Strong Bad discovers the frustrating text adventure that inspired Thy Dungeonman...and then plays through the entire thing! Play the original here: archive.org/de...
* Plays old games no one has heard of * Geeks out and gushes about these games * Does not let nostalgia cloud his judgement and criticizes the game when necessary * Has entertaining commentary that does not rely on swearing and gamer rage Strong Bad is truly the greatest let's player of all time
@@greenwave819 I'm sorry, I don't understand. Are you insinuating that Vampire's Castle (and by extension, Thy DungeonMan) are not real games? I have played thy DungeonMan, and I assure you it is one of the games I have ever played!
3:57 The nostalgic excitement in Stlong Bad's voice is palpable. Those moments of "Yes! This is that thing I haven't seen in decades but has never left my subconscious!" are some of the best moments in life.
At the start of high school, I was the only one who got the teacher saying "Bueller... Bueller..." when calling roll, and by senior year, everyone understood the joke.
Most of my high school classmates didn't get my Homestar references either. The only ones that did were the kids in the autistic class. Nearly all of them got the references, lol.
The scroll that offered a single vague hint and had no use whatsoever as a transportable item just had to redundantly be called a "parchment scroll" so the "par" could later conflict with the "parapets" in the environment, leading to confusing interactions. This is the kind of hardcore old school design decision modern games can't compete with.
20:41 - "GO BOAT" [I don't know that word] "GO BOAT" [You are in the boat] A text adventure that's hard of hearing and needs you to repeat things until it understands. What an ingenious gameplay mechanic.
It reminds me of a certain programming language. "INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as "READ OUT", "IGNORE", "FORGET", and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite. Although this feature existed in the original INTERCAL compiler, it was undocumented."
It's an early version of the fear mechanic in later survival horror games where the controls get wonky from your characters' fear. It's not a bug. It's a feature.
Strong Bad Let's Plays... this is the greatest concept. I love that Cheat even went to the trouble of illustrating the text-only playthrough. For watchability's sake that's a brilliant idea.
I'd love if someone actually DID do graphic plate additions to the old text games. Same game play, but with the visuals? Sign me up. I'd make my kid play them and he'd lose his mind. No hand-eye co-ordination needed? You mean I have to actually THINK and not react??
The "the computer only looks at the first three letters" bit always baffled me. Back in my Youth, I had a "how to program text adventures" book that offered this method, and I was like "No thanks, I want my players to be able to "LOCK CHEST" AND "LOCATE CHEESE" (if necessary)."
It was a common technique to write text adventures with a simple parser, especially when you only had maybe 128KB of memory and you needed to track what was in every single room.
@@MNGoldenEagle Understood, but even with just 32k of Boolean variables, you could cover a lot of ground. (Granted, if you wanted to make a game of any considerable length, you'd have to call other programs* and hope your variables survived the trip. Now I'm having 80's programming flashbacks. XD) (* - Unless you had a professional team w/ proficiency with assembly language and other fun stuff. Which I'm guessing the Vampire's Castle people did not have, nor did I.)
I have vague recollections of a text adventure that only looked at the first five letters. I don't remember this being in the instructions, but I realised it because I misspelt a word after the fifth letter, and it still recognised it. It had a briefcase in it, so if I got the briefcase, and then typed "drop briefs" it said "OK". Only the first three letters though? That's got to be an exaggeration.
@@jamesc3505 No, that was totally common, especially if the program was expected to run in 16K of RAM. Almost all the Scott Adams (not the Dilbert guy) Adventures only looked at the first 3 letters.
Very good mock up graphix by The Cheat. He should be a professional text adventure graphix adder; there's literally hundreds of games just waiting to be graphix'd...he'd make millions!
“I would beg to differ, but I know there’s no winning this argument” “I’m gonna just start putting ‘friggin’ in between everything” Yep Strong Bad has definitely been on the internet for a looong time lol
Aww, don't you know what the vampire was dreaming during his last moments? "Dear Strong Bad, I was wondering if you could teach me how to be as awesome as you. I am a vampire and-" Oh, Trevor. I pine for you!
