Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Nov 10, 2017 23:15:54 GMT
I don't know if any similar thread have been created, if that's the case I apologize. With that said:
I've seen a lot of people in here asking if toys and other physical items could be considered lost media, the answer is always no, and I agree. However, I was wondering, if toys and other physical items are not los media, then what are they? Are they lost whatever? Do they even fall into a lost thing category?
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Nov 10, 2017 22:32:25 GMT
The other day I was watching a video about flash Mario games, and I remembered one specific game I had several years ago, I don't even know where did I get it, I guess it was in one of those CDs everyone had at the time which was full of flash games/animations, fail videos, Spider-Man wallpapers, and others. It was called Luigi's New Mansion, I have no clue of when it was made, but I had this when I was like 10 so it's pretty old. This is what I remember about it:
Graphics: It was a mish mash of graphics, the Luigi sprite was ripped from Super Mario World, but other graphics looked like they were made on Microsoft Paint
Music: Most of the music (at least for what I can remember) was taken from Mario games, though they sounded a bit different, so I don't know if it was a compression issue or if the creator kinda remixed them to make them sound slightly different
Controls: The controls were pretty basic, you moved with the arrows and I think you jumped with the space bar...? I'm not too sure about that. I think you also needed one more key but I completely forgot which one
Story: The game's plot is that Luigi (again, the sprite was the Super Mario World one) was walking around some green field or whatever, the music that played on this portion was the Flower Garden theme from Yoshi's Island, this one:
...but again it sounded slightly different. Anyway, he stumbles upon a creepy, realistic looking, extremely weird tiki mask (I remember which music played on this part, but I don't know its name or which Mario game is it from) and it offers Luigi to sell him a mansion for $100, and thus, the first part of the game starts. Your objective here is to collect $100, I think there was a time limit but I'm not sure about that. Instead of coins, the currency was represented on green bills, one bill equals 10 bucks, so you needed 10 bills to save up the $100, I believe there were more than 10 bills but again, not sure about this. The layout was pretty simple, with only like one or two bills tricky to get, mostly because of the controls, not because it was actually hard. The music on this part I believe was the obstacle course theme, also from Yoshi's Island, this one:
...although I'm not 100% sure about this one. When you finally get all the $100 it inmediately cuts to Luigi giving the money to the tiki mask with this fanfare from Yoshi's Island playing:
Now we're in the mansion, and as you probably guessed, the mansion is haunted with Boos (I believe the sprites were also from Super Mario World), the music on this part I think was the haunted house theme from Super Mario World, this one:
You're defenseless on this segment, so you can't do nothing but dodge the Boos. After reaching the upper part of the mansion, Luigi meets his new neighbor, Yoshi (I seem to remember that Yoshi looked pretty strange, so I don't think it was the Super Mario World nor Yoshi's Island sprite), who gives him a special gun to kill the Boos, so now you have to walk around the house again, this time to the lower part again, killing the Boos
And that's all I can remember. It was a extremely short game so there wasn't too much after that point. The ending was that Luigi gets rid of all the Boos and he's able to live a normal life in his new mansion. I tried to find a picture of the tiki mask but I couldn't find that exact mask. I couldn't find a screenshot of the game either. Finally, I think I might still have this, but if I do, it's stored in a DVD that might be all scratched and I don't even know if it exists. I might check those out later. But in the meantime, does anybody remember this game or where to find it? It's pretty crappy but I'd like to check it out again, for the sake of nostalgia
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Oct 28, 2017 11:12:43 GMT
These two are two really old flash online games, a marketing campaing made by Doritos with the purpose of promoting two old flavors that they "bring back from death" on Halloween. I don't know the exact release date, but I found out that PewDiePie made a let's play of Hotel 626 (the first one) on May of 2011, I also checked the Asylum 626 website on the Wayback Machine, and it shows activity as far as september of 2009
These games had a gimmick: Not only you needed both a webcam and a microphone to play, but they'd also work only on Halloween during night time, from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM, if you tried to play them on another time the websites wouldn't load. They were pretty popular games back in the day, so there's tons of footage of them on YouTube (like I said even PewDiePie played them, though that dude plays literally anything so that's not saying much)
Eventually both games were taken down a few years ago, a lot of online flash games websites claim to have it but they either won't load or pull some nasty trick like "register to play" so I won't even bother on checking. Like I said I also checked the Wayback Machine, and even though it shows activity on the website starting from 2009, all the way to 2013, I can't actually see it. Oddly enough, it also shows activity on 2016 and 2017
Lastly, I read on some weird, extremely doubtful wikia about Hospital 626, the supposed third game, but I haven't found information about it anywhere else, there's not even footage on YouTube, so it probably doesn't exist and that wikia sucks. Like I said there's tons of footage of both Hotel 626 and Asylum 626 on YouTube, so if you're curious about them you can check them out, and since Halloween is almost here I guess it'd be worth checking their websites
I checked the "About Six Samana" section, and it seems like it's a magazine, though I don't know if it's Kurosawa's or if he's just a regular contributor. I also see another name in there: Yuki Shimokawa. We should try to investigate her, although again, everything is in japanese so it might be difficult
