Hey everyone, welcome to a new addition of Strange Gaming Stories! Today is a true story about how an obscure game my friend Jeff had growing up changed his entire outlook on gaming. Have you ever heard of Top Banana or have any experience with it? Let me know in the comments below!

@fl4kvader964

2 жыл бұрын

hey for your next video can u cover the Ben Drowned majoras mask creepypasta

@airfryerNW

2 жыл бұрын

@@fl4kvader964 what??? they were covered years ago by other content creators, it would be pretty much pointless

@guywiththegreenhat5764

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry about your friend.

@AbbaZaba00

Жыл бұрын

It's a truly hideous game. Even if it didn't cause him seizures he has plenty reason to have soured on all games

I didn't think this game was real and this was just a really well-done creepypasta. Damn.

@typicalfurry2747

2 жыл бұрын

That's how you know you've seen a little too much

@typicalfurry2747

2 жыл бұрын

@XCL4M4t10N really

@typicalfurry2747

2 жыл бұрын

@XCL4M4t10N what

@TazmilyGum

2 жыл бұрын

@XCL4M4t10N what

@flaco3462

2 жыл бұрын

truth is stranger than fiction as they say

This game has the visuals of cruelty squad but as a platformer

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

i know right?

@cesarcastillo7129

2 жыл бұрын

Where does your pfp come from? It looks oddly familiar

@krystleberger2557

2 жыл бұрын

This game looks like you played it on a toaster

@liamvachon8782

2 жыл бұрын

@@krystleberger2557 Average smartfridge fan average toaster enjoyer

@bug8992

2 жыл бұрын

@@cesarcastillo7129 I think it came from a creepypasta I’m not sure which one though

Jeff probably had Photosensitive Epilepsy. My epilepsy isn't Photosensitive, but I did start having seizures suddenly when I was a teenager, with no sign before that that I had the disability. That could have happened to Jeff.

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I feel so bad for him, especially in retrospect

@MelodyGoad

7 ай бұрын

Bruh, I have Tourette's Syndrome, which a lot of people THINK is related to epilepsy on first glance, but it isn't at all. It's way closer to OCD. Still, even though I don't have ANY sort of epilepsy, that opening was FREAKY AS FUCK, and i had to look away BECAUSE it was so freaky.

This feels like a real life creepypasta. It's so sad that this game tore him from the friend group, and practically erased from everyone's memories. I hope he is living his best life, and found a way to enjoy video games again

@GoldenKarelyt

2 жыл бұрын

@XCL4M4t10N are you sure kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGmfuamGkZzVg9o.html skip to 9:14

@GoldenKarelyt

2 жыл бұрын

@XCL4M4t10N 😐

@houledea1073

2 жыл бұрын

@XCL4M4t10N KZread randomly deletes comments sometimes and idk why but I had lots of my comments removed for no reason, maybe u accidentally "swore" in ur comments?

@bandband4498

2 жыл бұрын

@XCL4M4t10N I haven't see your comment, but if this story is real, they may have thought it was disrespectful or something.

@livinglie5598

2 жыл бұрын

Looks as if the bots on youtube deleted some poor saps comments.

Maybe Jeff got a feeling after 1.5 hours of being left out of the fun in his own home, that his friends weren’t really his friends and just wanted to use his stuff. He probably thought you, just would play it a little and then end it, so that you could all play together, but you didn’t.

@carlcarlington7317

2 жыл бұрын

I honestly didn’t want to say it because it sounds insanely confrontational and like most kids aren’t super sensitive to others emotions so I’m sure it wasn’t intentional but it’s really the unavoidable background vibes I get from this whole story even when narrating the story as an adult the only thing notable about Jeff was the cool stuff he had that others wanted to play with I’ve never been super rich but I’ve been situations as an adult where you’re the only guy in your friend group with a job and everyone just constantly wanting stuff. How Even now I don’t feel comfortable talking about how that made me feel because as much as feeling used sucks I’m sure being in a situation where you have to ask sucks even more, complaining about it almost feels like you’re being a selfish asshole complaining about minor issues compared to what everyone else puts up with, but with that said I can tell you that being in Jeff’s shoes isn’t fun constantly feeling worthless constantly feeling like the only value you hold to others is the things you can get them constantly feeling like you’re just some idiot getting played

@VideoAssaultSaturday

2 жыл бұрын

been there, it sucks. (kids are jerks)

@DenpaKei

2 жыл бұрын

I feel this. Neighborhood kids never wanted to play with me until my parents got a swingset installed in our backyard. I'm 30 now, but it still hurts looking back.

