The problem with Phil and Lil as fighting game characters is they are more of a duo character instead of two uniques. If you remove one of the 2 you have an immediate F tier. Chuckie quite literally has a whole song about his fighting feats
Honestly phil and lil feel like they'd be top tier but so impossible to play by anyone that isn't a lab monster that in practice most of them you encounter playing online would be on par with low tiers.
I played Rugrats: Search for Reptar on a 5 inch black & white CRT TV that my brother and I got at Kmart on clearance for $10. We were pretty poor growing up, and the only reason we even had a Playstation is because I was (still am) good at fixing electronics. My cousin was going to throw one out and I took it off his hands and got it working again just by replacing the fuse in the power supply. That little 5 inch TV was mine and my brother's main TV for like 2 years until I found an old Zenith console TV on the side of the road with the power cord cut off of it. Replaced the cord and it worked like a dream. Still have it and still use it for retro gaming and watching movies on VHS.
Funnily (strangely?) enough, I also have played all these games and have no experience with the reference material. I have a "shovelware pen pal" and we send each other awful licensed shovelware games. I mentioned liking mini golf and he sent me ALL of these. ALL OF THEM.
"I feel like everyone has that one terrible game they played as a kid that has nevertheless bored its way into their subconscious to remain for the rest of their lives, I'm a speedrunner and in my experience speedrunning is basically an entire subculture of the kind of person who lets that game ruin their lives" is the funniest thing I've ever heard
Now I wonder if The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer has a speedrun record out there. That's my game that isn't good but has a permanent spot in my brain.
Surprised you didn’t mention that one of the golf courses in Search for Reptar has a pyramid with a maze under it, used to freak me out as a kid ‘cause there was a clown doll wandering around in there.
@@PunchyYT I just dug out my old copy to check and found it, it’s on hole eight of the mini golf on the opposite side of the pyramid from the one you tee off from; there’s a sliding door but it doesn’t seem like you can open it to go inside if you just pick mini golf from the main menu, but that may be something to do with my disc being pretty scratched up
@@PunchyYT Okay I’ve reached it in the main game and there’s no door on it, it’s just an open entry down into a maze full of Reptar bars and there IS a clown in there that’s dressed like a mummy! And I know why it freaked me out as a kid too, using the centre camera button got me so turned around I’d always get lost!
4:00 I'm pretty sure that's what reptar bars looked like in the show, they were shaped like reptar and had a picture of reptar on the wrapper, kind of like chocolate easter bunnies
Or if you're from the UK and were fortunate to have been born prior to the greatest level of sustained economic hardship we have experienced since the great depression: like a Freddo or a Taz bar.
0:43 The reason it had no NES/SNES games is because Rugrats' peak popularity was during the late 90s and then continued into the 00s (I recall seeing Rugrats Go Wild in theaters back when it released and that was in 2003). In particular, after the first three seasons when it changed timeslots on Nickelodeon in the States was when the show blew up and became their flagship series, so much so, one of the original creators Paul Germain did not work on any of the later seasons because he had already been working on Recess over on the Disney Channel by the time it exploded in popularity. Before that, Nickelodeon was pushing Ren and Stimpy as their big series, which funnily enough, had a SNES game.
Describing 1991-2003 as "prime time to have games for the NES" is so wild that I had to wonder if Punchy thought Rugrats was from the '80s or something.
Actually, I think the reason MAY have been from Nickelodeon not wanting their shows to be advertisements to sell toys to children. That's exactly what other children's shows were, and Nickelodeon made their shows with the intent to go against all that. They may have had toys, tho. I can't remember the early 90s much. But if they didn't, they may have changed their minds by the late 90s.
I was hoping you'd mention the level in Search For Reptar where the dog gets trapped down the sewer. Out of all the levels, that's the one that shook me. You have to navigate the tunnels and jump across moving platforms floating in lethal poowater and avoid giant rats or something, I can't remember all the details. Instead of a milk bottle for a health bar you had a bone that would get more and more hollow as you lost health. At least the levels in the basement and toy shop were somewhat familiar places, the sewer was hostile, entirely foreign territory that no dog or baby ought ever find themselves in.
I felt so bad for spike when playing this one. I even remembered getting lost, constantly touched sludge, a game over of spike whimpering and hanging its head down with the paws over his eyes, and having to redo the whole thing (that said it might be a false memory since I haven't played this game in well over 20 years or so).
It's more depressing when you think about it realistically. Spike probably would've had to have seen a Vet after the fact, gotten shots to prevent rabies from the rats, and blood tests for all of the toxic sludge he ran through.
