Microsoft Office 95 - "Hall of Tortured Souls"

[@rosscomer]

@FlyTech Videos: Consolidating a few questions / responses into one post: First a touch of background. I worked on Excel from 1995-1996. I didn't write this code but worked with the developer who did, who also worked on Excel charting where they got to hone their rendering chops. I was more of a worksheet engineer doing things like autocorrect and autocomplete in Excel. I may have been involved with keystrokes to get to this one but honestly can't remember. The Excel team was an amazing set of more than 50 engineers before adding Test, Program Managers, Marketing, etc. A great place to learn how to code; I learned more in my first year about writing production code than I did in the previous 5 years at college. Back then, running out of memory was a thing and how do you pop up a dialog box telling the user you ran out of memory when you don't have the memory to create a dialog box. Good times. Easter Eggs were meant to be a bit of fun created by the developers. They were well hidden so people didn't accidentally stumble into them without knowing what they were looking for (it would have been quite surprising for a random user to suddenly end up in the Hall of Tortured Souls) as well as perhaps keeping it away from prying eyes of management who would have frowned on such silliness. The code was always done in a way that it wouldn't add to the space on the media in the box (5.25" and 3.5" floppies at the time); if it would have required another disk or created bugs in the main product or slowed things down, it wouldn't have shipped. It was also code that would only run if the user found it so if it crashed (not unlikely given the limited testing by developers) it shouldn't be a surprise. The minimal amount of testing also explains why it's relatively easy to go outside of the boundaries. Tortured Souls was made to look similar to Doom which had recently come out and was quite popular at the time. I believe the code, however, was built from the ground up; you couldn't just embed a Doom-engine into Excel based on size alone (and the fact that FPS engines weren't a thing back then). The main developer was also one of the Excel graphic engineers and so was familiar with 3D (I seem to recall we called it 2D+) rendering and texture mapping. Again, the focus was for the code to be very small. And yes, the excelkfa code was absolutely named after the similar Doom key combo. Why the name Hall of Tortured Souls? Mainly as a funny take between the Doom theme and the joke that we worked extremely long hours at some periods to get Excel ready to go. There might have been a few all-nighters. And we loved it (for the most part). There was always a big party when we shipped and then life would go back to normal hours until the next big push which was typically over a year away. How did someone find the keystrokes? They were either told by a developer or someone decompiled the code looking for interesting things (names) and then worked backwards to see how to trigger them. Can we get the source? Not really. I doubt the original creator has a copy. I doubt Microsoft would release it. Maybe I'll ask around. Will there be more Easter Eggs? Sometimes. It turns out big corporations (Microsoft) that ship to Enterprises (Fortune 500 companies) don't like random code that hasn't been tested taking up space on their computers. There was definitely a mandate to "cut it out" by the end of the 90's at Microsoft. This especially became true once computer security became a bigger focus for the company (and world) and we really do need to make sure every bit is tested and accounted for. Why no Clippy as a character? Clippy didn't exist back then. Heck, pre-95, we didn't even have AutoCorrect or AutoComplete in Excel (but we'll save those for a different story). Walking around scary places with big drops can be incredibly challenging. If only there were some key you could hold down to modify your movement and keep you from falling... 🤔 I struggled to get across so I'm pretty sure such a key exists... Things I regret: Because we kept development of this secret, it was very developer focused. That is only the small team of Excel '95 developers in the pictures. We missed showing all the rest of the team including test, program management, etc. Excel wouldn't have been what it was without the broader team and they should be recognized for their great work. Hope that answers some questions. I'll respond as possible and update this as more interesting ones come in. -Ross (name visible at 1:09 and in the black t-shirt at the top-left at 2:02)

[@FlyTechVideos]

Amazing comment. Thanks a lot for sharing

[@stradbam]

How is your last name pronounced?

[@benjaluth07]

Wow.

[@XGxgame]

What did you or the rest of the team find hard when making Excel?

[@rosscomer]

@@XGxgame I was one of the most junior people on the team so I'm not sure my answers would match the reality that more experienced developers faced. Back in the day, the operating system infrastructure just wasn't as robust so we ran into all sorts of graphics card and printer oddities that todays OS' isolate for the most part. Having exceptionally limited memory (1MB... or less?) was also a problem. Coding was in C and very much impacted by the processors of the time in terms of how numbers are stored, how pointers worked, etc. The fast stuff was in assembly with all the fun that entails. We were definitely blazing some new trails and pushing PCs in ways they hadn't been pushed before. The challenge/fun was coming up with the ideas for amazing features for our customers and then the creativity in figuring out how to create something new to make it possible.

[@randominternetperson8409]

This is where clippy brings his victims

[@stampzplayz6767]

Redstone2324 o fucc lol

[@Je_rooYT]

Lol

[@degativenelta]

Delta Heavy - Ghost music video xD

[@grumpycomputers7488]

@Kokkino it is clippy Wth is clippit

[@decrease3338]

Lol 1000th like

[@joaovc2002]

Imagine how freaked out the guy who first discovered this got

[@justagirpup]

When all they wanted was tech support in an excel sheet on an old os

[@ninjawafflezz5356]

I mean 3d generated areas all looked like hellish worlds looking back at it

[@PantsYT]

@@ninjawafflezz5356 its also called "Hall of Tortured Souls"

[@jakerobert3118]

No way someone “stumbled” on this.

