I Was Messaged About A Game That Doesn't Exist - Inside A Mind

I was asked to cover the video game, Catastrophe Crow 64. Problem is, not only did it have a strange development history. It apparently doesn't even exist. Follow me on this journey as we dive down another strange rabbit hole surrounding the KZbin channel, Adam Butcher, and a bizarre game he recently discovered known as Crow 64.
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[@HailNeatoBurrito]

Basically this guy made a game for his Daughter, she died and he broke down, planned his suicide, coded his suicide into the game and also fucking up the code himself, and then killed himself

[@ramanihusic9013]

@@anonymousperson8710 lol ok

[@phantolmao]

Yea, it doesn’t really make any sense

[@mamabear9467]

@@anonymousperson8710 Ok what can I do!

[@tobbleboii5988]

the first guy to find out the email adress then regisetred it and started replying. makes sense, but it's still misterious as hecc

[@disowient]

@@anonymousperson8710 I'd like to know more about these shadows you're seeing, if it's not too much of a problem

[@albusnightspring8057]

"I'm your german son, don't mind it if I speak to you in english"

[@Elchan555]

LMAO

[@kekyoinsegg3897]

DIO

[@thineevee7345]

Lol

[@Schwiwi]

Nach allen bekannten Gesetzen der Luftfahrt, Es gibt keine Möglichkeit für eine Biene sollte fliegen können. Seine Flügel sind zu klein, um sie zu bekommen sein fetter kleiner Körper vom Boden ab. Die Biene fliegt natürlich trotzdem weil es Bienen egal ist Was Menschen denken, ist unmöglich.

[@mistorm378]

@FazedX did you try to google translate? XD

[@GreenyPika]

Usually lines like "The player is gone." is just inserted mindlessly in horror games just to be creepy without adding any real meaning to it. I'm genuinely surprised that they made it work in this context since the game was made for the daughter.

[@crimsoniaxx]

I have to admit, the story did get a bit corny/goofy, it seems like toward the end they were just trying too hard to make it mysterious and creepy, but I do have to give credit to that. The beginning was very well-made! Like, seriously!

[@DesolateLavender]

That line, in that context, is more depressing than creepy.

[@domenicstuckless1009]

Bruh you guys need to research before u say shit this was about his daughter dying 🤨 the creators daughter died during development of the game which caused him to do that to the game

[@balls_gaming]

@@domenicstuckless1009 thats what he was saying. he said that they used it well seeing that the game was for the daughter

[@norliyana2471]

Imagine making a game so that your daughter/son can see it but instead a random stranger plays it and get the message that was supposed to be for your daughter/son instead.

[@Ascertivus]

That's really sad to me. I hope that if this is all true, the creator's child (if they are still alive) gets to finally play the game someday.

[@blancaaaaaaa]

@@Ascertivus this is an arg so its not real

[@EEE-ro5px]

@@Ascertivus lol it isn’t actually real

[@testerwulf3357]

@@Ascertivus I honestly hope they don't..no child should watch the hell that is a game like this; watching a crow representing their father commit suicide, watching a crow representing their dead sister on life support. It's disturbing. He took the game and stuff with him for a reason, no one should of seen it (originally it would of gone to his son next but then he spiraled and it was for no one anymore)

[@leix7]

I think the "accidental creation" was just him having a mental breakdown and ruining the game.

[@hawley5240]

The plot of the arg is basically him losing his mind because of grief.

[@hawley5240]

Damn the story is just so depressing and more personal compared to other arg's that has murders.

[@ruller8901]

i say this game is pretty whacky except for that scene with a crow body being kept alive which is similar to how you dream something extremely effed up and morbid and when you wake up you start wondering if your head is being influenced by satan

[@jeremychristianestillore1446]

Did you just explain the entire game?

[@Inplogo]

Probably, yeah

[@dwfc775]

Y'all spent all this time trying to solve this... Imagine Nintendo finds this and just copyright strikes it for simularities.

[@rainbowroad]

lol

[@semidecent4395]

Then they’re claiming the decapitated crow scene lmao

[@dwfc775]

@@semidecent4395 I'm dead, that's the funniest shit I heard in days!

[@throwaway569]

@@semidecent4395 It becomes canon

[@DJFlare84]

Someone should write him an email pretending to be from Nintendo threatening to sue.

[@ur.left.buttcheek]

Imagine that guy's search history: "Crow sounds" "Choking crow" "Super Mario 64 assets" "How to make arg game" "Arg games" "How to fake your death wikihow" "How to abandon your company wiki how" "N64 free assets" Edit: "Girl screaming sound effect" "Girl scream"

[@airbrushrendering6027]

ok but why does that make sense. If you think about it, that could be their history. yeah i know its a joke but it just feels like it could be his history-

[@bakatoaster6000-yt]

💀

[@ur.left.buttcheek]

@@FormerlyALazer it may be, but at least it's interesting as all hell

[@zachary1951]

@@FormerlyALazer c'mon my life is also a lie you ain't special

[@simon1334]

You forgot "girl screaming sound effect"

[@kiyagregory1148]

PLEASE HEAR ME OUT there’s a music artist called “BNNY RBBT” he made music from 1980-1994 he disappeared and left only tapes and was never seen again

[@kiyagregory1148]

Please do a video on him...

[@_ikako_]

@@kiyagregory1148 probably died and his family didn't release a press statement.

[@kiyagregory1148]

@@_ikako_ probably but who knows... there’s loads of conspiracy theories over him 😔

[@metalgearzwei]

probably another ARG, but posted “mYsTeRiOuSlY” as just normal music with aesthetics

[@Ascertivus]

Interesting! Creepy, but interesting.

[@TechyFB]

Remember: The person responding to emails is a PERSON. Treat him with respect. edit: don't mean to be repetitive, but this is my most liked comment ever. wow

[@howeyyadoing9070]

Don’t impersonate his wife, dear god!