I genuinely love that they went out of their way to make their own graphics and music for this game. That's a level of dedication you don't see too often
This is the secret twist to the sad tale of Trevor The Vampire: We all know that he was killed halfway through emailing Strong Bad... Now we know it was Strong Bad who killed him!😲
@@freakfoxvevo7915 He wouldn't even have to: Sbemails aren't live. Strong Bad could have staked Trevor while he was writing his email, sent it for him, and then gone home and answered it. Perfect way to make sure no one suspected him... ... I'm spending way too much time thinking about this, huh?
"A Key is in it's mouth!" Oh, if you want it to be possessive, it's just I-T-S. But if it's supposed to be a contraction, then it's I-T-apostrophe-S. Scalawag.
@@samuelcolvin4994 I think it's the vampire making the noise... the chaps are just geniuses at sound design/invention. Remember the siccamore douglas... Who even thinks of something like that, man? They do.
Imagine emailing a cartoon website in 2002 and they still remember you 20 years later. This one's for you, Trevor. Cool game, reminds me of Hugo's House of Horrors which I played over and over as a kid.
All these years later, and "You can't get Ye Flask" is still hilarious. Also, now I want an entire game doodled up by the Cheat. Doesn't have to be big and epic, can just be something like this.
20:57 Fun fact: first instance of fast travel was in Colossal Cave Adventure, first text adventure ever made. In it you have magic words (e g. Xyzzy) that allow you to teleport between locations.
I wish I could talk abrat it more, but the dang youtube has all the comments blocked because they think I'ma somehow grab kids through the computer and take 'em to the Puddin' Patch or tossed into Coach Z's whale costume.
Kids today will never know how big HSR and Strongbad were in the early 2000's. We'd talk about new episodes in school every morning. I'm very pleased this awesome content is still being made.
How did thirty minutes pass by in the blink of an eye!? Strong Bad's natural charisma really pulls you into the game. Well done with the visual representation The Cheat! It really brought life to a text only adventure!
Honestly this is one of the most rewatchable H*R videos in recent memory for me, for the reasons you describe. I've even played it in the car just to listen! They really hit it on the head with this one.
I gotta level with you... This _might_ be the most eminently re-watchable video of all. At least, like, in the last ten years. I think It's bc it's loaded with Strong Bad humor but is also a 30-min continuous story. The other Disk 4 toons are compilation games.
I _LOVE_ this background music. And I wish The Cheat would illustrate other text adventures like Zork! This was amazing. I think my favorite part was that "KHOOLK!" sound the vampire makes when he awakes and sucks your blood. :D Here it is for my own repeated amusement and yours: 21:28
This will go on my Halloween watch list for years to come. When Strong Bad looked at the timepiece and it was 11:59 I screamed so loud it woke my parents up.
Can't believe I'm just now realizing there were even more jokes and obscure references I missed 15+ years ago. Seriously, as someone fascinated by old video games, this series has been delightful
This is beyond amazing. Drawings of text adventure-ry! Wait, howcome sometimes it likes 'ye' but sometimes not? This game seems to secretly be a Homsar dialogue generator. *aAaAaAaA, ah left the cheese in the arm'ry.* The Oar on the Floor, m'lo'e'er o'clo'er
I think it's played for laughs here, but some old text based games would just ignore any text it didn't expect or understand when trying to parse the input. So that behaviour is completely plausible, though it shouldn't make a difference between a sentence woth or without ye working, unless ot somehow forced it past another glitch.
Guys, this is so incredibly great. I was completely delighted the whole time. Thank you for taking the time to make this. Also, it makes total sense that the game only knew the first three letters of Ratt.
This was great. What a historic find! To celebrate the release of Return to Monkey Island, I nominate The Secret of Monkey Island for the next D4o12 video. (Disk was featured in Sbemail 189, "pet show.")
CONGRATULATIONS ON FINALLY GETTING YE FLASK! Oh man... the amount of frustration of my child self playing Thy Dungeonman and not understanding how to get ye flask... but now I see where it comes from. I've watched HomeStarRunner since childhood when my dad found your website and seeing you keep going now made me cry with joy.