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Oct 24, 2017 22:57:57 GMT
I'm very sorry for using the japanese title, but this one's pretty... particular, I don't even know where to begin with
Ever heard of Hong Kong 97? No, I'm not talking about the 1994 Robert Patrick movie, I'm talking about the 1995 Japan-exclusive game, developed by HappySoft and designed by the japanese journalist クーロン黒沢 (Kūron Kurosawa, also refered as Kowloon Kurosawa). The game is infamous for being extremely bad, and for using a picture of a real dead body as its game over screen. If you wanna know a bit more about this game, I recomend you to check out this video:
Anyway, back to the topic: I was watching the Angry Video Game Nerd episode about Hong Kong 97 (the video I just inserted), and started reading comments, and I felt a bit of curiosity about this game and its creator, since its release state is a mistery, and overall the game has an eerie aura surrounding it, so, after reading a tiny little bit about its creator on reddit (where people claims he has a pretty... specific style, which is evident by the contents of the aforementioned "game") I checked the game's Wikipedia page and there I found the name of the creator. Unfortunately, this is where things start getting difficult and confusing, since his Wikipedia page is only available in japanese and I know little to no japanese, so I had to depend on the questionable Google translator
I was quickly checking the section where it talks about his works (again, Google translations aren't that good so I'm not interested on reading mostly gibberish) when I found something interesting, something which apparently is called 『バイオレンスシティ山谷』(which Google translates as "Violence City Yamaya"), and, right next to the title, it says "VHS・30分", which apparently translates to "VHS 30 Minutes". On its description (which, once again, it's a poor translation courtesy of our best friend the Google translator) it says:
Tokyo Minami-Senju in the Doya the city , Sanya video work that the (Mr. Ya) on the stage.
Taking pictures with hidden shots by household video cameras (which were large at the time) with their peers at the time. As a behind-the-scenes story, he said he was in danger by the raids of the inhabitants there
Since it is on the "My own work" section of the article (right below Hong Kong 97), and because of the "VHS 30 Minutes" thing, it makes me believe that this is, in fact, a movie (in case you're wondering, the rest of stuff listed on the "My own work" section are a bunch of Music CDs and something translated as "Torture Master", so... yeah, again, this guy is truly something), but the thing is, I can't seem to find it
How much info do I have? Sadly not much, and since everything I find is in japanese is hard to say what do I actually have, but I did my best to piece everything together and this is what I have in store:
Firts of all, some reddit user claimed to have found Kurosawa's Facebook page, in an attempt to ask him about the dead body featured in Hong Kong 97 (which apparently is an autopsy photo of some Polish boxer who killed himself), but when he was asked about the dead body, he didn't respond, so he doesn't seem to be very cooperative
With that said, back to the movie: First of all, Kurosawa actually has a IMDB page, but he's only credited for Hong Kong 97. I also found a tweet from a user which Google translates as "Eh", it has a URL to Tumblr, as well as a japanese text that says ""Violence City Yamaya" (VHS · 30 minutes) A video work set in the Doya area, Sanya, in the Minami-Senju, Tokyo area, with home video cameras (which were large at the time) Shooting by secret shooting by " (almost the exact same thing as the Wikipedia page), the Tumblr URL has an almost identical text as well
Finally, I found some kind of old short japanese film on YouTube called "japan sanya, tokyo" which is split into 4 parts, I didn't bother to watch it, but the full thing lasts around 25 minutes, which almost fits with the duration of this "Violence City Yamaya" thing, but those missing 5 minutes kinda bother me, also, this seems more like a documentary rather than a film, it doesn't seem to feature anything related to violence, and the last part cuts to a black screen halfway through, which means that this actually lasts like 23 minutes, which is farther of those 30 minutes, and, most importantly, there are no credits
So I think that's everything I have right now, so... yeah, like I said this Kurosawa guy seems to be quite the character, so I'm kinda doubtful if I actually want to know what this Violence City Yamaya thing is
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Oct 24, 2017 9:16:43 GMT
So just a bit of a disclaimer: this is pretty recent, so it might change its status shortly
For those of you who don't know, Super Best Friends Play are a group of let's player who play and comment a variety of video games, they're kinda like Game Grumps more or less
On the year 2014, they made a Nuzlocke challenge on Pokemon LeafGreen (for those of you who don't know what a Nuzlocke is, it's basically a run where the player adds several rules and prohibitions to make the game harder), which you can find complete on their YouTube channel... except for the finale. The finale of the series wasn't a regular video, but rather a live stream which lasted quite a few hours, what makes this a special case is that they didn't upload it to YouTube, they decided to keep it as exclusive content on their website, along with a few other stuff
Recently (and I mean VERY recently, like a few hours ago or something), they decided to close their website, so all of the exclusive content (at least the content that fans didn't re-upload) got lost, including the Nuzlocke finale
Although the last 15 minutes were uploaded to YouTube on a relatively low quality, as well as the segment where Pat shows up for the stream (both of them currently available on YouTube), the rest of the footage (which, again, lasted a few hours) is apparently lost
They archived some footage of it on their Twitch page, but they deleted it when they uploaded it to their website. I also checked Dailymotion, but there's no footage of the Nuzlocke finale
Like I said, this is extremely recent, so there's a high probability that either the Super Best Friends or fans themselves eventually upload the whole thing to YouTube, but at the moment this thread was created, the (almost) full streaming is lost