Exploring Dead Games 3

40:04 AIN'T NO WAY

Some say blockland 1892 will only stop when the sun burns out, I say they will outlive it

39:30 Lol, I really glad you liked my basement with all the books I had given custom titles to. It took like a week to get them all working. Sorry for the explosive one..

It's possible that the Master Sword server ran out of storage. Throughout all those years, the server may have been quietly writing log files until it ran out of space. Then when you delivered the quest, it tried to write one more piece of data and... well, it couldn't. Well done. Thanks for the vid.

Dude the memorial for Active World members isn't even sad, that is the most beautiful shit I have ever seen. RIP DMC2U.

the 1892 in blockland1892 is when he started racing

44:10 Blockland Soccer ⚽ We've held soccer tournaments every summer since 2014, along with other smaller events throughout the year. All of our matches have been recorded live with commentary, and are available to watch, no soup or tea necessary!

Ah, I'm so glad you played Speedkart Remastered in blockland, I did the announcer voice! I love hearing my own voice blare across someone else's speakers when they win/lose lol

In a sense, would this be considered a form of Digital Archeology? Just because the cities aren't made of brick and stone, it doesn't mean there weren't hundreds, if not more, that at some point called these spaces home.

The tribute to DMC2U and all the others who helped to build and foster the Active Worlds community into what it was-- that's gotta be one of the most tasteful beats I've ever seen in a YouTube video.

Is it just me, or is he an amazing comfort youtuber? Both his voice and editing style are so soothing.

man there are a lot of these kinds of "exploring dead game" videos but yours are always way more comfier and it's like you try to tell a story in them, they're great

That "Heat" game was exactly what I imagine it would be like to be the last human on earth. You spend your whole day doing dumb eccentric stuff to forget the loneliness. That scene of you going into the empty white house, sitting down in the presidents chair and declaring yourself as the president was too perfect!

"Blockland survivor" here. Seeing it described as a dead game is heartbreaking to be honest. A small community and servers still persist, but I still really miss the old days.

blockland, my beloved... for a time it seemed to be possible competition for roblox, but in its heyday, the creator released one fatal update: v21, which saw the removal of rooms. in v20 and earlier, there were maps one could select for their server which would be the rooms of a house, in addition to custom-made maps and the flat plain seen in the video, atop which one would build with legos. the twist: you're lego-sized. the rooms were MASSIVE, and filled with hidden passageways and secrets, such as the bedroom window being breakable, allowing you to go outside, or the secret entrance into the cabinets in the kitchen. god knows why badspot chose to remove these, but they turned out to be so integral to the game's spirit and image that, combined with a total halt of subsequent updates, it set in motion a long decay of popularity until the sad death that has taken so many multiplayer games. what a tragedy.

The TFC segment sent me for a wild nostalgia trip. I used to religiously play it when I was younger on an old PC that was shared with my siblings and eventually when that died I played on my brother’s laptop. Three of the servers you visited are some of the servers I believe I used to frequent as they were semi active back then, and I would play climb maps if no one was on and would always try to do the escape maps but didn’t usually succeed as myself and the other handful of people couldn’t figure them out or weren’t skilled enough. My favorite memories are probably from the “conc” jumping maps as I befriended a guy from Switzerland named “Quaid” and he taught me to his best ability to “conc” jump, and I was constantly trying to get on the same time as him, and eventually he stopped playing as I think he was set to do military duty or something like that😭 I miss ya buddy, you were a great teacher and gave me tons of memories when I didn’t have the resources to buy newer games. I love your videos so much and wanted to thank you for providing such amazing content, sorry for the wall of text just remembered some great moments of my childhood.

That entire HEAT section was like a fever dream

12:30 a lot of webcams in the 90s were not webcam streams like we have today - it was basically a webcam taking a picture every 10/20/30 seconds and uploading it.

The post-zinger dancing in HEAT had me crying every single time 😂.

Your Comprehensive History of Internet Horror was the video I saw of yours and you immediately became one of my favourite YouTubers. Your delivery and editing is really really good and this series is so much fun. Thanks for all your hard work!