https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDI2WwbA1Q
The zero star tas is really awesome, there's an underground pipe that takes you to the end for some reason, so an insane path exists to just fly around everything. I also like that the final version of Bowser apparently gives you a pointless quiz with his last breath while he's lying defeated on the ground. "Which reference to a YouTuber did you not find in this game?"

ALSO Dada or whoever knows how this site works, I'm trying to display the 4000 posts in this thread in a print-friendly format for to categorize and consolidate the links and images... is this doable?? (I want to ensure there are duplications of all extant youtubes posted here so five years from now the entire thread won't be a hall of lost souls) any advice from the less ignorant???

edit2: PS I mean like a "print this page" function like some forums have. I can't find it!! Maybe it's intentional.

strong pavlovian response to harmonica soundfonts. i don't know why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz5MB1BmOy4

Yeah sorry to belabor a dead foal but I cannot get enough of Star Revenge. I'm sure a ton of hacks exist with a similar horrible flavor but I only know of a few others. WARNING!!! QUOTING OLD POSTS!!! NO NEW CONTENT TO BE FOUND HERE!!! To dredge...

jchastain from page 17

Quote from: J Chastain on July 04, 2011, 01:40:25 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzGCULt63c4

she described it as "baffling" which hit me hard when i read it for some reason. You could feel this sort of oblique unprovenanced abstract video-gamey halloweenness bleeding through from her inspirations, as incrementally preserved in this thread, into the comic Monster Killers more strongly and I guess, "accurately" than any other artwork in history.

Frankly the Bart leaping across disturbing fossils in the tar pits in the red wasteland, while haunted house bats swoop at him, that was plenty fucking unpleasant and baffling enough and it's in the real game. The hack comes across as like, I dunno, a kid's bad dream from the 80s. Bart in a White Tee Alone at Lake Terror. Mayan ruins etc. Bart in a dead forest at night with junked up cars submerged in the dirt, also all these... uhh disused stage lighting apparatuses?? so is it like an abandoned music festival? The game over is something else!

Wish my n64-having friends had had goldeneye, so i could have experienced it firsthand!! as a kid I just saw pals playin Quest 64 lol and then Mario 64 and was all "holy shiïiiiiiit" The castle theme..... etc. FPSes were this like far-off, untouchable mystery cornucopia since my parents were strict about games with guns. But watching it now the style is cool as hell, still feels mysterious as all get out to me b/c of the like secret bases with rock outcroppings, big chunky sliding doors, the fuckin orange watch with 1997 gadgets and bunker's geolocative monitors. For starters.

ALT the Doom mod seemed pretty weird when ellaguro described it in her sadly one-off Lost Worlds.

LOL at the skeletons applauding the butchering player in ragnar's post, very clip art, but in like a Harry Potter for the PC 2001 sort of way lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr2V1sbV83I
 
speaking of mp go to 17:30 they put in a boss battle against Max Headroom lol

to me the tribal village level really hits home... not saying that the game understands childhood EVERYFEAR across cultures and trying to bring it home to random 90s cartoon suburbia world, but... the unfamiliar village... the disembodied head of some random possibly unsavory townsdude with a single bone sticking out. the fact that even a pixels worth of TOUCH with this entity is dreadfully harmful. So yeah I think the rom hacker at some point channeled the original simpsons NES game development team who was like.... wtf are we doing here, making these random suburban child danger scenarios... development team has fully formed idea of FUN FACTOR in games but omits it on purpose/as cautionary tale. Meanwhile jealous of this random japanese guy making a game supposedly called "EARTH BOUND" which can slip shit under the radar under the guise of cultural/language barrier (o ho i am japanese i am just randomly spinning this tale of a cult that wants to paint the world blue, no way i am trying to warn of seedy underbelly of america). Also the mayan ruins with the freaking ghost of milhouse's mom - again playing into the idea that every culture's childhood fears/nightmares are linked. so yeah the game is creepy /because/ the rom hacker knows exactly what they're doing imo
 
like why WERE the simpsons games all about wandering away from home and or nightmare world and not just wandering into shelbyville going all the way to freaking china and egypt and this constant sense of dread/danger when they could've just made a shitty cart racer instead

 
the VR one was hilarious like, hmm we have to make a simpsons game, god i hate this, stuck doing videogames, need a plot... plot... Bart is stuck in a video game. It's like a last-minute version of the Warioware games where the intro is Wario going "Huh, this Nintendo DS is a great video game system... perhaps I can make a lot of money creating and selling games." lmao But instead of doing, like, fire world, ice world or whatever, global fear of simplified caricatures of foreign countries.
 
