Lose an amount of turns equal to your age is criminal. Even if we assume the game is just for kids, making a ten year old miss TEN turns is just insane.
I imagine that makes it impossible for them to win. And then a different player will get their puzzle reset with 30s to go so they also won't be able to win.
I bet if you were an age that's in the double digits, you would be sent to the shadow realm because you can't play in that round. Why? Because Rap Rat said so.
@@jokerofspades-xt3bs and getting the dreaded "HEY THERE! YOU LOOSE "X" AMOUNT OF TURNS!"? oh god that would be a nightmare. again, you would be out of the freaking game
Because of this video I made three of my friends play Rap Rat via Tabletop Simulator. Imagine the stress of the game, combined with audio desync and four people yelling over each other. Playing it felt like a panic attack with a sleep paralysis demon yelling at you. One compared it to a cognitohazard and said it felt like getting dementia in real time. Because it was the NTSC version, they didn't even play the instructions, so we were more lost than usual. Fortunately the youngest got stuck with the "miss your turns equal your age" penalty, but unfortunately he was still eighteen, so he could not play until the last minute of the game. We only beat the rat in the third game by the skin of our teeth, with one person getting the last piece in the last ten seconds. Nothing in the creepypasta can compare to the real beast with the horror and dread you feel. Edit: I forgot that one player had to make dog sounds, but then also had to make ape sounds, and none of us could figure out how that would even sound together so we just frantically kept rolling.
I appreciate the Rap Rat commercial assuring me that the titular Rap Rat is not, in fact, a ghost. Since that was my biggest concern in this situation.
Rap Rat is funny to me because I think his repetitive, jittery style of talking is meant to emulate record scratching in hip hop music, but the designers didn’t consider: 1. Rap Rat’s repetitions are made by copy and pasting audio, which sounds nothing like record scratching. 2. In hip hop music, the instrumental is what gets record scratched, not the vocals. This is because the old live hip hop shows where comprised of rappers who did the vocals and DJs who would use vinyl records to create the beats for the rappers to rap on. 3. Rap Rat doesn’t have a beat to rap on, nor is he rapping with a identifiable rhythm, so his rhyming and jittering doesn’t come off as musical and instead feels strange and unsettling. It’s very obvious that Rap Rat is another failed attempt by businessmen to cash in off a trend without understanding anything about it. However this one’s especially funny because they were so off the mark they gave everyone nightmares.
The repetition and skipping also reminds me of scratched records and discs which would behave similarly, so it just inherently feels like a VHS so fucked up it might as well be haunted
I’m convinced whoever made rap rat has never heard a rap song in their life, hasn’t interacted with a child since they were one (assuming they weren’t just born a 40something out of touch suit), has never seen a rat, never play tested their game, probably hasn’t played any board game ever, and if you told me they weren’t even from earth, I wouldn’t be surprised.
To be fair, the people who made Rap Rat were the same guys behind Atmosfear. They were told by publishers to make a game with the same formula but for like little kids and they were very inexperienced with how to make media for kids, and so they kinda just… did what they could. They’re Ozzie, which combined with the time period and greater context might explain their lack of understanding of rap as a medium, and their lack of effort to learn since this was kiiiiiiind of a phoned in game anyway
The Rap Rat creepypasta is one of my favorite pieces of literature ever made. Having your VHS board game be cursed by a witch is such a funny idea and the fact that the video itself is actually frightening just makes it even more fun
That creepypasta actually terrified me lol. I found out the pasta through a video I watched. I didn't know if the board game was 100% real or not or if it was actually haunted. I read the video title myself and when I think the video said if you actually say "Rap Rat" then he would murder you or something, I was freaked out and pretty paranoid. Later on when I heard what sounded like very small rat footsteps I was pretty freaked out. I was even too scared to go to the board games section of Walmart because I was scared that I would see that very cursed game. Later on in life I saw a video of a commercial of Rap Rat and confused on whether it was a really well done fake or actuallly real. So props to the original creepy pasta author for terrifying my younger self. Hats off to you.
16:09 Along with Rap Rat's existence, watching the cheese wall being eaten, slowly revealing nothing more than a black void actually gave me a small amount of tension. So to hear that there is a creepypasta surrounding the game is honestly not surprising lol
That creepypasta was how I first discovered it. Then I saw The Video Boab Oyedivuth and all the horror was gone, and I had moved on for years until now lmao
The Marvel version of Scene it has a disproportionate number of Blade Trinity questions. To this day, my gaming group has an inside joke about the answers to movie trivia questions being "Blade Trinity"
"He ain't no ghost, he's the most!" I haven't even heard of the creepypasta before this video, and yet the second I heard that, I was concerned about why they chose to say THAT of all rhymes to "most". Like, "Good sir, why did you bring attention to that? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?! WHAT REASON WOULD YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT?!"
RapRat is the secret main reason why analog horror exist, some children saw it when playing the boardgame and from there on their minds register forever "absolute fear and misery" with video tapes
The block of cheese being slowly replaced by black is so ominous it would traumatize me alone and then this hellspawn failed humunculus pops out to drag out your torment for longer
Can't believe neither Clue VCR nor Clue DVD were mentioned. The former was more or less watching a slasher comedy with some game elements, and the second revolved around gathering clues from both making suggestions and following instructions from the DVD to figure it out.
wait, i just looked this up… Atmosfear and Rap Rat are made by the same company?! they’re both made by the company A Couple ‘A Cowboys!! edit - it actually makes a bit of sense… they both have the same basic premise: try to complete the task you’re given on the board game before the time limit is up, or else the host wins, and the host can pop up at “random” to mess with you and stop you from winning. it’s just that one has an amazingly unsettling host with a frankly iconic sense of horror while you play and the other is Atmosfear!