[@JonesCrimson]

I doubt anybody did it on accident.

[@warc9]

Office 95 speedrun when?

[@mrmaniac3]

warc9 gotta finish the excel file and get it to the team first

[@anoobis117]

Time starts on new file being opened

[@mrmaniac3]

@@anoobis117 oh damn

[@warc9]

thanks for the 1.3k likes

[@jongyon7192p]

Goal is to cross the bridge and go through a wall to get outside

[@CommunityGame]

It feels like a Doom level.

[@JakobTV_YT]

yes

[@jiungamdilokenshilonminvid4969]

YES VERY

[@veinix8870]

Yes

[@TheVineOfChristLives]

Of Wolfenstein 3-d

[@seemagupta5282]

Halls of the damned

[@hans10yearsago6]

The name “Hall of Tortured Souls” sounds so ominous and creepy until you realize it’s just developers jokingly calling themselves “tortured soul” for how hard and tiresome it is to develop an operating system

[@dr4876]

Who said that it's meant sarcastically?

[@64_Tesseract]

Not just *any* OS... it's windows we're talking about. Anyone who tries to do any customization/development on it will inevitably become a tortured soul

[@yifanwang4906]

It's a fact

[@JamesBond-wf2id]

Yes let's hope you're right.

[@tech6hutch]

Excel, not Windows

[@Blomerinho]

When I clicked in this video I was expecting some kind of experimental videoclip from a geeky-synth darkwave band called microsoft office 95. I'm not disappointed, actually.

[@Blomerinho]

@@siddhartacrowley8759 Well, it wasn't supposed to be.

[@d_e_r_i_v_a_t_i_v_e]

yknow i can only hope that actually gets made, that sounds pretty fucking cool idea for an ep

[@hjn123]

Check out Windows 96 ... :)

[@hjn123]

Windows96 : One Hundred Mornings

[@manualLaborer]

Do u mean v a p o r w a v e ? Dark wave totally different bro.

[@flootah]

youtube recommendations really does know what's up i love these super obscured easter eggs devs leave to be remembered

[@paranotdox5896]

It inst that obscure, totured souls can mean how hard they worked to make windows , what proofs that it is bcause there are the names of the devs

[@btat16]

Bill Chips How we got to the easter egg IS obscure. Going to a specific program, specific row and cell, selecting a specific option, while pressing a specific combination of buttons... There’s no way to do this accidentally.

[@Y0y0Jester]

I have difficulty believing it's real

[@kuasocto3528]

@@Y0y0Jester Username checks out

[@kuasocto3528]

I love em too

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

This is what I love about computing and coding. The ability to do this, to sneak things into hidden corners nobody’ll ever think to look, and know that only you and maybe a handful of other people will ever know about these little hidden backrooms full of secrets. I love easter eggs in software and wish it was more prevalent today like it used to be.

[@omegablaze135]

I'll remember that.

[@ecMonify]

maybe it's just more well-hidden these days..? :D

[@michaellopez4746]

Well I guess they were wrong when they were thinking they were the only ones ever to know about it.

[@BlazeAlien]

In 2023 Microsoft would probably fire you for doing something like this.

[@tomtomftube]

are you joseph fritzel ?

[@vibri_]

"Hall of Tortured Souls" A.K.A the Microsoft Headquarters

[@sunnythedumb]

LMAO

[@roxwize]

Sonic Mania Fan Yikes

[@kaua7561]

What a timing to discover your anonymus video

[@artemanhaoliva4045]

E A headquarters

[@yurimanfreddy1905]

@Sonic Mania Fan OMG LOLLLLLL I ROASTED HIM SO HARD HEHEHEHEHEHEH IM SUCH FUNNI HEHEHEHEHEE

[@delofon]

*Doom - Microsoft Edition*

[@hakasek4052]

Knee deep in the .docs

[@solarfreak1107]

I am trying to remember but I believe someone had created a WAD that looks like you explore the inside of windows 95.

[@Ninjetika]

Thy Files Consumed

[@nova3k]

I guess you can run Doom on office 95. You can run Doom on anything

[@Geegs]

Based on the excelkfa command and the bridge resembling E1M1, it's definitely an homage to DOOM

[@tanall5959]

This actually comes from Microsoft's belief, at the time, that people would think an application wasn't worth much if it didn't take up much space on their system. Thus easter eggs like this were encouraged to bloat the application size.

[@MrBearyMcBearface]

Oh so that's why they bloat things so much they could choke a black hole.

[@snackentity5709]

Weird. I would think the typical user is not even cognizant of the sizes of programs on their computer. Maybe people in 95 were more tech savvy on average? Or maybe there was need to be more cognizant due to the limited hard drive space back then?

[@LagMasterSam]

@@MrBearyMcBearface These days software is so bloated because we have about 9 millions layers of abstraction between the machine code and the code people actually write.

