ain’t it weird how this video mentions how eric doesn’t like water, and the thumbnail from two videos ago has mario surrounded by water, and there was that drowning animation a while back? i think we gotta keep an eye on the water in this series
Also, in one of the community posts in the channel, Eris says how he scared Meg in the pool when they were together. I can't find the post now though, maybe they deleted it.
When the music stopped at 3:28 I had a flashback towards Company PSA from Squimpus McGrimpus, and was expecting the narrator to say something like "Luigi does not exist in SM64"
Luigi Does not exist. The Wario Apparition does not exist. No copies of Super Mario 64 are personalized. Every build of the game is normal should produce no problems. The Wario apparition does not exist. *He does not exist.* *He does not exist.* *He does not exist.*
I really like the detail of how the people speaking in this video all have British accents, which makes sense as when it came for anyone non-Japanese to work on Super Mario 64, they were most likely British.
Why would that be? I suppose Nintendo did have relations with British developers like Argonaut and Rare, but they cut ties with Argonaut while Mario 64 was in early development, and I doubt Rare had anything to do with it. Unless it's for some other reason that's gone over my head.
@@alfiehicks1 no it's argonaut thing, there have been several rumors regarding argonaut and the development of mario 64 (also rare and nintendo still had close ties in 1995)
4:47 they are probably talking about the developer animation showcase that was posted here a few months ago i edited the timestamp because Dan mentions a "kid from animation"... this is creepy
Wait, do you remember the password and the decoded name of the files that Eric and Meg received a month ago? It was Casey and Cousin, respectively. A week later, Meg said that Eric was stressed after that. I don't want to sound paranoid, but I think that guy mentioning that kid is a murderer, and so far Eric and Meg haven't realized it. I don't like where this is going.
@@pyk_ I mean, they’ve had some involvement with the community and stuff on the community tab (cracking the password on the file) and the stuff that happens here aren’t really what happened during the actual development, so I personally would consider it an arg, but I’m not incredibly knowledgeable of the subject ig
@@frogmonger6916 Interesting, that sounds like they are attempting to make it more of an ARG. What does what happened during actual development have to do with it, though?
Stop playtesting immediately if: -The playtester starts feeling strange -The game crashes -The game lags for no reason (the sub in Dire Dire Docks does not count as no reason) -The music stops -The tester's name is shown -Wario appears and starts threatening the playtester.
"...If the playtester has this question, tell them 'Wario does not exist' 'Luigi was never planned to be in the game' 'The game cannot be personalized' 'Wario does not exist' 'Wario does not exist' 'Wario does not exi-"
That was all one take, darn. Anyway things of note: He mentions that if playtesters feel deja vu, among other things, to stop the playtesting. As I'll mention later here, with something called game-sync, maybe the game starts doing that personalization thing, and deja vu could be a result of that. It's likely not meant to be turned on during playtesting. Another commenter (Jeroen Both) points out he also mentions the game displaying the playtesters name, another thing which ties into that. He mentions Dan, and says to only tell Dan, no one else, if things happen to the playtesters, as you could face legal trouble. Now, to be fair, this makes some sense, as someone might think it was you who did it, or you did something to cause it, but at the same time, could it be legal trouble from Nintendo? After the normal tape finishes, we find another guy had snuck into the recording room (or really whatever room it was being recorded in.) We learn that the water not being in the moat was this other guy's fault, but the narrator says that Eric didn't have game-sync on. Hmmm, game-sync? He thought it was haunted not because the water was missing, but because it was missing when he didn't have game-sync on? So, this means game-sync can cause that to happen? Hmmm... This other guy also mentions how the animations weren't real. I think we all remember the description of the animation test video and the drowning animation... Well, it seems that was another joke pulled by this guy... Or maybe he's just trying to get out of possible trouble... Another commenter (RawChick) points out the dude also mentions 'that kid.' Who's that kid? After the narrator asks for the other guy to send Meg down to him if he passes her in the hall, she happens to walk in. She says she can't find Eric, possibly she was searching for him? She's called a know-it-all... A typical insult, or a sign she learned a tad more than she should've? The narrator also asks if she has a another moment, possibly in reference to Eric? She gets kinda annoyed at that. She also gets pretty pissed that this whole thing was being recorded on her camcorder without her permission... This whole ending segment happens during a power outage, probably normal, happens every now and then, but still a bit spooky I suppose. So, this video gives us a small new piece of information on game-sync, and introduces two new characters. The narrator seems to be well-intentioned, at least to me, being a tad upset with that other guy for pulling his trick on Eric. The other guy seems to be mischievous, pulling at least two tricks on Eric, but doesn't seem to be ill-intentioned, at least not yet. So that's my analysis of this video, probably my favorite yet!
@Danke Watch the video in the background, while reading this, so that you hear what the video is saying as you read what I think some possibilities are. I don’t really think I could summarize.