Rap Rat having a punishment where you just randomly lose an amount of turns equal to your age is utterly insane. Even if you’re playing with kids, you’re looking at kids losing upwards of like 11-12 turns on the high end
I can't say I'm surprised that Scene it had so many versions, considering the sheer number of movies and TV shows in existence. Also, Atmosfear looks like fun with the right crowd. Don't know how scary it actually is, but cheesy horror has its place.
My favorite fact about the scene it games is that apparently the menu music of a specific disney-themed edition is infamous because there's a pretty widespread phenomenon where people are really scared of it or/and have bad memories of it. It's not even like an unintentionally unnerving song, it's a pretty generic upbeat song, so it makes it all the more strange
I had no idea about Rap Rat, that is truly cursed. There are actually Atmosfear sequels and a number of these games are on RUclips if you don't have these old media players anymore.
I have a vivid memory as a kid of just sitting down and watching a dvd for a dvd board game. i can’t even remember what it was, i THINK it was like a disney scene it? i just remember watching it absolutely entranced. i don’t know if i ever even played the game properly 😂
Why does Rap Rat talk like Max Headroom? I get that nobody involved in the game new what rap was, but they could have at least had one of their neighbors' children explain it to them.
Oh my god, Rap Rat, there was a channel that was going to review it but they backed out. I am so glad that someone finally looked into it with a quality video without it just focusing on the creepy pasta only because it looked like a gold mine waiting there for someone to do something with it
The Clue game on VHS/Beta (and the sequel) are absolutely great. Full of fun characters and meme worthy scenes, Agatha Christie parody type stuff. The scorekeeping of the game is incomprehensible, but just watching it is hilarious.
I can say that my family did because they were cheap and easy to play on a whim. Never had anything for the VHS though, thank GOD for that given Rap Rat over there... *shudders*
I still have a "Nick Scene It?" disc that came in a Wendy's kid's meal that I haven't punched out the game tokens for yet. This kid's meal edition of "Scene It?" is pretty wild because the board is printed inside the DVD sleeve. I also have a copy of the "Isaac Asimov's Robots" VHS game that I got at an antique store.
Atmosfear started out on VHS and had the alternative name of Nightmare... When I was growing up my mates had them all... They started out in 1991 right here in Australia (though I didn't know that till years later). Sadly I was too little to play them and by the time I was old enough things had changed and I wasn't seeing them as much, so never actually played it. Edit: Sorry wrote this before seeing the part about Atmosfear VHS... My bad. Double Edit: Okay so Rap Rat... When I was a kid they had an ENTIRE WALL of this game and a TV playing the advert for the game... Over and OVER!!! I would be looking at other toys and it was just CONSTANTLY PLAYING!!! Rap Rat haunted my nightmares... RAP RAP RAP RAT... AHHHHhhhhhh save me!!!
@@kamsandwich Really... I thought Rap Rat was a made in UK... I need to confirm this for myself, then weep as I'm gonna assume your right... Probably explains why they had a whole WALL of the damn game...
Sigh... yeah, they made Rap Rat as well... Well at least they went back to making better games... As I said in my OP never played them but people I know who have played the Atmosfear (though it was Nightmare when I was a kid), really enjoyed them.
Couple of comments to make, 1. The PAL version of Rap Rat's video is redubbed and slightly less horrifying, 2. A DVD game I enjoyed playing was the HALO Interactive Strategy Game from 2008, you use the DVD to simulate fights between the UNSC troops and the Covenant, as well as card draws from the decks
14:31 THE MAN HIMSELF 15:42 Rap Rat "rizz"? 16:35 BARS!! 17:10 Looney Tunes-ass sound effects 18:30 BARS!!! 18:39 BARS!! 19:27 BARS!!! (But creepy this time)
@@chobies5383 Understandable, would've put it in quotes first with a parenthetical for what it actually was "razz" (rizz) dunno why I wrote this just like disambiguation in written word
oh my gosh, this just unlocked a memory i'd totally forgotten about of playing the candyland dvd game with my friend while on a playdate at her house....I can't have been more than five at the time...
I recall having a Gargoyles VHS boardgame. It was fun the one time we played it. Rewinding it to play again felt like too much effort compared to our other board games, and we were competitive enough that we probably would start memorizing the video if we played it more.
Ah yes, and if you're interested in reviewing more bad VHS board games, I recommend looking into Nightmare, which is more an experience of the game's creator hating anyone who bought it than an actual game.
Oh man, I remember playing Atmosfear (released as Nightmare over here) with the VHS tape back in the day, shit was mindblowing at the time. I also owned Rap Rat, it was... an experience, and I distinctly remember that little prick jumping out and telling someone to put back all their puzzle pieces right before the end.
The thing about rap rat… it was made by the same company as atmosfear/ nightmare after the first few versions of nightmare. So they knew what they were doing, just not that time.
Man, my sisters and I absolutely loved the Lady and the Tramp DVD board game lol. It really was just another trivia game centered around Disney dogs, but it was a fun time for elementary school kids. And I learned a decent amount about Disney history!
I've been watching and making YTPs for quite some time now, and because of that I was already somewhat aware of Rap Rat. DaThings referenced it at least once, and I think I remember it being in a Chadtronic poop. Although, more specifically, sourcing the original commercial for the game instead of a rip of the video used to play it. My personal favorite part about that is that it(in one of them, I forgot which) was sentence mixed to say "Kids who just wanna have kids" instead of "...wanna have fun", like it's some unhinged gamified baby doll roleplay starring a giant rat mascot in some windowless cheese asylum.
