Bad Mojo (PC) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- A playthrough of Rapid Pulse Entertainment and Acclaim's 1996 horror adventure game for PCs running Windows 3.1/95, Bad Mojo.
This recording is of the original 1996 CD release, not of the 2004 enhanced Redux version.
After the true ending and the credit roll I've placed recordings of the three possible bad endings (1:25:41, 1:26:52, and 1:29:05). They're all quite different from one another, and they're all pretty depressing.
I was really trying to think of a really scary and/or creepy game to play for Halloween when I remembered this gem. My sister and I played the demo from a PC Gamer demo CD SOOO many times over, but we never had the full game. Years later when Bad Mojo Redux was released I grabbed it cheap and played it relentlessly for a few weeks.
You play an entomologist who becomes a cockroach. Yeah, he's quite blatantly a somewhat one-dimensional Gregor Samsa plonked in a modern-day hovel of a bar/apartment. You control the roach from a bird's-eye view as you explore the disgustingly filthy building on some contrived quest for self-identity.
While that might not sound totally positive, this game is as thoroughly awesome as it is unique and uncomfortable. The environments are incredibly well done (it's an amazing show of what can be done in 256 colors) and easy to navigate, but they are loaded with things like squirming larvae, a nest of squirming newborn mice, butchered rodents - it is not something for the squeamish. The soundtrack is also brilliantly done - it's very 90s, and oftentimes the heavily electronic music and sound effects unsettle even more than the visuals.
The controls are obnoxiously sensitive, but they're great in how simple they are - the only keys needed are the arrows. The space bar enters a menu. That's it.
All in all, this is a stellar game that doesn't feel its age in the slightest, and is still unlike just about anything else out there, even 20 years after its release.
Just try to forgive it for the random and shameless (though fairly subtle) advertising of Iron Helix. Ugh.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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I feel like the best games of our generation came from an era that will never be again. Ideas were still original, so much was open territory and hadn’t been done yet. I suppose it’s Better to appreciate their sheer beauty and originality rather than hope for a remake or something anywhere like it. The 1990’s were a decade that will always be dear to me.
I know! I think it went on a bit in to the 2000, but then the original ideas became more scarce.
Well... you can play Indie games too!
@@asterlofts1565 Look at
Athenian rhapsody - basically earthbound + undertale with the same vibes but updated.
Don't feed the monkeys 2099 - As imaginative and bizarre as bad mojo with equally unique gameplay.
Hypnospace outlaw - 90s surrealism at it's finest. Makes you nostalgic for things that don't exist.
Final Fight Ultimate LNS - A fever dream of a 90's beat em up. It's like if you mashed up all the greatest beat em ups and then added 75 characters with fleshed out movesets complete with multiple supers, parry button, and marvel vs 2 level combos. It has battletoads difficulty.
Dead End Road - Feels like something you'd play on ps1, not the longest or deep gameplay wise, but atmosphere is turned up to 11, worth experiencing.
Cobalt Core - Has the spirit of a retro game with up to date polish, lots of replay value. Like Yu Gi Oh mixed pokemon and inception.
The Last Spell - Like final fantasy tactics + the binding of isaac but with massive scale battles, you are taking down groups of enemies at once. Gorgeous pixel art.
Barony/Delver - Like an infinitely replayable ps1 roguelike with hi res pixel art.
Last Command - Really bizarre experience, equally trippy and fun, very unique retro type gameplay with modern replayability and variety. Could have been a ps1/snes game.
Knuckle Sandwich - This one looks like a ps1 game, another fever dream of a game like Athenian Rhapsody, like Earthbound with chunky pixel art and a much darker yet cozy vibe. The cutscenes give ps1 era fmv feelings but with high resolution.
Chained Echoes/Sea of Stars - Two games that could have competed with Final Fantasy 3/6 or any of the greatest rpgs of that era. They may be better even with the nostalgia factor because they look and play like a 90s rpg.
Lobotomy Corp - Full of strange ideas and experimentation, feels like a ps1 game in that respect.
Megs Monster - Another great pixel art rpg with a very interesting twist.
World Of Horror - Strange narrative based roguelike with amazing Nes style visual in the style of Junji Ito
There are so many more, that era is still alive and well if you know where to look.
I want to think that we'll eventually come all the way around in a big circle.
