PATRONE: www.patreon.com/posts/patroni-25rd-46933629 thanks to the homie CroEyE for inspiring me to do this. THIS TRACK HE MADE BANGS FOR DAYS: soundcloud.com/croeye/saturn-tokio-k-2-y IMPORTANT LINKS FOR FURTHER READING/VIEWING BAZINGA: archive.org/details/@bazinga351 PLAY GADGET!!!!!!: www.zombs-lair.com/gadget-collection ALICE: collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2019/01/alice-interactive-museum.html?m=1 L ZONE FOOTAGE I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/iQJb126Eg1w/видео.html SYNERGY GAMES LIST: macintoshgarden.org/author/synergy-interactive LYNCH X SYNERGY: www.thecityofabsurdity.com/game.html DEL TORO ON GAMES: v1.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104099-Guillermo-del-Toro-F-king-Loves-Videogames THE UNDERWORLD TRAILER: ruclips.net/video/U7-dFPhp83c/видео.html THE ALIUS: archive.org/details/TheAlius/screenshot1.png THE SAMURAI MECH VIDEO I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/Y_EYDxJTc1E/видео.html SEVEN COLORS LEGEND OF PSY: macintoshgarden.org/games/the-seven-colors-legend-of-psy-s-city PSY FOOTAGE I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/H7bQrlUtvHU/видео.html EASTERN MIND: collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2017/06/eastern-mind-lost-souls-of-tong-nou.html CHU TENG FOOTAGE I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/R5_t77_q41s/видео.html COSMOLOGY OF KYOTO: collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2019/05/cosmology-of-kyoto.html VICTORIAN PARK: archive.org/details/VictorianParkMAC VIC PARK FOOTAGE THAT I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/mLvQZH8dxFo/видео.html JUNGLE PARK VIDEO BY VIDEO GAME ESOTERICA: ruclips.net/video/nuVWMDDR8uc/видео.html THE D SECRETS VIDEO: ruclips.net/video/V40gcmDWIOg/видео.html make apple pippin 2: ruclips.net/video/UkQsfFyo1hA/видео.html BETTER DEAD RATIFICATION FOOTAGE THAT I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/TJRtnUBI27Y/видео.html MA-RI-A FOOTAGE THAT I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/IL0cN_AsxBA/видео.html and yeah thanks for watching and stuff. PLAY GADGET, have fun, explore mac, become doshin.
fantastic, sharing the love is appreciated. glad you put in the effort to archive all these archives. the video was good too, i'll play Gadget this weekend
I was expecting something weird too, Thor was "hyping" it by being silent, but then the realization there was nothing weird inside, together with him talking again kinda tricks our heads into thinking there would be a scare.
Thor, your whole presentation is so crunchy I sometimes can't tell what's old game footage and what's not. If that sounds like I'm complaining I am _not_ 🖤
One rather amazing thing to mention is that Marc Laidlaw (the former writer for the Half-Life series) wrote a tie-in novel of Gadget called The Third Force: A Novel of Gadget in the mid-90s and the book is still available to buy in print on Amazon(!)
THH, your channel has become one of my favorite things to watch whenever I have a few minutes to spare. The content, art direction, script, narration and sound design ooze personality and charm. Keep up the good work. Thank you~
I’m surprised more people don’t know about that Kyoto game since it looks exactly like kind of “cursed game” you’d find people talking about on paranormal forums in the late 2000s
I do and the only reason is because I was coming of age 2000s. Since my family computer was not powerful play may games on Dos emulation. Which was rabbit would lead me To a treasure trove of abandonware.
Chu-Teng, the sequel to Eastern Mind, now has an English translation released about a month or two ago. It’s very good! If you’re curious, I’ve uploaded a snippet of gameplay and all the links you’d need to play it in a video on my channel. Shoutout to the translators for doing such a good job.
