I love how Andy can barely suppress his laughter when talking about the Pi man. Makes me wonder just how many outtakes there are of him failing to keep it together
imagine some game developer , dressing up as pi man and hiding in the bushes near that white horse. on the same day at the same time for 3 years straight...
I'm assuming that one of the puzzles they had to solve involved some form of communication with the company so that things could be arranged ahead of time
The five elderly key holders for the Trials Evolution riddle meeting in the pouring rain under the Eiffel Tower 2113 Each showing their keys like the Flying Hellfish episode of The Simpsons, They unlock the chest to reveal 800 Microsoft points and a code for some exclusive boots in Trials Evolution
I think it's gotta be an iPhone 5, a piece of tech that came out the same year as Trials Evolution. Surely it will be superior to any tech of that age.
he was gonna "reinvent the genre"... in 2013. I think they left it on beta v2.4, and judging by the reviews the "reinvention" consists of turning it into a mobile game where you have to pay to progress anything (on top of paying up front for the game). You can still buy it on steam early access if you really want to, but apparently he's not even going to give the fifteen cents out of what you pay to the guy he "changed the life of" so...
@@mistformsquirrel Yeah that guy will definitely be spending the rest of his life either angry at Peter Molyneux and trying to get his revenge or… no, really that's the only possible outcome.
@@sindrisuncatcher653 Yet he said they'd give the winner some of what is spent on the game, not part of the profits, so the game shouldn't have to be profitable for the winner to get money
Imagine flying to Helsinki or one of the other locations for the Trials puzzle, spending hours figuring out clues, working together with people from all over the world ... only to find out you'll be dead by the time the prize is revealed. What total crap.
Maybe, who knows? If they created a bond with like $10,000 right now assuming there isn't a total financial implosion it could easily accrue interest into the millions after over a century. Disappointing that you'll never see it? Sure. But if you've got family, particularly children it would be nice if you could ensure their financial stability for life. Again that's assuming it's anything of worth but bonds are pretty easy to open and don't really cost the company anything to maintain.
@@destroyerofnations1828 Of course, bonds take that into account and reassess every couple years. Inflation can happen all day long and still walk away with a tidy profit as long as the one who purchased it knew what they were doing.
Everyone slightly interested in the trials boxes will be long dead by then. Their children will see it as something boring, or a thing of old people. Their grandkids will probably forget it, or find it completely indifferent. Meanwhile, every single person that actually wanted to know what that was about, will never do.
Alternatively, the Olympics will have been entirely supplanted by the E-lympics and the latest version of Trials will be one of the premier e-sports of the event.
Mike's dedication, tho... he needs to be given a real-life prize for eating the dog food at least twice But I'd like to see all the bloopers and outtakes from this episode
Unless they are smart enough to do the age old " swap the label trick. Not that canned dogfood wold be bad for you... the real question is wich canned food that look suitable like dog food is available in the uk? Here in sweden we got "Pölsa" (almost haggis) wich basically is dogfood for humans (and is really good with some pickled beetrots)
@@1Holbytla I had haggis once at a restaurant in Edinburgh. I don't know if you're familiar with meatloaf, but it was basically a really good meatloaf.
In Control in the music lab there was a code that when solved led you to a web page were you could download a free album from the group who made the music. But only to the first three people who figured it out.
@@SolidSonicTH Except you can't buy this album and the only way to get it was to figure out the puzzle and only the first 3 people to do that got the music.
Spoiler alert. Over the next several weeks we will all notice that Mike's hair has become extremely shiny and that he has more energy to chase thrown sticks than ever before...
I heard the SwordQuest Treasures actually all got made, every last one of them. But when the company went under and was bought out, the president of the company that bought them claimed the 3 treasures himself, didn't really care about them and gave/sold them, but kept the sword and has it still.
@@scottylewis8124 Never said that it would be treated as a toy. An heirloom is something that's put up for decoration, and a sword would be out of reach.
No mention of Just Cause 3? Get a million chaos points first and win an island. I say island, it's more some land in the sea. I say land in the sea, more a pointy rock you can't get to.
@@molybdaen11 I think it's actually property of the nation that the island is in the waters of. If it's in international waters, it's actually illegal to own it.
It’s true. I was also thinking Hareraiser, but I guess it doesn’t really qualify because it’s extremely unlikely you could ever actually win a prize by playing that, whereas at least these ones partially paid off.
What was in the center of that cube was hardly better than what's in the center of a Tootsie Pop, regardless of how many licks it took to reach it. Also, I actually played the first Swordquest game on the 2600- really wish all of the games had come out.
The Pi-Man was terrifying On a more curious note; Perhaps if you do a commentors version of this, you could add Cool Spot & the supposed 7-Up goodies you'd get once 100%ing it?
That Trials one sounds like a lot of work for something that you know will be very anti-climactic. I mean, dude, just give these people free motocross bikes; why does it have to be so complicated?
Because life is a journey, not a destination, and it lets him be a jerk from beyond the grave. The year is 2113, a group of old people huddle around a box, one of their keys opens it. Inside is a century old iPad that starts playing the Peter Molyneux video from the center of the Cube. Somewhere in hell, a game developer laughs.
