The Tale Of The "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" PC Game

[@TheLoneGameMan]

"I call this next story "The Tale of the Six Kids Who Went Into The Woods, Wouldn't Let Me Join Their Club, and WERE NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN"!"

[@Maniacman2030]

There's no murder investigation of there's no bodies.

[@tylociraptor8131]

Fun fact: Gary is now a Canadian meteorologist! It's always wild to me to watch non-Canadians who have experience with this show.

[@ymotle]

Im from Argentina and I loved this show as a kid, alongside Ghosebumps molded my likeness for the horror genre

[@RootVegetabIe]

Ireland here. I loved this show back when it came out. Although it was probbaly played here a couple of years after its initial release.

[@mattmolloy636]

Also, Tucker was the stoner kid in Half Baked and he also starred in Mean Girls. The girl who played Terry in this game became a great stage actress too.

[@Mockthenerd]

In England we used to watch this show on I think either BBC or ITV. Most likely ITV as BBC had Goosebumps.

[@gonzaloreina]

Another one from Argentina here! I grew up watching this great show

[@UnkleKlumsy1353]

DONT BOGART THE CREAMER GARY. In all seriousness, I wanna say they made a game similar to this for Goosebumps that starred Jeff Goldblum as a Vampire

[@wareforcoin5780]

This is the best news I've heard all week

[@QualityCandor]

Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (1996), PushingUpRoses made a video on it if I'm not mistaken.

[@aperson2go497]

Honestly this game really reminded me of that one. Scary point and click adventure games. Its super cool

[@pucktoad]

The monster in the sewers still scares me

[@McsorleyGamer]

​@@QualityCandorthe kreal tube one was much better

[@mog-myownbestfriend]

Man, that's bunk. Alex vanquishing the malevolent ghost and simultaneously freeing the trapped spirits at the cost of himself is the far superior and creepier ending, and two of them voted against you!? Bunch of fools, the lot of them!

[@lrobin-is8dg]

I guess it was a "good and bad ending" thing

[@roguerifter9724]

@@lrobin-is8dg Yeah but its not like the stories in the show always had happy endings. I can think of several where the protagonists lost and I'm sure there are others I either never saw or don't remember. So a dark ending wasn't out of character for the show, or Midnight Society stories.

[@summerlaverdure]

@@roguerifter9724 i think the worst was with the lizard sisters that freaked me out

[@derrickhaggard]

@@roguerifter9724 Correct a dark ending wasn't out of character for the show and Midnight Society stories.

[@Sisren86]

Holy crap, dude. That awful waffle scene from Salute Your Shorts traumatized me as a kid and it still gets in my head relatively regularly to this day (currently 37 years old). Something about them choosing a completely innocent kid to punish for something he didn't even do and him being powerless to stop it...I felt such a visceral mixture of empathy, helplessness and anger at an age when I had no idea how to describe any of these things. I thibk it singlehandedly planted the seeds of existential dread that I still live with today. Anyway. Are You Afraid of the Dark was great! Lol

[@MisterPickle.]

Awful waffle! Awful waffle!

[@feathero3]

Glad im not the only one who felt that way! Currently 33 myself.

[@residentevilclone]

Zeke the plumber was kinda messed up too

[@z.s.7992]

Me and the other line cooks used to throw a handful of cajun seasoning into the grill and say "submitted for the approval of the midnight steak-ciety"

[@mattmolloy636]

I played the hell out of this game as a young kid, it was one of the many computer games sold at the Scholastic Book Fair that was a complete mystery since it wasn’t advertised on TV. My friends and I loved the large areas to explore and the FMV acting that felt like we were playing an AYAOTD episode. I even kept my old Macintosh Performa 630 CD so I’d still have the option to relive it in the future with my own kids, hopefully they’ll enjoy it just as much as I did 🤞🏻

[@planescaped]

Half of the content of abandonware websites came from scholastic book fairs it feels like.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Scholastic Books =. massive nostalgia

[@Gatorade69]

I actually remember buying Warcraft II at a Scholastic book fair.

[@AvalancheReviews]

More than anything, this video has inspired me to watch more 90's VHS rips of TV shows.

