I am in shock and I’m shaking right now holy crap. Never in a million years would I think Jack himself would play my game! Dude thank you so much this seriously means the world to me!!! Yes I am still currently adding updates to this game to make it an ongoing experience for everyone but yes there are still plenty of secrets still hidden in the game. ;)
Congratulations!! I love the late 90's theme, complete with the dial up sound & the blue screen of death lol. All the interconnected pieces peppered with intrigue & touch of horror add many layers of interest. Great job, friend, on such an impressive feat!
When Sean says "You probably weren't alive yet and I was 8" and you were actually 18 years old in 1998....the internet is a great place to make you feel ancient lol
@@riso9059 Oh damn. I remember hearing about that but i dont watch jack as much as i used to so i forgot about it. I tried not assuming the worst to his response to the question
Not only that it kept reference referring to a car crash and after life each time just like in the jumping Juuan 11:57, the talking Gerald 2:47, 4:25 , and also in the question one asked about car crashes and how the ais talk like they have human emotions talking Gerald 3:09
The scary face on the blue screen is genius. We’re so conditioned to wait and sort of redirect our attention to the next thing when we see it, so it makes for such a perfect jump scare without needing to be super sudden or play a loud noise. Genius game design.
If anyone was curious what the system error codes on the blue screen at 11:00 mean, they are in hexadecimal. When translated, it reads: "Let us out!", "He has trapped us here!", and "We are running out of time!".
@@unfussybull6793Nah, it's a philosophical, open world puzzle platformer. The hidden stuff related to this game comes from hidden messages sprinkled throughout the game in computer terminals with corrupted messages.
at 4:32 when Talking Gerald glitched out you could hear a faint car horn probably indicating the car wreck scene that had happened. i believe Talking Gerald actually is Gary Summers and was somehow transferred to the game and now he’s trapped there. explains why he’s questioning why he’s there and his confusion. just my take on this
did anyone else notice the discrepancy in the two police reports covering the same accident? the first said the mother and daughter were taken to hospital where they then succumbed to their injuries. the second report stated they were dead at the scene.
A couple of fun facts 1. Fully coloring the paint area will give you the answer to match the shapes 2. If you talk to the pencil enough in the note pad he’ll share some numbers
@@seektv1859completely unrelated dude, and thats coming from a trans person😭 I think you just want to start shit with people, and thats really not a good look
As a big Simulacra fan, it’s cool to see how much inspiration the dev seem to have drawn from that. Both conceptually and with the subtle door knock and breathing effects. Really hoping this becomes a bigger subgenre of horror gaming because it’s so engaging and effective!
Here's my take on the plot so far: Gary summers (the guy who got into the fatal car accident) died, and Jason Storm did too (the employee of Razii inc.) and they were both buried in Greenwood cemetery, where the robber would dig up their graves. (I also think the robber is likely the mysterious worker or "new guy" who people weren't sure what he was doing. He was most probably transporting or helping transport Jason Storm and Gary's souls into the games.) Gary summers was somehow transported into Talking Gerald as Gerald, this explains the "Atleast that's what I believe", the "Please don't do this to me, it wasn't my fault. I don't know why I'm here" and, most importantly, the "Tyrannosaurus wrecks" car crash joke. I'm not entirely sure what happened with Jason Storm, but he could've been transferred into Jumping Julian. This would also explain the whole "save the trapped souls" thing. Probably some plotholes in this theory, but just my headcanon so far!
John munkford was probably put into jumping julian and was killed to put him into the game, the terrifying truth of what razii was doing lead him to want to lead people to save others but the kids would not allow it, the 3 souls behind him
What I'd always thought was that Jason Storm had been killed because of his extremely harsh comment on the game Jumping Julian, not sure by who and not sure what happened to him after that, perhaps he was "taken" by Julian and that's why he disappeared and noone found his body. But maybe John Munkford was put into Jumping Julian? Or Julian has a mind of his own and didn't like Jason's comment, so he took him. Idk, just some 3am thoughts that came to my head while watching.
@@hallwaypaint The article said someone mysterious came and posted his bail, then told the bailer that he was going to give Jason a job to "rehabilitate" him. My guess is that person killed him shortly afterwards.
Fun fact the person who made this game is awesome and has made some other pretty sick games you should check out. They are amazing and deserve all the support you can give. Kudos to you Jackson❤
20:27 If you run this audio through a spectrum analyzer, you'll see an image of a face, with the text "I am always here, I am always watching" 44:46 Reversed, with the pitch and tempo adjusted, it's something like "I just wanted to play, I just wanted to have fun. This is not fun. I want my mommy."
I ran the "unknown" audio through a spectogram and it produces a silhouette with glowing eyes and on either side of it, it says "I am always here. I am always watching"
That’s why doki commiserate club blew my mind when I played it. It was first game I ever played that did that and I didn’t even think of that being implemented into a game
There's a similar game Jack played a while back (I can remember the name) that said Jack/Sean but his computers name was the opposite of what the game had said, 10/10 spook
Might I suggest a game called Home then? It's on Steam, you play as a man who can't remember a thing and what happened is entirely up to your own perception of events. In your first play through, you never feel safe, it is very effective setting a tone. Just be warned, there is another game called Home which is the polar opposite in tone and gameplay. :P
Toe curling scares get predictable after a while. Purely unsettling very rarely gets stale Edit: just realized I made a typo while being notified of a reply yesterday. Whoops.
