simulator'' instead and then was absolutely MIND BLOWN at the extra options you had when choosing a harder difficulty? 😂
I once accidentally turned on the hard mode on my aunt's computer and was so impressed by it. But I just didn't know how to enable it in my computer, and I ended up almost breaking it.
I remember thinking their was a fourth building, and being scared by some of the characters. I used to click everywhere on the screen to try n "unlock a secret" which obviously never happened
@@corvidalexander3618 there was, but they scrapped it and they turned it into a fence, and btw the fence was supposed to be the 4th minigame in Purble Place, so-called the "Purble Family"
this was unironically my childhood. the hours i would spend at my grandma’s computer just playing purble place when we’d go to her house in the summer… one of my strongest memories. So stoked to see you covering yet another part of my life :3
I remember this. Me and sister used to play this along with chess and a few other games on the computer when we couldn't play the Fate rpg when it ran out of free tokens.
SAMEEEE id visit my grandparents every weekend and i loved using my grandpa's vista (and later 7) pc just to play purble place and minesweeper lmao great memories
I remember playing the cake game with my grandpa as a kid. As me and my grandpa were both not computer experts and could load up this game only. Every now and then we reminiscene those days. It' s one of the cutest memories I have with him.
I played this with my brothers so I have some nostalgia for it. But even as a kid a felt the "Who made this and why is it so ugly?" It was very scary game for me, even how friendly and cute it tried to look.
@@bingbong2712 ezcalty bruh i remember the sounds being so loud too like i was even afraid to press anything else on that little shelf thing because i didn't wanna hear something straigjt from hell ☠️☠️
I’m not sure what I’m more shocked by 1. Purble Place is #49 on trending for gaming 2. Izzzyzzz covered Windows Longhorn development in a video We’re living in strange times, clearly
the nostalgia that hit after seeing the cake making gameplay felt visceral to me oh my god. I don't think I've ever been struck by a far off memory harder??
Same, I don’t even remember what the title was but seeing that game, as well as the house that has eyes reawakened my childhood memories I didn’t know I had.
Hi, I actually worked on Purble Place - along with the other Windows Vista parlor games at the end stage of their development. Wanted to let you know that you are right: there are no credits in the game because MS contracted Oberon to build it. Other games that we self-published had credits as you would expect.
Since I was a kid I felt like Purble Place is a part of some bigger media, creatures like that felt like a spin-off of some kind that had characters and places that we should know- And it still feels like it to this day...
yes i thought it was a free trial, i remember looking it up and basically nothing came up. i probably would've thought it was a virus if it hadn't been pre-installed on my computer 😂
It felt out of place alongside minesweeper and solitaire, it just EXISTED but I wonder what a sequel or expansion could have looked like. It’s just mysterious and no one ever explained it when we were kids, we just played it
oh my god I always felt that way, it's so strange it feels like it's missing context from a larger universe. I think part of it is the image on the start screen that implies a world you can explore and another part of it is how incredibly specific the designs are lol
Holy crap, same!! I think the first time I was able to play the dress up game without stopping was a year after I started playing purple place lol, then I played it all the time
I was grinning like an idiot watching this, the nostalgia hit hard on this one. I remember playing this game all the time on car trips as a kid, I loved the cake-making game.
Yeah I remember playing this game alot when I was little I was addicted to making the cakes it did get kinda stressful with the time limit on it tho but it was still addicted lol😅
16:59 I used to get really scared when i played this one during late nights, i would try not to focus on the curtain and the shadowy place while fashioning my purble guy but i just could not and immediately close the game because i'd get so creeped out. I find it interesting how none of those features are in the older build, it's as if its added to make it intentionally scarier.
cant even express how mush nostalgia this game has for me. my dad had it on his work computer when i was 3 or 4, we used to play the cake game and he would purposefully mess up the orders to make me laugh :,)
Somehow this comment made me feel so old. I played it on my computer, because I didn't want to deal with homework and didn't have an internet connection on my pc
If you're looking for more info about any of the designers who worked on Purble Place, I highly recommend maybe checking out the credits for the designers who worked on the old pc game Cake Mania. The design for the cake building, along with the cakes themselves, look eerily similar to the assets for Cake Mania, and they were both made around the same time.
I was thinking the same thing! They're both functionally similar games. I googled Cake Mania and it looks like they had several development studios working on the game, and several publishing companies funding the game. I don't see any hint of Oberon, but I feel like that's a pretty big coincidence. It could point to maybe someone working on Cake Mania, finishing the project, then moving to Oberon? Or that this type of time management genre was becoming popular because of Cake Mania?? Idk but eerily similar, indeed.
YOOO CAKE MANIA!! My mom and I loved that game on the PSP. I remember getting so mad at her for overwriting my save file with her brand new progress. Good times. I tried looking for the game or a recreation of it online, but sadly my search was fruitless.
A few years ago my dad (about 50 yrs old) was OBSESSED with playing purble place and he would call it purple place. I’m not sure how he even found the game he must have been bored while messing with his computer but he played it constantly especially if the internet was slow. Anyways not much more to that just a silly old guy playing a game.
OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE REMEBERS THIS!! My family didn't have a computer when I was younger, but I distinctly remember playing the cake decorating game at my dad's friends house during a Christmas party and LOVING IT!!
I played this game for hours and hours on end when I was a kid. You'd find me playing the cake game most of the time. There was something about the colors and the smooth, kinda shiny art style that made my autistic brain say "yes this, I want this." It's honestly still pretty aesthetically pleasing for me, but I don't know if I'd enjoy the games quite as much now. I'm 21 now, so I was probably about 6 or something years old when I got myself addicted to this, maybe a little older. If there's any more information that comes out, I'll be clicking so damn fast
I swear your channel targeted for EXACTLY my age range. Almost everything you've talked about- Animal Jam, Movie Star Planet, even stupid jokes about wolf games, now PURBLE PLACE? That was my favorite game lmao. My grandparents had a copy on their computer. Love your videos
I’m a dev, and your reasoning is pretty much on track. Crediting is kind of a crapshoot in the industry, there’s a lot of potential reasons it’s hard to find info on this game but most likely imo it’s an NDA. I have friends who’ve worked for Microsoft in varying aspects and based off of that, I’d assume Microsoft had strict NDAs, especially since this was something created for their new operating system and thus they wouldn’t want any info potentially leaking.
I misread it not as "purble palace" but as "purple place", and I thought this was because the characters were pastel, I remember making stories about "Purple place", playing it everywhere I go (firstly it was in my mom's office when she was on the lunch break) and with everyone I could get to play it) Ironically, now my favorite color is purple
“sweety psycho” because mental illnesses are just ✨quirky✨ username fodder and not anything serious, right? might as well glorify ✨❤self harm X3✨ while you’re at it.
I remember playing this game a lot as a kid. The cake game was always my favorite and I would purposely make the cake I wanted instead of what the customer wanted. I think I still have my dad’s old computer where the game is still on it. I might play it again just for old times sake
I did the same thing with the cakes, and in the shop I'd just make a character I want instead of playing mastermind because I didn't understand that's what you have to do lol. I think this game wasn't translated into Polish and I didn't know English back then yet but I could be wrong
lol the cake game was my fav, i would never be able to memorize the card game, i would never have the brain compacity to know what it wanted me to make in the cake game, i would always make the character i wanted, i always thought it was called “the (purple) place” and to top it off, i didnt even own the computer i was playing it on all the time, it was a library computer 🥲
We weren't an internet family so when we got our first laptop I was addicted to that game because it was all I knew. I cracked every difficulty in every section and it was one of my biggest skills in life.
This Game was my life. Still have it on my mom's windows vista laptop. It's the family treasure. We sat around for hours and watched each other play the game as kids.
i just want to say - thank you for documenting these kind of small and obscure internet oddities. we're currently in the midst of the internet archive being totally removed, so seeing that there are channels like this that are dedicated to documenting internet history brings me hope that these kind of things won't be forever lost. it's so so important to document the evolution of the internet, even through silly games like purble place
@@SublimeWeasel they are currently facing a lawsuit by a few major publishing companies because of their digital library services, but as far as I know they are nowhere close to shutting down.
@@deimosphoibus Just because things didn't go according to their plan, some companies are so shameless that they threaten a whole ass archive that could be useful in a lot of ways? lmao greedy idiots
The cake minigame was my absolute favorite of the three, it's kind of comforting to know this game is still remembered today. I remember first playing it on my dad's laptop with my cousin when we were 12-13. I think we might've gotten bored with no internet that day so we started looking at the games that came pre-installed on Windows 7, and I clicked on Purble Place as a joke. A few minutes later, we were both genuinely enthralled by the cake game, and the advanced mode was challenging enough to be fun even for teens... It was a good time!
@@CozyBunni the comment said they were bored without internet and clicked it initially as a joke. Also, those little “in the kitchen” games where you build up recipes of foods were surprisingly engaging for someone 11-13 years old. I still have fond memories of one app on my moms phone about a donut stall that got harder as you progressed (granted I am still a teenager so those memories aren’t all that far away).