That game has come out in 2012, almost 9 years ago, and this quest gets still talked about. If they had just given away motocross bikes it would be long forgotten by now.
So the creative director will definitely be dead by then, right? Want to bet that he'll have his corpse cremated and the ashes turned into diamonds and made into the prize?
The commitment of Mike on the dog food joke omg And I got sad on the trials entry, thinking all of us will be dead by then. Unless we have some very healthy 10 year olds watching this video. What will videogames look like by then?
I miss the 1 v 100 game. It felt like a really cool event to sit down to on a night. It made Xbox feel like it was doing something really cool and different which I don’t feel like they’ve ever really done again.
Same. I was a part of the beta, I actually won a HD video camera, and my roommate a 10 inch laptop "by accident", thanks to the company and Fedex somehow screwing up that persons' delivery, and my roommate performing mail fraud instead of returning the fvcking thing. I was very bummed by what she did, you have no idea. AND it forced me into a position of having to fvcking lie for her.
@@HellInternAKACandyMD you do know that literally no one gives a shit right? Like anyone here or anyone who would theoretically be responsible for recovering misplaced packages. There is no real life situation in which you would have to lie over her not returning a package that shouldn’t have been delivered to her, fuck there’s no situation that she would have to lie
Came here for Swordquest, was not disappointed. The real prize, of course, is the comic. Which was written and illustrated by some of the greatest names in comics including George Perez and Gerry Conway. It was so much better than the game deserved. And also was never finished for the same reasons stated.
It's probably a bad sign that I didn't even flinch at Microsoft Points being the only remaining stable currency. Just "sure, seems as plausible as anything else anymore".
I just missed that era, I think. Sounds pretty cool. 🙂 Now I’m remembering our/my first computer: it used cassettes for data storage (ie. that was the disk drive and the hard drive, only we had to manually cue it up to run games or programs). It was Radio Shack brand, we got it from a neighbor and it didn’t come with pre-done cassettes, so my mom kindly typed up some games & programs out of a book for me. We used a cassette recorder/player and had to manually cue it up and start playing it to run programs or games. Wild. .. I’m feeling aware of my age now, too. 🙂
A little surprised Treasure Master wasn’t included, which had a contest where the first person to complete it and call a special hotline within 12 hours of the start would be given a choice of 4 prizes valued at $10,000, including just taking the cash and forgetting the rest.
I still like him and his games. He gave the gaming world back some awe and magic. Jes he could not keept his mouth shut. But it was still a sweet dream while it lasted.
Even if it wasn't intended as such, I'm going to go ahead and assume Mike's "marrow bone jelly" line while eating dog food is a reference to Red Dwarf.
The Swordquest treasures feel oddly familiar. Oh right: - Talisman: Slytherin's Locket - Chalice: Hufflepuff's Cup - Crown: Ravenclaw's Diadem - Philosopher's Stone: philosopher's stone. - Sword: Gryffindor's sword. If anyone sees 3 youngsters wearing robes and carrying wands, they may know more about the missing items.
I thought they did that one already. Or maybe it was just something about promises developers failed to keep and he was in it....at least once and probably with several honorable mentions
Might I also direct you to Hareraiser, which was unplayable and offered the actual Masquerade golden hare, or Jet Set Willy which had a big prize for being the first person to complete it, a task which is totally impossible without re-writing the game code.
Having the keys lead to a treasure that won't be available until 2113 is the dumbest thing in the world. The people with those keys won't be around to accept the prize, and if they hand them off or sell them to younger people down the line who will, they won't feel any connection that might make it special.
And just imagine if Paris becomes a ruined warzone with the Eiffel Tower being a nonexistent monument because, you guessed it, it was bombed to smithereens.
Random fun fact about 1x100: Chris Cashman, the host you saw in this clip, is the son of Pat Cashman, long-time Seattle TV staple. They've also both appeared in video games, since Pat was the announcer for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Curiosity is a bit weird isn't it? Like the weight of the effort a lot of people put into the game varies differently from one to the other, how is it fair that one guy who just happens to luckily tap the final block is suddenly crowned the king of England for doing so?
It's to justify the payment option. You were able to buy boxes which let you destroy more blocks then others. But rest assured, aside of a video and a meeting with Peter himself, he did not got much since the game failed.
It has the look of a can of dog food with just one spoonful (forkful?) taken out. Unless they manaeged to somehow compress a "dog-food-lookalike" exactly flat, I'm betting on it being real.
@@oriolgonzalez9328 Like I said, I can't tell. And it's not like dog food is inedible, as something for a human to consume (although probably best to save it as emergency consumption). They could have also relabeled a can of something packed similarly. Mike wasn't exactly turning it around and around. That's why I'm adding Kudos in the event it actually was.
So much to say about this video. First of all I really hope Mike didn't actually eat dog food, if he did, I really admire his dedication to the bit. Secondly, when I heard of piman I instantly thought of the actual demon paimon (famously from the movie Hereditary), and after seeing that image I'm 100% sure it was the work of evil witches. lastly, if you'll do a part two, Cool Spot definitely has a place on that list. So many weird things are attached to that game, only one of them being the publisher claiming to have given out a reward for whoever finishes the game, but you can't seem to find anyone who actually did win the prize, or what even *is* the prize.