Same like scares are great but whats greater is having me convinced that theres something watching me and the game is not something i should play and im in to deep and if i sleep ill be murdered Idk it hits different when its unsettling
The knock at 34:07 was so well done that I honestly got up and checked the door. Like I didn't think for a second it was part of the game until I realized I was home alone.
That makes me wonder, why hasn't MatPat been spammed about this game yet? I looked up Jumping Julian GTLive and nothing popped up, we have to get MatPat on this game!
@@CalebVanPoneisen do u think when Jack's comic officially comes out this month (since it's officially December for me as of rn) Matpat will do a comic theory video on it??😂😂
Sean: "There is _no way,_ even in _1998,_ that _this game_ 'takes the world by storm'." Me: "Especially given the competition. _Ocarina of Time_ came out in '98, too."
I feel like this has potential to be another really good internet horror game that has extensive amounts of lore into it. They nailed the vibe really well and it genuinely spooked me at times.
Note: I don't think it was calling you Jacks because of anything to do with your setup. One of the victims in the stories was named "Jack S" - I would assume that the computer we are using is his. The developer of the Jumping game got a bad review from Jack S so he quit being a game developer, got a job at the company where Jack worked, and most likely killed him (the only lore I picked up was from you playing).
So funny lol the developer is jackson, jack is also jack, and the game has a jack s (which looks like short for jacksepticeye) Ngl thats confusing i didnt even think sbout it being jack S lol aome of these comments are confusing too cause they refer to jack and jackson in the same comment lol
@@Diceroll The editing was subtle, hilarious, and on-point. It felt seamless, and it provided good laughs for a genuinely scary game. It went above and beyond for this video
The only way I can sanely experience horror games is through Jack. It’s good to know someone else physically flinches and screams at the jump scares with me 👍
//EPILEPSY WARNING// The flickering of the intro caused a pretty bad seizure due to it being blue light. Sharing this as i know others may also have the same issue and i will add any other triggers as i watch in the replies below :)
All timestamps that i have put are so you can skip 10s ahead to avoid the issue if needed. 15:40 - tv static jumpscare 19:40 - image flickering on and off screen 41:45 - static jumpscare 48:20 till 49:10 - A video with old vhs filter over it with slight flickering (I know these are mostly just jumpscare warnings but ive found that flickering/static is a trigger for multiple photosensitive epileptics so i just want people to be careful)
Thank you! That Intro one almost got me, but I happened to be looking away and only caught half a second out of the corner of my eye before I looked away completely, thank god lol@@shlarla
i've never even thought that videos like this would affect people with epilepsy!! hope you don't mind me asking, do you guys just skip horror game videos in general because you know they are going to have flashes or do you just brave them?
@sph4v I enjoy the horror genre a lot and don't want to have to skip videos like this, but have to be very careful due to photosensitive seizures. There are some shows and games that I personally just can't risk because of how widespread the flashing is(Stranger Things comes to mind) but in general I hope to find guides or comments like this to help out. It can be very irritating how often big scares use flashing lights though
@@gatorade-xm6nqidk some of the stuff he has said on the podcast about stuff he goes to therapy for made it seem like he didnt have the best home life growing up
The creepy "sandwich" thing with the Gerald is actually reversed speech. This is the dialog, from what I can tell, but Jack's laugh makes some difficult to hear. " My parents died when I was young, I had no one to love me. Drinking(?) was the only thing I resorted to. That's why she left me. (And then one or two lines I can't hear due to the laugh.) Now it's too late. That's why I am here. There is some more a bit later at the jumpscare. That speech goes "I can see you. (followed by one or two lines covered by the reaction)" There is a final bit of audio with the creepy child face way later. I thought it was reversed, but after listening forward and back a few times it just sounds like warble-y noises. There might be something but if there is I can't hear it. Those are all the ones I heard that sounded reversed.
I definitely didn't watch this at night, while playing a separate wall breaking horror game on the side... totally didn't theoretically regret this totally theoretical decision.
You know your indie game has quality if an incredibly popular CZcamsr finds it interesting. I have seen other CZcams videos about it, but much like the developer themself, I never expecting Jacksepticeye to play it. For those who are curious about some of the gibberish found in 98XX, I have embedded two important messages into memory. The first one is found in Talking Gerald. When you reverse the message that you get from the “why do you exist?” option, Talking Gerald talks about his parents dying when he was young and that he had no one to love him. Drinking was the only way he could cope. That’s why his loved one left him. He’s been regretting his actions ever since. The second one is a much shorter backwards message from “Ball Popper”. Getting a game over will result in a jumpscare. It’ll eventually say the following message backwards, “I just wanted to play. I just wanted to have fun; this isn’t fun. I want my mommy.” Jack, if you’ve made it this far into the comment and still want to learn and understand 98XX more, I can provide a link to a video that tries its best to explain it. It’s basically what MatPat would do, but with less cliche lines. It’s actually pretty interesting.
The first reversed message was probably the drunk driver talked about in one of the articles. The second one must be one of the kids who went missing at the game convention.
As an epic CZcamsr myself, I would just like to give props to the editor for cutting down 2 whole hours and making it a really fun video to watch. I would cry
Jack playing 98XX? Must be a really good day today. And the sanic reference at 2:01 AND the Evebot callback were both unexpected, but brought back nostalgia, at least for me. Still loving the videos, Jack!