[@interrobangings]

i can't believe furries think they're people

[@LodanZark]

@@snackentity5709 in old days lot of ppl installed software through floopy disks, so they could use the number of disks to measure the application size

[@alanstringer.]

Imagine being one of the devs who made this, decades later coming back to this for old times' sake. Having this little secret digital treehouse visit after all this time, something almost nobody really knows about. Awesome.

[@Rafael-pi4md]

He just did - pinned comment

[@TABBYMUSIC]

If this video was made in 2009 people would be calling this a creepypasta.

[@PedroBastozz]

PASTA YUUUUUM

[@Robertorobot64]

Ok

[@thelonewolfproductionz1592]

I've seen you before...

[@napstablook6392]

@@PedroBastozz but its an CREEPY pasta

[@PedroBastozz]

@@napstablook6392 But its YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@TARINunit9]

"excelkfa" is a reference to "idkfa", a cheat code for Doom

[@realszn]

69th like

[@CeaselessWatcher5818]

@@realszn r/noonecares

[@realszn]

@@CeaselessWatcher5818 r/ihavereddit

[@amityrro]

@@CeaselessWatcher5818 I care that the devs were cool enough to put excel kicks fucking ass in their software

[@veliisk9974]

@@CeaselessWatcher5818 you have to go back.

[@BrokamaGay]

I remember having nightmares about places like that as a kid.

[@tomokihyakku2416]

Same

[@SireCaracal]

"Y" Same

[@ARCHIVED9610]

I remember being scared or scp 057 when I first found it about it ;-; (scp aren’t real but it’s still a scary concept)

[@SireCaracal]

@@ARCHIVED9610 I love SCP, the concept is less scary but more creative and apt between fiction and science, the general ways of research is really amazing as they are written.

[@ARCHIVED9610]

@@SireCaracal i just dont like that 057 doesnt have an exit and the only way out is to be crushed to death. the pillars are also moving and the interview thing is sad. ✨✨ I guess?

[@MaddieDoesRandomStuff]

This is what an area in ENA was based off of. It is very interesting how it reminds me of ENA temptation stairway.

[@mr.h8472]

I was wondering if anybody else noticed that.

[@UniEvolute]

Y e s

[@Azul721]

Oh man, even the music choice for this video of appropriately ENAesque

[@kalaclod3105]

I thought I was looking into it too much. Glad someone thought the same😅

[@sqodryvononong]

Same

[@Anonymous-73]

This looks like a level from LSD dream emulator

[@NotBart]

True...

[@Kimjongun19841]

North Korea told bill

[@una1764]

The faces/bodies on the walls and the distorted colors really give it that look(also the whole first person thing)

[@rickross80]

Yesss I wanted to say that too haha

[@gat0anonimo]

Oh crap you're right

[@KingMetalMario]

*Breaking news* Epic games changing Fortnite engine from UE4 to Excel95

[@DuhNoU]

Wait wasnt them already using same engine

[@KingMetalMario]

@@DuhNoU maybe xd

[@jakethedragonymaster1235]

About time

[@kin3254]

*_-LMAO-_*

[@KingMetalMario]

@an actual sasquatch Didnt Microsoft make a "Minecraft 2" (a joke game) in Excel? It is possible to make a game running on excel! xd

[@gabithepro6702]

finally a game that my computer can run

[@Fantastic_Timez]

Plot twist: you actually use windows 95

[@Lavenderthecat]

111nth like this is the only game I have in my 11 year old laptop

[@BananAmogusovich]

2 fps

[@nziom]

same

[@Bratbaticus]

@@BananAmogusovich 2 spf

[@froggycolouring]

The fact that they added walking and 3d and all, on top of their already work is impressive

[@hengry2]

I think that was the easy part when creating a monster of an application.

[@dijoxx]

@@SimiGameplay4 It's not a game engine.

[@FloppyDiskMaster]

“The disk has 1.44 megs and god damn it we’re gonna fill all 1.44 megs.”

[@kitfagan2027]

Well looking at the Office 95 CD image on the Internet Archive it's at 492 MB. Wouldn't be surprised if there was a dedicated floppy just for that secret with how big the package is. I know office 97 used around 40 floppies so I'd not like to be the one stuck to installing this without a CD drive.

[@sophiajimenez2950]

True it most likely fake because of storage capacity, sad

[@platinum-or3y]

@@sophiajimenez2950 huh???

[@vasorotto19]

@@sophiajimenez2950 wtf

[@BethesdaCakeDelivery]

@@sophiajimenez2950 you can def fit this credits on a few floppy disk as DOOM did, what are you talking about?

[@atimholt]

“excelkfa” is a reference to the Doom cheat code “idkfa”. Doom, of course, used the same “fake 3D” technique seen here.

[@埊]

idk,fa.

[@kebab_hill]

Incorrect. This needs more dislikes :D just kidding i know about this cause i played DOOM too

[@eyedine]

@@Wavy667_ No, doom is not 3D. It does not utilize any 3D elements, full stop.

[@ColossalKilla]

@@Wavy667_ 2.5D graphics. Many FPS games from the 90's used these techniques such as Duke Nukem 3D.