The only part that weirds me out are deja-vus. In theory, deja-vus happen because your brain gets out of sync or something like that, and receives the same information twice, giving that "i've seen that somewhere else" vibe. Now, if this thing can cause deja-vus, it means that maybe it is directly messing with the brain. That could also explain the other symptoms. I mean, stress _can_ be normal if this thing mixes wishes with fears. But deja-vus? I've never seen an unsolved psychological trauma being powerful enough to cause deja-vus. And if i'm correct, we should bring another question to the table: _Why_ can it interfere with your brain? Is that an undocumented feature or (the ARG) Nintendo is planning on mass mind control? Either way, if this function was made in good faith (which i highly doubt) then i can see how this prototype failed. It is too risky.
"or the game displays the playtesters name" Excuse me *what?* Edit: like how some people took the joke seriously and tried to give explanations about why it does that lmao
''The animations weren't real'' ''What's that supposed to mean'' ''Did you use a Real person?'' ''What? no of course not'' I don't need sleep, *i need answers*
ngl I appreciate how there isn't heavy distortion and warping like people usually do when making a video from a fake vhs tape. also, singular they? in 1995? it's more likely than we think (lol) but Nintendo doesn't seem like the sort of company who would do that back (or even now, except they do now so)
@@IsabelleChiming uh, I was talking about the instruction part, like "hand them the controller" or "have them sign the form". I was honestly surprised they didn't say "him or her the controller".
@@PandaXs1 Ohhhhh trueeee. I happened to only notice in referral to Meg, sorry. Regardless it shows that the people running this channel aren't exclusionary which is good
@@PandaXs1 is that really so uncommon ? i can't name any examples off the top of my head and i could be dead wrong but i don't feel like singular they in anonymous contexts like that was super rare
Man, I'm consistently impressed with how real these feel. Like, they obviously aren't, but if I lived in a world with the Nintendo Ultra 64, I'd absolutely believe this was an internal employee video
To those of you thinking "why dontm't nintendo just take thow these videos if they are real!>!>!>!>?/". It's because if they do, everyone will know it's real.
OK, the fact that the games could do that creepy shit like displaying the testers name, thats fucking unsettling as he'll. How it could possibly even do that is beyond me.
It probably really is cause this dude hasn't been doing stuff like squimpus mcgrimpus's fnaf tapes Edit: ok yeah definitely fake cause i just got to the playtesters name going in game part
You can tell they really studied Nintendo's designs for stuff like this. I swear those stock people on the thumbnail and a bit before half the way into the video, those people look like something Nintendo would have in a tape like this.
1. I love the art and general style in this! They really nailed the Nintendo brand here! Plus, mario getting crushed with an N64 made me laugh lol. 2. “Send meg up to me.” “If I see _them_ on the way to the breaker, sure, whatever.” either it’s written weirdly and he was actually talking about meg plus someone else, or... Meg uses they/them instead of/along with she/her now...? I know that this is from the 90s so it’s not likely, but... this *is* an ARG, so maybe it’s a world where nonbinary people were already accepted back then.
This is actually really amazing quality, thank you for reducing my boredom Also everyone is talking about the water and Eric but ia nobody going to mention that in Snow Ravine Eric literally called Dan cute
This is an amazing project, but one thing that always bugs me is using mario's beta voice clips. They're from a stock sound library, and charles was already chosen by that point, so I doubt his beta voice would've actually been used in secondary media. Again, a minor nitpick
Could also be to cover their tracks with youtube and nintendo copyright happy lawers. At the moment outside of the gameplay videos they are safely in fair use territory, using charles clips would push them over.
The two people in 2:04 I think represent Meg and Eric. Meg has the curly hair from the Wing Cap Tower GUI video, Eric must be the one on the right. Plus, Dan Newman at 3:26 must be the Dan mentioned in Snow Ravine.
If the game becomes Sentient and tries to kill the play tester, via the form of one of the characters heads popping out of the TV, please exit the room immediately and take the playtester to a "safe place" far away from our headquarters incase anything "bad" happens.
@@CalebButter Also make sure that if nothing happens to the playtester, that they are diagnosed with Schizophrenia and silenced. Nothing bad happens at Nintendo.
Hate to say, but the dialogue isn't great. The script doesn't sound natural, and the delivery is a bit robotic. (The monologue during the instruction tape is fine tho)
As a self-proclaimed writer, I kind of agree. I think it's one of those things that is supposed to be stilted, though. This ARG needs a tad better writing all round, tbh. But the renders and songs are great, so I don't mind.
@@suedonnym everything else about this series is great, but this video and the last video were both pretty bad when it came to characters having a conversation
@@trev3d They seem to excel at everything except naturally moving the story forward. It's one of the less believable ARGs I've seen. But again, there's good stuff there.