@pittherson3260

2 жыл бұрын

That happened to me when i gotten the wii console, thought people will be friends with me in elementary but instead they come over to play it with me, left me, but yet still bullies me at school.

@kcapila

2 жыл бұрын

@Deso Lark who cares

I imagine Jeff was probably still traumatized from the seizure experience. So, having his friends play the very same game in the next room may have been insensitive to his situation? Though, of course everyone was just curious kids. The overall experience could have ruined his love of video games in general.

@DenpaKei

2 жыл бұрын

this honestly :/

@jailun6758

2 жыл бұрын

Ok

@maryfreegirl2029

2 жыл бұрын

he probably felt excluded too

@piss7610

2 жыл бұрын

They're kids in the 90s, they're not going to know better

@danielmalone4446

2 жыл бұрын

@@maryfreegirl2029 yeah and probably realized his "friends" didn't care about him and just used him to play his video games

I honestly would have been completely horrified by Top Banana. I was a really timid kid deep down so if I saw that flashing monstrosity I might have started crying. It's really jarring. That opening is really creepy.

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@agentkmr

2 жыл бұрын

We don't talk about Br- TOP BANANA.

@Trafficallity

7 ай бұрын

iron technology

I genuinely feel sorry for jeff now.

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

Me too :(

@thedailybrowser5951

2 жыл бұрын

...I'm just happy no body made "that" comment... I really hope jeff is ok.

@typicalfurry2747

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedailybrowser5951 from what I can tell, the closest to "that" comment is a couple non-believers

@Spherey

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedailybrowser5951 wdym do u mean as in like the "my name is jeff" things or

@thedailybrowser5951

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spherey Yeah...

Watching the video I didn’t believe this was a real game at first, it just looks so rough and unfinished. Looks like some questionable choices were made in development.

@borderlinesunshine9630

2 жыл бұрын

The developers were high on magic mushrooms.

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@thedailybrowser5951

2 жыл бұрын

@@borderlinesunshine9630 dude, I think that s**t ain't magical That stuff straight up poison mushrooms they were doing.

"Top banana" is an old comedy term for the headliner who gets all the good punch lines. Nowadays it just means the most important person in an organization or group. No idea what it has to do with this game, though.

@chocolixo

2 жыл бұрын

Cause the game is a joke

I swear, for a still frame at 1:48, I could see Gex. I was actually worried Gex was cursed for a second.

@mugfan9779

2 жыл бұрын

I haven’t seen curses like these since I played Top Banana at James Earl Jones’s house!

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

OH SHIT

@sporklezstuff_moved_to_tt

2 жыл бұрын

I actually paused on it and it says HEX, close enough though

As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew it was going to be Top Banana. I knew of this game’s existence from a whoisthisgit video. (Leave My Eyes Alone!)

@acidkyledaLSDj

2 жыл бұрын

most powerful characters in gaming lmao top banana edition

I had to check out a let's play after seeing this. The sound design is unsettling and broke my man Jeff

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

um yes it certainly is

Honestly he was probably just pissed and felt betrayed that you clearly just wanted to use him for his games rather than genuinely be his friend. He probably only realized it when you completely shut him out of his own living room and gaming systems to play a game which had traumatized him despite his and his family’s warnings.

@EmergencyChannel

2 жыл бұрын

All friendships are based off using each other.

@strangevol5264

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmergencyChannel damn your girlfriend leave you or something? Makes sense for your name.

