Let's Play Catastrophe Crow! 64 - Ep1

[@highyena4341]

I love these mysterious footage of games that may or may not exist.

[@briochebananabread]

If it’s real or not it’s still pretty cool. How much time went into that?

[@MrLinkyPlays]

@@briochebananabread this reminds me of a newer game, just made to look older...still the ads, all the story stuff in real life/how it represents in game, real or not they put alot of work into it and i respect that.

[@Floor-Green]

Hi. Go to the discord server.

[@thelegendtl]

@@briochebananabread I know the story of the game and it’s a big story It was not released cause the developer Manfred made it for his daughter but something happened to her and he just committed suicide

[@oscarcarbajal5135]

@@thelegendtl It just a great Creepypasta

[@grbr2006]

The first message in the video translates to: "I dreamed of you playing this one day" The bridge at 1:58 looks like a bunch of letters. When decoded, it translates to: "But you never will" Which adds more to the previous message. It is probably referring to Thea.

[@JohnFortniteKennedy_]

What's the letter? :/ its actually confusing by how they connect each other

[@grbr2006]

@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ VGCKLGTOJOISHEE those are the letters

[@banny6508]

I love this game

[@Quackervoltz]

Who is Thea?

[@grbr2006]

@@Quackervoltz manfred's daughter

[@wintyrbarnes8533]

am i the only one who got some more petscop-y than usual vibes at the end? "you always looked alike" makes me think of the paul and care thing.

[@RacingStripeAV]

"You always looked alike" Except for the bandage on his right wing after the bit with the mirror; Some definite swapping around of things going on.

[@alicemation]

Check inside a minds video on the topic

[@heartofiron2251]

This is about Nils and Thea

[@metallisanimation]

I think were gunna be seeing a lot of Petscop influenced videos and series on the web for quite some time. Its hard to pull off a "cursed game" series idea, but Petscop proved you can do it effectively, and now i think a lot of people want to try now too lol.

[@safling_]

This gives me Petscop vibes and I love it

[@GIKAS123]

Funny thing is when I was young I remember wanting to buy a ps1 game with a black crow on its cover so bad ... Never found that game again

[@BloxySnow]

@@marley7776 whats wrong with that game?

[@russianguylul3877]

@@BloxySnow Its mysterious, has some bad things like edicius, and a crow without a head.

[@BloxySnow]

@@russianguylul3877 oh well

[@russianguylul3877]

@@BloxySnow read edicius backwards.

[@MondacaRaygozaJadeKitzel]

Can you tell us the infornation of the game in that years?

[@ASDgirlBella]

1:21 I'm sorry Mr Crow,but Peach's castle is actually in the Mushroom kingdom,which is 90 hours away from where you are.

[@iKiwed]

Great I am fully involved with this discovery.

[@Agent-ve5rc]

Phoenix write vs catastrophe crow

[@Sylocat]

Seeing plain English text in this game is somewhat jarring after all the codes.

[@callandry722]

ngl when i first heard about it i thought it would be in german...

[@hauwley]

Yeah it kinda ruins the emersion a little bit.

[@callandry722]

@@hauwley not too much though,its still good! it would have been really cool but it would need people who knew german* to constantly translate

[@hauwley]

@@callandry722 yeah and not gonna lie that decapitated bird scene gave me the fuckin creeps man. I respect the amount of work put into this arg about a game about crows.

[@MessatsuGoshoryu02]

Did anybody even notice that the crow loses his bandages after he looks into the mirror?

[@ethancate8462]

Good catch

[@mr_unfunny.]

That's probably the younger brother (I hope someone knows what I'm talking about).

[@MercuryCat]

@@mr_unfunny. nils

[@spetc367]

@@mr_unfunny. most likely considering what the crow in the water said

[@spingleboygle]

I am the 69th like LETS GOOOOOO

[@spookyshroud]

0:45 says IDREAMEDOFYOUPLAYINGTHISONEDAY

[@nahrafe]

@pot p his daughter.. which is dead (remember this is only the lore of the game and not actually happened)

[@pop6955]

he also said this on an email before. he must be referring to one of his children.

[@vaasloquendero3133]

lol

[@RandomThumbVids]

I knew I didn't make this up from all those years ago!