Am I the only one who REALLY wants a video on Amino Apps? The fandom-based “cringey” subject matter, the constant toxicity and drama, and the EXTREMELY dramatic fall from grace sounds like something Izzy would have fun doing a deep-dive into.
yes!! I used to use amino for around 6-7 years before leaving literally a few days ago for good. The only issue about making a video on amino is that there are so many smaller communities that it would be truly hard to cover them and capture everyone’s experiences- but I still think it would be super interesting to hear about !!!
I want to see an app developer’s take on it, I never used it for long because I remember hating the app design with a burning passion; to me the communities were so unintuitive to navigate compared to forums/other social media sites at the time
good lord not amino 💀 idk how it's doing nowadays but it was awful when i used to use it regularly years ago even though i stuck to smaller communities
I remember playing this game all the time as a kid but I also remember being oddly terrified to play this game alone or in the dark just something about it creeped me out
Me too but it also gave me a weird calming sensation? Like the absence of music, keeping the volume low and hearing the computer working as background noise gave me a strange asmr-like feeling lol
OH my gosh I thought I was the only one that would feel something really scared playing this game alome or playing it in the dark too! 😭 but I totally get what you mean-
i have an extremally vivid memory of playing this game at the hospital when i was like 6 with some random teen girl. i hope shes doing well because she saved me from hours of boredom at that hospital
(outdated reply but i learned from it) “i’m a CSA survivor and ya’ll are acting like i’m horrible for joking about something that i literally experienced firsthand, it’s a bit of a self-destructive habit but it’s one of the few things keeping my sanity from falling apart”
Ah, the "my grandma worked on it" fib has total "uncle who works at Nintendo" vibes. Also, I love explorations of low stakes mysteries, they hit that sweet spot of making me wonder about things without making me too frustrated at not finding out the answers.
This video brings me back to the rosy mint smell of my uncle Jimmy's house when I was a little girl. The sound of his two dogs barking and sitting in front of the computer playing the cake minigame of Purble Place. This is one of the few videos that does this since as a little girl I was very sheltered from the internet until age 13. I really loved this game despite the basic minigames but they're cute and charming. I actually didn't even remember this game until I saw the title and thumbnail for the video and was overcome with a wave of nostalgia. Great times. Great times.
My grandpa let me play it on his desktop when i was little. I also loved the cake game and i remember not being able to figure out the face-changing one
I DISTINCTLY remember Purble Place on the family computer we had. This was also post Windows Vista and into Windows 7, because while I remember Purble Place none of the other games on Vista were in 7, instead I remember there being an origami boat game where you had to get the boats into their goals without setting them on fire, and a strange chalkboard style game where you had to get a balloon into a goal without popping it; it was a puzzle game. Those were the only three games that came with the computer, I played them all to death
You're right it was. I literally hated Vista and refused to use it. Loved 7 though, it's what I still use today. Purple Place was definitely on 7 and I think the operating system before too, but it didn't have some of the games she showed. I've never seen that dress up game in my life or the match one.
@@TheNinjaNiky Interesting! I remember both being playable, but I usually stuck to the cake one because if I remember correctly I couldn’t really figure out how to play the matching game or the dress-up one (seems silly now as they’re very simple concepts)
@@ExhaustedDuck yeah I only remember the cake one, and I'm absolutely positive I never used Vista😂 I hate it and always will. I couldn't figure out how to mess with the coding on that operating system. Everything was so stupid. I'll happily take 95 over Vista🤣
For some reason, I only remembered the cake making part (probably because that's the one I did the most) and totally blocked out everything else. Seeing footage of it threw me right back to my early childhood, playing purble place because the internet was down so I couldn't play poptropica.
A classic for every child on their aunt or uncles windows 7 computer complete with crusty keyboard and mouse. Id love to see you cover more chatroom based games because they were absolutely addicting to me as a child. Stuff like Imvu, meez, zwinky, and woozworld. Keep up the good content! I love to see it 💕
Yeeessss I loved playing this game in my dad and uncle's office and it was one of the first ever computer games I played. I visibly remember playing the cake game and matching game (wasn't a big fan of the Purble shop lol). I never actually knew the name of the game, I just found it on my dad's computer and I played non-stop.
I used to play this at my grandma's house, I REMEMBER THERE BEING A TURN BUTTON. In the Baking game, on the right side of the arrows, (or maybe above them) there was a small circle button and I don't remember what it did, I think it turned the frosting/sprinkles because I couldn't turn the cakes. Don't quote any of this, I want to go and find the game again next time I visit my grandparents, but I really do remember a turn button.
I can confirm that late 2000's kids also grew up with this! I was born in 2008 and this was my childhood. My mom had a Windows vista home premium computer (witch btw died only last year) and I played the shit out of this game as a kid!
I remember playing these games when I was like 3-5. they were on my dads old computer and I think it’s still on there, this made me want to check it out again
Some history to help your quest! Oberon Media had two divisions, a business/web group out of Tel Aviv and a game development group out of Seattle Washington. The original idea was to offer white-label game store services and develop some in-house games to help make the stores attractive. Game credits for casual games were pretty messy back then since so many sites would sell the same games on their own portals. For example, you mentioned Peggle as being published by Oberon, but that was developed/publish entirely by PopCap Games. The Seattle studio was initially located in Capitol Hill Seattle before moving down to a new Location in Belltown. I don't know much about what happened in the Belltown location. I'm sure I'm missing some, but in the Capitol hill location there was work on these games/services: Inspector Parker Inspector Parker in Betrapped A Series of Unfortunate Events **Redacted** Scrubbles Galapagos (started) Dream Day Wedding (started) XBox Live Arcade (for the original XBox)
Tel aviv? Huh im very close to it, but i was too small that time to know anything. I can tell you that most info about Israeli produced virtual games from that time are really really obscure and not covered much online.
Videos like this really remind me how in the 2000's being a few years older or a few years younger could make all the difference for being involved in some of the things you've talked about. Animal jam, moviestar planet, this - I'd never heard of ANY of them, because I was, by the looks of it, literally only a few years outside of the target age range. It's kind of strange how the rapidness of modern technology has this effect now!
i was born in 95 and i at least **recognize** most of what izzy talks about but a lot of it is stuff i never got into so it's really cool hearing about
i never played this game how youre supposed to, i would just make cakes that i wanted, and treat guessing game as a character customization. i only played tile matching like youre supposed to. I remember playing purble place in school where my mom worked as a teacher of programming class, waiting for her after work or during weekend events.
Me too, I hated the guessing game tho so I just used it to customize characters and cakes. I remember putting the cake game in the hard mode so I could get more options and I'm 90% sure there was a way to turn around the cake or at least add different sprinkles in different sides of the cake
I did the same thing! It kind of makes me wish there was a “build your own purble” type game in it without the guessing game element for people like us to mess around with xD
The only ones I followed were cakes and tiles but I NEVER knew that the fashion shop was a guessing game 😭😭😭 I was like "Ooh cLothEs :D" and went apeshit on designing characters 💀💀💀
I thrived on Purble Place when I was super young (I also swear it was Purble Palace as well 😅). I think it was either my grandma or aunt that showed it to me and I latched on. I’d spend hours everyday playing it and I adored it. I’ve been recently thinking about it and I felt it was ironic I find a vid like this. Thanks!
i dont have the link, but i did find a place to dl it online! it took me a while to find it tho (and there are a LOT of sketchy sites claiming to have it)
I don’t think it’s uploaded online to play anywhere but I ended up downloading it a few months ago, so it’s possible! This was the UA-cam tutorial I followed for it: ua-cam.com/video/GzBIaRmnQzM/v-deo.html I thought it wouldn’t work and it felt kind of sketchy at first, I was scared I was going to have to tell my family I gave the laptop a virus but it works fine and I haven’t had any issues with it!
When I was a little girl, my dad worked for the mafia and because he cared about me so much he forced windows to make purble place for me. The card game is because he taught me to play poker because I was just so clever for my age, and the baking game is because my mother is Mary Berry but Mary Berry denies this because I am so talented and wonderful it makes her insecure. Unfortunately all of the early builds etc my dad owned exploded.