On the one hand I can totally imagine Producer Jon expertly re-labeling a can of something more human-friendly for Mike to eat. On the other hand, I can totally imagine Mike just shrugging and eating a can of dog food.
I kind of find it funny to think it in my head that since it took 3 years for someone to solve the pimania puzzle. Someone had to dress up as piman on a specific date (7/22) every year for 3 years and stay in a bush all day.
So, you seriously telling me there's an actual silver sword with a jeweled gold handle somewhere out there in the world? Now I know what the next Nicolas Cage movie should be about.
@@ExtremeMadnessX But would he steal the U.S. Constitution to look for clues of where the Illuminati hid the Sword of Ultimate Sorcery? I don't think so.
"Now I know why dogs lick their testicles. It's to get rid of the taste of the food." Dave Lister (All-time social distancing champion of the universe), Red Dwarf
Is that the Lotus sports car, or the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet? I was about to say that the car has probably aged better, but I'm open to correction from motoring enthusiasts.
You know it would have possible to put a dog food label on a can of refried beans… Yup that’s all I got out of this video That; and a crippling fear of PiMan
Pimania! If it hadn't been at the end I'd have started posting links - truly surreal. Automata, who made the game, ran a long series of surreal comic strips/adverts on the back page of Popular Computing Weekly, mainly featuring Piman and Groucho Marx having whacky adventures that were sometimes related to recent Automata games and all looked like the product of fever dreams. I loved them but then I was only young
I'm going to have the Pimania theme song in my head for at least 3 years. I assume when I finally do forget I will be killed by Pi man as he leaps from some bushes.
The trials fusion one seems really stupid. I don’t care what preparations the dude has made to make sure that there will be something there, the people who found the keys won’t be. The date is over 90 years away and the average lifespan is around 80 for most countries. What were they thinking?
It's not all that difficult. You just keep the key and an explanation with your will. I bet at least one of the at least five people inheriting that would find it a fun enough idea to be in Paris at the right date to investigate. 90 years from now are we really still going to find it difficult or expensive to visit Paris? Sure hope not! I would be more worried that the Eiffel Tower might not be around by then, since it was designed not to last beyond the early 20th century.
@@yetanotherstronk you’re just gonna gloss over the fact that people who completed the challenge are gonna be dead by then? That’s the main problem here. Imagine putting in so much effort to discover the clues and solve the riddles, and then turns out the prize won’t be given out until after your death. If it happened to you, you wouldn’t just say “well at least my descendants can have fun with it”. You’ll die not knowing what you spent all this effort on. Imagine if all scavenger hunts were like this.
What about "Hareraiser" from 1984, which as I hear it, might have actually been unwinnable, or at least so obtuse as to be meaningfully unwinnable, with a prize of a golden hare statue?
1 VS 100 was how I spent my Saturday and Sunday nights after work. Was so much fun. Annoyed I was 1 achievement away from nabbing all the achievements. Shame there aren't more games like this.
When a game about motorbikes gives you an existential crisis 😢 Those Sword Quest prizes are really cool. Talk about a piece of gaming history. The medallion winner could have sold it to a private collector for a small fortune. Sad it's gone forever now. The Chalice owner has a family heirloom 👍 I can't believe the Pimania developers kept going to the spot for 3 years at noon in the Piman costume for a prize. That's what I call commitment 👏👏
The two winners were told to go to a certain place at a certain time, so it wasn't like someone went to a spot for 3 years, which you would think people would see this freak of nature walk to and from the spot if that was the case.
@@Rodrigo-ei4ht Well, what I can gathered was that by playing the game, the winners found out the location and date on which they were to arrive and be greeted, so the devs would have time to prepare
I don't know which is more insane, Trials Evolution or Pimania. Trials Evolution certainly seems to be a lot more convoluted, but Pimania is just... an acid trip of a puzzle
That Pi Man song is now eternally stuck in my head, his face haunting my nightmares, and it's all your fault. I will never trust bushes near sundials for the rest of my life for fear that THAT will jump out from behind them.
I'm just sitting here watching Mike eat that dog food over and over again trying to figure out if he really ate it or not because it definitely looks like a full can of real dog food, the top was smooth at first except for what looked like a single fork stab in the middle gone so it didn't seem like it was emptied and filled with something else. That's taking "don't feed your pets anything you wouldn't eat" pretty literal though 😂
Andy casually saying “he seems nice” to the Pi man is the most accurate reaction to have. Good call
The full body suit of the real life version wasn't concealing enough to be honest.
I personally found his reaction to be irrational.
@@alexanderhansen659 get OUT
@@alexanderhansen659 I think that you sir, are quite irrational
I think pi man will kill us all
I love how Andy can barely suppress his laughter when talking about the Pi man. Makes me wonder just how many outtakes there are of him failing to keep it together
I think we should have a bloopers video. As a treat. Not like a dog treat, Mike!
