The Cryptic Game Of Courage The Cowardly Dog - Inside A Mind

[@ComicalRealm]

Fun fact: In the cartoon, Courage's dialogue decreased after the first season. This is because the creators at Cartoon Network thought Courage "talked too much" and wanted his dialogue cut short.

[@CarolineBearoline]

That's super cool, also I'm gay

[@theirishpotato6588]

Darn

[@yeesnomepiccool]

@@CarolineBearoline That's super cool, also I'm in your bathroom

[@manecronik]

@@CarolineBearoline That's super cool, also I'm in your walls

[@CarolineBearoline]

@@yeesnomepiccool lollll

[@mathieuleader8601]

the episode Windmill Vandals has the answer to the old wind mystery the windmill acts as a failsafe stopping the living undead from rising around the farm so this would mean as the games objective is to get the windmill working again to stop Wheeler & Muriel to rise from the dead.

[@quopi7183]

wait holy shit thats a good point

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Just gotta get to it.

[@katamari_of_luv]

bump (oh my god this is really smart)

[@WarrenDicey]

That's a good point

[@somestranger3808]

Bump

[@goronska]

Sidenote: Muriel's voiceactress, Thea White, died in August this year. Eleanor was the name of her mother.

[@0nullnil]

May she rest in piece.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Rest in peace.

[@robbievalentino5174]

It's been stated by the creators of the ARG that real world people will not be included or involved in the ARG. Thea White's recent passing was an unfortunate coincidence.

[@jacobfoxfires964]

@@robbievalentino5174 I honestly thought that was intentional. Still watching ATM but when I saw that, thought it was a memorial for the voice actress and made me sad.

[@CommunicationsOfficer535]

@@robbievalentino5174 a sad coinkydink

[@dm44444]

I am very impressed with how much they managed to make this look like a 90s PS game, complete with jerky character jumps, random crashes, getting stuck in walls, utterly impossible puzzles, and lots of "enter room a! then enter room b! a! b! a! now b is different!"

[@melody3741]

Buddy if your ps1 games make rooms change, your console is probably haunted.

[@melody3741]

Buddy if your ps1 games make rooms change, your console is probably haunted.

[@melody3741]

Buddy if your ps1 games make rooms change, your console is probably haunted.

[@melody3741]

Buddy if your ps1 games make rooms change, your console is probably haunted.

[@pipebombmailer]

@@melody3741 buddy if your device makes you repeat comments, you should probably check that out idk

[@burg3575]

the fact that theres no forced jumpscares (so far) makes this really good. Looking forward to more of this ARG

[@torytellstales]

The fact that there's no jump scares actually is whats making this game unsettling

[@SsnakeBite]

@@torytellstales Seriously, so often jump scares ruin what would otherwise have been a genuinely effective scene as it just pulls you out of the game/movie. it just comes off as the creator (or the studio/producer) not trusting the scene to work on its own so they just try and force a physical reaction out of people.

[@NuclearRaven13]

@@torytellstales it's kinda like blueballing but for jumpscares, you keep expecting getting jump... but it just never arrives and you end up being unnerved.

[@i_jumxo6948]

I hate jump scares so much. I love when there's parts you could have put jump scares but they dont

[@misseselise3864]

the lil taps of courage’s steps makes my heart happy

[@intotheboilingsea]

its also quite unsettling during the maze area lol

[@bellaochoa931]

@misses elise same

[@abhirajbaruah4676]

Wow I didn't notice that and had to listen through my headphones at high to know it

[@Teefschomp]

I put in headphones just to enjoy it 😌

[@frozarburst6350]

Seeing you cover this brings a smile to my face. Not only is Courage a childhood favorite, but this ARC is one of the most unique I've ever seen. Can't wait to see how it all plays out

[@rowan4327]

What is an ARC?

