Oh yeah. This was definitely the dark age of the Gwimbly series. I wouldn't be surprised if this is why the company stopped making games for him. That cdi deal really killed the franchise.
Nah, Gwimbly games at least lived to see the 6th or 7th generation of consoles
Please dude, if it was that bad they wouldn’t have made like, 5 more games after.
I love how the boss fight, even though its a oneshot, it still looks more like an actual boss compared to the real cdi games.
when we think of the Philips CD-i nothing but quality comes to mind
The deranged designs, the corny dialogue, the awkward-looking gameplay, yep, this is CD-i distilled to its very essence.
Don't forget the vivid, almost childish liminal technicolor palette, and unfitting yet catchy music.
I just figured it out: Gwimbly's voice is Zach's impersonation of Corey's impersonation of Sonic.
Jimmy Davis doing an impersonation of Zach Hadel's impersonation of Corey Beck's impersonation of Sonic doing an impersonation of Gwimbly
I kept mulling it over to find ways where you're wrong, but the more comparisons i make the more i realize you're right.
Man, you just can't imagine all the suffering behind that smile...Mr. Milipede needed help and so do so many others around the world in his shoes...fuck Fentanyl.
I'm just gonna say what nobody else is willing to say! America has a fat f**king Fentanyl crisis!
@@Meemaster334"Barney looking guy"? That's Gwimbly's iconic arch-nemesis Count Groxia! Don't worry though, he just plays a villain in the games. He's actually a really nice guy in real life. I met him at the cafe on 158 Meep Boulevard.
@@parker-boy98 Oh really? I didn't know that and I mean he kinda looks like Barney with the purple and green but I like him
The Gwinbily 2010 YTP era was something else XD
Man i rememeber gwimbee destroys the krusty fuck and free sample geddon man free samplegeddon was a bop song man i wished they where not copyrighted by gwimbly
Anyone else remember Milli Misterpede Visits Strickland Propane? The original got a copyright strike and was never re-uploaded ☹️
@@cloroxguy496 It was this collad with a bunch of the old King of the Hill YTPers about Gwimbly and Mr Millipede with the KOTH characters. There was this bit where they sentence-mixed Mr Millipede doing the Ezekiel 25:17 speech from Pulp Fiction, it was awesome!
I find it funny that despite it trying to replicate CDI Zelda, it still has better animation
the final fight with Groxia always scared me as a kid. I've had a massive fear of large purple people ever since.
I really find it stupid how you needed to get the secret creamed corn item to even defeat this boss, like how would a kid know they need to fire out of the corngun 3 times against a wall in under 2 seconds and press the combination ⬆️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬇️⬆️⬅️➡️➡️➡️⬆️ immediately afterwards, which I may remind you is in a secret level in a hidden room! But the creamed corn is definitely worth the struggle, even if there wasn’t any guide for this in the game’s manual.
@@Kogotom123 People keep skipping the cut scenes. If they were more patient they would hear the shop keeper reveal virtually every secret.
@@Kogotom123 You have to unequip the Creamed Corn Garnet, which is counter intuitive, and the shop keep assumes you're uneducated and speaks really slow. Ruins speed runs but for a first run it reveals all secrets. It even revealed that the FBI had Kennedy Assassinated.
Damn, Mr. Millipede was so full of life before he got hooked on fentanyl...
Such an interesting piece of Gwimbly history. The fact THIS is the reason why the Playstation exists, because Johnathan Station got into a fistfight with Gwimbly himself due to disagreements between them, will always be fascinating
And the fact that Gwimbly just happened to run into Sean Philips right outside the door after that fight led to this strange piece of gaming history.
Gwimbly himself had disagreements with the CEO of Insane Groundbreaking Games, the creator and owner of the Gwimbly franchise. Which prompted him to leave the company, that being the CEO was more concerned with making money than passion. And then they replaced the cute yellow guy with that scary looking Troglor! I mean, don't get me wrong, the game mechanics of Troglor are awesome, getting to shoot space aliens and stuff. But nothing beats the childlike innocence of collecting cans of creamed corn. Gwimbly was even going to be a skin in the next Troglor game, unfortunately there were some complications with the negotiations. At least Gwimbly's in Insane Groundbreaking Games Battle Royale!
