The Not So Amazing Virtual Sea Monkeys | Octavius King

[@grantm902]

You've long been breaking open a lot of games and shovelware which i think, due to aggressive marketing, many of us were too ashamed to admit having played (and even liked) as a kid. That and your candid approach to discussing mental health is authenticity I can get behind. Take all the time you need.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I never even knew there existed Sea Monkeys games, as I am old enough to already have gotten scammed by actual physical sea monkey kits. So I'm pretty sure I would not have gotten a sea monkey game, as I already had a bad taste in my mouth from burning allowance money on actual physical monkeys and drinking the water afterwards in an attempt to collect the insurance money. I did, however fall for Spore, the over hyped non-game where I definitely couldn't make actual life and watch them bang in 720p glory. It was not rated "M" for mature, and it's my fault for not checking out the age rating beforehand. And I also got burned on Pikmin 4 because I was pretty sure I saw a deviantart thread by the real Miyamoto saying Pikmin 4 would have actual Pikmin intercourse and the consequences thereof. Once again, I should have checked the game's rating before I bought it. Now I'm starting to worry that no one will ever program the perfect alien monster sex simulator. For PS VR.

[@Staack117]

The illustrations of the sea monkeys in their adverts always creeped me out, with their unsettling gaze and absurd smiles.

[@GazTheKitman]

Keep up the great work Octy, you're awesome! 👍🏻

[@sparetireXGE]

My early teenage years were consumed by the early entries of the Creatures series which I never hear mentioned anymore so this connection was incredibly surprising

[@Dextrovix-42]

I'm old enough to remember the Sea Monkeys adverts in places like The Beano. And old enough to have watched Hitch Hiker's Guide on TV first time round. 80's kid at heart.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I grew up in the 80's but I remember Beano being an anti-gas remedy.

[@endymallorn]

There’s times that it is hard to remember this, but please know that at least there are people on the Internet who believe in you and will listen when you need to talk. You’re an amazing person, and a great creator. You may not always like yourself, but I hope that there are many days you can look in the mirror, and be proud of the person looking back. You have every right to be proud of what you’re doing. Stay strong, get the help you need. You deserve a life of joy.

[@ShadowRune]

It was nice to hear you singing again, I miss your old intro. We're glad to watch whatever you managed to put out take care of yourself

[@mastermarkus5307]

I got some of these as a kid and I remember being really creeped out by them once they got discernable by the naked eye. I knew they weren't going to be like actual monkeys but I don't know what I was expecting.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I got them as a kid too!

[@Vox-Multis]

Clearly the PC version of this game was released fifteen or twenty years too early. Now it would be right at home as a crappy mobile game loaded with microtransactions so you can pay real money to get pearls faster.

[@earthwormsally5211]

Yay , thanks for the upload Sarah . Your amazing don't ever forget that :)

[@georgehilty3561]

yay! a new Octavius video! my day is now perfect!! :)

[@daveretrolondon]

Loved the Mrs Brown line 😂 😂 Brilliant! ♥

[@eternalfailure4081]

This video was well written and entertaining with a good structure (intro, main section, finishing song) all visuals and sound were clear, it covered a topic I have never heard of (I've heard of sea monkeys, but not the game versions). This is a video you should be proud of.

[@inventiveusername5191]

That Sold Out Software box properly brought on the nostalgia. So many of my favourite old PC games in the early 00s were SOS rereleases it's not even funny. I'd totally forgotten about them!

[@MathewHaswell]

Remember budget re-releases? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Explosiv and Sold Out seemed to be the most prominent such labels for PC games throughout the late CD ROM era.

[@16driver16]

Sea monkeys don't live very long. The "food" is actually just more eggs and a little food/salt

[@bushybeardedbear]

If Sea Monkey and Snorks crossover fiction invades my sleep, I'm blaming this video...

[@geezerdiamond]

Superb! Had me giggling throughout! 😂❤️

[@CJJC]

“A choice of four obnoxious tunes” - I’ve encountered that jukebox in real life.