I like how when you see yhe start of the channel everthing sees very peacefull and calm but when more.But when you start to see the videos getting more creep and creepier every video.(Im sorry for my bad english)
The style of the drawing reminds me of petscop. And the voice of the narador sounds to me to have heard it very similar in petscope. And the animation reminds me of the vhs tapes they made about fnaf.
Was the Ultra 64 a game console or a kind control device? At this point I’m really leaning on the latter. This is becoming a lot more than just Mario 64. I hope the best for you, Meg and Eric.
If I hadn't come down and read these comments, I would have thought this was a real video and probably been spooked pretty good, especially since it's like midnight right now
BIG CLUE: In the 7z file anonymously sent to Eric which contains design documents that belonged to him, one of the pages details early SM64 level concepts, and one of the level titles literally translates to "Lake Death Room". Lol. Another reference to drowning in this ARG, it's definitely going to lead up to something.
Some things I noticed 1. The hand in the animations is similar to the cursor in Mario 64 2. The buttons that are being cleaned are the power and the reset buttons 3. The cartoon of Dan seems to make him look pretty mean. Perhaps the artist also doesn’t like Dan very much? Also, he is the only cartoon to have color. 4. Another speaker shows up, who we know to be Dan, because the narrator calls him Daniel 5. Dan talks about Eric’s fear of water, which we already know from the community posts 6. The most not having water could be the inspiration for the most losing its water in the final game 7. The narrator mentions “game sync,” which seems to be the personalization software. Interestingly, there seems to be an option to turn it off. 8. Dan says, “it’s wasn’t him or that kid in the animations or something.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but I believe that it implies that Dan used a child for making the animations, including the drowning animation. Dan denies this afterwards, almost like he didn’t mean to mention the kid earlier. 9. We learn that Meg and Eric are currently working in the same building 10. Meg shows up, and she is very worried about the whereabouts of Eric 11. Meg’s personality matched her personality in the community posts. 12. The description has a lot more details than the last one. They say that they don’t remember who the narrator was, so I suppose he is an unimportant character. They also mention that they are still on the move. All in all, this was very fun. We got voice confirms for Meg, and some insight into what it was like working and play testing at the SM64 development team. This video has some less details than the last one, but I still really enjoyed over-analyzing it.
So know we know some character appearence,apparently drowning doesn’t mean dying,I think Eric had an incident with WA[REDACTED] Dan really cares bout Eric as shown in this tape,Eric probaly drowned in one of the animation sessions,but was rescued in time,and we can hear Meg at the ending,so the two are definitely alive. Edit:The ending of the tape recording might been during around Eric’s snow ravine play testing,maybe after the ending of the tape,since in the recording it didn’t reach 30 minutes of playtime,SOMETHING might have happened to him during snow ravine testing,maybe something,or even... someone did something to him,maybe in castle grounds testing.
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I cannot figure out why but for some reason my mom bought my sisters and I a bunch of old cartoons on VHS from Walgreens of all places. The cartoons were ancient and there were some that were downright strange. One of the tapes had instructions on how to clean your vcr if it began having bad tracking. Because it was in between cartoons we knew when it was coming and immediately after was this super creepy cartoon about a humpty dumpy character who literally built a wall in order to reach the sun bc he believed he could find gold in it. Since we were used to Garfield, Rugrats and Looney Toons this particular segment was especially scary. This entire video reminded me so much of that old tape. We loved it bc it actually creeped us out. Kids love weird stuff bc it helps them to engage with what they're seeing and allows it to retain easily in their minds. Most of the entertainment I found myself seeking once I got a bit older always straddled the line between scary and funny. It's no wonder I am constantly in search of scary stuff to watch.
Okay now this is quality, we went from custom music and stages to voice actors and animations, hyped to see what's next
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Leaked ROM that appears on the community page for five minutes before getting taken down for safety reasons
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Nothing beats sitting in my bed at 3 AM eating chicken strips watching Mario get murdered by the Ultra 64.
It’s never not time for chicken strips.
@@joshuadarrow fact
oh these are pretty cool bananas
*gasp AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*
We're they Good?
Eminster 2000 Yes, they were very good.
ain’t it weird how this video mentions how eric doesn’t like water, and the thumbnail from two videos ago has mario surrounded by water, and there was that drowning animation a while back? i think we gotta keep an eye on the water in this series
Also, in one of the community posts in the channel, Eris says how he scared Meg in the pool when they were together. I can't find the post now though, maybe they deleted it.
Maybe Eric started being afraid of water while "performing" that mocap, although he did scare Meg by pretending he drowned in the pool so...
Early Castle Grounds did also show Eric traversing around the castle without any water on the moat...
weird
@jack what a water
Please help me I've been under this Nintendo Ultra 64 for months I can't feel any of my limbs
okay i help you
i can't reach you from there
bi bi
you still need help my guy
ok SGI Mario
0:06 Oh these are pretty cool bananas
Oh these are pretty cool coins
AAAAAAAAAAA
Oh my god I cant believe Mario died like donkey kong I'm crying rn 😭
Oh these are pretty cool cartridges
Oh these are pretty cool 1 ups.