[@gpliskin]

It's an ARG. It's a person doing a character.

[@LowIntSpecimen]

@@gpliskin i think they mean while it's someone playing a character, it's still a human being behind it.

[@howeyyadoing9070]

@@gpliskin I know that but it just seems wrong even then

[@TechyFB]

@@gpliskin sorry, didn't understand ARGs at the time, I'll leave the comment up tho

[@mizurora9496]

When the older crow in the computer says “H WQ HT ROEE” It translates to “I am in hell” stating how it was hell for him to continue programing the game after she passed

[@Sushi_Dog]

How do you know?

[@mizurora9496]

@@Sushi_Dog In one of the gameplays uploaded by the accounts shown in the video you can find the key to the “crow language” in a weird zone where the pause menu is in that language. Just compare the letter to the one of the regular menu and you can get most of the alphabet

[@Sushi_Dog]

@@mizurora9496 Ah, alright. Very smart.

[@CounterMS]

@@mizurora9496 nice

[@yaboi9507]

Maybe, the "eternal revival system" thats possibly revived him caused him to become immortal, cursed to work on the game he no longer has a use forever, as his own "personal hell"

[@maxieeez.]

this ARG is absolutely f--kin amazing, creating a fake n64 game, to making a fake lost media retrospective to tell a story of an absolutely tragic family loss of a daughter. It's honestly amazing.

[@klopse8858]

This is so fucking crazy. This should get so much more attention, its crazier than Petscop I hope this story comes to a conclusion.

[@potatonite2340]

someone put my main furry man Pyro on the case

[@ljones2087]

its fake: kotaku.com/the-story-of-crow-64-a-game-that-did-not-exist-1845386675

[@ljones2087]

@@OPROSEBUD thats not very nice! I do tend to miss out on the obvious sometimes...

[@metallicfingers]

@@ljones2087 literally the title is “i was messaged about a game that _doesn’t exist”_ don’t beat yourself up though

[@Evanz111]

Petscop was way more thought out though. Much wider reaching. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes nonetheless.

[@vocaloshroomy]

imagine being a child in an alternate timeline where this was released and finding that damn decapitated crow scene-

[@TheClickbaiterA]

Bad Memories: *heh nightmare goes brrrr*

[@leftysheppey]

Yeah, like, here ya go son, here's a game cartridge. The game is riddled with codes and creepy glitches, and references to your dead sister, but enjoy!

[@kittywithnomilk]

I'm a child-

[@xhostzohx7118]

Then that would be a universe where the game is an indie legend.

[@FelisInsanisCatfood]

The decapitated crow scene and every single other bizarre thing was made because the creator lost his child, the same reason why the game never released. If the game would bee released this would be a completely other game.

[@Kurai_69420]

Ah, the good old "video game necromancy gone wrong"

[@kenlieck7756]

I guess there was just no "consoling" the poor guy!

[@ceptemzorpus]

@@kenlieck7756 best puns in the wrong situations

[@SquirrelKilnBTS]

If I had a nickel for every time I've seen someone potentially bring themselves/others back from the dead with video games, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@goofenshmirtz14]

@@SquirrelKilnBTS what's the other game, I'd guess it's the weird game where it's supposed to be a CTF but you're the only player and when you score the flag the ghost of the devs wife appears

[@SquirrelKilnBTS]

@@goofenshmirtz14... I'd have three nickels. I can't remember the second one, though. No Players Online is def one of those!

[@mullinsgames1271]

am I the only one to notice that manfred not even being fazed by his creation talking back to him could hint that the game is sentient?

[@lrstick273]

just imagine chilling on the ocean floor and suddenly a bunch of emails appear

[@ermagerhd6140]

The decapitated crow on life support was I think the creepiest part. It’s making weird struggling breathing sounds that sound too realistic for those old games almost like one of those weird badly written creepy pastas brought to life

[@saturn21207]

Yeah, just wait until someone makes a crappy theory that the eternal revive system put her soul into the game or some shit and she became that crow.

[@likira111]

@@saturn21207 Allready has

[@likira111]

I own birds, we had a sick chicken from a place that kept them squashed together in filth. His lungs made that exact same "stciking" sound. I wonder if making such "sick bird" sound was intentional, and if that's what freaked me out so bad..

[@bakrobertjohnston4889]

Yea

[@MW-dz8zy]

What I find creepy is the lack of rhythm - at no point can I tell whether it is breathing in or out. It all sounds the same. It all sounds wrong. Also, as someone who had recurrent chest infections as a child, those sounds are alarmingly familiar

[@stylez5484]

The breathing of "the dying crow" surely sounds like a little girl on a machine having problems breathing , so I feel like that was a sound byte of his daughter and when the player became gone that was him trying to keep a piece of her alive in the game at the end or a dedication to her idk but it sounds like a female child breathing

[@cryptid_momochi]

It does, and it freaked me tf out tbh. Not poggers feelings. If what you're proposing its there for is true then the creator may have failed; 12:05 reads to me like that attempt led to the ingame version of the girl being murdered somehow.

[@wassassin2318]

"and i learned that from experience"

[@soaringthrough315]

It is a girls voice perhaps the his daughters voice oe someones somehow

[@RF-Ataraxia]

Just a while ago I saw a thread in here talking about those breathing noises, and they were saying that it was the sound of a sick bird, and that the maker of the game had to have researched this specific noise for the game or something. Can’t seem to find it again though, it was very interesting I like your theory though! Fits well with the story.

[@ShadowWolvesSong]

@@RF-Ataraxia I think it’s more likely to be a person making those noises- I intern and volunteer at a bird rehab center and I have never heard a sick or dying bird breathe like that

[@blankspace1416]

Perhaps this game IS the eternal revival system, he is being remembered, thus he won’t die fully

[@marvble_shmarvble]

That’s actually a really cool theory, and would make a lot of sense!