When Jack got that first system error after jumping Julian, every single hair on my body stood up and I thought I was being watched, I then proceeded to spend the next 5 minutes making sure all the curtains were drawn and all doors locked.
i'm still dying at the fact that there was the 'you know i had to do it to em' guy's silhouette under the tree at one point and jack didn't pick up on it (but still a great video as always ^^)
I've been digging through this game cuz I think its really cool, and there is a lot of stuff I hope Jack finds in a possible next episode. One hint I could give is draw a nice, big picture in the painter thing, really use that space up
Jacksepticeye at 10:00: Talks about the future and reality of AI AI: *Proceeds to completely f*ck up the entire game until the end of the video* And I took that very personally
3:47 "My parents died when I was young, I had no one to love me, drinking was the only thing I resorted to, that's why she left me, I know I shouldn't have done it but now it's too late, that's why I'm here."
Man, this really is triggering some really old fears from being a kid during the early years of the internet. That red computer virus taking over the computer made me instantly so anxious, the trauma is real!
Fear, pain and trauma is all relative. I've got severe PTSD from childhood abuse and human trafficking, others who have been through the same may not have PTSD. You CAN be traumatized by a computer virus, not everyone reacts the same to different stimuli.
I hope to see you play more as he adds more. I do admit it was hard to watch as someone with seizures, if you can without detracting from the video, I hope you can put in a warning. I know it's not SUPER flashy but software gore can be a trigger for some. Wonderful video as always, and I'm happy to see the creator has found you as well! I hope everyone can support them.
Alright so I continued t he game a bit from where Jack left off. In the space shooting game after you die the game restarts sending you one of those weird faces Jack found at the end of the video and catching it shows someone crawling out of the computer and taking a kid. Reaching 10000 points will send a big circle down to you. After going out of bounds in jumping Julian when you catch that circle you go to a scene almost same as Jack got at the end of the video and you see another one of these faces. After going out of bounds when you talk to Gerald and keep saying nice things to him it takes you one of those spaces again and you once again get to see one of those faces. My working theory is those are people trapped in the computer. I didn't get much further than that yet.
10:57 The Hexadecimal code translates to “Let me out! He has trapped us here! We are running out of time!” Edit: Gerald is also the drunk driver, I wasn’t able to get all of what he said from reversing it because Sean spoke over him, but he also says his parents died when he was young.
At 3:47, I reversed it, he says the following: “My parents died when I was young. I had no one to love me. Drinking was the only thing I resorted to. That’s why she left me. I know I shouldn’t have done it but it’s too late. That’s why I’m here.” Edit: Then again at 4:37, I think he says something along the lines of “Now I can see, (???) monsters in me” (Sean was shouting so I couldn’t really make it out lol) Edit 2: 44:48 I have no clue, I reversed it but it sounded even more garbled 🤷 Edit 3: I tweeked with the basic pitch of the extracted audio on CapCut. I couldn’t get it perfect, but I think I hear: “I just want you to play. I just want you to listen. Just as you should. I want my mommy.”
That's all really interesting! Never noticed any of those, I was just enjoying Seán's energy lol. If for that one, maybe it's "the" or "there are", but I'm probably wrong I hope I actually used the correct lil thing for the a, know the name of but not the spelling, I always get that mixed up. Stinky monolingual American brain
@@potatqueen That might be it yeah! I tried lowering Sean’s voice a bit and for a second I thought I heard “there’s bigger monsters than me” but I’m really not sure, I hope he figures it out in the next vid though
it really pieces together atleast the story it mightve been the dude that was digging up the graves was the same guy who also did the accident and since there were two graves dug up im led to believe those were **his parents** graves.
you NEED to play this again. I havent watched your channel in about 6 months and this was the first video ive watched since then, i love games with subtle secrets and things to find so seeing you play this game made me love this video so much. Would love to see you play it more :D
Jack dismissing some of the games on 98xx even after completing Jumping Julian and realizing there was shit hidden in there hurt my soul. No doubt in my mind every program has something going on in it.
What I like most is how smart Jack is and how interesting he is in playing games. Most likely this is the best let's player, which is so interesting and comfortable to watch. Thanks for the content!
i love these types of games where we're "in" a computer or a phone and try to solve things from what we find within. Like simulacra or sara is missing. there's something so,,, cool? about having limited information at first but then building the truth by digging around whatever is on the device.
thankyou Jack for making me feel old AF by reminding me that in 1998 you were 8..........i was 17. How time flies. despite you being a decade younger, i still look up to you as an inspiration. you good people man.
I love this game so much and I'm very happy you played it! Here's some things you can do to unlock Easter eggs •Hit 2500 on Tank Blast and go into the void •Reverse the Jump scare audio (that the man and child spoke to you) •Show the unknown audio in Sound Waves •Compliment Gerald (do it continuously •Paint the whole screen to find something...behind.. •go into the note pad and tap the pencil till he says numbers are useful, then type numbers, it should give you a code to... something Some more hints to lore: •Think about what Gerald said when you talk down to him "it wasn't my fault", what wasn't his fault? •Why did Gerald make a car crash joke. • Look at dates to help figure out a timeline of events •Look at the mans face in the talking Gerald jump scare...he seens familiar.. I won't spoil everything for you and others!! Can't wait to look for the next episode! ~ Alexis from PA!
20:28 i ran it through a 2D spectrogram and it reads backwards "i am always watching" then a smiley face then "i am always here" just thought it was interesting
Right as I saw the graphics for Astro Blast, I was like, "Man, I miss the old pinball game these PCs used to have," and then Jacky Boy comes in and says the same thing! That pinball game was legit.
God, the jump scares are everything I was scared would happen when I messed around on the computer in those years. Probably have my brother to thank for that. So with that said, I probably won't be playing this myself 😂 but it's an interesting looking mystery.