And Simpsons had like... a very clear relationship with games. They should've just made one of Dash Dingo I wanted to play that and explore mysterious isometric Australian mazes so bad. later in the episode Lisa makes it sound like an rpg or metroidvania too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shLt_HXNls0
 
edit: Nightmare constitutes most perfect video game setting, along with two other standbys, "Literally in Hell" and "I'm Stuck in This Video Game". These premises allow you to do anything you like for no reason. (Another big one is "My Job Sucks" but that limits you to certain themes relating to chosen profession. cf. BurgerTime, Chubby Gristle, Metroid) The big 3 premises encourage inexplicable conflict and entail fucked-up monsters as a matter of course. Doom takes place in Hell, Yume Nikki takes place in dreams, Mario takes place in dreams and in hell*, and they're some of the best games of all time in their respective genres. Oh, there's also a Simpsons game where Bart is stuck in an American Gladiator ripoff? So it's like this dreary kid's game show where Bart fights full grown men and crawls through a fake warzone with minefields to win 10,000 $.
 
* Mario Bros. - Plumbers delve a monstrous sewer. This is about their job and why it sucks
Super Mario Bros. 1 - Dead Bostonians defend indefensible kingdom from an invincible enemy forever.
Super Mario Bros. 2 - Someone else's victory is played out in dreams.
Super Mario Bros. 3 - See 1.
Super Mario World - A vacation lasts about a minute. See 1.
Rest of Mario series - See 1.

amazing
 
also i didn't mean caricatures of foreign countries really but that's basically bart vs. the world yeah. I just meant a general fear of being too far from home/in unfamiliar place but whatever
 
some rom hacks are just so freaking uncanny aren't they - again nightmares etc. why is nearly everyone's first instinct to make like decapitated mario world etc???
 
monster party hack gui looks even more like nesticle menu
 
Edit: yeah actually by cannibal village thing i meant some deep seated fear that it IS Springfield and society has gone through some upheaval?? that ren and stimpy cartoon where the medieval village celebrates its revolution with.... another revolution deeply upset me as a kid, random entrail flies through the air

 
Oh, fuck yeah. Startling. I actually screwed up my identification bad, when I said Mayan ruins I totally meant tribal village. (The massive pits of bones and big stone heads tricked me.) I don't know what culture is supposed to have created the catacombs where Maude's ghost and presumably body is interred [...]
 
sort of that weird ran away from home/in harmful adult world alone feeling is sort of the video game equivalent to the painterly Mona LIsa awkward double background perspective trick, just this uncanny affect that never really get pushed to the surface but is the most integral part of the whole. Upshot of many NES games is being a kid plunged into hell, unintelligible communications going over your head, loam of your imagination.

hahaha yeah, no yeah i was joking about the hell thing. most video games are themed around brutal infinite murder on some level so it's easy to say ooowooh hell about so many of them! mario always struck me as just this really creative synthesis of weird images from arcades that somehow took hold and ended up with this simpson-like revolving storyline. This already been said here, but, you don't really think about weirdness, idk about the toilet and incidentally psychedelic imagery. good points with the katakana elegance it's always cool as kid to see english translated rpgs give you four+ spaces for your name like, this is all you need. also Blooper is reference to The Bloop infamous strange sound underwater
 
edit: What an awesome vibeo I would love a game like this, with camera shots and colors and giant distorted announcers + magrathea techno radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbO-RT4wnA4
 
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqgI9-WLSc

funny story, I couldn't figure out what the glitch was for the longest time, although I was really admiring how brutal the sound design and how numerous the enemies were. I thought it was a huge step up from other recent first person shooters. Then I realized that was the glitch lol