There was also a Lilo and Stitch TV show DVD board game. I just find that funny that it’s a board game based off of a tv show based off of a plot device which I believe was introduced in a sequel to Lilo and Stitch. The game does come with cardboard tokens of a lot of the experiment characters from the series, which was a lot of fun for me as a kid. The tokens had a picture of the character, their experiment number, their name, and I think a little fact about them. It was neat.
I've never played scene-it, but being born in 2003 meant that almost every friend's or family's house I went to had a version of some kind. Although when I asked to play it growing up no one had ever wanted to so we'll see if I ever get to experience it!
Fun fact. There is a creepypasta based off RapRat, forgot the name, but learned about it from Dylan the Night Owl's Creepypasta iceberg video Edit: Too fucking early, I was
@@teh_supar_hackrthis video unearthed that damn thing from my subconscious and I first I didn’t know why I recognized it then it clicked and I remembered listening to the creepypasta years and years ago
I think you underestimate the "some german soap opera" it's been running without a break since 1992 and features more than 9000 episodes. It's crazy. Lunatic. It's THE german soap opera.
The VHS version of Atmosfear (and the nightmare series) was GENUINELY creepy. The series is so interesting from its great soundtrack to its cool effects. So nostalgic, I love that series.
"There are gnomes in your garden and they play slides on pink electric guitars. And cats can talk! They just don't want to." I had to watch the beginning of the vhs to see if I was missing any context for that above line. ...and I left being more confused than before. IS RAP RAT ON THE LEVEL OF SANTA AND THE EASTER BUNNY???
Oh my god! I grew up with the original Atmosphere, a VHS board game called Nightmare. It had a similar board and video, but was a 100% scarier! The Gatekeeper was way harsher, far eerier and he always appeared and announced himself with a deafening thundercrack. In fact he looked pretty normal at first, but as the game goes on you can see him rotting and changing in disturbing ways. The game is also way harder and unforgiving. I legit cried the first time I played the game, and could not even look at the box until years later. Highly recommend checking it out if you can find a copy!
Watching this video brought back some memories I played Monopoly Tropical Tycoon once, and it was really fun There was another VHS game similar to Atmosfear called Nightmare. I always found it really funny how the gatekeeper yelled "STOOOOOPPPP" whenever he appeared, and how he calls the players maggots It's worth noting that Atmosfear didn't stop at being a DVD game. They remade it a while ago to have a mobile app you use with the board game. You connect your phone to a TV to set up the Gatekeeper
Wow, this unlocked some serious nostalgia. My family had a few of these games! On DVD, there was the Disney To-Go game that came in a weirdly shaped metal tin. I could never figure out why the tin was shaped so much differently than all the other games in our closet, but the game itself was fun enough to play, if not a bit repetitive after awhile. On DVD, we also had some sort of Bible triva game. I don't remember what it was called, but it was far less repetitive, but also less engaging as it had minimal animations and was mostly text-based. Also on DVD, I once rented a full Nancy Drew game from the library. It was a direct 1-1 port of a PC title, but it somehow worked entirely on the tv with needing only a remote. The controls were a lot less responsive to use than a mouse, but I was able to play it fully from start to finish and get the full story. On VHS, we had Clue! I remember the game consisted of watching movie scenes in three acts, where the characters would respond to the act of someone being murdered, and questioning each other. The scenes were short, only several minutes long, but a lot of things were happening on the screen at any given time so part of the game was re-watching scenes to get details you missed. You still won the game by guessing the suspect/weapon/location. The movie scenes stayed the same, but the answers were randomized and they'd ask for different details to spot in the scene. For a small child, this game was far too difficult to play and I never did well when we played it. I also vaguely remember there being more than one Clue game in the series, maybe 2 or 3 total? We mainly played the first one though.
i remember my parents got me the dvd game for blockbuster, not the store chain, the british trivia show. i had never seen the show before so idk why my parents got it for me, but the main thing i remember is that the average game took 1 hour to play but if you spent more than 10 seconds answering a question it would send you back to the dvd menu
I worked at a regional thrift store at the end of the DVD era and scene it was a constant presence because nobody really knew if it went to the media or the bric a brac department and very often newer workers would separate the DVD from the board game to go to different departments.
I don't know if this was intentional or not but I wanna thank you for making Rap Rat's debuts last about 10 seconds long.. making it easier to skip them and catchup with the video without hearing a word from that creature's mouth and avoiding a second headache.
I highly recommend everyone goes and watches Loading Ready Run's Atmosfear playthroughs, they've done all of the spin-offs (the mummy themed one looked actually kind of fun?)
Heres a video idea based on Rap Rat. NTSC VS PAL versions. I've seen no videos on this matter before, but there are some changes to it, such as the PAL version having title cards at the start of each game.
I knew about Scene It and the Trivial Pursuit DVD games. Never played any of them because I have parents that would rather a physical board/card game like Uno or Scrabble. Side note: I always thought the Rap Rat was an Adult Swim parody commercial.
For anyone who wants to havbe nightmares... Rap Rat VHS is on RUclips and it's seriously the stuff of nightmares... Seriously, they should be making HORROR MOVIES ABOUT RAP RAT, not Winnie the Pooh.
This is so cool! Immediately evoking memories of playing the Gargoyles VHS game. Home media and board games were a pairing built to last...until everyone started streaming everything.
I remember growing up I had a VCR game that was basically the game memory. You would throw a bunch of cards down and mix them up, then you would play a short (like 2 or 3 minutes) section of the vhs that just showed different still pictures. After the vhs segment, in which you had to pause it until the next round (which put a lot of strain on the tape) you would have to pick as many cards as possible from the pile that had the same pictures shown. The game was fun for the first couple of times we played, but I eventually memorized the pics from each round, and we stopped playing. Sat in the closet for 20 years until we finally donated it to a thrift store.