YES, THANK YOU! I was waiting for it during the breakdown of the Search for Reptar, and was so sad he didn't cover it! Spike in the sewer looking for the Cynthia doll, the balloons in the upside down, the dark, ghosty level, and the friggin' SPACE one where you're Angelika... was HORRIFYING! Was hoping to see it covered but maybe it's best for my childhood nightmares and my adult anxiety lol.
3:57 That's actually how the Reptar Bars look on the show. Being Reptar-shaped was a selling point for them. It's a pity you cannot get the N64 version as that one is probably the closest to being a Mario Party clone as possible by virtue of the fact that there is a grand game board to explore.
If I recall correctly, a lot of the levels in the first game are based on actual episodes from the show. I specifically remember an episode where Chuckie lost his glasses and the one where they had to open the fridge for light.
Rugrats is so fascinating to me because I absolutely watched this show and one of the movies as a kid. I definitely did. But it passed completely through the memory sieve. I retain literally nothing from the experience, so these games were a confusing nightmare mess. Was quite the fun experience. Really enjoyed the fighting game tier list joke.
The only thing I remember is the crossover movie with the Wild Thornberry's, and even then only for the giant squid and Nigel being super hyped about seeing it. Nothing else. Only Squid.
I think Tommy can climb a bit in the fighting game meta when you consider that the other babies can't pull on his hair His gormless expressions should also instill fear into his foes
14:20 I watched the cartoon, pinning anything on Angelica would be karmic justice, she's like, an absolute monster as much as a 3-4 old can be, like she tried to make Tommy sick by taking off his blanket and making sure he's cold in the sleep. She's also one of very few kids who can talk to adults in universe (all kids can talk with each other but adults don't understand the smol ones), so she lies all the time.
Rugrats in paris is one of the only rugrats things Ive ever seen and when you labelled Chucky as a "puppet character" some latent instinct in the back of my head activated to remind me that there was a musical number dream sequence where he was "martial arts expert of reptar land". This was vindicated later in the video. Thank you for remembering only the most valuable information, brain.
I rented the studio game as a kid and have been haunted for years by it due to not getting enough keys for the second door before having to return it to Blockbuster.
As someone who had probably played well over 100 hours of Totally Angelica as a kid, this video (and your stream playing it!) reminds me of how far the human brain and enjoyment can come
all I remember from Rugrats is one of the movies had a cover of Blondie's _One Way Or Another_ sung by Angelica and at the time, I had no idea what covers of songs were, so was very surprised when I played Rock Band years later and heard that exact same song, by that point I at least knew what covers were but still this also had me convinced for a couple of years that A Goofy Movie also used cover songs but I couldn't find who originally sung them, cause they weren't actually covers the world can be a very confusing place for a child
I mean nothing they did will ever be as horrific as Duckman, but that was one of the only times they actively went out of their way to be upsetting to look at. Not even Argh! Real Monsters! is as cursed as some of the stuff from Duckman 😂
It is odd that enough time has passed that people have forgotten about THQ. Ten years or so ago they were one of the big three for AAA games (among Ubisoft and EA). All these companies have been equally annoying and controversial but so far only THQ went under. And yeah Nordic is just a third party that bought the rights to most of their IPs, with Deep Silver getting most of the rest. This far on there hasn't really been much of anything done with their IPs except for a poorly received remake of Saint's Row and some WWE games that get worse every year. Honestly I don't miss em lol.
I've toyed around with trying to become the speed run world record holder for Search for Reptar. Maybe you should do it. The game is nightmare fuel and would be a good complement to your other horror runs.
i actually have I think the oldest recorded run for the game on the internet at a solid "over a decade" but the game is extremely well optimized at this point. genuinely very difficult run to get WR in at this stage
"I think statistically, probably half the people watching this video still have nightmares about that noise." Yeah... Yeah. I played this game at a sleepover with friends and we did that level at nighttime. Made us close the game and insert Spyro instead.