@eltiolavara9

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmergencyChannel NIGGA WHAT

@EmergencyChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@Deso Lark Not wrong, you aren't friends with someone unless they offer you something. Either social or financial benefits. Most people use their friends like therapists, it's pathetic.

@platyhelminthes2877

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmergencyChannel People become friends because they share mutual interests, and because they enjoy each other's company. Benefiting from a friendship and "using" your friends are two very different things. I get the impression that you have formed your views on friendship based on relationships in your own life, which, while understandable, is not an accurate representation of the world at large. You clearly have a very biased view of the "average" friendship, and I suspect that you probably have never been to see an actual therapist before (although based on what you've said, you probably should consider doing so).

Epileptic seizures are common enough that most game instruction books carried warnings about them. There was a news story when I was a kid about a guy that had rented the PS version of Red Alert and had a seizure. It has nothing to do with "trippy" visuals, just particular light patterns.

I only have two real memories of a game turning my blood cold, but neither caused me any physical damage, and one wasn't even a game, per se. The first time was when I was maybe 6, I had somehow managed to get to the final stage in Megaman X4. Upon doing so, you're treated to a cutscene where the once rotund and friendly-looking Double transforms, his round body opening up like a Bakugan to reveal his true form, in all it's spiky glory. Looking back at it, he looked edgy as hell, and him starting to slaughter reploids, making them spew reddish oil is comical, but that was the first time I had ever been faced with the concept of mass violence, and I think I screamed, because my mother who was asleep on the bed (the Playstation was in her room) asked what was wrong. I explained it to her, and she just asked, "Do I have to not let you play that game anymore?" I and remember replying something like, no, I'm okay now. Still, that scene haunted me for a long time, and with the massive difficulty spike that boss brought, I was more than okay with never finishing the game anyway. The other was the PS2 Red Screen of Death. 'Nuff said.

@nicthecat

Жыл бұрын

dont forget how zero had red oil in his hands in his intro

Oh, Christ. Top Banana. The amount of times I've seen whoisthisgit rant and rave about its lower-than-dumpster-tier quality is frankly absurd. You have received all my condolences.

Sounds more like Jeff was angry that it didn’t affect you guys but it did him, how you were able to play the game and joke about it, meanwhile he had to stay out of the room, angry at himself and life that he couldn’t play certain games with his friends or simply his friends didn’t seem to care and kept playing and having fun without him. I’d imagine that would piss off any kid.

He also could've been worried about having another seizure, just hearing or thinking about the visuals in the game? Makes sense. Also, you'd think a game as progressive as wanting to 'protect the environment' would do a littttttle better to protect user's health with flashing lights warnings and such... and with a game like this, a PROMINENT warning for such :L

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought that was a bit weird given its subject matter. I agree with your first statement, in retrospect it probably haunted him quite a bit.

@Zulf85

2 жыл бұрын

I'd assume so - poor little thing was only a kid. Seizures suck. Maybe his friends got to the last point he could remember before the seizure and hospital.

@gothnerd887

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a scare tactic like it was saying "save the planet or we'll give your kids seizures"