This reminds me of a game I played in my childhood. My school had donated macs from STEVE JOBS himself due to him donating Macs to every reservation. We had a color mac and it had a very secret hypercard based game. I forget the name but it played alot like Synergys games and I cannot remember the name of it. Weird clicking to progress, hidden items that caused weird stuff to happen. And all only on one computer in the computer lab, hidden away in a system subfolder only to be opened by curious minds.
I'm not Japanese, but when I was younger I did have a Mac. A 68k Centris no less, the whole Synergy Inc first person puzzle/point and click games were a huge thing back then, there were Demo discs just full of this kind of stuff. Kind makes me have a bit of a blast from the past.
I still remember hearing about D's plot and loving it in the same vein as The 7th Guest, both being talked about how dark and fascinating they were, and the scarring I had from the mental imagery I had when the plots for both were described to me. Funny how years later both looked a little goofier than what was playing in my head lol
I have the official artbook of Gadget. The images are in exceptional quality, beyond what is captured in the video. I think I bought it years ago from one of those bookstore chains on clearance. I bought it 'cause it looked cool.
What a coincidence, i was watching a documentary call "Tokyo Noise" where they interviewed the game developer Haruhiko Shono, who is the responsable of "Alice" and "Invention travel & adventure". i started playing those games and thinking that they will fit perfectly on this channel.
Thanks for the mention! If there was one weird game I’d want to get mentioned for playing Jungle Park is high on the list. Now if I could just figure out how to beat the game...or if you even can?
This whole video is terribly related to my interests. This stuff I've always deeply admired but never could find a whole lot about, so I'm really excited to see a video like this that's not only super informative, but just a joy to watch. I peeked at Zomb's Lair and it has so many of the games I was tangentially curious about but didn't really know how to look more up about (and also Zoombinis), so that's just super cool. I'm super happy this video exists.
Glad to see Cosmology of Kyoto getting some love. I loved that game since my teens, a friend of mine introduced it to me and it has become one of my all-time favs. There's nothing quite like it, from artstyle to the OST. Plus, a built-in encyclopedia and a lot of japanese history & supernatural stuff from the Heian period. I encourage everyone to give it a go, it's just so engrossing... Thanks for covering it, man.
I can't believe Lynch almost made a game. Synergy seems like a perfect studio for him. I'm heartbroken it didn't go through. I will be playing Gadget for sure, almost want to buy or make a shirt for it.
I really do love your videos,, it's such a pleasure to be able to watch. no time for vidya anymore, so this is my gateway into that world... feels like when I was a kid, never having any games, hearing about the wildest shit from friends and filling in the gaps with my imagination. catching fragments of stories and worlds, watching them play on slow sunday afternoons. it's a really magical quality that these videos are able to take on :)
Ahhhh so happy to see Gadget getting more notice and love despite being insanely niche and experimental. Since discovering this channel, it has become one of my favourites since you seem to gravitate towards games that have a distinct aesthetic to them that I have always loved and focus on the art of it all. Also a lot of focus on the early, experimental phase of 3D games with what with your Saturn and PS1 hidden gems...an era that I have so much nostalgia and passion for that I've been toying around with making games in that style with Godot but, unfortunately, am not quite there skills-wise yet. Unrelated: but who do I have to bribe in order for you to make stickers of your avatar? I'd love having it on my turntable.
Not even close to a unique take if I had to guess, but you are the most calming channel to watch and/or listen to on this entire site. Like seriously, even when you are talking about the creepiest most obscure and unknown games out there, it still is so relaxing to just watch these videos.
Hey Thor! An anonymous Macintoshgarden user here! Thanks a lot for referencing the site! If you ever want to do a follow-up to this video do not hesitate to ask for help on the forum (or at MacRumors subforum "PowerPC") when it comes to emulators (Basilisk, Mini vMac, all those can be a bit a of a pain in the a$$ sometimes) or anything. Also there are always new uploads on the MG, and even this week some kind of a Japanese cat simulator has been uploaded: so keep digging on the MG for Japanese strangeness and you'll surely find something interesting!