6:22 it's because the xylophone sounding instrument is going up and down the whole tone scale, most scales are a mix of one and two note increments as you go up them but whole tone is just a gap of two notes every time, the uneasiness it causes is a feature of the scale
I love it when people mention the Rugrats ost - idk if it was the same for the games, but in the show it was made by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, which is both insane and makes perfect sense "Yknow whod make good music for our baby cartoon? The weirdo from the avant-punk new wave band that dresses up in radiation suits, pretends to be robots and talk about how humanity is devolving!"
my parents rented this game for me once. Once As soon as you got to the mini-golf, the sound-nostalgia was huge. Then it reminded me that hooooly shit this game made me panic as a kid, and that sound is half of it
Rugrats is that one cartoon that when I was a kid... I always felt uncanny/uncomfy watching, I don't know why, but the more material I know about this series, the more intense that feel gets lmao Here in Mexico, piracy is the order of the day, and for some goddamn reason everybody I knew seemed to own a disc for either of the first 3 games, search for reptar being the most popular choice, and hearing that "hub world" music really brought back a lot of uncanny memories. That "ojousama normals" joke got me laughing for several minutes though, thanks for that.
A static screen just saying “we did it for the children.” is so haunting, it feels like something that would proceed a jumpscare in an analog horror series
I remember playing Totally Angelica for the PC, and gotta say. It's a completely different game to how it was on ps1. It was just a small little point and click game where you messed around Angelica's house while her Babysitter was failing at her job. I'd say it was a less offensive game, cause it didn't have the ball maze. Though, I remember playing the two Hot Wheels PC games a lot more!
rugrats in paris is my own personal childhood hell, but you talking abt the ghosts in the first reminded me instead of paper mario ttyd. the ghost popping out of the glass pane scared me enough i never got past it. id just replay over and over up until that star.
the rugrats babies as translated to street fighter characters: chuckie: vega from sf4. useless without his glasses, but when he has them on he's one of the strongest characters angelica: karin from sf5, complete with the ohoho lil: laura from sf5. this is cheating a bit because lil in all grown up gets interested in soccer phil: birdie from sf5. both are gross little dudes that i would not want to hang around tommy: ryu from any of them. only interested in strengthening his own power dil: dan from sf4. completely useless i don't play enough street fighter to have a parallel for kimi or susie
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING mini-game in Search For Reptar, which is based on an episode in which Angelica gets abducted by aliens and IS JUST DOOMED TO FUCKING DIE???? I remember watching that as a kid and being absolutely scared shitless when I was getting zapped by the enemies in the game's stage. 7 year old me was so scared of being abducted by aliens in my sleep and being stranded on a desert planet with animal carcasses just chilling around. Thanks, Rugrats, for the nightmare fuel.
Search for Reptar is like - a talisman for me, lol. It holds so much energy of a missed and transitional time in my childhood. I was, like, nine years old playing it. Still to this day I could care less about its jagged nature. Nothing in gaming had to be perfect back then. It just needed a conglomerate of memorable music, fun activities, and a visual nature capable of capturing an aura. The Toy Palace with Thorg, as simple as it was, that creeped me out as a kid and still has the power to unnerve me a little as a super grown man, lol! Even the lobster in Incident in Aisle 7 still gives me the heebie jeebies. The TV aliens lurking behind those doors in Visitors From Outer Space slowly gave me the creeps, and of course Let There Be Light was probably my first “scary level” in a game. That was such a great game. I miss even hearing the disc laser move when a new sound bite was played. There was lots of hilariously true points made in the video though 😂
I had a pirate copy of the first Rugrats game. The goose level gave me nightmares as a dumb 8 years old. Surprised yo didn't even mentioned that, because it was creepier than the ghost level.
legit every child character in search for reptar look like they're the offspring of the Momo creepypasta figure, and the fact i've just realised this is incredibly unsettling
I remember playing Search for Reptar and Studio Tour so much when I was little. Rugrats in Paris was I think the first game I ever rage quit and never bothered to finish.
Search For Reptar and Studio Tour were the only two out of this list I actually played. I remember despising the mini-golf sections so much that I avoided them for as long as I could. Fun fact though. I remember in one game of Studio Tour, in the RNG keyhole part? I managed to get it in 3 keys. Third times the charm, I guess.
Oh god, I vividly remember playing the first game. I liked it very much, but I could only play it for a few days because it was a rental. Good old memories.
I love Rugrats! Literally my favourite animated show ever! It’s just so memorable to me overall. Phil and Lil are my favourite characters too. They’re both so funny I think.
Rugrats in Paris was my childhood video game. Kimi was my favorite and I played the game constantly until one day it froze while I was playing the frog mini game and it never turned on again 😢
I cannot believe there are so many of these games and that there will be more soon. A terrifying property that refuses to die, we shall never escape chucky
I watched Magemasher's Search For Reptar series earlier and bought it off eBay for £8. My childhood copy has been long since lost so i'm happy the game isn't scalped.