They really should do bloopers again, like in the earlier shows.
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Laughter would not be my first reaction to Pi man :o
Yeah ! I miss the bloopers :'(
imagine some game developer , dressing up as pi man and hiding in the bushes near that white horse. on the same day at the same time for 3 years straight...
Yeah, poor guy 🤣
Lmao 🤣 fuck he musta terrified the villagers, literally where slender man rumors came from especially with that theme, fucking terrifying bro
This was all I could think about when I saw that
that thing is nightmare fuel... but also, fully agreed... wild
I'm assuming that one of the puzzles they had to solve involved some form of communication with the company so that things could be arranged ahead of time
The five elderly key holders for the Trials Evolution riddle meeting in the pouring rain under the Eiffel Tower 2113
Each showing their keys like the Flying Hellfish episode of The Simpsons,
They unlock the chest to reveal 800 Microsoft points and a code for some exclusive boots in Trials Evolution
Nah, they'll open the chest and find a note that says "Ha, ha, made you look."
Judging by every other clue, it'd have to be another clue.
Truly the ultimate prize.
I think it's gotta be an iPhone 5, a piece of tech that came out the same year as Trials Evolution. Surely it will be superior to any tech of that age.
I am honestly heartbroken I will be dead before that chest is open.
You know, I went my entire life without hearing the PiMania song...
And now I get to live the rest of my life with it NEVER leaving...
Thanks OX!
Peter Molyneux: “…the ability to become a digital god.”
Me: You’re finally making another Black & White game?
he was gonna "reinvent the genre"... in 2013. I think they left it on beta v2.4, and judging by the reviews the "reinvention" consists of turning it into a mobile game where you have to pay to progress anything (on top of paying up front for the game). You can still buy it on steam early access if you really want to, but apparently he's not even going to give the fifteen cents out of what you pay to the guy he "changed the life of" so...
@@sindrisuncatcher653 I mean... he probably made that guy pretty disappointed for a bit. That's technically lifechanging! ... LOOPHOLE!
@@mistformsquirrel Yeah that guy will definitely be spending the rest of his life either angry at Peter Molyneux and trying to get his revenge or… no, really that's the only possible outcome.
@@sindrisuncatcher653 Yet he said they'd give the winner some of what is spent on the game, not part of the profits, so the game shouldn't have to be profitable for the winner to get money
What a pity, he had the chance to comeback with great publicity and wasted it.
Imagine flying to Helsinki or one of the other locations for the Trials puzzle, spending hours figuring out clues, working together with people from all over the world ... only to find out you'll be dead by the time the prize is revealed. What total crap.
Welp. At least their descendants gain an Apple of Eden
Maybe, who knows? If they created a bond with like $10,000 right now assuming there isn't a total financial implosion it could easily accrue interest into the millions after over a century. Disappointing that you'll never see it? Sure. But if you've got family, particularly children it would be nice if you could ensure their financial stability for life. Again that's assuming it's anything of worth but bonds are pretty easy to open and don't really cost the company anything to maintain.
@@Goldenkitten1 I doubt it would be something that good.
@@Goldenkitten1 you know about inflation, right?
@@destroyerofnations1828 Of course, bonds take that into account and reassess every couple years. Inflation can happen all day long and still walk away with a tidy profit as long as the one who purchased it knew what they were doing.
That Pimania song will be in my head for the rest of the day
Same. As will that nightmare image of real life pi man.
@@djhansolo2568 I can't unhear OR un-see the Pi Man/song.
...I'll just try to hear that "You Are Dead" song once again.
day?? more like for a decade at least...
and night, and then the next day, the next night.....
Everyone slightly interested in the trials boxes will be long dead by then.
Their children will see it as something boring, or a thing of old people.
Their grandkids will probably forget it, or find it completely indifferent.
Meanwhile, every single person that actually wanted to know what that was about, will never do.
Alternatively, the Olympics will have been entirely supplanted by the E-lympics and the latest version of Trials will be one of the premier e-sports of the event.
Or, more likely, the French government will dig up and claim the mystery boxes by 2113.
@@walnzell9328 only to find out they are being defended by a seemingly endless army of probably cloned stuntmen driving motorcycles.
Mike's dedication, tho... he needs to be given a real-life prize for eating the dog food at least twice
But I'd like to see all the bloopers and outtakes from this episode
Unless they are smart enough to do the age old " swap the label trick. Not that canned dogfood wold be bad for you... the real question is wich canned food that look suitable like dog food is available in the uk? Here in sweden we got "Pölsa" (almost haggis) wich basically is dogfood for humans (and is really good with some pickled beetrots)
I'm willing to be it's refried beans
I'm hoping for bloopers too. Lol
@@borjesvensson8661 I genuinely wanna try haggis, good haggis, sometime. Cue the haggis-bashing jokes here! 🙂
@@1Holbytla I had haggis once at a restaurant in Edinburgh. I don't know if you're familiar with meatloaf, but it was basically a really good meatloaf.
In Control in the music lab there was a code that when solved led you to a web page were you could download a free album from the group who made the music. But only to the first three people who figured it out.