[@epin_gamer4209]

"The player is gone" a person playing the game: *understandable, have a great day*

[@aqzserdftgyh9437]

Catastrophe Crow : The player is gone The player :

[@theavregememer4381]

Lol

[@1882letter]

I know I'm going to be probably wooshed and maybe writing an literal essay, I'll take a shot. I'm pretty sure the player is Thea which made the crow design. This game was for her, but when something happened in which the player fell down the stairs..it can represent her of what happened. Decapitated crow can be Thea in which she has damage on her brain, hence an split image of a brain scan which can almost be seen somewhere. In why it kept pushing back, it's unknown for me.. But when he jumped off, it means that Thea is gone forever and can't save her now.

[@epin_gamer4209]

@@1882letter i mean since the game doesn't exist and was only meant to be played by thea at the time so this has to be true. by the way don't be sorry about writing essays, it's always good to train your lexicon and ability to express yourself.

[@cly_]

Me and the boys impersonating a grieving small child to disprove a suicide case.

[@fesket3174]

it do be like dat

[@rafaelmoreno6331]

Gonna get dirty to get intel somehow

[@Cabesandia]

This ARG rocks, but let's not pretend like it's not obviously fake.

[@seizuresalad1558]

@@Cabesandia yeah thats an arg is

[@pkoswald2083]

I men’s they probably aren’t a small child anymore since this was supposed to be an n64 game

[@likira111]

Even ignoring the symbolism of the headless crow child scene, His child is sick, he's stuck at work and he feels like he's drowning. I own birds, I even once had a sick one from a filthy place and his lungs made that exact sound. He got the potrayl of sick birds so right I feel like he researched it.

[@Lumbago-box]

Someone mentioned your comment in a reply thing

[@likira111]

@@Lumbago-box what?

[@Lumbago-box]

Someone said they saw your comment, or something simalar

[@likira111]

@@Lumbago-box where?

[@itookaquizanditsaidtheweas3266]

@@likira111 yeh there’s another comment here in the comment section and someone mentioned u in their theory or something 😂🤙 bless

[@gamingveteran430]

Theorys -Manfred Faked he's death =it might explain that he's answering emails -Is Nills alive =Probably -Daughter's death is a head injury from the stairs =Explains the brain scan texture on the glitched floor =Explains the headless crow -More coming soon, for now we wait

[@WhentheMauriceisMalicious]

kzbin.info/aero/PLWn8bT2RfmETXn6IDEC0x4fBblVCtGd1o theres a lil bit more to the game

[@trismania]

.

[@dominagargoyle4112]

the fact that im watching this to create a musical album based on liminality and detachment from reality makes things exactly like a college work for an essay

[@rockhistoria2537]

Oh cool, I am looking forward to see how it goes!

[@ljensen7884]

That decapitated crow scene was genuinely disturbing and sad.

[@kaaminooo]

@Or a man 11:40 my friend

[@flaregooni6697]

@chris b crow

[@flaregooni6697]

That was fucking scary

[@FirstNameLastName-wg8ld]

Like god damn, you don't have to give me nightmares haha. Personally, I found the noises to be the most disturbing part since it just sounds like something that could be made by a living being, but is too unrealistic to be possible. Anyone else here have a "most-disturbing" part?

[@meek8472]

@@FirstNameLastName-wg8ld the most desturbing bit is the fact that it represents his daughtor for me

[@DemonDragonGD]

If anybody is wondering what the crow said to the “I AM IN HELL”

[@leiilo1458]

then?

[@januaryravelo4342]

@@leiilo1458 13:19 They translated what the crow said from earlier. The crow said “IAM IN HELL” in crow language.

[@leiilo1458]

@Murauder captain fearless solaris atheen oh,

[@leiilo1458]

@@januaryravelo4342 ok

[@Zealox]

#relatable

[@jakeeynick1369]

Maybe the end of the ARG will have Nils receiving the copy of Catastrophe Crow and then he’ll start playing the game on KZbin and suddenly all the levels and stuff are totally normal and innocent and something you’d expect to see on N64. Just an idea.

[@clintonmcbride7015]

What does ARG mean?

[@jakeeynick1369]

@@clintonmcbride7015 Alternate Reality Game

[@squarohedron0664]

​@@clintonmcbride7015its basically just interactive creepy pasta

[@oa6813]

I have this theory where maybe Manfred did commit suicide, and the emails responding to people are just pre-written messages that are being sent automatically based on keywords. (I know of some features that can do this). This could explain why the messages are pretty vague, and focus on specific words.

[@hasintabassum532]

considering that language and way of speaking has changed so much in the recent years, i'll have to disagree

[@oa6813]

@@hasintabassum532 You make a good point, perhaps he has entrusted certain people to run his email.

[@userAsiral]

@@oa6813 or preharps his son is behind this?

[@reddinulus]

At least someone buyed the developer cartridge for the nintend64o

[@lenabanx6221]

How would the automated replies be able to state the names of people who were impersonating and using youtube channel names/made up names? I've never seen an automated reply system that can type unique messages from the email that triggered the automated reply. But I'm not familiar with that sort of thing. But it was odd to me that anytime ML stated their names it was in quotation marks.

[@calfinhobbes1082]

when i have a close school deadline for the choice assignment "i am in hell one i made myself"

[@241Cookies__]

Every procrastinator ever

[@genphobic4682]

calfinhobbes LMFAO

[@Goomba456]

@@241Cookies__ crowcrastinator

[@241Cookies__]

@@Goomba456 GENIUS

[@nathanjohnpalaogaming4872]

@@Goomba456 ME WHEN MANFRED LORENZ

[@crabohato4954]

Damn, inside a mind really is active these days. Dont stress yourself too much now

[@paulomenezes2169]

To me seems that he just discovered the world is going to end I’m December so he want to give us some good memories

[@besnick]

@@paulomenezes2169 you should stay out of facebook a bit

[@Ryablol]

wait whose joe

[@anuragneelam8527]

@@Ryablol joe mama HAAA FUNNY HaHA

[@Ryablol]

JOE MOMMA HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAH im failing 2nd grade help

[@rimut230]

"So he never received it..." Ah shit this is sad...