[@dungeonchill]

Hey hey! Thanks for stopping by! Big fan of your channel

[@forestcampbell8962]

Good stuff! ☝️

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

ALF is on Tubi for free including the animated series.

[@wilsonray7209]

live action shows of the horror genre are sort of rare, especially if aimed at kids, juveniles...

[@FerintoshFarmsPhotography]

You can use basically any white powder. Flour and coffemate work the best. In army cadets we'd get the creamers out of our rations to save for at night, then we'd run by the fire and throw it in scaring the bajeepers out of whoever was close.

[@Gatorade69]

Will cocaine work ?

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

​@@Gatorade69Who would risk wasting it to find out?

[@Gatorade69]

@@SonOfTheDawn515 Let me grab this brick and find out.

[@acomingextinction]

Man, that clown friggin' killed it with his solo

[@thesidneychan]

I just looked at Majulaar's "Are you afraid of the Dork" for dark seed and I had to do a double take when I saw this pop up on my notification. Yes, I clicked the bell Icon.

[@SariaStarfall]

The best part about "Are you afraid of the dark" vs "Goosebumps" was that 90% of the episodes(that I remember) had a lesson to learn from the horror: Don't judge folks by their appearances, have courage in the face of fear, and most importantly : DON'T BE A DICK. I both love that they made a game about this wonderfull show, and hate that we didn't get more.

[@MichaelJDavanzo]

Played this game as a kid! And that damn basement skeleton gave me nightmares for years. Was never able to finish it until YEARS later. Such a satisfying game to play.

[@AlexIvanov]

Thank you for your content, this is exactly what I enjoy watching (bizarre old obscure games) and not many people find real gems and make good videos about them. You're definitely among them!

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Great video from a consistently rad channel. I found Dungeon Chill not long ago, via Charlatan Wonder. I dig Ross Game Dungeon & Grim Beard too for old/obscure games. tangomushi + TotallyPointlessTV specialize in OG horror series with jrpg elements, been enjoying them too. Neverknowsbest has done these intense lineage-histories of gaming "branches" lately including a massive history of just gaming. I prefer deep dives & offbeat creators who blend game info with personal experience with games they cover + added creative expression but my insomnia is responding well to the dude listing + describing every retro DOS/Amiga game or Sean Seanson timelines/descriptors of every game in a certain genre or console, compiled into mega-videos that go 3-12 hours. I get 10 minutes of wakeful good information before falling asleep, so I am watching, a little at a time, + they're relaxing "samplers" of old games. Your comment struck me bc I couldn't find much I liked in gaming commentary for years! Like, just a handful, & they were the kind of creators who covered anything they wanted to, not full-time gamers, but they were really thoughtful about elements of gameplay + story & for years I was like "where are the dedicated channels doing these?". All of a sudden after being starved of that content so long lately YT keeps showing me so many good gaming channels! Mixed bag, some are still duds or Corpo shills or give off-vibes or not my thing or haven't sorted their audio out but tbh I've been amazed at the sheer quantity of decent-to-excellent video game analyses + explorations in myriad forms/lengths the past month or so. YT almost never shows me stuff I want lol it prefers to thwart me, so I have no idea if the algorithm finally grasped my preferences (rest of my reccs say No lol) or if this was a more niche gamer community corner so there was a lot of churn to get thru +|or more creators are coming into the space to make these kinds of video essays about older/indie/forgotten/cult games so maybe there's just finally enough of it around to start showing common threads. I really appreciate the creativity in this corner, lots of editing aces, audio + visual, out here, including Dungeon Chill. Anyways I hope YT blesses you + you find as much of what you want to watch as is comfortable for your lifestyle! My giant 4am comment tells me I need to put on my 9 hours of DOS Games 1988-1997 & float to 16-bit dreamworlds on a MIDI cloud.

[@o__math]

I rewatched Are you afraid of the dark? recently (I'm from Brazil, it was a pain in the ass to find the episodes and I could find only dubbed). I loved this series as a kid and I still do. I've watched all the first seven seasons, one or two episodes before going to sleep. Had a blast. The scariest episode for me was the one were the girl makes a promise to the old lady and then the old lady's ghost starts to haunt her. There were some scenes on that episode that were scaring even for me now, as an adult lmao And it was wild to see some familiar faces like the girl who did Sabrina or Neve Campbell. I've saw this game before, never played. I will try it now. Collection chamber and Magipacks are amazing for bring those old goodies.

