Belgium here. When i was young, i would get presents every week in december. 1st at Sint Nicolaas, next weeek it was my birthday, and the week after that was Christmas. Those were fun times.
gosh, those have to be some of the most pleasant sound effects i've heard in a game! they're all so twinkly and soft, it really adds to the charm, even with the lack of music.
Wieringsoftware is just a single guy by the name Mike Wiering. I've always been amazed by the quality of his games. He does everything himself, art, music, gameplay/programming. And all in a not-so-regular programming language Pascal. (Where most games are programmed in C/C++)
Spoke to him once briefly, he seems like a nice bloke too. I was surprised when I found that out too; I grew up with his games (In particular the Mario clone he made as a test which happened to leak and go viral, Super Worms and Charlie the Duck) and I always liked the cute style of them
Sinterklaas (or Saint Nicolas) was a saint somewhere in the middelages. He profided food and stuff for poor kids. Eventually in the 1800's it got it's form as it is now, that children get presents on his birthday december 5th. Your santa claus is based off of him since, you know, we celebrate this holiday for longer then America has exicted.
I remember in school one or two of the computers that had Windows 98 had this game, we all fought to use this computer just to play this game, when we played this game by turns I died either because I sucked a lot or because my classmates put their hands on the keyboard to make Santa fall. Now I can play this game in peace :)
Ahhh. I love seeing that there's a new video up from your channel. You're my favorite game reviewer. I love the simple yet classy style you got going on. Keep it up!
Saint Nicholas is the actual Saint, Sinterklaar is the dutch tradition that grew out of that saint, Santa is an offshoot of that Dutch folklore in America.
Actually sinterklaas and Santa are the same person, Dutch people who came to the US took the idea of Sinterklaas with them evolving to Santa claus. Without our little country Christmas as we know it now might not even exist!
I must say, a common misconception outside the Netherlands and Belgium is that the St. Nicolas feast is connected to Christmas. It was in the USA that Sinterklaas morphed into Santa Claus (get the etymology???) and became associated with Christmas. As you can see from this game, the feast of St. Nicolas is celebrated at december 5th, quite some days away from Christmas.
santa claus derived his name from the dutch Sinterklaas, or Sint Nicolaas. Santa Claus is imported by the Dutch settlers in New York. Santa Claus and Sinterklaas are just the same person. But he's actually not from Spain but from Turkey. He was a Turkish bishop. But in Dutch tradition he is from Spain. He also has an assistant which we call zwarte piet, Or black Pete
You got a lot right, but Saint Nicolaas was Greek. Zwarte Piet has multiple origins, like a naughty Italian chimney sweep, slaves he liberated, the dark of night and Krampus. The dark of night is still part of the tradition in certain parts of Europe, where Saint Nicolaas is accompanied by a black painted and dressed person portraying the dark days before Christmas and generally a child in white and a crown of green and candles portraying the light and its return, as we leave the shortest days behind us. In other parts Saint Nicolaas is accompanied by one or more Krampus. These people wear a Chewbacca-like hairy suit and a devil mask carved from wood with often a long tongue and two horns curved to the back.
Saint Nicolas was actually a person that lived in a town that is now called Demre in Turkey. He seemed to be an alright guy. Giving food to the poor and such.
It's this time of the year again. He's celebrating his birthday the 5th of december and he will be gone the 6th. All kids are hoping for nice presents from him!
@Animatixxking There's actually a Zwarte Piet game based on this one, it's one of those I mentioned at the end of this video. Check the link in the video description!
I remember getting this game from some magazine CD-ROM back in the early 2000s. It always felt like a Super Mario game with Santa Claus to me, kinda funny to play, though.
When I was little, I used to call my parents dirty liars when they told me Sint Nicolaas (or Sinterklaas) wasn't real. Another fun fact, in the Netherlands he delivers his presents on December 5 while in Belgium he does it on December 6. And yes, double the presents and the chocolate all the way!!
We do get double the presents (because we celebrate both Sinterklaas and the holiday that borrows some of its elements, Christmas). And yes, it's awesome.
Oh god. I know for a fact that this video had dubstep in it but you have edited it out (I assuming for copyright reasons) but now I am questioning whether I remember that right or not...
@phreakindee Saint Nicholas was a Greek bishop of Myra in present-day Turkey. In 1087, his relics were furtively translated to Bari, in southeastern Italy; for this reason, he is also known as Nikolaos of Bari. Bari later formed part of the Spanish Kingdom of Naples, because it was previously conquered in 1442 by Alfonso V of Aragon. The city thus became part of the Kingdom of Aragon and later to Spain, until the eighteenth century.