Seems sort of dumb. It's just digital music, it's not like it'd be rare or anything.
@@SolidSonicTH Except you can't buy this album and the only way to get it was to figure out the puzzle and only the first 3 people to do that got the music.
@@ghostshell5391 So the beta testers had all the time in the world to solve it.
@@ghostshell5391 Except it's a digital download, meaning the rarity is tied to the honor of those who downloaded it.
The real prizes are the friends we made along the way.
Wait, is that a dirt bike? Screw you friends!
Spoiler alert. Over the next several weeks we will all notice that Mike's hair has become extremely shiny and that he has more energy to chase thrown sticks than ever before...
His coat did look very sleek in the "Ultimate Game Music Quiz" 🤔
I am not sure how I feel about Mike eating dog food live on camera
I heard the SwordQuest Treasures actually all got made, every last one of them. But when the company went under and was bought out, the president of the company that bought them claimed the 3 treasures himself, didn't really care about them and gave/sold them, but kept the sword and has it still.
I would absolutely love to have that sword. It would be my most prized possession and I would make it a family heirloom.
@@jackiechan715 I'd cut off my husbands boyfriends winkie!
@@uncooked_ham hold up...
@@jackiechan715 u serious? A sword like that ain't a toy
@@scottylewis8124 Never said that it would be treated as a toy. An heirloom is something that's put up for decoration, and a sword would be out of reach.
I wonder how many takes for the dog food bit?
"Yeah, keep rolling. Do it again, Mike."
*empty can*
"I think the first time was the winner."
Mike: 🤢
Mike is a very talented at making me laugh just by moving his head ever so slightly 😂
9:25--And thus Mike has ensures that he'll never be asked/allowed to feed his kid.
Mike. Mike pls.
Dog food's the least of my worries of what a toddler will put in his or her mouth. I'd be _happy_ if it was only dog food. =)
@@jamesanthony8438 true that. At least dog food is actually _food_
Why.
No mention of Just Cause 3? Get a million chaos points first and win an island.
I say island, it's more some land in the sea.
I say land in the sea, more a pointy rock you can't get to.
but you can use it for nuke practice :D
@@ddjsoyenby all you need to do is source a nuke
@@MrDalisclock Well. There are a number of nuclear weapons in history that have gone missing.
If you really own the Rock, you have the fishing and mining rights too, right?
@@molybdaen11 I think it's actually property of the nation that the island is in the waters of. If it's in international waters, it's actually illegal to own it.
Just imagine how many other developers have tried to hide ARGs in their games, only for no one to ever pick up on them.
You'd expect, though, that after a while, you'd end up leaking at least the starting point to the media of the time.
At first I was shocked that something could knock Hareraiser out of the running. But then I saw the Pi-Man. And I'll never un-see him.
It’s true. I was also thinking Hareraiser, but I guess it doesn’t really qualify because it’s extremely unlikely you could ever actually win a prize by playing that, whereas at least these ones partially paid off.
@@Patrick-Phelan Yeah, Hareraiser was less a game and more a train wreck. 🤣
Me after seeing live action pi-man: Holy mother of- Martha! Get me the shotgun!
At least Mike's coat will be glossy.
*producer jon ruffles his hair and boops his wet lil nose.
Lol
What was in the center of that cube was hardly better than what's in the center of a Tootsie Pop, regardless of how many licks it took to reach it. Also, I actually played the first Swordquest game on the 2600- really wish all of the games had come out.
I'd rather have the Tootsie Pop. At least you can eat it.
The Pi-Man was terrifying
On a more curious note; Perhaps if you do a commentors version of this, you could add Cool Spot & the supposed 7-Up goodies you'd get once 100%ing it?
I remember playing 1 vs 100. Way ahead of its time - battle royale, online, live. Basically HQ Trivia but 10 years earlier.
That pi man might give me actual nightmares tonight. What a choice.
me too
I think Andy so Pi Man and was like "I'm not suffering alone for this. I'm taking you all with me" XD
That Trials one sounds like a lot of work for something that you know will be very anti-climactic.
I mean, dude, just give these people free motocross bikes; why does it have to be so complicated?
Because life is a journey, not a destination, and it lets him be a jerk from beyond the grave.
The year is 2113, a group of old people huddle around a box, one of their keys opens it. Inside is a century old iPad that starts playing the Peter Molyneux video from the center of the Cube. Somewhere in hell, a game developer laughs.
That game has come out in 2012, almost 9 years ago, and this quest gets still talked about. If they had just given away motocross bikes it would be long forgotten by now.
i figure the wait was so that they could be hover bikes
So the creative director will definitely be dead by then, right? Want to bet that he'll have his corpse cremated and the ashes turned into diamonds and made into the prize?
@@Chris_Sizemore …. Genius.
Jane warned that Mike would eat something unexpected and I was indeed surprised
Peter Molyneux boning the players is a tale as old as time.
The commitment of Mike on the dog food joke omg
And I got sad on the trials entry, thinking all of us will be dead by then. Unless we have some very healthy 10 year olds watching this video.
What will videogames look like by then?