I remember getting rugrats in Paris for n64 at blockbuster, Chuckie Chan stuck with me lmao My cousin had scavenger hunt but we could never finish a game
Oh wow, Rugrats started earlier than I thought - I assumed it was a mid 90s show, it only started airing here in Canada when I was too old to really watch that kind of thing.
I had rugrats in paris for the n64 It's ridiculously hard for a toddler bc of bad controls I also had another rugrats n64 game, it was styled like a boardgame. Wish i still had it
Another banger video from Punchy! I played these games a lot when I was a kid, but I always kept going back to Search of Reptar. I just loved the vibes from that game. Playing these as a kid before learning how to speak english made focus a lot on the sound tones and vibes. Like, I can totally remember the sounds and music from the whole game but I didn't know what the actual words were. Watching this video had me saying "Oh, so that's what they were saying when they made that sound" lol
I played the sht out of search for reptar as a kid. Its definitely one of those games that left a deep imprint on my psyche, there are seemingly a lot of them for me though.
Bro even talks like he's speedrunning lol but in all seriousness Search For Reptar was my shit as a kid 😅 I jumped between this and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 constantly
I remember playing studio tour and in Paris but the only thing I remember was I enjoyed the mini golf and the goo caves bring me a sense of dread I can't place Oh there's also a ps2 rugrats game
My dad rented the first game for me and I beat it in one day. I go and tell him and he's like oh no I bought it for you for Christmas. (To avoid spoiling Christmas if I wanted to rent a game and he already bought it he would just rent it) So I've beaten this game probably two dozen times since I was a kid lol. I would just beat it randomly whenever I was bored because it was so fast. I wish I timed it because in hindsight it was speed running lol.
That music certainly bored into my brain cortex and felt familiar despite me only playing this game for one week years ago (rented from blockbuster lmao)
The problem with Phil and Lil as fighting game characters is they are more of a duo character instead of two uniques. If you remove one of the 2 you have an immediate F tier.
Chuckie quite literally has a whole song about his fighting feats
What about one is an assist and the other is a main character? What about them being a stance character? Puppet character maybe?
Phil and Lil are Ice Climbers in infant form.
Honestly phil and lil feel like they'd be top tier but so impossible to play by anyone that isn't a lab monster that in practice most of them you encounter playing online would be on par with low tiers.
I played Rugrats: Search for Reptar on a 5 inch black & white CRT TV that my brother and I got at Kmart on clearance for $10. We were pretty poor growing up, and the only reason we even had a Playstation is because I was (still am) good at fixing electronics. My cousin was going to throw one out and I took it off his hands and got it working again just by replacing the fuse in the power supply. That little 5 inch TV was mine and my brother's main TV for like 2 years until I found an old Zenith console TV on the side of the road with the power cord cut off of it. Replaced the cord and it worked like a dream. Still have it and still use it for retro gaming and watching movies on VHS.
Beautiful
Funnily (strangely?) enough, I also have played all these games and have no experience with the reference material.
I have a "shovelware pen pal" and we send each other awful licensed shovelware games. I mentioned liking mini golf and he sent me ALL of these. ALL OF THEM.
My "we did it for the children" credits roll has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my credits roll.
"I feel like everyone has that one terrible game they played as a kid that has nevertheless bored its way into their subconscious to remain for the rest of their lives, I'm a speedrunner and in my experience speedrunning is basically an entire subculture of the kind of person who lets that game ruin their lives" is the funniest thing I've ever heard
Or lets games ruin their life broadly speaking
Now I wonder if The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer has a speedrun record out there. That's my game that isn't good but has a permanent spot in my brain.
That soundtrack bored it's way into my subconscious on the one omg I can still hear it lmao
Yup, that's how I feel about 40 Winks
Surprised you didn’t mention that one of the golf courses in Search for Reptar has a pyramid with a maze under it, used to freak me out as a kid ‘cause there was a clown doll wandering around in there.
I...did not find this???
@@PunchyYT I just dug out my old copy to check and found it, it’s on hole eight of the mini golf on the opposite side of the pyramid from the one you tee off from; there’s a sliding door but it doesn’t seem like you can open it to go inside if you just pick mini golf from the main menu, but that may be something to do with my disc being pretty scratched up
@@PunchyYT Okay I’ve reached it in the main game and there’s no door on it, it’s just an open entry down into a maze full of Reptar bars and there IS a clown in there that’s dressed like a mummy! And I know why it freaked me out as a kid too, using the centre camera button got me so turned around I’d always get lost!