M A M A M I A
Luigi knows that no matter how careful you try to be..
When the music stopped at 3:28 I had a flashback towards Company PSA from Squimpus McGrimpus, and was expecting the narrator to say something like "Luigi does not exist in SM64"
Yea this video reminded me a lot of fnaf vhs, more specifically the night security training video
Luigi Does not exist.
The Wario Apparition does not exist.
No copies of Super Mario 64 are personalized.
Every build of the game is normal should produce no problems.
The Wario apparition does not exist.
*He does not exist.*
*He does not exist.*
*He does not exist.*
L: i don't exist?
@@damarekun L:You said you loved me.
L: and that you were sorry
I really like the detail of how the people speaking in this video all have British accents, which makes sense as when it came for anyone non-Japanese to work on Super Mario 64, they were most likely British.
Doesn’t Eric have an American accent?
@RockyThePup Lover14 I thought he did in the Snow Ravine video unless that’s some other version of English.
@@gbalph4 He is canadian
Why would that be? I suppose Nintendo did have relations with British developers like Argonaut and Rare, but they cut ties with Argonaut while Mario 64 was in early development, and I doubt Rare had anything to do with it. Unless it's for some other reason that's gone over my head.
@@alfiehicks1 no it's argonaut thing, there have been several rumors regarding argonaut and the development of mario 64 (also rare and nintendo still had close ties in 1995)
Well, I know EXACTLY why 3D All-Stars is a limited release now
Mario got crushed by an N64, his funeral is on March 2021
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Oh no, I've made a chain
@@YourAverageSpelunker cRimInaL
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nice, nexpo is here
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0:55 explicit hot footage of mario rubbing his hard plastic
yes
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HOT PLASTIC
BRUH, My comments audience doesn't work :(
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What i do?
it just occurred to me that this is a cursed universe because instead of the Japanese, Mario 64 is being developed by British people. Terrifying
this is precisely why you don't let brits have technology
BRI'ISH "PEOPLE" BE LIKE: oim afraid of wa'oh bo'oh
This video is property of Nintendo of Europe.
@@Nikku4211 why did you put "people" in quotation marks? We are people you dope
@@AccurateDiscoFever45 Woooosh.
Oh dear, it can call the playetesters by their names.
Wait, hold up.
Did that happen at any time before in these videos?
Oh my gosh how did i get 188 likes
(Edit): what, how am I legit the top comment
This is a "ultra 64" that has special ennerds which includes a sensor on the controller to read fingerprints for personalized games
@Layne Krusz yeah, but SM64 doesn't do that. Watch the N64 Scrapped BIOS video, and you will understand.
who was the asshole who thought the "Game Sync" thing was a good idea?
4:47 they are probably talking about the developer animation showcase that was posted here a few months ago
i edited the timestamp because Dan mentions a "kid from animation"... this is creepy
*oh* *boy*
Makes sense taking the fact the description on the animation showcase video said the animations were made with real human movement samples
I have a feeling that the guy who did the voice lining on how to clean the n64 may know something that the others don’t
Wait, do you remember the password and the decoded name of the files that Eric and Meg received a month ago? It was Casey and Cousin, respectively.
A week later, Meg said that Eric was stressed after that.
I don't want to sound paranoid, but I think that guy mentioning that kid is a murderer, and so far Eric and Meg haven't realized it.
I don't like where this is going.
@@galiasvirtual4078 (it did not go anywhere)
im glad we have channels like this to still prove the ARG genre is still alive and thriving
This isn't an ARG... is it?
@@pyk_ Who knows?...
@@frogmonger6916 I guess I meant: as of this moment, nobody knows of any ARG elements to this series?
@@pyk_ I mean, they’ve had some involvement with the community and stuff on the community tab (cracking the password on the file) and the stuff that happens here aren’t really what happened during the actual development, so I personally would consider it an arg, but I’m not incredibly knowledgeable of the subject ig
@@frogmonger6916 Interesting, that sounds like they are attempting to make it more of an ARG. What does what happened during actual development have to do with it, though?
Stop playtesting immediately if:
-The playtester starts feeling strange
-The game crashes
-The game lags for no reason (the sub in Dire Dire Docks does not count as no reason)
-The music stops
-The tester's name is shown
-Wario appears and starts threatening the playtester.
“Give me your garlic or I’ll steal your car”
YOU WANT FUN? WARIO SHOW YOU FUN
@@RandomishToons he threatens the playtester with a garlic
-Wario appears and threatens *_to take_* the playtester *_to brazil_*
@@izzy082_real *the garlic lazer*
I really like the callback to Developer Crash Handler at 3:00
Everything seemed normal till the talked about stopping when the game knows your name...