Our dutch tradition is a lot older than santa claus, and even though they look kinda the same the difference is huge, always love watching you vids though!!!
The reason why sint and santa sound familiar is that when new york was still new amsterdam Sint came by there and people liked hem so much that they kept the tradition, thus Santa was born ! (I believe it went that way), their names are even pronounced the same.
DOS is the basis for pretty much all Windows operating systems. Technically DOS (as known as a sole-OS) was included as the command prompt for all OS's (up to, I think ME, whatever, it was some time around there). DOS was since updated to something else entirely, though sometimes still called DOS, all the same commands exist, it is simply the background work that changed. The change from old DOS to Windows DOS was pretty big as well, though actually less so from compared to the recent change.
We in the Netherlands do celebrate Christmas more these years in the same way as Americans do, including images of Santa and so on (but not sons like Rudolph the Red Noosed Reindeer or Frosty the Snowman). So some lucky ones get double the number of presents during December (though it usually divided between Sinterklaas and Christmas, so no two Xbox's or PS3's)
Cool Vid! I actually live in The Netherlands. Only one slight little remark: Sinterklaas (the festivities) should not be related to Christmas in any way, even though the character (Saint Nicholas) is. Sinterklaas and Christmas are two different festivities; all with their 'supporters'. Like your vid very much, though!
In other words, DOS was on old machines, but in a different form. Everything the Windows OS did with file IO was through DOS (therefore everything, since graphics and sound and everything else are treated as files, don't ask). This DOS was different from old DOS, but still basically the same. A new DOS was made, that is not actually DOS but still uses the same commands and looks exactly the same and performs the same functions. Then there's Powershell, which is just a program which is awesome.
@phreakindee Due to the fact that the remains of St. Nicholas were in Bari (then a Spanish city), is this tradition that St. Nicholas comes from Spain. From wikipedia ;)
Hi phreakindee, I know you by your famous sims 3 review I always watch, but after watching this , I think you're awesome. I'm Dutch, so it's kinda funny you make a review. Chocolate letters are a tradition with Sinterklaas too, just like "pepernoten" with means "peppernuts" < some sweet little cookies . I understand you found this weird, I will too, but it's not. =)
It's actually kind of funny. Saint Nicholas (Sint Nicolaas / Sinterklaas as we call him) and Santa Claus have the same origin. But somehow we Dutch people managed to get both Sint Nicolaas and Santa Claus (or as wel call him, "Kerstman", translated as "Christmas man")! Presents galore :))
i wonder if these are the guys that made that Super Mario demo/game for DOS that we used to play in school? graphics and setup looks alot like that game.
Hey clint i was wondering if you know of another freeware game on the internet called happyland adventure. i played this as a kid and its fun, its another platformer which also has a christmas expansion. you can just google happyland adventures, download it and then you can play the normal version or the Xmas version. just thought i might tell you if you are looking to review any more christmas games :)
Fun review and neat looking game, not too many Sint Nick games, well not many of this version of him at least... I've made a video about the tradition a while back, might be interesting. Never actually seen this game.
@phreakindee In the Netherlands lots of children get presents at Sinterklaas and Christmas. So, double the presents. Oh, and of course we have two Christmas days here.
I have this game on a disk collection of holiday shareware and freeware. I don't have an old enough machine to run it, or anything strong enough to run a VM on to play it.
He doesn't in the dutch tradition, but if you look at him from his point of view it indeed just looks like a santa claus Dutch style but the funny thing is we have santa claus too so we get dubble presents 8D
I assume that all the platform games by WS were made with the same "engine", like Charlie the duck, Mario & Luigi (the game that started it all), and of course Saint Nicholas. But the best game and my personal favourite is Super Worms ♥ Please review this game!
I remember playing this game a bit when I was 11 or so. Not going to lie - wasn't much of a fan, despite playing way too many DOS games. Also, I didn't have the historical background to understand why Saint Nicholas went from Spain to the Netherlands. Years later, I learned of the loving relationship between the two countries, particularly in the 16th century, and the tradition makes a bit more sense... I guess.
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Belgium here. When i was young, i would get presents every week in december. 1st at Sint Nicolaas, next weeek it was my birthday, and the week after that was Christmas. Those were fun times.
We do get double presents with Sint & Santa.
Also, Sint was around before Santa so guess who's the copy of who.
gosh, those have to be some of the most pleasant sound effects i've heard in a game! they're all so twinkly and soft, it really adds to the charm, even with the lack of music.