[@Jos3jmsfkl]

REAL

[@maryecho9215]

uhh sir?

[@gamberz]

@@maryecho9215 The game doesnt... exist

[@Kapeeshy]

@@gamberz I think she knew that? Why are you replying to her?

[@coconutpog596]

@@gamberz no actually there are only one or two game copies of this

[@yvetteboughey8776]

Me: **sees flower field and grass looks like the textures from sm64** also me: "Wait! That's illegal!"

[@supahcomix]

alot of this game including the textures like the grass and crow's eyes are recycled from mario 64

[@technicalmachine1671]

Most of the $10 million in development costs went to licensing the textures from Nintendo

[@supahcomix]

@@technicalmachine1671 the fake 10 million?

[@FirstRatiy]

@@supahcomix The sad part is that we have the way back machine and any one with half a brain can spot a ARG miles away now, and the only thing any of these types of games can now do, is if a player/group joins and wins, they should get money. Too bad none of them do this any more the last good one was Tomorrow Calling back in 2007, and the easy one would be ones that only do 1 to 3 years of planning. They need to get better and make videos years in advance and upload them have doc upload long before the release and take out online news paper sites to have things posted and hidden until the release is set a few days before hand and then send it to some one that does this. They can then during the time that things are being set up post things to sites and make it look like players are doing it but what they post is not related to the search, but then again this takes time and money and if you suggest this to a team leader they push it off or fire you. You can pay wiki to be part of it, by paying them to hid a wiki of stuff and link it to other wikis that are also faked, but this take a lot of money and they do not want that because the player if free to join with no payment needed.

[@captainclipy6236]

There was literally no point to typing “Me:” and “Also me:” please just learn to type like a normal human of course we know it’s you typing you’re the one leaving the comment holy cow

[@koth_harvest_final]

i hope this music gets the same treatment petscop did with a full release someday. good ambient

[@inkoalawetrust]

@@SpaceBurgerz He means the ARG's creator, not in-universe.

[@bouslahiabdelwaheb2164]

It is released not just it but the source code so you can litrearlly see the code and evrey single asset of the game in unity

[@BigBoy257]

Hakase, you are too pure for this scary stuff

[@MythenAkte]

Das Gespräch 0:49 mit dem Sessel übersetzt bedeutet: Ich habe davon geträumt, dass du es eines Tages spielst... Die Holzbrücke bei 1:58 ergibt: VGCKLGTOJOISHEE Übersetzt bedeutet das: ... aber du wirst es nie (angelehnt an die vorherige geheime Nachricht)

[@Hapymation]

This kinda looks like what Rareware would have made for N64 Beta

[@hey_this_is_a_handle]

Or the PlayStation

[@asherael]

looks like a rom hack of mario 64, and I'd give almost anything for a rom of this to play through even if it is all just simple scriptings and stuff

[@UwUYT]

I haven't seen this footage before. There are some bits in here that weren't in the Game Theory video that would have greatly contributed to the story, especially the crow (Manfred?) floating in the water, and the fact that his words are in English, not in the cipher. It's also super creepy. Adam Butcher went to a lot of effort for this.

[@98DSi]

I should never have clicked that Inside a Mind video because these videos won’t stop being recommended to me now 🥴🥴🥴

[@Nechrome9]

I love how the coins make no noise when you pick then up, unlike every other game ever. Makes it so creepy for some reason

[@finniganflimblez3109]

if this never gets released after the arc is over im gonna cry

[@zach9999]

imagine giftscop but for catastrophe crow, multiplayer would be chaos

[@daylawashere]

You know they already made a playable build based off the unity assets right?

[@finniganflimblez3109]

@@daylawashere oh, word?

[@daylawashere]

@@finniganflimblez3109 ye there was a dump of the unity assets used and people went crazy lol, then someone named majora made a playable build based on the assets and adam's video

[@daylawashere]

you can find it on yt i think (and btw the arg isnt over yet)

[@AlarSenpu]

after 2:58 cutscene music stops and a different crow/not hurt one appears

[@JustinDoesStuffYT]

Yeah and it says in the magazine that the eternal revival system customizes your game every time, so the mirror could be the eternal revival system

[@antohp6512]

Yep! It's Nils

[@antohp6512]

@@JustinDoesStuffYT good theory

[@Legend64Project]

Glad to see this making a comeback!