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

I'd like to mention that that drawing reading "Katastrophe Krähe" immediately sets of red flags, as it's clearly made by an English speaker trying to pass it off as made by a German child. This is simply not how German compound nouns work. A mistake that can happen when translating from English to German obviously makes no sense in a German child's creation, it really should have been "Katastrophenkrähe." Hurts immersion/believabilty of the story. The letter is also suboptimally composed. It is written in a very... non casual, poetic, flowery, old-timey way. Now, while this isn't a problem and the contrast between that and the hasty handwriting and spelling mistake can also be a deliberate choice by Adam, the word "gucken" is really out of place there. Also "dekodieren" clashes in a similar way, and I suspect it was used because it's very simialr to "decode", meaning, we again are dealing with evidence of the text being written in English and translated. Also, the messade the game displays encodes "Dad" as "XWX"? So on top of the previous points, either Manfred calls himself "dad" instead of "Papa" or anything else more common in Germany or rather, looking at how the line lengths between message and screenshot line up, the in-story character just gave up at this point and left the message in English.

[@VD_the_GodKing]

It's because it's an ARG.

[@Keznen]

@kevan diles But a good ARG should still be immersive and somewhat believable.

[@solouno2280]

to be honest, the nail in the coffin was the 4k quality in an CRT TV

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

@@VD_the_GodKing "Hurts immersion/believabilty of the story." As I said. An ARG specifically wants to be believable and allow you to easily suspend your disbelief.

[@testerwulf3357]

A lot of args use other languages in some parts to code stuff, and they're usually not fluent in them so they use google translate or something similar which causes those errors and oddities which are immersion breaking to those fluent in the language; it sucks but it's just something you have to deal with..only way to avoid it is getting someone fluent in a languge you want to use in your arg to write parts for you which isn't always possible for everyone wanting to start an arg

[@doomtoast8520]

I think the man who found the copy labeled "crow" was Nils himself, he must've forgot about the game and just decided to sell the cartridge.

[@caitlyncole9150]

That’s exactly what I was thinking

[@CrowAkechi_The_Luminary]

perhaps

[@ae1103]

Oohh shit

[@catsrcoolas]

Or it was Manfred himself who sold it

[@filipsperl]

how would you forget about probably the only copy in the world of a game your dead father made and sent it to you?

[@zceri]

I'm so sleep deprived I thought his ending was "..for now, this is where our story draws to a *crows* "

[@femcelfootjob]

well now im genuinely upset that isnt his ending

[@mortarion9813]

@@femcelfootjob Would've made for a perfectly good joke.

[@vexedwave2528]

A missed opportunity

[@vivekgogate3068]

Have you ever tried Yog nidra? Try it tonight.....

[@zceri]

Thanks for the concern y'all. Also I don't know what Yog Nidra is, but I can look it up. For now I resort to "calming fall-asleep" youtube videos lmao

[@imjaden1655]

" Think about the player Manfr- " " The player is gone. " " W-What? "

[@tamayako2000]

I'll try and make a theory of my own "Dearest Thea, I am sorry that I could not be with you in the end. I was too afraid. I ran, and now I am in hell. One I made myself." - This sounds a lot like Thea died("the player is gone."), and he wasn't with her in her final moments because he was afraid of seeing her die, or perhaps he was too occupied with creating the game for her. Now he's ashamed of himself, the guilt of not being there for her is consuming him, and he believes it's his own fault that he feels this way. Maybe he even blames himself for her dying. "Maybe if I was with her, she would have held on." Perhaps he grew obsessed with completing the game to honor her memory, maybe hoping it would bring him peace. Maybe, in his grieving mind, he thought that making her game would somehow bring her from the brink of death, give her a new will to live, but it just didn't work out that way. Maybe that's what broke him and caused him to turn the game into more of a cry for help or elaborate suicide note, detailing what he had to suffer through. The crow on life support, the crow jumping off the boat, the crow obsessively typing code, "he's not been home for days.", it all matches parts of the story. This was the hell he made for himself.

[@BOMBBOMBBOOMBOOM]

Yummy theory bro

[@phantolmao]

The “Crow jumping from a boat with a computer” footage, in my opinion, does not represent Manfred himself doing the same. It represents what he wanted to do with himself, yet he pushed himself to continue further on the game. The “Eternal Revival System” did not bring him back, because the code simply didn’t work due to the limitations of the software. In my opinion, because of the emails, he is still alive, and simply faked his death.

[@where_chickens_fly]

You missed the part where, the crow went into the water with his computer, so I am thinking this further states that he felt like he was drowning in his work. Idk, very tempted to send an email though. Just to see what happens.

[@Nik-6675]

What about the computer equipment?

[@adelaide7822]

@@where_chickens_fly Did you? What happened?

[@Sylvi3cat]

I agree who is responding to the email

[@Sylvi3cat]

@@where_chickens_fly but they found a note on a boat in his writing and with there name and other stuff...

[@evilboy3521]

For context, the email Inside A Mind has gotten stated this is an ARG, so an Alternate Reality Game. So just so you know, all of this never ACTUALLY happened, this is all just a ARG.

[@corbinius.]

@Originz Fishing it means the game actually never existed, the story isnt real and the person who made that youtube video made it up

[@cirriform]

i looked up the definition of an ARG, and it just means a game that uses the real world as a platform, so this comment doesn't make any sense to me. what do you mean this never happened

[@totallyrealcia]

@@cirriform It means the video is part of the ARG. None of the events described are actually real, and only serve as a backstory to the game.

[@cirriform]

@@totallyrealcia thank you i get it now

[@totallyrealcia]

@@cirriform np

[@carolineatkinson5982]

I love 17:05 "a cryptic response," and then just a picture of a liddol frogg

[@Alistair-The-Grox]

That decapitated crow scene fucking BROKE me. It didn't come across as creepy to me just... Sad

[@SisterRose]

In a way, recordings have the power to raise the dead. They're kind of scary.