I don’t really believe that cuz if it was true you would not be telling anybody that your dad is in the “mafia” and Mary berry is a old woman yes she will be by now but way to old for her to ever be your mom and it is highly unlikely that your dad force windows to make that game plus mafias are not really real plus am pretty sure if this was all true your dad would tell you to keep this all the Secret cuz obviously he would not want this information to get out to the public now am also sure if your dad is in the mafia he would not tell you / Mary cuz he would not try to scare you guys, and Mary berry is not crazy. ( sorry if this come of as rude but I just want to pit my opinion out there)
THANK YOU SM FOR COVERING THIS! As someone who grew up on purble place, I love Vid sm, even as my pfp (currently) shows my love for this childhood game
This game reminds me of dear memories. When me and my siblings were too young to be left home alone, my dad used to take us to his workplace. He was a children's doctor. He had a small room for him to rest and eat and we stayed there as he worked. He had a portable computer and we spent hours upon hours playing purble place whilst hearing dad speak to the patients and babies crying. Today, dad's not with us anymore. He passed away in 2013. But today, just seeing the purble place art, I feel the emotion and nostalgia from back then. Dad, today, the babies we heard crying must be teens who are healthy thanks to you. Today, I have a pc on my own. Unfortunately, it doesn't have purble place on it. Instead, my pc is filled with all the pictures you took with your camera, all the memories we made in our very, very short life together. Dad, 11 years wasn't nearly enough but I'm glad I had that. Dad, I love you and I'll always remember you. Hope you're happy and proud of me wherever you are. I got a bit emotional right there sorry :') it's just that, grief works in strange ways. Sometimes I completely forget that having a dad figure is a thing, and sometimes I miss him and I cry as though he just died yesterday... If you read so far, thanks for bearing with me, you're an angel, whoever you are.
It sounds like he was a great man and father. It's sweet in a way how something like a game can have a deeper meaning when connected to emotional memories like this.
i'm so sorry for your loss, he sounds like a great man and dad :( 💗 i'm sure he loved you very much and he's still watching u n making sure you're safe from heaven :)💘
i vividly remember my dad taking my sister and i to work with him(he was like an IT guy at the time) and him setting us up on purble place and me just making whatever cake i wanted while my sister yelled at me to follow the picture 💀
To continue your collection of 2000s/2010s kids MMO games deep-dives, how about a video on Pixie Hollow? There's a recreation for it currently going on called We The Pixies and there's plenty of information about its development on its Tumblr and Discord server, so I think it would be a fun topic. I'm also part of the testing team for the rewrite, so I might be a little biased 👀
I used to hear about that all the timd because I had all the Disney Fairies movies on DVD when I was little, but it shut down before I could ever find out what it was about :[
ysess I played the shit out of pixie hollow!!!! my parents for some reason didn't like that I played it, I think they thought the characters being teens meant it was FOR teens
i had completely forgotten about the existence of this game, until a few months back, when a friend sent me a tiktok of it, and we were both just crying over memories of purble place :') my sister let me use her computer to play it, and i only have vague memories, but the absolute joy of making a cake, failing and then crying about it, really stuck with me
Izzzyzzz hearing you say 'game' and 'theory' and 'that's just a theory' so close together without delivering the classic line is making me S T R E S S E D.
IZZY you should make a video like this but for petz catz 2, i was OBSESSED with that game as a kid yet i have found very few mentions of its existence anywhere. the fact that you use the soundtrack in your videos makes me happy i genuinely love the soundtrack and this use of it is somehow the only time i’ve seen someone reference the game online or anywhere tbh
i loved the petz games so much as a kid, i didn't have catz 2 but i had a lot of the other games on ds, my favorites being the dog talent show, petz nursery 2 and a dolphin rescue game that i can barely find any footage of online (edit: turns out someone posted a full playthrough of this game extremely recently and it shouldn't be so exciting for me but it is aaa), it honestly makes me a little sad that there haven't been any new petz games since 2014, if they made a petz game for the switch i think i'd go buckwild even if i'm way outside the target audience lmao
I remember seeing this game on a computer store and spending literal hours playing it as my parents went shopping. Like a year or so passed and we got a computer that worked ok so I had to go on a journey looking for this game since it didn't come preinstalled and I forgot the name of it. Oh the memories, I'll never forget the cake minigame
I nearly forgot this game existed, I spent literal hours on Purble Place when I was a kid!!! It was the only game on my mom’s computer other than mojang that I knew how to play, and I remember really loving it!!! Learning more about now, all these years later, is genuinely fascinating! Especially given the apparent lack of info…
I'm brazilian and I had this game on my family's pc when I was a kid, there wasn't a translated version of it so every time I played this game I just did random stuff until I actually discovered what I was supposed to do by luck (Especially on the matching faces game, it took me actual months, maybe years? To understand what I was supposed to do, I thought it was just a funny create-your-purble game and somehow the game calling your purble trash and fixing it if you did something wrong lmao) Overall I really have many memories with this game and I'm really happy to see people discussing more about it on recent days!! It was also one of the only games I played because I was stupid and either didn't know how to play the other games either or just because I liked the cute art style lmao
Ahh same here! Couldn't figure out how to work the clothing shop game. Thought it was regular dress up, really insulted when the game called my purbles 'wrong'. I eventually gave up figuring it out and just sticked with the cake and pairing game.
I was just looking for free movies on you tube and this popped up like thank you for making this vid because I remember playing this as a kid like at age 4 or 5 wow so nostalgic for me. This makes me happy too because my dad just recently passed away due to a transplant infection but wow it’s good to look back. Thank God for u
Actually my dad had a secret gay love affair with the head developer of purble place and the reason they’re called purbles is because my dad’s childhood dnd character was an elf named Sir Purble and he used the name Purble as a username sometimes. The matching card game was a reference to how my dad and the developer met when they were playing cards with friends after a coding convention (probably BlackHat) and the heart shaped cake in the game is based on the heart shaped cake my dad made the developer for valentines. Unfortunately the developer died of leukemia shortly after publishing the game and my dad used his hacking skills to erase his existence from the internet out of grief and also so that my mom wouldn’t find out. He told me this story after I came out to him as a lesbian and it’s been our secret ever since Using my platform to ask for a video on Google plus
I was actually the lead developer of purble place. I let my friend bill (bill gates) play it and he took the code from me and wiped my name from the game. Glad to see there are still some purbers out there and the purble fandom is still strong
@@pat.122 I think he sheds a lot when he's bored so when he shed, his skin turns different not changing. His skin oxidizes when it's prolonged, that's why it appears different.
You've reminded me of the really simple old Sims 1- style game my mam had on her flip phone in the late 2000's! You could only have 1 sim and 1 save file. Male or female only with 0 customisation. Me and my little brother used to argue over who got to name it! You could literally only drink coffee, sleep, watch TV and go to work via taxi. For some reason I loved the noise of the coffee machine percolating 🤣
Hello. My great grandma’s sister’s niece’s fiancé’s brother’s roommate actually worked on the game with Rockstar games in the 80’s. When he and his team where tasked with creating a “game for toddlers” for the new Windows system, he traveled to Russia and visited Chyernoble. He based the town featured in the game off of the deformed houses and malformed structures along with some messed up land features. After words he got super high and added the colorful and cartoony color scheme based off his marijuana induced hallucinations and based the characters off of his sleep paralysis demons. However, his name was purged from the game after he and his crew where exposed to be a bunch of furries.
I’ve been actually thinking so much about this game recently but could not for the life of me figure out what it was called and every time I tried explaining it to my parents they’d tell me I’d never played a game like that 😭 Whenever they’d take us to our fathers friends house I’d get on the computer and it was the only game I played for like 5 years 😭
I recall whenever I'd go to my Paternal Gran's house, she had a fairly outdated computer there with Purble Place on it. I remember loving the sound design so much and finding the dress up game endearingly eerie with its outdated visuals. There was something hauntingly sweet about that game to me as a kid, I loved it a lot.
Had no idea Purble Place was so mysterious. Also weirdly good job on explaining the development of Windows Vista, definitely did not expect a brief history section on Vista but I guess literally anything early 2000s can be covered here
even as a kid something about the game creeped me out. don't get me wrong, i loved purble place so much and played it for hours but something about the stillness and the loneliness in the game WHILE being all happy and bright just creeped me out. i was also scared of the sounds in the dress up game lmao.
I literally never realized the dress up game had a purpose until this video. I vividly remember playing this game, but I always just thought that dress up game was about making funny/cute creatures. Holy moly, mind blown!
I remember playing that mini game just like that, but randomly I picked the right set of stuff and a guy popped out and I was so confused at first, tho I figured out I'd chosen the right ones and played the mini game like that after wards haha
I played this game so often on my dad's computer as a kid! I forgot about it but random nostalgia made me remember that my brother threw a book at me, and broke my dad's monitor while I was playing Purble Place, and my 6 year old self associated the game with my dad screaming for two hours at my older brother lol
This is one of those games I played when I was young enough that I sometimes wonder if it even actually existed or whether it was all part of some sort of dream or fantasy, so it's really interesting seeing what the gameplay was actually like. I remember I didn't understand how to play the game where you're building the characters, I always just assumed it was an avatar maker lol. The cake game was my favorite, I always associated a certain taste with the cakes that doesn't quite match up with what cake actually tastes like which was interesting (there's an early Garfield comic strip where Garfield gets ahold of a very large chicken leg where my kid brain similarly decided on giving it a taste that wasn't actually what chicken tastes like and I can't un-taste it😂)
I could swear I played this game at my preschool, but that would have been a year or so before it was officially released. I vividly remember the cake game, and I remember getting in trouble for playing the dress up game when I was supposed to be playing the memory game 😂
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you should talk about Barbiegirls! I loved that game!