Some other obscure groupings of games: Non-English European games (you can find them searching this way (just avoid the ones that are obviously ports of English language games and there is a suprising number of non-English releases that exist) www.emuparadise.me/roms/gamebrowser.php?sort=name_Ascending&per_page=100®ions%5B%5D=Germany®ions%5B%5D=Spain®ions%5B%5D=France®ions%5B%5D=Netherlands®ions%5B%5D=Sweden®ions%5B%5D=Denmark®ions%5B%5D=Russia®ions%5B%5D=Italy®ions%5B%5D=Brazil) , cga pc games, also games with gameplay dynamics rare or no where else such as the reverse movement of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Hajike Festival), and also some of the more obscure Japanese rhythm games such as うたうたウ〜 SEIREI-SONGS (ps1) the adventure/rhythm game (there is a Japanese language play through that exists with Japanese closed captions that can be Auto-translated to English sorta but no English player has covered this ruclips.net/video/_Zz50Wvj5GM/видео.html&lc=UgySLsGsK57wGXjnrIN4AaABAg), Lupin The 3RD Punch The onkey! - Game Edition)
Some of these games were made in Director (Alice, Gadget, Cosmology of Kyoto were for sure). They were also released on Windows because Director made porting between operating systems relatively easy.
I had a demo of Gadget around 20 years ago. I never played the actual game but that demo has stuck with me ever since. I had never heard of anyone else talking about it before now. I definitely want to give it a go now.
Thanks for the great video! There's so much research behind it, I'm honestly kind of amazed. Really digging this subject and I might try playing Gadget or Cosmology of Kyoto!
Words cannot describe, how much i enjoy all content of you. You are one of the most outstanding personalities on RUclips. And you strike a chord with every video and topic you bring onto this platform. Also your music is great and just very much my vibe. It feels like in another timelime we would have been friends. Never change my dude, never change.
Please the Windows japanese games next!! I love how you touch up and explore weird games in your channel. Keep it up Thor! Your content is so interestingest
One of the few channels where you actually miss out on a lot if you don't WATCH the video. The editing on this channel and gd-work adds such a ton of enjoyment!
The music. In the background sounds like some from The Neverhood. I love that game. I like clay models in games I hope those come back but I realize its very labour intensive. One can dream.
@@YenPox69 is there some album this is reference too? Or is he saying that the people who listen to them are penises and that joke just flew over my (penis) head? With all their other weird concepts a penis themed song or album wouldn't be too out of place
This was such a fun watch! Love seeing you just talking and being yourself. This was such a cool topic too. Thanks for shedding some light on this obscure stuff dude
Thank you so much for all the links! Zomb's Lair has tons of games to check out, and I'm really happy they have The Zoombinis on it, since that was a game I loved as a kid but haven't played in a long time.
Actually, Synergy was responsible for the Tetsujin series on 3DO, which are more 'gamey' than the rest of their work, and the original (despite horrible performance on the original hardware) is a surprisingly smart take on the dungeon crawler / FPS genre. Both games have great atmosphere, I suggest checking them out.
The tie-in novel for Gadget was written by Marc Laidlaw who was a main writer on Half Life, and in his book there’s characters that are like a proto version of Alyx and the G-Man apparently, or at least that’s what a couple of Half Life fans told me. I only found a snippet of it online so I don’t know if it’s true.
I now see how classic flash games such as the Crimson/Veridian/White Room came into being, after seeing these games, and especially that 7 Colors of Psy. Can almost draw a direct line.
Man those commercials and Japanese Mac interface right at the start really brought back the memory of watching Perfect Blue one night. When Rumi was setting up a PC for Mima, how the thing had Netscape installed, and how garish the fanpage font was. Been wondering how long it'd take you to find the Synergy Inc, and here we are. Good shit.