[@rloach067]

petscop immediately popped into my mind as well 🤭 oh how i loved that story for the years it lasted

[@JPOfAwesomeness]

Petscop

[@JPOfAwesomeness]

I love that yes ig

[@oranges9319]

Wot

[@Phyllo9]

Most laugh tracks are the voices of the dead still laughing to this day. What's even more haunting is that they will be laughing long after we are gone.

[@kaitlynboss3497]

That...that child's room scene was deeply upsetting. It left me with a deep frown and a weird feeling in my chest.

[@FiSH-iSH]

its the breathing

[@midnightthoughts8519]

It's the atmosphere the game tried to set. It appears they were successful in making it unsettling.

[@frog4880]

An heart attack

[@trucevideos]

yah it scared the hell out of me

[@user-bh8xb2yy5d]

So true. This is all so sad, and terrifying. I mean, the decapitated crow is representing his daughter, right? What kind of terrible death did she have to be represented like that?

[@kagemushashien8394]

What's going on here is... The actual creater of this game and planning ahead is a real Genius

[@kiuukyo]

this video gave me chills. the part where towards the end, the crow (probably representing Manfred), goes back to the what used to be perfect home (with his wife and two children), enters Thea's room, and seeing a decapitated crow, and watching the crow decay and eventually passing away, with the scream.

[@blufferfish0896]

“catastrophe crow” is such an ironic name for the tragic life of the developer, lost his wife and his daughter before ending his career by supposedly taking away all the game software along with his life.

[@smoli]

It's not real bro

[@kenlieck7756]

@@smoli Catastrophe Bro!

[@desuretard8654]

That would be called a "coincidence"

[@ritzky100]

Why should his son, write him in English. Just text him in German.

[@iqwrjwqioprwjriopqrjpqowir]

I was thinking maybe this ML dude isn't the real guy. Why would he even respond emails sent in English, when his son is clearly German?

[@dabocousin]

@@iqwrjwqioprwjriopqrjpqowir this ML dude is someone pretending to be him

[@stillnotyourfriend1387]

@@dabocousin but if this ML pretending to be the real one, how this guy got the game footage?

[@BlueFlagAlpha]

It could be a fake person while the real one is probably alive somewhere

[@Brett_Gamingg]

NotYour Friend I don’t know maybe the cartridge on eBay?

[@MeghanGuastella]

Okay this was my first introduction to the ARG community, & had no clue this was fake (yeah Ik obvious but I’m gullible) I’m so impressed by this story and the entire ARG style of storytelling. I’m obsessed now.

[@clintonmcbride7015]

What does ARG mean?

[@priestshrek3738]

For anyone coming in recently, Im gonna reluctantly inform all of us that the ARG got canceled about a year ago unofficially/officially. It was announced on the discord server that the co-runner had confirmed that Adam was not actively working on it anymore.

[@lunacxx1330]

that’s such a shame, did anyone ever get to find out what would have happened if they found the location & birth date?

[@tristanortega3265]

Wait, you should investigate the actually reddit account,they have to be part of the story, you can probably get some answers, they were a beta tester after all

[@besnick]

it could just be the arg creator though

[@SolarisMusic]

@@besnick Even better

[@dersvictan4813]

Would it be accurate to call your pfp a Totem of unredstoning?

[@besnick]

@@SolarisMusic depends, if it is actually the dev then I doubt there's more posts on the account since it prob was only used to send the message

[@tristanortega3265]

@@besnick yes

[@Lucario997]

The way the email was phrased, it makes it sound like Nils' birthday is hidden within the game somewhere. If someone contacts the creator impersonating Nils, and is able to "prove" it with his birthday, then they might be able to get a response from him.

[@perkunasmiskinis6839]

fucked up as hell to impersonate someones dead kid to find out about their personal life i think

[@Saupocalypse]

I'm pretty sure one of the emails said that there were dates on the bottom of the cartridge? could that be a birthday?

[@eiosti]

@@perkunasmiskinis6839 yeah I'm really kind of confused as to how this is all an elaborate arg

[@Lucario997]

@@perkunasmiskinis6839 Is this not an ARG? I totally thought it was. This channel usually covers ARGs.

[@NicklePiefy]

@@perkunasmiskinis6839 I mean, it's a game. It's not real, lol

[@Regular_Decorated_Emergency]

He either faked his death and is using the email address or he actually died and some acquaintance of his is using the email address.

[@guestc142]

That game legit looks like a SM64 romhack. I mean look at some of the assets, eg the flowers (13:29). The jump physics are mostly the same as well, both games incorporate a triple jump feature where the protagoist does a flip.

[@lieutenantpinball689]

"Discovering something that doesn’t exist!" - Phineas and Ferb

[@memefriesjuice]

Or giving a monkey a shower!

[@rafaelhinojosa915]

Surfing tidal waves!

[@memefriesjuice]

Creating nanobots

[@bingitybong6518]

@Scratchy BOOO DELETE THIS

[@patch-fm]

@@memefriesjuice Or locating Frankenstein's brain (It's over here!)

[@MartinGiadrosich]

The most unrealistic part of the story is him getting a development cart for so cheap, lol.

[@solouno2280]

I insist is the full res CRT TV

[@HeroBrenn]

Well to be fair sometimes people don't know what they are and sell them for dirt cheap. After all, the ebay seller said that he didn't know what it was and just found it in his attic. So its not that unrealistic.

[@Lar_ry]

@@HeroBrenn no it really is a dev carts are known to be worth money and even if someone found it game collectors would have paid any amount of money to own the dev cart even if the game was unknown. I’ve collected games for over 35 years and never once ran into a dev cart for sale. That was a reasonable or affordable price. This just doesn’t happened.