So there's I was, minding my own business... And then the homestarrunner notification popped up. So, as you do, I had to drop everything I was doing to come see this. Groceries are still at the the store, and I think my son is lost in the produce section.
A) Please do more like this. Doesn't necessarily have to be just Strong Bad. but we all know he's a total winner at this. B) After 6 views I think Bbok is my absolute favorite sound and graphic in the whole thing. C) The BGM. I need it!
Having recently finished a course on SQL Databases, I believe these old school typing adventures are great practice for the headache of trying to figure out how to type and initiate commands 😂
Spending so much time on homestarrunner allowed me to grow up in the 80s despite growing up in early 2000s I cannot express the preciousness of seeing the inspiration for thy dungeonman. "Whatchoo gonna did" also really got me XD Time to attempt to explain every last obscure detail of this to my bf who has no clue about hsr
As happy as I am to see stuff getting uploaded I'm more happy to see people flocking to it, over a thousand views in less than 10 mins on a late sunday night
OH MAN, I was not prepared for that thing to pop up on the screen. Not the vampire, the other thing, ...the creepy one, ol' fishmouth there. That thing was terrifying!
Next year will be 20 years since I graduated from high school and it's crazy to me how a new generation of kiddos will get to enjoy the majesty of the Cheat I mean Homestarrunner and friends 😃 For Project Graduation (an all night games and stuff for the seniors where we had teams) in 2003, my team was Team Trogdor 😆😁 Thank you guys for making some of my favorite internet memories 🥰🥰🥰
I love that the vampire looks like a certain villain from a certain campy 1960s superhero show that Strong Bad dressed up as for Halloween 1 year. Terrifying, The Cheat, utterly terrifying.
I was enjoying the video already, but Homestar popping up and then sliding slowly off the screen broke me. EDIT: OMG, Homestar coming back still sliding broke me again.
The background music is subtle but perfect. With the Cheat graphics, this text adventure feels more like a 90's point and click, and the music is what you'd get in one of those.
I have this one in my vintage collection now. I don't think we ever had it in the first run, but I found it last year while surfing for vintage Halloween text adventures to play during October. So glad you were able to make the connection back to it. I love it when I'm able to close those loops that begin in early memories.
I love the whole concept of this video; a Let's Play of a text-based game with drawn visuals and gags. I don't think I've ever seen that done before! I wanna see more Disc 4 of 12 episodes like this. Heck, I wanna see other letsplayers do this; it'd be fun! I think my favorite part was the "guest appearance" of Ratt, with the chiptune rendition of "Round and Round" being the icing on that particular cake. This actually introduced me to the band and now I'm listening to some of their songs; nice!
Watching this series has been like reconnecting with an old friend from middle school and you both hit it off just as well as you did when you were younger. This series is incredible, love the work you do!!!
Now I want to play vampire's castle. Damn you Strong Bad, for making everything that might suck so much better. I also agree that "Let's Play"'s by Strong Bad should be done more often.
The best part is Matt is obviously really re-discovering all these things in real time, yet never breaks character as Strong Bad. So good!
"SOOO GOOOOD!"
- Teen Girl Squad
Who's this Matt? You mean DELETED!
@@borgmardunkleson2225Oh, you mean like how Strong = Stong?
* Plays old games no one has heard of
* Geeks out and gushes about these games
* Does not let nostalgia cloud his judgement and criticizes the game when necessary
* Has entertaining commentary that does not rely on swearing and gamer rage
Strong Bad is truly the greatest let's player of all time
Yes!
I'd love to see him play Zelda or Mario.
@@drathmoor too bad those are real games tho lol
@@greenwave819 I'm sorry, I don't understand. Are you insinuating that Vampire's Castle (and by extension, Thy DungeonMan) are not real games? I have played thy DungeonMan, and I assure you it is one of the games I have ever played!
Strong Bad is Ross Scott?
The amount of effort going into these episodes is nuts, I'm so glad you kept this series going! Always a treat to see new Homestar stuff these days.