Thorhighheels videos somehow flip that brain switch, where every random font, color or layout etc. becomes timeless art. Like just looking at stuff and observing what kind of weird associations and feeels one gets
i get weird experiences like i remember some of these visuals but i'm not sure if those are real memories or not. in that colorful town, the black trunks of the trees seem soooo familiar, and the tombstone-shaped windows had a surprising familiarity as well. then funny, dog on the wall @14:45 i was like "oh, well that's just familiar because it's The Angriest Dog in the World by David Lynch" and then I googled and no, "the Angriest Dog in the World" looks much different.
PATRONE: www.patreon.com/posts/patroni-25rd-46933629
thanks to the homie CroEyE for inspiring me to do this. THIS TRACK HE MADE BANGS FOR DAYS: soundcloud.com/croeye/saturn-tokio-k-2-y
IMPORTANT LINKS FOR FURTHER READING/VIEWING
BAZINGA: archive.org/details/@bazinga351
PLAY GADGET!!!!!!: www.zombs-lair.com/gadget-collection
ALICE: collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2019/01/alice-interactive-museum.html?m=1
L ZONE FOOTAGE I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/iQJb126Eg1w/видео.html
SYNERGY GAMES LIST: macintoshgarden.org/author/synergy-interactive
LYNCH X SYNERGY: www.thecityofabsurdity.com/game.html
DEL TORO ON GAMES: v1.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104099-Guillermo-del-Toro-F-king-Loves-Videogames
THE UNDERWORLD TRAILER: ruclips.net/video/U7-dFPhp83c/видео.html
THE ALIUS: archive.org/details/TheAlius/screenshot1.png
THE SAMURAI MECH VIDEO I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/Y_EYDxJTc1E/видео.html
SEVEN COLORS LEGEND OF PSY: macintoshgarden.org/games/the-seven-colors-legend-of-psy-s-city
PSY FOOTAGE I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/H7bQrlUtvHU/видео.html
EASTERN MIND: collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2017/06/eastern-mind-lost-souls-of-tong-nou.html
CHU TENG FOOTAGE I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/R5_t77_q41s/видео.html
COSMOLOGY OF KYOTO: collectionchamber.blogspot.com/2019/05/cosmology-of-kyoto.html
VICTORIAN PARK: archive.org/details/VictorianParkMAC
VIC PARK FOOTAGE THAT I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/mLvQZH8dxFo/видео.html
JUNGLE PARK VIDEO BY VIDEO GAME ESOTERICA: ruclips.net/video/nuVWMDDR8uc/видео.html
THE D SECRETS VIDEO: ruclips.net/video/V40gcmDWIOg/видео.html
make apple pippin 2: ruclips.net/video/UkQsfFyo1hA/видео.html
BETTER DEAD RATIFICATION FOOTAGE THAT I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/TJRtnUBI27Y/видео.html
MA-RI-A FOOTAGE THAT I STOLE: ruclips.net/video/IL0cN_AsxBA/видео.html
and yeah thanks for watching and stuff. PLAY GADGET, have fun, explore mac, become doshin.
GOAT!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!
thank u for links
Thanks, Zomb's Lair. They have a pretty cool website.
fantastic, sharing the love is appreciated. glad you put in the effort to archive all these archives. the video was good too, i'll play Gadget this weekend
Boiling Point: Road to Hell
As a Mac user in the 90s I only got the reference to Marathon. Thank you for the weird shit.
aló buenas tardes, gato
el furro mamado de aquella campaña de dnd, oleeee.
When he opened the suitcase at 6:30, seeing that it was filled with completely normal things scared me so much and I have no idea why
It's more common to see weapons, money or drugs in those. So seeing something normal is weird, for a change.
That's what I think.
I was expecting something weird too, Thor was "hyping" it by being silent, but then the realization there was nothing weird inside, together with him talking again kinda tricks our heads into thinking there would be a scare.