Wieringsoftware is just a single guy by the name Mike Wiering. I've always been amazed by the quality of his games. He does everything himself, art, music, gameplay/programming. And all in a not-so-regular programming language Pascal. (Where most games are programmed in C/C++)
NightShader1 games are often programmed using Python as well not just C/C++
So he's like mat dickie, only not as addicted to wrestling engines?
Spoke to him once briefly, he seems like a nice bloke too. I was surprised when I found that out too; I grew up with his games (In particular the Mario clone he made as a test which happened to leak and go viral, Super Worms and Charlie the Duck) and I always liked the cute style of them
@DXSnakeEater The good old Creative Sound Blaster 16. It's a MOD tune from Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare 95.
Sinterklaas (or Saint Nicolas) was a saint somewhere in the middelages. He profided food and stuff for poor kids. Eventually in the 1800's it got it's form as it is now, that children get presents on his birthday december 5th. Your santa claus is based off of him since, you know, we celebrate this holiday for longer then America has exicted.
no he wasnt. lol. 300 isnt the middle ages
@@ilansmolders407 I thought 4AD..?
No, St. Nicholas Day is December 6th.
@TotyWoW Ah, double presents! That is awesome, I propose this becomes a worldwide tradition.
LGR this also happens in Mexico but for us is christmas eve and January 6th for Dia de Reyes or Wise Men's Day.
Early Clint's dry and strange humor is what keeps bringing me back to these old game reviews.
I remember in school one or two of the computers that had Windows 98 had this game, we all fought to use this computer just to play this game, when we played this game by turns I died either because I sucked a lot or because my classmates put their hands on the keyboard to make Santa fall. Now I can play this game in peace :)
Ahhh. I love seeing that there's a new video up from your channel. You're my favorite game reviewer. I love the simple yet classy style you got going on. Keep it up!
@Cihl280777 Yes, there are English and Dutch language settings.
Aren't Santa Claus and Sint Nikolaas different interpretations of the same person, Saint Nicholas of Myrrha?
Saint Nicholas is the actual Saint, Sinterklaar is the dutch tradition that grew out of that saint, Santa is an offshoot of that Dutch folklore in America.
Actually sinterklaas and Santa are the same person, Dutch people who came to the US took the idea of Sinterklaas with them evolving to Santa claus. Without our little country Christmas as we know it now might not even exist!
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I must say, a common misconception outside the Netherlands and Belgium is that the St. Nicolas feast is connected to Christmas. It was in the USA that Sinterklaas morphed into Santa Claus (get the etymology???) and became associated with Christmas. As you can see from this game, the feast of St. Nicolas is celebrated at december 5th, quite some days away from Christmas.
santa claus derived his name from the dutch Sinterklaas, or Sint Nicolaas. Santa Claus is imported by the Dutch settlers in New York. Santa Claus and Sinterklaas are just the same person. But he's actually not from Spain but from Turkey. He was a Turkish bishop. But in Dutch tradition he is from Spain. He also has an assistant which we call zwarte piet, Or black Pete
The Finnish Kekri Ram - later Yule Ram is also infused in that legend all over.
You got a lot right, but Saint Nicolaas was Greek.
Zwarte Piet has multiple origins, like a naughty Italian chimney sweep, slaves he liberated, the dark of night and Krampus. The dark of night is still part of the tradition in certain parts of Europe, where Saint Nicolaas is accompanied by a black painted and dressed person portraying the dark days before Christmas and generally a child in white and a crown of green and candles portraying the light and its return, as we leave the shortest days behind us. In other parts Saint Nicolaas is accompanied by one or more Krampus. These people wear a Chewbacca-like hairy suit and a devil mask carved from wood with often a long tongue and two horns curved to the back.
Saint Nicolas was actually a person that lived in a town that is now called Demre in Turkey. He seemed to be an alright guy. Giving food to the poor and such.
Oh god i played this game when i was 8 i think , still love it it`s a part of my childhood.
It's this time of the year again. He's celebrating his birthday the 5th of december and he will be gone the 6th. All kids are hoping for nice presents from him!
NEVER use that Trollface picture again! That's scarier than the original Trollface!
The original was scary?!
Wub wub, wub wub. XD
@3:30: No more Dubstep? That sucks!
@Animatixxking There's actually a Zwarte Piet game based on this one, it's one of those I mentioned at the end of this video. Check the link in the video description!
Went to the Dutch Society of Ontario's Sinterklaas celebration in Toronto tonight. Made me think of this review.