[@WrestlingColin]

Some of these episodes are burned into my mind. Billy Baxter and the Phone Police? The one where Vink opens a restaurant where FEAR is the secret ingredient? The old man who robbed shipwrecks and can't go to sleep without the ghosts of the dead people he robbed coming for him? Bangers.

[@MovieEnvy]

For me the one where Nosferatu comes out of the movie to terrorize the 2 kids working there always got me as a kid.

[@deekadiko]

The show used to air on sunday morning here. Thanks for covering this, really takes me back 🤙

[@dungeonchill]

Glad you enjoyed it! I didn’t know where else in the world it was shown. Good to know that other places got to see the show too.

[@onlyasamuse]

This was inexplicably the only game on my family computer growing up, lol. This feels like such a fever dream.

[@onyx610]

My love for nostalgia pc games, tv shows and video content all rolled into one

[@dungeonchill]

Thank you! I appreciate that!

[@Faust4712]

This game was played endlessly by me and my sister on our grandpa’s pc back in the early 90’s. We would always die to the mummy and had no clue what to do but we would get scared like no other. This game is awesome.

[@madelineo]

Omg, I just read this comment and thought I wrote it! My sister and I also played this game on our Grandpa's computer in the 90s, every time we'd visit. I remember he had that classic windows background with the green grass and blue sky. They had a random assortment of CD Roms and this was one of them. (I think it came with the computer?) It scared me so much!

[@miaouew]

LOL that kid's sister clearly belongs to Uncle Tyrone.

[@starberry_milktea]

Dude this game is such an ambiance, looks so cosy , spooky and fun

[@BioPhoenixReviews]

loved this show growing up. the intro was probably the most creepy part of the show but there were a few episodes that were a little creepy. but yeah i remember someone doing a playthrough of this game and seem charming and i would have loved to own this game back then if i knew about it haha

[@scullyy]

Both Are You Afraid Of The Dark and Goosebumps were huge in Norway and probably the rest of Scandinavia too. And a bit off topic, but MadTV was also very popular here.

[@wareforcoin5780]

Good, all those things are quality.

[@raptorskilltor4554]

The nightmare hour felt like a natural progression of the goosebumps series and even scarier

[@nazgulsenpai]

Look what I can do! STUARRRTTT

[@Formandformlessness]

This was literally the first horror game I ever played. Single handedly set me on my path as horror author and enthusiast.

[@z.s.7992]

The song that the clown on stage sang was actually decent

[@kguy152000]

0:42 Instant flashbacks to my childhood. If nothing else, thank you for bringing back good memories.

[@furiyamu]

The melody for the song from the clown’s hint song, whatever it’s called, sounds very similar to Kefka’s Theme (FF6).

[@johnleaver3938]

The Tale if Dollmaker is one of my favorites too! I just thought being trapped in another world and being so close to being free extra terrifying.

[@atothed84]

I definitely was not expecting this one. I would've enjoyed playing an Are You Afraid of the Dark? game. Loved the show.

[@Pelifrost]

Oh, man, I LOVE this show. I used to watch it all the time. ❤

[@Massenstein]

Gary!! This was very nice watching. The show was also big part of 90's/00's kids here in Finland and I recently watched all seasons with my partner, and overall it hasn't aged too badly, few episodes are even brilliant.

[@lilwyvern4]

I don't remember much about this show, but some scene with a slowly rotating, backlit fan, and some sort of gargoyle really got to me as a 7 year old boy. If I had this game as a kid, I'd have probably liked it, as a fan of Myst. Big thanks for always mentioning the Collection Chamber. It's refreshing to see someone that's willing to collect old abandoned games when our corpo overlords are so uncaring about them.

[@MovieEnvy]

The backlit fan was in the theme intro. Always creepy.

[@lando8913]

The pool episode had me thinking twice before jumping into a pool alone for years lol.

[@Fulgrim2]

God this takes me back, honestly miss those days sometimes.

