North Korea made a Flash game... and I played it
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"We make cars for careful drivers" is a fucking terrifying sentence in context
Someone needs to hire this marketing team, how to spin a negative into a positive 😂😂😂
By careful drivers I think they mean high ranking officials only
oh you crashed
skill issue
"We stolen Fiat Palios and made it our own"
Yes. I bet that crashes are a death sentence there too, as there are only 10 cars there, lol.
A lesson on Flash, North Korea, some history, and even automobile safety. What a ride!
At least this ride wasn't made out of cardboard
You need a anti-Communist program protection to play this if you don't you get the "Communists_virus_.EXE" (THIS IS JUST A JOKE!!!!!!!)
Yep
I'm glad to know that I'm allowed to crash into vehicles, as long as it's less than three
@@JohnRicks2014Filipinoo ?
Apparently being a driver is a very highly respected and well paid job in North Korea. I recall some defector saying that the driver's education there is also pretty tough and includes stuff like car mechanic training.
thats based
I know the road girls are a respected job there
@@shady4108 well you not exactly going to be able ringup the US car company for spare parts are, ?
@@dh2032 what?
@@shady4108 "Well they aren't quite able to call up the US car companies and buy spare parts, now are they?"
nosotek = when the realtek sound driver crashed and your nose starts bleeding out of frustration
Realtek on their way to create the most unstable drivers in the world.
I can relate
Lol that's true
North Korean Propaganda music in each car played on full volume.
Imagine!
The Korean Eiffel tower reminded me not only that theres another one in Varna, Bulgaria (albeit that is an actual tourist attraction), but in Romania, in a random field, 10km away from a small city (Slobozia) theres another random-ass Eiffel tower replica. And from what i remember that one exist literally because a guy felt like making it
Just like the original one
the Eiffel was Chinese, not Korean, but... yeah, there's a whole "Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives" on the Wikipedia full of these, it's really funny how much of a desired symbol it is
@@xerzy even funnier when you realize those ones are more safe and open than the original
Reminds me of Chinese Disneyland, and all the ghost cities
Sometimes a fella just feels like making something.
Ironically Flashplayer is not dead in China - it's still getting enterprise support over there!
Meanwhile Flash content still works fine on desktop and mobile in app form using AIR. I'm still making new games with it in current year.
Ever heard of Wick Editor? It's basically Flash but for HTML5. It's still in its early stages, but I'd love to know how you think it stacks up. All things considered, Flash was supposed to be dead before it was even officially discontinued, that thing is a cybernetic biohazard.
Pretty darn great games, I might add!
You made Epic Battle Fantasy? That is a blast from the past! Thanks for making up part of my childhood - teens.
Yeah, its kinda easy to make flash work
Why are you still using flash and not literally anything else?
I like how realistic this game is, because there are no cars in north korea. they literally just have empty roads
That comes down to multiple factors, and all just add to making NK in a worse light:
Most all photography NOT supplied by NK itself is done by the rare tourists or travelers (like business people or governmental officials) stopping by and STEALTHILY taking them since NK has a VERY heavy case against any photography openly done in their country
Likely a case of wanting to hide as much of their openly known details as possible from having actual physical evidence of it
Others include: lacking automobile parts in a large quantity since the countries with massive stock of it are not Allie’s or willing to sell them cheaply enough for widespread usage
Governmental spending being more inclined for military usage and upper echelon expenditure, just look up anything to do with Kim and his family and the stuff they spend money on for personally spending
Finally is the case that much like many other smaller countries in the East they have massive divides between gender, social classes and economical classes so only the most politically powerful and wealthy usually have a personal vehicle either
A small country is blocked from purchasing vehicles by sanctions and embargo. But regardless, all citizens have free access to public transport, and everything is walkable.
@@CommunistBot Name checks out
@@CommunistBot
UNSC 2375: Caps NKs oil imports, causing 55% reduction in oil imports
NK: Uses less cars
"Woah! there are not many cars in NK!"
Also, restricting oil and fuel has negative impacts on mechanized farming, and pumped irrigation, so its literally making food insecurity worse in NK
@@arandomhamster233 they're fine about food since that 2 year famine in 1990s tho.