[@Kitty255Again]

Yeah what Rowan said

[@rowan4327]

@@pssteenagers okay I thought maybe ARCs were like a new alternative to ARGs or something lol

[@yanqinng]

@@pssteenagers why is it a game doe, i always felt like it ways Horror Video Story or like HVS

[@reallyjustarandomperson]

You play your ARG'S on a Alternate Reality Console too? Nice!

[@Negative.FeedbacK]

I love that your acknowledging that it's a creepy pasta more, not that it isn't clear, it just makes for a better flow than taking everything hyper seriously, love it love the vid love you m8

[@patrickfrancis7560]

sometimes it's nice when it isn't acknowledged. incoming anecdote: I came across inside the mind randomly without knowing anything about ARGs and the first video I watched was about Catastrophe Crow 64. This might just be a testament to how gullible I am, but I was convinced by Inside the Mind's story (I had doubts about the story itself, but was convinced that Inside the Mind was being genuine). And then when I did my own research, I started learning what ARGs were and that I had been completely swindled. That is what made me love ARGs. I absolutely loved that feeling.

[@downrightannoying3922]

“the room is glowing red” well that’s never good

[@DjinnsĘnigma]

My room does when my led settings are set to surprise the GF mode.

[@originaldimwit]

I know this is supposed to be serious but I love the way Courage jumps. look at that lil pup. absolutely flailing his legs and arms in mid air. he’s flying by this point. good for him. good for him.

[@toceeno874]

my god! this dog is jumping! good for him! good for him.

[@GPReeds]

This felt like a very well-produced "Let's Play". Very fun!

[@AxxLAfriku]

One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no KZbinr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear gr

[@GPReeds]

@@AxxLAfriku That just earned you a sub, and I don't understand why.

[@edoneill6138]

@@GPReeds don’t.

[@GPReeds]

@@edoneill6138 Why?

[@Chabascus]

@@GPReeds he fucking spams comments about his channel everywhere telling people to hate him, he does this so he can get subs. He’s annoying and just awful, please don’t support him or give him any attention.

[@420Crows]

honestly courage getting a horror game would be awesome since the show always rode that line of creepy and unsettling things that only courage really acknowledged

[@MrLockfree]

Can we also just appreciate how metal the name "the house of discontent" is for an episode of a children's show.

[@poppy5505]

it is pretty terrified me out seeing Muriel's funeral in the game after I learn about Thea White (Muriel's voice actor) passed away.

[@googleuser1373]

1:23 "Upon checking the hard drive..." *shows stock footage of a guy looking at a GPU*

[@tryhardnub383]

5:20 "Stupid dog, you'll never escape the purgatory!"

[@trueblueflare]

Random fact:Courage the Cowardly Dog was partially based on real events. "The middle of nowhere", where the show was set was based on a random house in the middle of the desert in New Mexico if I recall correctly, and the elderly couple who lived there constantly claimed to see weird things in the desert, until one day they mysteriously disappeared. Only their dog was found.

[@WK-47]

Damn, son. Where'd you find this? Seriously, though, I need to know. Thanks.

[@trueblueflare]

@@WK-47 I dunno I was scrolling through shitposts and found it

[@WK-47]

@@trueblueflare no worries. A quick web search found some posts about it so thanks for sharing. Cool story, even if it's just a fan theory.

[@trueblueflare]

@@WK-47 Just a fan theory? That's a shame. Still fun to think about.

[@nashwolf1731]

I hope this is real

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

I think what I love about this so far is that it isn't corrupting courage in any way. This is all in tone with the show this far, and not even in the "I'm sorry Jon" way of just taking what was already there to the extreme. This far, this feels like something courage would outright do if they had the chance, minus maybe Muriel being the dead character of course.

[@VelvetVexations]

That's a very good observation. I wonder, though, if that means the quality will drop as we get further along in the lore and it potentially moves away from the tone of the show.