[@davidhazard512]

I've enjoyed your vids for years, always happy to see a new one... the humor is amazing.. stay blessed

[@Ranger_Kevin]

Uh, we had those in Germany as well... they came as a recurring gimmick in the legendary "YPS" magazine, called "Urzeitkrebse" (primordial times crabs)

[@BrimarBrimar-gv5lc]

I love the name primordial times crabs !

[@ranmafan420]

You are awesome! I love your vids. Dont let other people get you down. Keep up the good work!

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Oh yes, those THINGS.... fascinating stuff you found out though! I think they had the Creatures set in the museum at Cambridge. Or something like it...

[@marty1765]

Lol, the heroes 3 drop was gold. I didnt expect to want to abandon work and play a pc game again for the first time in 10 years after watching a youtube video on seamonkeys... but here we are!

[@lifeisraph]

So happy to see you again, Sarah! :)

[@joeyparkhill8751]

1:11 I can just imagine a Little Kid saying "Mommy, that creepy Chucky doll you got from the postman just winked & whispered he was gonna kill me!" then the mom says "Don't talk to dolls holding butcher knives dear..."

[@jeffstephenson9316]

Feel better we appreciate the videos that you are making and will continue to watch and support

[@homeoftheinepttulpagamer]

no seakmonkeys were harmed in the production of this v... it was genocide

[@danielmooney1286]

Brilliant as always

[@IsaacKuo]

I don't know if I've ever seen brine shrimp, but around here (and most places?) you can just scoop up some pond water and a bit of the underwater vegetation and you get a bunch of amphipods (called "scuds"). They swim around and they're cute and fun, and ... yeah, they do that piggyback ride thing ...

[@weslev0075]

4.5 k views and only 700 likes, come on guys take a second to like the videos. love your content Sarah, hope you feel better soon x

[@jasonjones7461]

I love stumbling upon channels like this. Brilliant

[@AngryJ]

Great video, and I always love an unexpected Heroes of Might and Magic III cameo!

[@gonzaloNMF]

This channel deserves way more followers. It's great!

[@warmachine68]

Few minutes in and I'm loving it! Hope you're doing well too

[@jeffcook1054]

Thank you for producing videos. They are very therapeutic to me, I hope they are the same for you. I always watch for new vids from you. It is great to see you still giving us entertainment. Again thank you.

[@frankowalker4662]

Loved the Mrs Browns Boys comment, Octy. Brilliant. :) P.S. Great closing song.

[@carn9507]

Will watch. Sorry your anxiety been super high lately again. Mine too. Though I did manage to a bit of a personal challenge last weekend and did something my anxiety hadn't really allowed for before but I beat it so I did have me a lil bit of Kryten 'smug mode' pleased with myself. Anyways yep I'll watch vid. Have a good evening. :)

[@SilentAddle]

When you started this, I wondered if you had a video on the Creatures franchise, and I guess that got covered, so.. thanks!

[@RichardSmith-ry7pc]

Great video!!! Appreciate how hard it can be constantly creating content so thank you 😊

[@PosthumanHeresy]

I absolutely love your way of blending realistic levels of bleak regarding mental health issues with comedy. Very much the same approach I've always used to cope and try to spread awareness my way.

[@fallwitch]

Yay! Always makes my day to see your vids pop-up! Thank you. And yes I had Sea Monkeys :(

[@DrawciaGleam02]

You ever watch the Rugrats episode about Sea Monkeys?

[@kryan]

a Babel fish. What, the actual...

[@nhailstone]

The mrs brown’s boys joke was great. Always happy to see uploads :)

[@kaw8473]

I vividly remember seeing the Creatures game at pawn shops and trade in stores but I don't remember owning it. Wild trip down memory lane, I'm old.

[@Freddyfan1428]

Many thanks for enduring this utterly crap game on our behalf, lovely one! Loved your rendition of the end song! 🙂 Wishing you happiness and much love!

[@01302]

Another brilliant and entertaining video. Thanks for brightening up my day.

[@MathewHaswell]

19:30 marks the proud return of Bishop's Pronk, now in Lite form!

[@philsowers]

As an American the word pronk cracks me up.