Until 2023's global food shortage.
If you liked this game, check out their train-based puzzle one lol. Of the 8-9 flash games from NK, that was the first I enjoyed.
What are you doing here? I absolutely loved Ugly Side of Kids’ TV, and it makes sense that you would comment here, when your next video is on North Korea!
ooh if there are any left online, do tell where they are I used to love playing pyongyang racer and had no idea it had gone
📄
i love the diversion into the car of the game
truly, made my day a lot better knowing that a car is a bigger dissapointment then i
Matt's gonna go missing after this video.
Then we are going to see his channel taken over by "Mike" who uploads videos such as "Lego Island Missle Launch Test was a complete success!"
And that They can take down the EVIL MATTKC
Does that kind of stuff actually happen?
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 Yes actually. In fact the youtuber 'Atrocity Guide' just did a fantastic video about 2 film directors who were kidnapped to make movies for North Korea in the 60s and 70s. I'd recommend watching, it's extremely well researched and an absolutely batshit story.
@@novelezra I have known about Pyongyang Godzilla, thanks, but any RUclipsr example then?
@@gluttonousmaximus9048 Oh you mean a modern kidnapping? I don't think they really go after Westerners anymore since they are trying to at least maintain some semblance of order for tourism reasons
Matt is the only man that will dedicate a shit ton of his time to preserve a North Korean flash game
Only to find out someone else has already archived it.
Also Nick Robinson
Ullll lol))l)llllllll) lol l, llp
He didn't preserve it though, at least two others did it
tbh i would honestly preserved a low quality newgrounds flash thing
Can you imagine in the mid 2000s being an eager software developer only to be contracted to North Korea as a slave
South Korea has slave labor. What are you talking about?
"oh email i have friends"
"never mind thats north korea"
Hearing Matt say "sloppy five speed" in a bogan Aussie droll is the funniest thing I've witnessed all month
Yeah, the crumple zone isn't meant to include the engine bay so that it crumples onto you and therefore crumples your legs beneath 😬
And the cabin is supposed to remain reasonably intact as well. That was horrifyingly bad.
Engine is in the crumple zone nowadays. Naturally you can't just crumple the engine per se, that's not gonna work, but it has to either rotate out of the way or dive down under the firewall. You want as much crumple zone length as possible to limit the deceleration, and simultaneously the passenger cell must remain rigid, and ingress of pedals and steering wheel inwards must be limited.
So as you may notice, this video is a little different than usual. I thought we came across some really interesting stuff and wanted to be able to showcase it here. If you like it, great! Follow my Twitch at www.twitch.tv/itsmattkc to see more like it. If you don't, no worries, there are plenty more "regular" videos in the works.
Nice 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
haven’t watched this but, it seems interesting!
favorite flavor of beans?
i need to know
I like it!
@@thefake9998 Bean flavor probably?
Reminds me of that one animated Titanic movie that was animated by North Koreans for an Italian company.
I'm not even joking.
stop posting about nitrogen im tired of breathing it!
Are you talking about Titanic 2? Or a differnt one?
@@NEEDbacon The Legend of the Titanic, actually. The Italian production house behind it (Mondo TV) first started commissioning anime from Japan but after that became too expensive (or something similar to that effect), a state-run North Korean animation studio called SEK was brought in to make TV series and animated films for them. SEK also animated parts of various other TV shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender and TMNT '03, so that's a fun fact for you.
Wait until you hear about Adrian la serie evento
@@auryylmao Oh god, another thing that SEK worked on... it looks like a clusterfuck from the screenshots I've just seen.
Oh wow, that's my GitHub repository at 9:25! I'm surprised the SWF extraction even worked because when I last tested it from memory, I thought it was loading external assets from the server, which had a network policy preventing me from making a request to those assets (even with cURL and request headers). Never would have realised that all those assets would be conveniently cached in the Firefox/SeaMonkey profile. Anyways, in the end due to time constraints (high school life) I just kinda settled for an older version of SeaMonkey (yes macOS only sorry) operating similarly to Flashpoint (I think it could even use the same flash plugin version) but with less bloat.