[@ceawithac4095]

I think you've missed something, or my older copy of the game has an extra tidbit. I've actually played this a while back after looking for some horror games online. I quite loved the idea of a creepypasta game/ARG so before booting it up, I looked through all the text files I could count. Right inside "README" I found these two lines: When you find a dead end Just erase time I don't know whether you've just missed them or omitted them on purpose since they're really vague, but it feels like it might have something to do with the clock perhaps? I don't know, I never actually finished the game after the first crash since the first puzzle took me so long to figure out haha. Either way, hopefully this adds a little more information out there on this little game!

[@vulture.editss]

maybe you delete the clock files????

[@irenen9]

Maybe it was an hint about the jump though the banister thing

[@Concon12316]

it just telling you that when you run into a dead end just delete your save and "rewind" to the beginning

[@Khn_2102]

@@theaxiom191 Nice reference

[@mortbobeus6889]

wait, the moment with the clock in the middle of the room?

[@SpringDavid]

Robert's smilling has no teeth, that isn't him nor his corspe, someone else is using his face as a mask. A scary mask. (the bg sounds like "doggy" being repeated)

[@toganium4175]

I still can’t believe that I watched this show when I was 7 years old.

[@fallenflame1940]

Same it scared me to death but i still watched it

[@Glyph69]

Man i still remmember watching it when i was 9 and man it haf so much creepy and dark stuff in it

[@hardblockph8785]

"Learn the way of the Old Wind" is referring to the old wind mill from the cowardly dog show you can see an old wind mill at some of the episodes.

[@mrjackel3102]

I love that there isn't any jump scares in this game there just something about anticipating a jump scare and not getting a jump scare that makes horror games more creepy to me

[@caileg5664]

everytime i see the word courage my brain immediately just flashes me a certain shade of pink and plays the audio clip of wheeler saying "Stupid dog, you made me look bad!"

[@NightsIntoDreams777]

I feel like the use of a real image being used to represent Muriel instead of her cartoon version makes me wonder if theres more to it. Also the ending with the distorted version of Robert Wheeler slowly approaching you definitely feels like the game is making it out like he's a malicious figure

[@WEIRDGIRLWATCHING]

Its so cool finding new ARG’s to add to my list. I’ve been following ARG’s since The oh so beloved creepy pasta phase. I’ve always loved ARG’s they’ve always been crazy interesting, so finding new/old ARG’s I haven’t seen before is mad exciting

[@aurumarma5711]

I would 100% buy a retro style Courage game, that reenacted episodes of the cartoon.

[@bean9452]

Inside a mind is one of the few channels that i watch every one of their videos. Great videos.

[@sexygirlmax2019]

seriously, jamie really does treat all of his uploads as a work of art; you can tell hes not uploading for the sale of uploading. its such a treat every time i see he uploaded haha

[@soapyrainmaker5367]

there was a game on the Cartoon Network website whose name I don't remember. it was scary as hell. one big part of it was that you couldnt cross the road so you could only be in the house. the part that terrified me was that you couldnt escape and there was a room where you "could hear scream behind, but you cant get to"

[@DPSFSU]

Missed you bud. Hope you're doing well.

[@Gallonofish]

Bruh your pfp is doin the bird tho

[@DPSFSU]

@@Gallonofish but I'm smiling..

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_"RETURN THE SLAB, OR SUFFER MY CURSE!"_

[@farawaygaming_]

Oh its you again

[@davestanley3410]

Funfact: the voice actor to Muriel is actually dead in the show so the whole Muriel dying stuff could be a tribute to her

[@testerwulf3357]

It's not. Apparently the creator said they're not using real life people in this

[@ShutupNARC]

When I saw the hunt a killer ad, I thought it was a real case, honestly it was the best sponsorship ad I’ve even seen

[@matt-ek4rz]

HEY, BABY! THIS WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!