[@doubledenial8178]

@@eyedine Projectiles can fly over your head. You can take fall damage. Why the idea of Doom being 3D makes so many people soft is beyond me

[@TechnoMeter]

Kinda reminds me of the original Doom and Wolfenstein series. Also, dope vid!

[@FlyTechVideos]

it's actually inspired by Doom as it came out around that time

[@FlyTechVideos]

They didn't mock doom, it's just that they used a similar (or the same?) 3D engine

[@Thewolfobsessedgamer]

@The90sBen788 you wouldn't need permission for a parody

[@residentflamingo115]

@@FlyTechVideos I heard it was meant to be a port of doom but they couldn't make some of the game and just used HoTS as a test.

[@LeMustache]

It's just a "3D" rendering method that used to be popular back then, since it was cheap for old computers which weren't designed to work with real 3D graphic

[@Nathidraws]

The early 2000s and late 1990s was a cool time to be alive it seems. You just don't see stuff like this happen anymore.

[@Ev3Engr]

Atleast i existed when mobile games were actually good.

[@Lunar4]

@@Ev3Engr mobile games have never been good lol

[@Ev3Engr]

@@Lunar4 because you were born in 2021 when mobile games got cringe.

[@IvanezRus]

​@@Lunar4 java games on phones with buttons were pretty great

[@MyNameJeff00]

Dude they are doing acid of course they are happier times

[@skittles6946]

this wasnt the only thing the boy discovered on his dads office computer that day...

[@Knave_Orange_24]

Lol

[@evol5765]

Now he’s a believer

[@tohru-adachi-true-legit-real]

Oh no he found my shrek lewds damn it

[@crappyaccount]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Dragonoid_Tsunami]

@@evol5765 *oi JOSUKE I USED ZA HANZO To get on my dad computer, now its turn scary*

[@marianhak]

Worker: boss, can we have doom? Boss: we have doom at office Doom at office:

[@iJuce]

hahahaha😂😂

[@bandis_]

Quite litterely doom at "Office"

[@beeswithchainsaws]

Man, Windows 95 was really good for people who... don't want to do work...

[@埊]

@@bandis_ "Doom at Office"

[@MrPollitogatito]

Nice twist on the mom vs kid meme

[@MegaStorm252]

To have known this back in elementary or secondary school back in the 90's...you'd have easily become the popular kid in the class if you could pull this off haha

[@icarussuraki9929]

Oh man, this takes me back! My dad heard about this from a coworker (they'd spent part of the afternoon trying to cross the zig-zag bridge apparently) and showed us that night when he came home. It was maybe the weirdest computer thing I'd seen at the time. And yes I'm old, thanks.

[@JPLToyExperience]

Me and the boys doing some bone-chilling developer credits

[@Jjsticks._.]

I am egg

[@Jjsticks._.]

Name not egg

[@Jjsticks._.]

But still egg

[@landroverrangeroversporths2569]

the one and only mf egg

[@widitop5]

Egg

[@LewysC]

*2020:* _Hall of Tortured Souls any% speedrun (no emulator)_

[@MondySpartan]

“Pistol Start, Ultra Violence Difficulty, all secrets and kills.”

[@sailenttech2009]

69th like

[@mjproject7072]

glitchless

[@asparagusoreo3280]

@@MondySpartan Y e s

[@doommaker4000]

@@MondySpartan *Ultra Violence All kills on Nightmare is nigh impossible

[@steventechno]

The 90's. So rad that even Office software featured a 3D Game engine.

[@Anonymous-mn3td]

That or the 2000s are so soulless we can't have a hall of tortured souls

[@masterscambaiters3121]

@@Anonymous-mn3td the world is becoming more artificial every day. Notice how people are increasingly resembling pixar charachters?

[@ShokuLuna]

@@masterscambaiters3121 What? No???? Am i missing a joke here?

[@chaniibak7702]

@@masterscambaiters3121 If this were true, I wouldn't mind. In fact I'd be happy. But do you see those people? Ugly ASF! looking like they're about to pop at any moment.

[@henstar337]

@@masterscambaiters3121 Yeah, I got jumped by Woody the other day.

[@dhoffnun]

Well now I know where Joel G. got the aesthetic for that one room

[@beeswithchainsaws]

Me: this looks like doom Video: Type "exelkfa" Me: Yup, this is doom

[@PedroKing19]

Why is it doom I don't get it

[@dweezildee]

Orruner I’m unsure if you know about the original Doom from 1993 but it looks loosely similar to what is shown in this video. Most likely because it is pixel-ly and made of rooms of a similar nature to it.

[@devinashcraft5774]

@@dweezildee Is doom is already exist in those time?

[@Mari_Izu]

@@devinashcraft5774 Doom came two years before this.

[@jlewwis1995]

@@dweezildee I wonder if you can make custom maps for it

[@davr1]

0:55, 1:58 *Bob* *Ross*

[@PoloRossi]

Lol! *Bob* Coffen *Ross* Comer

[@vistagreat9994]

@@PoloRossi Coffin Corner

[@SugarBunsHuns]

@@PoloRossi Bob Ross developed Microsoft Office 95 confirmed!

