Ben Roberts Nope, it was 98 exclusive. By Windows 2000, Microsoft had switched to DirectX, and the maze was an openGl thing.Though there are a lot of reproductions of it running around online that work with DirectX.
Dracknorin So that's why there's this ghostly "OpenGL" text scattered around the maze… Does your explanation mean that Windows 2000 onwards…isn't compatible with OpenGL anymore?
Ben Roberts Not exactly, a lot of programs use it. But the main one used by windows is DirectX. That's why so many games make you update your directx drivers, as opposed to anything else.
Same here I used to set up all night and watch this I also remember we had 2 computers with win 98 on them so I would sometimes make them both race and see witch one was faster
When I was young. Like in the first or second grade, we didn't have games at all for the windows 95 we had at the time. So this was grand entertainment after school.
It's funny you said the word mesmerized, because that is the first word that came to my mind when I reflected on how this screensaver made me feel when I was a youth looking at it. I go to check the comments and somebody already posted my exact thoughts.
You could even add your own pictures, I used to have a good fun time adding pictures of playmobil and things, it looked fantastic and brought out my creative side. *sigh* those were the days.
It always follows the left-side wall. When it turns upside down, it follows the right side wall (which is the same as the original left-side wall). It's tough to notice because it only rotates to the left, even when making a right turn. This is a standard maze-solving technique (for certain kinds of mazes). This maze doesn't seem to have an exit though...
Damn nostalgia is hitting hard right now... I miss those times when I could be absorbed by something as simple as this and watch it for a long time when I was a little kid. I was on the edge of my feet when he came close to the smiley but didn't hit it. I feel like I lost something since then, like some kind of fascination for the world and new discoveries that I can't feel anymore.
It’s creeping me out a bit how I came to watch this and actually thought that I feel like I’ve lost something special deep within me since then. I’m only 3 minutes in and I feel sleepy and peaceful watching this.
I see your Lain profile pic. The 3d tag game in that show that was merged with an fps reminded me of this screensaver. I'm sure it was intentional. The original Backrooms.
@@taylordiclemente5163 i have only watched lain a couple of weeks ago and having have watched it and now that i'm being reminded of this comment, yeah, i do see it now, it's a really good observation! thanks for noticing
I still remember telling my uncle how awesome this screensaver was, next day he showed up and installed wolf 3D and doom on the family computer. blew my mind as a kid haha.
+L-1011 Widebody brings me memories from when i was little and i was begging to play with my mom, then she leaves the computer and plays with me, then cooks while this screensaver is still on
Macadam Blob I am just astonished and so very pleased that this brings back fond memories for so many people. I really hadn't anticipated such a reaction, but apparently a lot of people feel a real touching relationship with the simple Windows 3D Maze, and how it brings back memories of those times... I just put it up as a joke more or less but I am so thrilled to have all these people share their stories with me!
@@mumblerocks77 holy shit I have the same memory of that. Been trying to find it. But what I remember is grass-like textures on the walls, both green and red, with a dinosaur popping out if you went to the wrong path.
1:16, as a kid I was fascinated at this room and I still am as an adult. I'm so happy I can relive a very nostalgic part of my childhood. Thank you. :)
I keep wanting to pause the video to look at a picture, but I keep thinking it'll close if I move my mouse and I'll have to start all over again. #90'skidsproblems
I used to always love to watch this screensaver. When times were indeed simpler. This gives me serious nostalgia. Not many people remember this. Those were the good days.
shadyparadox The program sometimes runs turning right at all choices and turning left at all choices. In any case, considering there are no islands, this will lead the to Smiley Face. The Rat always takes right hand turns.
My stepfather had this screensaver on Win98 when I was growing up... but our version had an overlay map in the top right corner. I've never seen that version since we junked the old 98.
well the algorithm just follows one side of the maze forever till it reaches the end (if there is one, never seen this screensaver) I believe its the right side
I remember going to Bring your daughter to work day at my moms work when I was younger and every cubical had this maze, the fish screen saver, or the bouncing words/ time. It's crazy how something can just bring you right back to a moment from the past!
This maze is giving me Backrooms vibes 😭👌 it's a really weird feeling I don't know how to describe it... Like nostalgia combined with other emotions and a lot of memories
this is beautiful. Never realized Windows 98 had it all figured out. This labyrinth is what we call life. You keep searching for an exit, face many dead ends, it can turn upside down, you will face your deepest fears and walk through them all. And when you find happiness, the maze disappears. All the walls that were keeping you in the game simply vanish.