Thor, your whole presentation is so crunchy I sometimes can't tell what's old game footage and what's not. If that sounds like I'm complaining I am _not_ 🖤
THH research draft: Presents well thought-out and worded material
THH final thesis: I mean, just look at it
One rather amazing thing to mention is that Marc Laidlaw (the former writer for the Half-Life series) wrote a tie-in novel of Gadget called The Third Force: A Novel of Gadget in the mid-90s and the book is still available to buy in print on Amazon(!)
THH, your channel has become one of my favorite things to watch whenever I have a few minutes to spare. The content, art direction, script, narration and sound design ooze personality and charm. Keep up the good work. Thank you~
I’m surprised more people don’t know about that Kyoto game since it looks exactly like kind of “cursed game” you’d find people talking about on paranormal forums in the late 2000s
I do and the only reason is because I was coming of age 2000s. Since my family computer was not powerful play may games on Dos emulation. Which was rabbit would lead me To a treasure trove of abandonware.
Chu-Teng, the sequel to Eastern Mind, now has an English translation released about a month or two ago. It’s very good! If you’re curious, I’ve uploaded a snippet of gameplay and all the links you’d need to play it in a video on my channel. Shoutout to the translators for doing such a good job.
Macintosh Garden is the shit. My parents didn't let me have a console as a kid, so weird early 90's Mac games are my entire childhood.
Shoutouts to Bazinga351 for the internet archeology and preservation.
This reminds me of a game I played in my childhood.
My school had donated macs from STEVE JOBS himself due to him donating Macs to every reservation.
We had a color mac and it had a very secret hypercard based game. I forget the name but it played alot like Synergys games and I cannot remember the name of it.
Weird clicking to progress, hidden items that caused weird stuff to happen. And all only on one computer in the computer lab, hidden away in a system subfolder only to be opened by curious minds.
Love the shoutout to CollectionChamber and the other gaming historians. They're doing God's work.
I'm not Japanese, but when I was younger I did have a Mac. A 68k Centris no less, the whole Synergy Inc first person puzzle/point and click games were a huge thing back then, there were Demo discs just full of this kind of stuff. Kind makes me have a bit of a blast from the past.
People should always be reminded of how cool Cosmology of Kyoto is.
@@whiteydiamond *twice. You underestimate the allure of Roger Ebert adjacent trivia. 😎
I still remember hearing about D's plot and loving it in the same vein as The 7th Guest, both being talked about how dark and fascinating they were, and the scarring I had from the mental imagery I had when the plots for both were described to me. Funny how years later both looked a little goofier than what was playing in my head lol
I was thinking about rewatching some of you're old videos minutes ago ... I'm damn surprised to receive a new one instead!
0:30 Nice Vinesauce reference lol
Of course someone as cool as THH would be a Vinesauce enjoyer
I thought I was trippin, so it actually was a reference huh?
@@antiproductive4131 It even got the pizzapasta musics
I thought second tab opened with a stream in it xD
He even talked about penis music, there is no way he doesn't know Vinny lol
WIIIIILD WOODY!
What is that?
Some kind of Buck Bumble or something?
@@TheRealAmericanMan yeah kinda. But a pencil. And a Sega CD exclusive. And horrifying.
Yo. Dude. Woody, my man-chill the fuck out.
You rang?
Look at his prolapse
I have the official artbook of Gadget. The images are in exceptional quality, beyond what is captured in the video. I think I bought it years ago from one of those bookstore chains on clearance. I bought it 'cause it looked cool.
What a coincidence, i was watching a documentary call "Tokyo Noise" where they interviewed the game developer Haruhiko Shono, who is the responsable of "Alice" and "Invention travel & adventure". i started playing those games and thinking that they will fit perfectly on this channel.
Japanese PC games in the 90's had such an esoteric style, I really dig it.
Thanks for the mention! If there was one weird game I’d want to get mentioned for playing Jungle Park is high on the list. Now if I could just figure out how to beat the game...or if you even can?