LIE POLICE, ME WANTS VAMPIRE, FOOD SALTY NEVER
camwing tryina goof
@@notcmiles It's what I do, I can't help it
@@notcmiles EXISTED NEVER DOGS, RESEARCH NO
@@alguiennoimportante honestly same
3:57 The nostalgic excitement in Stlong Bad's voice is palpable. Those moments of "Yes! This is that thing I haven't seen in decades but has never left my subconscious!" are some of the best moments in life.
I know what you mean. Fruit Stripe Gum, various commercials...
@@TheInkPitOx work on your reading comprehension.
Exactly how I responded to "parapets"
I was laughing so hard throughout.
@BK Beatty I'm pretty sure I remember Homsar calling him that actually, one time
I'll never forget being in chemistry in high school telling my classmates "get ye flask". It's a shame no one understood.
I would've been your friend, Poplin Fresh. It sucks there was never more than one of us in any given class, maybe like 3 or 4 per school.
At the start of high school, I was the only one who got the teacher saying "Bueller... Bueller..." when calling roll, and by senior year, everyone understood the joke.
Are you saying they didn't get "ye flask"?
You cannot get ye flask.
Most of my high school classmates didn't get my Homestar references either. The only ones that did were the kids in the autistic class. Nearly all of them got the references, lol.
The scroll that offered a single vague hint and had no use whatsoever as a transportable item just had to redundantly be called a "parchment scroll" so the "par" could later conflict with the "parapets" in the environment, leading to confusing interactions. This is the kind of hardcore old school design decision modern games can't compete with.
20:41 - "GO BOAT" [I don't know that word] "GO BOAT" [You are in the boat]
A text adventure that's hard of hearing and needs you to repeat things until it understands. What an ingenious gameplay mechanic.
It reminds me of a certain programming language.
"INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as "READ OUT", "IGNORE", "FORGET", and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite. Although this feature existed in the original INTERCAL compiler, it was undocumented."
It's an early version of the fear mechanic in later survival horror games where the controls get wonky from your characters' fear. It's not a bug. It's a feature.
What a concealed goal!
Strong Bad Let's Plays... this is the greatest concept. I love that Cheat even went to the trouble of illustrating the text-only playthrough. For watchability's sake that's a brilliant idea.
He was even a Vtuber in one LP.
I'd love if someone actually DID do graphic plate additions to the old text games. Same game play, but with the visuals? Sign me up. I'd make my kid play them and he'd lose his mind. No hand-eye co-ordination needed? You mean I have to actually THINK and not react??
This is the most least watchable let's play ever!
Never knew how much I needed a Caesar Romero’s Joker as vampire in my life until now.
Ah. I thought it looked familiar. I thought it was Ronald McDonald at first.
I was just thinking of commenting this! Glad it wasn’t just me.
For some reason I thought of Tim Curry. Maybe from Ricky Horror. I have no idea why my brain told me this.
@@mangamaster03 Oh! I could see that
Mustache included in the makeup
After twenty years he could finally "get ye flask"
*sheds single manly tear*
Also dear god "Edgar Allan Sportsinterviews" had me dying.
'YOU GUYS! I FOUND THE FLASK!' made me cackle like an idiot.
Honestly, illustrating one of these old adventure games is a really clever idea.
me too 😭
The "the computer only looks at the first three letters" bit always baffled me. Back in my Youth, I had a "how to program text adventures" book that offered this method, and I was like "No thanks, I want my players to be able to "LOCK CHEST" AND "LOCATE CHEESE" (if necessary)."
It was a common technique to write text adventures with a simple parser, especially when you only had maybe 128KB of memory and you needed to track what was in every single room.
@@MNGoldenEagle Understood, but even with just 32k of Boolean variables, you could cover a lot of ground. (Granted, if you wanted to make a game of any considerable length, you'd have to call other programs* and hope your variables survived the trip. Now I'm having 80's programming flashbacks. XD)
(* - Unless you had a professional team w/ proficiency with assembly language and other fun stuff. Which I'm guessing the Vampire's Castle people did not have, nor did I.)
@@krudmonger It goes back to the 4K-16K days. Then every byte really did matter.
I have vague recollections of a text adventure that only looked at the first five letters. I don't remember this being in the instructions, but I realised it because I misspelt a word after the fifth letter, and it still recognised it. It had a briefcase in it, so if I got the briefcase, and then typed "drop briefs" it said "OK". Only the first three letters though? That's got to be an exaggeration.