Fantastic video and to answer your question at the end, yes. There is a game. Now, the game that really freaked me out as a kid was a horror game; now I know what you are thinking "they are meant to freak you out!" But this was different. It was a DOS game called Dark Seed. Now Dark Seed is by Cyberdreams who made the game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (which luckily I didn't play when I was younger because that probably would have scarred me also.) DS is a point and click adventure that freaked me out for all the wrong reasons. The game is painfully esoteric and obtuse. I am sure there are worst examples (like Armed and Delirious) of a point and click game that is harder than DS but nothing really comes to mind. The game is based around a 3 day cycle (3 real time hours) and certain things must be done in a particular order or the game is unwinnable. I remember playing the game, enjoying the spooky visuals, but being made to feel incredibly anxious and unnerved by the game design itself. I'd never played a game that was so punishing. Yes, there are hard games like Contra etc but those show you the danger. Those show you what you did wrong. Dark Seed didnt do this at all. Dark Seed reveled in your powerlessness. Of course we can just get a guide online nowadays but I was a kid and this was the 90's. Getting online wasn't that easy and search engines were primitive. The whole game gives off this absolutely horrible and unnatural vibe which has stuck with me to this day. The games graphics are most rusty browns and silver. Even though I haven't played it in years I can still vividly see the parts of the game that, lets be honest, haunt my soul. The parts where the aliens kill you dont stick in my mind all that much. But the parts that I do remember are talking to the strange neighbour and his dog and getting a horrid sense of paranoia. I remember going to a funeral home in the game and messing around looking for ashes or something like that. With absolutely no clue what to do with them. I remember picking up a policemans gun and having this horrible feeling of unease. I remember being in an attic completely lost with no idea what I was actually meant to be accomplishing. Id played and loved games like Gabriel Knight which have violent horror elements but in those games you are clearly the hero. There are goals, theres a story. Dark Seed felt more like playing a fever dream. Or as many of the reviewers at the time called it; a nightmare. Dark Seed felt insidious. But more over it felt like being in a haze. Imagine going through your day, completing tasks and chores with no contextual knowledge of why you were doing so. It's pure dissociation. Thats Dark Seed. (Sorry about the rant. I bet the game feels nothing like that now. I do remember Pushing Up Roses doing a pretty good review of it, but I remember again feeling odd, because she obviously didn't get haunted by it like I did as a kid.)

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's crazy! I'll have to look the game up now :)

@ohhadivist

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has played I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream multiple times I have to say that if you are still into that weird old super convoluted DOS game thing you should check it out! As far as I remember it’s way less creepy than Dark Seed and is honestly pretty goofy at times. I love the way you described Dark Seed, seriously evocative!

@AnalogFunktion

2 жыл бұрын

You know the artwork in Dark Seed is by renowned Swiss surrealist artist / industrial designer HR Giger - who is amazing, but most well known for creating the Xenomorph in Alien (1979) - the movie with Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Ridley Scott etc. He got the devs to up their resolution but lower the color palette because he hates right angles.

@novelezra

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnalogFunktion Of course! I'm a huge fan of Giger. As a kid however, I didn't understand his mix of sex and death, so it all blended into a nightmare haha

@themeshow1011

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't help that there's a sequel to the game that has a downer of an ending, lol

Well that story is pretty morbid, but when a game can do such a traumatizing thing to you, it can actually change your outlook on life pretty quick. For example, I refuse to play any type of VR game. My eyes are incredibly super sensitive to light and I have a slight astigmatism, so I really don't want to do anything to aggravate it so I avoid any type of vr headset games because I'm afraid of the potential issues it may cause.

@poshmartine

2 жыл бұрын

Every time I put on a VR headset I hear my grandmother’s ghost say, “don’t stand so close to the tv”!

interesting, this is like the first vaporwave/plunderphonics game to exist, if the graphics were clearer and set up a little better this would actually be my kinda thing

Take this from a guy who adores bubble bobble to death I’m pretty damn sure that from what I can gather from this footage the game rips many ideas from from the way the MC attacks to the collecting of hearts similar to the letter collecting in that series It’s possible the developers’ intent weren’t as pure and artistic as they went on the record

I actually love games that look like visual garbage, Top Bannana is right up there with them. From LSD simulator to Sluggish Morse, games like these just have such a unique and strange feel. Of course, most of them are not actually 'fun' but the style they go with is always so unique.

So you save the world with the power of love? It is just like EarthBound!

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

hahaha....in a way I guess

I heard of this game from one of whoisdisguy's videos. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. Reminded me of those video game creepypastas.