[@victormanuelavilasandoval7272]

Hey 😔

[@Brando216]

Ahh a fellow "gentle man"

[@MrNotCreatlve]

I can hear this comment

[@froggod6484]

WOOOOOH YEAH

[@cryptkeeperthe9634]

*Dog T poses into room*

[@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY]

Honestly screw the ARG, all this does is make me think about how much child me would have loved a PS1 Courage the Cowardly Dog platformer.

[@temmieton9755]

well technically now you have it it's just very messed up for a bit.

[@TheCow-j1l]

I think it would be something on the level of Mandark's Lab tho...

[@sexygirlmax2019]

Cope

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

Best sponsor segment I've ever heard! Edit: This reminds me of OK/NORMAL but that game was intentionally dark and cryptic.

[@mortbobeus6889]

I'd like to point out that at the beginning of the video, with the entire explanation of where the "game maker" got the game from, the word "Wind" is capitalized, probably a hint at the Old Wind

[@philipp_mayr]

if i would have played this as a kid i would have died. insane

[@breadbrothers4487]

I was awaiting this video! I was following this ARG for awhile and was just waiting for a large KZbinr to bring this ARG to the publics attention.

[@Slater2113]

I guess it technically is a 90’s cartoon. The pilot was certainly 90’s but the show proper was super late 99 and most of the show was 2000’s. Always thought of it more as a product of the 2000’s.

[@chrisoboyo5470]

The way that thing moved at 6:43 was legitimately creepy but the face was too ridiculous to be scary

[@khonsu7629]

I can't be the only one who was terrified by some episodes of this show when I was young

[@llaeio]

i just remembered when i was little I saw an episode of that show, I don't remember where it was but I think it might've been at my aunt's family's place, but i remember it being weird like a fever dream. i didn't really see the entire episode but i remember there was a lady that looked weird and she was doing something that was making courage's owners forget him and they were being taken somewhere, and courage ended up having to rip of chunks of his like fur or something to do something to a quilt so that his owners would remember him and then they were fine. i think i was like 5 to 9 or 10, so it's pretty blurry. still a weird memory though.

[@ashleyyoung796]

The conjoined twin sisters, I believe I remember that episode and at the end, Eustace scares a bunch of women from ancient times out of the house.

[@leftygurl]

i really applaud the effort and craft they put into this game, it feels very authentically of its time and for a licensed game, the choice of courage as a series also helps you suspend disbelief that it could be real too, it seems just slightly off from what could’ve been an actual courage game

[@everywhere3301]

I’m really impressed by the part where you need to decode the sound in the darkness. It literally converts into a little map where you have to walk on. The scariest part was the fact that the voice actor of muriel died like, after this game came out…

[@pusa2302]

Courage the Cowardly Dog was the show that scared me a lot when I was a kid but I couldn't stop watching it because I wanted more. Also, the last episode of Courage was perfect. :)

[@downrightannoying3922]

maybe this game, Old Wind, is just a retelling of Golden Wind but Giorno is replaced with Courage the Cowardly Dog?

[@blueishvelvet]

honestly most channels like these are so underrated

[@bigrainbow8776]

My own little personal theory is maybe that Robert and Elenore are people who the characters are/based on, since Robert sort of looks like Eustace to me

[@Beruptis]

Great. Now I need to shut my closet door to be able to go to sleep

[@jorgyt754]

Courage the Cowardly Dog was an amazing theme for it, because this (minus some bits) could LITERALLY PASS AS AN EPISODE.

[@googleuser1373]

8:01 OH MY GOD THAT TRANSITION SCARED ME

[@cucumbermorning]

I always thought Courage was Odie from Garfield and Eustace was John.

[@joshkaid]

This game actually embodies the spirit of the show really well.

[@wangsworld7165]

I’m extremely computer illiterate, so there’s that. “User’s ran the background music through a spectrogram”……..how in the world did anyone even come up with the thought to do that??