Personally, I imagine video games become much closer to The Matrix at that point. Ready Player One is probably a less dystopian example.
Mike eating dog food while waiting for my burrito seems like a bad combination.
1v100 was legitimately a blast- especially getting together with a party of buds to play along together.
I miss the 1 v 100 game. It felt like a really cool event to sit down to on a night. It made Xbox feel like it was doing something really cool and different which I don’t feel like they’ve ever really done again.
Same. I was a part of the beta, I actually won a HD video camera, and my roommate a 10 inch laptop "by accident", thanks to the company and Fedex somehow screwing up that persons' delivery, and my roommate performing mail fraud instead of returning the fvcking thing.
I was very bummed by what she did, you have no idea. AND it forced me into a position of having to fvcking lie for her.
@@HellInternAKACandyMD what does your roommate not returning mail have to do with 1v100? Also why would you need to lie about it?
@@dirpyturtle69 She did something she shouldnt have and i covered for her. I'll leave it at that.
@@HellInternAKACandyMD you do know that literally no one gives a shit right? Like anyone here or anyone who would theoretically be responsible for recovering misplaced packages. There is no real life situation in which you would have to lie over her not returning a package that shouldn’t have been delivered to her, fuck there’s no situation that she would have to lie
@@dirpyturtle69 Oh well, I'll still try to stay honest
Came here for Swordquest, was not disappointed. The real prize, of course, is the comic. Which was written and illustrated by some of the greatest names in comics including George Perez and Gerry Conway. It was so much better than the game deserved. And also was never finished for the same reasons stated.
they actually completed the comics recently! I think 2017?
It's probably a bad sign that I didn't even flinch at Microsoft Points being the only remaining stable currency. Just "sure, seems as plausible as anything else anymore".
I actually owned and played Swordquest: Earthworld when I was a kid. And regularly played games on cassettes. Thanks for reminding me how old I am.
I just missed that era, I think. Sounds pretty cool. 🙂 Now I’m remembering our/my first computer: it used cassettes for data storage (ie. that was the disk drive and the hard drive, only we had to manually cue it up to run games or programs). It was Radio Shack brand, we got it from a neighbor and it didn’t come with pre-done cassettes, so my mom kindly typed up some games & programs out of a book for me. We used a cassette recorder/player and had to manually cue it up and start playing it to run programs or games. Wild. .. I’m feeling aware of my age now, too. 🙂
A little surprised Treasure Master wasn’t included, which had a contest where the first person to complete it and call a special hotline within 12 hours of the start would be given a choice of 4 prizes valued at $10,000, including just taking the cash and forgetting the rest.
"Or my youth." Oof. Well, there goes the rest of my day.
So basically a lot of players got ricked rolled, by Peter Mullenix.
He's a scam artist and lives by the code: There's a sucker born every minute. =)
I still like him and his games.
He gave the gaming world back some awe and magic.
Jes he could not keept his mouth shut.
But it was still a sweet dream while it lasted.
Just watched this before going to bed
Thanks for the PiMan nightmares
Even if it wasn't intended as such, I'm going to go ahead and assume Mike's "marrow bone jelly" line while eating dog food is a reference to Red Dwarf.
Could be. I do remember that RD bit. 😆
Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness. Full of vitamins. Full of marrowbone jelly...
Was anyone really surprised that Peter Molyneux wound up in this list?
The Swordquest treasures feel oddly familiar. Oh right:
- Talisman: Slytherin's Locket
- Chalice: Hufflepuff's Cup
- Crown: Ravenclaw's Diadem
- Philosopher's Stone: philosopher's stone.
- Sword: Gryffindor's sword.
If anyone sees 3 youngsters wearing robes and carrying wands, they may know more about the missing items.
Sure, but it predates Harry Potter by a decade. More like the tarot minor arcana.
idea for a list: 7 biggest lies told by Peter Molyneux
they could get 400 parts out of that.
I thought they did that one already. Or maybe it was just something about promises developers failed to keep and he was in it....at least once and probably with several honorable mentions
Might I also direct you to Hareraiser, which was unplayable and offered the actual Masquerade golden hare, or Jet Set Willy which had a big prize for being the first person to complete it, a task which is totally impossible without re-writing the game code.
I was going to mention Hareraiser! Shame the game was dodgy as all hell though.
Having the keys lead to a treasure that won't be available until 2113 is the dumbest thing in the world. The people with those keys won't be around to accept the prize, and if they hand them off or sell them to younger people down the line who will, they won't feel any connection that might make it special.
They dropped the ball hard on it
Unless the treasure is just another riddle that will start the whole thing over again.
And just imagine if Paris becomes a ruined warzone with the Eiffel Tower being a nonexistent monument because, you guessed it, it was bombed to smithereens.
This is a good motivation to live healthy.
The real price is hidden like that.
So thats why Mikes hair is so shiny
He does have a particularly glossy coat these days
The bad breath is totally worth the trade-off.
Well that Pimania song is going to be living rent free in my head for the rest of my life…
My first thought was actually 'Hareraiser', but given the general length of an OxBox video that would probably be too deep of a rabbit hole.