Very interesting and entertaining video! I’ve never heard of this game before and I’m definitely wary of it now. Haha! The only out of body/concerning experience I ever experienced while gaming was back when I was in college. I was in my dorm room and had been playing rock band on my Xbox 360 for over an hour or two straight, rarely taking any breaks to look away from the screen or move around, save for standing there while holding the guitar. I can still remember that at some point during the end of one of the last songs I played on it for the night, I noticed that I wasn’t hitting any of the corresponding notes which was odd because I could feel my fingers hitting the correct buttons and I swore my timing was as right as ever (I had gotten pretty proficient with the game at that point). All of a sudden I began to feel extremely light headed and the track on the screen began to blur together - I looked down to realize my guitar controller had fallen off the strap and was on the floor but I hadn’t even noticed. It truly scared me. I remember immediately shutting off the tv and my console and swearing I wouldn’t ever allow myself to play that long without taking a few quality breaks in between. I’ve never experienced anything like that ever since, but it’s still a haunting memory for sure.

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

whoa, that's crazy! Glad you were ok!

@notsyzagts7967

2 жыл бұрын

An hour or two? Back when Super Mario Bros. 3 was new, I played for almost 10 hours straight. Glued to the screen most of the time also but no adverse effects from the experience. I guess it just depends on the individual. Before someone mentions the age difference, I also repeated this scenario with JRPGs many years later, with no side effects.

@cameronkemp9742

2 жыл бұрын

an hour or two. lol

@eltiolavara9

2 жыл бұрын

i played cruelty squad for 6 hours straight with no breaks and nothing happened to me, i think im immune to everything

@digitalunity

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds to me like your knees must've been locked at some point during this excursion. Locking your knees cuts off circulation and can cause fainting. Be very careful not to do that when standing for prolonged durations

I had a similar story, but instead of preventing me from playing games in general, it only affected the Gears of War series. It was back then in the 360 era. I was a huge fan of the two fist entries and ofc, I immediately started playing 3 when it was released. However, one day I was playing it and then I started not feeling well. I was seeing many TVs and I was losing consciousness. Last thing I remember is a phone call that I couldn't understand what the person on the line was saying. After that, I lost consciousness one hour and a half... A few days later, after I was hospitalized and took some meds. I tried to resume playing, but I couldn't; I always got that sick feeling each time I start the game. This was a few years ago and I haven't tried any game in the series recently.

Who knew the video game company called "Hex" would curse people

Honestly, I'm not surprised poor Jeff suffered a seizure. That game's intense in all the wrong ways. Edit: I went to look at some gameplay footage of the game...The audio's just as cursed as the visuals.

@Bacony_Cakes

2 жыл бұрын

mmmh mmmh mmmh

potassium

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

yes, that would have helped.

@takanamoon9907

2 жыл бұрын

Jeff get the banana

So... I have a theory. In my experience, being the kid with stuff other kids want... it's interesting. My family had horses growing up. I think it goes without saying, a lot of girls REALLY wanted to come over and play at my house... and when they got there, they were much more interested in the horses. It's understandable, and at first I was fine with it. Horses are pretty cool... However, there would be times when it was cold, rainy / muddy, or just plain yucky outside... and most of my visitors would rather stay out there petting or fawning over the horses, while I got bored of just standing around and went inside. =/ The feeling of loneliness is really palpable when people visit your home, then ignore you to focus on your things. =( Don't get me wrong. It helped me figure out who my real friends were! The ones who wanted to play games with me, hang out at the library, have sleepovers... Sure, we hung out with the horses too, but there were a lot of times when we didn't. I knew they liked me for me, not just the animals. I think... maybe your friend had an awakening of sorts. After playing a video game that gave him seizures, and being told to not play it anymore, he figured you guys (as his friends) wouldn't want to put his health at risk and you all could play one of his many other games. So when all of you wanted to play the one game he couldn't play, and went on playing it for a long time (in his eyes)... it might have felt like a betrayal of sorts. You guys were off having fun, in his home, playing with his stuff... and he couldn't play with you. He might have thought you weren't really his friends after all - that you liked him for his games, and not him. So when he came in and told you to leave... I don't think it was an adverse effect from the game. I think he "figured out" you weren't really his friends... to the point where you would rather play a game that could hurt him instead of actually playing with him. Let me clarify - I absolutely DO NOT think you or your friends were bad people. There's nothing wrong with liking cool stuff and wanting to play with your friends' cool stuff! Again, I know those feelings, and as an adult I can see that kids just get blindsided by this kind of thing. They may not understand the difference between liking a person and liking their things - and that the two can exist together or separately. I don't know what your friendship was like, and I don't want to make any judgements. However... from my own experience, being the kid with stuff other kids wanted... that's my theory as to what happened. It would also explain why things were never the same between you all after that day. Coming to that kind of revelation could not have been easy, especially after you all had been friends for a while. Anyway... Thanks for sharing your story. =) I've never heard of this game. I really like your channel, and I can't wait to see more!