@@IkumotI'm enjoying the fact that I wasn't the only person haunted by this game
BRO I REMEMBER THIS!!! but I’m not afraid of clowns, just love Easter eggs now! Lol
4:00 I'm pretty sure that's what reptar bars looked like in the show, they were shaped like reptar and had a picture of reptar on the wrapper, kind of like chocolate easter bunnies
Or if you're from the UK and were fortunate to have been born prior to the greatest level of sustained economic hardship we have experienced since the great depression: like a Freddo or a Taz bar.
0:43 The reason it had no NES/SNES games is because Rugrats' peak popularity was during the late 90s and then continued into the 00s (I recall seeing Rugrats Go Wild in theaters back when it released and that was in 2003). In particular, after the first three seasons when it changed timeslots on Nickelodeon in the States was when the show blew up and became their flagship series, so much so, one of the original creators Paul Germain did not work on any of the later seasons because he had already been working on Recess over on the Disney Channel by the time it exploded in popularity. Before that, Nickelodeon was pushing Ren and Stimpy as their big series, which funnily enough, had a SNES game.
Describing 1991-2003 as "prime time to have games for the NES" is so wild that I had to wonder if Punchy thought Rugrats was from the '80s or something.
Actually, I think the reason MAY have been from Nickelodeon not wanting their shows to be advertisements to sell toys to children. That's exactly what other children's shows were, and Nickelodeon made their shows with the intent to go against all that.
They may have had toys, tho. I can't remember the early 90s much. But if they didn't, they may have changed their minds by the late 90s.
I was hoping you'd mention the level in Search For Reptar where the dog gets trapped down the sewer. Out of all the levels, that's the one that shook me. You have to navigate the tunnels and jump across moving platforms floating in lethal poowater and avoid giant rats or something, I can't remember all the details. Instead of a milk bottle for a health bar you had a bone that would get more and more hollow as you lost health. At least the levels in the basement and toy shop were somewhat familiar places, the sewer was hostile, entirely foreign territory that no dog or baby ought ever find themselves in.
not to mention that you have to hunt for the ugliest cynthia sprite ever across pools of toxic waste when you finally think youre out 🙏
I felt so bad for spike when playing this one. I even remembered getting lost, constantly touched sludge, a game over of spike whimpering and hanging its head down with the paws over his eyes, and having to redo the whole thing (that said it might be a false memory since I haven't played this game in well over 20 years or so).
It's more depressing when you think about it realistically. Spike probably would've had to have seen a Vet after the fact, gotten shots to prevent rabies from the rats, and blood tests for all of the toxic sludge he ran through.
Yeah that's one of my core memories for sure
YES, THANK YOU! I was waiting for it during the breakdown of the Search for Reptar, and was so sad he didn't cover it! Spike in the sewer looking for the Cynthia doll, the balloons in the upside down, the dark, ghosty level, and the friggin' SPACE one where you're Angelika... was HORRIFYING! Was hoping to see it covered but maybe it's best for my childhood nightmares and my adult anxiety lol.
Punchy you're talking too fast, I'm switching to PAL version
I think the most important thing I learned from this video is the origin of the frantic music Caddicarus plays in his videos
3:57 That's actually how the Reptar Bars look on the show. Being Reptar-shaped was a selling point for them.
It's a pity you cannot get the N64 version as that one is probably the closest to being a Mario Party clone as possible by virtue of the fact that there is a grand game board to explore.
If I recall correctly, a lot of the levels in the first game are based on actual episodes from the show. I specifically remember an episode where Chuckie lost his glasses and the one where they had to open the fridge for light.
Rugrats is so fascinating to me because I absolutely watched this show and one of the movies as a kid. I definitely did. But it passed completely through the memory sieve. I retain literally nothing from the experience, so these games were a confusing nightmare mess.
Was quite the fun experience. Really enjoyed the fighting game tier list joke.
The only thing I remember is the crossover movie with the Wild Thornberry's, and even then only for the giant squid and Nigel being super hyped about seeing it.
Nothing else. Only Squid.
6:04 to be fair that's just what the soundtrack of the show sounds like. i would not be surprised if it was just one of the songs from the show.
Chuckie Chan is a long buried memory. That shit used to unnerve the hell out of me as a kid for some reason, showed up in my nightmares a lot.