Hey, Commercial Crazies was awesome! And while it did have some real companies (I know Fed Ex made more than one appearance), I'm pretty sure most of them were fake commercials made for the game. Honestly, if they didn't get the Micro Machines guy to do half the "commercials" it probably would have been a flop, and the way he introduces the rules by stating "no, your VCR did not spontaneously go into fast forward" but saying it really fast.
I got one for you to look into, if you haven't already: VHS bingo. From what I remember, it worked out pretty well as a concept. From what I remember, you'd be in like a toy car going around a game board, 1st person POV, and every so often come across something like a toy block on one side with letters that'd be changing every second or so and something on the other side of the track with rapidly changing numbers. Pausing the screen, obviously, would give you the square to mark on your card. I've been trying to find footage of this so I can use it as a screen saver or something, but I'm afraid it might be lost media. I think one might still be at my parents' place, but I'll also have to find something to rip it onto my laptop to upload.
Literally every time me and my friends go to any op shop ever we will always without fail find several copies of scene it. I had no idea they had sold so well, cause everyone seems to get rid of it. 💀
@@davisvoelzke8011 well ya a creepy pasta (it's already one) but i mean somthing inspired by it, like the multiple moments ware Rap Rat stuttering just sounds like a just gliching
Lose an amount of turns equal to your age is criminal. Even if we assume the game is just for kids, making a ten year old miss TEN turns is just insane.
I imagine that makes it impossible for them to win. And then a different player will get their puzzle reset with 30s to go so they also won't be able to win.
Its funny how they out right make the punishments more devastating for some kids more than others.
I bet if you were an age that's in the double digits, you would be sent to the shadow realm because you can't play in that round.
Why? Because Rap Rat said so.
Imagine being a parent playing this game because your kid forced you to.
@@jokerofspades-xt3bs and getting the dreaded "HEY THERE! YOU LOOSE "X" AMOUNT OF TURNS!"? oh god that would be a nightmare.
again, you would be out of the freaking game
I blame rap rat for the 2008 financial crisis
Lol
God I love that the actual horror game is not the scariest game here.
Rap Rat is the real horror game here
@@KMD-o8xyeah that's the joke
Wdym? Rap Rat _is_ the horror game.
Because of this video I made three of my friends play Rap Rat via Tabletop Simulator. Imagine the stress of the game, combined with audio desync and four people yelling over each other. Playing it felt like a panic attack with a sleep paralysis demon yelling at you. One compared it to a cognitohazard and said it felt like getting dementia in real time. Because it was the NTSC version, they didn't even play the instructions, so we were more lost than usual. Fortunately the youngest got stuck with the "miss your turns equal your age" penalty, but unfortunately he was still eighteen, so he could not play until the last minute of the game. We only beat the rat in the third game by the skin of our teeth, with one person getting the last piece in the last ten seconds. Nothing in the creepypasta can compare to the real beast with the horror and dread you feel.
Edit: I forgot that one player had to make dog sounds, but then also had to make ape sounds, and none of us could figure out how that would even sound together so we just frantically kept rolling.
I still can't believe someone put it on TTS, what a rollercoaster
hi beast
@@sketchingchan Hi artsy
Reminds me of that Star Trek DVD game in TTS. I had to experience Biish so many times…
@@kotzpenner Experience BIIIIIIIJ *Klingon theme intensifies*
I appreciate the Rap Rat commercial assuring me that the titular Rap Rat is not, in fact, a ghost. Since that was my biggest concern in this situation.
Rap Rat is funny to me because I think his repetitive, jittery style of talking is meant to emulate record scratching in hip hop music, but the designers didn’t consider:
1. Rap Rat’s repetitions are made by copy and pasting audio, which sounds nothing like record scratching.
2. In hip hop music, the instrumental is what gets record scratched, not the vocals. This is because the old live hip hop shows where comprised of rappers who did the vocals and DJs who would use vinyl records to create the beats for the rappers to rap on.
3. Rap Rat doesn’t have a beat to rap on, nor is he rapping with a identifiable rhythm, so his rhyming and jittering doesn’t come off as musical and instead feels strange and unsettling.
It’s very obvious that Rap Rat is another failed attempt by businessmen to cash in off a trend without understanding anything about it. However this one’s especially funny because they were so off the mark they gave everyone nightmares.
The repetition and skipping also reminds me of scratched records and discs which would behave similarly, so it just inherently feels like a VHS so fucked up it might as well be haunted
Fun fact: Rap Rat and AtmosFear were made by the same company
I’m convinced whoever made rap rat has never heard a rap song in their life, hasn’t interacted with a child since they were one (assuming they weren’t just born a 40something out of touch suit), has never seen a rat, never play tested their game, probably hasn’t played any board game ever, and if you told me they weren’t even from earth, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Well they might be from Earth but we can be sure that the corporate suits are skinwalkers pretending to be human in a hideous mockery of life.
hears Rapper's Delight once
To be fair, the people who made Rap Rat were the same guys behind Atmosfear. They were told by publishers to make a game with the same formula but for like little kids and they were very inexperienced with how to make media for kids, and so they kinda just… did what they could.
They’re Ozzie, which combined with the time period and greater context might explain their lack of understanding of rap as a medium, and their lack of effort to learn since this was kiiiiiiind of a phoned in game anyway
@@SomerandomjingleberrySo Rap Rat is their next horror board game in disguise. Makes sense.