[@Thoushaltplaymore]

Are you afraid of the dark was on at like 16:30 in the uk , id watch it straight after getting home from school

[@peppersaltsman6044]

The "Help Me" mirror ghost is the scariest episode of AYAOTD. It still freaks me out!

[@ogilow3291]

Goosebumps horror land has something like this on a website and I can hardly remember it cuz I was so young and computers were hard to come by back then.

[@slubberdagollian]

My mother worked two jobs while going to Law School in the 90's. Snick and Nick at Nite were my babysitters.

[@josephmatthews7698]

A dude in a cape and top hat luring children into his torture basement? This uhhh... This is a lot darker than youd think when you think kf the ghosts as metaphors or hallucinations.

[@Landfall364]

Man, a little off-topic from the video, but I used to have that ~exact~ TV you showed 0:19 and seeing it evoked some dormant memories. That thing was an absolute monster and I loved how much of a centerpiece it was in my room. It was quite the task getting it up the stairs. Wish I still had it but sadly it went away after the screen died long ago. I do quite miss the era of electronics and many other things being encased in / made to look like wood. I quite like the aesthetic compared to cold, harsh, sharp, minimal modern design senses. On-Topic Edit: The episode that always sticks in my mind is The Tale of the Phantom Cab. I had recurring nightmares for the longest time about it. Where I'd always be in the cab, unable to move or speak as the cabbie drove towards a tree, and just before he hit it, I'd wake up, immediately go back to sleep and have the same nightmare repeatedly. Good times!

[@jacktaylor6155]

This is my first video of yours I've watched. You're very entertaining and I like that you don't come on at first as funny as you are. I like your style. Thank you for letting me know I'm not the only person to remember SNICK

[@ChuckART]

My sister and I actually had this game back in the day and loved it. We could never beat it, but I always really dug the vibe of it. I figured it prolly wouldnt hold up to how I remember it, but after watching this I'm kind of impressed! Thanks for the video man, this was a great Halloween watch!

[@seangx87]

Not sure if this was mention but Ryan Gosselin also played in the Goosebumps episode Say Cheese and Die.

[@miistercrayon]

The one with the blue and yellow clown and the one with the pinball machine were the most scary to me.

[@ZeyTheDaemon]

I loved this show growing up. I only remember a handful of episodes, though. One of them had to do with vampires in some suburban neighborhood if I remember right, and another had to do with some snowboarders or skiers taking refuge in a cabin and there were ghosts I think.

[@tarnetskygge]

There's something special about '90s FMV adventure games that basically put you in an episode of the TV show they're based on... The X-Files game is another that springs to mind.

[@TheRealXenosapien]

If you didn't drop hints at your age here I could have been convinced that you're Sam O'Nella in disguise. Your voices have a VERY similar cadence.

[@darksaber2k]

Dude my friend lent me this in the 90s and it scared the crap out of me! Nice to see it covered!

[@kupari906]

Damn, this brought back some memories. I got this game with my first computer, an Acer Aspire with a 120 MHz Pentium processor, 8 MB of RAM, and a 1 GB hard drive. Oh, and a 4X CD-ROM, of course. It was one of the first adventure games games that I played, and got me into other games like The 7th Guest, Zork Nemesis, and many more. Thanks for a great video, you've got yourself another subscriber!

[@Chunglevision]

Dark green?

[@kupari906]

@@Chunglevision Nope, the black/charcoal one, which still looked cooler than a lot of the setups of the time. A friend of mine had the dark green one, and I always thought it was awesome.

[@lack_of_zzzzz]

I was going to say - this was how I got the game also! I remember having it alongside other CDs and at some point I finally played it.

[@Keromenson]

Oh, wow. A 'Salute your Shorts' reference. That takes me back. Lol

[@incognitoomen7898]

This channel is quickly becoming my favorite. Love your videos man.

[@mattgrostick1499]

Somewhere between Ren & Stimpy and Nick at night my childhood was made complete.

[@Skyumi-Vk]

The Dark music one scares the shit out of me as a kid. Like he straight up killed those kids, he fed them to a crazy basement monster. Odds are he is going to keep feeding people to it to get rich just like the previous owner of the house.

[@xelthos2051]

The Nosforatu episode scared me the most as a kid.