[@doingbettereveryday]

@@Lar_ry i think he had the dev cart the whole time and possibly worked on the game. He could have added all those weird things in the game himself and then created youtube channels with footage of said weird things. And when they didn't gain any traction probably decided to make a new video about it on his main channel. Does anyone else actually have the game?

[@snakr1774]

@@Lar_ry dude stfu i knew a store here in germany that sold me too for like 50 euros each

[@ScrewdriverGaming]

I watched this in about late 2020, and somehow i missed the "doesn't exist" part and this really freaked me out. Very cool stuff though

[@idonthaveanygoodusernameid7713]

Did this ARG ever go anywhere? The newest videos I could find about it were just children playing the game and some weird Spanish videos that were also about playing the game

[@beardalaxy]

When you connected the "the player is gone" line to his daughter being dead I started to cry. I know it's not a real story but that's probably happened more than once in real life. Kind of makes me think of That Dragon Cancer, in a way.

[@tc-t8106]

Is it not real?

[@Tylercollinss]

@@tc-t8106 it’s an ARG

[@RAG3Xbox]

@@Tylercollinss i just started to get into these ARGs and damn i genuinely thought it was real for a second, like it was such an interesting story that it seemed real but also far fetched you know plus it doesnt help that people comment as if it was real, like id like to know more about ARGs

[@AkIsUkIro]

I just finished watching Mark played that game. God it hit me so hard.

[@kenlieck7756]

@@Tylercollinss However, the ARG is based on the true story of Laurence Mannfred, creator of Crowtastrophe Cat 46...

[@ilaughatgaypeople8760]

Bruh the decapitated crow in the child's room was thr creepiest part.

[@sarapetrovic6570]

Ikr

[@2xsaiko]

with the slow ass camera pan too

[@DragnSly]

That blood-curdling scream too

[@rag.animations]

I honestly thaught it was a fish. :/

[@lolrus5555]

@@DragnSly oh yeah, definitely, between the slow pan of the room, the weak, pained breathing, how the room suddenly fills up with water, and how it ends with one of those monsters taking the body away before abruptly ending on that blood-curdling scream, it's definitely a good pay-off to the ARG's introductory video.

[@user-ne4vh1it6e]

Imagine if the guy who found the game in his attic watched this video.

[@thinmintthemonkey2435]

Oh... Oh my God. THATS what he meant by, "The player is gone now..."

[@hehno4226]

The decapitated crow scene gives me shivers, the fact that it's possibly ML's daughter is just depressing af

[@midnightmoon6439]

@Jasix This is a very good theory which I believe but here's a question: How would you explain the room flooding and the decapitated crow being dragged off it's death bed and into the darkness while a little girl screaming is heard?

[@oofmyguy9807]

@@midnightmoon6439 i think that the girl being dragged to the darkness is a metaphor to death taking her away, i think that something fell on top of her and decapitaded her? thats why she was screaming. and the flooding is the creator remembering of that thing while drowning edit: ok i just read a comment of someone that owns birds, the daughter was sick, they said that the bird they took from a dirty place made that noise when they breathed.

[@midnightmoon6439]

​@@oofmyguy9807 Thanks that actually explains a lot to me! Also I think what you mean is that the Decapitated Crow who is the Mr. Crow the player character represents Thea, and that the older Crow wearing spectacles represents the father Manfred. Also even though I like your theory I must point out that Manfred faked his death and is in hiding but your theory is food for thought and does paint a interesting picture.

[@midnightmoon6439]

@Jasix Well I few that Sir Cat was originally going to be the cause of the Father Crow's disappearance, and this game was going to be something like Banjo Kazooie were you have to save a family member. Basically one of those fun, colorful and zany worlds we'd get to play in and explore. However Sir Cat and the original intention for the game was discarded when Thea died therefore making Manfred change the direction of Catastrophe Crow.

[@SeiShinjitsuShi]

Jaime: "Game started acting strange..." Me: It's a demo cart.

[@squidboy6404]

Haha

[@threemar3]

Gay meme format

[@squidboy6404]

@@threemar3 r u talking about your profile

[@skibidibap4411]

Take away the ":" stuff and nothing of value nor context has lost

[@timrosswood4259]

@@skibidibap4411 it wouldn't work without '':''.

[@phonfowo7625]

So Manfred wants his children to play a game that he created, but the player is gone and the other player never received it, Manfred is a genius who expected his son to figure out his puzzles but didnt, and his daughter died without even playing his game, someone make a movie with a reference of this it'll be a great tribute for Manfred

[@SpiralPoliFemboy]

The decapitated crow cutscene was already sad enough. Then the water rose up and you heard the child scream. Oh. My. God.

[@Freak80MC]

This man seriously made a whole N64 game for an ARG.

[@luukvdgaast2857]

looks like modded mario 64. not sure tho.

[@theconman6505]

@@luukvdgaast2857 nah, more likely banjo-kazooie

[@luukvdgaast2857]

@@theconman6505 could also be the case.

[@SnoppleWopple]

@Sidney Reading An* Besides the spelling error I will explain, an ARG is an alternate reality game where players have to do puzzles, find clues ect to solve a mystery

[@Descro382]

@@theconman6505 yeah I was gonna say.. the level transition sounds are the ones from Banjo lol

[@IntergalacticSpaceKitten]

It'd be cool if someone made an ARG like this that actually sold the cartridges of it on Ebay to people so they can buy it and figure it out themselves as the internet is figuring it out too.

[@zab416]

Heck, that might be next or at some point. Maybe would be pricey for the creators though.

[@freddonico]

@@zab416 they could simply dump the rom, I think

[@bababooey6969]

That might actually happen. I've seen some ARGs spill out into real-life application. Would be pretty cool.

[@superlagbro192]

I heard the rom of the game got leaked, ruining the end of the story.