I think the stationary, floating Umbrella is meant to be a motif from the source material (the episode about Chucky losing his glasses)
I think Tommy can climb a bit in the fighting game meta when you consider that the other babies can't pull on his hair
His gormless expressions should also instill fear into his foes
Counterpoint- When slapping Tommy's bald head is the only condition of success, that paints a massive bullseye on that equally massive dome of his
14:20 I watched the cartoon, pinning anything on Angelica would be karmic justice, she's like, an absolute monster as much as a 3-4 old can be, like she tried to make Tommy sick by taking off his blanket and making sure he's cold in the sleep. She's also one of very few kids who can talk to adults in universe (all kids can talk with each other but adults don't understand the smol ones), so she lies all the time.
She's a self-important bully who constantly lies to get her way and a spoiled brat basically
Rugrats in paris is one of the only rugrats things Ive ever seen and when you labelled Chucky as a "puppet character" some latent instinct in the back of my head activated to remind me that there was a musical number dream sequence where he was "martial arts expert of reptar land". This was vindicated later in the video.
Thank you for remembering only the most valuable information, brain.
I rented the studio game as a kid and have been haunted for years by it due to not getting enough keys for the second door before having to return it to Blockbuster.
Duckstation
As someone who had probably played well over 100 hours of Totally Angelica as a kid, this video (and your stream playing it!) reminds me of how far the human brain and enjoyment can come
This video unlocked some key memories. I somehow finished this, Studio Tour and Paris so many times as a child
Somehow? They aren’t difficult at all
No joke when I was kid that one park level in search for reptar caused me to have a fear of geese for the longest time.
all I remember from Rugrats is one of the movies had a cover of Blondie's _One Way Or Another_ sung by Angelica and at the time, I had no idea what covers of songs were, so was very surprised when I played Rock Band years later and heard that exact same song, by that point I at least knew what covers were but still
this also had me convinced for a couple of years that A Goofy Movie also used cover songs but I couldn't find who originally sung them, cause they weren't actually covers
the world can be a very confusing place for a child
The first one did, Rugrats Movie.
If only they had made a game for As Told By Ginger. The other Klasky-Csupo cartoon that has even more cursed character designs
“Little Seal Girl” rhythm minigame when
The art style from that show made me beyond uncomfortable to the point where I would run to the TV to turn it off.
I mean nothing they did will ever be as horrific as Duckman, but that was one of the only times they actively went out of their way to be upsetting to look at.
Not even Argh! Real Monsters! is as cursed as some of the stuff from Duckman 😂
@@ifistedabear ...you're kidding, right?
@@ifistedabearit was weird. BUT. Check out '3 friends and Jerry' and cramp twins. Those are some ugly cartoons!
Ah, that outtro Rugrats theme does take me back, lol. Thanks for another super entertaining video, Mr. Punchy!
It is odd that enough time has passed that people have forgotten about THQ. Ten years or so ago they were one of the big three for AAA games (among Ubisoft and EA). All these companies have been equally annoying and controversial but so far only THQ went under. And yeah Nordic is just a third party that bought the rights to most of their IPs, with Deep Silver getting most of the rest. This far on there hasn't really been much of anything done with their IPs except for a poorly received remake of Saint's Row and some WWE games that get worse every year. Honestly I don't miss em lol.
I've toyed around with trying to become the speed run world record holder for Search for Reptar. Maybe you should do it. The game is nightmare fuel and would be a good complement to your other horror runs.
i actually have I think the oldest recorded run for the game on the internet at a solid "over a decade" but the game is extremely well optimized at this point. genuinely very difficult run to get WR in at this stage
The reptar bar you pick up is actually an accurate representation of the actual reptar bar from the show, because you're looking at the foil cover.
I love this stupid game so much (reptar tap dance configured my brain perfectly)
"I think statistically, probably half the people watching this video still have nightmares about that noise." Yeah... Yeah. I played this game at a sleepover with friends and we did that level at nighttime. Made us close the game and insert Spyro instead.
6:22 it's because the xylophone sounding instrument is going up and down the whole tone scale, most scales are a mix of one and two note increments as you go up them but whole tone is just a gap of two notes every time, the uneasiness it causes is a feature of the scale
I love it when people mention the Rugrats ost - idk if it was the same for the games, but in the show it was made by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, which is both insane and makes perfect sense
"Yknow whod make good music for our baby cartoon? The weirdo from the avant-punk new wave band that dresses up in radiation suits, pretends to be robots and talk about how humanity is devolving!"
my parents rented this game for me once. Once
As soon as you got to the mini-golf, the sound-nostalgia was huge. Then it reminded me that hooooly shit this game made me panic as a kid, and that sound is half of it
these games are for babies
This video unlocked forgotten memories of my early childhood.