[@GlitchedVision]

I completely forgot this game even existed... I remember hearing about it while watching one of the nick gameshows as it was given out as an audience prize a few times. brings back memories lol

[@DasZaku]

I remember this game back in school I would save up my points for getting good grades on assignments to get computer time on Fridays, I never was able to complete it. I forgot about this as I got older but damn this hit me in the nostalgia.

[@MmaSmarty87]

3:35 THIS is the one memory that stuck with me all these when I think of A.Y.A.O.T.D

[@artiegatsby4879]

YES YES YES YES YES I had this game as a child in the 90s! It was on my aunt's computer at her house; we didn't have internet yet but she worked at a computer-based company so she was on the cutting edge back then. I would spend hours playing this while I was at her house; I remember watching the sun come up through a row of picture windows that wrapped around the entire den area where the computer sat. I could never get past the part with the lightning monster thing and the bulbs and whatnot; I could not for the life of me figure out what to do and there was no such thing as just looking up a walkthrough back then. I got to watch someone else play through it completely a couple years ago and when I tell you the feeling of satisfaction when I finally got to see the ending was intense... I made that game my whole personality for like a whole year of elementary school. I had this bracelet with a big costume gemstone on it and I pretended I could use it to channel Orpheo and speak with him, that I was, like, one of his assistants disguised as a student in the mundane world looking for more kids to send his way, like I was totally roleplaying all by myself; my brother was too little and I didn't have any friends with the game, but I was in my own little world and I was so happy. These were simpler times. Better times. Maybe Orpheo's real curse is the endless pain of nostalgia, longing for a bygone era. Maybe, just maybe, he's out there somewhere, laughing in that dark and mysterious way, knowing that no matter how far we run, no matter how much time passes, how we may forget... he'll always be there. Watching. Waiting. His patience is endless. He'll have you, eventually...

[@Garrette63]

I remember struggling with this game when I was a kid because we didn't have the internet at the time to look up help.

[@nicholassullivan1239]

💯

[@onlyafoundling]

The industrial-looking basement areas reminded me strongly of the boiler/engine rooms in Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, another first person adventure game.

[@sangief17]

Oh man, i loved this show so much when i was a kid. I'm from Canada so they played it on YTV alot. :D oh wow i remember the tale of dollmaker, that episode stuck with me for years! wow, what a throw back.

[@justovision]

"You gotta give everyone a chance to throw creamer on the fire." should be a saying.

[@marcoamazo]

I loved that show as a kid. It's one of the shows I wish they'd bring back.

[@orcwarchiefreviews]

Good video the only thing you are missing is the fact that you did not throw creamer into fire

[@OhOneNine]

That red Swamp Thing-looking monster in the pool is still scary, IMO.

[@mattbrown2784]

Memories....it was aired right after school in my area. Just had a huge blast of nostalgia! Pete and Pete etc

[@peachy_lili]

I was so obsessed with this one growing up. it is so hard to get working if you don't have a hard copy

[@infoskrimp420]

omg! yes the doll maker episode. it’s also my favorite and most memorable. when the show is brought up, some don’t remember it at all. i’m so glad you mentioned it

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

I remember AYAOTD, but I can't remember anything other than the opening and closing other than Goosebumps. I can actually remember a couple of episodes.

[@robkaszuba105]

That singing clown is legit unsettling

[@DerivativeWorker]

As a kid I kept getting stuck at the bit where you could force the assistant off the roof.

[@nikkis.2066]

I loved this show as a kid, I loved the Goosebumps books and some of the TV adaptation episodes, but something about Are You Afraid of the Dark just hit way different. Tale of the Dead Man's Float was my favorite, but I also absolutely loved The Tale of the Renegade Virus and The Tale of the Chameleons

[@dfailsthemost]

That campfire couch has some kind of scabies for sure. Oh, and non dairy creamer is no joke when mixed with fire. It's shockingly dangerous.

[@Tinil0]

Damn man, I remember that specific Smokey the Bear commercial too...The nostalgia is real. Next thing I know you'll be telling me the area code of Chicago, Il courtesy of Scruff McGruff...

[@nostalgiccameralife]

I remember playing this as a kid, coincidentally was just thinking about this a few days ago, and now youtube rec's this vid.