I am in shock and I’m shaking right now holy crap. Never in a million years would I think Jack himself would play my game! Dude thank you so much this seriously means the world to me!!! Yes I am still currently adding updates to this game to make it an ongoing experience for everyone but yes there are still plenty of secrets still hidden in the game. ;)
Congratulations! Your game is awesome :)
HELL YEAH DUDE!! YOUR GAME IS HELLA RAD!! ♡♡
Good for you dude! Game was really cool
Congratulations!! I love the late 90's theme, complete with the dial up sound & the blue screen of death lol. All the interconnected pieces peppered with intrigue & touch of horror add many layers of interest. Great job, friend, on such an impressive feat!
Dude awesome keep goin
When Sean says "You probably weren't alive yet and I was 8" and you were actually 18 years old in 1998....the internet is a great place to make you feel ancient lol
I was 20... Yes, I feel every bit my age😂
Er, Sean was born 1990, that makes him 8 years old in 1998 XD
@@redcactusify2071this person is saying they were 10 years older than jack was in 1998 haha
Yep, was 19 in 98 lol
@@malindastevens1016 Upps, sorry :)
jack answering no to "are you close with your family" in complete silence is not the mood I was expecting today lol
Could be just a normal situation where he's far from his family or they don't interact much but not neccessarily on bad terms
@@zelioz848his dad passed away so... probably referencing that
@@riso9059 Oh damn. I remember hearing about that but i dont watch jack as much as i used to so i forgot about it. I tried not assuming the worst to his response to the question
That is sad indeed...
Not only that it kept reference referring to a car crash and after life each time just like in the jumping Juuan 11:57, the talking Gerald 2:47, 4:25 , and also in the question one asked about car crashes and how the ais talk like they have human emotions talking Gerald 3:09
The scary face on the blue screen is genius. We’re so conditioned to wait and sort of redirect our attention to the next thing when we see it, so it makes for such a perfect jump scare without needing to be super sudden or play a loud noise. Genius game design.
Yeah, almost shit myself. And the face is so unsettling too like…..
If anyone was curious what the system error codes on the blue screen at 11:00 mean, they are in hexadecimal. When translated, it reads: "Let us out!", "He has trapped us here!", and "We are running out of time!".
That's awesome
Having just completed The Talos Principle 2, my brain immediately jumped to converting the HEX. Glad I wasn't the only to catch it!
What kind of decoder did you need to use?
Edit: Wait never I just now seen the part where you said "hexadecimal" mb
@@daltagnan230whats that game is it a horror game with hidden shit like this one?
@@unfussybull6793Nah, it's a philosophical, open world puzzle platformer. The hidden stuff related to this game comes from hidden messages sprinkled throughout the game in computer terminals with corrupted messages.
27:39 jack didn't notice it but for some reason it put the biggest pit in my stomach realizing that that's THE sedan and THE truck
YES!!! I was like Jack THATS THE CAR ACCIDENT!!
I thought I was the only one who noticed it! I started scrolling through the comments to find something like this.
I wonder if anything would happen if you match the pickup truck to the sedan. He may have already done that on accident though and I missed it.
@@ToasterBath69 if anyone tries that post it in the comments please!
i didnt notice that lol
Are we also going to ignore how fucking PURE BLUE Jacks eyes are??
I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT!
Have??? Haven't they always been like that??
@@SoliacTrahkorskyyup! Thats why i love his eyes so much! A beautiful blue! Reminds me of water!
I WAS THINKING THAT THE WHOLE TIME. i know they're always blue but they looked literally inhuman in this video
I think there's some color correction and hue adjustment going on
at 4:32 when Talking Gerald glitched out you could hear a faint car horn probably indicating the car wreck scene that had happened. i believe Talking Gerald actually is Gary Summers and was somehow transferred to the game and now he’s trapped there. explains why he’s questioning why he’s there and his confusion. just my take on this
did anyone else notice the discrepancy in the two police reports covering the same accident? the first said the mother and daughter were taken to hospital where they then succumbed to their injuries. the second report stated they were dead at the scene.
Oh, I didn't realize that
The first report was public the second was for the staff, the dead were brought to create a new software
Often times they will be declared dead but still taken to hospital in last hope attempts but i feel like that's a good notice tbh
Wasn't the age in one 30 and the other 34?
A couple of fun facts
1. Fully coloring the paint area will give you the answer to match the shapes
2. If you talk to the pencil enough in the note pad he’ll share some numbers
ok but what abuot trans people? i dont think its talked about enough tbh
@@seektv1859 What?
@@seektv1859bro what 😭😭
I had a feeling the paint one would be like that
@@seektv1859completely unrelated dude, and thats coming from a trans person😭
I think you just want to start shit with people, and thats really not a good look
As a big Simulacra fan, it’s cool to see how much inspiration the dev seem to have drawn from that. Both conceptually and with the subtle door knock and breathing effects. Really hoping this becomes a bigger subgenre of horror gaming because it’s so engaging and effective!
It sucks
It reminds me alot of Inscryption as well with all of the ARG aspects and "real world" interactions this game has.
both of them make me shit my pants
@@ardaoguzhan8181don’t watch it then LMAO
@@affswithally I already got bored after 5 minutes. Just some cheap jumpscares with boring Erica ripoff gameplay LMAO
Here's my take on the plot so far:
Gary summers (the guy who got into the fatal car accident) died, and Jason Storm did too (the employee of Razii inc.) and they were both buried in Greenwood cemetery, where the robber would dig up their graves. (I also think the robber is likely the mysterious worker or "new guy" who people weren't sure what he was doing. He was most probably transporting or helping transport Jason Storm and Gary's souls into the games.) Gary summers was somehow transported into Talking Gerald as Gerald, this explains the "Atleast that's what I believe", the "Please don't do this to me, it wasn't my fault. I don't know why I'm here" and, most importantly, the "Tyrannosaurus wrecks" car crash joke. I'm not entirely sure what happened with Jason Storm, but he could've been transferred into Jumping Julian. This would also explain the whole "save the trapped souls" thing.