3:08
or when jesus out of nowhere comes in the recording studio
and when serious deja vu and ILL???
I thought it felt to much like fnaf VHS
Everybody gansta
till Mario calls you by your name
And then mario looked at the camera with hyper realistic skin and bleeding eyes and said "killa youra familia in reala life, bye bye".
"And then Mario vored my cat guys, that mothafucka ate my fucking cat guys, please help"
And then a skeleton popped out
"But I didn't care"
Wait...
Did Mario swear?
@@BigBoy257 he swore once he said the sh word
The lore of this ARG is like oatmeal,
The longer it goes on, the more it *THICKENS*
Wouldn’t you say that the one or two bowls of oatmeal provide a diary treat, especially for guys like Kirby?
Congratulations! That was the first time that expression hass been used ever!
@@frogguy4989 HURRAY FOR ORIGINALITY!
@@IndiGhost_77 *Looks at Sonic 3* I love it when it does that.
1 2 PROTOTYPE
"...If the playtester has this question, tell them 'Wario does not exist' 'Luigi was never planned to be in the game' 'The game cannot be personalized' 'Wario does not exist' 'Wario does not exist' 'Wario does not exi-"
That was all one take, darn.
Anyway things of note:
He mentions that if playtesters feel deja vu, among other things, to stop the playtesting. As I'll mention later here, with something called game-sync, maybe the game starts doing that personalization thing, and deja vu could be a result of that. It's likely not meant to be turned on during playtesting. Another commenter (Jeroen Both) points out he also mentions the game displaying the playtesters name, another thing which ties into that.
He mentions Dan, and says to only tell Dan, no one else, if things happen to the playtesters, as you could face legal trouble. Now, to be fair, this makes some sense, as someone might think it was you who did it, or you did something to cause it, but at the same time, could it be legal trouble from Nintendo?
After the normal tape finishes, we find another guy had snuck into the recording room (or really whatever room it was being recorded in.) We learn that the water not being in the moat was this other guy's fault, but the narrator says that Eric didn't have game-sync on. Hmmm, game-sync? He thought it was haunted not because the water was missing, but because it was missing when he didn't have game-sync on? So, this means game-sync can cause that to happen? Hmmm...
This other guy also mentions how the animations weren't real. I think we all remember the description of the animation test video and the drowning animation... Well, it seems that was another joke pulled by this guy... Or maybe he's just trying to get out of possible trouble... Another commenter (RawChick) points out the dude also mentions 'that kid.' Who's that kid?
After the narrator asks for the other guy to send Meg down to him if he passes her in the hall, she happens to walk in. She says she can't find Eric, possibly she was searching for him? She's called a know-it-all... A typical insult, or a sign she learned a tad more than she should've? The narrator also asks if she has a another moment, possibly in reference to Eric? She gets kinda annoyed at that. She also gets pretty pissed that this whole thing was being recorded on her camcorder without her permission...
This whole ending segment happens during a power outage, probably normal, happens every now and then, but still a bit spooky I suppose.
So, this video gives us a small new piece of information on game-sync, and introduces two new characters.
The narrator seems to be well-intentioned, at least to me, being a tad upset with that other guy for pulling his trick on Eric.
The other guy seems to be mischievous, pulling at least two tricks on Eric, but doesn't seem to be ill-intentioned, at least not yet.
So that's my analysis of this video, probably my favorite yet!
The other guy is probably dan
@@hoteltapwater you know it's dan because of the accent
@Danke Watch the video in the background, while reading this, so that you hear what the video is saying as you read what I think some possibilities are. I don’t really think I could summarize.
The only part that weirds me out are deja-vus. In theory, deja-vus happen because your brain gets out of sync or something like that, and receives the same information twice, giving that "i've seen that somewhere else" vibe. Now, if this thing can cause deja-vus, it means that maybe it is directly messing with the brain. That could also explain the other symptoms. I mean, stress _can_ be normal if this thing mixes wishes with fears. But deja-vus? I've never seen an unsolved psychological trauma being powerful enough to cause deja-vus. And if i'm correct, we should bring another question to the table: _Why_ can it interfere with your brain? Is that an undocumented feature or (the ARG) Nintendo is planning on mass mind control? Either way, if this function was made in good faith (which i highly doubt) then i can see how this prototype failed. It is too risky.
@@charlie891 I know its dan because the narrator said "before you go, dan" to him near the end
"or the game displays the playtesters name"
Excuse me *what?*
Edit: like how some people took the joke seriously and tried to give explanations about why it does that lmao
Sounds just like a regular cursed game idk
Ok but what if the playtester's name is Mario 🤔
@@JonathanH bro what
@@JonathanH then it would be less spooky
@@JonathanH Maybe as soon as the game starts they automatically stop you from playing the game
0:08 me when my teacher assigns too much homework
@RockyThePup Lover14 fuuc😞
ultra 64 = the pages
POV: You are watching Adult swim commercial at 2-3 am and can’t find the remote
AS creeps me out. Stopped watching years ago
''The animations weren't real''
''What's that supposed to mean''
''Did you use a Real person?''