This whole video is terribly related to my interests. This stuff I've always deeply admired but never could find a whole lot about, so I'm really excited to see a video like this that's not only super informative, but just a joy to watch. I peeked at Zomb's Lair and it has so many of the games I was tangentially curious about but didn't really know how to look more up about (and also Zoombinis), so that's just super cool. I'm super happy this video exists.
right at the time of my lunch
nothing makes me more happy than seeing my lunch while eating Thor
Oh
Glad to see Cosmology of Kyoto getting some love. I loved that game since my teens, a friend of mine introduced it to me and it has become one of my all-time favs. There's nothing quite like it, from artstyle to the OST. Plus, a built-in encyclopedia and a lot of japanese history & supernatural stuff from the Heian period. I encourage everyone to give it a go, it's just so engrossing... Thanks for covering it, man.
I can't believe Lynch almost made a game. Synergy seems like a perfect studio for him. I'm heartbroken it didn't go through. I will be playing Gadget for sure, almost want to buy or make a shirt for it.
Thor has really come a long way since I stumbled upon him 4 years ago. love to see it.
I really do love your videos,, it's such a pleasure to be able to watch. no time for vidya anymore, so this is my gateway into that world... feels like when I was a kid, never having any games, hearing about the wildest shit from friends and filling in the gaps with my imagination. catching fragments of stories and worlds, watching them play on slow sunday afternoons. it's a really magical quality that these videos are able to take on :)
Ahhhh so happy to see Gadget getting more notice and love despite being insanely niche and experimental. Since discovering this channel, it has become one of my favourites since you seem to gravitate towards games that have a distinct aesthetic to them that I have always loved and focus on the art of it all. Also a lot of focus on the early, experimental phase of 3D games with what with your Saturn and PS1 hidden gems...an era that I have so much nostalgia and passion for that I've been toying around with making games in that style with Godot but, unfortunately, am not quite there skills-wise yet. Unrelated: but who do I have to bribe in order for you to make stickers of your avatar? I'd love having it on my turntable.
Not even close to a unique take if I had to guess, but you are the most calming channel to watch and/or listen to on this entire site. Like seriously, even when you are talking about the creepiest most obscure and unknown games out there, it still is so relaxing to just watch these videos.
Not unique but 100% facts
real good shit to watch late at night with dim to no light in the room
Hey Thor! An anonymous Macintoshgarden user here! Thanks a lot for referencing the site! If you ever want to do a follow-up to this video do not hesitate to ask for help on the forum (or at MacRumors subforum "PowerPC") when it comes to emulators (Basilisk, Mini vMac, all those can be a bit a of a pain in the a$$ sometimes) or anything. Also there are always new uploads on the MG, and even this week some kind of a Japanese cat simulator has been uploaded: so keep digging on the MG for Japanese strangeness and you'll surely find something interesting!
I wonder if these things had any significant influences for Suda, Swery, etc.
A whole set of games I didn't even know I loved listed almost nowhere but here, please keep doing series like this!
And here i was thinking this channel couldn't get more exotic and weird lmao
For real though this is actually fascinating.
the best youtube video ever made
Thorhigheel upload is something that keep me alive at this point...
Some other obscure groupings of games: Non-English European games (you can find them searching this way (just avoid the ones that are obviously ports of English language games and there is a suprising number of non-English releases that exist) www.emuparadise.me/roms/gamebrowser.php?sort=name_Ascending&per_page=100®ions%5B%5D=Germany®ions%5B%5D=Spain®ions%5B%5D=France®ions%5B%5D=Netherlands®ions%5B%5D=Sweden®ions%5B%5D=Denmark®ions%5B%5D=Russia®ions%5B%5D=Italy®ions%5B%5D=Brazil) , cga pc games, also games with gameplay dynamics rare or no where else such as the reverse movement of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Hajike Festival), and also some of the more obscure Japanese rhythm games such as うたうたウ〜 SEIREI-SONGS (ps1) the adventure/rhythm game (there is a Japanese language play through that exists with Japanese closed captions that can be Auto-translated to English sorta but no English player has covered this ruclips.net/video/_Zz50Wvj5GM/видео.html&lc=UgySLsGsK57wGXjnrIN4AaABAg), Lupin The 3RD Punch The onkey! - Game Edition)
The moment I saw the cover for garage:bad dream adventure I knew this was gonna be a good one.
