Vinny - Frog Days (a 90s-inspired point and click experience)

This is what computers looked like to me when I was very little and went to the computer lab. So many things inexplicably happening that it feels endless and dreamlike.

finally, a good emulation of old technology thats not a fucking analog horror

The part where it's literally the ruins of the Museum of Anything Goes is legitimately haunting

You know, the composer of Pizza Tower's music is making a game that also looks just like this, called Dust Riser. I'm so happy we are getting more games like this.

With this game being an emulation of 90s computer software and internet plug-ins, it's almost thematic that it's incomplete. I remember some point and click games using absolutely insane jumps in logic to complete, so I've owned more of them than I've beaten. And, I remember a lot of websites from the 90s that tried to also be adventure games, with hidden links and stock animation assets. I remember so many of them being "under construction", never to be finished. It's incredibly on-brand for the time period that this is looking to emulate that the game itself is unfinished vaporware.

My favorite part is how influence this entire game is by Museum of Anything Goes, and how this game itself became an influence to Hypnospace outlaw. It's just crazy to see the lineage there, especially since the Museum of Anything Goes is such an evocative game that has just stayed in my mind for years and years, that any reference to it is wonderful to me

Having the computer drivers be represented by a literal taxi is amazing. Somebody needs to make a Linux distro or OS where things like windows, drivers, and so on are represented by actual, real life counterparts.

8:13 "DINK HAS OVERLOADED THE SYSTEM"

Gonna miss your editing Pierdeer, you've been wonderful to have on the channel. Thank you for this last present <3

I love the nostalgic vibe of this. I'm glad it doesn't seem to devolve into a horror game and understands the premise holds up on its own.

i love newer prerendered stuff like this. this and The Desolate Hope are such beautiful games. it's a shame it's not a more popular genre.

This game is really cool and definitely captures that 90s esq edutainment-core. I recommend playing this game if you want a good vibe.

Even unfinished it's projects like these that repaint and encapsulate an era that one day could be dust. It's like the beauty and twisted wonder of the time blended through a fun house mirror.

Im so sad this game got abandoned and no one played it. I hope the 5 people who streamed it would motivate the devs to finish it

Fun fact, Vinny: "FlamingOS" was mentioned in Hypnospace Outlaw, albeit in some of the more obscure pages. People used it to make graphics and NetSettler pages back then. Who knows? Maybe whoever made this game intended it as an unofficial prequel.

12:42 OTTO

Honestly the bonkers type of art I want to make until my bones turn to dust, so many ideas aaaaa

I love the surreal nature of early CGI. The strange combination of dithered colors, recognizable but unnatural shapes, and sheer whimsy just feels warm and comfy to me. I've never had a DMT trip (sadly), but I imagine it would look a little like that.

God I love skung computer experience games. Truly an underrated genre. Awesome to learn about this and I'm excited for DreamSettler when it eventually comes out

Frog Days is like the dog days of summer, except it's so humid that you don't just get swamp arse: you get swamp EVERYTHING. Also, I do remember when computers were like this. I experienced Windows 98 and classic Mac OS before Windows XP became the standard.