Let's Play Vinnie Vole's Existential Nightmare

WARNING: Mature themes and horrible tape-loading sounds! Viewer discretion is advised!

By request, it's the Spectrum's premier game simulating a vole's existential existence in an enclosed room. Fun for no whole families!

EDIT: When I made this video, I was under the impression that this was a real game. However, this was originally a game that didn't exist which was profiled on Stuart Ashen's wonderfully wry (as most British comedy is) video series "Ashen's Tech Dump." This was only turned into an actual Spectrum tape file after the fake game was profiled on Ashen's show, so if you enjoyed this video (and perhaps even if you didn't), take a look at Mr. Ashen's other fine entertainment: http://www.youtube.com/ashens

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[femmebot3000]

I'm stuggling to decide whether developing a game from what was initially conceived as a joke about a vole suffering existentialist angst is ironic or a worrying indictment of the mean intellect of people online. That Stuart Ashen's rather inventive ruse was regarded as real enough for someone to not only believe it to be a genuine game, but actually take the time to recreate it, is itself an existentialist nightmare.

[LateBlt]

@femmebot3000 Life imitates art. If Mr. Ashen (or anyone else, for that matter) were to create a fake piece of media, it's not that farfetched that someone would bring that idea to reality, if only as a proof-of-concept. I doubt the maker of this game actually thought it was ever a real game; they simply saw an absurdist joke in Mr. Ashen's concept video, and followed up with the absurdist joke that is this game.

[femmebot3000]

@LateBlt yes, but in doing so, the maker of this game has undermined the humour in Ashen's original concept. Also, plenty of people--some of whom have commented on this post, yourself included judging from your disclaimer in the description--accepted seemingly uncritically that this was a real game and not an absurdist joke.

[LateBlt]

@femmebot3000 Ah, I think I understand the intent of your original comment a little better now. I suppose I'm as guilty as the rest since I wasn't entirely certain myself whether the game was real or not, but it must be understood that games back then frequently were literally this small and pointless. (Consider Inanimate Racer, a "real game" which I made a video of some time ago.) It is the nature of humanity to take something (humorous or otherwise) and recast it in different lights over time.

[aarocka11]

ashens tech dump

[CJS925]

Ashens favorited this video

[Zanite]

It IS fake, someone made this later as a 'joke'.

In other news, at least my nightmares will be different now.

[PokemonRulez2468]

I came here from Ashen's Tech Dump, I thought it was fake. But I was horrendously wrong.

[Tenkagethewise]

This was seriously a real game?!?!?!? Holy shit

[psychoTR2]

Sounds like a donkey drowning in something viscous... i like that phrase. I think I'll start using it now. :)

Nice Vid.

[MaRaDoNa238]

hablas mucho pendejo

[MrJwoodOo]

thanks for the warning

[hooker1uk]

Hmm the Department of Trade and Industry fun pack..... Such suicidal fun for all the family.

[NFSCalex]

@hercrabbiness yes, he IS in a box, and is not in existence. but WHERE'S THE PLUTONIUM?!?!

[MysteryNebula01]

@hercrabbiness Schrodinger's Vinnie Vole's Existential Nightmare? :O

[jgabler5025]

@hercrabbiness Ahh, so in this case, Vinnie is Schrodinger's Vole.