It would be funny if someone made a .exe version out of an actual horror game, but instead it’s constantly lighthearted imagery with rainbows, unicorns, etc.
Dead Space.EXE but the Necromorphs are replaced with giant friendly cartoony angels, the hivemind being replaced with a happy Jesus and the brethren moons replaced with a giant smiling face, or Warhammer 40k Boltgun.EXE where the chaos gods are replaced with happy unicorns.
As a kid I always wanted to make Rampage Total Destruction.exe as a kid, but I never did. Unfortunate as it would obviously be the greatest game ever made.
@@mattextremex-boiyoutube225 Only one of the world's greatest video games. Actually later, I'll probably make a real rampage exe game, but base it off of a universal tour or something, and it's gonna be a mystery game because they'll be informed that one of them is an EXE monster, and the dead giveaway of someone being an EXE monster is the fact that they have black and red eyes, but all the characters normally have black and red eyes already so..... it'll be like the thing but with rhinos and monkeys.
i remember as a kid being super into sonic.exe, i even tried to download the game only to accidentaly download a virus with naked women in it. truly a more horrifying experience for 8 yo me than that game could ever offer.
same thing happened to me but with Minecraft mods. I was absolutely obsessed with minecraft mods and wanted to install Orespawn on my family computer when we still had one and ended up installing a shitty toolbar which told me about all the hot singles in my area. My mom, unsurprisingly, was not very happy about it!
Ted the Caver; the elderly proto-creepypasta, is still the best creepypasta: No cliches/tropes, based on real-life events, relies on realistic fears such as claustrophobia & cave-ins, a monster is implied but never seen, you could remove the monster entirely & it would not only not impact the horror of the story but probably make it even better.
Hearing mentions of people that MagicMush has already done videos on is always hype. It feels like I’m being rewarded for my obsessive rewatching these essays.
This weird obsession with Sonic.exe is stupid. Plus, I find it even weird that people combined it with Friday Night Funkin like it's a part of the series
Hearing Shmorky created Zalgo was the biggest whiplash I’ve ever gotten. I remember being terrified of Zalgo back then, so just hearing that high pitched voice associated with Zalgo has killed any mysticism with him lmao.
@@Sorrelhas don't forget TH-cam kids content but that's basically as low of hanging fruit as making fun of gaming "journalists". Still would like it if he did it and continues this "god-awful creepypasta" saga for as long as he wants.
Honestly expected my games to get more backlash than they got lol, I was a 14 year old brat when I made the first one. But hey, glad you played my games from years past, even if there wasn't too much enjoyment out of it. XD
One thing that always bothered me about those .exe games is that they were supposed to be based on old 8/16 bit cartridges, yet a lot of them feature sound files that would not be compatible with the aforementioned cartridges. I know it’s just a minor thing in the grand scope of how bad a lot of these games are, but it doesn’t do much to save the atmosphere of what they were going for.
Isn’t that sorta the point though? The games do things they’re not supposed to… cuz like, an evil entity is living in the game. If the entity is sentient, taunts the player and is potentially able to escape and kill the player, why is it surprising that it can make the game make sounds it’s not supposed to?
@@MutedAndReported3032 you have a point there, but I feel like it would be just as unnerving if all of that stuff unfolded within the sound font of the game.
The abundance of .exe games makes it feel as though it has skewed the perception of the file form. I mean, “.exe” means it’s an “execution” file that runs the other assets; it’s how apps on a computer operate. So, how many dumb kids out there would have dug through their computer files, stumbled across such a file, and legit shiver in terror?
I remember when I was like 6, I had a disc that had a bunch of games on it, like knock off Tetris, Pac-Man, that sort of thing. I remember some games had two files. One was like the how to play the game, the other was an exe file, which was the game itself. So when I first saw Sonic exe I just thought it was like a PC port based on the name
Sonic.exe was one of my very first experiences with horror back around 2011 and I distinctly remember being unable to sleep due to that one uncomfortably realistic image of Sonic's face that shows up at the end of the game. Looking back, I realize just how stupid it was. Though, sometimes I do miss those days where everything was scary. The internet is such a mysterious place to a kid and feels like anything is possible. Even a haunted video game.
True. I first saw Pewdie play Sonic.exe in like 2012 or sometime, I think I was about 9, and it terrified me as well. I had this fear that a haunted game could just appear on my computer, and force me to play it as it took over the system. Good times
There was another horror pony game that was posted to DeviantArt years ago called "Story of the Flanks" or something alone those lines. It was well made and hella creepy. It was more like an a short earthbound game that was extremely unnerving and you had to stealth/avoid the "blank flanks". Btw, if I remember correctly, blank flanks were ponies that didn't havea special emblem on their leg, but in the game I think they turned undead/demonic? I kinda blocked the memory out Lol
yep story of the blanks! There was also another game inspired by that called "Super Filly Adventure" which for the most part was an innocent mlp flash game. But if you got the bad ending and were playing in the middle of the night you'd get the alternate creepypasta ending.
or that bunny rescue game where you played as fluttershy, which isnt a creepy game *unless* you played it between like midnight - 3am iirc. i don't remember the exact details but i think it starts out normal but eventually the music cuts out (?) and something starts hunting you down instead of you hunting down the missing bunnies and it scared the shit out of me as a 12yr old lol
so where those ghosts i saw when i was like 5 real or nah, did anyone else have creepypasta unrelated ghost shit happen to them or was i just delusional
@@Josuhnah When I was a kid I saw ghosts too, Had some horrible nightmares as well. And some creepy neighbors. So none of the creepypasta stuff scared me as a kid.