Matt can’t say anything against it for fear of his life 😂
True
He literally said everything that cross his mind
Idk what ur talkin about
I'm sure DPRK's government has nothing better to do than kill all foreigners who talk shit about their countries in the internet.
Congrated!
The website of the North Korean Embassy in my country is hilarious. Whenever one of the Kim's is mentioned, their names are written in bold letters and in a clearly larger font, and the page itself looks like it was made in the late 90s.
What country is it?
@@geometricdominator Poland
@@Pupp3tCl0wn serio kurwa? Zobaczę se
EMBASSY!?
@@JohnDoe-id5ih Poland is one of the few countries that maintain diplomatic ties with North Korea, or rather, never ends them after the fall of communism if that's what you're asking.
The standard MattKC plot is usually:
A piece of tech is interesting
Tries to hack into a piece of tech
Fails
Digs DEEP DOWN into how the tech works
Finds out that the community has done research years prior
Follows the community's ideas
Succeeds
Finds out that the community has turned the research into polished products
Wonders how much time has been wasted
ah, so a normal serialized anime then
The daily life of MattKC
@@SnoFitzroy I thought u said sterilised
another proof of the superiority of collective socialism....
Non-ironiclly.
he's literally me
Welp, it’s official: the year is 2022, and I’m _still_ surprised to see 3D Flash games.
More like Adobe Shockwave games
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Nah, this one is actually Flash. Probably using Stage3D.
@@tomysshadow U sure? I thought it was Adobe Shockwave, since that's another web plugin that Adobe made for 3D games
@@ArjunTheRageGuy The Shockwave plugin was indeed often used for 3D webgames, as it supported hardware rendering via Shockwave 3D, first introduced by Macromedia and Intel in 2001.
However, this game is genuinely using Flash, and isn't using Shockwave 3D - you can see MattKC using a Flash Projector to play it.
Adobe introduced Stage3D, allowing for hardware accelerated 3D within Flash, in 2011. This game, having been made in 2012, is likely using it. Even before Stage3D, 3D was possible to accomplish in Flash by using Haxe, although it used software rendering and was extremely limited.
Source: am former Flashpoint staff - tested several Flash and Shockwave games to ensure they were working, including 3D games for both platforms.
@@tomysshadow ok thanks
There is one building in the game it looks like a tall pyramyd tower. It was actually built but cannot be occupied because it was made of a concrete mixed with cardboard and is unstable.
7:42 the literal embodiment of the meme
Me: “I want to go to Paris”
Mom: “we have Paris at home”
Paris at home:
I've never seen an alleged street racing game so dead set on following traffic laws
It's a fantastic example of cognitive dissonance.
“We make cars for careful drivers” is one of the most brutal self-owns I’ve ever seen
Better with “Nuclear Engineering” DLC pack. Once you unlock the Kim Cruiser, you can fully upgrade the engine to a nuclear powered engine. It’s nearly impossible to stay on the road going that fast, but I love the challenge ! Also the bonus level where you have to blow up deserters with rocket blasters before they can make the Southern boarder was really exhilarating !!! 10/10 Would play again !!!
The BS4 crumples like the mid-1900s pre-crash-test cars that people thought were built well. All the damage is transferred directly to the passenger.
Oh yeah, those old body-on-frame cars would just eject you straight out the windshield. Couple that with lax enforcement of seatbelt laws, and a lot of people died in what today would be totally survivable crashes.
People who claim that "old cars were built better" are suffering from survivorship bias in that 99% of old cars have long since died and the remaining 1% are kept pristine by collectors. Same idea as Roman roads, WW2 airplanes, etc.
I would've expected checking Flashpoint to be the first idea anyone has when it comes to preserving old flash games. The breadth of that collection is ASTOUNDING. Not to mention it's great to just play old favorites on lol
To be fair, the BS4 cannot have any passenger hurt if they're all dead.
Unbelievably realistic, look at those empty streets.
I was quite literally screaming inside for you to use flashpoint until you mentioned it. It's the best way to play old flash games and animations. I've been using it to play some papa's games
I really like this format of videos! You should make a second channel for live-streaming content.