I just love the story of this game and THE SOUNDTRACK!!!The soundtrack is just freaking beatiful!!!
The graphics have aged fantastically, especially for an adventure game from 1996. The atmosphere is so thick.
Cockroach Simulator
- HD GRAPHICS!
- EASY CONTROL!
- SURVIVE IN THE LITTLE WORLD
- RAISE YOUR FAMILY
- FIGHT YOUR PREY
- SAVE YOUR COCKROACH BRO!
- PUZZLE FOR YOUR BRAIN!
- HIDE FROM A THREAT!
- EXPLORE THE NEW AREA!
Bad Mojo! Play It now!
I watched my friends dad play this game in the late 90s, never got to see how it all played out but it was insane for the graphics at the time.
i love how even the music feels grimy and disgusting
Literally the best porn music
Dude I were a kid in 90` when I tried this game, unfortunely I didn`t speak english at that time! It`s so great to see the Playtrough of this game! TY!!!
Bad Mojo soundtrack just gets under your skin. Awesome, grotesque game!
I really got into this game in the winter of 2017-2018. Great memories of doing school work, pondering my life at night and celebrating my friday cheat days to the ominous music and yet deeply human themes of this game.
The way the roach tilts over everything is really impressive for the era
He definitely looked like Jim Carey.
I thought it was him when I was younger
FINALLY a good play though of this game! I got stuck and never made it past the kitchen level, never thought to at as a bridge for that smaller cockroach. It's so great to see how this game ended after all these years. Thank you so much. :)
i was so enamored by this game watching my cousins play it on their NEC PC it had such dark and creepy vibe to it. wish games still had this level of originality
This channel is loaded with rare game walkthroughs… Amazing… I really want to know what could be used today to make these style art style point & click games. Would be sick AF to mix modern mechanics with these classic aesthetics 🖤
Hell yeah!
1996 was an incredible year for horror gaming; Resident Evil, Phantasmagoria 2, Harvester, this one game called Bad Mojo...in order of importance. A movie based on the first Phantasmagoria game is in the works.
A movie out of Phantasmagoria ? Well, the cast can only be better, the original was awful. But I hope they keep original soundtrack, that was dope !
You forgot Quake, Diablo, The House of the Dead, Corpse Party and Realms of the Haunting.
@@PaschanTOPs Realms of the Haunting certainly had a great atmosphere and cinematic scenes just like this one.
also "9 - the last resort"
back in the day i had this game on CD. Creepy as hell, and has hard puzzles. These unexpected deaths and overall weirdness are what makes this horror game great.
Thanks! I never finished this one as a kid never got past the bar.
Eddie makes an excellent point about not leaving thousands of dollars in unmarked bills next to an open door in a bad neighborhood. I share in his laughter.
Definitely some cringe-worthy FMV scenes, but such an interesting concept and execution for an adventure game. I love how the disposal slot for the razor blades literally just dumps them into the space behind the wall...Nothing like a cockroach tour through the world's filthiest apartment for Halloween. x.x
I was helping my dad once replace the bathroom mirror/medicine chest with a nicer one and when we pulled the old one off the wall we found literally hundreds of razor blades inside the wall cavity.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere common practice in old houses.
@@grzegorzdziedzic9592 I guess so, but I still remember those things pouring out of the hole when we took the mirror off.
Here's a thing I don't get about this game. According to some sources, the protagonist is an entomologist (insect researcher) so he presumably has a university degree and yet he says he has a 'dead end' job and lives in a crummy apartment. Maybe he lives in that crap apartment so he can observe the infesting insects without leaving home? On a more serious note, the last bad ending really pulls on my heart strings. The game is full of poetic genius but that ending really stuns you. You don't know whether to jump off your seat and declare it awesome or start crying.
DancerInTheHeart I think what he meant by "dead end" was the fact that in spite of his research for a pesticide, he wasn't able to make much progress in the time that the university gave him, so he decided to just take all the funds he could and leave the country while he still could.
Well, let's be totally fair - start rearranging the letters in "Roger Samms" and you'll realize right quick that the designers knew EXACTLY what they were going for. ;3
YukaTakeuchiFan I don't get it
Roger -> "Regor" -> "Gregor", and Samms -> "Samsa".