''What? no of course not''
I don't need sleep, *i need answers*
Read the description of the animations video
"Fun fact, all the animations for Mario were done with real human reference footage."
@@commandertortilla
Mario:**DROWNS IN THAT VIDEO**
This channel went from a pretty real looking beta archive to a spooky vhs channel,
ｎｉｃｅ
I like to see where this channel goes
ngl I appreciate how there isn't heavy distortion and warping like people usually do when making a video from a fake vhs tape.
also, singular they? in 1995? it's more likely than we think (lol) but Nintendo doesn't seem like the sort of company who would do that back (or even now, except they do now so)
I noticed that too, but I’m pretty sure it was a random way of speaking bc Meg’s used she/her since, right?
@@IsabelleChiming uh, I was talking about the instruction part, like "hand them the controller" or "have them sign the form". I was honestly surprised they didn't say "him or her the controller".
@@PandaXs1 Ohhhhh trueeee. I happened to only notice in referral to Meg, sorry. Regardless it shows that the people running this channel aren't exclusionary which is good
@@PandaXs1 is that really so uncommon ? i can't name any examples off the top of my head and i could be dead wrong but i don't feel like singular they in anonymous contexts like that was super rare
Yeah it’s pretty cringe ngl
hey, it's the same guy from the scrapped advertisement
1:17
POV: YOUR A ULTRA 64 BUTTON BEING REMOVED AND CLEANED
You're*
@@SackboyLBP heres a cookie 🍪
Well, that solidifies it. This is officially the FNAF VHS of Mario 64.
@Vertex Squimpus McGuimpus (I think that’s how you spell it)
Criminal
Criminal
CRIMinal
CRIMINAL
CRIMINAL
Man, I'm consistently impressed with how real these feel. Like, they obviously aren't, but if I lived in a world with the Nintendo Ultra 64, I'd absolutely believe this was an internal employee video
To those of you thinking "why dontm't nintendo just take thow these videos if they are real!>!>!>!>?/".
It's because if they do, everyone will know it's real.
Also because its an arg and not real
@@Treesarewoke oh dude thx captain obvious
OK, the fact that the games could do that creepy shit like displaying the testers name, thats fucking unsettling as he'll. How it could possibly even do that is beyond me.
Watch the Scrapped BIOS and the Wign cap tower GUI videos.
Theres a lot of lore in this.
Ahh yes, a classic situation. Looks normal at first but then it goes insane. This is what horror is REALLY about.
“It wasn’t him or that kid in the animations.”
*HMMMMMMM*
Plot Twist: This is actually a nintendo tape
It probably really is cause this dude hasn't been doing stuff like squimpus mcgrimpus's fnaf tapes
Edit: ok yeah definitely fake cause i just got to the playtesters name going in game part
@@KirbyKidG Wing Cap Tower GUI References brain waves, so maybe it can read the players mind. The game can then know your name.
Its actually a Argonaut employee tape.
You can tell they really studied Nintendo's designs for stuff like this. I swear those stock people on the thumbnail and a bit before half the way into the video, those people look like something Nintendo would have in a tape like this.
P.S: They remind me of Swapnote?
@@officialteamsombie I remember Swapnote and Nintendo Letter Box, i used to draw comics in there
1. I love the art and general style in this! They really nailed the Nintendo brand here! Plus, mario getting crushed with an N64 made me laugh lol.
2. “Send meg up to me.” “If I see _them_ on the way to the breaker, sure, whatever.” either it’s written weirdly and he was actually talking about meg plus someone else, or... Meg uses they/them instead of/along with she/her now...? I know that this is from the 90s so it’s not likely, but... this *is* an ARG, so maybe it’s a world where nonbinary people were already accepted back then.
pronouns don't always mean gender, and since she's literally called a 'miss' in here, i don't think it was supposed to mean anything
Meg voice reveal!!! Let's goooo
@@Bulba413 dude, at the end, there's the Narrator, Daniel and Meg talking.
Meg said the f word how could she
@@mario_0of Oh knoe,Meg from fam guy said a swer😭😭😭😭
Wait, they've all got British accents... holy shit are they from Argonaut?
Yeah, I thought that was obvious
OMG I've never noticed the accent, thats a nice detail.
0:07 And That Is Why Paper Mario When Was Born.
Why does Nintendo Engineered Button Removal Tool sound real
This is genuinely really good and I love this THIS is some quality content
And then there's Mario--
0:07 He's dead.
Mario must get the green mushroom to live, but Mario hates green.
@@bubsytv4184 Luigi?
@@ARsince2020 Luigi.