I always liked games that go outside the box, from Nier Automata asking you if you liked the game and then asking if you want to donate your save file to help another player, to sh*t like that Dig Dug game It can be really fun (or really f*cking scary) when done right
The only thing about the .exe thing I remember was just being confused as to why, all of a sudden, adding .exe (the windows file name extension) to the end of a video game character's name made them into a monster. (Except Mega Man for some reason.)
There is a way to get through that potato head level easier, you'll need to find the laser, it's somewhere during the level after choosing the "Stop Woody forever" option, with that, you can easily shoot the potato heads out of the way and it makes the level REALLY easy
What'd ya expect? They think taking a random existing character and giving them bleeding eyes, blank pupilness eyes, wide grin with sharp teeth, or huge gapping mouth = scary.
@@lvl5Vaporeon Yes, for as much as there was art and TH-cam thumbnails depicting Sonic.EXE being evil and "scary", there was also lewd art. Which is honestly more scary😂
@@GustyguyNope It was actually just an entity taking the form of Sonic, more interesting part is that that entity created a dimension where the game actually takes place Still pretty good concept, the thing is that the origin story of EXE and the fangames are the best thing about it, the actual games are mid Also I call it an entity since “Sonic.EXE” is the name of the disk, the name of the entity is “X” Also “Lord X” is the same entity as this one, just after a few years or decades (This entity is 1300+ years old, yet it actually simps for Sonic, EDP will he proud)
Apparently there's more than one Luna game There's 0 - 5 I believe and a fanmade Luna game but it's still that early 2010s creepypasta standard Which was scary back then but not so today
I did not need to know that Zalgo was made by Shmorky. I did not want to know Zalgo was from Smorky. My life was probably better before I learned Zalgo was made by Smorky. But I am so glad I can now inflict that knowledge on other people's. Thank you
Remember, just because a game of any genre has amazing art and gameplay mechanics doesn't mean the story and implementation of multiple endings is equal to groundbreaking celebrity talent. Most of the modern "Creepypasta" games are loosely based on merely anything and follows the same trope of an old arcade era game being haunted by a deceased person's spirit.
Duuuude, you have absolutely NO IDEA how much I HATE these ".exe" games. As someone who was born in the mid 90s and played exe games on dos back in the day, the fact that these mediocre, shitty creepy games exist just makes my search for old .exe games all the more difficult 🤦♂️
Sites like MyAbandonware should have some games, and there are also sites with names like Old Games (various sites with a name like that) that can have some less known games too (though some of them aren't in English). If all else fails, Archivedotorg is likely to have DOS game collections or just uploads of certain games
I think you might be a bit misinformed... the Sonic Mania engine (commonly referred to as Retro Engine) isn't used for Sonic.EXE fangames. Most EXE fangames utilize existing framework engines not related to any official Sonic Engine.
Luna Game didn't came with the ".exe game trend" it appeared waaay before and it wasn't even a horror game more like a troll game with some scripts. That people from the 2011 thought was a virus.
Believe it or not Luna Games predate Sonic.exe and caused such a scare among the brony fandom for fear it was a virus or malware (think lostboys.exe before lostboys was a thing) Also there's 5 of them Yes thats right 5 that tell a lose story
Not gonna lie, the intro sounds you made for ToyStory.exe, LunaGame.exe and DigDug.exe could be at least unnerving if used in the right hands 😳😂 (and DigDug.exe looks, unironically, good and original to play without falling too much into the predictable .exe game tropes) Good video 😂😂❤
The rabbit hole goes even deeper, the creator of Sally.exe(JoresuOni) came clean in a... surprisingly mature post on deviantart, where they confessed that they stole the idea of Chinelin and only did that to impress their friends, they also said that the "tentacle" part was supposed to be freaky but ended up looking like some weird fetish instead. To make the TL;DR: Joresu admitted that writing Sally.exe was a mistake and apologized towards both Chinelin and MY5TCrimson, which makes me respect Joresu a lot... at least more than the feet-obsessed furry, yeah you know the one, lmao. Also this user is actually dealing with mental health problems in a mature way, I always respect people who are aware of their problems and want to deal with them, I instead *don't* respect people who use their "tragedy" as an excuse for being shitty towards others... like the aforementioned feet-obsessed furry lmao.
Hi there. I'm the person who originally wrote the Sally.EXE story for some contest. Yeah, the one who stole Chinelin's entire video. I threw together a video telling the whole story a while ago. There's not a freaking DAY I don't regret writing that junk. To call it junk is way too nice of a word, but I think TH-cam wouldn't like the more appropriate way I'd describe it. Thrilled to see Chinelin come back and leave a comment. I really hope they're doing well. In the end, I just hope the Sonic.EXE trash finally dies. The whole reason these crappy games exist is because of some god-complex, giantess-foot-fetishist on FurAffinity and it provides excuses for people to not do a creative take and make actually interesting spooky games based on media that they loved. It all has to be executable files now. Simply rancid. :( The good games from those collections are the ones who break away from that formula, so I hope more people realise that, unless you want TH-cam clicks, Sonic.EXE will only hold you back. I'm actually shocked to find out Shmorky is the one who created Zalgo. You've got some really good and interesting points about this collection of games. Fantastic video!