Could be nostalgia, but I find this screensaver so meditative. It's so peaceful, and seeing it after all these years feels like a warm hug from an old friend. I miss being able to be entertained by just these old screensavers
I remember in elementary school just staring for hours at this screensaver on the computer screens at the back of the classroom instead of doing my work.
I remember the PCs and Internet 20 years ago, nowadays we would probably want to destroy immediately those slow and unriable machines, while now we get angry when an application freezes during 10s. But I feel nostalgy when I see such things (as the old screensavers) that, in a certain way, remember me my childhood :-D
loved this. i remember when i was afk for a few moments with the green or teal color background from the Windows PC and then seeing the maze pop up reminded me of Wolfenstein 3D
1. Never try to escape 2. Be always calm, don't show any signs of anxiety 3. Do not search for others, do not ask for anyone 4. Stay as close to your entrance as possible 5. Never directly stare at any source of light 6. Should you lose your senses, do anything to regain them, even if it means cutting off a part of your body 7. Always check if the time is what you remember it to be 8. Do not touch a wall that seems darker than the one next to it 9. Should you come across another human being, do not make any contact, and move away from each other as fast as possible 10. Count seconds, and after every 500 remember who you are and where you came from 11. Is the most important: sit down and do not look at the sounds when you hear them
i love the lil anomalies that appear randomly, like the rat, open gl logo, the shape, and the globe picture thing and i love how there is a funni smile waiting for you at the end
You could set alternate floor, wall, and ceiling textures in the options. There were a couple animating acid-trip type textures or you could set your own custom. I used some textures from Descent once.
This screen saver practically raised me.
Right? i swear
Dracknorin Same, here! I was pretty upset when it was removed in Windows XP. (Or did Windows 2000 remove it first?)
Ben Roberts Nope, it was 98 exclusive. By Windows 2000, Microsoft had switched to DirectX, and the maze was an openGl thing.Though there are a lot of reproductions of it running around online that work with DirectX.
Dracknorin So that's why there's this ghostly "OpenGL" text scattered around the maze…
Does your explanation mean that Windows 2000 onwards…isn't compatible with OpenGL anymore?
Ben Roberts Not exactly, a lot of programs use it. But the main one used by windows is DirectX. That's why so many games make you update your directx drivers, as opposed to anything else.
I haven't seen this in literally 15 years.
+Spider58x
16 years here. my nostalgia is old enough to drive.
+Spider58x how old are you?
Haruka Takahashi 25
Spider58x I am 24
The good old days, wish they brought it back as a fun nostalgic easter egg thing!
I use to watch this for hours as a little kid. the thought just popped into my head to look it up again.
I am so happy to bring those memories back!
same
Same here I used to set up all night and watch this I also remember we had 2 computers with win 98 on them so I would sometimes make them both race and see witch one was faster
It is curious, quiet and fun.
Omigsoh, same for me!!
The first strand type game.
Grip for balance ass nigga haha
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When I was young. Like in the first or second grade, we didn't have games at all for the windows 95 we had at the time. So this was grand entertainment after school.
this is still grand entertainment
yeah i remember, hours passed on it!
...not even MineSweeper for Windows ?
I remember they had simple preloaded games like solitaire and minesweeper
The computers at my elementary library all had this screensaver playing. I was mesmerized by them! 💕
It's funny you said the word mesmerized, because that is the first word that came to my mind when I reflected on how this screensaver made me feel when I was a youth looking at it. I go to check the comments and somebody already posted my exact thoughts.
You know when you see something like this and remember it really did exist.
Feels like a dream
Yeah
The best part is when you made all the walls that psychodelic animated texture.
Yes! I was going to make the same comment. I always changed the walls, floor, and ceiling to those strange graphics. Friends at work hated them. :D
And it ran a 2 fps
YES
You could even add your own pictures, I used to have a good fun time adding pictures of playmobil and things, it looked fantastic and brought out my creative side. *sigh* those were the days.
Yeeea
It always follows the left-side wall. When it turns upside down, it follows the right side wall (which is the same as the original left-side wall). It's tough to notice because it only rotates to the left, even when making a right turn. This is a standard maze-solving technique (for certain kinds of mazes). This maze doesn't seem to have an exit though...
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨Ʒ I thought it did have an exit… When it reached it, it would just flatten the maze and start a new one. Nothing special, really…
Was looking for this comment!
No end? When you reach the smiley the maze ends.
The exit is thee smiling face
I never noticed....