This is actually really amazing quality, thank you for reducing my boredom
Also everyone is talking about the water and Eric but ia nobody going to mention that in Snow Ravine Eric literally called Dan cute
This is an amazing project, but one thing that always bugs me is using mario's beta voice clips. They're from a stock sound library, and charles was already chosen by that point, so I doubt his beta voice would've actually been used in secondary media. Again, a minor nitpick
Could also be to cover their tracks with youtube and nintendo copyright happy lawers. At the moment outside of the gameplay videos they are safely in fair use territory, using charles clips would push them over.
“Adjust the brightness of the TV to their liking!”
I really like that line for some reason
They went the Squimpus route.
Neat.
*cRimInaL cRimInaL cRimInaL*
Also Replies, make a *cRimInaL* Line. I want to see that.
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No, I don't like the meme and neither does Squimpus herself.
@@ScoopOfButter Well we all have opinions. So, ye.
MEG AND ERIC MEG AND ERIC OMFG BROOO
love how mario literally dies at the start
this video just blows the whole credibility out of the water, this is just more of that meme shit people started doing with mario 64 this year.
I'm glad this channel exists so it's even harder to find real material. It's reaaallly great.
Uhhh this is an ARG channel... so is possibly fake.
Immediately stop the playtesting session if:
The playtester has a fucking seizure and dies.
**death**
Holy crap I was waiting for a new video and I'm so happy
Mario getting crushed by the ultra 64 is legit funny
I like how this was uploaded for me on 3 AM
The two people in 2:04 I think represent Meg and Eric. Meg has the curly hair from the Wing Cap Tower GUI video, Eric must be the one on the right.
Plus, Dan Newman at 3:26 must be the Dan mentioned in Snow Ravine.
lol true
5:10 Haha I love the inspector calls reference!
I love watching this plot develop, keep up the good work
Those employees deserve to be fired, they left Luigi in the game files
I see you everywhere, even in my cereal box.
@RockyThePup Lover14 Who are you?
I see you everywhere, even in my wardrobe
I'd fire them for deleting Luigi.
@@IvoRobotnik1991 That's right wrong yes.
oh we're going full squimpus now
the end part was creepy
Apparently there was a black-out. Though there was some stuff that I didn't quite get...
not really, i thought it was kinda funny when meg (or another female nintendo employee) wanted the camcorder back.
If the game becomes Sentient and tries to kill the play tester, via the form of one of the characters heads popping out of the TV, please exit the room immediately and take the playtester to a "safe place" far away from our headquarters incase anything "bad" happens.
@@CalebButter Also make sure that if nothing happens to the playtester, that they are diagnosed with Schizophrenia and silenced.
Nothing bad happens at Nintendo.
@@CalebButter Nintendo branded Samurai shall hunt down the Evil using their Nunchuks, Wii Sport Resort Swords and Shiields.
Okay, brb, I GOTTA make that mario getting crushed a meme.
Edit: ITS DONE
where tho
@@PandaXs1 on my chanel
FOUND IT LOL
Hate to say, but the dialogue isn't great. The script doesn't sound natural, and the delivery is a bit robotic.
(The monologue during the instruction tape is fine tho)
As a self-proclaimed writer, I kind of agree. I think it's one of those things that is supposed to be stilted, though. This ARG needs a tad better writing all round, tbh. But the renders and songs are great, so I don't mind.
nvm I finished the video this dialogue sucks
Bruh
@@suedonnym everything else about this series is great, but this video and the last video were both pretty bad when it came to characters having a conversation
@@trev3d They seem to excel at everything except naturally moving the story forward. It's one of the less believable ARGs I've seen. But again, there's good stuff there.
4 am gang
Alright, now I know why it took so long between videos, this is absolutely incredible, keep it up!
This is quite sad the project was canceled
0:08 Mario,are you okay?
i love this stuff so much
I like how when you see yhe start of the channel everthing sees very peacefull and calm but when more.But when you start to see the videos getting more creep and creepier every video.(Im sorry for my bad english)
So, this is telling us that Dan is an ass to Eric. _The plot thickens._
hes been an ass to eric since the early castle grounds
Danny Phantom is mean to Eric.
i don’t know which one is which
0:06
"Oh-ho! a-this is-a pretty cool-a floor-"
The style of the drawing reminds me of petscop. And the voice of the narador sounds to me to have heard it very similar in petscope. And the animation reminds me of the vhs tapes they made about fnaf.
This is really interesting, it just seems so real but at the same feels a little unnerving in a weirdly good way.
Yo Meg, watch it with the language.
and the others you forgot
why
@@Darachu she said the f word at the end
mario getting crushed by an n64 is probably the best thing i've seen all day
Meg voice reveal
We need the boy Eric now.
@@fuziontonygaming Already got revealed, look at the snow ravine video
@@fiergoalt true
Juging from the end of the tape
Eric is a comedic genius
Was the Ultra 64 a game console or a kind control device? At this point I’m really leaning on the latter.