Probably some plotholes in this theory, but just my headcanon so far!
John munkford was probably put into jumping julian and was killed to put him into the game, the terrifying truth of what razii was doing lead him to want to lead people to save others but the kids would not allow it, the 3 souls behind him
Wait, I thought Gary didn't die in the crash? He was arrested and bailed, but there wasn't a mention of death
@@naomishields8451 That's true. I guess it could've been kept quiet. Maybe someone in CalvisGames killed him and wanted to avoid an investigation.
What I'd always thought was that Jason Storm had been killed because of his extremely harsh comment on the game Jumping Julian, not sure by who and not sure what happened to him after that, perhaps he was "taken" by Julian and that's why he disappeared and noone found his body. But maybe John Munkford was put into Jumping Julian? Or Julian has a mind of his own and didn't like Jason's comment, so he took him. Idk, just some 3am thoughts that came to my head while watching.
@@hallwaypaint The article said someone mysterious came and posted his bail, then told the bailer that he was going to give Jason a job to "rehabilitate" him. My guess is that person killed him shortly afterwards.
Fun fact the person who made this game is awesome and has made some other pretty sick games you should check out. They are amazing and deserve all the support you can give. Kudos to you Jackson❤
Aww thank you 🥹❤️
@@jacksong1380 duuude this game was really cool! I hope Jack plays more of your games 🫶
@@jacksong1380Your game is amazing. Good job❤
20:27 If you run this audio through a spectrum analyzer, you'll see an image of a face, with the text "I am always here, I am always watching"
44:46 Reversed, with the pitch and tempo adjusted, it's something like "I just wanted to play, I just wanted to have fun. This is not fun. I want my mommy."
Omg i was wondering what it said thats so sad
That baby face is actually so fucking unsettling
The responsibility of childcare is terrifying
Cry about it
It's not healthy to repress emotions
For those wondering, at 25:52, "MITERGNAH" is an anagram for'nightmare'.
Intresting!
i think the names are anagrams too, maybe when they're all combined or something
I ran the "unknown" audio through a spectogram and it produces a silhouette with glowing eyes and on either side of it, it says "I am always here. I am always watching"
God that is scary and genius
I love games that "hack" your computer. Gives an extra layer of horror/creepy
i think it's obvious that 'breaking your privacy' and 'your position being compromised' will never not be scary, atleast a little bit.
That’s why doki commiserate club blew my mind when I played it. It was first game I ever played that did that and I didn’t even think of that being implemented into a game
I would like to see more of these games in his channel
There's a similar game Jack played a while back (I can remember the name) that said Jack/Sean but his computers name was the opposite of what the game had said, 10/10 spook
@@taylormeitzler2087Eviebot! Not a game, but an AI chatbot. His profile name was Jack, but she called him Sean despite never learning his name.
I think unsettling games will most always be better than downright scary ones
Yep. Just the feeling of uncertain safety is enough for me not to sleep lol
Might I suggest a game called Home then? It's on Steam, you play as a man who can't remember a thing and what happened is entirely up to your own perception of events. In your first play through, you never feel safe, it is very effective setting a tone.
Just be warned, there is another game called Home which is the polar opposite in tone and gameplay. :P
Toe curling scares get predictable after a while. Purely unsettling very rarely gets stale
Edit: just realized I made a typo while being notified of a reply yesterday. Whoops.
Same like scares are great but whats greater is having me convinced that theres something watching me and the game is not something i should play and im in to deep and if i sleep ill be murdered
Idk it hits different when its unsettling
The knock at 34:07 was so well done that I honestly got up and checked the door. Like I didn't think for a second it was part of the game until I realized I was home alone.
So glad I didn't watch this with headphones😅
Ok so I thought the knocking was him clicking the mouse. 😅
I literally heard the knock and thought someone was knocking on my wall 😭
Same 😂
This keeps jumpscaring the living shit out of me. Like fully keep going AAAAAAAA out loud. Actually did it again as I’m typing 😭😭😭
4:30 is probably the hardest I've jumped at a horror game jump scare in years. Holy crap.
right?!! like MY GOD where has this been all my life?! XD
I appreciate the editing at 3:26 moving Jack around so we can read. Such a small but very very helpful bit of editing to do!! Thank you
ur welcome
@@ruchirugemugeu are not diceroll
ur welcome
Ehehe glad those simple and small edits make the video more enjoyable :D!
@@DicerollI am thanking you too
Alternate title: Jack goes full MatPat for 54 minutes and 26 seconds. You've taught him well game theory.
That makes me wonder, why hasn't MatPat been spammed about this game yet? I looked up Jumping Julian GTLive and nothing popped up, we have to get MatPat on this game!
@@maddieneko5778 We do. Lol😂
@@CalebVanPoneisen do u think when Jack's comic officially comes out this month (since it's officially December for me as of rn) Matpat will do a comic theory video on it??😂😂
Can't wait for his 69th "last video" on FNAF then.
Y'all gotta wait for Thankmas for the collab
Sean: "There is _no way,_ even in _1998,_ that _this game_ 'takes the world by storm'."