I remember watching this for many hours as a child
Same here on my parents desktop
Damn nostalgia is hitting hard right now... I miss those times when I could be absorbed by something as simple as this and watch it for a long time when I was a little kid. I was on the edge of my feet when he came close to the smiley but didn't hit it. I feel like I lost something since then, like some kind of fascination for the world and new discoveries that I can't feel anymore.
Agreed. Our passion has gone
This! This is exactly how I feel.
It’s creeping me out a bit how I came to watch this and actually thought that I feel like I’ve lost something special deep within me since then. I’m only 3 minutes in and I feel sleepy and peaceful watching this.
Honestly, same. Its as if this screensaver was....i dint know. There was just something about it.
There IS something about it. I just dunno what.
Imagine if it was irl place :o ö o:
The rat creature at 0:53 used to scare the shit out of me
Joe Cambo I love how it's literally just the generic rat image from the paint pictures back in the day
Same here. I always thought it was chasing camera guy
The rat gave me nightmares
Omg same!!! lol
Isn't it coming from the end and trying to find the start? So when you pass the rat you're half way, or something.
This screensaver always freaked me out, yet it looked so sick.
Backrooms
I see your Lain profile pic. The 3d tag game in that show that was merged with an fps reminded me of this screensaver. I'm sure it was intentional. The original Backrooms.
@@taylordiclemente5163 i have only watched lain a couple of weeks ago and having have watched it and now that i'm being reminded of this comment, yeah, i do see it now, it's a really good observation! thanks for noticing
@@halamandra1 i watched it when it was new and it's still a favorite. Full of soul and prescient for its time.
@@taylordiclemente5163 it really was ahead of it's time and it's one of my favorite media of all time for me too, i'd say
I still remember telling my uncle how awesome this screensaver was, next day he showed up and installed wolf 3D and doom on the family computer. blew my mind as a kid haha.
your uncle seems like a really nice guy to find games based on what you tell him you like
So... THIS is what made Bill Gates a billionaire?! Damn...
+SickMetalAddict I'm amazed at how many people just like to watch this screensaver.
+L-1011 Widebody brings me memories from when i was little and i was begging to play with my mom, then she leaves the computer and plays with me, then cooks while this screensaver is still on
+Macadam Blob That's a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing such nice memories. I hadn't realized how much this screensaver affected people.
L-1011 Widebody Indeed. Of course this screensaver is nothing, but the stories behind it make it so memorable.
Macadam Blob I am just astonished and so very pleased that this brings back fond memories for so many people. I really hadn't anticipated such a reaction, but apparently a lot of people feel a real touching relationship with the simple Windows 3D Maze, and how it brings back memories of those times... I just put it up as a joke more or less but I am so thrilled to have all these people share their stories with me!
looks like a wolfenstein level
B r a n d o n A lot friendlier, though.
Get Psyched!
MEIN LEBEN
SPION!
NEIN, SO WAS!!!
that's the reason why I came to this video!
I don't know why but watching this screensaver is oddly relaxing.
And scary
@@zipperguy7853 its backrooms
I'm conjuring up so many false memories.
woah this way to accurate. Like I remember there being a t-rex and some art on the walls in this but maybe I was just imagining it lol
You could choose custom graphics for the walls etc I believe, so you might not be fooling yourselves!
@@mumblerocks77 you may be thinking of "the first horror game" which was a maze and there was a dinosaur chasing you.
@@mumblerocks77 holy shit I have the same memory of that. Been trying to find it. But what I remember is grass-like textures on the walls, both green and red, with a dinosaur popping out if you went to the wrong path.
I remember that there's a game with this maze as the setting and then you hunt boar in it. Am I thinking another thing? Fck I can't remember
1:16, as a kid I was fascinated at this room and I still am as an adult. I'm so happy I can relive a very nostalgic part of my childhood. Thank you. :)
Still better than CoD.
Sir Isaac what?
Joel Martinez what?
Ryan Clair what?
@@thatwalrusguy what?
@@LilRumi what?
when I was 2-3, I always pushing the arrow keys so that I could play the maze myself, then got ticked when the maze game vanished.
same xD
same
Ikr
I just stood there staring in awe
I did the same thing when I was that age of 3. Good old times
This needs a reboot. Make it an online shooter. Rats are health.
That sounds great, also give the player options to change the backgrounds even their own pictures.
Someone should make this a Doom WAD
This and windows paint were my go to thing
This was totally mesmerizing as a kid
So much nostalgia lol...I would sit and watch this thing for HOURS when I was a kid XD lol
Same here.
Did anyone else wish this screensaver was an actual game?
I keep wanting to pause the video to look at a picture, but I keep thinking it'll close if I move my mouse and I'll have to start all over again.