[@aranycal]

Inside a Mind made a video covering this. And apparently there’s a pretty tragic and sad story behind this game.

[@grookeygang6575]

It's an ARG

[@DOADPOANOPSDNAPNDS]

Whats the sad story? Sorry im a snowflake and get too scared badly on creepy things

[@DOADPOANOPSDNAPNDS]

@Crescent Colors i see..

[@jonathanwilliams1271]

@@DOADPOANOPSDNAPNDS It's just part of the story though, don't let yourself get too upset; it didn't happen.

[@molIymawk]

SHOOOOT i remember hearing of this game in nintendo power! such weird gameplay though, what ever came of it?? i never seemed to see talk of it after a while

[@Supergirl9909]

a youtuber named adam butcher made a video about it a few hours ago

[@flamsey]

this is an arg dumb dumb

[@molIymawk]

@@flamsey and this is a comment going along with the arg, dumb dumb

[@nickblake8767]

@@molIymawk i think he was talking to supergirl9909

[@oscarcarbajal5135]

When you try so hard, to make this so real but you fail, nice try but Is a great Creepypasta game

[@sada-hoshi4331]

OK so now we know it was the creator of the game who has this account, ( all accounts with this footage spell Manfred Lorenz) Alive or not hope Nils saw it And my condolences for Thea

[@nighteye4042]

I wish I had the know how to make a game based ARG

[@domicraft6341]

Ben Drowned also started with simple Cheat Codes and Video editing. The more important thing nowadays is to make something original and to make it believeable. Although the last part comes over time the more you work on things like these.

[@genericmoron3008]

So, dumb question, but has anyone tried emailing the email address in this channels description? and if you have, have you heard back?

[@slickthelynx8980]

It isnt a real address,but if you pu the emails that the channels that have lets plays of this game together in a certain order you get an active mail,inside a mind covered it in his video about this

[@Maddienator]

Yay! Someone else who came from inside a mind too!

[@slickthelynx8980]

@@Maddienator bro thats not only from IAM,theres like 1K people working on deciphering of course theyd figure out the email

[@nope1game193]

If you look at all of the channels that uploaded content for crow 64, upload one normal n64 video then two crow vids

[@xxx_sharingannojutzu_xxx1604]

Probably just wanted to start a 64 vids KZbin career and died of spiritual possession... 😔

[@pixeladasstudios]

I would imagine Super Mario 64 hiding things like these in the game. Crow 64 actually surprised me a lot.

[@waddles9840]

Can’t lie this is creeping me out so badly

[@LeahtheReds]

i dreamed of you playing this one day

[@JustinDoesStuffYT]

Ok my theory is, the mirror you look in is the eternal revival system, because it says in the magazine that it customizes your game every time, and after you look in the mirror, your bandage disappears. Which clearly shows it was being customized. and i think the bird in the lake is Thea and nils dad, as he fell off a boat. Tell me if you find anymore information.

[@pawn3685]

The wing is also fixed with the mirror here too maybe that will come into play in another video later on in the series

[@reifloppa9156]

when crow interacts with chair, something written in crow language appeared and it's written, "i dreamed of you playing this one day"

[@Youseeinthisrn]

The four higher pitched sounds that play when you talk to the crow in the water. That has to translate to something.

[@chknsoupcalypso2850]

From watching these videos I think I’ve figured it out The interesting thing is that this version has sound effects for jumping while the other play through I’ve seen doesn’t. My friend told me that this game was supposed to be for the creators daughter but she died mid production, causing the creator to travel to the ocean and drown himself and destroy the copies. Now this could all be fake but from the two vids of this game that I’ve seen in this the player goes to the left in this one and then receives and order from his boss which is an empty chair to enter the elevator. After going down a portal through a computer is entered. At the mirror in the forest it flashes an image of the same location but the textures are changed and the visibility is reduced in the second. The other crow in the water seeming to know the player to me shows that this is the creator trying to tell his son he’s still alive, hence why he is in the water as he was rumored to have drowned himself. The life preserver and the way it talks seems to be a secret message to his son if he ever found the game. “I know I focused on your sister but I love you too ofc I remember you and I’m not dead.” In the work building in a separate video when the crow goes to the right a portal is entered that causes the player to enter a happy fairytale land which is much different than the atmosphere of the portal from the left. A hole in the fence and the climbing mechanic allows the crow to enter a secret area beneath the map. The wind noises imply the game is fake as no developer would add those creepy ass noises for a children’s game even if it was a secret note to his son. When the door at the bottom is entered it glitches the menu. Then the play through ends. anyway yep I was told abt this today and it interested me so thx for coming to my ted talk