[@jdggaming5764]

It's a pretty common practice with things like these, when people hear noises that seem to make no locical sense usually one of the first things they go to is a spectrogram as it's a good way to hide an image/clue

[@sinom]

3:55 invisible walls, and walkthrough walls (or collisionless walls) are two very different things.

[@BlueRoseFaery]

Yeah, he says it again later in the video, too. "Invisible doorway" or "invisible gap in the wall" would be correct.

[@TheMultiGamerOfficial]

I personally prefer to call them fake walls

[@SpookiePossum]

My earbuds are like dying on me while watching the video it kept causing the video to skip parts or go to the next video right after the missing data at 6:59 which confused and creeped me out till I went and replaced my earbuds. Anyways great video as always.

[@fleetstreet11]

"The things I do for love."

[@pigeon1620]

I really adore the way Courage jumps

[@xXTheAceofHeartsXx]

Funny how GT just “got the idea” to do a theory on this game.

[@bucketts6148]

True

[@jmwloup5110]

@@bucketts6148 yeah he doesn't write his own stuff

[@testerwulf3357]

@@jmwloup5110 He actually does, sometimes he shares other theories but most of the time if he came up with something someone else did it is a coincidence (it's usually something obvious so many people thought it up lol). His fnaf theories are all him, his reaction videos even have him theorizing live.

[@huracan360]

Courage The Cowardly Dog was one of my favourite Cartoon Network shows when I was a kid

[@arcticbarbarian]

I remember watching this show as a kid. It was always on very early in the morning, even before the sun came up. Scary creepy to watch.

[@That_Isabelle]

Kinda sad that from my knowledge this game never went anywhere after this game first dropped. I got really invested in this arg and was really sad no follow up game or information was available

[@TheAdvertisement]

Courage the Cowardly Dog as a cartoon was already nightmare fuel, so I'm bracing myself for this video lmao.

[@JodieBarbwireHeart]

Courage the cowardly dog was my childhood, even my dad loves it. P.s hunt a killer is great! I'm on my third episode of curtain call 😍

[@DadFeels]

Toooo spoopy

[@punkletongaming2174]

Dad with no replies!?

[@Lucy_Ford]

I'd like that walking guy to be my screen saver. Great job here btw! I never miss your uploads because your theme is a fuckin' banger.

[@nicoleburdick6209]

I have met the VA actor of Courage himself at a local convention back in Sept!

[@acompletelyawesomenameyay2587]

3:54 I'm no expert but I'd say that wall was most certainly visible, perhaps your thinking of "permeable"?

[@llewelynshingler2173]

Or an invisible door

[@gold-star]

Just want to point out the background to the SpongeBob video is the maze floor

[@TazKoltin]

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER VIDEO ON THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH JAMIE!!

[@fallout76_pro]

The theme song is fantastic it's definitely my favorite part of the video

[@George_vv]

I love this video and it's well put together. It keeps the focus simple and the pacing is pretty good. I do have a request for when you're writing: try not to use "some kind of..." when you're describing something simple. It's really overused but overlooked and you usually say it in the exact same cadence every time. It sometimes pulls me away when I notice it used everywhere, but I can't wait for the next video.

[@WyattS2]

Love the videos! Keep up the good work! I know it just came up but I always love your content

[@allentayoto7387]

Sometimes I still can't help but wonder how did Courage the Cowardly dog was considered a Kid Show. I mean, if you thinking about it there's a lot of things in the game that are just plain horrifying. Some of the villains are drawn in a cartoon way but there are characters like the Mummy that is drawn in a horrifying way.

[@ashleyyoung796]

So is the big floating head with the most scariest eyes in the House of Discontent episode. That episode nearly gave me nightmares. O.O

[@testerwulf3357]

Because of the era it was in. Back then kids were watching horror movies (I watched horror movies back then lol), parents were just more relaxed on what their kids watched (they've gotten stricter over time but ONLY in America roughly)

[@itshonk]

Please make longer videos! I just love getting immersed in a story

[@dsseltzer512]

Lol I remember my friend finding this game and me and another friend watching him play it on discord around early June or so, what made it better is that we had no idea what was going on or happening but I remeber we were freaking out and having a lot of fun figuring out how to solve pentagram void section thing but we ended up giving up and just watching the ending of it on like less than 1000 view yt videos. Fun times yet it was like 6 months ago.