A little bit more info: Sint Nicolaas was from Turkey.
Kids get presents the 6th of december but we also celebrate christmas :)
I remember getting this game from some magazine CD-ROM back in the early 2000s. It always felt like a Super Mario game with Santa Claus to me, kinda funny to play, though.
I'll be posting a sucky gameplay video on this game somewhere around the 15th of november, the day the Sint makes his 'entry' to the Netherlands.
I played Super Worms as a kid and I had completely forgot about it until you showed in this video!
When I was little, I used to call my parents dirty liars when they told me Sint Nicolaas (or Sinterklaas) wasn't real. Another fun fact, in the Netherlands he delivers his presents on December 5 while in Belgium he does it on December 6. And yes, double the presents and the chocolate all the way!!
We do get double the presents (because we celebrate both Sinterklaas and the holiday that borrows some of its elements, Christmas). And yes, it's awesome.
Dutchie here.
We get double the presents :D
I used to play this game as a child! Dutchie here too. Also, Santa Claus comes from Sinterklaas and we get presents on both occasions!
nice you took my request and reviewed a good game, thanks for listening i love you even more now, will there be another review on the 24th ??
Oh god. I know for a fact that this video had dubstep in it but you have edited it out (I assuming for copyright reasons) but now I am questioning whether I remember that right or not...
Other comments confirmed that. Did you found it?
As a Dutch person, its kind of funny to see you talkin about Sinterklaas.
@phreakindee Saint Nicholas was a Greek bishop of Myra in present-day Turkey. In 1087, his relics were furtively translated to Bari, in southeastern Italy; for this reason, he is also known as Nikolaos of Bari. Bari later formed part of the Spanish Kingdom of Naples, because it was previously conquered in 1442 by Alfonso V of Aragon. The city thus became part of the Kingdom of Aragon and later to Spain, until the eighteenth century.
I hate when the contents of my sack spill all over the place.
Our dutch tradition is a lot older than santa claus, and even though they look kinda the same the difference is huge, always love watching you vids though!!!
Merry Christmas phreakindee.
@poltehkool I take it my troll was a success. Heh, my apologies.
The reason why sint and santa sound familiar is that when new york was still new amsterdam Sint came by there and people liked hem so much that they kept the tradition, thus Santa was born ! (I believe it went that way), their names are even pronounced the same.
DOS is the basis for pretty much all Windows operating systems. Technically DOS (as known as a sole-OS) was included as the command prompt for all OS's (up to, I think ME, whatever, it was some time around there). DOS was since updated to something else entirely, though sometimes still called DOS, all the same commands exist, it is simply the background work that changed. The change from old DOS to Windows DOS was pretty big as well, though actually less so from compared to the recent change.
We in the Netherlands do celebrate Christmas more these years in the same way as Americans do, including images of Santa and so on (but not sons like Rudolph the Red Noosed Reindeer or Frosty the Snowman).
So some lucky ones get double the number of presents during December (though it usually divided between Sinterklaas and Christmas, so no two Xbox's or PS3's)
Cool Vid! I actually live in The Netherlands. Only one slight little remark: Sinterklaas (the festivities) should not be related to Christmas in any way, even though the character (Saint Nicholas) is. Sinterklaas and Christmas are two different festivities; all with their 'supporters'. Like your vid very much, though!
In other words, DOS was on old machines, but in a different form. Everything the Windows OS did with file IO was through DOS (therefore everything, since graphics and sound and everything else are treated as files, don't ask). This DOS was different from old DOS, but still basically the same. A new DOS was made, that is not actually DOS but still uses the same commands and looks exactly the same and performs the same functions. Then there's Powershell, which is just a program which is awesome.
@phreakindee Due to the fact that the remains of St. Nicholas were in Bari (then a Spanish city), is this tradition that St. Nicholas comes from Spain. From wikipedia ;)
Jay! Just played the game...it's f'ing awesome!
Hi phreakindee, I know you by your famous sims 3 review I always watch, but after watching this , I think you're awesome.
I'm Dutch, so it's kinda funny you make a review. Chocolate letters are a tradition with Sinterklaas too, just like "pepernoten" with means "peppernuts" < some sweet little cookies .
I understand you found this weird, I will too, but it's not. =)
It's actually kind of funny. Saint Nicholas (Sint Nicolaas / Sinterklaas as we call him) and Santa Claus have the same origin. But somehow we Dutch people managed to get both Sint Nicolaas and Santa Claus (or as wel call him, "Kerstman", translated as "Christmas man")! Presents galore :))
i wonder if these are the guys that made that Super Mario demo/game for DOS that we used to play in school? graphics and setup looks alot like that game.