So sad seeing Mr. Millipede here. He looked so young and healthy. America truly does a a fentanyl crisis. R.I.P. Mr. Milipede
Now YTPers have more fuel to work with
I loved the gwimbly ytps from back in the day
And gwimbee man i rember gwimbee in bikini bottom ytps like gwimbee destroys the krusty fuck and squidwards weegee vs gwimbee
I love the detail of CD-I making Grimbly uncanny-looking.
I like how remarkably high effort a lot of SF fan content is.
Not surprisingly, psychicpebbles / Zach Hadel has a huge fanbase in the UA-cam community who happens to be inspired by his animations over the years. I wasn't his biggest fan but I do appreciate how much he and Cusack contribute to the resurging boom of online western cartoons, which the likes of Justin Roiland and JQ Quintel precedes them. The series however managed to bring in many online animation content creators from Newgrounds and UA-cam as guest voice actors and animators for their show, which is their own feat that I am very proud of.
I still can’t believe that you’ve come so far from the YTP community to actually help animate game cutscenes based off of those crappy CDI animations. Sometimes I feel like memes really do have more of an impact on us than I thought
You must not be aware of arzette the jewel of faramore. Jimmy Davis was one of the animators of that game along with many others
Aw man, why'd you have to make Mr. Millipede so endearing?
Now I'm just reminded of America's opioid crisis
Too bad you couldn't get famed voice actor Joshua Tomar to reprise his roll as Count Groxia. But then again I'm thankful Interpol finally caught him.
This is one of the best non-Zelda CDI animations I have seen you do. Great Job!
FINALLY! Someone who knows copium isn't good for you! JUST LOOK AT THESE OTHER CLOWNS!
@@PAPicturesOfficial what are you talking about. I really enjoyed the animation.
@@therevenger259 That's what I meant! It's good that you enjoyed the animation, because Gwimbly never EXISTED. Everybody else keeps saying "I wish we could've played that" when it was a meme to begin with. You, out of all people, are the one to acknowledge that Jimmy Davis made this animation. That means that Gwimbly never existed OUTSIDE of Smiling Friends, thus further proving my critical point.
People need to be more like you. That's what I'm basically saying.
@@PAPicturesOfficial ...so people arent allowed to have ongoing jokes????
if this was actually released, this would’ve been UA-cam Poop GOLDMINE. (HD version)
It’s too bad it wasn’t ever released. The ROM that was leaked had incomplete cutscenes so all we have is the shitty game.
@@matthewwyman1581 I'm talking about the ROM and It isn't a shitty game Its a masterpiece
I love the fact that Jimmy Davis worked on [as] & now has made an actual cartoon in the style of the old cdi games using on of the most iconic [as] mascots of 2024. Amazing work!
Mam, its been so long since we've had a proper Gwimbly game (as in collectathon, none of these crossovers or cheap mobile games) that I'm almost nostalgic for this. At least it had jumping and item collecting.
"Directed by Alan Smithee" fucking genius!
While I never played the Gwimbley games myself, My Dad was always a hardcore gwimbley Fan, even though he never owned a single game. at school, he and his friends would constantly talk about Gwimbley, and so imagine the Excitement in his eyes when on his 16th birthday, he got a new game console, The Phillips CDI, and the newest gwimbley Game, "Gwimbley: Cream if the crop". Of course, as any true gwimbley fan would know, Thinks got Ugly real fast. the Gameplay was slow and generic, plus it played nothing and looked nothing like the games he played at his friend's house. The Disappointment hit him so hard, that he never played a gwimbley game again. However, the story did have a Happy ending, as I managed to find an emulator online for the original Gwimbley and Gwimbley 2: Count Groxia's Revenge, and he played his Heart out to both of them. I've only seen some All Bosses compilations of the original gwimbley trilogy, But thanks to this, I can feel the large amount of disappointment he felt.
Get ready for this to be on YTPs.
I remember there being another gwimbly cdi game starring mr millipede
It was called Mr. Millipede: Lost in spamtopia
I rented that once when I was 8 and got stuck on the stupid ice level all weekend. Almost made me quit the Gwimbly series all together, thankfully Gwimbly Adventure 3 came out later that year
I remember that one. I couldn’t figure out the button combination to not get ripped in half by Mr Jester
All of your acquired CD-i knowledge has led to the creation of this. This is just beautiful.
Never even watched Smiling Friends but the algorithm fed me this and honestly its so well done I thought it was a real game. Had to google it and found the show in a roundabout way. So, thanks for expanding my horizons and great job on a super-convincing fake!