You are a chad.
I had completely forgotten about this game but now recall all those hours I dumped into the cake game. what a ride
hello piemations >:]
Holy shit, same
It was my favourite game alongside the one where you tried guessing how the purble looked like!
I remember getting so mad when I messed up a cake and had to restart it.
I am absolutely baffled that such a popular youtuber commented on this video and I have completely forgotten the subject of this video
Same it was my favorite
I loved this game, my grandma would let me play the game on her laptop, while we flew in planes, I loved making the cakes.
The cakes were my favorite too!
Commenting on cake supremacy so the bots no longer outnumber us.
That sounds so cute!
My grandma let me play it on her laptop too!! Not on planes but yeah!
I remember Playing those games wayy back when I was like 5 on my grandma's computer and i would get scared if I got that desert game wrong for some reason
It's so weird how something can be so well-known yet so obscure at the same time
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I never thought that ' lore ' and ' Purble Place ' would be in the same sentence- but I'm 100% here for it 😃
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@@avangardismm???
PURBLE PLACE LOOOOOORRREEE
@@avangardismmNo thanks
Literally no, never thought Purble Place had more, I just played😭
I begged my mom to make my “favorite " purble place cake for my birthday: a yellow cake with white frosting, with the smiley face decoration in it. She made it for me (:
That's lovely 💕
This is so wholesome 😭💕
Aww that's cute!
cuteeeeeee
Super wholesome（╹◡╹）
I actually developed this game in my basement in 1879. the purbles were inspired by the faces that would mock me in the dark
Lmao
Your comment almost made me choke on my coffee!
@PishP0n LMAOOO
@PishP0n PLS 💀
Best comment yet
I remember playing Purble Place for hours on end, especially the cake minigame. I find it super creepy how there's pretty much little to no info on the game
Right? I thought there's more info
I hope somebody writes a creepy pasta about purple place now lol
@@nekokitty90 no Purble place is 2000’s childhood game it brought us happiness
Anyone remember a diner game with a conveyer belt and a wiener dog chef????? I swear I remember something like that but there’s nothing online about it
@@mellovestodraw that’s the reason why someone should
My mother actually invented Purble Place in an attempt to get in contact with her brother who she lost in the foster system. She was going to release a book about it but the publisher screwed her over smh...
Wait a minuteeeeee 💀
I like your shoelaces Adam.
this is a reference to something i KNOW that I know but i can't remember and it's driving me literally insane
@@CricketChirp99 idk if this is it but there was this one person who claimed they wrote My Immortal to find a brother she lost in the foster system (or something like that)
@@worm-lungs thank you for reminding us. now, i like your shoelaces
Media history archivists need more credit. Information can be lost so easily, the people that work hard to save what they can are amazing.
Media and fashion history isn't taken seriously and we lost so much of it due to lack of effort to save it. Absloutely agree, so nice to see people work so hard to save it. :)
They truly are
@@nicovado Z NA
I’m starting to get concerned about how many people rely on tech to archive information and memories, that shit is not as permanent as people think it is, it takes one bad virus to loose everything. I get worried that physical copies are going to the wayside for different things
i always thought the last game was to just make your own purble and always wondered why the game kept telling me my character was wrong when i went to say i was done
SAME
Me too lmao
yeah like smh this purble place is limiting the creativity of our children.....
I used to just ignore the instructions and make the purble how i wanted despite knowing what the game was supposed to be, and then I would start over once it said I was wrong and repeat for hours.
LMAOO i was always like "He's perfect to me :("
i remember being convinced that there were secret rooms and levels in this game. especially the cake one since when you finish them all a truck appears on the little screen. i thought there was a secret delivery game.
Then I am not the only one
I always thought there were more games to be unlocked or more places lol
Fr tho, I think that’s part of what made it so alluring and mysterious, it was such a cool little world I wanted there to be more games 😭
omg i had such a nostalgia now. im from brazil and i also heard smth about the "secret delivery game"
Yesss i feel like all popular kids games like this have rumors of "secret levels", "hidden games" and some randomly added weird creepy lore.
It feels creppy but relaxing at the same time but you can't describe it either way
it doesn't feel creepy at all lol
@@robertedwards659 it kind of does to be honest
The art style always unsettled me when I was a little kid. Even now it's a bit much lol
creppy
creppy 🙀🙀
I think we can all agree that Microsoft would surpass Apple if they made purble place 2 for windows 11
oh absolutly
YES
a purble place open world shooter that requires at least a rtx 2080 ti to work properly
@@superdiego.g mine works fine on my lenovo ideapad 3 laptop
An MMO about building your own town and playing as different jobs including the classic 3+ purble family. You can check other peoples towns and make friends and buy stuff from them
to be honest the feeling of this game is so... magical?? like, it's as if it's some sort of a liminal space or something, it's probably uncanniness of how perfect the world seems, with all the grassy hills, cartoons places and how all the civilians of the place are literally the same model with little changes and features on top of it. it's just so perfect i wanna move to there tbh
Fr like I’m gonna work in the cake place it had no right being that fun
I think surreal is the right word
it was so basic in retrospect but oddly stuck with us. like an odd middle ground between kid pandering crap and trying to actually treat kids like people
yeah it creeped me out when i played it as a kid, especially the faces of the people
Ikr?! At the time I didn't think about it, but now I look at it and think: "It's so pretty, I wanna live there..."
am i the only one that used to completely ignore the instructions and use the cake game as a ''cake decorating simulator'' instead and then was absolutely MIND BLOWN at the extra options you had when choosing a harder difficulty? 😂
I once accidentally turned on the hard mode on my aunt's computer and was so impressed by it. But I just didn't know how to enable it in my computer, and I ended up almost breaking it.
i never knew about the difficulty settings imagine my fucking surprise at this comment that theres MORE CAKE OPTIONS oml
Hard mode was so frustrating because I always ended up having 100 cakes queued up and I hadn't even finished the first one
Same!
There was A HARD MODE
I remember thinking their was a fourth building, and being scared by some of the characters. I used to click everywhere on the screen to try n "unlock a secret" which obviously never happened
The fence but it wasn’t clickable
There was a fourth building I swear
@@corvidalexander3618 there was, but they scrapped it and they turned it into a fence, and btw the fence was supposed to be the 4th minigame in Purble Place, so-called the "Purble Family"
I really thought this game didn't exist for quite some time so I'm glad I'm not crazy and that someone else actually wants to know the lore 😩
samee I rly thought it was a false memory or something
SAMEE OMG
@@maemae-ri1lv false memories?? girl i think thats called delusional
from all the people I've asked, no one would remember this game
No this! I was convinced for years this was just a fever dream I had
My favorite part of purble place was when the chef says, “it’s purbin’ time” and turns into a giant cupcake
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Dead meme
Goofy ahh name 💀
The feminine alternative to Aaron?
@@angel_cake07 in spanish the username is persona aleatoria wich means random person, idk its translated like that lmao
this was unironically my childhood. the hours i would spend at my grandma’s computer just playing purble place when we’d go to her house in the summer… one of my strongest memories. So stoked to see you covering yet another part of my life :3
I also used to play this on my grandmas computer! It’s honestly kinda shocking that I ever forgot about it in the first place
I remember this. Me and sister used to play this along with chess and a few other games on the computer when we couldn't play the Fate rpg when it ran out of free tokens.
I used to play on my grandpa's computer!!!
Purble place on ur grandmas computer went hard
SAMEEEE id visit my grandparents every weekend and i loved using my grandpa's vista (and later 7) pc just to play purble place and minesweeper lmao great memories
I remember playing the cake game with my grandpa as a kid. As me and my grandpa were both not computer experts and could load up this game only. Every now and then we reminiscene those days. It' s one of the cutest memories I have with him.
That’s so sweet
I played this with my brothers so I have some nostalgia for it.
But even as a kid a felt the "Who made this and why is it so ugly?"
It was very scary game for me, even how friendly and cute it tried to look.
Same, the dressup game terrified me as a kid lol
@@djcodybeatz4825 SAME, it was so hideous and for what
@@bingbong2712 ezcalty bruh i remember the sounds being so loud too like i was even afraid to press anything else on that little shelf thing because i didn't wanna hear something straigjt from hell ☠️☠️
Yea my sis is scared of it
@@djcodybeatz4825 The dress up one was my favourite somehow, I tried to pick the "best" looking features in it 😅
I’m not sure what I’m more shocked by
1. Purble Place is #49 on trending for gaming
2. Izzzyzzz covered Windows Longhorn development in a video
We’re living in strange times, clearly
got to #34
@@victorianeu4266 35 here
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seriously its 49 lol
where are you finding this? it'll probably be later in the video but i've been wanting to play that cake game for YEARS
the nostalgia that hit after seeing the cake making gameplay felt visceral to me oh my god. I don't think I've ever been struck by a far off memory harder??