@@DriftStar13God has infinite mercy. And for what it's worth, I left a comment on the video of the remake stating that creepypastas are no different than drawing dicks in children's books at the library.
11:50 i'm glad you mentioned the creepypasta sonic animation. for some reason i never see it being mentioned in any other video talking about sally.exe which is sad because it's honestly the funniest part about it
Okay so my childhood nickname was Jake and I had this playing in the background while I was working on the game engine I'm coding so Imagine my suprise when I hear that TTS voice at 7:11 (which previously I had only heard in The Mandela Catalogue) saying that name It takes a lot to make me scream. This wasn't quite enough, but it was close.
I was listening to this in the background, and when I heard Dig Dug.exe coming up, I won't lie, it got me off guard lmao. I may be a few months late, but it makes me happy to hear you enjoyed the game! Little fun fact, but I used to play a lot of Dig Dug when I was younger as well! I actually liked it so much that one time when I revisited it with my young cousin, it sparkled an idea to try recreating it just for the fun of it...but when I heard of a "exechallenge" (yes, that is a thing) coming in, I thought it would be fun to try and make the game a horror experience as part of the challenge. I also recommend checking some of these games created for the exechallenge too! while there are some of them that are of "low quality", there is also a lot of high quality games submitted that I believe it's worth checking out! Some of my others game can be found there as well (not to the level of Dig Dug, but I believe it is of good quality as well.) :)
An important lesson this teaches us. Some people will eat up anything if its connected to something they like. Even if that thing is godawful, like 99% of creepypastas or the new Star Wars series.
youre one of those youtubers i always have to watch when they release a new video i still cant believe all those creepy pastas i grew up with are now borderline retro and that theres fully sentient children now that were born after those things were at their peak. genuinely will never be another time quite like it
27:00 that is some Sega hidden boss level type of shit that is actually creative. Now if only it’s applied with some decent boss music to bop your head too. Also how would that work on multiple monitors?
It sounds stupid i know but the Sonic.exe laugh (Aka Kefta's laugh fron FF6) still haunts me till this day and is the scariest sound i ever heard, and that i am god screen is so traumatizing to me that i have to look away that my heart starts pounding making me want to burst into tears crying and almost start screaming, that's how fucked my trauma is. I can't control it to the point i have to calm myself down from it or else i get paranoid. That being said besides the warning, this was a hard video to watch for me
The scariest part was when magicmush jumped out of the screen and bled on me A really good .exe game (at least gameplay-wise) is Pacman.exe. It has this fog of war mechanic where the pellets are only visible in the corridor pacman is in. Also the ghosts only become visible if you within a short distance. "Scary" isn't the word I'd use, but it does make it a bit more tense. The music, sounds, and graphics are a tiny bit corrupted, but it gives it a bit more "feeling". All in all a daimond in a sea of turds
My favorite ones are the ones created by Mr.Pixel himself! He's a really good artist and I absolutely love his games and I give him a bunch of respect as well!
@M64bros I wish that I could go back in the past to prevent Creepypasta exe games from being made but I would just prefer to move on and focus on the positive future lite
@M64bros do you hate this trend with the passion? Instead of wanting this trend to die let's try to ignore it and never click on the videos plain and simple
I remember as a kid the whole creepypasta thing was weird to me. I remember watching one video of Sonic.exe and I honestly thought it was stupid. Now that I'm older, my stance hasn't changed it's still stupid and now people make porn of it for whatever reason
Can we expect a video about the insane people over at the Super Origami Kingdom channel? I believe Deadwing Dork mentioned that you were in the chat during that stream. Baller video as always Mush!
I think it's cool to see Luigikid still has such a grip on the exe community. I still love his content, even if cheesy it still brings me some joy. But, a lot of the games you mentioned are for one of his longest challenges for his viewers, I don't even remember what the prizes are, but they must be good if the challenge keeps letting talented creators produce these interesting horror/.exe games such as Too Late.
The Toy Story exe games seem like the kind of adventures Andy would think up for them while going through his edgy tween phase.
can make a very neat plot twist toy story exe being just that.
Or something Sid would do if he played at Andy’s house.
and to match the trilogy's improvement in quality, each succeeding installment takes place when Andy is two years older than the last
Hey man
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry yup
Shmorky being zalgo's creator is the biggest plot twist I've seen
Anything involving Shmorky is a plot twist.
WHAT
Fortunately nobody really cares about it and Zalgo managed to outlive his creator.
Shmorky is dead?!
@@sirosagaming8228idk but i guess he's dead for all of us
It would be funny if someone made a .exe version out of an actual horror game, but instead it’s constantly lighthearted imagery with rainbows, unicorns, etc.
This is genius.
Silent Hill.exe and it’s just a tape of a healthy married couple.
I once played a fangame called Pong.exe which has a mode that takes all the jumpscares out and replaces them with images of cute animals instead.