Something I noticed right away is that it seems like you’ve been getting more comfortable talking with a script. You flow a lot smoother and talk faster. It’s been really nice to see the progression of your videos Matt, keep up the great work ❤
this video was quite the adventure going from shady websites to gameplay vids to flash point to paris to wiki pages about cars and videos of those cars having quite the hard time and all of that to preserve a bad north korean flash game
The fact that they called it a *chinese* flash game 💀
Bro im at school, brb
Im supposed to be asleep 😂
Its like 3 in the morning
Me also at school:
Me in Australia when it’s 5:30 I should be getting ready for dinner
Same bro
@@GigaDarth 5:29 as of now
What an amazing rollercoaster that vid was. Hope we see more such vids in future!
Pyongyang Racer was on danish national television yesterday.
this game looks like the driving simulator that I had to do for drivers Ed in high school. like the graphics are very similar, you get yelled at and fail for driving badly or crashing, it's got a set course that if you don't take you also fail, and is generally bad
About the Arch of Triumph replica: I remember someone in my (Chinese) family once mentioned the fact China would build replicas of famous worldwide locations, because some people don't really like the idea of abroad travels, so they prefer sticking to China. But they still want to visit stuff, I guess? It also helps those (locals or neighbouring) who can't afford in one way or another to come to Europe or the US. Ofc, as you mentioned there's also the "just for shows" factor (it's like they did in some places in Vegas).
I think Korea is pretty much following the same route, especially bc most people can't even basically leave the place in the first place.
Very chinese way of thinking. Better to steal that to be original, huh?
"is the framerate this shit in real North Korea" 😂
So happy to see this becoming a video. Was at the stream at the time.
I unironically really like this music, and a lot of North Korean music in general. It all sounds like stuff from an obscure 90s video game that was never released outside Asia
I read through Australia's info on travelling to North Korea
it sounds horrible
its like a tour but you get life in jail for not doing the attraction properly
shit like "same sex marriage isn't illegal, but police don't find it acceptable and may arrest you"
"taking photos of non designated areas, such as roads, bridges ... is considered spying and you maybe arrested"
(quotations but im paraphrasing)
"speaking to locals without authorisation is considered spying, and you maybe arrested"
No shit, everyone tried to fuck koreans in the past
Trust me they are absolutely ludicrous with their ILLUSION crap
I have seen stealth pictures, namely ones of tourists and journalists who brave the trip to secretly take photos of areas and locations you CANNOT, and they are insane
One a easily recall is one of a so called company of people working on their computers
It LOOKS like a normal office, if a bit cramped
But the photographer made it clear with further shoots that the computers were all BLANK SCREENED AND NOT EVEN POWERED ON
They literally have people crammed into a office PRETENDING they are working like normal office workers to create an illusion for non-North Koreans as if they are as advanced and up to date in the business and corporate world like all the other countries surrounding them
Overseas : We have RTX 3090ti shades
North Korea : 💀
Flashpoint has a version with a browser that isn't terrabytes massive, it's pretty great I play all the papas games on it, only like 100mb or smth
This video was an absolute treat from start to finish. I loved the tangents such as the crash tests or the general history lessons about the copied buildings
14:07
Go back or else...and my PSU just died in front of me.
Legendary timing.
RIP PSU
Damn bro nuke simulator 2000 looks good
This reminds me of your old videos where you played games and reacted to movies and stuff, ngl I loved that content and I wish you made more of it
It wold be great seeing you sending the print of the game points to the e-mail mentioned from the koryo airlines, if it still exist
Imagine giving North Korean people's some real AAA titles to play
Congrate on making it work !
The glass shard flying at the camera I’m dead
I love your videos and the nostalgic feeling from the tech you use. That flash decompiler takes me back. Do you ever do any x32/64 disassembly/cracking? You seem like the type ;P
I find it impressive how youtube has the game tagged underneath the description
From what I've heard the only genre of popular music allowed in North Korea is called trot. Like foxtrot. This genre is also alive in South Korea, though just barely. Japan has a similar genre called Enka. It's been around for... roughly 70 years? It's changed a bit over time so difficult to say. Some say it's around 100 years old.