@@Somerandomjingleberry (°д° )
The Rap Rat creepypasta is one of my favorite pieces of literature ever made. Having your VHS board game be cursed by a witch is such a funny idea and the fact that the video itself is actually frightening just makes it even more fun
for the longest time i didnt know rap rat was an actual game- i thought it was made up entirely for the creepypasta
That creepypasta actually terrified me lol. I found out the pasta through a video I watched. I didn't know if the board game was 100% real or not or if it was actually haunted. I read the video title myself and when I think the video said if you actually say "Rap Rat" then he would murder you or something, I was freaked out and pretty paranoid. Later on when I heard what sounded like very small rat footsteps I was pretty freaked out. I was even too scared to go to the board games section of Walmart because I was scared that I would see that very cursed game. Later on in life I saw a video of a commercial of Rap Rat and confused on whether it was a really well done fake or actuallly real. So props to the original creepy pasta author for terrifying my younger self. Hats off to you.
@@ceazarsalad4414 same here...and somehow the actual game is scarier
I remember accidentally coming across it as a kid and being terrified believing it was real
@@ceazarsalad4414Same here. That creepypasta actually managed to give me nightmares as a kid.
It genuinely never occurred to me that Rap Rat might be a real game.
deadass I thought it was made for that creepypasta and I think my life is worse now that I know it wasn’t
@@TheMushroomMeister same
@@TheMushroomMeisterthe rat is real and it hungers for our souls.
@@leviticusprime4904 ('n';)
16:09 Along with Rap Rat's existence, watching the cheese wall being eaten, slowly revealing nothing more than a black void actually gave me a small amount of tension. So to hear that there is a creepypasta surrounding the game is honestly not surprising lol
That creepypasta was how I first discovered it. Then I saw The Video Boab Oyedivuth and all the horror was gone, and I had moved on for years until now lmao
Ok, not gonna lie, Rap Rat was ahead of the curve. That 'rapping' is just a proto RUclips Poop. It's amazing. All hail Rap Rat.
Rap Rat was just a 90's Spamton proto
He's the boss
Honestly it sounds more like he was trying to emulate Max Headroom
He's the boss, and the most BRUTAL gamehost.
As I've been saying, Rap Rat would be a legitimately entertaining antagonist if it wasn't for him representing an awful boardgame
The Marvel version of Scene it has a disproportionate number of Blade Trinity questions. To this day, my gaming group has an inside joke about the answers to movie trivia questions being "Blade Trinity"
"He ain't no ghost, he's the most!"
I haven't even heard of the creepypasta before this video, and yet the second I heard that, I was concerned about why they chose to say THAT of all rhymes to "most".
Like, "Good sir, why did you bring attention to that? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?! WHAT REASON WOULD YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT?!"
Look at that rodent and tell me you _don’t_ assume it’s a ghost or some other type of godawful fucking paranormal thing
what does "he's the most" even mean
@@algotkristoffersson15
presumably in the same vein as, like, “the host with the most”
what _that_ saying means i couldnt tell you
RapRat is the secret main reason why analog horror exist, some children saw it when playing the boardgame and from there on their minds register forever "absolute fear and misery" with video tapes
The block of cheese being slowly replaced by black is so ominous it would traumatize me alone and then this hellspawn failed humunculus pops out to drag out your torment for longer
Imagine Rap Ray Blue Ray edition which is just the same, but all the punishments are in randomized order, that should be fun.
Oh my god, that would be both horrible and WAY more fun than the original in every aspect
At least the chance of being made to throw away all your puzzle pieces at the very end becomes drastically less likely
I feel like this is how it was supposed to be because of the throw away all pieces being at the very end
Can't believe neither Clue VCR nor Clue DVD were mentioned. The former was more or less watching a slasher comedy with some game elements, and the second revolved around gathering clues from both making suggestions and following instructions from the DVD to figure it out.
wait, i just looked this up… Atmosfear and Rap Rat are made by the same company?! they’re both made by the company A Couple ‘A Cowboys!!
edit - it actually makes a bit of sense… they both have the same basic premise: try to complete the task you’re given on the board game before the time limit is up, or else the host wins, and the host can pop up at “random” to mess with you and stop you from winning. it’s just that one has an amazingly unsettling host with a frankly iconic sense of horror while you play and the other is Atmosfear!
Plot twist: the teams enchard of each game accidentally confused which one they were supposed to make
(Idk if I wrote that right I'm spanish)
@@aynohalopesdealmeida9932 did you mean "the teams in charge of each game"
@@Mr.HowardEatsPants yes
Legit, Rap Rat would be a great intimidating-yet-amusing host if he was more actively antagonistic than just annoying
that means that company made a game surrounded with a sense of dread and terror
and atmosfear
Rap Rat having a punishment where you just randomly lose an amount of turns equal to your age is utterly insane. Even if you’re playing with kids, you’re looking at kids losing upwards of like 11-12 turns on the high end
Looks like we've got some great new games to try out soon! Gotta buy a DVD player first though...
(Thanks for having us on!)
Thank you guys! I got some great new movies I need to see!
Get one better and buy a PS2. Then at least you can use it for non-DVD games
I never thought there would be competition against F.A.T.A.L. for Most Heinous Board Game ever, but Rap Rat exists
Finally, someone asked the question on everyone's minds: "What if Max Headroom was a rat?"
Man took "board game scott the waz" to a new level
Hey all Scott here
*Woz
@@BulletsTheBlazingHey y'all, Kam here
Hey all Woz here
I can't say I'm surprised that Scene it had so many versions, considering the sheer number of movies and TV shows in existence.
Also, Atmosfear looks like fun with the right crowd. Don't know how scary it actually is, but cheesy horror has its place.