Dead Space.EXE but the Necromorphs are replaced with giant friendly cartoony angels, the hivemind being replaced with a happy Jesus and the brethren moons replaced with a giant smiling face, or Warhammer 40k Boltgun.EXE where the chaos gods are replaced with happy unicorns.
@@Glory2Snowstar"In my restless dreams, I see that town: Silent Hill. You promised to take me there, again, and now it's almost time. I can't wait!"
@@thecoolestrband it'd be normal sonic with nothing else changed
Rouge.exe just looks like somebody wanted to make a hot demon/goth Rouge game rather than anything actually scary.
I wish 😮💨
🤨
It's not even scary at all, it's just somebody's weird fetish kink they want to bang. Sonic.exe is a perfect example
would.
@@terriblyterrified8742How Ambiguous, are you would to find god?
As a kid I always wanted to make Rampage Total Destruction.exe as a kid, but I never did. Unfortunate as it would obviously be the greatest game ever made.
The world wouldn’t be ready for Rampage Total Destruction.Exe unfortunately…
What the fuck is "Rampage Total Destruction.EXE"? 💀
@@mattextremex-boiyoutube225 Only one of the world's greatest video games. Actually later, I'll probably make a real rampage exe game, but base it off of a universal tour or something, and it's gonna be a mystery game because they'll be informed that one of them is an EXE monster, and the dead giveaway of someone being an EXE monster is the fact that they have black and red eyes, but all the characters normally have black and red eyes already so..... it'll be like the thing but with rhinos and monkeys.
@@AwesomeMooseSmile seems like they have a imposter among them
@@mikadosannoji553among us
i remember as a kid being super into sonic.exe, i even tried to download the game only to accidentaly download a virus with naked women in it. truly a more horrifying experience for 8 yo me than that game could ever offer.
Booby virus
Okay I have to ask. How disappointed were your parents when they found out?
@@Guymanbot97 They were just glad it wasn't gay porn.
A booby trap, if you will.
same thing happened to me but with Minecraft mods. I was absolutely obsessed with minecraft mods and wanted to install Orespawn on my family computer when we still had one and ended up installing a shitty toolbar which told me about all the hot singles in my area. My mom, unsurprisingly, was not very happy about it!
Shmorky being the original creator of Zalgo was the scariest revelation. Happy Halloween indeed!
@ManaCloakdon't do it around shmorky
Ted the Caver; the elderly proto-creepypasta, is still the best creepypasta: No cliches/tropes, based on real-life events, relies on realistic fears such as claustrophobia & cave-ins, a monster is implied but never seen, you could remove the monster entirely & it would not only not impact the horror of the story but probably make it even better.
My other favorites are Anansi's Goatman Story, Like a Virus, The Stairs and the Doorway, and The Smiling Man.
Then why didn’t they?
I think the showers is also great
And yet nobody knows about it...
@@EpicTyphlosionTV it's actually a fairly popular creepypasta
Oh God
I feel like my knowledge of internet history has been uprooted by that revelation about Zalgo.
It's fine. Zalgo was definitely a thing before Shmorky, especially on 4chan.
The Zalgo Text existed before Shmorky created Zalgo
Honestly once you learn how much stuff ties back to Shmorky, directly or indirectly, you can never go back
On the bright side, with Shmorky being mostly history, Zalgo has room to expand upon as an entity by giving him charater.
Hearing mentions of people that MagicMush has already done videos on is always hype. It feels like I’m being rewarded for my obsessive rewatching these essays.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
69 lol
The MagicMush cinematic universe is rich with lore and rewards rewatches 10/10
I'm so glad you checked out the official remake.
Excited to see what your thoughts are on what's coming...👀
Holy crap Lois I just saw joe dough boi
yo it's joe boi. Pleasant to see you here.
This man wants to make the .exe community truly proud.
you go Joe, keep at it my man!
glad to see you here joe, hope the comics are going well
No way its the guy
Finally, it used to surprise me how little people knew how egregious the blatant plagiarism in Sally.exe was. Great to see it mentioned here.
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The fact that Sonic.exe of all things spawned all of these fan games is really inspiring but also depressing considering the stories shit quality.
Sonic(.exe) fans are just built different
In so being it is almost believable as a genuine Sonic game, as Sonic is shit and always will be.
Since shmorky is mentioned in this vid, my brain tells me every comment that mentions _shit_ has something to do with him.
This weird obsession with Sonic.exe is stupid. Plus, I find it even weird that people combined it with Friday Night Funkin like it's a part of the series
wonder if it's a case of people thinking they can do it better or fix it.
shmorky was actually communicating with a real digital chaos god the whole time and went insane like a lovecraft protagonist
Hearing Shmorky created Zalgo was the biggest whiplash I’ve ever gotten.
I remember being terrified of Zalgo back then, so just hearing that high pitched voice associated with Zalgo has killed any mysticism with him lmao.
Imagine a scary, disturbing version of Half Life 2 called "hl2.exe"
Watch the interloper ARG series if you’re looking for some horror half life content
I think it would be those SM64 personalized things but instead its HL2...
