Ok,so it works fine on IE11 with Flash and Unity Web Player installed. So basically you just open up this link: www.y8.com/games/on_the_run in IE11,and follow the instructions that it gives you,first installing Flash and then Unity Web Player. There is a bit of a strange little issue with the Unity Web Player installer tho,as when you download it,it will just have a bunch of numbers as a file extension and you won't be able to run it. Simply rename it to a .exe and then you'll be able to run and install. Enjoy
Good luck trying to play it now tho,it doesn't work on any modern browsers or Flash installs,so I guess you're gonna have to try a bunch of legacy stuff :/
Well, I kinda guessed it would be like that. That game is ancient lol so i'm not too worried atm, just happy I found it we used to play it so very much:)
Okay,well I actually have some fond memories of this game myself as well,and I'm glad you've reminded me of it. I'll try out some stuff to try and get it to play and get back to you if it worked
Good luck trying to play it now tho,it doesn't work on any modern browsers or Flash installs,so I guess you're gonna have to try a bunch of legacy stuff :/
Back when I was a kid,I remember finding this one book at the school library which had some rather odd themes for a children's novel,to say the least. The story was focused around a teen boy,who was maybe around 13 or 14 years old,and him hitting puberty,having a sexual awakening and lusting after a neighbour girl. A key element of the story that I remember is the fact that he repeatedly peeps on her while she's changing and sees her topless,as her house is right across from his and so he can get a clear view of her window. He watches her undress and has lustful fantasies,touches himself ect. One thing I clearly remember happening in the story is that his birthday is coming up soon,so he lies to his parents that he's taken up birdwatching as a new hobby so that they will get him binoculars for his birthday,which he would use to get an even better view of the neighbour girl. It works and he gets the binoculars. I also remember there being another part where an older boy who was either a friend or his brother,I don't remember that clearly, teaches him about masturbation and wet dreams. I would really like to find this book just to try to figure out what the heck the reasoning/purpose behind a book like this was,because it seems REALLY inappropriate. Especially considering the fact that I found this when I was in 6th grade,around 12 years old,in the ELEMENTARY school library. Who thought that this was something appropriate for elementary aged kids,or even older children? Sure,there are a lot of sex education books aimed at pre-teens and teens which pretty much just explain the basics of going through puberty in a straight-forward fashion. That's NOT what this is. This is a fictional story about a boy's sexual awakening,which from it's tone,didn't seem to be trying to impart any sort of educational message to the young reader like a sex education book would. However,from what I can remember,though it's not educational,the tone of the book is quite serious,the author did not go for a comical/entertaining angle either. The boy's emotions and his lustful fantasies were presented in a serious way. I'd say the strangest thing about it is how the boy's peeping is never condemned in any way,he never gets caught/punished for it or anything. Instead,it's treated like it's a "good" thing, a "positive experience". It's like the author was promoting voyeurism 0.o .
I was born around the time of this toy coming out and believe it or not I vaguely remembered a toy that was kept at my bedside so I went into my basement to see if I could find it. I didn't find the Wal-Mart version but I did find an Ocean Wonders toy that the Wal-Mart toy was based off of. I wanted to turn it on so I could see if it could help your case. Sadly the insides were corroded over time but there is a glimmer of hope. Since the Wal-Mart version is a private labeled version of a common toy the common version should have the same sounds and therefore the hidden massage. If anyone has this version instead of the Wal-Mart version in functioning order please take a listen. There are many a photo of the toy on the internet (I can't get a good one on mine). Keep in mind that there are different versions of this toy so if you have a different one than the ones on the internet or if yours doesn't have the message there is still hope.
No no,I think there's been some misunderstanding here. The Fisher Price Ocean Wonders toy is NOT the offending toy,there was no problem with the Fisher Price toy at all. The Fisher Price toy was never recalled,only the Walmart toy was. It does not contain the message,the two toys don't share the same soundtrack. The Walmart toy is only a ripoff of the CONCEPT of the Fisher Price toy,it's not like,a 1-for-1 copy. Sorry for dampening your enthusiasm :/
Does it actually "play" the message or did someone's mind play tricks on them? May be related to the phenomenon where people hear music, speech, etc. from white noise machines or fans going.
It's possible. We can't determine that until we actually have a recording of it. From the way people have described it,it does seem like it actually plays the message. The way Walmart responded also made it seem like people weren't making stuff up. If it really was pareidolia,they would've chalked it up to pareidolia,called everyone paranoid and closed the book on the whole issue with that. Instead,they just straight up lied and said that there were "beeps" on the recording instead of a voice,and then quietly pulled the toy from the shelves. This is why I'm so eager to hear what the heck this actually sounds like. Like,is it just an amalgamation of random noise which only vaguely sounds like "I hate you" , or is it actually a clear voice speaking the words "I hate you" ?