[@ThePolishOrange]

1:21 he thought he is playing super mario 64

[@randomotaku5500]

If you collect all 666 coins before the end of the game you get a cut scene

[@joshuapangan262]

0:45 Translation: I Dreamed Of You Playing This One Day

[@misterwolf6286]

G-o-u-l-a-r-t

[@johanmatsel5826]

Sim

[@Funtime_Nova]

Thea, Nils, Marta and Manfred... Let's see where this leads to.

[@foxxo3878]

ah yes the walking animations! and the whole crow talk!

[@bluersonic9528]

Has anyone noticed the bridge looked like... letters? Can someone get on deciphering that?

[@Mari-lg1wk]

I noticed that too

[@Squeakington]

VGCKLGTOJOISHEE Another commentor also noticed this, if you decode it with the assumption that v=b you get BUTYOUNEVERWILL

[@sunergascon4372]

Im late to the party but could this get deciphered too? H WQ HT ROEE

[@cloodbee]

I have nothing to contribute, I just wanna say that this is fucking terrifying

[@metrixbm]

this game tells the story of Manfred the creator of the game. is sad it's terrible

[@lesslieadams4028]

Between 1:58 and 2:43, the player navigates a bridge in the shape of many letters. The letters altogether spell VGCKLGTOJOISHEE, which decoded from Crow Language becomes "But you never will".

[@SamVision]

Nostalgia

[@psychedeIia]

I remember looking at old Spaceworld footage and see this game pop up a couple of times. Great to see gameplay resurface on KZbin again. May I ask, how did you get the ROM or cartridge for the game?

[@nickblake8767]

unless your rping the games sort of not real, its a real game you could play, but its a private unity game scripted so what happens happens, and cause its unity, its not a n64 game and manfred lorenz never made games! he was a german football coach, and he never jumped of a boat with an n64 and the game, why do you think he would jump off a boat with an n64 and some random unreleased game canceled 9 years before he retired!

[@psychedeIia]

@@nickblake8767 Oh! Well that sucks, was kind of hoping it would be the real N64 prototype game, but it seems that this is a copycat game copying Catastrophe Crow. One day I hope the real cartridge and gameplay shows up :(

[@Josuh]

Yeah man, sad shit that Catastrophe Crow and it's so called "spin-off" never relased

[@makenshi2k]

@@psychedeIia You misunderstood them. This is no copy cat, as Catastrophy Crow doesn't exist at all. It's an ARG and completely fabricated. Whatever you saw back then was not this ARG.

[@grbr2006]

@@makenshi2k they're probably roleplaying.

[@tripthongUwU]

Look at the font, it's billy (all lowercase) but with a little different feel. Was the creator of billy font related to the game development? Edit: the billy font was uploaded in 2010. There's a possibility about whether it's fake or the font creator had a relation with the development

[@angmering5899]

My dude, of course it's fake. It's a cool fictional work like Petscop, Ben Drowned etc. The anachronistic use of Billy was likely just a mistake on the creator(s') part.

[@Josuh]

Bro it feels like mentioning the billy font is all your personality

[@mozambiquewithhopup1561]

It's not a theory that's it's fake it's a fact

[@edgardanimate3552]

I tought it was Comic Sans

[@QuantumTelephone]

Anyone notice the wooden bridge spelled out some code?