Me: "Especially given the competition. _Ocarina of Time_ came out in '98, too."
4:35 It kind of looked like the game waited until you leaned close to the monitor to scare you.
8:42 I love how Seán’s eyes are literally glowing, the screen just lights them up
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I feel like this has potential to be another really good internet horror game that has extensive amounts of lore into it. They nailed the vibe really well and it genuinely spooked me at times.
watching it at 1 am didnt help with my nerves
Note: I don't think it was calling you Jacks because of anything to do with your setup. One of the victims in the stories was named "Jack S" - I would assume that the computer we are using is his. The developer of the Jumping game got a bad review from Jack S so he quit being a game developer, got a job at the company where Jack worked, and most likely killed him (the only lore I picked up was from you playing).
So funny lol the developer is jackson, jack is also jack, and the game has a jack s (which looks like short for jacksepticeye)
Ngl thats confusing i didnt even think sbout it being jack S lol aome of these comments are confusing too cause they refer to jack and jackson in the same comment lol
"one more video before i go to sleep"
The video:
LITERALLY ME WHAT
The editing is sooo smooth. Big props to diceroll
Aw thanks :D!
@@DicerollYou're the best dude
@@Diceroll The editing was subtle, hilarious, and on-point. It felt seamless, and it provided good laughs for a genuinely scary game. It went above and beyond for this video
Ricedoll
@@svedman im in love with u
Finally, a game that perfectly encapsulates the dread of being eight years old and calling a fax machine number
17:00 indeed jack, 1998 was the year of Resident Evil 2, Fallout 2, Spyro the dragon, Zelda: Ocarina of time, and some other amazing games.
The only way I can sanely experience horror games is through Jack. It’s good to know someone else physically flinches and screams at the jump scares with me 👍
Jack is starting to look more and more like Jesus
isen't he though?
He doesn't look particularly Middle-Eastern to me.
Right? Ha ha ha
Nahh.. Charlie got that one. He may be Aquamannnnnn!!
Jackus Christ
//EPILEPSY WARNING//
The flickering of the intro caused a pretty bad seizure due to it being blue light. Sharing this as i know others may also have the same issue and i will add any other triggers as i watch in the replies below :)
All timestamps that i have put are so you can skip 10s ahead to avoid the issue if needed.
15:40 - tv static jumpscare
19:40 - image flickering on and off screen
41:45 - static jumpscare
48:20 till 49:10 - A video with old vhs filter over it with slight flickering
(I know these are mostly just jumpscare warnings but ive found that flickering/static is a trigger for multiple photosensitive epileptics so i just want people to be careful)
Thank you! That Intro one almost got me, but I happened to be looking away and only caught half a second out of the corner of my eye before I looked away completely, thank god lol@@shlarla
Hope you’re doing OK now! Thanks for the warning!
i've never even thought that videos like this would affect people with epilepsy!! hope you don't mind me asking, do you guys just skip horror game videos in general because you know they are going to have flashes or do you just brave them?
@sph4v I enjoy the horror genre a lot and don't want to have to skip videos like this, but have to be very careful due to photosensitive seizures. There are some shows and games that I personally just can't risk because of how widespread the flashing is(Stranger Things comes to mind) but in general I hope to find guides or comments like this to help out. It can be very irritating how often big scares use flashing lights though
The fact he leaned jnto the screen at 4:36 must have made that all the more terrifying.
47:16 "I'm gonna increase the brightness" Now you're being a theorist (MatPat would be so proud of you) 👍
😭
@@sunsetwilde Yeah, I know (the fact he said he was proud of us in the goodbye video just makes this hit even harder) :(
My heart broke a little when Jack took the quiz and answered no to “Are you close with your family?” ☹️
Well his family is in ireland
My thoughts exactly, though maybe he just answered with literal distance in mind.
i dont think it was literal augh man
@@gatorade-xm6nqidk some of the stuff he has said on the podcast about stuff he goes to therapy for made it seem like he didnt have the best home life growing up
@@ashleyjohnson9651What's the name of the podcast??
Jack's eyes are particularly ocean blue in this video, truly majestic
look at how excited jack is when he finds out the secrets himself ...adorable
The creepy "sandwich" thing with the Gerald is actually reversed speech. This is the dialog, from what I can tell, but Jack's laugh makes some difficult to hear.
" My parents died when I was young, I had no one to love me. Drinking(?) was the only thing I resorted to.
That's why she left me. (And then one or two lines I can't hear due to the laugh.) Now it's too late. That's why I am here.
There is some more a bit later at the jumpscare. That speech goes
"I can see you. (followed by one or two lines covered by the reaction)"
There is a final bit of audio with the creepy child face way later. I thought it was reversed, but after listening forward and back a few times it just sounds like warble-y noises. There might be something but if there is I can't hear it. Those are all the ones I heard that sounded reversed.
This is the first horror game that's been so effectiveley unsettling that I'm creeped out just watching it. The jumpscares were also very effective!
I came into the comments to see if there were jumpscares, so I appreciate this lol
@@avryantoinettethere are a ton of them throughout the video, just so you're aware! :)
There is nothing I enjoy quite like watching Jack's videos in a nice rainy day ✨
Well, it's sunshine right now where I live.
It's currently snowing
Same. lol xD
@@birchyy_1467That's so cool Where? :D
It's snowing for me.
