No One Can Find This 'Creepy Dinosaur' Game...

Today we'll be searching the depths of the internet for a mysterious "Creepy Dinosaur Game" from my childhood...

Opening: (0:00)
Part I The Reddit Post: (2:45)
Part II False Positives: (6:05)
Part III Internet Archaeology: (8:34)
Part IV Walkthrough: (14:11)
Part V A New Discovery: (25:08)

[SaganHawkes]

So, this one was a little bit different. It took a lot of work, so I hope you enjoyed!
The music is all available to stream now, and to download for free on my Patreon, royalty free!

In case you couldn't tell, this video is a work of 'unfiction', a genre of fiction which presents itself as real. AKA, the game doesn't really exist: I made it!
This is more than likely just a one off experiment, I'll be returning to real media for the future. Let me know what you thought!

[darkdoubloontv]

Honestly the idea of having the end of the game be about the end of the dinosaurs, and having you unplug an animatronic one and essentially "killing it" is genius

[sadboiinasweater]

"Where's the download link? I really wanna play this?"
And then the reveal that it was unfiction and then i was kinda salty that i couldn't play it myself

[Roiditron]

the exact moment the screen faded out after pressing the last faded text, it faded into an ad for pringles and I've never experienced a more perfectly timed ad than that

[audiobotguy]

This has instantly become one of my most favorite pieces of web horror.

No supernatural stuff, or William Afton wannabes. Just a lone, buggy 90s horror game, abandoned by the world.

[pajamapantsjack]

28:42 in the backround you can hear a bird chirp, which is the last recorded sound of a Kauai O’O. The male was calling out for a female to complete the melody of a love song, but there were none left. It’s really sad, but makes it so much more unnerving in game.

[darkychao]

wow, it's really weird how the themes of the game are so entwined with the concept of lost media.

[this_is_ca]

The subtle callback to the hairy man from the very beginning was brilliant. Everything came full circle in the end, well done

[SonicCDisagoodgame.]

Ngl tho the hairy man guy genuinely scared the shit out of me. His lifeless eyes staring at the screen was unnerving.

[TheUnsightlyRF]

You know, I should have realized this was actually unfiction when Sagan mentioned the Build-a-Dino bit, given it immediately made me go "Huh, that sounds a lot like Mangle from FNAF, but he isn't mentioning the similarity. That's odd..."

I will applaud him on making such a convincing piece. The whole time he was showing it off, I was flipping through my memories to recall if I ever encountered this "game" on a PC Gamer demo disc before, because it very much looked like something out of that era.

[unknowngojira]

WAS THAT THE BITE OF THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD?!!!

[yaboyrilz]

I genuinely thought this was all real until "an unfiction film by Sagan Hawkes" showed up at the end. I adore the visuals of this game, especially the ending bit in the forest with the weird bigfoot-looking thing. Well done.

[FelixCattus]

The subplot of Henry resembling the creator of the museum in the video game and having to come to terms with inevitable ends, then inviting you to click on the scribbles and let the final copy be burnt in that ester egg of a meteor is beyond poetic.

[Helsingvania]

This video made me cry. The irony of a game about the inevitable demise of everything and anything that leaves behind remains to be picked up but isn't infinite, to becoming a lost game people will spend years searching for and will ultimately self destruct when trying to dive deep into it

[Izzzyzzz]

Holy shit dude this is absolutely incredible, , I know you said this’ll likely be a one off but I’d absolutely LOVE to see more unfiction projects in the future

[brickbuilt]

I’ve transcribed the Scribbles!

Of the four faded scribbles I have found all but the first. Here they are in order of appearance:
1) ?

2) “As for man, his days are numbered. Whatever he might do, it is but wind”

3) “I am going to die! Am I not like Enkidu?! Deep sadness penetrates my core, I fear death, and now roam the wilderness “

4) “what is this deep sleep which holds you now? You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me”

These are all quotes from The Epic of Gilgamesh. The oldest literature ever discovered. As for the first quote, it could be in reference to the character Enkidu being created from the clay the gods washed from their hands. He is described as a hairy wild man (like the creature encountered in the secret level) and after his death, the character Gilgamesh seeks out a plant that will turn whoever eats it young again (the plant which grows from the man’s mouth?). He finds it, but it is stolen by a snake who tells Gilgamesh that no man can escape death.

Hope this helped. Love the video. Got lots more to say but typing is difficult for me. Cheers!

Edit: Oh this shit doin numbers!

[Mig_V]

One thing i haven't seen many people talk about is the fact that the end of the game literally is a throwback to his "Dream" where he's in a jungle, he can just barely hear a dinosaur, but he knows its a dinosaur, and the light at the end of the tunnel is literally the moon/asteroid type of thing. "I saw this light, i looked up and i knew, yeah, that's death." might be my favorite Lost Media video OAT, even though it's not real.

[toagradius]

I think a big part that convinced me at first was you complaining about the gameplay. It’s a really grounded detail; doesn’t build up the horror at all (in fact it intentionally takes away from it by peeling back the curtain a bit), but it adds to the authenticity that the game design wasn’t all that great

[andrewcb]

Had me until the LAST moment. Even with all the internet horror tropes (lost media, liminal spaces, creepy glitches, overall unintentionally unnerving atmosphere and presentation) I didn’t think for a SECOND that this wasn’t real. Genuinely impressive stuff

[sockwearer]

not sure if anyone else noticed, but the segment of the game he opened towards the end had the sounds of the extinct kaua'i 'ō'ō bird, which caught me really off guard and i tear up whenever i hear that birdsong :(