Same! I forgot that this game was just a weird fever dream and I was crazy 😭😭
Same, I don’t even remember what the title was but seeing that game, as well as the house that has eyes reawakened my childhood memories I didn’t know I had.
I know right! I legit had a winter soldier flashback
It was the cake for me too, I'm genuinely winded like someone just punched me lmao😭 These memories mustve been buried so deep
Anybody remember the game ink ball?
Hi, I actually worked on Purble Place - along with the other Windows Vista parlor games at the end stage of their development. Wanted to let you know that you are right: there are no credits in the game because MS contracted Oberon to build it. Other games that we self-published had credits as you would expect.
Source?
did you actually work on it? id love to hear about it
You should remake it
You made a lot of memories fr
Since I was a kid I felt like Purble Place is a part of some bigger media, creatures like that felt like a spin-off of some kind that had characters and places that we should know-
And it still feels like it to this day...
yes i thought it was a free trial, i remember looking it up and basically nothing came up. i probably would've thought it was a virus if it hadn't been pre-installed on my computer 😂
It felt out of place alongside minesweeper and solitaire, it just EXISTED but I wonder what a sequel or expansion could have looked like. It’s just mysterious and no one ever explained it when we were kids, we just played it
oh my god I always felt that way, it's so strange it feels like it's missing context from a larger universe. I think part of it is the image on the start screen that implies a world you can explore and another part of it is how incredibly specific the designs are lol
Its cause they straight up were an expy of putt putt adventures
i remember being absolutely horrified by the weird purble characters, like i would refuse to play the dress up game it was so terrifying
SAMEEE
literally same, I only played the cake game and the chef was scary enough to see just briefly
OMG same I also didn't understand how to play that dressing game
Same! I never even got what the game wants from me except building up the ugliest monsters accessible for children, lol
Holy crap, same!! I think the first time I was able to play the dress up game without stopping was a year after I started playing purple place lol, then I played it all the time
I was grinning like an idiot watching this, the nostalgia hit hard on this one. I remember playing this game all the time on car trips as a kid, I loved the cake-making game.
just all the nostalgia- also, did u ever play the pin ball game that existed too (my favourate)
Yeah I remember playing this game alot when I was little I was addicted to making the cakes it did get kinda stressful with the time limit on it tho but it was still addicted lol😅
to be honest we all probably liked the cake making game
Same, I loved the clothing shop and cake making .
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I used to get really scared when i played this one during late nights, i would try not to focus on the curtain and the shadowy place while fashioning my purble guy but i just could not and immediately close the game because i'd get so creeped out. I find it interesting how none of those features are in the older build, it's as if its added to make it intentionally scarier.
Same it creeped me out as a kid and also the memory game was to hard for my child self so I only played the cake game
cant even express how mush nostalgia this game has for me. my dad had it on his work computer when i was 3 or 4, we used to play the cake game and he would purposefully mess up the orders to make me laugh :,)
Wholesome af
aww
That’s so cute 😭😭
Somehow this comment made me feel so old. I played it on my computer, because I didn't want to deal with homework and didn't have an internet connection on my pc
@@11ozzielover This comment made me feel so old because I’d let my son play it when we didn’t pay the internet bill.
If you're looking for more info about any of the designers who worked on Purble Place, I highly recommend maybe checking out the credits for the designers who worked on the old pc game Cake Mania. The design for the cake building, along with the cakes themselves, look eerily similar to the assets for Cake Mania, and they were both made around the same time.
That's interesting! The sound design is also quite similar to Purble's
I was thinking the same thing! I used to play it on a PSP and the style of the icing reminded me of it
I was thinking the same thing! They're both functionally similar games. I googled Cake Mania and it looks like they had several development studios working on the game, and several publishing companies funding the game. I don't see any hint of Oberon, but I feel like that's a pretty big coincidence. It could point to maybe someone working on Cake Mania, finishing the project, then moving to Oberon? Or that this type of time management genre was becoming popular because of Cake Mania?? Idk but eerily similar, indeed.
YOOO CAKE MANIA!! My mom and I loved that game on the PSP. I remember getting so mad at her for overwriting my save file with her brand new progress. Good times.
I tried looking for the game or a recreation of it online, but sadly my search was fruitless.
Me and my mom LOVED this game haha
A few years ago my dad (about 50 yrs old) was OBSESSED with playing purble place and he would call it purple place. I’m not sure how he even found the game he must have been bored while messing with his computer but he played it constantly especially if the internet was slow. Anyways not much more to that just a silly old guy playing a game.
I want to be friends with your dad lol
What game did he like the best?
Aw, I wish your dad the best. That is wholesome.
My brain always processes the name as purple place
@@ettaz the cake making game 😭
OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE REMEBERS THIS!! My family didn't have a computer when I was younger, but I distinctly remember playing the cake decorating game at my dad's friends house during a Christmas party and LOVING IT!!
I played this game for hours and hours on end when I was a kid. You'd find me playing the cake game most of the time. There was something about the colors and the smooth, kinda shiny art style that made my autistic brain say "yes this, I want this." It's honestly still pretty aesthetically pleasing for me, but I don't know if I'd enjoy the games quite as much now. I'm 21 now, so I was probably about 6 or something years old when I got myself addicted to this, maybe a little older. If there's any more information that comes out, I'll be clicking so damn fast
Same it would make me hungry and want to make a cake but to no avail bc they could never be that perfect irl 😮💨
i literally was going to write a comment exactly like this, what made the game so enjoyable for me was the satisfying art style
@@vivivalley yed
This resonates with me so hard
Cake game was also my favorite. Good times.
I swear your channel targeted for EXACTLY my age range. Almost everything you've talked about- Animal Jam, Movie Star Planet, even stupid jokes about wolf games, now PURBLE PLACE? That was my favorite game lmao. My grandparents had a copy on their computer. Love your videos
I hope she does Pixie Hollow!
@@gardenbimbo6531 I used to LOVE Pixie Hollow back in the day!
@@gardenbimbo6531OMG yes omg
I’m a dev, and your reasoning is pretty much on track. Crediting is kind of a crapshoot in the industry, there’s a lot of potential reasons it’s hard to find info on this game but most likely imo it’s an NDA. I have friends who’ve worked for Microsoft in varying aspects and based off of that, I’d assume Microsoft had strict NDAs, especially since this was something created for their new operating system and thus they wouldn’t want any info potentially leaking.
Is this true??
I misread it not as "purble palace" but as "purple place", and I thought this was because the characters were pastel, I remember making stories about "Purple place", playing it everywhere I go (firstly it was in my mom's office when she was on the lunch break) and with everyone I could get to play it) Ironically, now my favorite color is purple
I ALWAYS thought it was purple too! My favorite color ended up being purple too…crazy how life works out.
Sameee!
“sweety psycho”
because mental illnesses are just ✨quirky✨ username fodder and not anything serious, right?
might as well glorify ✨❤self harm X3✨ while you’re at it.
@@originaluseername, my mental illness is official, and yes, I do glorify sh, s-e and death, and that's none of your business
must be another mandela effect
I remember playing this game a lot as a kid. The cake game was always my favorite and I would purposely make the cake I wanted instead of what the customer wanted. I think I still have my dad’s old computer where the game is still on it. I might play it again just for old times sake
I did the same thing with the cakes, and in the shop I'd just make a character I want instead of playing mastermind because I didn't understand that's what you have to do lol. I think this game wasn't translated into Polish and I didn't know English back then yet but I could be wrong
My school computers are old so we find the game there I still play it sometimes if I get a change
lol the cake game was my fav, i would never be able to memorize the card game, i would never have the brain compacity to know what it wanted me to make in the cake game, i would always make the character i wanted, i always thought it was called “the (purple) place” and to top it off, i didnt even own the computer i was playing it on all the time, it was a library computer 🥲
We weren't an internet family so when we got our first laptop I was addicted to that game because it was all I knew. I cracked every difficulty in every section and it was one of my biggest skills in life.
A kid I used to babysit would always play the cake game but always messed up the cakes to make me laugh it was adorable
Same :(
This Game was my life. Still have it on my mom's windows vista laptop. It's the family treasure. We sat around for hours and watched each other play the game as kids.
i just want to say - thank you for documenting these kind of small and obscure internet oddities. we're currently in the midst of the internet archive being totally removed, so seeing that there are channels like this that are dedicated to documenting internet history brings me hope that these kind of things won't be forever lost. it's so so important to document the evolution of the internet, even through silly games like purble place
internet archive is close to getting destroyed????
@@SublimeWeasel Probably because Flash is out of use, so most things will be broken.
@@SublimeWeasel they are currently facing a lawsuit by a few major publishing companies because of their digital library services, but as far as I know they are nowhere close to shutting down.