[@Chreal]

Nice catch

[@frannielmartinez]

Translates to: BUT YOU NEVER WILL

[@Maddienator]

Inside a mind brought me here

[@pixelknight9238]

Okay “you loved to count and sing your name around and around” sounds like it has some importance maybe crow language number thing

[@ttxx99]

totally real guys trust me i'm the crow at the end haha

[@Tom-km8wf]

Bruh thats a good comment but the sad thing is I've seen people belive this was real just by two people commenting some false info about being the devs

[@Roseshatterheart]

Do you miss the creator? He is not truly gone. His eternal revival system still exists.

[@skyejamss]

I remember playing this year's and year's ago, but i don't remember it looking like this. The cartridge is currently lost, I don't know why and where it is now. As far as I know, the game and the level doesn't look like this.

[@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943]

Every copy of Catastrophe Crow is personalized to the user.

[@daylawashere]

@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 thats basically what the ERS did lol

[@ivanspitfunk31]

skyejames agreed,when i first saw it,i didn't see nothing scary

[@azizirifki]

actual cool looking n64 game. 10/10 would play if it was real

[@AlarSenpu]

2:20 I know how many people think the background music doesnt have any meaning but are you guys sure that static noise that is being played is not a secret message?

[@yishaizukkol3099]

I think it has something to do with counting crows! the father says Thea is counting here own name, with in crow language means Nils and then CROW! if you will look it up you will see that its a real band! the closest song I found to round and round is "time and time again". AND THE LYIRICS ARE SAYING ALMOST THE EXACT SAME STORY!!!! and the date of the band is very similar to the time cc was relist.

[@zarr6786]

Mom:that game isn't that scary The game:

[@asekeshh]

Я один с видео теории пришел?

[@okayepik2766]

Vim pelo goulart:D

[@metrixbm]

Sim mano kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@tedthecrafter4053]

Anyone else notice the figure falling at 1:38 Edit: to the top left near water

[@ememtheweird2225]

why does this look and feel so nostalgic?

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

Wait? If people are playing the game, how did they get it?

[@Treesarewoke]

These are all made by the same team

[@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden]

@@Treesarewoke ok

[@____-____.]

Quem veio pelo goulart da like 👇

[@Princy_K]

Another fun fact: this game was probably going to be like bango kazzoie I think and the coins you collected looks like Mario coins, maybe this was in Mario Sunshine beta I think also the way the bird blink is like in sm64 and the sound of the bird jumping was probably for the unused spring sound in sm64

[@vacantcrow]

0:49 "idreamedofyouplayingthisoneday"

[@bluestar5812]

This looks like the combination of all N64 beta games, specially old Rareware projects like Twelve Tales Conker 64.

[@lanemueller8011]

0:48 there would have been a crow npc there.

[@Bluey]

3:37 3:41 this sound is represented by v on the keyboard

[@thenewbgamer6416]

This is probably another creepypasta made to raise humanity's questions, just like with polybius. The game was never known to be real or not, still a mystery, probably going to be the same thing with catastrophe crow.

[@bonebag1961]

A lot of this stuff was made like a year in advance

[@Treesarewoke]

Its an arg lol

[@Aidiushka]

I remember playing a "danger crow" game on a website onse it looks so similar to this one but i cant remember much bc i was a kid i never played it again because you could only walk there where the grass field was... so it wasint interesting...

[@y0h4n24]

im extremely confused on how to decode the language referred to as "crow language" and i really need help in doing so, are all letters classified in a certain order or, maybe all letters are jumbled and its just randomly generated-? im just not sure

[@echo9641]

Hm is the number of coins left in areas a code? In different sections they went so far as to jump over coins and even when all they had to do was stand in one place as the circle spun of coins they only got a couple of them. Also what's the total coins collected? May count since he mentioned how nils liked to count seems like a clue possibly

[@deactivatedperson3759]

Two channels both upload videos playing different old n64 games. They then go dark for months. And return uploading catastrophe crow content. This arg has been in the works for a long long time.

[@lanemueller8011]

There could have been a few sequels like catastrophe crow 2 or a spinoff, but only if the game was a success.

[@Samsonite_LGBN]

In game theory’s video he said “all we need is a place and a”(I forgot) at the first level that might be the place!

[@rtheawesomegm]

“and a birthday” is what he said but this can’t be the place because there’s no address attached

[@GalacticGamerYT]

The biggest issue is the smoothness. Needs to run at about 15-25 fps.