My favorite fact about the scene it games is that apparently the menu music of a specific disney-themed edition is infamous because there's a pretty widespread phenomenon where people are really scared of it or/and have bad memories of it. It's not even like an unintentionally unnerving song, it's a pretty generic upbeat song, so it makes it all the more strange
whixh one?
@@piperformerlycassette the one from 2004 to 2007
I had no idea about Rap Rat, that is truly cursed.
There are actually Atmosfear sequels and a number of these games are on RUclips if you don't have these old media players anymore.
I have a vivid memory as a kid of just sitting down and watching a dvd for a dvd board game. i can’t even remember what it was, i THINK it was like a disney scene it? i just remember watching it absolutely entranced. i don’t know if i ever even played the game properly 😂
“Okay for this next question, we need to look at the TV~”
“…how do I do that?”
Less than a tenth of the way through and I’m already loving it
Why does Rap Rat talk like Max Headroom? I get that nobody involved in the game new what rap was, but they could have at least had one of their neighbors' children explain it to them.
Oh my god, Rap Rat, there was a channel that was going to review it but they backed out.
I am so glad that someone finally looked into it with a quality video without it just focusing on the creepy pasta only because it looked like a gold mine waiting there for someone to do something with it
I was never concerned if Rap Rat was a ghost or not, but thanks to that line I now am.
The Clue game on VHS/Beta (and the sequel) are absolutely great. Full of fun characters and meme worthy scenes, Agatha Christie parody type stuff. The scorekeeping of the game is incomprehensible, but just watching it is hilarious.
I watched phelous and Lupa playing it and it was genuinely hilarious
You feel like an alternate universe version of Scott the woz where he was into board games instead of Nintendo, I love it.
Oh man, I've always wondered who the hell actually buys these.
me. I collect dvd board games.
Scene It is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, so yeah... Count me in that group too. XD
I can say that my family did because they were cheap and easy to play on a whim.
Never had anything for the VHS though, thank GOD for that given Rap Rat over there... *shudders*
Also why the hell they didn't just dump it on Steam with the editions as DLCs.
Still won't reach Train Simulator DLC count.
I still have a "Nick Scene It?" disc that came in a Wendy's kid's meal that I haven't punched out the game tokens for yet. This kid's meal edition of "Scene It?" is pretty wild because the board is printed inside the DVD sleeve.
I also have a copy of the "Isaac Asimov's Robots" VHS game that I got at an antique store.
Aaah, Rap Rat....EverythingIsTerrible's little darling. At least the commercial has a smooth voiceover.
Atmosfear started out on VHS and had the alternative name of Nightmare... When I was growing up my mates had them all... They started out in 1991 right here in Australia (though I didn't know that till years later). Sadly I was too little to play them and by the time I was old enough things had changed and I wasn't seeing them as much, so never actually played it.
Edit: Sorry wrote this before seeing the part about Atmosfear VHS... My bad.
Double Edit: Okay so Rap Rat... When I was a kid they had an ENTIRE WALL of this game and a TV playing the advert for the game... Over and OVER!!! I would be looking at other toys and it was just CONSTANTLY PLAYING!!!
Rap Rat haunted my nightmares... RAP RAP RAP RAT... AHHHHhhhhhh save me!!!
Fun Fact: The same studio that made Atmosfear also created the Rap Rat! Ain't that something
@@kamsandwich Really... I thought Rap Rat was a made in UK... I need to confirm this for myself, then weep as I'm gonna assume your right... Probably explains why they had a whole WALL of the damn game...
Sigh... yeah, they made Rap Rat as well... Well at least they went back to making better games... As I said in my OP never played them but people I know who have played the Atmosfear (though it was Nightmare when I was a kid), really enjoyed them.
This unlocked a core memory of playing the office dvd board game when I was young
Not a DVD game, but I do remember playing Monopoly for the N64. The game kinda feels a bit like a fever dream for some reason.
Probably because it would have been perfect in 1864 when it was impressive to not die from being 35
@@andyblanton6570exactly what I was thinking
I had no way of knowing when I woke up this morning that I’d be exposed to the eldritch horror that is Rap Rat today
Couple of comments to make,
1. The PAL version of Rap Rat's video is redubbed and slightly less horrifying,
2. A DVD game I enjoyed playing was the HALO Interactive Strategy Game from 2008, you use the DVD to simulate fights between the UNSC troops and the Covenant, as well as card draws from the decks
I also like to shake vigorously when explaining rules in rhymes.
Can’t wait for the “every version of scene it?” video that you’re totally gonna do
14:31 THE MAN HIMSELF
15:42 Rap Rat "rizz"?
16:35 BARS!!
17:10 Looney Tunes-ass sound effects
18:30 BARS!!!
18:39 BARS!!
19:27 BARS!!! (But creepy this time)
in 15:42, he said "Razz", not rizz.
.....but I wouldn't be surprised if "razz" is Rap Rat's version of rizz
@@magicalmysteryperson Not to be mean but why do you think I put in quotes?
@@chobies5383sorry about that. I was thinking that you were confused on what he said there.
my bad!
@@chobies5383 Understandable, would've put it in quotes first with a parenthetical for what it actually was
"razz" (rizz)
dunno why I wrote this just like disambiguation in written word
The Monopoly Tropical Tycoon footage has the vibes of a video game you'd find in a cereal box.
oh my gosh, this just unlocked a memory i'd totally forgotten about of playing the candyland dvd game with my friend while on a playdate at her house....I can't have been more than five at the time...