@@jamesc3505 No, that was totally common, especially if the program was expected to run in 16K of RAM. Almost all the Scott Adams (not the Dilbert guy) Adventures only looked at the first 3 letters.
Ah! Limozeen being attacked by the vampire “Because it’s Midnight!”
Brilliant. :)
I laughed INAPPROPRIATELY hard when Strong Bad dropped that punchline m
I somehow didn't see the punchline coming. It's perfect XD
I was blindsided by the delightful Cesar Romero Joker Vampire
which... now that I say that, can we make that the big halloween costume this year?
I bet if you checked their inventory you'd find the heart of a lion and the wings of a bat.
@@alloran0987 along with liquid and leather.. in equal measure
Disk 4 of 12 is my favourite series they've done in the past decade. I'm so happy to see more of it.
It's the *only* series they've done in the past decade! lol
Agreed! :)
@@coredumperror There was also Strong Bad's Skills of an Artist series of videos, Strong Sad's Six-Sided Die, couple others.
OH MAN, ITS THE GREATEST GAME!
@@coredumperror This is Skills Of An Artist and Six Sadded Die erasure
Very good mock up graphix by The Cheat. He should be a professional text adventure graphix adder; there's literally hundreds of games just waiting to be graphix'd...he'd make millions!
Or at least dozens!
He'd make a couple dollars, he'd make a couple bucks.
he could even be a thousandaire!
Or at least a hundredaire.
Strong Bad is buying him a pizza!
“I would beg to differ, but I know there’s no winning this argument”
“I’m gonna just start putting ‘friggin’ in between everything”
Yep Strong Bad has definitely been on the internet for a looong time lol
Aww, don't you know what the vampire was dreaming during his last moments?
"Dear Strong Bad, I was wondering if you could teach me how to be as awesome as you. I am a vampire and-"
Oh, Trevor. I pine for you!
He died as he lived, with pinning in his heart.
Pining. Damn you, autocorrect.
@@Trismegustis And he didn't even get to give Strong Bad his one million dollars or his own spaceship.
We will all pine together now.
I genuinely love that they went out of their way to make their own graphics and music for this game. That's a level of dedication you don't see too often
Hearing Matt get frustrated or laugh in Strong Bad's voice made me smile and laugh way more than it should have, LOL!!!
"I like vampires. Maybe it's Trevor!"
Now there is a name I haven't heard in many years...
Thank you for this.
May he rest in peace
i pine for you, Trevor.
I gonna miss that guy can’t believe someone stabbed a steak through his heart
That Trevor the Vampire reference came unexpected, but funnily. Figures he'd bring him up in here.
RIP Trevor.
This is the secret twist to the sad tale of Trevor The Vampire:
We all know that he was killed halfway through emailing Strong Bad...
Now we know it was Strong Bad who killed him!😲
@@negascoot23 I mean, it is confirmed Strong Bad can clone himself in "Pizazz", so this isn't out of possibility
@@freakfoxvevo7915 He wouldn't even have to: Sbemails aren't live. Strong Bad could have staked Trevor while he was writing his email, sent it for him, and then gone home and answered it.
Perfect way to make sure no one suspected him...
... I'm spending way too much time thinking about this, huh?
"A Key is in it's mouth!"
Oh, if you want it to be possessive, it's just I-T-S. But if it's supposed to be a contraction, then it's I-T-apostrophe-S. Scalawag.
I love the sound of the vampire, its so startling and unimpressive at the same time.
Is it supposed to be the player character gasping? I'm not sure whatever it is it made me laugh.
@@samuelcolvin4994 I think it's the vampire making the noise... the chaps are just geniuses at sound design/invention.
Remember the siccamore douglas...
Who even thinks of something like that, man? They do.
"The Vampire Wakes at Midnight" - Limozeen's big comeback hit!
We got Moonlight Kooky turned into a full song, now it's time for The Vampire Wakes at Midnight.
Comeback? They never left! ... Say all the people forced to listen to my cassette player on max as I roll by on Sepulveda with the T top down.