This doesn't seem like lost media, this seems like something you could pick up at a thrift store.
Ha,I only wish it could be found that easily ! This thing got pulled from the shelves so fast that barely anyone got to buy it, and most of the people who did have it ended up throwing it away after hearing the news. It's quite rare. Here's hoping it does actually turn up at some thrift store,tho.
Hmm,I would say it would count as lost audio. The most interesting thing to me is,what is the origin of the audio? Like,where did they sample it from? That seems extremely difficult to find out tho,first lets focus on actually finding the audio. I'll definitely be scouring around eBay and the like.
I wonder if this is actually going to end up like Evilstick, where there was actually some crazy thing hidden. Doubt it, but it's happened before. Most likely, the Chinese manufacturer mistakenly mixed another audio track in with generic ocean sounds volume 4., or the recording was done in a building, and people were talking in the background at one point, and it got mixed into the track. Going to bet that ocean sounds was stock though.
I already have a pretty good theory on what happened,I think. I think the manufacturer mistakingly used a track from some university study on subliminal/hypnotic suggestion. A lot of these sorts of studies were done in the 90s. They would play tapes with subliminal or hypnotic suggestions to people while they were asleep,awake or under hypnosis,and then conduct tests on them afterwards. I think what happened here was,after the study was concluded the recordings used went into the public domain. The recording was probably just labeled something like "Ocean Sounds", and the fact that it contained the "I hate you" subliminal suggestion was probably only included in a footnote - a footnote that the manufacturer probably didn't bother to read. This seems to make the most sense to me,tho it's just purely my speculation,I have no proof.
The only other thing I could think of is that someone actually put it on there on purpose,because they have some sort of interest in influencing kids to grow up to hate their parents or something? Hmmmm. Actually hearing it would really help in determining whether it's unintentional background noise or intentionally mixed in. In the news article,the voice is described like this:“The voice has a softness to it. It sounds hypnotizing." Seems intentionally mixed in. Still,even if it was,that doesn't mean the manufacturer was aware of it. My bet is on the university study theory.
This sounds really bizarre. Like something bizarre enough I'd want to actually hear it, cheap Chinese toys with random English mixed in have a campy charm.
I think they key to finding the audio is to find a example being sold online on something like Ebay. People sell used worthless toys all the time, it has to be somewhere. The issue is that given it being some cheap Walmart brand it might either be under some completely random description or have not sold nearly as well as to make it abundant to find.
A question: While it comes from a toy, since we are trying to find the sounds it makes does that count as lost audio? It's kind of in that grey lost media area
Hmm,I would say it would count as lost audio. The most interesting thing to me is,what is the origin of the audio? Like,where did they sample it from? That seems extremely difficult to find out tho,first lets focus on actually finding the audio. I'll definitely be scouring around eBay and the like.
I found someone's old rant on the poor quality of Kid Connection toys:https://apeiron.blogspot.ca/2004/05/wal-mart-kid-connection-brand-is-crap.html
Here is one part that stuck out to me:
To save money, Wal-Mart contracts with manufacturers to make several private label toys, which are sold under names such as Wal-Mart's Kid Connection. Profit margins on these products, many of which are manufactured outside the United States, are often twice those of brand-name toys, said the executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he continues to do business with the retailer.
Yes,as far as I understand,this toy was meant to be Walmart's cheap ripoff of the very popular Fisher Price aquarium toy. Good idea to check the archives,I'll head over to WaybackMachine right now
Fair warning, wayback machine, whenever it can't find a page in the date range you are at, will pick a random archive from way later for the page you are trying to get to. Be sure to try and avoid any snapshots past 11/16/2003, as that is when the WorldNewsDaily update article was published, stating Walmart had pulled the toy.
Unrelated: Found this weird thing while trying to find images of the toy. Update on searching their site: haven't found anything other than unrelated sound toys and a bunch of Fisher Price garbage. Looks like Walmart didn't much promote Kid connections on their main website.
I'd say it's best to try to call them, but it's unlikely you'd get much info. Maybe something'll come up now this old controversies been dug back up from it's grave.
Yeah,I couldn't find anything about Kid Connections on there either. The brand is easily found on the current site,but seems to be completely absent from the archived site. Strange. As for calling Walmart,I don't think that would be very useful. It's kind of in Walmart's best interest to try and cover this up as much as possible,that's the way they acted back then and I don't think they would act any different now. In the article,it says that they even went as far as to completely deny that there was any subliminal message at all,saying that there were only some "beeps" on the toy's recording,and not a voice. Despite the overwhelming amount of people who reported hearing a voice. Contacting Walmart should only be done as a last resort,I think.