It looks like the kinda game that kills you in 7 days

Of course it's Top Banana... I'm pretty sure this game was made by Satan himself

@pixerpinecone

2 жыл бұрын

As a catholic, I actually do love liminal space stuff, weird/strange music and some horror games, but I’ve noticed a few key actually legitimately concerning things in this game, so uh yeah it is something to be concerned about.

Outside of Europe, what kid would seriously want an Amiga?

The first case where the lost media isn't the game, but the player #FindJeff

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

I know!

as far as i can remember i can't think of any game that might have triggered me like "Jeff". I may have been disturbed by some games like Resident Evil 2 original or Silent Hill original. But to be completely turned off by the game to such a degree i've never heard of with people. Maybe your friend Jeff reached a level that his mind interpreted the images into something scary or incomprehensible when he had his seizure and never wanted to experience it again.

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

agreed

I have an idea for a game that would use trippy visuals and flashing lights to create a sense of discomfort and uneasiness. After seeing this if I ever make a game like that I'll put "EXTREME EPILEPSY WARNING" in the beginning of the description. Thank you.

@hardcase7753

2 жыл бұрын

that'll be very important!

i first heard of top banana a few years ago from a whosithisgit video on bad graphics/poorly made visuals (series called "Leave My Eyes Alone!") and its hard to believe its real, even now. everything about it seems fake. the graphics ae so odd and garbled, the sound design off-putting, the actual mechanics so hard to figure out. its on my mind a good amount, since its such a difficult game to get a feel for, what they were going for and how they possibly released it in the nightmarish state it remains. it genuinely feels like a game youd play in a dream, where only fuzzy bits and pieces are left of your quickly-fading memory. i feel like i could go on for eons about this game, but words escape me on how to truly convey my thoughts.

ah, I just love this *EARTHBOUND* gameplay

As soon as I saw the "LOVE ❤", I IMMEDIATELY knew what game was going to be discussed here.

This absolutely terrifying, honestly! How did this get approved for release?

@ds-uy7ds

2 жыл бұрын

Probably they were on drugs when they both made and approved this game

@shotakonkin2047

2 жыл бұрын

The time period most likely, even that pokemon episode was approved before the lawsuits.

Animal Crossing be looking different this days.

I think I'm gonna boot up my old copy of top banana

"my friend just had a siezure" "Time to make a video about it"

Thanks for the warning, I still watched and now I have a light migraine. So I can imagine Jeff having a seizure from playing this for hours. This is truly horrible, I play games console and game. And occasionally get migraines from playing. Then after i played again and get another migraine I just ditch the game.

@whosflair3716

2 жыл бұрын

I had a migraine even before watching. That was a mistake

@pd1jdw630

2 жыл бұрын

@@whosflair3716 I feel for your. Hope all is well now.