I don't think I've ever been to a thrift store without at least 3 different versions of Scene It on the shelves
rap rat sounds like when fnaf cosplayers try to sound like they’re glitching out
I recall having a Gargoyles VHS boardgame. It was fun the one time we played it. Rewinding it to play again felt like too much effort compared to our other board games, and we were competitive enough that we probably would start memorizing the video if we played it more.
Ah yes, and if you're interested in reviewing more bad VHS board games, I recommend looking into Nightmare, which is more an experience of the game's creator hating anyone who bought it than an actual game.
Oh man, I remember playing Atmosfear (released as Nightmare over here) with the VHS tape back in the day, shit was mindblowing at the time. I also owned Rap Rat, it was... an experience, and I distinctly remember that little prick jumping out and telling someone to put back all their puzzle pieces right before the end.
The thing about rap rat… it was made by the same company as atmosfear/ nightmare after the first few versions of nightmare. So they knew what they were doing, just not that time.
There’s still a copy of Star Wars: Trivial Pursuit with an adjoining DVD on some top shelf in my kitchen. Good times.
I used to play Disney DVD Bingo all the time as a kid. Was waiting for it to show
Man, my sisters and I absolutely loved the Lady and the Tramp DVD board game lol. It really was just another trivia game centered around Disney dogs, but it was a fun time for elementary school kids. And I learned a decent amount about Disney history!
I wonder where's the actual rap rat costume
I've been watching and making YTPs for quite some time now, and because of that I was already somewhat aware of Rap Rat. DaThings referenced it at least once, and I think I remember it being in a Chadtronic poop. Although, more specifically, sourcing the original commercial for the game instead of a rip of the video used to play it.
My personal favorite part about that is that it(in one of them, I forgot which) was sentence mixed to say "Kids who just wanna have kids" instead of "...wanna have fun", like it's some unhinged gamified baby doll roleplay starring a giant rat mascot in some windowless cheese asylum.
The “kids who just wanna have kids” is in DaThings’ Zooks! at 1:31, but I don’t know if that’s the origin of that joke.
There was also a Lilo and Stitch TV show DVD board game. I just find that funny that it’s a board game based off of a tv show based off of a plot device which I believe was introduced in a sequel to Lilo and Stitch. The game does come with cardboard tokens of a lot of the experiment characters from the series, which was a lot of fun for me as a kid. The tokens had a picture of the character, their experiment number, their name, and I think a little fact about them. It was neat.
I used to have that game! I remember it being good but that was years ago lol. The tokens were the best part
I've never played scene-it, but being born in 2003 meant that almost every friend's or family's house I went to had a version of some kind. Although when I asked to play it growing up no one had ever wanted to so we'll see if I ever get to experience it!
Why the fuck is Rap Rat like an analog horror monster
no mention of the PotC dvd board game during the Disney section had me scratching my head.... and wiping my eyes from the tears....
Now all we need is a Rap Rat and Biggie Cheese rap battle game lol.
My family actually owns a copy of AtmosFear and I hadn't thought of it in at least a decade so thanks for that wild shot of weird-nostalgia.
Fun fact. There is a creepypasta based off RapRat, forgot the name, but learned about it from Dylan the Night Owl's Creepypasta iceberg video
Edit: Too fucking early, I was
I'm breaking ankles out here
I only know of the RapRat as a villan from that creepypasta
@@kamsandwichlol
@@teh_supar_hackrthis video unearthed that damn thing from my subconscious and I first I didn’t know why I recognized it then it clicked and I remembered listening to the creepypasta years and years ago
2:38 that’s how you do a monopoly
There is two thing we can all take from this video…
He is Rap Rat and he is the boss.
Whomever made rap rat HAD to be on that coca cola 😂
Rap Rat is like the Candyman of boardgames
For a moment I thought this was saying it was the Candy Land of board games a la saying the Evangelion of anime
I think you underestimate the "some german soap opera" it's been running without a break since 1992 and features more than 9000 episodes. It's crazy. Lunatic. It's THE german soap opera.
My family tried to play Clue DVD once, and it was the longest and most torturous game I’ve ever played.
The VHS version of Atmosfear (and the nightmare series) was GENUINELY creepy. The series is so interesting from its great soundtrack to its cool effects. So nostalgic, I love that series.
Yeah, Atmosfear had 7 incarnations on VHS, most under the name Nightmare.
the rap rat insanity begins at 14:24
Okay, AtmosFear genuinely sounds like an amazing game~
I can't believe they made a Who Moved My Cheese prequel.
I'm a big fan of Atmosfear/Nightmare - I have a VHS copy and it's a blast assuming you have a VCR
The VHS footage has been uploaded to RUclips!
"There are gnomes in your garden and they play slides on pink electric guitars. And cats can talk! They just don't want to."
I had to watch the beginning of the vhs to see if I was missing any context for that above line.
...and I left being more confused than before. IS RAP RAT ON THE LEVEL OF SANTA AND THE EASTER BUNNY???
A very obscure DVD board game that my family had was "Righteous", pretty much scene it but for The Book of Mormon
Oh my god! I grew up with the original Atmosphere, a VHS board game called Nightmare. It had a similar board and video, but was a 100% scarier! The Gatekeeper was way harsher, far eerier and he always appeared and announced himself with a deafening thundercrack. In fact he looked pretty normal at first, but as the game goes on you can see him rotting and changing in disturbing ways. The game is also way harder and unforgiving. I legit cried the first time I played the game, and could not even look at the box until years later. Highly recommend checking it out if you can find a copy!