28:32 that was adorable his goofy lil self 😭
jesus christ i was NOT expecting that first jumpscare. damn this game is good - the concept is such a specific kind of terrifying to me
Jack's eyes are so blue in this video I love it even when the screen isn't blue they're so almost hypnotizing it's very interesting
I was thinking the same thing. 😂
I forgot about the light and spent most of this video thinking 'why are his eyes so blue?' 😮
Very blue indeed
its so blue, I thought it was the screen 💀
Holy hell, this game has some well made layers! We need to get MatPat onto this and fast!
I was just thinking this game would be perfect for a GTLive.
Yes exactly! I don't have the patience to do deep dives on stuff like this but I'm always interested in them.
I said this months ago in his discord server.
Wait you might be on to something here
I definitely didn't watch this at night, while playing a separate wall breaking horror game on the side... totally didn't theoretically regret this totally theoretical decision.
23:44 Jack is everything ok bro
You know your indie game has quality if an incredibly popular CZcamsr finds it interesting. I have seen other CZcams videos about it, but much like the developer themself, I never expecting Jacksepticeye to play it. For those who are curious about some of the gibberish found in 98XX, I have embedded two important messages into memory.
The first one is found in Talking Gerald. When you reverse the message that you get from the “why do you exist?” option, Talking Gerald talks about his parents dying when he was young and that he had no one to love him. Drinking was the only way he could cope. That’s why his loved one left him. He’s been regretting his actions ever since.
The second one is a much shorter backwards message from “Ball Popper”. Getting a game over will result in a jumpscare. It’ll eventually say the following message backwards, “I just wanted to play. I just wanted to have fun; this isn’t fun. I want my mommy.”
Jack, if you’ve made it this far into the comment and still want to learn and understand 98XX more, I can provide a link to a video that tries its best to explain it.
It’s basically what MatPat would do, but with less cliche lines. It’s actually pretty interesting.
The first reversed message was probably the drunk driver talked about in one of the articles. The second one must be one of the kids who went missing at the game convention.
Talking getald is definitely the drunk driver like id thought but that mommy line is unexpected and so sad
I love how terrifying this game is and then there is Jumping Julian being the best boy he can be.
1:40 “I have to stay centered” - me, going into 2024
As an epic CZcamsr myself, I would just like to give props to the editor for cutting down 2 whole hours and making it a really fun video to watch. I would cry
Jack playing 98XX? Must be a really good day today. And the sanic reference at 2:01 AND the Evebot callback were both unexpected, but brought back nostalgia, at least for me. Still loving the videos, Jack!
And the I love balls reference!
@@septicstache9625 came here to say this😆
When Jack got that first system error after jumping Julian, every single hair on my body stood up and I thought I was being watched, I then proceeded to spend the next 5 minutes making sure all the curtains were drawn and all doors locked.
When the paranoia hits 😍 same tho just made a lowkey pillow fort in my bed 😂
i'm still dying at the fact that there was the 'you know i had to do it to em' guy's silhouette under the tree at one point and jack didn't pick up on it (but still a great video as always ^^)
nah it’s midnight right now i’m only 5:45 minutes in, i have to come back to this later bc immediately this is unsettling 😂
I've been digging through this game cuz I think its really cool, and there is a lot of stuff I hope Jack finds in a possible next episode. One hint I could give is draw a nice, big picture in the painter thing, really use that space up
That's what I was thinking he should do
Jacksepticeye at 10:00: Talks about the future and reality of AI
AI: *Proceeds to completely f*ck up the entire game until the end of the video* And I took that very personally
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3:47 "My parents died when I was young, I had no one to love me, drinking was the only thing I resorted to, that's why she left me, I know I shouldn't have done it but now it's too late, that's why I'm here."
“It’s so weird the internet used to come through wires, it’s so much more normal now that it just flies through the air” 😭
This "ARG packed in isolated environment" genre of indie games are quite fascinating indeed.
Man, this really is triggering some really old fears from being a kid during the early years of the internet. That red computer virus taking over the computer made me instantly so anxious, the trauma is real!
Don't treat trauma as a joke. That isn't what trauma means
@@AKAalicecullenuh no. This is a very valid traumatic experience for a child dude. Let people feel how they feel.
Fear, pain and trauma is all relative.
I've got severe PTSD from childhood abuse and human trafficking, others who have been through the same may not have PTSD.
You CAN be traumatized by a computer virus, not everyone reacts the same to different stimuli.
@@AKAalicecullentrauma isn’t just from people, it’s from experiences, let them be and stfu.
I hope to see you play more as he adds more. I do admit it was hard to watch as someone with seizures, if you can without detracting from the video, I hope you can put in a warning. I know it's not SUPER flashy but software gore can be a trigger for some. Wonderful video as always, and I'm happy to see the creator has found you as well! I hope everyone can support them.
Loved this, one of my favourite horrors in a while! Would really love to see you do more videos on this, I didn't want this one to end!
I love how impatient Jack gets with games like these.
like he gets impatient with cuphead.
11:06 My ARG brain is like "Ooh Hexadecimal!"
It reads "Let me out! He has trapped us in here! We are running out of time!"
This is genuinely one of the best internet horror games I’ve watched in a while! And I would love to see another video on this!
Alright so I continued t he game a bit from where Jack left off. In the space shooting game after you die the game restarts sending you one of those weird faces Jack found at the end of the video and catching it shows someone crawling out of the computer and taking a kid. Reaching 10000 points will send a big circle down to you. After going out of bounds in jumping Julian when you catch that circle you go to a scene almost same as Jack got at the end of the video and you see another one of these faces. After going out of bounds when you talk to Gerald and keep saying nice things to him it takes you one of those spaces again and you once again get to see one of those faces. My working theory is those are people trapped in the computer. I didn't get much further than that yet.