Rugrats is that one cartoon that when I was a kid... I always felt uncanny/uncomfy watching, I don't know why, but the more material I know about this series, the more intense that feel gets lmao
Here in Mexico, piracy is the order of the day, and for some goddamn reason everybody I knew seemed to own a disc for either of the first 3 games, search for reptar being the most popular choice, and hearing that "hub world" music really brought back a lot of uncanny memories.
That "ojousama normals" joke got me laughing for several minutes though, thanks for that.
A static screen just saying “we did it for the children.” is so haunting, it feels like something that would proceed a jumpscare in an analog horror series
OMG I actually remember playing the Rugrats in Paris game when I was a child and had probably pushed it out of my memory till watching this video
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I dunno why, but “we did it for the children” sent me. What a weird way to end a video game.
I remember playing Totally Angelica for the PC, and gotta say. It's a completely different game to how it was on ps1. It was just a small little point and click game where you messed around Angelica's house while her Babysitter was failing at her job.
I'd say it was a less offensive game, cause it didn't have the ball maze.
Though, I remember playing the two Hot Wheels PC games a lot more!
I never beat Rugrats in Paris but I distinctly remember Chucky-Chan being my favorite game
rugrats in paris is my own personal childhood hell, but you talking abt the ghosts in the first reminded me instead of paper mario ttyd. the ghost popping out of the glass pane scared me enough i never got past it. id just replay over and over up until that star.
I remember renting these when I was a kid but for the life of me I don't remember actually playing them
the rugrats babies as translated to street fighter characters:
chuckie: vega from sf4. useless without his glasses, but when he has them on he's one of the strongest characters
angelica: karin from sf5, complete with the ohoho
lil: laura from sf5. this is cheating a bit because lil in all grown up gets interested in soccer
phil: birdie from sf5. both are gross little dudes that i would not want to hang around
tommy: ryu from any of them. only interested in strengthening his own power
dil: dan from sf4. completely useless
i don't play enough street fighter to have a parallel for kimi or susie
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING mini-game in Search For Reptar, which is based on an episode in which Angelica gets abducted by aliens and IS JUST DOOMED TO FUCKING DIE???? I remember watching that as a kid and being absolutely scared shitless when I was getting zapped by the enemies in the game's stage. 7 year old me was so scared of being abducted by aliens in my sleep and being stranded on a desert planet with animal carcasses just chilling around.
Thanks, Rugrats, for the nightmare fuel.
That episode was messed up, that level used to scare me too.
lol I'm glad my Rugrats Tower image made it into the video.
Rugrats in paris on the 64 is basically just all these minigames again but KWOSSON flavor and lil me loved it
Search for Reptar is like - a talisman for me, lol. It holds so much energy of a missed and transitional time in my childhood. I was, like, nine years old playing it.
Still to this day I could care less about its jagged nature. Nothing in gaming had to be perfect back then. It just needed a conglomerate of memorable music, fun activities, and a visual nature capable of capturing an aura.
The Toy Palace with Thorg, as simple as it was, that creeped me out as a kid and still has the power to unnerve me a little as a super grown man, lol! Even the lobster in Incident in Aisle 7 still gives me the heebie jeebies. The TV aliens lurking behind those doors in Visitors From Outer Space slowly gave me the creeps, and of course Let There Be Light was probably my first “scary level” in a game. That was such a great game. I miss even hearing the disc laser move when a new sound bite was played. There was lots of hilariously true points made in the video though 😂
some of my favorite games as a child. and the rugrats hollywood treasure hunt game
Man the streams you did for these games were amazing lol
I had a pirate copy of the first Rugrats game. The goose level gave me nightmares as a dumb 8 years old. Surprised yo didn't even mentioned that, because it was creepier than the ghost level.
More of Punchy's train of thoughts, stream of consciousness video
legit every child character in search for reptar look like they're the offspring of the Momo creepypasta figure, and the fact i've just realised this is incredibly unsettling
I remember playing Search for Reptar and Studio Tour so much when I was little. Rugrats in Paris was I think the first game I ever rage quit and never bothered to finish.
Rugrats In Paris is the one that lives in my head rent free. Particularly the bumper cars, and the look of those ticket collectibles.
6:29 I thought that was The World Revolving for a second.
Search For Reptar and Studio Tour were the only two out of this list I actually played. I remember despising the mini-golf sections so much that I avoided them for as long as I could. Fun fact though. I remember in one game of Studio Tour, in the RNG keyhole part? I managed to get it in 3 keys. Third times the charm, I guess.