[@thousandsofclowns]

The scary part is that I noticed that exact same thing

[@angrycinnabon2956]

*Hall of happy little souls.*

[@andrewwolff9129]

I like how the structure blinks out at the end. Feels like you’re being trapped inside the world forever. An infinite, featureless pink plane is your permanent home.

[@Anonymous-mn3td]

Must be how people who live in Daly City feel

[@Game_Hero]

Until the divine door opens up in a lot of years

[@zetazimmer4769]

I’ve had worse living conditions

[@jay-virm]

Brain, I think I know what I’m going to write today!

[@SirusStarTV]

Нуу у тебя и мысли

[@MTMRBLX]

This is one of the best secrets in 95 I’ve ever seen

[@mafumafusnumberonefan]

It’s like a dream that seems completely logical when you’re in the dream but think “What the hell?” after you wake up.

[@k.r.mstudios3356]

That always happens to me lol

[@andromeda_va39]

That describes so many of my dreams

[@Lizuma]

I know the feeling so well!!

[@vittosphonecollection57289]

Lol that happens lot to me when I'm serious in dreams and I'm doing the craziest things ever at the same time

[@ZaidoonTheGolden]

every day

[@氵每夕卜]

Feels like a nostalgic fever dream that I've never had as a 90s kid.

[@olivejuice1985]

Underrated comment

[@jwalker2480]

Poor 2000s kod

[@fredspreadem5638]

@@jwalker2480 The 2000's were great, get fucked.

[@twilighthunter6583]

Feels like ANY of my fever dreams tbh.

[@mirandatabraham2374]

@@fredspreadem5638 yay

[@tomaschku]

When developers get bored and make an secret 3D Game. Better than Unity, even with the not perfect controls.

[@FlyTechVideos]

The controls are quite crappy actually, I even had to use safe mode because in normal mode, it played too fast and every keypress would send me to the wall of other end

[@tomaschku]

Perhaps the dev's Computers are so old, that they don't even noticed it. But: The game has high FPS!

[@FlyTechVideos]

yea, that's the issue. It has too good FPS and no FPS limiter, that's why the controls are overracting :D

[@tomaschku]

Elektr0 Gaming I meant, that direct Coding is harder than in Unity, because there are also much crappy games made with it.

[@tomaschku]

FlyTech Videos When loading files would be also that fast, that everybody would like it.

[@motheroffoxes2169]

Ok, so when I first saw this I realized something "Hey, it looks like that one place in 3NA!"

[@kykale]

Title sounded like an Vaporwave artist and a song title. The easter egg looks like it would be used as a vaporwave visual and playing this video and music on halftime speed really gives that vaporwave feeling.

[@NadezdaBeka]

Well, Vaporwave aesthetic is based on vintage computers from the 90s and the colors with Japanese symbols from 80s disco, i think. Imagine some day windows 10 being vintage and aesthetic?😂

[@lankywang9543]

I couldn't tell for the whole video if this was just some realllly edgy vapour wave or an actual thing

[@OneonSajid]

ky kale vaporwave is an EDM genre, I think it’s a sub genre of Synthwave but I’m not sure

[@12DAMDO]

i legit thought i was gonna listen to vaporwave... the fact that this easter egg lookslike Broken Reality doesn't help either

[@enoenthehero]

The residence of the great Runas. Interesting that ENA uses this.

[@user-yl9ws2kh8x]

What

[@kebab_hill]

@@user-yl9ws2kh8x It's ENA

[@andro.txt0]

@@user-yl9ws2kh8x It's ENA

[@LadyFurina24]

@@andro.txt0 WHAT IS ENA?

[@kebab_hill]

@@LadyFurina24 it's actually an animation used in unity

[@FlyTechVideos]

I had to use safe mode because in normal mode the virtual machine was not slow enough, so every keypress appeared exaggerated. In safe mode, it apparently was slow enough for me to be able to actually explore it and create this video for you. By the way, check out the SoundCloud channel of Steven O'Brien, he has really good music on his account! (See description) Thanks for watching :)

[@tomaschku]

Extrasklep He uploaded it and then made it public, if you not already know.

[@FlyTechVideos]

of course one month ago. I'm producing several videos and then I'm deciding which one I will publish at what time

[@StevenOBrien]

Thanks!

[@FlyTechVideos]

@@StevenOBrien Thank YOU for watching and replying (and big thanks for having your music freely available!)

[@TorutheRedFox]

use DOSBox then

[@nowheresquared]

I was watching Temptation Stairway by Joel G and when ENA made it into the temple of Runas I about died realizing it was a reference to this of all things. XD Thank you for having preserved this! It's a wonderfully odd little bit of software history and it'll be great to see the influx of new folks learning about it!

[@janlohndorf9665]

Man... Imagine finding this on accident in the PC lab when you were younger

[@adrian614]

My heart would stop immediately, probably just because of the name

[@urbainleverrier1]

With all the procedures that needs to be done to access this, nobody probably discovered this early on

[@ЕвгенийАлтухов-ъ1р]

Imagine accidentally finding and then not being able to reproduce it and spending your whole remaining life trying to rediscover it :D

[@vash47]

this fucked me up as a kid. I really thought it was some satanic shit. I also didn't understand English at the time. I was scared for years

[@jmailsooti6765]

Means you're smart at IT

[@loligesgame]

finally a game that wont crash my pc :D UPDATE: GUESS WHAT...