In other words, "Gregor Samsa", of "The Metamorphosis", a story that's got similarities to this one. =3
YukaTakeuchiFan Yeah, that's an understatement ;) lol
oh wow nice one
REM orgasms! ;)
I think that Kafka would have enjoyed this up until the ending, too Hollywood.
That is the only good ending out of 4. ;)
It’s funny how when I always summarized this game to my friends it sounded really stupid and funny but this game is actually really dark
wow this game is really cool! not sure how i missed this back in the day. the level design is really interesting and just watching it makes me think about how they mapped all that out during the game's creation.
As a kid i for some reason LOVED games with disgusting themes or gross things on them. I remember getting the demo version of bad mojo in a pc games magazine and instantly falling in love with it. Too bad back then i couldnt understand english yet so i always hard a hard time trying to understand the story
Damn I think this was the first PC game I ever played when I was a kid. I remember my dad had this on windows 95 I used to play all the time but never figured anything out lol. Crazy
I just found out this existed, thanks for making this. This game is art, I must find it. My family didn't have a pc til 2000, had I known this existed then I would have played the crap out of it.
This ost holy #%$@
Isn't it great? They have the remastered version of it on Steam i think
Oh boy, this was the nightmare fuel of my childhood. My Ma got it and I begged her to let me play. I kind of wish she hadn't let me.
You want a thoroughly uncomfortable and disgusting game to entertain on Halloween?
Better yet, how about a thoroughly excellent adventure game that also happens to revel in making your stomach turn?
Acclaim?
Thankfully they only published it.
That company was with THQ the worst publisher of all time
Thank you for your walkthroughs. They're bringing so many old memories! I'm looking for a mid-90's PC rail-shooter game that takes place in the future where you had to manoever a train to avoid collision while shooting enemies. It also included live-action footage. Any idea on the name ?
Hmm that sounds like Loadstar. Is this it? I used to play it on the Sega CD. www.mobygames.com/game/loadstar-the-legend-of-tully-bodine
LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK it burns in the cellar of my heart
Bad Mojo is my first game on pc! I liked so much and remeber still.
I'll tell you what... This game actually feels like Metamorphosis by Kafka but while Kafka is somehow always depressive this one, at least in one ending, is actually kind of hopeful..... Great game and... I believe that it is mostly a chilling or thriller game in a kind of thrilling you in your seat and feeling frightened while not actually being a horror game with jumpscares or this kind of stuff
Wow, that's a good game. So creative and fresh. Thank you for this gameplay!
This took me way back! Really way back!
And for the first time since then, I managed to see how it ends.
Game closure!
Thanks, pal! ;-)
I loved this game. it was so different and I liked all the Kafka references
Especially the anagram ROGER SAAMS for GREGOR SAMSA from Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS
1915: Mommy, I am a roach for some reason.
1996: Mommy turned me in a roach, cuz I was naughty
I really love the soundtrack and the art work
And if you want to play this game get it from steam or gog.com as it was re-released as Bad Mojo Redux, much clearer video and so on... I highly recommend this game :) and right now it's 90% off on gog.com XD
Im pretty sure thats the Roach from Wreck It Ralph when he's digging through the Lost And Found Box
I'm surprised Jim Carrey was in this game.
and I never thought I'd see a roach "cosby" someone.
Heh, looks like him a bit I guess, but I can guarantee you that's not him.. Still got this big box pc game standing on my shrine as it's one of my old time favorites :) bought it the year it came out, sigh, man that makes me feel old :P
I thought it was him in the beginning from dumb and dumber. I am 100 percent positive that that's not Jim Carey .
it really did remind me of him in the opening
Finally I found it, I was so scared of this game in the 96, everytime my dad or brother played I've go out of the room 😂😂😂
Omg SAME. I remember it vividly and I was 5 years old!
I used to play this game as a teenager (definitely not for kids) - this game is so brilliant. It's like watching a movie. Every shot is brilliant, even the actors are pretty good. they don't make games like that anymore. this is a masterpiece
"the rat isn't dead"
oh my god, the creeps after these rotting rat "corpses" swallowed me i feel even today
@@greenheart5334 well how would you feel to know they used a real dying rat for this project they scanned it.
Lord Tony
Oh my. Is that true? How do you know this? Did they say so in the commentary?