Many flashgames are unplayable. We must restore them.
Love this style of video!
Imagine showering while you hear Matt talk about a north Korean flash game, what a good year to be alive
Would’ve loved to have been in twitch chat for this; I love cars and it was amazing watching your responses.
first thing im gonna do in north korea is leave
North Korea and MattKC? Two of one of my favorite topics in one video! I like this!
i would genuinely love watching matt's livestreams
This entire time i was thinking "Did he try flashpoint?" Only for Matt to reveal never checked and it was there the whole time.
Can we get more of these stream clips videos? I love this kind of stuff from people like PBG, and yours is just as good if not better
Very interesting video, and quite funny. Learnt a lot!
I love the graphics tbh, pretty cool mix of 2D and 3D
Hey congrate on the 340K subs!
Funny how a guy said that it could be on flashpoint on chat at the start of the video and it didn't get mentioned until half a video later lol
Flashpoint claims to have had this game since 2018. Last updated March 2021 and works fine for me
Damn man, You could make the vid 1 second longer, we were on the verge of greatness, we were so close!
I didn't know that I needed to hear MattKC shit-talk about North Korea, when I woke up this morning. But I am 100% here for it now. I haven't laughed this hard in a month! 😂
how on earth did i miss this one
I definitely recommend the Blowback podcast for an interesting history of the Korean war.
North Korea: copies the arch de triumph
NY Central Park: 😰
It's cool that not only RUclips made a theme about Pyongyang Racer and people speedrun the game, but your video is most popular on the game!
It might be nothing new or something that has always been possible but seeing a 3D flashgame still baffles me. It looks so cool, it makes me wonder how it was done in just actionscript.
Good shit, you deserve more attention
This video felt like a trip and I'm all here for it. My goodness but that car totally just folded in half.
Cool video, I subbed. Great work my dude 😎
Wasn't there a post on archive called something like "North Korea games"? I downloaded that and it worked flawlessly.
yeah that or flashpoint
16:58 mattkc hamon sound
I got an ad telling me to visit Seoul in this video, it's the korean war all over again..
The car in the profile is called Zhonghua Junjie, produced by Huachen, BMW's cooperator in China. If I haven't guessed wrongly, you can only see them in China and North Korea🤣
I find it interesting how they have a Chrysler Grand Voyager in the DPRK @ 4:56... I watched a video from a guy who went to North Korea, and they had the same vehicle there in the hotel lobby area (video was made in 2017 iirc?). Looks like the car is in a similar area too.
You can tell it is a Limited trim level as it has the chrome mirrors on it. Has to be a pre facelift one too, seeing as the boot of the car is of the 2008-2011 variety. Makes me wonder which maps it has on the MyGIG radio... Probably not the North Korea maps 😂
Looks amazing!
NGL, i totally want to see you talk more about these North Korean Flash games
They had Pyongyang Racer shirts listed on their website and some friends and I gathered some money and got some shirts and a CD of north korean music from Koryo Tours.
7:50 Imitation is the highest form of flattery
gongrate man for finding the game and playing
Truly a great game!
No
@@discoball2982how dare you disrespect the great Kim jong jl
Generational punishment shall be in effect immediately
We need to take the map of this track and recreate it in Assetto Corsa as an F1 street track.
8:04 and that tower is basically in the middle of a ghost town. Lots of buildings, a few inhabitants.
That countdown to GO looked VERY much like A Small Car (that is hard to drive)
loved the mike matei cameo
I use this portable flash player called adobe flash, its about 14mb and all you need is the flash file (.swf) and just drag the flash file to the app and will run. It doesn't need any dependencies.
5:22 those 3 american defectors were prisoners of war that defected because it got them out of DPRK prison, and then basically still held against their will to be in those movies. they were labeled traitors by the US govt at the time despite being prisoners. really messed up that people still think they were just making a business decision...
Source: i made that up
I didn't know I wanted to know about video game development in North Korea until today. 😂
I am impressed that flash can handle that 3D that well.