This is becoming a lot more than just Mario 64. I hope the best for you, Meg and Eric.
Ultra 64 was the dev codename for the N64
@@therealkelso518 He means in the story, not the real life version
5:54 Damn meg... no need to be so harsh on the narrator.
How are you so sure that the narrator is Dan?
@@galiasvirtual4078 true......
Meg gives me Karen vibes tbh
@@olivia6632 true she doesn't really suit her illustration tbh
@@DeniseKazooie I assume there was a good reason why she was so pissed.
i have a feeling something bad is gonna happen to either eric or meg
I remember having to watch this training video back when I worked at Toys-R-us, I miss the days when I could shop on my break.
0:06 Easily the best part... if you're into the lore though, it's all the best part.
If I hadn't come down and read these comments, I would have thought this was a real video and probably been spooked pretty good, especially since it's like midnight right now
0:06 -- Me right now vs 2020.
BIG CLUE: In the 7z file anonymously sent to Eric which contains design documents that belonged to him, one of the pages details early SM64 level concepts, and one of the level titles literally translates to "Lake Death Room". Lol. Another reference to drowning in this ARG, it's definitely going to lead up to something.
Cartoon Meg and eric looks EPIC.
I fell like i wanna be their friend lol
same
Some things I noticed
1. The hand in the animations is similar to the cursor in Mario 64
2. The buttons that are being cleaned are the power and the reset buttons
3. The cartoon of Dan seems to make him look pretty mean. Perhaps the artist also doesn’t like Dan very much? Also, he is the only cartoon to have color.
4. Another speaker shows up, who we know to be Dan, because the narrator calls him Daniel
5. Dan talks about Eric’s fear of water, which we already know from the community posts
6. The most not having water could be the inspiration for the most losing its water in the final game
7. The narrator mentions “game sync,” which seems to be the personalization software. Interestingly, there seems to be an option to turn it off.
8. Dan says, “it’s wasn’t him or that kid in the animations or something.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but I believe that it implies that Dan used a child for making the animations, including the drowning animation. Dan denies this afterwards, almost like he didn’t mean to mention the kid earlier.
9. We learn that Meg and Eric are currently working in the same building
10. Meg shows up, and she is very worried about the whereabouts of Eric
11. Meg’s personality matched her personality in the community posts.
12. The description has a lot more details than the last one. They say that they don’t remember who the narrator was, so I suppose he is an unimportant character. They also mention that they are still on the move.
All in all, this was very fun. We got voice confirms for Meg, and some insight into what it was like working and play testing at the SM64 development team. This video has some less details than the last one, but I still really enjoyed over-analyzing it.
was that meant to be Meg's voice in the end?
damn megs a bitch
@@Rei0SU Might've been a good reason she got so upset.
So know we know some character appearence,apparently drowning doesn’t mean dying,I think Eric had an incident with WA[REDACTED] Dan really cares bout Eric as shown in this tape,Eric probaly drowned in one of the animation sessions,but was rescued in time,and we can hear Meg at the ending,so the two are definitely alive.
Edit:The ending of the tape recording might been during around Eric’s snow ravine play testing,maybe after the ending of the tape,since in the recording it didn’t reach 30 minutes of playtime,SOMETHING might have happened to him during snow ravine testing,maybe something,or even... someone did something to him,maybe in castle grounds testing.
Wait is the playtesting thing from MIPS Hole ? That's awesome !
Just discovered this going to binge it all
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bad grammar be like
Man i thought this was real until the animation showed the N64 Controller. The original prototype was actually black.
Daniel refers to Meg as "they". Based.
I LOVE the art and the voice acting in this. yall are doing great
The art feels oddly nostalgic for some reason and I dont know why
Based Daniel for using they/them pronouns for Meg
@@kingaj7966 cringe
Yoooo this shit is awesome! Keep up the great work, definitely looking forward to more!
Right on the tick of spoopyween for me everyone!
I cannot figure out why but for some reason my mom bought my sisters and I a bunch of old cartoons on VHS from Walgreens of all places. The cartoons were ancient and there were some that were downright strange. One of the tapes had instructions on how to clean your vcr if it began having bad tracking. Because it was in between cartoons we knew when it was coming and immediately after was this super creepy cartoon about a humpty dumpy character who literally built a wall in order to reach the sun bc he believed he could find gold in it. Since we were used to Garfield, Rugrats and Looney Toons this particular segment was especially scary. This entire video reminded me so much of that old tape. We loved it bc it actually creeped us out. Kids love weird stuff bc it helps them to engage with what they're seeing and allows it to retain easily in their minds. Most of the entertainment I found myself seeking once I got a bit older always straddled the line between scary and funny. It's no wonder I am constantly in search of scary stuff to watch.
5:29 ...Is it me, or is that an image of Mario staring at the screen flickering back and forth in the static?
at first I was like O: but then I realized those were just smudges on my phone screen Orz
Its just you