If you open task manager with hl2 open you will see that it's in fact....hl2.exe
@@unoriginalperson72 scariest shit i've ever seen
@@unoriginalperson72 I like that you stuck to the brand
Can't wait for next year's edition called "The God-Awful videos spawned by God-Awful games spawned by a God-Awful creepypasta".
That's actually a great idea
There's a lot of Let's Players that thrive off of these cheap horror games
I unironically hope he does that next year. That topic has more potential for a video than you think.
@@Sorrelhastrue
@@Sorrelhas don't forget TH-cam kids content but that's basically as low of hanging fruit as making fun of gaming "journalists". Still would like it if he did it and continues this "god-awful creepypasta" saga for as long as he wants.
I also hate the sonic.exe creepypasta
Honestly expected my games to get more backlash than they got lol, I was a 14 year old brat when I made the first one.
But hey, glad you played my games from years past, even if there wasn't too much enjoyment out of it. XD
Its a small world after all
One thing that always bothered me about those .exe games is that they were supposed to be based on old 8/16 bit cartridges, yet a lot of them feature sound files that would not be compatible with the aforementioned cartridges. I know it’s just a minor thing in the grand scope of how bad a lot of these games are, but it doesn’t do much to save the atmosphere of what they were going for.
I guess this is why that Crashbandicoot.exe one kinda works even if it's hilarious.
It would make sense if this was some sort of pc port
Isn’t that sorta the point though? The games do things they’re not supposed to… cuz like, an evil entity is living in the game. If the entity is sentient, taunts the player and is potentially able to escape and kill the player, why is it surprising that it can make the game make sounds it’s not supposed to?
@@MutedAndReported3032 Good point actually!
@@MutedAndReported3032 you have a point there, but I feel like it would be just as unnerving if all of that stuff unfolded within the sound font of the game.
Personally, Doug Walker.exe was the scariest.
Doug Walker.exe is indeed scary, he captures his victims and forces them to watch To Boldly Flee over and over again. Truly a horrible fate!
A BAT CREDIT CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You haven't seen horror until you try Shmorky.exe
I put in the Nintendo cartridge and the Nostalgia Critic and Peter Griffin bled at me
@@yosh9192 HE’S GETTING ANGRIER!!! HE’S TAKING YOU INTO THE DARKNESS!
the fact that sonic.exe has outlived genuinely well written stories makes me consider walking into the sun.
I feel sorry for you 😢
Go ahead, do it. I want medium rare human meat
@@infiniteraide1642 could you possibly be any more edgy
@@virtualdentity2685 I mean yours was edgy so I just matched it's energy
Well done human meat > medium rare human meat
Zalgo being made by Shmorky makes it far more terrifying.
Agreed 100%
Everything Shmorky touches goes to shit... but he probably likes it that way.
Shmorky?
No Creepypasta/horror game can even compare to the emotions brought by seeing Tails on a bench.
I both agree and disagree with you
To anyone who doesn't know what that is, PLEASE DON'T LOOK IT UP. I DID AND I HEAVILY REGRET IT.
@@spacemeers1511Damn, what is it then
@@PotassiumWarrior6078a nsfw comic involving tails, babies, poop and CP
@@darrumsomwere wait wtf?!?!?!?
I will never not love how surreal and good Donkey Kong.EXE is, life goes on.
The abundance of .exe games makes it feel as though it has skewed the perception of the file form. I mean, “.exe” means it’s an “execution” file that runs the other assets; it’s how apps on a computer operate.
So, how many dumb kids out there would have dug through their computer files, stumbled across such a file, and legit shiver in terror?
I remember when I was like 6, I had a disc that had a bunch of games on it, like knock off Tetris, Pac-Man, that sort of thing. I remember some games had two files. One was like the how to play the game, the other was an exe file, which was the game itself. So when I first saw Sonic exe I just thought it was like a PC port based on the name
I find it so incredibly hard to believe that Zalgo’s creator out of all people was Shmorky.
"The end is neigh"
The spoopyness was on point.
I literally facepalmed at that
Sonic.exe was one of my very first experiences with horror back around 2011 and I distinctly remember being unable to sleep due to that one uncomfortably realistic image of Sonic's face that shows up at the end of the game.
Looking back, I realize just how stupid it was. Though, sometimes I do miss those days where everything was scary. The internet is such a mysterious place to a kid and feels like anything is possible. Even a haunted video game.
True. I first saw Pewdie play Sonic.exe in like 2012 or sometime, I think I was about 9, and it terrified me as well. I had this fear that a haunted game could just appear on my computer, and force me to play it as it took over the system. Good times
Sonic.exe, Ben's drowned, squidward sui**de and herobrine were the goats back in the day, scared the shit out of me when i was a kid
There was another horror pony game that was posted to DeviantArt years ago called "Story of the Flanks" or something alone those lines. It was well made and hella creepy. It was more like an a short earthbound game that was extremely unnerving and you had to stealth/avoid the "blank flanks". Btw, if I remember correctly, blank flanks were ponies that didn't havea special emblem on their leg, but in the game I think they turned undead/demonic? I kinda blocked the memory out Lol
Story of the blanks is much better than Luna Game lol
I was just going to recommend "Story of the Blanks" but you beat me to it.