When I was younger, I don't recall games giving me photosensitivity issues. I was able to play the 16-bit Sonic games, Earthbound, and several others without issues. I was even able to play LSD Dream Emulator without having many issues. Although the only game that really gave me any issues was Sonic the Fighters, due to the fast red and yellow strobing KO text. I don't remember having a seizure as most people would describe it (or at least one to the point of a blackout). I had a sharp shooting pain (like sudden pins and needles) that felt like someone punched me in the head, and my speech was slurred for a few minutes. I'm unsure if it was down to an anxiety attack, as I don't like games with that kind of stuff, and it was like the equivalent of a jumpscare, but I went to get an EEG and an MRI scan, and I passed the EEG (Which is supposed to trigger a seizure) with flying colors. I suppose there's plenty of cases where if these kinds of effects can phase a regular person, then they're probably extremely unsafe for someone with photosensitivity issues. Although there's some examples of retro games where I absolutely want to have the anti-flicker shader enabled in Retroarch alongside a reduced saturation and contrast. Madou Monogatari (The PC Engine CD version, which has rapidly flashing menu selections), Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, and Sakura Wars (Although this is bearable outside of the SP meter being maxed out which absolutely needs an anti-flicker shader to be playable) come to mind. It's honestly really disappointing how much photosensitivity options in rereleases of older games and even simple options like disabling muzzle flashes from weapons that fire quickly or hologram flashing (like in some of Platinum's games) are completely overlooked, especially from legacy gaming news outlets that love to preach about accessibility options. They only covered Cyberpunk 2077 when it gave a reviewer issues. I'm glad that Gal*Gun Returns patched out the rapidly flashing Red and Yellow shouting text in a game patch despite the port's other issues.

Man, don't you love it when you are born seemingly all nice and dandy, then you play That one game, and now you're in the hospital? This message was brought to you by: some epileptic dude

I don't exactly know why but that channel intro is awesome and so satisfying...

This is kinda like that kid's game people thought gave a kid brain cancer

bro if this happened to one of my friends, I would have been like "time to collect my money" I mean bruh that would made him even richer

This guy: saving the environment doesnt have a good video game track record. *sonic will remember that*

It shows earthbound in the description

okay when you said cursed I didn't know you meant THAT cursed man DAMN

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it certainly left its mark

I remember this bootleg handheld console my Mom got me one time. It was one of those cheap ones she found at Walgreens. When you flip the switch, there's a whole library of mini games to play. I think what threw me off is that as soon as you turn it on, a brief musical queue plays before no music at all. The music was there to show the user "Hey, welcome to a library filled with crap!" After the music queue, you just hear a long and intense buzzing drone in the background. It didn't matter what you did after about 10 minutes because the longer you play, the more corrupted each game got. It gets to the point where nothing is functional anymore until you replace the batteries or reset it. Whatever that thing was, it was pure evil. I love my ma for thinking of my boredom, but that thing had actual sentience...

I like how the description's infocard says earthbound.

I had to look away and close the one eye that could see the second monitor just cause the jarring colours, I do it though. That game, just hearing the story, it makes sense in a way.. The trauma from having that happen, it feels like it can't be real, yet just googling the game name, it shows up. I really hope your old friend is doing better.

Man that new intro still looks hella slick

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Not sure if this is a creepypasta, but you made this very intriguing man! Would totaly love to see more content like this. Keep it up!

@generatoralignmentdevalue

2 жыл бұрын

It's not a creepypasta. If you just search yt for Top Banana you can watch playthroughs of the whole thing. It's a real game, and photosensitive seizures from games are relatively common.

@wi11ow8

2 жыл бұрын

@@generatoralignmentdevalue no no i know the game is real, im just wondering if the story was real lmao

Idk man, I'd be upset too if my friends decided to play the one game that messed me up in my own house

Press Start: Here is Top Banana. KZread: ok its earthbound

It's funny how this game is called Top Banana, yet it has nothing to do with bananas. Also, Earthbound is in the description for some reason.

I love how you call every type of PC a "console".

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

well, this one kinda was

Honestly, if I was a kid and got a seizure as a reaction to a game, I would never play it again either

I had a mild PNES type event playing No Straight Roads (I remember it only because I distinctly remember feeling nauseous like my typical seizures then blacking out for a good two minutes before I did anything drastic or anxiety inducing for my family) but I was home alone and coming out of it I only remember getting a headache then blacking out and getting nauseous from some sort of snow effect. It was weird because I've never had a seizure before or after playing video games, my typical seizures are actually triggered by frontal lobe malfunction.

"cursed my friend" or he was just pissed at his group of "friends" that went to his house just play on his console and not include him by playing the game that caused his seizure

This happened to my friend once very sad and Jeff story

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

really?! what happened?