[@Libluini]

This game looks more like instant depression, not instant life. Also hell, something about this game is seriously off, like if aliens saw a Sea Monkey commercial and then tried to make a video game based on that, this is what it would look like. "What is it, little Humons? Do you not like your little Lake Apes?" Now, a shrimp life simulator, that would be neat.

[@silmarian]

This was a fun video, and the song at the end? Brilliant.

[@Ale.K7]

Great episode, thank you!

[@drokus]

yay! new vid! i know how bad depression can be, i have been struggling with it myself for quite a long time. your humor and your vids are fantastic! hang in there

[@DrawciaGleam02]

The sea monkey art is iconic..but yeah I don't think it aged that well. 🤷‍♀

[@nerdiestmurdoch887]

Thank you for another great video!

[@DigitalImpostor]

As a Creatures fan (I immediately bought the games when GOG released them even though I still have my boxed copies) I really wanted to get this. Looks like I dodged a bullet by not buying the... erm... game, I guess, when it was released.

[@michaelpout9701]

Good to see another video Octavis king 👍

[@BainesMkII]

When I was on an "exaggerated" comic book ads kick long ago, I bought some sea monkeys. They either died almost immediately or never even hatched.

[@Segafishy]

I used to have all sorts of tanks for them as a Kid, the little Handbooks were pretty much a mix of random bollocks and a Catalouge, most daft thing was the food they scented with Banana to make you think it was a treat for them. The real thing isn't so bad if you're a more Sciencey kid but those games definately would've been left in the Bargin bin where they belong.

[@Zanji1234]

sea monkeys are quite "unknown" here in Germany.... BUT we have Urzeitkrebse (prehistoric crab) which were THE hit in children / kids magazines in the 80s till mid 90s. The "Mickey Mouse Magazin" and "YPS" both had them several times (the YPS magazine had more plastic gadget and toys and also bigger compartments with the eggs and food but was more expensive) but i've seen some ads for them also in other... comic books i think. I can remember that i was confused since they sounded like the Urzeitkrebse i knew but they looked WAY to different (on the pictures) which made it clear that this was a fake and OMG Creature labs O_O creatuers was for a long periode my favorite PC game :D

[@Choralone422]

Great video! I had a good laugh at the reviews. :) I sort of remember the Creatures game back in the day but I had no clue about the Sea Monkey games. Glad I missed out on them.

[@ed_j_webb]

1:43 Unfoldable baton? Is that a baton that you can unfold or a baton that can't be folded? The ad may as well read "How to almost definitely get shot by a mugger"

[@RandomRetr0]

Wow. Also wow, the Hexen poster on your wall! Favorite game ever. So bloody difficult for the sake of being difficult. Oh, yeah, I was also disappointed raising sea monkeys 🤣

[@michaelsalisbury1960]

they missed a trick surprised they never made little outfits for them with wigs and bows

[@Feenix102]

ahhh, if The Lawnmower Man had kids - freaky little monsters. I think I actually saw a bit of your playthrough of the one with the Babel fish on Twitch. :o) x

[@SomeBlokeOrWhatever]

This is like a Hong-Kong bootleg of Caution Seamen.

[@miketate3445]

Ah, this video is the good stuff! Thanks for what you do.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

In 1992 they had their own live-action kids TV show called "The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys", created by the Chiodo Brothers (of Killer Klowns from Outer Space fame) and starring Howie Mandel. Speaking of those weird comic book ads, in the 1960s you could order actual monkeys through the mail. This did not usually end well for the monkeys. The late Gilbert Gottfried talked about this a few times on his podcast.

[@blackphoenix77]

I had no idea that they still sold Sea Monkeys.

[@SnarkyRC]

Brilliant video as always.

[@tremorist]

In Germany the Sea Monkeys were marketed as Prehistoric Crabs (Urzeit Krebse) by the Yps-Magazine.

[@MrFairwayjim]

Please do not hate yourself. people out here think you are awesome we love you and your work..... Sarah lots of love and best wishes to you Xxx

[@mattparker9726]

9:55 Yeah I had some problems capturing Commander Keen, suprisingly. I woulnd't think a DOS game in DOSBOX would give me so much trouble, especially not such a well known game.