yep story of the blanks! There was also another game inspired by that called "Super Filly Adventure" which for the most part was an innocent mlp flash game. But if you got the bad ending and were playing in the middle of the night you'd get the alternate creepypasta ending.
oh my god not deviantart
or that bunny rescue game where you played as fluttershy, which isnt a creepy game *unless* you played it between like midnight - 3am iirc. i don't remember the exact details but i think it starts out normal but eventually the music cuts out (?) and something starts hunting you down instead of you hunting down the missing bunnies and it scared the shit out of me as a 12yr old lol
its always funny to look back at things that scared us as childrens
excluding courage the cowardly dog
@@Asbestoseater23ok that is true, i remember being always scared of that shit
@@Asbestoseater23and Flapjack
so where those ghosts i saw when i was like 5 real or nah, did anyone else have creepypasta unrelated ghost shit happen to them or was i just delusional
@@Josuhnah When I was a kid I saw ghosts too, Had some horrible nightmares as well. And some creepy neighbors. So none of the creepypasta stuff scared me as a kid.
I always liked games that go outside the box, from Nier Automata asking you if you liked the game and then asking if you want to donate your save file to help another player, to sh*t like that Dig Dug game
It can be really fun (or really f*cking scary) when done right
Also the first Nier
The shame and disgust I felt for understanding the Tails diaper thing just... cheers pal.
Funnily enough, because of MagicMush's videos, Sonic has slowly creeped his way back into my life.
I hope you're proud of what you did.
I never knew I needed a creepified version of Mister Metokur going "Bing! Bing! Wahoo! Yippeee!" until now. Exceptional taste.
That Donkey Kong cake is the scariest thing I’ve seen this month.
Agreed
Donkey Kake 😩😩
You may spank it.
Once.
The only thing about the .exe thing I remember was just being confused as to why, all of a sudden, adding .exe (the windows file name extension) to the end of a video game character's name made them into a monster. (Except Mega Man for some reason.)
The scariest tails.exe definitely has to be the one where he's sitting on the bench.
AAAAH AAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
even sonic.exe fears that guy.
NO
but that does not exist, RIGHT? it's just a collective fever dream! it's just a thing they tell kids to scare them!
THE BOOGEYMAN COMES BACK TO HAUNT ME AGAIN
There is a way to get through that potato head level easier, you'll need to find the laser, it's somewhere during the level after choosing the "Stop Woody forever" option, with that, you can easily shoot the potato heads out of the way and it makes the level REALLY easy
26:45 I can't take this seriously with the wallpaper image
There's just a charm to old creepypastas that I enjoy
Guess they're really from a more simpler and easier to scare time on the internet
What'd ya expect? They think taking a random existing character and giving them bleeding eyes, blank pupilness eyes, wide grin with sharp teeth, or huge gapping mouth = scary.
26:45
This is way too funny on all sorts of different levels.
To this day I'm always confused as to why Sonic.EXE was a thing and how it took off as being popular since it's less scary more than it is cringey.
Sonic fans embrace the cringe
It’s probably because of the intresting concept of a malicious entity or ghost possessing a video game
@@lvl5Vaporeon Yes, for as much as there was art and TH-cam thumbnails depicting Sonic.EXE being evil and "scary", there was also lewd art. Which is honestly more scary😂
It's the stickiness of Sonic paired with the edge of teens, shit's more lethal combo than Sonic games and troubled development cycles.
@@GustyguyNope
It was actually just an entity taking the form of Sonic, more interesting part is that that entity created a dimension where the game actually takes place
Still pretty good concept, the thing is that the origin story of EXE and the fangames are the best thing about it, the actual games are mid
Also I call it an entity since “Sonic.EXE” is the name of the disk, the name of the entity is “X”
Also “Lord X” is the same entity as this one, just after a few years or decades (This entity is 1300+ years old, yet it actually simps for Sonic, EDP will he proud)
Oooh, a MagicMush video on Halloween?
How magical! How mushy!
Indeed
Apparently there's more than one Luna game
There's 0 - 5 I believe and a fanmade Luna game but it's still that early 2010s creepypasta standard
Which was scary back then but not so today
TBH, knowing that Zalgo was made by Shmorky makes it more terrifying
It is so depressing to hear people call it the "Sonic exe" laugh and not the Kefka laugh, man we're old
I still see people called it Kefka laugh too
MagicMush always know how to deliver us great content!
I'm glad someone else appreciates the effective horror of creepypasta Applebloom
Thanks for the insight TH-cam user cumbrap
More videos when, Tumblr goat man
Your old vids were transphobic and terrible but I still like seeing you pop up in comments lmao
We miss you cumbrap 😓
I haven't forgotten you all. Just be on the lookout. The time is nearly at hand. Soon we will all achieve "Heaven"
I did not need to know that Zalgo was made by Shmorky.
I did not want to know Zalgo was from Smorky.
My life was probably better before I learned Zalgo was made by Smorky.
But I am so glad I can now inflict that knowledge on other people's. Thank you
Ah, the Creepypasta era. From 2011-2017, it was quite a time.
All I gotta say is, thanks sonic.exe for making an entire generation of kids scared of a file format
It ain't just kids. You ever go to save a funny image on the internet only to be met with the .webp jumpscare? Terrifying.