Watching this video brought back some memories
I played Monopoly Tropical Tycoon once, and it was really fun
There was another VHS game similar to Atmosfear called Nightmare. I always found it really funny how the gatekeeper yelled "STOOOOOPPPP" whenever he appeared, and how he calls the players maggots
It's worth noting that Atmosfear didn't stop at being a DVD game. They remade it a while ago to have a mobile app you use with the board game. You connect your phone to a TV to set up the Gatekeeper
Wow, this unlocked some serious nostalgia. My family had a few of these games! On DVD, there was the Disney To-Go game that came in a weirdly shaped metal tin. I could never figure out why the tin was shaped so much differently than all the other games in our closet, but the game itself was fun enough to play, if not a bit repetitive after awhile. On DVD, we also had some sort of Bible triva game. I don't remember what it was called, but it was far less repetitive, but also less engaging as it had minimal animations and was mostly text-based. Also on DVD, I once rented a full Nancy Drew game from the library. It was a direct 1-1 port of a PC title, but it somehow worked entirely on the tv with needing only a remote. The controls were a lot less responsive to use than a mouse, but I was able to play it fully from start to finish and get the full story.
On VHS, we had Clue! I remember the game consisted of watching movie scenes in three acts, where the characters would respond to the act of someone being murdered, and questioning each other. The scenes were short, only several minutes long, but a lot of things were happening on the screen at any given time so part of the game was re-watching scenes to get details you missed. You still won the game by guessing the suspect/weapon/location. The movie scenes stayed the same, but the answers were randomized and they'd ask for different details to spot in the scene. For a small child, this game was far too difficult to play and I never did well when we played it. I also vaguely remember there being more than one Clue game in the series, maybe 2 or 3 total? We mainly played the first one though.
i remember my parents got me the dvd game for blockbuster, not the store chain, the british trivia show. i had never seen the show before so idk why my parents got it for me, but the main thing i remember is that the average game took 1 hour to play but if you spent more than 10 seconds answering a question it would send you back to the dvd menu
I worked at a regional thrift store at the end of the DVD era and scene it was a constant presence because nobody really knew if it went to the media or the bric a brac department and very often newer workers would separate the DVD from the board game to go to different departments.
I don't know if this was intentional or not but I wanna thank you for making Rap Rat's debuts last about 10 seconds long.. making it easier to skip them and catchup with the video without hearing a word from that creature's mouth and avoiding a second headache.
I highly recommend everyone goes and watches Loading Ready Run's Atmosfear playthroughs, they've done all of the spin-offs (the mummy themed one looked actually kind of fun?)
They've also played the Star Trek and Star Wars VHS board games as well.
Wow, the comments weren't lying. Rap Rat really was a prototype RUclips Poop.
Heres a video idea based on Rap Rat. NTSC VS PAL versions. I've seen no videos on this matter before, but there are some changes to it, such as the PAL version having title cards at the start of each game.
I knew about Scene It and the Trivial Pursuit DVD games. Never played any of them because I have parents that would rather a physical board/card game like Uno or Scrabble.
Side note: I always thought the Rap Rat was an Adult Swim parody commercial.
The Star Trek VHS game was a _lot_ of fun. We played it a lot when I was a kid.
I have never played it but my parents had a copy that took up SO much space on the board games shelf, so the box art is burned into my memory.
For anyone who wants to havbe nightmares... Rap Rat VHS is on RUclips and it's seriously the stuff of nightmares... Seriously, they should be making HORROR MOVIES ABOUT RAP RAT, not Winnie the Pooh.
I was definitely expecting Atmosfear to be mentioned
Rap rat makes me want to cry
This is so cool! Immediately evoking memories of playing the Gargoyles VHS game. Home media and board games were a pairing built to last...until everyone started streaming everything.
I remember growing up I had a VCR game that was basically the game memory. You would throw a bunch of cards down and mix them up, then you would play a short (like 2 or 3 minutes) section of the vhs that just showed different still pictures. After the vhs segment, in which you had to pause it until the next round (which put a lot of strain on the tape) you would have to pick as many cards as possible from the pile that had the same pictures shown. The game was fun for the first couple of times we played, but I eventually memorized the pics from each round, and we stopped playing. Sat in the closet for 20 years until we finally donated it to a thrift store.
I thought rap rat was just a creepypasta, I didn't know it was an actual board game 😭
Hey, Commercial Crazies was awesome! And while it did have some real companies (I know Fed Ex made more than one appearance), I'm pretty sure most of them were fake commercials made for the game.
Honestly, if they didn't get the Micro Machines guy to do half the "commercials" it probably would have been a flop, and the way he introduces the rules by stating "no, your VCR did not spontaneously go into fast forward" but saying it really fast.
The Disney Pictionary DVD Game was one of the games I played a lot as a kid, as well at the Disney Trivial Pursuit DVD Game
I got one for you to look into, if you haven't already: VHS bingo. From what I remember, it worked out pretty well as a concept. From what I remember, you'd be in like a toy car going around a game board, 1st person POV, and every so often come across something like a toy block on one side with letters that'd be changing every second or so and something on the other side of the track with rapidly changing numbers. Pausing the screen, obviously, would give you the square to mark on your card.
I've been trying to find footage of this so I can use it as a screen saver or something, but I'm afraid it might be lost media. I think one might still be at my parents' place, but I'll also have to find something to rip it onto my laptop to upload.
Literally every time me and my friends go to any op shop ever we will always without fail find several copies of scene it. I had no idea they had sold so well, cause everyone seems to get rid of it. 💀
was anticipating the final game for about 2 minutes beforehand, very glad to see it here
i hope at somepoint someone makes a horror game based on the idea of rap rat
A creepy pasta for example
@@davisvoelzke8011 well ya a creepy pasta (it's already one) but i mean somthing inspired by it, like the multiple moments ware Rap Rat stuttering just sounds like a just gliching