Zach needs to see this, good lord. You absolutely knocked this out of the park.
Smiling friends should acknowledge this thing's existence and make it canon--
Internet gaslighting aside, this is genuinely a spectacular video. You did a fantastic job at emulating the feel of the CDI. I’ve never seen anyone come THIS close to that.
If I didn’t know better, I genuinely would have thought this was real
dude doesn't feel like making stuff anymore; suddenly starts making the best content he's made to date
I didn’t grow up in the age of gwimbly but I can still respect the the effect he made in modern gaming today 👍
I always loved the weird interpretations of the franchises featured in these old CD-i games. The choice to have the Creamed Corn be made in a factory owned by Gwimbly rather than a naturally occurring power source was such a weird decision, but it's part of the charm of Cream of the Crop
I actually had a CD-i as a kid and I've played a shit ton of Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon. This video is perfection. The sound effects from the game... the shitty jumping... I love it.
Only thing is the animation is TOO good lmao
The Conection gwimbly and Mr Millipede shared was so specie, truly one of the greatest duos in gaming history.
Imagine a CD-i inspired character in Smiling Friends because of this video as an inspiration? That would be perfect.
I hate breaking the joke, but all these different iterations and imaginings of Gwimbly really shows how much dedication there is within the Smiling Friends community. And im just gonna say what no one else is willing to say, theres a damn fentanyl crisis in america dude.
Oddly enough, I haven't seen anybody making a "Lost Gwimbly Show Footage" or anything like that
(Not yet, anyway)
I remember watching so much ytp of this cutscene specifically back in the day. Man, got a bit emotional there, nostalgia is one helluva emotion...
Love the use of the factory founder’s memorial plaque. Reminds me of all the “In loving memory” end cards from the show
Dayum, Groxia is dangerously stacked!
You've been addicted to those cutscenes for YEARS you already know how to imitate them 😭
I remember watching HOURS of Gwimbly CD-i youtube poops back in the 2010s. So many amazing maymays
You know I always remember between the late 2000s people were just making memes of this. There aren’t any more Gwimbly games anymore but hey you could say he was one of the founders that started Internet culture.
Remember playing this on the Nintendo DS
Absolutely stunning quality, fantastic effortpost!
Its hard to believe this was the game before the beloved and iconic N64 Gwimbly.
Meta-Jokes aside... HUGE props for putting together this piece of art!
Traditional animation is hard enough. But fluidly combining it with a niche art style? INCREDIBLE!
I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but I actually loved Gwimbly CDI as a kid.
My parents bought me a CD-I for Christmas one year thinking it was a PlayStation, and I had to make do with a lot of the games that came with it. Gwimbly was, without a doubt, my favorite. There were a few bugs here and there (not including Mr. Millipede), and the gameplay was nearly impossible for me to get a grasp on at first, but I still made do. If I got stuck somewhere, my older brother would come and play through a screen for me. I don't know when he had the time to get so good, but I never asked him about it.
I never got to the end of the game though. Not even my brother could get through the final area. This is the first time I'm seeing the ending cutscene. It sucked that they couldn't get Gwimbly's original voice actor, but I think this guy did a decent job.
The CDI version of Gwimbly eventually led me to try out other Gwimbly games on different consoles when I was in Highschool. I realized very quickly that the one I grew up with was the black sheep of the franchise, and that it was pretty much universally hated.
Still, it meant a lot to me and my brother growing up, and I'm glad I got to see the ending all these years later. Thank you for sharing this.
I always hated when my friends would pick up the tin can in the secret level. One shotting the boss totally robs you of a sense of victory.
This looks too real. Appreciate the effort on this Smiling Friends meme!
This is really an amazing piece of work. You went all in on the accuracy and I'm all for it.
honestly surprised smiling friends hasn't had a cd-i reference in the show. feels like it'd fit right in.
Man, we dodged a bullet with this one.
I remember all the games fondly; I mean that first game in 1988 was a simple 8-bit platformer, but it still has its charm and I've beaten Lord Groxia plenty of times while collecting God knows how much creamed corn.
Gwimly 2 was when it *really* started to get interesting, since that's where Mr. Millipede and the iconic victory dance first appeared (and on that note, it's a great sound for 1992). But Gwimbly 3? That simply was perfection!