@@suparockr oh ya the terror of webp. Hate those things
I need a full version of the QTE music from Mario.exe. Gets my blood pumping, man!
Remember, just because a game of any genre has amazing art and gameplay mechanics doesn't mean the story and implementation of multiple endings is equal to groundbreaking celebrity talent. Most of the modern "Creepypasta" games are loosely based on merely anything and follows the same trope of an old arcade era game being haunted by a deceased person's spirit.
Duuuude, you have absolutely NO IDEA how much I HATE these ".exe" games. As someone who was born in the mid 90s and played exe games on dos back in the day, the fact that these mediocre, shitty creepy games exist just makes my search for old .exe games all the more difficult 🤦♂️
Sites like MyAbandonware should have some games, and there are also sites with names like Old Games (various sites with a name like that) that can have some less known games too (though some of them aren't in English). If all else fails, Archivedotorg is likely to have DOS game collections or just uploads of certain games
Good video, EXE games def evolved from their inception
Awesome spooky content for a spooky day! Happy Halloween!
I think you might be a bit misinformed... the Sonic Mania engine (commonly referred to as Retro Engine) isn't used for Sonic.EXE fangames. Most EXE fangames utilize existing framework engines not related to any official Sonic Engine.
"the end is neigh" is actually silly enough that I think if I played that game and got spooked the laughter from that would jar me out of it
giggling at the ghostie, if you will
I remember reading an interview from the original creator. That was actually just an unintentional misspelling.
Luna Game didn't came with the ".exe game trend" it appeared waaay before and it wasn't even a horror game more like a troll game with some scripts. That people from the 2011 thought was a virus.
1:12
wow, the fangame is now twice as old as the combined ages of every member of its fanbase
Four minutes in
"he must dead"
Off to a great start, I see.
Believe it or not Luna Games predate Sonic.exe and caused such a scare among the brony fandom for fear it was a virus or malware (think lostboys.exe before lostboys was a thing)
Also there's 5 of them
Yes thats right 5 that tell a lose story
Not gonna lie, the intro sounds you made for ToyStory.exe, LunaGame.exe and DigDug.exe could be at least unnerving if used in the right hands 😳😂
(and DigDug.exe looks, unironically, good and original to play without falling too much into the predictable .exe game tropes)
Good video 😂😂❤
calm down woody we're your friends
“The end is neigh” got me. 😂
Just when I thought I was too old to get scared by Zalgo, something was revealed to male it more terrifying than ever before
Ah the ancient times when you could add .exe at the and of a random word and write a lazy "scary" story
The rabbit hole goes even deeper, the creator of Sally.exe(JoresuOni) came clean in a... surprisingly mature post on deviantart, where they confessed that they stole the idea of Chinelin and only did that to impress their friends, they also said that the "tentacle" part was supposed to be freaky but ended up looking like some weird fetish instead. To make the TL;DR: Joresu admitted that writing Sally.exe was a mistake and apologized towards both Chinelin and MY5TCrimson, which makes me respect Joresu a lot... at least more than the feet-obsessed furry, yeah you know the one, lmao.
Also this user is actually dealing with mental health problems in a mature way, I always respect people who are aware of their problems and want to deal with them, I instead *don't* respect people who use their "tragedy" as an excuse for being shitty towards others... like the aforementioned feet-obsessed furry lmao.
I worship the cringe of creepypastas, thanks for the video, man. My weekly injected has been fulfilled.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who saw the Toy Story.exe series as somewhat competent
You know it’s a great Halloween when MagicMush uploads.
Hi there.
I'm the person who originally wrote the Sally.EXE story for some contest. Yeah, the one who stole Chinelin's entire video. I threw together a video telling the whole story a while ago. There's not a freaking DAY I don't regret writing that junk. To call it junk is way too nice of a word, but I think TH-cam wouldn't like the more appropriate way I'd describe it. Thrilled to see Chinelin come back and leave a comment. I really hope they're doing well.
In the end, I just hope the Sonic.EXE trash finally dies. The whole reason these crappy games exist is because of some god-complex, giantess-foot-fetishist on FurAffinity and it provides excuses for people to not do a creative take and make actually interesting spooky games based on media that they loved. It all has to be executable files now. Simply rancid. :( The good games from those collections are the ones who break away from that formula, so I hope more people realise that, unless you want TH-cam clicks, Sonic.EXE will only hold you back.
I'm actually shocked to find out Shmorky is the one who created Zalgo. You've got some really good and interesting points about this collection of games. Fantastic video!
Apparently Sonic exe just got remade.
@@ianfinrir8724 God knows no mercy
@@DriftStar13God has infinite mercy. And for what it's worth, I left a comment on the video of the remake stating that creepypastas are no different than drawing dicks in children's books at the library.
At least you realized how bad that story was, unlike the original creator.
2:20 HOLY FUCK THIS ACTUALLY MADE MY HEART SKIP EVERY BEAT 💀
Same here
They did it. They actually managed to make him scary. (Not counting Faker and no more innocence)
11:50 i'm glad you mentioned the creepypasta sonic animation. for some reason i never see it being mentioned in any other video talking about sally.exe which is sad because it's honestly the funniest part about it
So it turns out the creator of the original fan game apparently also deserves to be in prison like the writer of the OG sonic exe story
? I believe its children making these lmao what have you made out of curiosity
Okay so my childhood nickname was Jake and I had this playing in the background while I was working on the game engine I'm coding so Imagine my suprise when I hear that TTS voice at 7:11 (which previously I had only heard in The Mandela Catalogue) saying that name
It takes a lot to make me scream. This wasn't quite enough, but it was close.