[@rembassmaster]

All I can think of the the South park episode were cartman wants to be king of the sea people.

[@dyscotopia]

Hilarious and brave (for subjecting yourself to these terrible games, etc.) as always. I won't even complain that we didn't get to see the GBA version. If it's just a port of the playstation version, it really seems like a missed opportunity since using the GBA as a very expensive tamagotchi seems inspired

[@Mauvecube]

Very well done - you made it entertaining!

[@_The_Jim]

I was always draw to the sea monkeys ads in comics as a child, but inever knew anyone that acually had them. What a load of bobbins. And the gam looks lke a big waste too. it could have been some sort of underwater sims or underwater lemmings. not just a boring load of old shoes like this. Really entertaining video though. Please keep em coming

[@treyjohnson4035]

Have you done a video on the Tandy Radio Shack table top games? I bought one for 20 bucks,they go for about 60 with box and instruction book,it does work once I scrounged up an ac cord

[@LevitatingCups]

Ahh, the early 2000s 3d models, barely started to climb the mountain towards uncanny valley.

[@dykodesigns]

That Water purifier looks like a hybrid of a blowfish and a vacuum cleaner. What where they thinking… at least it looks funny.

[@RedDiamond089]

Oh, those Sea Monkeys look like the perfect Nerf targets...

[@GriffandZeus]

Apparently the first packet "purifier" is actually the eggs as they take so long to hatch.

[@ericwood3709]

A good way to run an old Windows OS these days is on a free emulator. 86Box does an amazing job of emulating a complete older PC on a modern system. You can set that up to emulate a Win 98 era PC, install the OS onto that, and you're off to the sea monkey races.

[@coyoteartist]

I'm going to go with the tribute ider because I just love the ider of a retired lady babel fish.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

That article was a wild read. Holy crap.

[@AlexGilmour]

Really enjoyed this

[@robertbarker5802]

I'm embarrassed to admit I found sea monkeys in the back of a comic and ordered them. I don't remember them lasting very long.

[@urakirby5]

I just played this game without the seamonkeys like an aquarium sim with the actually visually appealing fish

[@joegoesretro]

I have the PlayStation version around here somewhere. I got it in a mixed lot of games. I haven’t played it. Don’t think I will be anytime soon.

[@mastermarkus5307]

16:27 - "HI, my name is Connor, I am the Sea Monkey sent by Cyberlife."

[@adamdenby1282]

That octopuses look ilkeit going to eat your soul

[@dragonpjb]

I missed you!

[@bryanbridgwood6923]

Seamonkeys, slightly more entertaining than a jar of water.

[@IanSlothieRolfe]

My dad used to "breed" brine shrimp to feed his tropical fish, and as a teenager it was entertaining watching them being chased around by the fish and ... er... eaten, but I can't imagine a tank of them alone being entertaining for more than a few minutes. Years before that I remember them being in the comics I read as a kid (Whizzer & Chips and The Beano) and even as a gulible 8 year old I guessed they would be nothing like the adverts.

[@primokarma9841]

I knew nothing about sea monkeys until South Park did a episode on em

[@VID-KIDZ]

...I was just passing by, had to stop and take a look-in... Q. George & Mildred (the 70's TV Comedy Show) The G&M Log, it's very pre Pac-Man !!! Do take a look...

[@MatroxMillennium]

I need to turn on notifications for you -- KZbin always shows me your videos late!

[@NavJack27gaming]

very good video. loved it!

[@jasonjones7461]

....whoa hold on a min. That guy mentions seeing that game unveiled the same week that evidence of life on MARS was discovered?! And we just kinda moved on past that and it was never mentioned again lol. What?!

[@almaw2005]

6:25 is the posterchild of the uncanny valley

[@ChaseMC215]

Why couldn't it just be a screensaver??? The Aquarium theme for Windows XP via the Plus XP pack actually has a fucking screensaver with fish!

[@vherostar]

I played creatures when it came out and sequels I loved those games and wayyy ahead of the time. Shame they didn't keep up with the games as nowadays a game like that would sell a lot.