[@hydromano6652]

w h a t

[@slrs6786]

@@lion_brine_ninja6407 r/woooosh

[@DSX1]

Lion_Brine_Ninja r/woooosh

[@dvenom642]

As someone who had a pc that ran team fortress 2 at 0 fps with fps config im not sure if this is a joke

[@beeschan7301]

who uses r/woooosh these days

[@bloxmaster2623]

thank you for leaving in the music if it was just silence that would've been freaky asf

[@starbreak__]

honestly i would've prefered it like that lol

[@nwa8169]

@@starbreak__ then mute

[@R3DZ3W0R5]

Hi tails

[@coreblaster6809]

@@starbreak__ you do realize the music was the only sound, right? You just need to turn it down

[@cartonguy7738]

@@coreblaster6809 hello brother

[@chelseajackman7730]

"They're called billable hours for a reason."

[@CocoTheMii]

I feel like we’ll never run out of weird and obscure Microsoft easter eggs

[@R3DZ3W0R5]

You have a small channel but it’s ok

[@R3DZ3W0R5]

Nucleus it’s fine

[@alvinacetrndd16]

imagine opening powerpoint tech support and suddenly you're in a realistic and detailed VR simulation

[@brosthestickmandude]

u mean excel?

[@Ev3Engr]

Imagine if the devs do this again in a future version of Excel.

[@Skaia16]

Just WOW, I have in front of my face a masterpiece... Thank u for uploading stuff like this! A toast to FlyTech!!

[@dinodoestuff]

a masterpiece? can you show me?

[@cheesyquokka]

crunch crunch, judging by my experience, flies seem to like toast.

[@DanielBMS]

When are they are going to finish Hall Of Tortured Souls. This demo does not even have enemies to fight.

[@melonboi7037]

0:55 BOB ROSS???

[@ThePiGuy24]

ah, so this is what became of the official windows 95 doom port

[@elecstorm3701]

Is it just me, or did Joel G. use this as inspiration for "Temptation Stairway"? The rooms look like the Holy Code room right next to the beginning, and the cat walkway

[@bezzu5269]

yea i thought of the same thing

[@UniEvolute]

Y e s

[@peptoabysmal7752]

Y E P

[@pizzahut8482]

Pretty sure he did

[@justsomesquidwithoutanose1729]

I think so.

[@gustavocring1914]

This video is just perfect to chill to on youtube. Not too long, pleasing music, and satisfying editing at the beginning.

[@Pixelcraftian]

Imagine being so tired of not being credited that you design an entire game engine for credits lol, cool stuff!!!

[@nathanryudikitami4725]

Here before this goes viral

[@SomeRobloxDudeWasTaken]

thats a two day streak pixel

[@madbanana22]

@@nathanryudikitami4725 here before your 9th birthday

[@nathanryudikitami4725]

@@madbanana22 what

[@YaskoMHB]

Reasons why i love youtube recommands

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

Oh the 90s......how they were full of hidden gems like this. Things aren't as sacred as they used to be. R.I.P.

[@minetech4898]

@@skfok8472 he didn't mean or say either of those. I'm pretty sure he meant "sacred", as he originally put.

[@ninjawafflezz5356]

Everyone data mines everything these days

[@ninjaandocean]

Sk Fok he never said scared...

[@skfok8472]

Oh no you're right

[@skfok8472]

Sorry mate

[@RockSprites]

I've always been kind of freaked out by things like this lol

[@Timmer5980]

ohhhh that's what inspired that one part of that animation with the two faced girl

[@user-mo8on4yw5y]

I love how they recognize the crew as "Tortured Souls"

[@RealSirMikay]

That's because the work was so hard and tiring, and the development team didn't feel as if they were getting much credit. So the put in that little Easter egg to credit themselves while also jokingly referring to themselves as "tortured souls".

[@evm6177]

Did anyone get fired..? 🤷‍♀️

[@luigi7834]

@@evm6177 I've heard they were all fired after Microsoft found this out, and sadly I believe it

[@trustytrojan]

@@luigi7834 source?

[@wileyisweird5842]

I read somewhere that this was actually to promote the port of DOOM to Windows.

[@NegaTheImpmon9508]

nice icon

[@Gloria-h9o]

It reminds me alot of the doom map hangar, it might have been that.

[@Gloria-h9o]

It might've stole the map hangar from doom and retextured it

[@diasslo]

@Nem Gam Boi I mean, excelkfa is close to idkfa, a doom cheatcode

[@heli400]

Plot Twist: Windows IS the port to DOOM!

[@LeeRaldar]

Was kind of expecting the dammed paper clip as a boss fight lol.

[@koolaid33]

I love something like this because it shows the developers true passions & their hopes. Same as dev notes, these Easter Eggs let us in on the developers work lives, personal lives & social lives. We get to see in this example a team that was criminally underutilized, & forced to work tirelessly by Microsoft. Instead of making videogames like they clearly wanted to with this Egg, they were assigned a business app that exhausted them & also kept them from doing what they loved. I hope all these devs eventually got to make that game they wanted to, & their talent didn't go to waste.