[@kingpinogaming3366]

Honestly it's clearly a creepypasta but considering the contents of the source material it's not that ridiculous to imagine it's real

[@themaster22dude39]

inside a mind stirkes again hot damn when ever i am on a long car ride or long flight or know im going to be waiting a while i line up a bunch of your videos so i can have something to think about and your videos are just overall entertainng so keep it up and lets get you that gold play button and that 1 million subs

[@morganlehman123]

ManlyBadassHero playthrough is GOAT

[@downrightannoying3922]

courage the cowardly dog haunted my childhood why would you make me remember this 😩

[@clamnuggetz6795]

A great video of Inside A Mind as always. Cool ARG!

[@SprokeSodaCo]

i used to watch courage the cowardly dog when i was little

[@vanessacheng0526]

ah, i love discovering video game secrets through an oddhead :)

[@avriladam0404]

Love that intro, even though it’s an ad it fits with your content

[@supersharkelijah7087]

Courage's theme is a bop

[@1fps996]

I love how innovative your sponsor videos are. Amazing

[@izzysleepz3225]

its so funny listening to him just walking *tap tap tap*

[@___-wb9xi]

Love it! Hoping for a second part soon

[@mathieuleader8601]

RIP Thea White the voice-actress for Muriel

[@dunaadrian404]

8:19 at the far right there is a room without a door

[@austria-hungary4981]

Finally, a ARG of my childhood show!

[@xthebigZ25x]

Minor grammatical error: 5:31 “Lefts” Amazing video as always though.

[@DaVince21]

I still think the basic premise of basing it around Playstation 1 detracts from the believability of the whole thing. Just that one thing, and everything built around that idea. It would have made a lot more sense to claim it was an unreleased Windows 98 game or something like that. Everything else about it is neat, I think.

[@Concon12316]

yeah the texture would warp and the audio would be worse if it was ps1

[@DaVince21]

@@Concon12316 Not just that, but also: giving it PC-like controls, the game somehow saving progress without a memory card... And what bothers me most is that the story claims they found the source code and are trying to get it to work... by porting it to Windows, which would likely be a much larger undertaking than using the PlayStation dev tools to build a Playstation binary. Again, I want to like this more, but it's a little difficult when the basic idea it's built on is kinda messy like this.

[@banjogyro]

I agree! These PS1-styled horror games are very cool, but they fall short on feeling like PS1. The fear factor to me comes from the idea that this *could* be a game made for such an old console, but it clearly isn't, and so the whole fear goes away. Being influenced by this inspired genre, doing a deep dive into PS1 I didn't find many games that feel like this, except maybe LSD but everyone knows that. The same problem is with the whole concept of weirdcore and backrooms. To me the entire appeal is that the backrooms could be something in real life and we don't know where the phtoos were taken from. But when everyone gets their own spin on it, too many cooks spoil the soup.

[@complex2live]

Nice video bro. I first found you in your Alex Bale theory

[@Deedoo_r]

I feel that, although surely its purely coincidental, the voice actress who played Muriel has passed away I think this year edit: Yes, the Courage game was found in June 2021, the actress who voiced Muriel, Thea White, passed away on July 30, 2021.

[@double_k_art8670]

this is one of the best coverings of this topic

[@B93-w7v]

Wth? 3 uploads less than 2 months? Bro am I im heaven

[@depbeltre]

YES ANOTHER VIDEO WOOO!!!!

[@benoitthiery8418]

Love your videos, I’m looking forward to get news about this game 👍🏼