Strong bad sounds so cute getting excited to type "get ye flask"
Imagine emailing a cartoon website in 2002 and they still remember you 20 years later. This one's for you, Trevor.
Cool game, reminds me of Hugo's House of Horrors which I played over and over as a kid.
"Can I talk to him? I like vampires. Maybe it's Trevor!" is such an underrated line
I mean the video did just come out lol
We could find out why his email ended so abruptly! After all, it seems like they didn't got him with a stake through the heart.
Rest in pepperonis Trevor
The fact this contains upwards of eight different in-jokes and I understand all of them makes me proud of myself
All these years later, and "You can't get Ye Flask" is still hilarious.
Also, now I want an entire game doodled up by the Cheat. Doesn't have to be big and epic, can just be something like this.
A new Homestar video is like finding a vending machine selling Everlasting Gobstoppers. A sign of a good day ahead.
It's been 18 long, harrowing years but finally, after all that time...
We got ye flask.
20:57 Fun fact: first instance of fast travel was in Colossal Cave Adventure, first text adventure ever made. In it you have magic words (e g. Xyzzy) that allow you to teleport between locations.
I keep waiting for someone to put that into the Homestar Runner Wiki about this game. Maybe I should just go do it myself.
The Brothers Chaps out here illustrating a FULL ACTUAL GAME.
*“It’s the greatest game!”* is just another way Two More Eggs is slowly becoming H*R canon, and I love it.
I only discovered it several months ago and I'm very glad I did. My very small children occasionally say "Halosche"
Extra sauce?
Is your name Gary Part II?
@@knuclear200x Cuz if it is, you got cool parents, man.
I wish I could talk abrat it more, but the dang youtube has all the comments blocked because they think I'ma somehow grab kids through the computer and take 'em to the Puddin' Patch or tossed into Coach Z's whale costume.
I desperately need more Strong Bad gaming content
th-cam.com/video/i14Oi9Fcvwo/w-d-xo.html StrongPlay of Marzipan's Beef Reverser. 🤝
I lost it at the wine tasting. SB never fails to try to impress those he deems "exqueptional".
Strong Bad can do literally anything and it'll always be entertaining
Kids today will never know how big HSR and Strongbad were in the early 2000's. We'd talk about new episodes in school every morning. I'm very pleased this awesome content is still being made.
Amazing animations The Cheat. I am buying you a pizza. Also perfect ending
>get pizza
>get piz
>go The Pizz
@@GnarlyGoober Um yes I'd like a large onlyround...
@@KairuHakubi with p-roni and m-rooms?
>get tro
I don't see a Trowel of Gardening here.
>get ye tro
You can't get it.
>get friggin tro
You got a Pizza Trophy!
How did thirty minutes pass by in the blink of an eye!? Strong Bad's natural charisma really pulls you into the game. Well done with the visual representation The Cheat! It really brought life to a text only adventure!
It’s because you forgot to LOO TIM
Honestly this is one of the most rewatchable H*R videos in recent memory for me, for the reasons you describe. I've even played it in the car just to listen! They really hit it on the head with this one.
I finished watching this exactly at 1:00 AM. The vampire was already here an hour ago.
Due to my time zone, I finished it at midnight. ♪wiiiings of a somethin'♪
Oh, the "because it's midnight" line was so beautiful.
HE FINALLY GOT YE FLASK! AND IT ONLY TOOK 19 YEARS!
I gotta level with you...
This _might_ be the most eminently re-watchable video of all. At least, like, in the last ten years.
I think It's bc it's loaded with Strong Bad humor but is also a 30-min continuous story. The other Disk 4 toons are compilation games.
It took me awhile to figure out he was playing an actual game and that the game text wasn't a bit.
This was a high quality experience.
I _LOVE_ this background music. And I wish The Cheat would illustrate other text adventures like Zork! This was amazing. I think my favorite part was that "KHOOLK!" sound the vampire makes when he awakes and sucks your blood. :D Here it is for my own repeated amusement and yours: 21:28
I love the KHOOLK sound!