[@ExDee419]

Ｌ　Ｉ　Ｆ　Ｅ　Ｃ　Ｈ　Ｏ　Ｉ　Ｃ　Ｅ　Ｓ　じ　に哀ニュ延円ン　ぐフ韻

[@nel0674]

Vaporwave hours

[@ExDee419]

what was i on when making this comment?

[@mnamescole]

I think it means that devs got tortued while making office 95 :P maybe

[@FlyTechVideos]

Or they felt like programming this was torture

[@theambivalentps2bloke60]

It’s a joke. Often hard working people joke about being ‘tortured’ or being a part of “slave labour”. Anyone who thinks thinks is actually meant to be creepy or a sign of serious wrong doing at Microsoft is naive. Just to be clear.

[@cmanesq]

They didnt get paid enough for all the work they put in excel

[@PoloRossi]

The Ambivalent PS2 Bloke Damn it, you ruined my vision of Bill Gates whipping his employees with a flail mace, giving them hell! XD

[@iii-ei5cv]

@@theambivalentps2bloke60 I had an adjunct professor in college who claimed that he used to work a minimum of 80 hour work weeks when he worked on Excel back in the day, and sometimes up to 168 hours. He said he got good money, but that kind of schedule will just fuck with your body on a fundamental level

[@OxTime]

The Great Runas- *RUNAS.* Runas! Runas...

[@UniEvolute]

Y e s

[@tetraploid5000]

ena moment

[@okok-fs4qe]

I thought about it too

[@axonaty9224]

Konas

[@lunealtiys8999]

Glad to see that

[@RinMariiiii]

I first discovered this around age 11-12 when I learned of software easter eggs in some magazine. Very freaky when I first discovered it because it reminded me of Doom, but fascinating nonetheless.

[@piporgames]

Great work FlyTech! *That strange background music* :0

[@FlyTechVideos]

Thank you! BTW it's Tech, not Teach :p

[@piporgames]

Done ;)

[@piporgames]

FlyTech Videos btw, could you do a Windows 93 review?? :D

[@FlyTechVideos]

someone else already asked me, i feel like this is not quite the content suited for this channel...

[@mateusvitor71]

@@FlyTechVideos what's the background music

[@Duncevideos]

i really like the music in this and i started writing to it. i came back to find your video so i could continue and clicked on another video on the subject by accident. the music was from some ambient horror soundtrack and it made me realize i'm happy i watched your video first. your video set the tone for a bunch of creators working hard and having an outlet whereas the other one was trying to scare me? i'm glad i got the whilesome impression of this easter egg from you and not the creepy vibe from them.

[@404User-Not-Found]

Is this like a secret minigame? Like Lolipop on Android?

[@FlyTechVideos]

Yes

[@404User-Not-Found]

Ah

[@imstupidbut]

Android is shit

[@WickedFamix]

Look at me on an adless underground KZbin app and underground animated wallpapers and a phone that doesn't get updates that slow it down so I buy the next priduct, and you tell me it's shit because it has less pixels than the SelloutFhone

[@impostrous]

iOS gae lmao

[@meowpuddingz]

“ The divine door is fully closed now”

[@thecreationmay3792]

This was a *thing* ??

[@FlyTechVideos]

Apparently, *yes* .

[@Sultryhustler_music]

I used to play it during computer class in high school

[@stella9442]

killertrashbag how did you know it existed??

[@Sultryhustler_music]

@@stella9442 I don't recall exactly. I was a script kiddie wanna be hacker in the late 90's, so I'm sure I found it on some 'hack windows' site lol

[@hillaryclintonsracistkaras1720]

*Harald Hoerwick created it.*

[@nokay3809]

The lives we sacrificed for the sake of... Microsoft 95

[@mrskye08]

[while currently working on some tables and formulas] T'was worth it.. 😈

[@lucianoinso]

"Mhm this has a Doom vibe, maybe they were inspired or even used the engine" 1:32 - "Yup, definitely"

[@COFFEEWSUGA]

Crazy looking at this again and realising that some of ENA's environments took inspiration from this ...!!!! This was always one of my favorite easter eggs, it's so fun to see again.

[@GloomyFish]

LSD Dream Emulator? And possibly the residence of the Great Runas!

[@hellishcorez]

Ay Are You An ENA Fan? Im An ENA Fan-

[@f1ux889]

The first thing that come to my mind after seeing the hall. Anyone think Joel took inspiration of this?

[@olegmoki]

@@f1ux889 same

[@UniEvolute]

Y e s

[@atree1739]

@@f1ux889 maybe

[@Gabowsk]

Office 95: The hall of tortured souls. Me, who had Office 97: **Confused noises**

[@ShipGotStolen]

Wait more like "Windows 96

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@ShipGotStolen what

[@noaht2005]

I had windows xp with 2001 so I feel you’re pity

[@mojzesz9846]

Nice video, there's also other easteregg in excel too, but in other version, maybe 2013? It's about slaying the dragon - if you do something correctly, the message will appear "You have slained the dragon!"