[@egoborder3203]

I hope you'll cover the original Alone in the Dark (1992). I know it's been covered and there probably isn't too much more to say about it. But the game is dear to me and I'd love to hear your take on it

[@CuteCuteJames]

For anyone curious, the show "at midnight" was not a timed event. You could wander around for literal days and "midnight" would never come. It was based on plot advancement, and, like all good 90s point-and-clicks, if you advanced the story too far and missed something (a green key for example), you were fucked and had to either restart or load a previous save.

[@creed8712]

So I guess Gosling was on the creepy 90s kids show circuit back in the day. Do you think it’s fate I got the John Wolfe video about the episode he was in before this one? Or is it something more…supernatural

[@InsanityPrevails]

8:46 "There they all are!" The screen, because of the low resolution: ⬛▪◼◾

[@HorseTeethModano]

This game reminds me of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within. Come to think of it, I've never actually seen someone cover that game before. Would be cool to see it done. Good material given the goofy 90s live action nature of the game.

[@DragonAceSg7]

I was a HUGE fan of Are you Afraid of the Dark, and snick in general. (I've got the big orange couch in my 'spooky' basement in Animal Crossing.) I remember that pool one the most, probably cause as a little kid I was always in the pool at my aunt's. And yeah, that is one of the cooler monster designs. This game was neat.

[@dergrimnebulin]

My grandmother had that game on her PC for some reason. Played it so much. I was pretty young, though, so I was terrible at it.

[@baconatorrodriguez4651]

My favourite memory of the original series is the brother and sister, where some other girl kept following/searching for the brother, and it turns out, the brother died previously so the sister was the only one that could see him. Then I heard about Sixth Sense and realised that film wasn't so original, lol

[@darkjapan]

It was shown on CITV in the UK at around 5 o'clock on weekdays. So not the most atmospheric time slot, but everyone in the entire country could watch it and it still scared the shite out of us...

[@cookieface80]

It must've eventually made it's way to the British version of Nickelodeon for re-runs, because that's where I saw it in the early-to-mid 2000s. Oh and RIP to CITV, I guess.

[@Aryan-de9jw]

I remember watching this show late night in India. It was really good.

[@CarletonTorpin]

6:55 - I was expecting them to say "It's almost 8 O'clock; we gotta get home to watch SNICK!"

[@renalanf0rd]

The Tale of the Pinball Wizard haunts me still it wasn’t the scariest but its always the one I think of- trapped in a neverending cycle

[@kagekun1198]

The image of a grown man cursing a bunch of kids out for not letting them into their secret club is priceless!

[@christophermiller3031]

I am proud of this show being Canadian, i was aware this was Canadian even as a kid. Same for Reboot, Big Comfy Couch and so many other great kids shows.

[@keishimizu-arai1821]

Wow this brought back so many memories and made me feel so old XD. I got all the way to the end and never finished the final chase. I still remember one is blue and one is green.

[@rotini_croissant]

Some of the best Saturday nights. Wish I still had my orange videotape.

[@micahfoley9572]

i swear Nickelodeon kid actors all have the same acting coach, and his only advice was "move your head a lot when you talk"

[@TheBiohazardKick]

I remember playing this as a kid, and I have it on romstation now.

[@sittingduhk]

9:08 this dude is a weatherman in canada now

[@horrorableshow]

Great video man, been watching a lot of this show lately! Loved your intro !!!

[@oldensad5541]

I'm drunk, so i can't comprehend this video, But i'm here just to say - this channel is good, theme is good, we nned more channels like this, dungeon crawlers is awesome, and you deserve everythimg good in life. Good night, dude! :)

[@dominicmartinez-ballard2176]

I've watched all your videos in 2 days, I f'ing love your content, my heart broke when I realized you've only recently started to make content, I want more. I'm thoroughly impressed and enamored with your start. Keep it up 👍

[@sittingduhk]

2:08 in the 90's as a dirtbag stoner teenager, we always would empty a packet of dried creamer onto a lighter and make a fireball

[@knyght27]

Out of all the YT channels that started in 2023, this one is probably my favourite.

[@goatbone]

Music was by George Sanger aka The Fat Man who has done a bunch of game soundtracks like 7th Guest.