I was listening to this in the background, and when I heard Dig Dug.exe coming up, I won't lie, it got me off guard lmao.
I may be a few months late, but it makes me happy to hear you enjoyed the game!
Little fun fact, but I used to play a lot of Dig Dug when I was younger as well! I actually liked it so much that one time when I revisited it with my young cousin, it sparkled an idea to try recreating it just for the fun of it...but when I heard of a "exechallenge" (yes, that is a thing) coming in, I thought it would be fun to try and make the game a horror experience as part of the challenge.
I also recommend checking some of these games created for the exechallenge too! while there are some of them that are of "low quality", there is also a lot of high quality games submitted that I believe it's worth checking out! Some of my others game can be found there as well (not to the level of Dig Dug, but I believe it is of good quality as well.) :)
This is another entertaining video, I remember watching .exe creepy pastas on TH-cam and are questionable but it’s great to see you talk about them.
An important lesson this teaches us. Some people will eat up anything if its connected to something they like. Even if that thing is godawful, like 99% of creepypastas or the new Star Wars series.
Your mum isn't all that good, and people eat her up
youre one of those youtubers i always have to watch when they release a new video
i still cant believe all those creepy pastas i grew up with are now borderline retro and that theres fully sentient children now that were born after those things were at their peak. genuinely will never be another time quite like it
27:00 that is some Sega hidden boss level type of shit that is actually creative. Now if only it’s applied with some decent boss music to bop your head too. Also how would that work on multiple monitors?
Playing Epona’s theme in the Luna Exe section is genuinely funny for some reason to me
It sounds stupid i know but the Sonic.exe laugh (Aka Kefta's laugh fron FF6) still haunts me till this day and is the scariest sound i ever heard, and that i am god screen is so traumatizing to me that i have to look away that my heart starts pounding making me want to burst into tears crying and almost start screaming, that's how fucked my trauma is. I can't control it to the point i have to calm myself down from it or else i get paranoid. That being said besides the warning, this was a hard video to watch for me
The scariest part was when magicmush jumped out of the screen and bled on me
A really good .exe game (at least gameplay-wise) is Pacman.exe. It has this fog of war mechanic where the pellets are only visible in the corridor pacman is in. Also the ghosts only become visible if you within a short distance. "Scary" isn't the word I'd use, but it does make it a bit more tense. The music, sounds, and graphics are a tiny bit corrupted, but it gives it a bit more "feeling". All in all a daimond in a sea of turds
17:54 "calm down woody we're your friends!!!"
“SHUT UP BUZZ ILL KILL YOU”
That dig dug one is so damn cool how the hell did they manage to do that?
Better keep pumpin out this content. Always good to see you upload. Been in a nostalgia mood this entire last year.
13:13 the scariest jumpscare of all, Rouge The Bat as an emo girl!
For Sonic.exe we started getting some good ones like The Disaster (both the 3D & 2D ones)
My favorite ones are the ones created by Mr.Pixel himself!
He's a really good artist and I absolutely love his games and I give him a bunch of respect as well!
I swear we have like the exact same subscriptions list 😂
@@GavGaming15 Yeah it's pretty crazy! 😆
@M64bros I wish that I could go back in the past to prevent Creepypasta exe games from being made but I would just prefer to move on and focus on the positive future lite
@M64bros do you hate this trend with the passion? Instead of wanting this trend to die let's try to ignore it and never click on the videos plain and simple
@@noahalcantar2431 the Nintendo negativity videos or the creepypasta videos?
Shmorky being Zalgo’s creator was the scariest part of the video
As soon as you talked about diapers and then showed tails on the bench...ptsd flashbacks right there
You know exactly what I'm talking about 🤣🤣🤣
I remember reading the digdug creepypasta as a kid and it was one of the few good haunted games stories
I remember as a kid the whole creepypasta thing was weird to me. I remember watching one video of Sonic.exe and I honestly thought it was stupid. Now that I'm older, my stance hasn't changed it's still stupid and now people make porn of it for whatever reason
"i will not mention Sonic games"
*Procceeds to mention sonic games
Ah yes the old sonic exe era (2013-2020) back when it was mostly sonic.exe but a different coat of paint or a different franchise
Wdym?? EXE era was 2009-2018
Can we expect a video about the insane people over at the Super Origami Kingdom channel? I believe Deadwing Dork mentioned that you were in the chat during that stream. Baller video as always Mush!
the funniest thing to me is that at 6:25 the Pentagrams are from, of all things, Hellsing. The ones on Alucard's gloves. That's hilarious.
I think it's cool to see Luigikid still has such a grip on the exe community. I still love his content, even if cheesy it still brings me some joy. But, a lot of the games you mentioned are for one of his longest challenges for his viewers, I don't even remember what the prizes are, but they must be good if the challenge keeps letting talented creators produce these interesting horror/.exe games such as Too Late.
Thank you magicmush