[@FlyTechVideos]

Could very well be the case, i don't know about it yet. Do you have any further information?

[@Gloriousbees]

pretty sure that is an eater egg in google docs where you press shift and f12

[@gibberishdump1610]

@@Gloriousbees nope its not in google docs

[@PCCphoenix]

0:37--WHAT THE...?!!

[@noob-ishnoob749]

- Year: 1996 - Me: somehow opens Hall Of Tortured Souls Parents: why u install virus

[@yeet-ne2nn]

hello sir your computer has virus

[@noob-ishnoob749]

@@yeet-ne2nn is me yes compauter is DOES HAVE has people d sosh slvsisvsovsos virus

[@sebasnatural]

The tortured souls is the developers working day and night all the time ;-;

[@thebestbadness420k6]

I'd love to see someone make a doom level out of this.

[@Sir_Nobody13]

This was also made to promote doom on Windows

[@doommaker4000]

But it is based on a Doom level lol

[@heli400]

Plot Twist: Windows IS DOOM!

[@埊]

@@heli400 and icon of sin is System32

[@MondySpartan]

@@埊 The longer System32 is on your computer the stronger it becomes.

[@corvusabaddon]

Holy crap I haven't seen this video in awhile. I watched your vids for a bit after this vid came out when I was still into computer science. Props to you for keeping it going for so long.

[@pert_taku]

"Wait, there's lore?!" -Markiplier

[@VoVilliaCorp]

Yeah, herblore

[@luigi7834]

Important Microsoft Excel lore

[@rosemelie]

This feels like the dark web. And I don't even know how that's supposed to feel like.

[@Gemerl]

Nothing like this don’t worry lol

[@rosemelie]

@@Gemerl lol thx. But how do you know??

[@rosemelie]

@@Gemerl lol thx. But how do you know??

[@Bluesourboy]

Dark web feels like a 1996 web page only you can order prostitutes and cocaine on it.

[@CaptainResident]

The Dark/Deep Web isn't really all that much to it. Just an outdated browser with a bunch of honeypots and wacky sites.

[@itswolf1690]

2:36 this wall looks like minesweeper...

[@sachinwadkar9349]

Thankfully it doesn’t have bombs in it

[@tensionbombardment3862]

Maybe the devs had to limit the use of textures in the Easter egg so they used already available ones.

[@thomasparsons4871]

Anybody here recognize the layout from Ena? I forgot the actual name of the animator and the video, but I definitely remember her being in that starting room.

[@MoRoKeiFrOd]

My thoughts exactly!

[@Galacticbraindentist]

I like how the credits textures scroll in such a way that definitely isn’t how people read text so it’s pretty damn hard to read the names lmao

[@gabe8168]

It probably was slow or slower on older computers. Like how the space invaders arcade game was made on a glitch where in older computers when you killed some enemies, the computer ran faster and other enemies moved faster.

[@almightyforge2493]

What i'm wondering is how someone found this out..?

[@FlyTechVideos]

hints dropped by microsoft employees probably

[@rosscomer]

@@FlyTechVideos Or someone decompiling the code? More fun to think about but you are probably right.

[@derovvvv]

temptation stairway

[@twinfantasytowers]

Now I know what inspired that one room in ENA Temptation Stairway

[@spyr0guy]

Desires can neither be fulfilled, nor quenched.

[@iiiiiii5805]

WOW. Is that easteregg actually Doom with scrolling textures? It looks very familiar to Doom, because that engine looks very similar to Doom engine, especially with "excelkfa" because it is the famous cheat code "idkfa" changed.

[@FlyTechVideos]

yes, it's the doom engine basically

[@dank2d278]

Without this game excel can reach the 1kb status

[@YoYoBobbyJoe]

Ah, that's what that ENA area is designed after! That makes a lot more sense now.

[@memes_gbc674]

when you're making a spreadsheet editor and accidentally make a whole 3d engine thats better than doom edit: holy shit thanks for the likes

[@zeroslashj]

In no way is this easter egg better than Doom.

[@sebaprime6411]

Sure,it might have some things that doom didnt like looking up and down but that's it. In NO way this is better than Doom.

[@cx3553]

Yeah no way this dudes responding back, what kinda fucking tard says this is better then doom.

[@gibberishdump1610]

it is doom engine bruh (plus it wasn't made "accidentally")

[@nfksoahavwkdphavqkdobza]

gibberishdump r/woooosh

[@WooHooLadttv]

Like the rest of them... like the rest of them...

[@Ophangea]

*TEMPTATION STAIRWAY!?* (sorry lmao)

[@cutekitty772]

Desires are never quenched not fulfilled

[@timiguess5958]

The next celebration is in 6̩͉̙̇̾ͩͦͪ̋̆̃ͭ́͘͘͡͠9̴̸̢̬͙͕̘̂ͦͦͨ̚͞ yeears.

[@your-salmon]

@@timiguess5958 That's a lot!

[@rinatepaste9218]

"*beep boop* years"

[@spiritrebel1994]

The thumbnail made my eyes water, like onions.