5:23 I love how there was not even an attempt to tie those two events together
I still have my copy of search for Reptar.
Recent years I’ve been collecting these games. Only one I’m missing is studio tour.
Oh god, I vividly remember playing the first game. I liked it very much, but I could only play it for a few days because it was a rental. Good old memories.
I love Rugrats! Literally my favourite animated show ever! It’s just so memorable to me overall. Phil and Lil are my favourite characters too. They’re both so funny I think.
Rugrats in Paris was my childhood video game. Kimi was my favorite and I played the game constantly until one day it froze while I was playing the frog mini game and it never turned on again 😢
I cannot believe there are so many of these games and that there will be more soon. A terrifying property that refuses to die, we shall never escape chucky
studio tour and paris were amazing as a kid so many great memories playing these with my siblings
I watched Magemasher's Search For Reptar series earlier and bought it off eBay for £8.
My childhood copy has been long since lost so i'm happy the game isn't scalped.
I remember getting rugrats in Paris for n64 at blockbuster, Chuckie Chan stuck with me lmao
My cousin had scavenger hunt but we could never finish a game
I remember renting these games as a kid because I knew I could finish them in one night and blockbuster had a 1 night for 1 euro deal on PS1 games.
Purchase baby game
Look inside
Baby game
I loved this game growing up. never got to play any other rugrats game after that
Oh wow, Rugrats started earlier than I thought - I assumed it was a mid 90s show, it only started airing here in Canada when I was too old to really watch that kind of thing.
I had rugrats in paris for the n64
It's ridiculously hard for a toddler bc of bad controls
I also had another rugrats n64 game, it was styled like a boardgame. Wish i still had it
17:17 I'm pretty sure Phil and Lil are the Ghostface killer in Mortal Kombat 1 DLC
Another banger video from Punchy!
I played these games a lot when I was a kid, but I always kept going back to Search of Reptar. I just loved the vibes from that game.
Playing these as a kid before learning how to speak english made focus a lot on the sound tones and vibes. Like, I can totally remember the sounds and music from the whole game but I didn't know what the actual words were.
Watching this video had me saying "Oh, so that's what they were saying when they made that sound" lol
Needs more dancing Reptar
I was not expecting the crane kick, tbh
Where’s the pyramid from the golf mini game that if you go inside, it turns into a horror game?
I played the sht out of search for reptar as a kid. Its definitely one of those games that left a deep imprint on my psyche, there are seemingly a lot of them for me though.
17:28 that thing legitimately scared me multiple times as a kid
Omg I remember playing this a lot as a kid, it was so much fun!
Omg imagine a speedrun of the 2nd game and the 1/25 bullshit door.
Bro even talks like he's speedrunning lol but in all seriousness Search For Reptar was my shit as a kid 😅 I jumped between this and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 constantly
these songs on the background just sounds like something that would play in a CD from K.K. in Animal Crossing
That panic music, I'm having flash backs
That TWEWY reference came out of nowhere, like a car at a crowded intersection.
10/10
Bro loved this game as a child 😅 it great my favorite part is running through the grocery store jumping over iles avoiding employees
16:37 probably should not have been as amused as I was by that Clock Tower edit
In my childhood the goose level scared me as hell.
Wow as a VERY young kid I got all the way to the cookies level… almost did it! Wow
I vaguely recall being afraid of small robots or clowns in the basement... This may be what that was...
I remember playing studio tour and in Paris but the only thing I remember was I enjoyed the mini golf and the goo caves bring me a sense of dread I can't place
Oh there's also a ps2 rugrats game
Oh wow, I remember renting Search for Reptar and Paris from Xtravision
holy shit you just unlocked so many core memories
My dad rented the first game for me and I beat it in one day. I go and tell him and he's like oh no I bought it for you for Christmas. (To avoid spoiling Christmas if I wanted to rent a game and he already bought it he would just rent it) So I've beaten this game probably two dozen times since I was a kid lol. I would just beat it randomly whenever I was bored because it was so fast. I wish I timed it because in hindsight it was speed running lol.
That music certainly bored into my brain cortex and felt familiar despite me only playing this game for one week years ago (rented from blockbuster lmao)
"You won a year's supply of...
Nothing!"
16:50 finally, we know who was in paris
I can't believe you don't like minigolf. Punchy villain arc begin.
I cant beleive that even after all these games you never even mentioned the one Rugrats game I actually grew up with: Royal Ransom!