I also love the music in this! My favorite sound though is the "Bbok" when the Cheat-chicken appears
Mid 80s text adventure meets early 00s Flash animation, I friggin love it
"I don't know how to do that"
"I don't know that word"
Just like the classic'ems
This will go on my Halloween watch list for years to come. When Strong Bad looked at the timepiece and it was 11:59 I screamed so loud it woke my parents up.
Can't believe I'm just now realizing there were even more jokes and obscure references I missed 15+ years ago.
Seriously, as someone fascinated by old video games, this series has been delightful
This is beyond amazing. Drawings of text adventure-ry!
Wait, howcome sometimes it likes 'ye' but sometimes not?
This game seems to secretly be a Homsar dialogue generator. *aAaAaAaA, ah left the cheese in the arm'ry.*
The Oar on the Floor, m'lo'e'er o'clo'er
I herly berly on gerly werly!
Thank you Kairu and Brett,
I think it's played for laughs here, but some old text based games would just ignore any text it didn't expect or understand when trying to parse the input. So that behaviour is completely plausible, though it shouldn't make a difference between a sentence woth or without ye working, unless ot somehow forced it past another glitch.
"Don't break the crate of stakes 'til you get to the overhang"
Guys, this is so incredibly great. I was completely delighted the whole time. Thank you for taking the time to make this.
Also, it makes total sense that the game only knew the first three letters of Ratt.
This was worth the wait. Props to The Cheat for his leet art skillz!
I can always rely on Strongbad to introduce me to new words like 'exquiptional' I can use every day from now on.
Like "excardon me" and "first off.. all..." 😆
New Homestar Runner content makes me so happy.
I like the occasional new contents now and then. Especially these Disk 4 of 12s.
Keep on tranglin,
Larry Pat.
Bubs never gave out that free luncch special.
You can actually get the flask by typing "get ye flask". Everything I've ever believed in was a lie.
Even after all these years, nothing makes me happier than seeing a new Homestar upload
You guys were the kings of internet entertainment in the early 2000's and will always be legends in my book.
Too true ❤️
That ending was the best! I really dig this format.
I was fully expecting having to do a bunch of random crap to kill it but nope just a stake works.
of course the cheese goes in the armory, its SHARP cheddar :D
The ADR'd in "Maybe it's Trevor" freaking killed me
That's 100% for sure a fella who thought of the joke during editing
Why do you think it was ADR'd in?
@@TheHolySemiColon because it's very clearly from a different take? listen to the line right before and the line right after.
This was great. What a historic find!
To celebrate the release of Return to Monkey Island, I nominate The Secret of Monkey Island for the next D4o12 video. (Disk was featured in Sbemail 189, "pet show.")
CONGRATULATIONS ON FINALLY GETTING YE FLASK! Oh man... the amount of frustration of my child self playing Thy Dungeonman and not understanding how to get ye flask... but now I see where it comes from. I've watched HomeStarRunner since childhood when my dad found your website and seeing you keep going now made me cry with joy.
Loving the "Cesar Romero as the Joker" Vampire.
my God, that's why he looks familiar (and has a caked-over mustache)
So there's I was, minding my own business... And then the homestarrunner notification popped up.
So, as you do, I had to drop everything I was doing to come see this. Groceries are still at the the store, and I think my son is lost in the produce section.
A) Please do more like this. Doesn't necessarily have to be just Strong Bad. but we all know he's a total winner at this.
B) After 6 views I think Bbok is my absolute favorite sound and graphic in the whole thing.
C) The BGM. I need it!
I can't believe how funny this still is.
Having recently finished a course on SQL Databases, I believe these old school typing adventures are great practice for the headache of trying to figure out how to type and initiate commands 😂
select membername, instrument
from bandmembers
Where firstname like '%larry%'
And also
Create ye table
@@messey12 You can't Create ye table.
And you just have to sit there and figure out why you can't Create ye table 😂
I love that the vampire is the Cesar Romero Joker!
Spending so much time on homestarrunner allowed me to grow up in the 80s despite growing up in early 2000s
I cannot express the preciousness of seeing the inspiration for thy dungeonman. "Whatchoo gonna did" also really got me XD
Time to attempt to explain every last obscure detail of this to my bf who has no clue about hsr
Man this was so much fun. Thanks, the Cheat, for all the drawings and animations.