Nice to see the multiple endings there at the end. Both live, both die, only Roger lives or only Eddie lives.
Wish this game was on PlayStation back then, I like this concept of it and the soundtrack is awesome
Man this is atmospheric. Every frame oozes hostility and sleaze. It really feels like youre in a bad neighborhood
I played this demo when i was 11 years old when it came out
Holy shit. I was ten. Played the demo countless times. Really made me feel uneasy as a child
Same here it ended in the cockroach trap
Remember this as a kid. Still holds up well today.
Probably the father just went to the store for some milk
He forgot his cat...
-1 life.
It looks creepy but also a interesting piece of art.
Thanks for putting this up, really. Nobody does proper video game curation these days
I was born in 95 I had played this with my dad and then after a while this game disappeared and I thought it was a fkn fever dream😂 I’m so glad I can watch this now
Is this worth playing if you're into adventure or horror games but never read Kafka's Metamorphosis?
Yeah, you won't miss out on anything besides a couple hamfisted allusions.
It's a tiny little book and I'm sure you'll find it fun. Read it if you can. The game itself has little to do with it. The inspiration is very loose, and the Metamorphosis involves a grand total of zero cockroaches.
Thanks very much for showing this game! It's legit pretty freaking amazing. What an original concept, and they actually managed to make it work. The graphics, although just digitized pictures, are really neat, and the music is awesome as well. Also, the scene where the evil nun laughs at the crying child might just be the single greatest thing ever filmed. And finally, the guy playing Roger is possibly the worst actor in the history of the universe. :D
The landlord guy has to have the grossest apartment in history. My running tally: spiders, rat infestation including babies in a stack of newspapers, a slug, silverfish and an active ant colony in the bathroom, a somehow still breathing fish in the kitchen complete with blood trails running everywhere, termites in the freaking walls, and of course, a massive roach infestation. That dude would be already be dead living in those conditions. :)
Dang. Also had to add that the bad ending where both men die was pretty hardcore.
I had the demo for this game when I was very young. Glad I can see the game being played
I remember when this game was reviewed on extended play on tech tv, i couldnt remember the name, but all i remember was a guy getting turned into a roach and getting eating by a rat lol.
Cool cinematic masterpiece
real animals were harmed for this lol
I never made it to the end of this game, which is a shame because it’s so weird!
@Leptonaut No kidding, I had a stack of notes on paper. I remember this game looking much better than it actually does. Technology changes so fast!
Best roach story ever,next to pinball from Bally 98.
If ya'll thought this game was gritty, try playing an old PC game called Harvester, now that shit was fucked.
How many rats died do you spotted to 0:00 and 1:30:11 in this video?
This feels like the apartment Charlie and Frank play 'nightcrawlers' in
What is the age rating?
So much macabre stuff in this game... *I love it...*
How many time!! I still love this game
this is the most 90s dos game ever. beautiful
The Jim Carrey clone is Michael X. Sommers.
wow found out about this in a tim schafer plays grim fandango video (which was great) - really digging the style on this one, it really messes with your head, but in an interesting way! very creepy
A another game that Spoony should have done
how do u get these old game running?
+coldblood23456 Dosbox is usually the easiest option. You can install Windows 3.1 in it pretty easily
Where can I get this game now?
I remembered that i've seen something about this game in old russian computer games-review magazine around 15 or so years ago.
It'w weird how the memories of such unimprotant memories would just rise up in your brains.
This would become similar to a later game that also takes a few elements from The Metamorphosis, which that game was also called. They're both about someone turning into a roach to solve a mystery.
a mystical journey through the eyes of... a cockroach!!!??? hummm 🤔
I don't understand how you'd figure out most of the puzzles
Lots of time and persistence
Was this supposed to be the original Dumb and Dumber sequel?
Does anyone knows the name of this graphics' style? I'm searching for a game I played as a kid (and there's 15+ years of searching) that quite match this game's graphic style. The difference is that it's a platformer. PLEASE, DUDES. I NEED TO FIND THAT BEFORE I DIE.
Describe the game you mean more. The graphics style here is really just “pre-rendered” style.