[@xavagriffith438]

Well they allready did dump the rom on the internet

[@seanchan4478]

Man, it's been over a year and still no new developments. I check KZbin and reddit like once a week

[@SonicChan654]

i found this in my recommendations, not disappointed knowing the fact that the video was made by the same person who did a documentary on Daisy Brown, damn that was 2 years ago, i’m glad to be back on this channel, keep up the good work

[@TrashGoblin824]

Every copy of Catastrophe Crow 64 is personalized.

[@therestinghornet6906]

holy fuck thats insane.

[@user-zm4ro7yh4e]

before anyone comment "overused meme" I'm going to say... it's not.

[@FirstNameLastName-wg8ld]

*"You want fun? Manfred show you fun."*

[@user-zm4ro7yh4e]

@Scratchy Only when we reach 870001 we can start calling it overused!

[@user-zm4ro7yh4e]

@Scratchy thanks

[@larrydupp3988]

I think the eternal revival system is supposed to emulate how if you die in a game you just come back. It’s obvious, but what’s a common thing is that it’s never told to the player why they respawn, but using the term ‘eternal revive system’ has a purpose for more than just the game. But here’s the thing: the player is gone. The respawn didn’t work. And I think that’s going to be the big catch of this ARG

[@greyisnthere]

I hadn't even thought of that. I really like this interpretation.

[@theguyyouhate]

now i wonder if the ARG is going to involve the guy who played it dying and respawning then...

[@terracotta3401]

The eternal revival system probably means that he (ML) respawn after his "suicide" into a being that lives only on the game/internet. Now the question is.. how did thea respawn?

[@timstarkey3692]

What if, the creator (Manfred) faked his death. He's revived in a sense even though he was never dead in the first place.

[@terracotta3401]

@@timstarkey3692 yea, ofc he is fake his death (irl). So your interpretation makes sense

[@purplehaze2358]

I’m just imagining Manfred vibing to _To The Bottom Of The Sea_ by Voltaire all the way down at the bottom of the ocean.

[@fbardasian2052]

Wow, This is the first video of yours I have seen, but that intro was absolutely amazing!!!!

[@jtotheroc]

The sound when the crow enters his child's room was disturbing as all hell. Does catastrophe crow remind anyone else of Petscop??? Especially reguarding the Google comprehensive document

[@turnipxd]

ah Petscop....

[@fx00]

yeah i was just thinking that it has the same vibe as petscop

[@shay230]

@@fx00 well they're both args surrounding a Nintendo game

[@homecheese8625]

Dude I was thinking of Petscop this entire time

[@secondary_yt]

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long timw

[@outre111]

Wow this video really put me in a loop first I was thinking “is this real” then “no this can’t be” then “well maybe it is” very well made ARG I’ll give them that.

[@ChocolateShaddixX]

Same here! :D

[@DwayneHooverCore]

Same. I kept googling stuff to see if it was real

[@jeugene807]

I'm honestly still not completely certain it even is an arg

[@javieresq22]

It was very realistic until the "he revived through the game" thing

[@Lime.7242]

@@javieresq22 that was just something that inside a mind said tho

[@hypertonearkie]

wow. i got an ad in the middle of the video. the ad said "Hey! Wanna play some video games? I know i do..."

[@mudkipmyman110]

imagine basing a whole game on your daughters drawings. i would feel lucky to think of a game based on a kid's drawings.

[@SPFLDAngler]

"It's possibly his son" no, not possibly, it is 100% his son...you even read it out in the part where the father/brother(can't remember which) acknowledges the son/brother as the relative family member...

[@samanthaclaremejia7975]

Time stamp?

[@coolsk8r]

The father: Petscop The son: Catastrophy Crow The holy spirit: Polybius

[@applepi3866]

i have bad memories with petscop when i first heard about it

[@aarav7851]

My stomach hurts when I hear petscop

[@Munchtreats]

Ah, petscop and polybius, those bring out memories I thought I lost

[@twink-182]

I-

[@totallynotnoduty2042]

You ass this made me remember flasbacks. Bad ones (no offense btw

[@AGothNamedWednessday]

This is like an irl creepy pasta lost game, but like really good

[@bigpigeon2002]

This was the first project that stuck in my brain and made me realise how amazing ARGs and web series can be. It made me really start to look at these projects more closely and appreciate them.

[@trilliux]

Dude's voice is so calming it makes me want to have a British accent

[@ldgaming4213]

Im lucky I'm British 😂

[@trilliux]

@@ldgaming4213 very lucky

[@ldgaming4213]

What annoys me is people just say 'British accent' Well what do you want?: English Southern Accent English Northern Accent Worsestershire Accent London Accent Scottish Accent Welsh Accent Northern Irish Accent Irish Accent Newcastle Accent Southern West Accent Liverpool Accent

[@trilliux]

@@ldgaming4213 Reminds me of "American accent" and I deeply apologize for my sentence lol. I usually hear the english southern accent so I would most likely prefer that.

[@ldgaming4213]

Yeah, that's the stereotypical British accent 😂

[@popsocket6885]

Reading "That doesn't exist" loses my sanity and gives me existential crisis

[@zer0751]

Which part?

[@justaspiral13]

Can you give a timestamp or something, I want to lose my sanity too

[@Bos_Meong]

The title of video duh

[@justaspiral13]

@@Bos_Meong oh wow i

[@DeletedTroll]

This video does not exist, your comment does not exist, I do not exist. You do not exist.

[@Justin-hm3du]

Glad I got recommended this; love watching videos diving deeper into games with deep emotional background hidden inside (I.e. myhouse) 😁

[@ThatJay283]

9:57 "H WQ HT ROEE" => "i am in hell"

[@kenneththeball1081]

The community could of called it ‘crow scratch’ instead of crow language (Like chicken scratch but ya know crow)

[@static5436]

GENIUS

[@kenlieck7756]

@@static5436 Not so much. It's all just caws and effect, really...