Random fun fact about 1x100: Chris Cashman, the host you saw in this clip, is the son of Pat Cashman, long-time Seattle TV staple. They've also both appeared in video games, since Pat was the announcer for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
1 vs 100 was SO GOOD. I was seriously upset when they took it down.
I would have liked to see that philosopher's stone before Atarii plummeted from grace. At least the picture suggests it would be pretty cool.
Mike the absolute legend
Curiosity is a bit weird isn't it? Like the weight of the effort a lot of people put into the game varies differently from one to the other, how is it fair that one guy who just happens to luckily tap the final block is suddenly crowned the king of England for doing so?
But then never actually becoming a king because it was all a scam haha jokes on you
It's to justify the payment option.
You were able to buy boxes which let you destroy more blocks then others.
But rest assured, aside of a video and a meeting with Peter himself, he did not got much since the game failed.
9:30 I can't tell if that was legitimate dog food or not. Kudos to Mike if it was.
It has the look of a can of dog food with just one spoonful (forkful?) taken out. Unless they manaeged to somehow compress a "dog-food-lookalike" exactly flat, I'm betting on it being real.
It could be refried beans.
@@oriolgonzalez9328 Like I said, I can't tell. And it's not like dog food is inedible, as something for a human to consume (although probably best to save it as emergency consumption). They could have also relabeled a can of something packed similarly. Mike wasn't exactly turning it around and around.
That's why I'm adding Kudos in the event it actually was.
Mike casually being sponsored by dog food.
It’s going to plastered all over his race car next season!!
Ahh, I miss 1 vs 100! The one time I got chosen, my Internet connection died!
Therapist: Pi Man isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Pi Man: 👁️🍆👁️
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wait, so did the piman actually wait around in the bush for 3 years? waiting for someone to actually show up?
So much to say about this video. First of all I really hope Mike didn't actually eat dog food, if he did, I really admire his dedication to the bit.
Secondly, when I heard of piman I instantly thought of the actual demon paimon (famously from the movie Hereditary), and after seeing that image I'm 100% sure it was the work of evil witches.
lastly, if you'll do a part two, Cool Spot definitely has a place on that list. So many weird things are attached to that game, only one of them being the publisher claiming to have given out a reward for whoever finishes the game, but you can't seem to find anyone who actually did win the prize, or what even *is* the prize.
There was a Tetris arcade cabinet that gave you cash, not sure if it was per line or per Tetris, been decades since I played it at an airport.
😲 Wow! That’s amazing.
Wow Peter Molyneux bungled that one REAL badly
On the one hand I can totally imagine Producer Jon expertly re-labeling a can of something more human-friendly for Mike to eat.
On the other hand, I can totally imagine Mike just shrugging and eating a can of dog food.
I kind of find it funny to think it in my head that since it took 3 years for someone to solve the pimania puzzle. Someone had to dress up as piman on a specific date (7/22) every year for 3 years and stay in a bush all day.
OH MY GOD THAT'S MY BIRTHDAY
I wondered why mum made me hide in that bush for 3 years
Great, now I have the pimania song stuck in my head.
Andy thank you so much for the Pimania theme. Which will haunt my nightmares for the foreseeable future.
So, you seriously telling me there's an actual silver sword with a jeweled gold handle somewhere out there in the world? Now I know what the next Nicolas Cage movie should be about.
Angry Video Game Nerd already talk about that game and prises years ago...
@@ExtremeMadnessX But would he steal the U.S. Constitution to look for clues of where the Illuminati hid the Sword of Ultimate Sorcery? I don't think so.
"On the B-side of the game cassette..." Words that are without meaning to most video game fans.
16:48: The Piman seems just as terrifying as the demon-king Paimon from the film "Hereditary"
"Now I know why dogs lick their testicles. It's to get rid of the taste of the food." Dave Lister (All-time social distancing champion of the universe), Red Dwarf
😂 Yes! Now I remember Lister saying that.
We're on the dog's milk.
I'm still waiting for Gremlin to send me my Lotus Turbo Challenge completion certificate. 31 years and waiting...
Is that the Lotus sports car, or the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet?
I was about to say that the car has probably aged better, but I'm open to correction from motoring enthusiasts.
No, the fact that Mike ACTUALLY ate dog food for this episode. I admire the dedication.
You know it would have possible to put a dog food label on a can of refried beans…
Yup that’s all I got out of this video
That; and a crippling fear of PiMan
I'm really hoping that's what they did. Mike must have a lot of practice eating dog food to not make faces eating it.
@@PhotonChief Dog food wasn’t that bad. No, that’s not a typo. 😉
In before the Trails mystery box turns out to just be a Jack In The Box going 👌
Pimania! If it hadn't been at the end I'd have started posting links - truly surreal. Automata, who made the game, ran a long series of surreal comic strips/adverts on the back page of Popular Computing Weekly, mainly featuring Piman and Groucho Marx having whacky adventures that were sometimes related to recent Automata games and all looked like the product of fever dreams. I loved them but then I was only young
Okay, so I think what Mike is trying to say is, I should go rob a bank. Read you loud and clear Mike!! Now, where did I leave that mask...