[@AlarSenpu]

letters of the bridge spell VGCKLGTOJOISHEE and is translated to "you never will" according to the already known information we have

[@y0h4n24]

isnt it "but you never will"?

[@ryankern1051]

... Your channel name ends in fred... Manfred maybe... You created this game and the yt channel???

[@JustinDoesStuffYT]

The FR are capitalized, I’m off to do more reaserch on the other channels, it seems significant

[@Mr.Sushiroll]

0:50 translates to idreamedofyouplayingthisoneday

[@mariotaz]

I remember playing this

[@Treesarewoke]

No you dont lol

[@mariotaz]

@@Treesarewoke I do. I used to play it with my brother all the time

[@Treesarewoke]

@@mariotaz This isnt a real game, this is an arg. Its a fake game made specificaly for the arg story, kind of like petscop

[@mariotaz]

@@Treesarewoke My brother also isn't real. At least not anymore

[@beanieweenie1349]

A big part of the story behind this game is how it never ended up being released to the public, so if you're going to play along with this and pretend it's real, then get the facts straight

[@Princy_K]

Fun fact: the crow eyes is using the mario 64 textures eyes and some of the textures in the game is from sm64, same for the butterflies. The triple jump is similar to sm64s jumps and did you know? That the title screen when the crow points at the n64 model is using the whomps fortress fence and grass model also the paintings are just like the ones u see in sm64.

[@1hr399]

The player is within

[@michaelbucell9980]

The text decodes to i dream of you playing this one day

[@__.__-_.]

Yeah I remember the parallax effect with the windows

[@aleyna8207]

Cooles Video ich möchte aber die voll version sehen , das warten hätte sich lohnen sollen

[@AlarSenpu]

1:30 image behind TV

[@daylawashere]

its just an image of a forest which is suspected to be the same forest in the video

[@EmmetsPage]

These unironic responses to people joking about this clearly fake game (using M64 assets & this "billy" font this one guy keeps talking about) are really funny but mostly sad. Like come on, let some people have their fun.

[@Josuh]

We live in a crowciety

[@guys_animations]

the bridge translates to "jznyez droo"

[@ow_]

these notes are just for myself, i heard there was a google doc but that's no fun, now is it? doing this all by hand lol :P first code 0:50 is IDREAMEDOFYOUPLAYINGTHISONEDAY at 2:00 the pathway spells out letters, but my transcription and then decoding attempts resulted to ?UOYUEEGFLL so I don't think it's the crow menu code, or i spelled it out wrong lol

[@ow_]

Actually, it might be backwards (and transcribed worng), because "UOY" is "YOU" backwards...

[@SurmenianSoldier]

@@ow_ that's still crow language

[@daylawashere]

read the doc my guy

[@ow_]

@@daylawashere no

[@milerrubn619]

this game looks cool

[@caleb1102]

anyone figure out the meaning of the final text from papa crow? any meaning to the # of coins collected in this one?

[@supahcomix]

he has mario's eyes

[@mago7210]

OK hear me out when we look in the mirror become Nills ( the brother )we know that when the eyes get green were small and then when he(nills) walks around and finds the dad at the fishing port or like the water you know it’s bigger crow with the brown eyes and you can like faintly see the glasses so I think when he was a referring to when saying you’ve always looked like he’s comparing knows the sister (Thea) and the brother (nills) saying they looked alike and he never forgot him kinda like the petscop crap and his father feels like he’s to blame for the child’s death . A little is Thea actually died in real life

[@satyajitmajumdar7746]

i dreamed of you playing this one day 0:49

[@loganstudios7729]

This game looks fun! Where can I play it? *said satan*

[@loganstudios7729]

Edit: I actually found the game

[@Bluey]

lol you tried to jump into the painting like mario 64

[@Bluey]

fred you're funny

[@SmoothSushi]

I’m not the only one getting Mario 64 vibes right?

[@coolslusho]

I wished it stayed like this now it’s a creepypasta game

[@memestourados]

G O U L A R T

[@DEKS_GATO]

KKKK

[@korr112]

Ok :)

[@justynagodlewskagodlewska3738]

THE GOOD ENDING