It’s not until you go back and watch clips like this that you realize Creamed Corn Quest wasn’t nearly as bad as people remember
I would unironically try this out, it does look a lot of fun
This is just incredibly impressive
I would have to imagine if someone made a homebrew game of CDI like this, that will deserve to had a new community shall be born
Jimmy, you are the one of the few people who's a biggest fan of the CD-i videogames. Now I can hear the Philips CD-i startup playing in my head
its crazy that the ytp community contacted the original animators and they ACTUALLY RESPONDED and game them the high quality animation files for the gwimbly cdi game
Idk why people hating on this, this was my most favorite Gwimbly game growing up ❤
Groxia looks like the type of character FurAffinity would have a field day with. Anyway, great vid. You really nailed the feel of CDI. It’s uncanny.
My dad had this! I didn’t really get to play it much but always thought gwimbly was cool
Thanks for posting this! We couldn't afford the CD-i as a kid and I was so desperate to play the sequel to my fav game. But now at least I can finally see it myself and though yeah the CD-i may not have been the best fit, the team still knocked it out the park because they had so much passion for Gwimbly.
A true masterpiece, I expected nothing less from you. Well done.
This is genuinely amazing
It’s amazing how mister millipede’s first major role as a sidekick was in this game. Such an integral piece to the franchise that came from the thing that almost destroyed it.
Dude the commericals made this game look SO good.
Gwimbly the cream of the crop more like the cream of the CRAP. WHAT WERE THEY THINKIIIIIIIN?
Never made it to the last level. Good job! Thanks for uploading the ending
I always appreciate how you give us the files so we can do things with them =)
Ah, the Gwimbly CD-I games. I remember seeing lines and clips from them in YTPs for years.
In all seriousness though, this is very impressive
"Ooh ooh oooh!" So iconic.
Since it's CD-I, he had to butcher the Gwimbly character and remove the iconic purple prolapse
This is insane. One thing that was actually nailed was the music. CD-i music for games was always this odd funky beat that never really fit the game but wasn't bad.
This was so well done. I really love this!😂
Dude my brother and I used to play this all the time growing up truly peak of the 2D gwimbly era
Why is this so good? Incredible job!
0:51 I just noticed even though its a small detail, but I do like how he took off his cape to when being sucked in.
The fact it took years to find this horrific monstrosity of the gwimbly says a lot
Mate, this is spot-on! You nailed the three art-styles, animation, character sprites, and backgrounds. Good work!!
This brings me back.
This is almost too well animated to be convincing, I'm so impressed! 🙈
Excellent use of perspective shifts and characters needlessly pointing at you and eachother. Very period accurate
Outstanding work
congrats on 100k!!
Wow, love seeing all the detail in the sprite work that was difficult to see in the original down-scaled version. Also, I just noticed the "Directed by Alan Smithee" gag at the end. That's some clever detail!
dude this is so good
Man this is incredible - also huge huge congratulations for 100K Jimmy! Hitting that milestone’s a nice note to end on
This almost makes me want to start making YTP again
Genuinely an impressive animation and production 😮
You nailed it, dude.
Crazy how LJN manages to get their hands on EVERY LICENSED GAME
This is like the only one of these I’ve ever seen that’s done well all the way through. I think the mic audio for Gwimbly/Mr Millepede could have been a hair shittier but it’s still really incredibly done. The drawings are really perfectly uncanny in how they look and feel and move around. Great work! 🎉
Great CD-i Video!
Nice that there is new cdi context being made, games animations etc in the style of cdi animations
I like how the voices don’t sound like the real characters, but that’s totally on brand for a cdi game
I just love how this looks like a genuine cdi game. You even nailed the random awkward closeups in the cutscenes
How is nobobdy talking about the fact that when the boss fight ends all the sprites just freeze, despawn and then the cutscene just takes a couple seconds to load. Absolute masterclass of immersion.
Unfortunately, I could only upscale this to 720p if I wanted to keep the individual pixel size perfectly square. I tried a 960p version, but YT just crunched it back down to 720p anyway. Check the description if you wanna download the individual files for yourself.
Also, I do plan on putting together a making-of video at some point in the near future.
I want to see a YTP version of it.
Wouldn't 1440p work?
4K would have worked too!
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Not sure if that could be fixed with the Dain App. It supposed to increase interlacing and frame rates to my understanding.