@@kaylareese5132 true but that doesn't completely remove the internet archive.
@@deimosphoibus Just because things didn't go according to their plan, some companies are so shameless that they threaten a whole ass archive that could be useful in a lot of ways? lmao greedy idiots
The cake minigame was my absolute favorite of the three, it's kind of comforting to know this game is still remembered today. I remember first playing it on my dad's laptop with my cousin when we were 12-13. I think we might've gotten bored with no internet that day so we started looking at the games that came pre-installed on Windows 7, and I clicked on Purble Place as a joke. A few minutes later, we were both genuinely enthralled by the cake game, and the advanced mode was challenging enough to be fun even for teens...
It was a good time!
uhh why would a 12-13-year-old play this game? It's a literal learning game for 5 year olds
@@CozyBunni the comment said they were bored without internet and clicked it initially as a joke.
Also, those little “in the kitchen” games where you build up recipes of foods were surprisingly engaging for someone 11-13 years old.
I still have fond memories of one app on my moms phone about a donut stall that got harder as you progressed (granted I am still a teenager so those memories aren’t all that far away).
I remember being so bad at the cake minigame-
@@CozyBunni Like I said, I clicked on it as a joke, expecting it to be a lame baby game.
@@b_w_j Yea, you're probably 19 which is barely a teenager
Am I the only one who REALLY wants a video on Amino Apps? The fandom-based “cringey” subject matter, the constant toxicity and drama, and the EXTREMELY dramatic fall from grace sounds like something Izzy would have fun doing a deep-dive into.
yes!! I used to use amino for around 6-7 years before leaving literally a few days ago for good. The only issue about making a video on amino is that there are so many smaller communities that it would be truly hard to cover them and capture everyone’s experiences- but I still think it would be super interesting to hear about !!!
wait what fall from grace? i need to know pls
I want to see an app developer’s take on it, I never used it for long because I remember hating the app design with a burning passion; to me the communities were so unintuitive to navigate compared to forums/other social media sites at the time
good lord not amino 💀 idk how it's doing nowadays but it was awful when i used to use it regularly years ago even though i stuck to smaller communities
Also the child grooming 👁👄👁
you have LITERALLY just unlocked a new childhood memory that i completely compressed. oh my god i ADORED this game as a kid.
I remember playing this game all the time as a kid but I also remember being oddly terrified to play this game alone or in the dark just something about it creeped me out
SAME but to be fair I used to get terrified by doing anything alone in the dark at that time
Me too but it also gave me a weird calming sensation? Like the absence of music, keeping the volume low and hearing the computer working as background noise gave me a strange asmr-like feeling lol
ESPECIALLY the one with guessing faces, those creep me out too much i never play that
Me
OH my gosh I thought I was the only one that would feel something really scared playing this game alome or playing it in the dark too! 😭 but I totally get what you mean-
i have an extremally vivid memory of playing this game at the hospital when i was like 6 with some random teen girl. i hope shes doing well because she saved me from hours of boredom at that hospital
(outdated reply but i learned from it)
“i’m a CSA survivor and ya’ll are acting like i’m horrible for joking about something that i literally experienced firsthand, it’s a bit of a self-destructive habit but it’s one of the few things keeping my sanity from falling apart”
@@noturboi909oh god they were 6 at the time & the other girl was a teen! get some help😭
@@noturboi909 Weird as hell comment, bro.
@@noturboi909 not funny
Keep it in your own brain, learn some basic social skills.
its lowkey creepy how little information that's out there on purble place
I forgot the name of this game so I searched "old bakery game with 3 stations" and found this 😭😭 PLS I NEED PURBLE PLACE BACK
Ah, the "my grandma worked on it" fib has total "uncle who works at Nintendo" vibes. Also, I love explorations of low stakes mysteries, they hit that sweet spot of making me wonder about things without making me too frustrated at not finding out the answers.
This video brings me back to the rosy mint smell of my uncle Jimmy's house when I was a little girl. The sound of his two dogs barking and sitting in front of the computer playing the cake minigame of Purble Place. This is one of the few videos that does this since as a little girl I was very sheltered from the internet until age 13. I really loved this game despite the basic minigames but they're cute and charming. I actually didn't even remember this game until I saw the title and thumbnail for the video and was overcome with a wave of nostalgia. Great times. Great times.
Rosy mint?
@@kaylalouw3041 He had a rose garden in his backyard and used mint air fresheners in the house he lived in (:
My grandpa let me play it on his desktop when i was little. I also loved the cake game and i remember not being able to figure out the face-changing one
I DISTINCTLY remember Purble Place on the family computer we had. This was also post Windows Vista and into Windows 7, because while I remember Purble Place none of the other games on Vista were in 7, instead I remember there being an origami boat game where you had to get the boats into their goals without setting them on fire, and a strange chalkboard style game where you had to get a balloon into a goal without popping it; it was a puzzle game. Those were the only three games that came with the computer, I played them all to death
You're right it was. I literally hated Vista and refused to use it. Loved 7 though, it's what I still use today. Purple Place was definitely on 7 and I think the operating system before too, but it didn't have some of the games she showed. I've never seen that dress up game in my life or the match one.
@@TheNinjaNiky Interesting! I remember both being playable, but I usually stuck to the cake one because if I remember correctly I couldn’t really figure out how to play the matching game or the dress-up one (seems silly now as they’re very simple concepts)
@@ExhaustedDuck yeah I only remember the cake one, and I'm absolutely positive I never used Vista😂 I hate it and always will. I couldn't figure out how to mess with the coding on that operating system. Everything was so stupid. I'll happily take 95 over Vista🤣
I REMEMBER THOSE GAMES OMG I WANNA PLAY EM AGAIN 😭
you sure that no other Vista games were ported? i remeber playing mahjong on my family pc that was running win 7, however i can be wrong
For some reason, I only remembered the cake making part (probably because that's the one I did the most) and totally blocked out everything else. Seeing footage of it threw me right back to my early childhood, playing purble place because the internet was down so I couldn't play poptropica.
A classic for every child on their aunt or uncles windows 7 computer complete with crusty keyboard and mouse. Id love to see you cover more chatroom based games because they were absolutely addicting to me as a child. Stuff like Imvu, meez, zwinky, and woozworld. Keep up the good content! I love to see it 💕
LOL so many people (myself included) had it on their grandmothers computer. somethin about older distant relative's computers
Yeeessss I loved playing this game in my dad and uncle's office and it was one of the first ever computer games I played. I visibly remember playing the cake game and matching game (wasn't a big fan of the Purble shop lol). I never actually knew the name of the game, I just found it on my dad's computer and I played non-stop.
Brooo i loved WOOZWORLD! I remember there being a clown event that made all the players avatars a clown
ourworld was quite popular as well, sadly shut down though
yep!
I used to play this at my grandma's house, I REMEMBER THERE BEING A TURN BUTTON. In the Baking game, on the right side of the arrows, (or maybe above them) there was a small circle button and I don't remember what it did, I think it turned the frosting/sprinkles because I couldn't turn the cakes.
Don't quote any of this, I want to go and find the game again next time I visit my grandparents, but I really do remember a turn button.
OMG I REMEMBER THIS TOO
I remember this too :]
I remember this too!!
I didn’t remember this until you mentioned it. I think you are injecting memories into my head /j
I remember this too!
Hey Izzy, could you cover the Papa’s games? I played those 24/7 as a kid, and I would love to learn more about its origins/background info.
YES I WOULD LOVE THIS!!
Yesssssssss
Me too would also love to see this as a future video of Izzzy!!
Yes please :]
Plus covering Poofsure, the man who has kept playing the games on UA-cam for years keeping the fandom alive past Flash dying
Not a kid for it, but I loved this thing. Especially the cake game.
I can confirm that late 2000's kids also grew up with this! I was born in 2008 and this was my childhood. My mom had a Windows vista home premium computer (witch btw died only last year) and I played the shit out of this game as a kid!
same here
@@RV-fo8xj I have dislexia and english is not my first language /nm
I’m a 2005 baby and I played it too so many times!!! I really loved the cake one!!!
Same here
I'm 2006, I had completely forgotten this existed before this video, but I played it A LOT.
The way Izzy reads the girl claiming the game was made for her is honestly the right amount of rage inducing.
huh? can you elaborate?
huh
I agree, like what is the point of lying about near to no information about something people cherish
@@pourocks well, this is the internet, half of reddit wouldn't exist without somewhat elaborated lies for example
I love this game, especially when the chef says: "It's Purbin' Time!"
This game made 10 purbillion dollers
the first ever game to reach a purbillion downloads
purbinsweep!!!!!!
Then he purbed all over the place.
It's Purbin' Time!
I remember playing these games when I was like 3-5. they were on my dads old computer and I think it’s still on there, this made me want to check it out again
Some history to help your quest!
Oberon Media had two divisions, a business/web group out of Tel Aviv and a game development group out of Seattle Washington. The original idea was to offer white-label game store services and develop some in-house games to help make the stores attractive.