a shame he didn't include any gameplay
Sharp X68000 aesthetic is peak 90's japan computing
DAMN I NEED A OOO YHA ZHE ART GIF IN TENOR
Was literally just thinking about how much I miss watching your videos and Algo read my mind
That reminds me of good old Macromedia Director. Waaay before Flash. Loved to mess with it as a kid. I even learned Lingo back then!
Some of these games were made in Director (Alice, Gadget, Cosmology of Kyoto were for sure). They were also released on Windows because Director made porting between operating systems relatively easy.
Oh, Thor. That Bible Black joke hit me waaay to hard!
I had a demo of Gadget around 20 years ago. I never played the actual game but that demo has stuck with me ever since. I had never heard of anyone else talking about it before now. I definitely want to give it a go now.
Thanks for the great video! There's so much research behind it, I'm honestly kind of amazed. Really digging this subject and I might try playing Gadget or Cosmology of Kyoto!
Words cannot describe, how much i enjoy all content of you. You are one of the most outstanding personalities on RUclips. And you strike a chord with every video and topic you bring onto this platform. Also your music is great and just very much my vibe. It feels like in another timelime we would have been friends. Never change my dude, never change.
11:37 Lau from Virtua Fighter: The Early Years?
Dendy meme really hits when you from ex-USSR, kek
Please the Windows japanese games next!! I love how you touch up and explore weird games in your channel. Keep it up Thor! Your content is so interestingest
Japanese Macintosh games are really interesting. Thanks for this video!
14:30 Oh shit, LEGO Island police station music!
"I DONT HAVE A FUCKING CATCH PHRASE PISS OFF"
This is the content I subscribed for.
One of the few channels where you actually miss out on a lot if you don't WATCH the video. The editing on this channel and gd-work adds such a ton of enjoyment!
Man, I've been watching silently for a long time now and just wanted to say: your videos are SO good! Thank you for hours upon hours of delight!
Thank you for showing off some real obscure shit. I love knowing stuff like this exists
The music. In the background sounds like some from The Neverhood. I love that game. I like clay models in games I hope those come back but I realize its very labour intensive. One can dream.
Good stuff as always but I am pretty surprised that you didn't mention the Dragon Ball Apple Pippin game
I love the GROTESQUE stretching noises at 11:16 where you're talking about Donald Hom's mocap
At 5:03 did he just say that the Residents invented "penis music"?
well, they kinda did
@@YenPox69 is there some album this is reference too? Or is he saying that the people who listen to them are penises and that joke just flew over my (penis) head? With all their other weird concepts a penis themed song or album wouldn't be too out of place
The painting on the left at 3:34 looks lovely : )
I visited the computer history museum in Mountain View, California and came across a gold Pippin signed by John Sculley. Yeah.
"STRAWMAN"
*zooms in on the guy made of tin*
This is what I needed! I have looked for more old point and click games and thought I found them all but here are some new ones!
Always commend your editing skills, bravo. Love this vid and the many many others you have put out.
"Anime looks like this... Change my mind"
I can't....... You killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gadget resonates deeply
That's Why I love this channel. I would never even find out one of these games without this video.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure when
This was such a fun watch! Love seeing you just talking and being yourself. This was such a cool topic too. Thanks for shedding some light on this obscure stuff dude
Interaction for the sake of the almighty algorithm. Fear it, dodge it, love it.