#90'skidsproblems
I used to always love to watch this screensaver. When times were indeed simpler. This gives me serious nostalgia. Not many people remember this. Those were the good days.
It always bothered me when the maze would get finished upside down
Omfg yes. I hated when it finished the maze upside-down.
That's just the player and his Australian friend taking turns at traversing the maze
@@aaronodonoghue1791 Haha, ba dum tss.
5:19 - Only a robot would run right past the exit so it can go explore all the pointless dead ends.
shadyparadox I don't know about that, have you seen the way people buy meaningless stuff on online games?
L-1011 Widebody True, I'm operating on the assumption one is looking for the exit.
shadyparadox The program sometimes runs turning right at all choices and turning left at all choices. In any case, considering there are no islands, this will lead the to Smiley Face. The Rat always takes right hand turns.
Well its a botplay, who wouldve guessed
I remember my mazes being made out of swirly colors. Also, I thought the rat in the maze was an enemy I had to avoid.
the original nextbot
This, 3D Pipes, 3D Flowerbox (99% chance of weird + bad memory for that name), and Starfield. The best screensavers.
I remember being blown away when I first saw this when I was younger. Wish modern Windows still had this screensaver built in.
yea windows 7 was the last operating system that had Screensavers
MEMORIES :3
My stepfather had this screensaver on Win98 when I was growing up... but our version had an overlay map in the top right corner. I've never seen that version since we junked the old 98.
I loved this screensaver as a kid. I liked the look of the walls, floor and ceiling. I also liked the globe picture with the legos.
Me too, I particularly liked the nursery picture.
Bet this guy has a backrooms obession now
Love the music
for anyone wondering the soundtrack is Darude - Sandstorm
What music?
@ดีเจเบสท์ ppnTube You've just gone deaf, mate.
Silence, I think it's called?
@@TheSupercaitlin1 r/Wooosh
I was afraid of that smiling face
even that dog on the floor :0
Afrah Ahamad no only the face
The dog actually seems creepy cuz it seems dead just lying there and gets trampled on the way :p
+Afrah Ahamad is it not a rat?
+Pedro Baldessar Netto It might be Poison, or Motley Crue, or Whitesnake. You can never tell.
the rat gave me nightmares. oh and that picture on the wall like?!
The Rat was the best part
peekabooicancu I still remember the rat. When I first saw it, I was a bit freaked out, because I didn't know what it was. (I was only 4 back then.)
Oh, man! This brings back memories. The early days of 3D graphics. It was so primitive, but we thought it was amazing! No pun intended.
I used to watch this in kindergarden for hours with my friends.. Those were the days.
The feeling of a new computer and exploring the internet and excitement of learning a computer for the first time. Now that’s nostalgic
Ahh the Windows BACKROOMS
This is a screensaver not a backrooms shut up. You are all being misleaded
The first ever walkthrough video, and the most memorable one.
This is scarier than most horror movies
I've been stuck on this level for 21 years.
we didnt realize we were in presence of a backroom
this used to frustrate me so much, like 'stop! you can clearly see it's a dead end!!!'
well the algorithm just follows one side of the maze forever till it reaches the end (if there is one, never seen this screensaver) I believe its the right side
This taught me as a kid how to systematically get through a maze. Really helpful in life.
I feel like this is where Mystman12 got the ceiling texture for Baldi's Basics
It's been 26 years since I saw this last time.. still relaxing somehow
I remember going to Bring your daughter to work day at my moms work when I was younger and every cubical had this maze, the fish screen saver, or the bouncing words/ time.
It's crazy how something can just bring you right back to a moment from the past!
I LOVED this as a kid. And the fact that you could change the textures for the walls, floor and ceiling? It was epic stuff to me back then :)
If you always take left turns or always take right turns you will eventually reach the end of the maze.
This screensaver taught me that.
So THESE are the infamous "Backrooms"...
I remember I was glued to this when i was a kid ℹ enjoyed it 🤩
I could watch this for hours.
I always looked forward to seeing the mouse 8D
That is what silicon graphics used before they went defunct
I used to think this was a video game. I wanted to play it. ^__^
Hasufel y Arod me and a friend recreated this but as a game
Baldi's basics is the closest thing we get to a windows maze game
@@GwakGwak-ct8yv wolfenstein 3d
0:54 ahhhh. I love that rat
2D rat. xD
Same ❤❤
This maze is giving me Backrooms vibes 😭👌 it's a really weird feeling I don't know how to describe it... Like nostalgia combined with other emotions and a lot of memories
World's FIRST Let's Play
this is beautiful. Never realized Windows 98 had it all figured out. This labyrinth is what we call life. You keep searching for an exit, face many dead ends, it can turn upside down, you will face your deepest fears and walk through them all. And when you find happiness, the maze disappears. All the walls that were keeping you in the game simply vanish.