Game credits for casual games were pretty messy back then since so many sites would sell the same games on their own portals. For example, you mentioned Peggle as being published by Oberon, but that was developed/publish entirely by PopCap Games.
The Seattle studio was initially located in Capitol Hill Seattle before moving down to a new Location in Belltown. I don't know much about what happened in the Belltown location. I'm sure I'm missing some, but in the Capitol hill location there was work on these games/services:
Inspector Parker
Inspector Parker in Betrapped
A Series of Unfortunate Events
**Redacted**
Scrubbles
Galapagos (started)
Dream Day Wedding (started)
XBox Live Arcade (for the original XBox)
Finally its here. YES
ua-cam.com/video/GTHlCk7fEOY/v-deo.html
Tel aviv? Huh im very close to it, but i was too small that time to know anything. I can tell you that most info about Israeli produced virtual games from that time are really really obscure and not covered much online.
Very curious about the redacted game, unless that's something I'm better off not knowing
Man I do love REDACTED, fun game
Asoue has a game?
Videos like this really remind me how in the 2000's being a few years older or a few years younger could make all the difference for being involved in some of the things you've talked about. Animal jam, moviestar planet, this - I'd never heard of ANY of them, because I was, by the looks of it, literally only a few years outside of the target age range. It's kind of strange how the rapidness of modern technology has this effect now!
How old are you? I am 13 and know about purple place, animal jam and msp
i was born in 95 and i at least **recognize** most of what izzy talks about but a lot of it is stuff i never got into so it's really cool hearing about
@@CozyBunni 27 haha. I was playing things like Habbo hotel, club penguin and Runescape instead
@@AoiUsagiOtoko I'm also a '95 kid! I'd honestly never heard of any of this stuff! Fun to hear about the trends I missed out on though.
@@Nayukuo Yea, I never really played those games, I only played animal jam, and msp
i never played this game how youre supposed to, i would just make cakes that i wanted, and treat guessing game as a character customization. i only played tile matching like youre supposed to. I remember playing purble place in school where my mom worked as a teacher of programming class, waiting for her after work or during weekend events.
Me too, I hated the guessing game tho so I just used it to customize characters and cakes. I remember putting the cake game in the hard mode so I could get more options and I'm 90% sure there was a way to turn around the cake or at least add different sprinkles in different sides of the cake
I did the same thing! It kind of makes me wish there was a “build your own purble” type game in it without the guessing game element for people like us to mess around with xD
The only ones I followed were cakes and tiles but I NEVER knew that the fashion shop was a guessing game 😭😭😭 I was like "Ooh cLothEs :D" and went apeshit on designing characters 💀💀💀
I thrived on Purble Place when I was super young (I also swear it was Purble Palace as well 😅). I think it was either my grandma or aunt that showed it to me and I latched on. I’d spend hours everyday playing it and I adored it. I’ve been recently thinking about it and I felt it was ironic I find a vid like this. Thanks!
I remembered playing two specific games on there constantly, the cake one and the matching one. But I mostly played the cake mini game a lot as a kid
Same, I loved those ones! The cake one was so fun
Me too, the face game was too hard and I didn't understand it, but the cake game was so much fun!
I enjoyed the cake game as well. Those were the days.
I’ve been trying to find a place to play Purble Place for years and I could never find it. I loved purble place so much as a kid
Me too!
Can't find it either
You might be able to find it if you get your hands on an old windows 7? I have one and I managed to download the old windows movie maker on it
i dont have the link, but i did find a place to dl it online! it took me a while to find it tho (and there are a LOT of sketchy sites claiming to have it)
I don’t think it’s uploaded online to play anywhere but I ended up downloading it a few months ago, so it’s possible! This was the UA-cam tutorial I followed for it: ua-cam.com/video/GzBIaRmnQzM/v-deo.html
I thought it wouldn’t work and it felt kind of sketchy at first, I was scared I was going to have to tell my family I gave the laptop a virus but it works fine and I haven’t had any issues with it!
When I was a little girl, my dad worked for the mafia and because he cared about me so much he forced windows to make purble place for me. The card game is because he taught me to play poker because I was just so clever for my age, and the baking game is because my mother is Mary Berry but Mary Berry denies this because I am so talented and wonderful it makes her insecure. Unfortunately all of the early builds etc my dad owned exploded.
omg... that is so cool o_o !!!!!!!!!
I don’t really believe that cuz if it was true you would not be telling anybody that your dad is in the “mafia” and Mary berry is a old woman yes she will be by now but way to old for her to ever be your mom and it is highly unlikely that your dad force windows to make that game plus mafias are not really real plus am pretty sure if this was all true your dad would tell you to keep this all the Secret cuz obviously he would not want this information to get out to the public now am also sure if your dad is in the mafia he would not tell you / Mary cuz he would not try to scare you guys, and Mary berry is not crazy.
( sorry if this come of as rude but I just want to pit my opinion out there)
@@tea_girl2729 omg,, truee,, i didnt think of that
@@tea_girl2729 is-
is this top tier satire, or-?
@@gayahhbihh best thread ever
THANK YOU SM FOR COVERING THIS! As someone who grew up on purble place, I love Vid sm, even as my pfp (currently) shows my love for this childhood game
Outdated 😡😡😡
Someone should make a fangame expanding on the lore of Purble Place cause like I'd play it
omg that'll be amazing ( > v < )
i can just imagine the fun fanfics, fanart, and ocs being made after that fangame coming out lmao
This game reminds me of dear memories. When me and my siblings were too young to be left home alone, my dad used to take us to his workplace. He was a children's doctor. He had a small room for him to rest and eat and we stayed there as he worked. He had a portable computer and we spent hours upon hours playing purble place whilst hearing dad speak to the patients and babies crying.
Today, dad's not with us anymore. He passed away in 2013. But today, just seeing the purble place art, I feel the emotion and nostalgia from back then.
Dad, today, the babies we heard crying must be teens who are healthy thanks to you. Today, I have a pc on my own. Unfortunately, it doesn't have purble place on it. Instead, my pc is filled with all the pictures you took with your camera, all the memories we made in our very, very short life together. Dad, 11 years wasn't nearly enough but I'm glad I had that. Dad, I love you and I'll always remember you. Hope you're happy and proud of me wherever you are.
I got a bit emotional right there sorry :') it's just that, grief works in strange ways. Sometimes I completely forget that having a dad figure is a thing, and sometimes I miss him and I cry as though he just died yesterday... If you read so far, thanks for bearing with me, you're an angel, whoever you are.
😭😭😭 sorry for your loss. that's so sad
@@085665372 thank you, you're so sweet 💖 it's sad indeed but you kinda get used to it and you live on
It sounds like he was a great man and father. It's sweet in a way how something like a game can have a deeper meaning when connected to emotional memories like this.
i'm so sorry you lost such a great man but i'm sure that he's so proud of who you are today and wish you all the best in healing 💓
i'm so sorry for your loss, he sounds like a great man and dad :( 💗 i'm sure he loved you very much and he's still watching u n making sure you're safe from heaven :)💘
i vividly remember my dad taking my sister and i to work with him(he was like an IT guy at the time) and him setting us up on purble place and me just making whatever cake i wanted while my sister yelled at me to follow the picture 💀
Nice
Noice
Lol. Little siblings are the worst. =D
"Dumb fuck"
this game was literally my childhood, i played it on my grandmas pc everyday after school, i love that you covered it thanks❤️❤️
Ah yes, my childhood haunting me like the most RGB intensive ghost ever.
I thought Ruth Gader Binsburg was haunting child-you for a second there
My siblings loved this game! We’d take turns making cakes, mum loved watching us do this and even joined in. Was such a great family experience
Definitely played it as a family too
Definitely plunged me deep into the in the "oh wow, i had completely forgotten that existed and thought maybe I made it up" zone. 10/10
7:07 ITS BEEN YEARS SINCE. I PLAYED THE GAME AND I STILL REMEMBER THE SOUND THOSE CAKE MACHINES MADE 😀
To continue your collection of 2000s/2010s kids MMO games deep-dives, how about a video on Pixie Hollow? There's a recreation for it currently going on called We The Pixies and there's plenty of information about its development on its Tumblr and Discord server, so I think it would be a fun topic. I'm also part of the testing team for the rewrite, so I might be a little biased 👀
yes omg pixie hollow!!