I too am doing engagement
Mmm ahhh yes more communication below the video for our benevolent computation gods
Thank you so much for all the links! Zomb's Lair has tons of games to check out, and I'm really happy they have The Zoombinis on it, since that was a game I loved as a kid but haven't played in a long time.
Actually, Synergy was responsible for the Tetsujin series on 3DO, which are more 'gamey' than the rest of their work, and the original (despite horrible performance on the original hardware) is a surprisingly smart take on the dungeon crawler / FPS genre. Both games have great atmosphere, I suggest checking them out.
I just found your channel last night and oh boy, I am here for it. This is for the algorithm 🤙🏻
Surprised you didn't mention Garage Bad Dream Adventure. It was found in a similar way to Chu Teng
same! especially since he did show the cover at the start
All right I know what my next deep dive is going to be
13:56 when they open the door, I swear I've heard that same chime noise in another game, its driving me crazy.
Damn, I remember playing Yellow Brick Road as a child and I wonder if that was a small part of why I ended up how I did.
The tie-in novel for Gadget was written by Marc Laidlaw who was a main writer on Half Life, and in his book there’s characters that are like a proto version of Alyx and the G-Man apparently, or at least that’s what a couple of Half Life fans told me. I only found a snippet of it online so I don’t know if it’s true.
Hey Thor your shit's really fucking cool I appreciate it a lot! It's always such a joy when you show this stuff off.
I now see how classic flash games such as the Crimson/Veridian/White Room came into being, after seeing these games, and especially that 7 Colors of Psy. Can almost draw a direct line.
Fascinating collection of games you got here and the amount of research you put in shows. Cheers man
The collection chamber was my best discovery in this month. Thanks man!
im glad somebody was interested in showing off Seven Colors
I remember Gadget mostly because Mark Laidlaw wrote a book based on it.
Weird connection but there you go.
i fucking love stuff like this please keep talking about it. some day i will stop being lazy and depressed and make something.
Sega saturn on its owm is a rabbit hole with amazing games and hidden stuff that will never be localized, but great artstyle and unique stories.
Dude I fucking love how you still cover obscure af shit.
Man those commercials and Japanese Mac interface right at the start really brought back the memory of watching Perfect Blue one night. When Rumi was setting up a PC for Mima, how the thing had Netscape installed, and how garish the fanpage font was.
Been wondering how long it'd take you to find the Synergy Inc, and here we are. Good shit.
Damn man that takes me back. When I watched perfect blue it was the first time I ever felt simultaneously confused and enthralled.
Thorhighheels videos somehow flip that brain switch, where every random font, color or layout etc. becomes timeless art. Like just looking at stuff and observing what kind of weird associations and feeels one gets
I have no idea what I just watched, and I love it.
Thanks Thor.
Have no idea how you became my favourite youtuber, but every video of yours is a fucking fiesta for me
i get weird experiences like i remember some of these visuals but i'm not sure if those are real memories or not. in that colorful town, the black trunks of the trees seem soooo familiar, and the tombstone-shaped windows had a surprising familiarity as well.
then funny, dog on the wall @14:45 i was like "oh, well that's just familiar because it's The Angriest Dog in the World by David Lynch" and then I googled and no, "the Angriest Dog in the World" looks much different.
This really just has your name all over it. Weird? Obscure? Artistic? Ambitious? Difficult to classify? Yes, that is for Thor.
Jesus fucking christ that ending scared the shit out of me! I jumped so badly and then cackled.
That gadget game looks incredible. Definitely going to play that asap. I really appreciate your videos man :)
New to the channel and here to stay. It's like I'm watching DemoD but he's reviewing obscure vidya instead of anime
The 𝐸𝒳𝒫𝐸𝑅𝐼𝐸𝒩𝒞𝐸 jump...joke? still gets me. I laughed 10 full seconds
Thank you for introducing me to a whole new world of weird I never knew I needed in my life.
I like learning about old games from the 90s more then playing them.
Just wanted to say your style is The Shit! love your content and have a great day