Man, this pandemic must have ruined your orchestral skills, huh?
@@michaelandreipalon359 It was a ROUGH 2020, man.
Did he actually just eat dogfood?
I'm glad someone else is asking this
It's clearly just catfood in a dogfood tin.
@@ianknight5120 I honestly want to know, because if so serious props to him for doing it with a straight face. That's Oscar worthy right there haha
@@l0stndamned Whew! Dodged a bullet there. Or should I say...dogged?
No. No, I shouldn't.
I don't honestly get why this is a big deal lol, I've had dogfood before. Its not like he didn't eat something non-edible at least.
Apparently Mike has never heard of the shooting sports or the Olympics where shooting skills can win you prize money.
I was gonna say that as well, but then I watched him eat a spoonful of dog food while staring into my soul so I decided to not argue.
I'm going to have the Pimania theme song in my head for at least 3 years. I assume when I finally do forget I will be killed by Pi man as he leaps from some bushes.
The trials fusion one seems really stupid. I don’t care what preparations the dude has made to make sure that there will be something there, the people who found the keys won’t be. The date is over 90 years away and the average lifespan is around 80 for most countries. What were they thinking?
It's not all that difficult. You just keep the key and an explanation with your will. I bet at least one of the at least five people inheriting that would find it a fun enough idea to be in Paris at the right date to investigate. 90 years from now are we really still going to find it difficult or expensive to visit Paris? Sure hope not! I would be more worried that the Eiffel Tower might not be around by then, since it was designed not to last beyond the early 20th century.
@@yetanotherstronk you’re just gonna gloss over the fact that people who completed the challenge are gonna be dead by then? That’s the main problem here. Imagine putting in so much effort to discover the clues and solve the riddles, and then turns out the prize won’t be given out until after your death. If it happened to you, you wouldn’t just say “well at least my descendants can have fun with it”. You’ll die not knowing what you spent all this effort on. Imagine if all scavenger hunts were like this.
Okay, now I’m really concerned where Pimania and the abominable Piman came from.
What about "Hareraiser" from 1984, which as I hear it, might have actually been unwinnable, or at least so obtuse as to be meaningfully unwinnable, with a prize of a golden hare statue?
I have never heard of Pimania. I now desperately want to play Pimania.
1 VS 100 was how I spent my Saturday and Sunday nights after work. Was so much fun. Annoyed I was 1 achievement away from nabbing all the achievements. Shame there aren't more games like this.
I've seen Pi-man in my nightmares
"like becoming a bank r0bb3r don't do that" too late mike you already gave me the idea.
The best/worst thing about that real world Pi Man is that there were 2 years where he was hiding in a bush all day and no one turned up.
I really wonder how many unrelated people happened to walk past at noon who got jumped out at because he thought they were contest winners.
When a game about motorbikes gives you an existential crisis 😢 Those Sword Quest prizes are really cool. Talk about a piece of gaming history. The medallion winner could have sold it to a private collector for a small fortune. Sad it's gone forever now. The Chalice owner has a family heirloom 👍 I can't believe the Pimania developers kept going to the spot for 3 years at noon in the Piman costume for a prize. That's what I call commitment 👏👏
The two winners were told to go to a certain place at a certain time, so it wasn't like someone went to a spot for 3 years, which you would think people would see this freak of nature walk to and from the spot if that was the case.
@@ECODKyleskymast that makes a lot more sense. So they solved the puzzle and a meetup was arranged
@@Rodrigo-ei4ht Well, what I can gathered was that by playing the game, the winners found out the location and date on which they were to arrive and be greeted, so the devs would have time to prepare
What have you done Andy? I cant stop hearing the Pi man song in my head...😆
"A meaty Pi Man" why is this a thing and why has it been stuck in my head since last week when I first saw this?
I don't know which is more insane, Trials Evolution or Pimania. Trials Evolution certainly seems to be a lot more convoluted, but Pimania is just... an acid trip of a puzzle
That Pi Man song is now eternally stuck in my head, his face haunting my nightmares, and it's all your fault. I will never trust bushes near sundials for the rest of my life for fear that THAT will jump out from behind them.
Completing a Pokedex in any Pokèmon gives you a printabole for completing it.
That Pie Man looks like something from the Mighty Boosh
Peter really ripped off all those cube players huh
Love seeing Lewis & Simon in The Cube portion of the video. As soon as I saw Andy talk about this game I remembered Lewis & Simon doing a video on it.
I'm just sitting here watching Mike eat that dog food over and over again trying to figure out if he really ate it or not because it definitely looks like a full can of real dog food, the top was smooth at first except for what looked like a single fork stab in the middle gone so it didn't seem like it was emptied and filled with something else. That's taking "don't feed your pets anything you wouldn't eat" pretty literal though 😂
Mike's quip about game names really gave me a good chuckle
Instructions unclear robbed a bank
This video was certainly something, I got to witness Mike eating dogfood, and got introduced to the nightmare fuel that is Pi Man.
Truly an experience to remember (Even if you don't want to)
What about the exclusive clothes you could get from Destiny 2. I got the one from the solstice of heroes.