Yes! Pixie Hollow squad!! ❤
OMG PLEASE YES
I used to hear about that all the timd because I had all the Disney Fairies movies on DVD when I was little, but it shut down before I could ever find out what it was about :[
ysess I played the shit out of pixie hollow!!!! my parents for some reason didn't like that I played it, I think they thought the characters being teens meant it was FOR teens
i had completely forgotten about the existence of this game, until a few months back, when a friend sent me a tiktok of it, and we were both just crying over memories of purble place :') my sister let me use her computer to play it, and i only have vague memories, but the absolute joy of making a cake, failing and then crying about it, really stuck with me
Izzzyzzz hearing you say 'game' and 'theory' and 'that's just a theory' so close together without delivering the classic line is making me S T R E S S E D.
a GAME THEORY.
but hey thats just a theory
IZZY you should make a video like this but for petz catz 2, i was OBSESSED with that game as a kid yet i have found very few mentions of its existence anywhere. the fact that you use the soundtrack in your videos makes me happy i genuinely love the soundtrack and this use of it is somehow the only time i’ve seen someone reference the game online or anywhere tbh
i loved the petz games so much as a kid, i didn't have catz 2 but i had a lot of the other games on ds, my favorites being the dog talent show, petz nursery 2 and a dolphin rescue game that i can barely find any footage of online (edit: turns out someone posted a full playthrough of this game extremely recently and it shouldn't be so exciting for me but it is aaa), it honestly makes me a little sad that there haven't been any new petz games since 2014, if they made a petz game for the switch i think i'd go buckwild even if i'm way outside the target audience lmao
I remember seeing this game on a computer store and spending literal hours playing it as my parents went shopping.
Like a year or so passed and we got a computer that worked ok so I had to go on a journey looking for this game since it didn't come preinstalled and I forgot the name of it.
Oh the memories, I'll never forget the cake minigame
I feel like we all remember the cake game it was so cute too!
@@SoapiiOSC It was the best game outta the three no doubt
@@pal2251 I agree with you ^^
I nearly forgot this game existed, I spent literal hours on Purble Place when I was a kid!!!
It was the only game on my mom’s computer other than mojang that I knew how to play, and I remember really loving it!!! Learning more about now, all these years later, is genuinely fascinating! Especially given the apparent lack of info…
You mean minecraft?
Average liberal childhood 🤦♀️. I grew up playing gory flash games and Terraria. No wonder I have 150IQ and you don’t
@@bubblegum6828 probably mahjong, if it’s early enough Minecraft wouldn’t be out yet
@@wolfetteplays8894 Average twelve year old.
@@wolfetteplays8894 r/iamverybadass
I'm brazilian and I had this game on my family's pc when I was a kid, there wasn't a translated version of it so every time I played this game I just did random stuff until I actually discovered what I was supposed to do by luck (Especially on the matching faces game, it took me actual months, maybe years? To understand what I was supposed to do, I thought it was just a funny create-your-purble game and somehow the game calling your purble trash and fixing it if you did something wrong lmao)
Overall I really have many memories with this game and I'm really happy to see people discussing more about it on recent days!! It was also one of the only games I played because I was stupid and either didn't know how to play the other games either or just because I liked the cute art style lmao
I relate to this so much I honestly didn't know what I was supposed to do [in the clothing shop game] until this video
cara eu nunca aprendi a jogar, ai eu fazia os bolos/personagens q eu queria e ficava puta pq o jogo dizia q tava errado
Ahh same here! Couldn't figure out how to work the clothing shop game. Thought it was regular dress up, really insulted when the game called my purbles 'wrong'. I eventually gave up figuring it out and just sticked with the cake and pairing game.
I knew English and I too thought it was regular dress up.
I was just looking for free movies on you tube and this popped up like thank you for making this vid because I remember playing this as a kid like at age 4 or 5 wow so nostalgic for me. This makes me happy too because my dad just recently passed away due to a transplant infection but wow it’s good to look back. Thank God for u
PURBLE MY BELOVED
The cake game 😭😭
Actually my dad had a secret gay love affair with the head developer of purble place and the reason they’re called purbles is because my dad’s childhood dnd character was an elf named Sir Purble and he used the name Purble as a username sometimes. The matching card game was a reference to how my dad and the developer met when they were playing cards with friends after a coding convention (probably BlackHat) and the heart shaped cake in the game is based on the heart shaped cake my dad made the developer for valentines. Unfortunately the developer died of leukemia shortly after publishing the game and my dad used his hacking skills to erase his existence from the internet out of grief and also so that my mom wouldn’t find out. He told me this story after I came out to him as a lesbian and it’s been our secret ever since
Using my platform to ask for a video on Google plus
This is definitely a lie but I choose to believe it anyway
@@matmurray717 what do you mean, this is the most genuine thing I ever read
Thank you for sharing such a heartwarming story I'm so glad we finally have answers /j
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not but this story touched me
i cried reading.
I was actually the lead developer of purble place. I let my friend bill (bill gates) play it and he took the code from me and wiped my name from the game. Glad to see there are still some purbers out there and the purble fandom is still strong
Woah!!1!!1 I read that the Purble people's faces were inspired by the faces someone saw in their basement, is that true?!
@@noodlesandwich2945 yes!! i was the faces in the basement
@@snekiikens nice
@@snekiikens awesome! can I ask something?, when you're boring you change your color skin and body parts too? how does that process work?:o
@@pat.122 I think he sheds a lot when he's bored so when he shed, his skin turns different not changing. His skin oxidizes when it's prolonged, that's why it appears different.
You've reminded me of the really simple old Sims 1- style game my mam had on her flip phone in the late 2000's!
You could only have 1 sim and 1 save file. Male or female only with 0 customisation. Me and my little brother used to argue over who got to name it!
You could literally only drink coffee, sleep, watch TV and go to work via taxi.
For some reason I loved the noise of the coffee machine percolating 🤣
Man, Purble Place was like the first game I ever really played- endless hours of my life spent creating virtual cakes.
Hello.
My great grandma’s sister’s niece’s fiancé’s brother’s roommate actually worked on the game with Rockstar games in the 80’s. When he and his team where tasked with creating a “game for toddlers” for the new Windows system, he traveled to Russia and visited Chyernoble. He based the town featured in the game off of the deformed houses and malformed structures along with some messed up land features. After words he got super high and added the colorful and cartoony color scheme based off his marijuana induced hallucinations and based the characters off of his sleep paralysis demons. However, his name was purged from the game after he and his crew where exposed to be a bunch of furries.
LMFAO
@@adumbdannia you find the tragic hardships of my grandma’s sister’s niece’s fiancé’s brother’s roommate funny?
this is perfect
*Chernobyl
Also it's not even in Russia
I’ve been actually thinking so much about this game recently but could not for the life of me figure out what it was called and every time I tried explaining it to my parents they’d tell me I’d never played a game like that 😭 Whenever they’d take us to our fathers friends house I’d get on the computer and it was the only game I played for like 5 years 😭
SAMEE
"you never played a game like that" candle cove moment
classic parents acting like they know every game youve played
Same I played it on my grandma's computer but could not for the life of me describe it 😭
Purple Place was a key part of my childhood. I was thinking about the game lately and couldn’t remember the game. This is such a nostalgic throwback
I recall whenever I'd go to my Paternal Gran's house, she had a fairly outdated computer there with Purble Place on it. I remember loving the sound design so much and finding the dress up game endearingly eerie with its outdated visuals. There was something hauntingly sweet about that game to me as a kid, I loved it a lot.
Had no idea Purble Place was so mysterious. Also weirdly good job on explaining the development of Windows Vista, definitely did not expect a brief history section on Vista but I guess literally anything early 2000s can be covered here
even as a kid something about the game creeped me out. don't get me wrong, i loved purble place so much and played it for hours but something about the stillness and the loneliness in the game WHILE being all happy and bright just creeped me out. i was also scared of the sounds in the dress up game lmao.
Thats so true. the buzzing sound in the dress up game was the most creepy
I literally never realized the dress up game had a purpose until this video. I vividly remember playing this game, but I always just thought that dress up game was about making funny/cute creatures. Holy moly, mind blown!
I remember playing that mini game just like that, but randomly I picked the right set of stuff and a guy popped out and I was so confused at first, tho I figured out I'd chosen the right ones and played the mini game like that after wards haha
I played this game so often on my dad's computer as a kid! I forgot about it but random nostalgia made me remember that my brother threw a book at me, and broke my dad's monitor while I was playing Purble Place, and my 6 year old self associated the game with my dad screaming for two hours at my older brother lol
SAMEEE HAHA
@@kiroswifeYu Narukami profile picture omg I love persona 4
This is one of those games I played when I was young enough that I sometimes wonder if it even actually existed or whether it was all part of some sort of dream or fantasy, so it's really interesting seeing what the gameplay was actually like. I remember I didn't understand how to play the game where you're building the characters, I always just assumed it was an avatar maker lol. The cake game was my favorite, I always associated a certain taste with the cakes that doesn't quite match up with what cake actually tastes like which was interesting (there's an early Garfield comic strip where Garfield gets ahold of a very large chicken leg where my kid brain similarly decided on giving it a taste that wasn't actually what chicken tastes like and I can't un-taste it😂)
I could swear I played this game at my preschool, but that would have been a year or so before it was officially released. I vividly remember the cake game, and I remember getting in trouble for playing the dress up game when I was supposed to be playing the memory game 😂