@funnyvalentine7607

2 жыл бұрын

@@PressStartToContinueYT my friend was and me were playing a anime fighting forgot was it called but anyway we’re playing and there was think like big blast in the game and that what made my friend go like that and after that drama we just went back to normal

Looks like something that would scare me when I was little. Software gore was something I was really scared about.

I'm gonna throw this in my "Too weird to mess with" folder and never think of this again

I watched this at 7 : 41 PM and I could not sleep at all.

Crazy the algorithm gave this to me when I found the Amiga CD soundtrack on a jungle music channel months ago

So this wasn't a dream. I thought I was crazy but nope.

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

yuppppp

@thelegend5922

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Game: Top Banana KZread: "Eh, I see weird colors and visuals, so I think it's Earthbound instead!"

This game is a crime against humanity with the damage it has done to Jeff, and potentially other kids like him

@generatoralignmentdevalue

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Jeff ended up being fine, other than having to find out that his friends cared more about his stuff than about being around him. Many, many games can trigger photosensitive epilepsy. This one just happens to also be ugly and obscure.

@mr.monkey354

2 жыл бұрын

@@generatoralignmentdevalue stop projecting, it isn't healthy

IT GAVE HIM SEIZURES

Top Banana was my first taste in horror games, it scared me enough that my parents had to take me to therapy for a whole year just to sooth the memory of the scene. I will never forget the scene

@UwU-nv8qu

2 жыл бұрын

*You don't mean that scene, do you?*

@heactuallyexists

2 жыл бұрын

@@UwU-nv8qu I mean it...i was a child that time so the impact was pretty hard and it was my first trauma, i recovered now after playing a unhealthy amount of horror games

Jeff was just jealous he couldn’t handle the Top Banana style 😎

Never heard od it, but ir just seems so creepy and scary. If I were a kid playing this game, I would have nightmares FOREVER.

Oh boy that title screen is definitely gonna haunt my dreams

Geez, I instantly started to get a headache looking at that game footage.

So you used your friend even after a serious medical emergency, and insisted on playing the game that sent him to the hospital? No wonder he got mad. I hope this is a fake story.

Thanks for not putting the games audio in the video. I couldn't imagine the nightmares I would have.

this feels like a creepypasta more than any thing else.

I was looking for this story!!

@PressStartToContinueYT

Жыл бұрын

:)

I feel sorry for Jeff, but honestly, I'd love to play this game. The trippy footage just makes me awestruck. Intentional or not, it's a hell of an artsy game and it being a hidden gem only fortifies my will to try it out and maybe even finish it.

When watching the gameplay of top bananna from this vid my head starting hurting I wonder if jeff felt that

Top banana looks like the hallucinations you get when you smoke too much weed

The hell, thats totally cursed

Probably one of those games that I'll never touch, but the graphics for it are pretty nauseating for sure.

Genuinely thought this was a Crow64 situation for a moment

Seizures can happen at any time for some people (including myself), but it would screw me up if it happened like that. Though most of the time you forget a ton of what you did that day.

youtube: looks at top banana also youtube:**MMMM YES EARTHBOUND**

so its the video game equivalent of power electronics. PURE. AWESOME.

@xamp_exclammark

6 ай бұрын

Honestly if this game was a total pisstake by some random kid like the album Consumer Electronics 3 i wouldnt be too surprised

2:30 Meanwhile Final Fantasy VII exists.

Just watching this game is hurting my eyes.

This makes Awesome Possum look like a solid classic in comparison.

Man the graphics on the game looks awful. I'm so sorry that happened to your friend. Whoever made the game do that should get sued. I never heard of the game before until now. Poor kid. If I was him I'd either burn the game or throw it away also why does KZread think the game is earthbound?

@PressStartToContinueYT

2 жыл бұрын

wait does it actually say that in the video?

@_pulstar

2 жыл бұрын

i mean it works

Photo negative is always a dangerous sign

TBH.....this game looks REALLY COOOL and fun to me!!!!!! Maybe its because im a completely insane burn out, but I so wanna try this. It looks visually stunning and reminds me of Rainbow Islands, which I love!