[@static5436]

@@kenlieck7756 I thought you said "claws"

[@kenlieck7756]

@@static5436 Claws works better for scratching. Caws more directly relates to crows. So take your pick, it's Heckle vs Jeckyll and there's nowhere to Hyde...

[@jhort2121]

“This is only for your little brother now.” “you always looked alike" “Dearest Nils” “I am in hell.” “One I made myself.” “This is only for your little brother now.” “Please forgive me, both of you.” “I ran and now.” “I was too afraid.” “I dreamed of you playing this one day.” “But you never will.” I took all the decoded code i could find in the document and put them in order of how i found them. it gives a slight message? some connect and others dont.

[@cirriform]

just a guess but: "I dreamed of you playing this one day, but you never will. This is only for you little brother now, dearest Nils. You always looked alike. I ran and now I am in hell. I was too afraid. Please forgive me, both of you." I thought the "dearest nils" would be at the top, but it seems like the message is addressing his daughter thea rather than nils

[@paninidoesawheelie8257]

Thank you so much!!

[@trashboat7803]

@@cirriform but "nils" means "crow" in crow language

[@Azaytchik]

@@trashboat7803 maybe thats the first thing malfred coded so nils and crow would be connected

[@CN-rw6dq]

Nils is an old Norwegian/Scandinavian boys name, and Thea is an old Norwegian/Scandinavian girls name as well😅 I thought that was a bit weird.

[@nerdygirljen]

I talk about this all the time now since I saw your video however long ago - this one has stuck with me & ur video is the best one on it - I've watched a bunch of them now but I always share your video specifically - thank you ✨

[@unjello7477]

THAT INTRO WAS A BANGER.

[@chloeeliza602]

me clicking on this video: oh maybe this will be an interesting story this guy: did a video game feature bring this man back to life?

[@muteto2686]

maybe adam butcher made all this as a story to support the legibility of his video

[@KiiBon]

Well i mean it makes sense

[@Dethmeister]

Of course. What else could "eternal revival system" mean?

[@ulrikahaggard9923]

"this guy" c'mon, at least look up his name, jesus

[@chloeeliza602]

@@ulrikahaggard9923 lmao why would i do that?

[@Neimi_Lelnuie]

The game is called Crow. and the creator had a sickening obsession with the game. Poe Reference.

[@tsumugikinnie6225]

Ohhh like that poem with that crow that’s says never more?

[@everestlol4309]

@@tsumugikinnie6225 but it was a raven, the poem was called 'the raven' but the connection still stands it makes sense

[@tsumugikinnie6225]

EverestDoesStuff oh yea I wasn’t sure if it was a crow or raven thanks for explaining tho :D

[@everestlol4309]

@@tsumugikinnie6225 also fellow tsumugi kinnie B) we stan cosplay QUEEN

[@tsumugikinnie6225]

EverestDoesStuff :00 omgg hello fellow tsumugi kinnie :D We do stan our cosplay queen 😌🤚✨

[@Pixle_night]

The editing on these videos are insane I have been blessed to stumble across this Chanel

[@aidancanoli]

13:35 they found the Crowsetta Stone.

[@uBreeze]

Friendly reminder that this actually is an ARG, no matter how well-made.

[@asdfghjkzxcbnm]

Waiting for someone to make a version of it for the pc as a fan game

[@feyisthey]

yeah this is so fake

[@jacksongladue4188]

What's an ARG?

[@christopperware7533]

@@jacksongladue4188 alternate reality game, it uses the real world as a platform, the players being the ones who are interested in the arg and want to find out more and the story can be changed by the players ideas or actions

[@callmeenzy5715]

Cap

[@highprinceryoma4410]

This is it: The cartridge was meant for Nils. Tht guy is looking for proof that it's Nils by showing his birthday. Perhaps the date on the cartridge was the day that it would be given to Nils, IE his birthday. To move forward, all we need to do is email him that date.

[@TheAnantaSesa]

Or just send 365 emails and see which one gets a response with the guy's address where to meet his pretend son.

[@Amy-yb3pz]

Has anyone done this yet

[@HeReS_JoHnNy-qc6vy]

Anyone know the guys email? I just want to say hello.

[@lemikei5154]

He's no longer responding to any of the emails. And someone did e-mail him with a guess from one of the dates listed in the cartridge (Nov 5) but it appears to be incorrect.

[@aggressivecowplanthammafia9144]

well, why would he make it so that people who are not his son are able to get the birth date?

[@encampedmars627]

I’m watching this while it’s raining outside, and literally at 11:53, as water started filling up more, it started pouring more and more heavily outside. That scared the hell out of me...

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

These usually bore me to tears, but I found it impossible to turn off. Good job!

[@guineatte]

Shouldn’t it be called “Katastrophenkrähe” in German instead of “Katastrophe Krähe” which sounds like a straight translation from English?

[@larryfromspace1856]

Maybe because the girl wrote it and she couldn't write as good bc she was young

[@dissmo706]

the n is hiding

[@troodon1096]

@@larryfromspace1856 Or maybe it's a completely fake story created by someone whose native language isn't German.

[@aidenlilley1319]

@@troodon1096 or maybe you should suspend your disbelief slightly.

[@CrytalMikii]

@@troodon1096 well yeah it’s an arg why fuss over little details like that? 😐

[@orbyfied]

The part where the little crow screams and dies actually terrified me

[@trucevideos]

ikr I was petrified

[@psychott6]

Why did I click on this

[@maverick300]

The sound he made as she was decapitated gave me chilllssss

[@tutan7814]

@@psychott6 Me too, good luck my stupid brain on sleeping.

[@Mapbim]

Okay im gonna sleep with full lights now

[@jonahunger]

I'm just amazed at the amount of work Adam must be putting into this. Since Manfred, the game, and Opus don't actually exist this one man single handedly created an entire SCP-like community.

[@tammywhitson4164]

The decapitated crow is the saddest and creepiest part of the whole thing for me. The sounds it makes as it struggles to breath reminds me of old creepypastas