Goosebumps 💯
"The true maze is inside you"
Brilliant
Could be nostalgia, but I find this screensaver so meditative. It's so peaceful, and seeing it after all these years feels like a warm hug from an old friend. I miss being able to be entertained by just these old screensavers
Revelations: Persona (1996)
I remember in elementary school just staring for hours at this screensaver on the computer screens at the back of the classroom instead of doing my work.
This was the OG Backrooms.
Shut up
It’s been 21 years since I saw this in my brother’s PC, and I always thought the rat was a crocodile, I don’t know why, I was 4 years old back then.
"I'm not dying in a fucking rat maze" - Cube (1997)
Someone needs to make a backrooms with this theme. I've had nightmares about it
This screensaver is more disorienting than I remember.
Found you
This takes me back to fifth grade. If class was boring, I'd stare at the screen saver.
Flashbacks
I remember the PCs and Internet 20 years ago, nowadays we would probably want to destroy immediately those slow and unriable machines, while now we get angry when an application freezes during 10s. But I feel nostalgy when I see such things (as the old screensavers) that, in a certain way, remember me my childhood :-D
Yeah baby - the original Backrooms generator.
loved this. i remember when i was afk for a few moments with the green or teal color background from the Windows PC and then seeing the maze pop up reminded me of Wolfenstein 3D
DemonSlay3r i think there is a doom wad with this maze
it still reminds me of Wolfenstein 3D
yeah, so am i. But i think it would be simpler to do this map with the doom engine and map builder
I remember the Rat. I always thought it was stalking you.
Me too
They prey at night, they stalk at night, they're the Rats.
This unlocked a memory I never knew I had
This would go great with some cool, smooth jazzy elevator music. :)
Or maybe the Naked Gun theme.
This was the backrooms back in my day.
"Stop the exist is right there you passed it"
You meant that face exit and you misspelled exit because you suck at school.
Funfact:
Unlike 90% of all the other videos you are watching, you actually searched for this.
Before the backrooms, we had the Windows 3D Maze.
Please do not mention backrooms except open gl which it was supposed to be in the 90s before silicon graphics was defunct.
I used to love this as a child
This is so nostalgic! The rat, the rock that makes everything upside-down, and even the photo of a lego earth!
What bout the OpenGL logo? :D
I'm so happy that this still exists in some form. This was how I survived ISS.
Backrooms are based on this battery saver
Not quite now get out you know backrooms never existed in the 90s you should stop mentioning 2022
Our favorite game was to set the floor, walls, and ceiling all to the wood texture. The AI couldn't see where it was going and neither could we.
1. Never try to escape
2. Be always calm, don't show any signs of anxiety
3. Do not search for others, do not ask for anyone
4. Stay as close to your entrance as possible
5. Never directly stare at any source of light
6. Should you lose your senses, do anything to regain them, even if it means cutting off a part of your body
7. Always check if the time is what you remember it to be
8. Do not touch a wall that seems darker than the one next to it
9. Should you come across another human being, do not make any contact, and move away from each other as fast as possible
10. Count seconds, and after every 500 remember who you are and where you came from
11. Is the most important: sit down and do not look at the sounds when you hear them
5. If you are escaping do not speak about the escape
i love the lil anomalies that appear randomly, like the rat, open gl logo, the shape, and the globe picture thing
and i love how there is a funni smile waiting for you at the end
Strange, I remember mine being made of a rainbow-type substance.
You could set alternate floor, wall, and ceiling textures in the options. There were a couple animating acid-trip type textures or you could set your own custom. I used some textures from Descent once.
I remember I used to change this walls to multicolor ones including the floors lol
The True Orgins of the Backrooms
You know from what you just said. that never exist in the 90s
I wouldn't be surprised if the creator of Baldi's Basics was inspired by this.
I used to watch just to catch a glimpse of that GIANT RAT!! ahahaha 90s where so simple and amazing. The age of innovation and creativity. Good times.
I loved how you could change how the walls looked. You could make them glow with psychedelic flashing colors
So basically the backrooms are the creepy version of this
I missed this. I used to love watching this as a kid. By far my favorite Windows Screen Saver
Fucking with someone back in the 90s: making this their screensaver, and making the walls, ceiling and floor identical.
0:35 : oooh, THATS where the inspiration came from that one baldis basics plus event!