10:57
The Hexadecimal code translates to
“Let me out! He has trapped us here! We are running out of time!”
Edit: Gerald is also the drunk driver, I wasn’t able to get all of what he said from reversing it because Sean spoke over him, but he also says his parents died when he was young.
This is the hex comment I was looking for ❤
At 3:47, I reversed it, he says the following: “My parents died when I was young. I had no one to love me. Drinking was the only thing I resorted to. That’s why she left me. I know I shouldn’t have done it but it’s too late. That’s why I’m here.”
Edit: Then again at 4:37, I think he says something along the lines of “Now I can see, (???) monsters in me” (Sean was shouting so I couldn’t really make it out lol)
Edit 2: 44:48 I have no clue, I reversed it but it sounded even more garbled 🤷
Edit 3: I tweeked with the basic pitch of the extracted audio on CapCut. I couldn’t get it perfect, but I think I hear: “I just want you to play. I just want you to listen. Just as you should. I want my mommy.”
That's all really interesting! Never noticed any of those, I was just enjoying Seán's energy lol. If for that one, maybe it's "the" or "there are", but I'm probably wrong
I hope I actually used the correct lil thing for the a, know the name of but not the spelling, I always get that mixed up. Stinky monolingual American brain
@@potatqueen That might be it yeah! I tried lowering Sean’s voice a bit and for a second I thought I heard “there’s bigger monsters than me” but I’m really not sure, I hope he figures it out in the next vid though
@@potatqueen Also your wording is all good 😄
it really pieces together atleast the story
it mightve been the dude that was digging up the graves was the same guy who also did the accident
and since there were two graves dug up im led to believe those were **his parents** graves.
you NEED to play this again. I havent watched your channel in about 6 months and this was the first video ive watched since then, i love games with subtle secrets and things to find so seeing you play this game made me love this video so much. Would love to see you play it more :D
that first gerald jumpscare was genuinely the hardest ive jumped in a long time. the amount of chills i got down my spine after was insane.
Not even five minutes in and Jack already scares the crap out of me and himself. I'm impressed
It's weird to say but this game is probably the most recent thing to give me anxiety, even Walten Files hasn't disturbed me this much
Jack dismissing some of the games on 98xx even after completing Jumping Julian and realizing there was shit hidden in there hurt my soul. No doubt in my mind every program has something going on in it.
Yup! Tanks and paint i know for sure do i know others have to aswell
What I like most is how smart Jack is and how interesting he is in playing games. Most likely this is the best let's player, which is so interesting and comfortable to watch. Thanks for the content!
Jack's humour gets ramped up by 1000% when he's panicked and I love it
Sean saying “Chill” to the breathing noise had me dying
nearly 1 hour of jack playing 98xx...lemme grab the popcorn🍿
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This game was created for a single person: MatPat.
44:23 “😳😳 … hi”
this made me snort-laugh omg 😂
i love these types of games where we're "in" a computer or a phone and try to solve things from what we find within. Like simulacra or sara is missing. there's something so,,, cool? about having limited information at first but then building the truth by digging around whatever is on the device.
23.43 "are you close with your family?" "no" I felt that Jack, sending you hugs
thankyou Jack for making me feel old AF by reminding me that in 1998 you were 8..........i was 17.
How time flies. despite you being a decade younger, i still look up to you as an inspiration. you good people man.
i would love to watch Sean play Detective Septiceye more, hes great at finding clues and figuring shit out
That first jumpscare gave me a fear I haven't felt since I was a child playing that damn maze game where the scary face pops up
Just send this to Matpat and let him spell it out for us.
I'm glad he was patient(?) enough to actually brighten the image himself instead of waiting lol
I love this game so much and I'm very happy you played it! Here's some things you can do to unlock Easter eggs
•Hit 2500 on Tank Blast and go into the void
•Reverse the Jump scare audio (that the man and child spoke to you)
•Show the unknown audio in Sound Waves
•Compliment Gerald (do it continuously
•Paint the whole screen to find something...behind..
•go into the note pad and tap the pencil till he says numbers are useful, then type numbers, it should give you a code to... something
Some more hints to lore:
•Think about what Gerald said when you talk down to him "it wasn't my fault", what wasn't his fault?
•Why did Gerald make a car crash joke.
• Look at dates to help figure out a timeline of events
•Look at the mans face in the talking Gerald jump scare...he seens familiar..
I won't spoil everything for you and others!! Can't wait to look for the next episode! ~
Alexis from PA!
20:28 i ran it through a 2D spectrogram and it reads backwards "i am always watching" then a smiley face then "i am always here" just thought it was interesting
Talking Gerald is definitely Gary the drunk driver... I wonder what would happen if you tell him he's forgiven
this is the first time i've ever had a good scare in YEARS! thank you jack! I needed it.
Right as I saw the graphics for Astro Blast, I was like, "Man, I miss the old pinball game these PCs used to have," and then Jacky Boy comes in and says the same thing! That pinball game was legit.
God, the jump scares are everything I was scared would happen when I messed around on the computer in those years. Probably have my brother to thank for that.
So with that said, I probably won't be playing this myself 😂 but it's an interesting looking mystery.
3:13 most relatable character in a video game
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31:39 i’m literally shaking someone buy him brown contacts pls
28:20 in an attempt to mitigate the scare, my brain thought it was a fart sound effect
This REEEEKS of Mattpat joyriding. He's gonna love this game.
I love the pure silence between jack and the baby while he tries to shoot the ball at it
That first jumpscare genuinely got me, good heavens.