They are not gingerbread cookies. They are peternoten, translated spiced Bisquit
. They are very small.
is the music intro from the Jazz Jackrabbit christmas version?
Hey clint
i was wondering if you know of another freeware game on the internet called happyland adventure. i played this as a kid and its fun, its another platformer which also has a christmas expansion. you can just google happyland adventures, download it and then you can play the normal version or the Xmas version.
just thought i might tell you if you are looking to review any more christmas games :)
Wait, did you say "You get sint to a bonus level"?
Clever!
There are cookies! That little brown things (pepernoten) and that chocolate letters! But I know, It are no cookies but treets!
And Yeah, I am dutch!
Your dutch wordsmithing is showing, yeah...
I actually want to see LGR review Super Worms, that game looks absolutely insane.
Fun review and neat looking game, not too many Sint Nick games, well not many of this version of him at least...
I've made a video about the tradition a while back, might be interesting.
Never actually seen this game.
@phreakindee In the Netherlands lots of children get presents at Sinterklaas and Christmas. So, double the presents. Oh, and of course we have two Christmas days here.
it's the 6th dec over here in germany
Phreakindee could you do a full review on TheSims 2
I have no idea how this game got on my hardrive, but it was there. And I had fun with it!
The website should have said The Netherlands ;)
Love the review and game
Where is creepy Christmas Clint?
I love how secretly everybody on the internet is Dutch but only come out about it when somebody mentions something related to the Netherlands :P
I have this game on a disk collection of holiday shareware and freeware. I don't have an old enough machine to run it, or anything strong enough to run a VM on to play it.
Awesome as always Clint :)
Holy shit big box Driver! I am forever your fan.
it's not only a Dutch tradition, you can see it in most of Europe.
Santa Claus is based on Saint Nicholas. (Nicholas shortened to Claus, and Saint transferred to Santa (for some reason)).
no it's classical dutch, we don't use words like that anymore but they still exist
what is the name of the song at 3:37 if you still know it
PS am duthc hozaa me
Did Wiering Software make that fantastic Mario DOS clone?
They did. One of the earliest Mario fangames released on PC, which also used the Pompom Flower from Super Mario Land.
That dubstep is awesome.
What was the name of this song? It's removed now😢
He doesn't in the dutch tradition, but if you look at him from his point of view it indeed just looks like a santa claus Dutch style but the funny thing is we have santa claus too so we get dubble presents 8D
I remember playing this in my childhood on school.
sinterkllas's day is on a different day than christmast.
Watching this same day in 2015 merry xmas
Why do you have the troll face when playing the music?
I am missing something ;'(
can you do a Baldur's Gate 2 review? (the old one on the pc)
3:40 Where did you get that image?
Cool ! I love Christmas games good or bad lol!
I always thought saint nick was just another name for santa
I'm dutch and i love this game! i played it when i was 12 years old. And the things you call cookie's. Are "Pepernoten' :D
Actually, Santa Claus is based on Sint Nicolaas
Hey how come this game is in English instead of Dutch? Is that a setting?
Cool looking game, I'm going to play it as well as the other games made by them.
I assume that all the platform games by WS were made with the same "engine", like Charlie the duck, Mario & Luigi (the game that started it all), and of course Saint Nicholas. But the best game and my personal favourite is Super Worms ♥ Please review this game!
Many Catholics around the world also celebrate Saint Nicolas day and Santa is based off him
Whats the dubstep song!
Haha I remember Super Worms and the Duck game!!! That was aswesome, thank you!
how long did DOS live?
I remember playing this game a bit when I was 11 or so. Not going to lie - wasn't much of a fan, despite playing way too many DOS games. Also, I didn't have the historical background to understand why Saint Nicholas went from Spain to the Netherlands. Years later, I learned of the loving relationship between the two countries, particularly in the 16th century, and the tradition makes a bit more sense... I guess.
This looks fun!
Only thing I heard was "mutated Santa Claus" and thought it sounds like rad idea for a game (or comic).
Yes, we do get twice the presents :D
Uhh what is the plugin to play this game in browser?
omfg that trollface almost scared me due to the extensive smile.
song?
Dubstep song name?
Oooww you're gonna get a lot of reactions from Dutch people by making this vid.. which is great :)
greetings...! (from yet another dutchie)
Yay Christmas!
should check out nicolausi for dos , i just tested shareware for it