@@_WOR It's a PC game, I played it in Windows 98/2000, around 2004. Platformer 2D game, Mario style, but with some visual elements that reminds me of Bad Mojo. The character is inside a witch's house, and he is tiny, really tiny, as he took a spell from the witch or something, because I remember having to push a soda can to make it fall off a shelf to put it on the top of another soda can to reach a certain "high" place.
The goal is kinda scape the house, I think. When you advance a stage, a map of the house is displayed, showing the next stages (rooms of the house, kitchen and backyard, for example).
One of the first stages was the kitchen, btw. I remember a certain part where the character had to pass through a stove and had to wait for the flames of each burner to turn off before walking. Those flames, specially, are visually very similar to the flames in Bad Mojo's stove.
Another element I can remember is that in the shelf mentioned before, the character had to avoid spiders. The spiders went up and down in their webs, and you have to wait until they go up to walk above them without die.
In one shelf, there were some cassette tapes with labels glued and handwritten.
I remember the game had Spanish language too and (maybe) portuguese, because those labels were written in Spanish when this language was selected.
Man, I search for this game for 15+ years. I never lost my hope in find it.
@@Bruno_Knoxx Ooh I almost want to say Hocus Pocus but the "escape the house" thing isn't quite in that one. Do you remember the main character any more, such as their clothing or style? I feel like I know what it might be based on the description of the levels so the character themselves could help me narrow it down.
This is something I can't remember well; the clothes. I remember that the character's moves were much more fluid than Hocus Pocus'. The visuals looked newer too. Actually, the stages were well detailed.
There's (probably) one person alive that can help me with the name of this game; the teacher who let me play this game in the computer lab, but I can't find her contacts anywhere. I tried talking to people in the school she worked at that time and there's no record of her anymore, since it was 20 years ago :( @@_WOR
@@Bruno_Knoxx Tough one for sure. The whole escape the house thing rules out Harley’s Humongous Adventure too, plus that was a different console (unless your teacher emulated it). That one was too cartoonish as well so doubt it’s the one but there’s a level on a shelf with cans. I’ll keep digging!
Who else wants this game to get supported on ScummVM? Because the Steam version I have refuses to work on my 2022 Windows 11 Laptop & when I actually got it working on my older desktop PC, it is forced at fullscreen with an incredibly small scale surrounded by borders all around.
Masterpiece!
how its called this graphic?
Digitized?
Heh, im run it on win 98. Cool! Thanks!
You telling me that cockroach has this much strength to lift razor sharp blades to kill rat king??? This story is so wack, only bonding was most important to the story, money can't buy you happiness.
19:10 Those are some insanely fast acting sleeping pills.
This might as well be a horror game given the feel.
u should take the time and read everything that's written throughout the game :)
Soundtrack to this reminds me a lot of the Aeon Flux animated series
How do I appROACH this game?
my favourite game - along some other games as piece of real art - on Kafka motif, allegorical interpretation of life history death. every room stuffed with not life items but this items (and music) tells us desperate history of to man on the edge of their life (forgotten and unhappy - in some sort of endless night - we feel it through the game) - we have some sort symphony here of dead items speaking to us (every item and their expositions with other - it was geniusly done) in allegorical manner (every room represent some cosmological and religion metaphor (and have some main meaning for man that dwell their) - for example - kitchen is representation of material death - som transition in other state (at least i fill though)). We can fill all the history of this to man - their sadness and lonlyness through this game. (Только вот озвучка мне больше нравится СПК русская - более аллегорическое значение)
So the story is his spirit animal is a cockroach?
Lol oh no, did Chakotay enter the chat? 😂
Great job.
Alexandre Gonçalves Thanks!
Thx for playing through it so I didn't have to. The punishing checkpoints combined with trial and error gameplay made me uninstall at the paint part.
so this has 4 endings
Tell me how to get all 4
Lots of awesome games rejected, but this one wasn't the case? Really? if I were the boss of a video game company definitely I would say NO if someone tells me: this is my idea for our next videogame, a guy transforms into a cockroach in a horrible and disgusting graphical adventure...
Joe's favorite game.
The most Kafkian game ever
...but what about the cat?
Corrderio I'm glad you don't kill it like you do the rat...
That's assuming the gas explosion didn't.
Corrderio I'm fine as long as we can all agree to call it orange chicken
This video is creepy.
I remember playing this for the first time and walking too close to that rat's mouth....