Or as you would type,
"dra and friggin ani".
As happy as I am to see stuff getting uploaded I'm more happy to see people flocking to it, over a thousand views in less than 10 mins on a late sunday night
Limozeen singing, "Because it's Midnight!!" Is going to be my ringtone. Thank you Bros. Chaps!
The thy dungeonman series was always my favorite of the games on the site, love that we got to see the actual inspo
Oh this made me so happy. After all these years, I experience catharsis.
Yo 30 whole minutes of Strong Bad, my night is set
OH MAN, I was not prepared for that thing to pop up on the screen.
Not the vampire, the other thing, ...the creepy one, ol' fishmouth there. That thing was terrifying!
Homestar's not that scary once you get used to him!
@@ArrantPrac I had to play some of the video again because I missed his part.
In a neverending ocean of Let's Players who put no effort into their content, The Bros. Chaps are a wonderful breath of fresh air
Next year will be 20 years since I graduated from high school and it's crazy to me how a new generation of kiddos will get to enjoy the majesty of the Cheat I mean Homestarrunner and friends 😃 For Project Graduation (an all night games and stuff for the seniors where we had teams) in 2003, my team was Team Trogdor 😆😁 Thank you guys for making some of my favorite internet memories 🥰🥰🥰
The sheer joy is infectious.
I love that the vampire looks like a certain villain from a certain campy 1960s superhero show that Strong Bad dressed up as for Halloween 1 year. Terrifying, The Cheat, utterly terrifying.
Holy smokes, I'm only just now realizing these are actual games, that exist in real life. All the more incredible!
I was enjoying the video already, but Homestar popping up and then sliding slowly off the screen broke me.
EDIT: OMG, Homestar coming back still sliding broke me again.
Omg. I was giggling the entire time! Strongbad has the patience of a Saint! I would have been punching the screen after the first few 🥊🥊attempts!
I always thought SB missed his calling as a letsplayer, love these episodes!
this is so good. strongbad lps are all i ever wanted but never knew how to say.
This was so fun! Had trouble eating my breakfast while laughing so much.
I loved the reference to Trevor!
Been a fan of H*R for 20 years now, and it still never fails to make me laugh. Thank you brothers chaps for sticking with this for so long!
Thank you for still making stuff. My life is measurably better that last 20+ years because of the stuff you keep making.
The background music is subtle but perfect. With the Cheat graphics, this text adventure feels more like a 90's point and click, and the music is what you'd get in one of those.
Well, this has made a crappy day 100x better 😊
I'm so excited that The Brothers Chaps are at it again.
"What kind of a stupid vampire has both a chapel and holy water in his own castle??"
*confused Castlevania noises*
I have this one in my vintage collection now. I don't think we ever had it in the first run, but I found it last year while surfing for vintage Halloween text adventures to play during October. So glad you were able to make the connection back to it. I love it when I'm able to close those loops that begin in early memories.
22:39
"It's really great to very see you, Homestar!"
This was so great to watch; fun times with Strong Bad!
I love the whole concept of this video; a Let's Play of a text-based game with drawn visuals and gags. I don't think I've ever seen that done before! I wanna see more Disc 4 of 12 episodes like this. Heck, I wanna see other letsplayers do this; it'd be fun!
I think my favorite part was the "guest appearance" of Ratt, with the chiptune rendition of "Round and Round" being the icing on that particular cake. This actually introduced me to the band and now I'm listening to some of their songs; nice!
Watching this series has been like reconnecting with an old friend from middle school and you both hit it off just as well as you did when you were younger. This series is incredible, love the work you do!!!
Strong Bad Let's Plays are something I didn't know I needed, but I'm glad it exists!
StrongPlay of Marzipan's Beef Reverser. th-cam.com/video/i14Oi9Fcvwo/w-d-xo.html 🥊⌨️🥊
Now I want to play vampire's castle. Damn you Strong Bad, for making everything that might suck so much better. I also agree that "Let's Play"'s by Strong Bad should be done more often.