Uhh, yeah...kinda forgot that this game is pretty nonsensical, guys. Sorry. But wow, i did NOT expect a name drop from you guys! Now I can only hope you enjoy at least one of my suggestions or I'll be in for it. I should mention that Moon Crystal? Very difficult. Cocoron is KINDA difficult, depending on what you do. See, Cocoron is a "build your own character" game. You select the head, the body, and the weapon. They determine you hit points, your weight, and special function (boats float on water, jet and winged bodies hover, etc). And for the love of god, if you play this, make sure the first or second character you make has a boat body. If you guys make it to the last section and don't have a boat, you will know pain. Oh, and a jet body in the first three. Trust me on this.

Dan: “We’re saved!” Arin: *Dies the instant Dan finishes that sentence.* Another display of superhuman comedic timing.

"Don't go into the Jungle without your grapnel!" "You need the grapnel before you enter the jungle!" "Your grapnel is to the north of town. Be sure to get it before you enter the jungle!" Arin: *immediately goes west into the jungle without the grapnel* LOL

Dan: *_"We're Saved!"_* Arin dies to alligator Dan: *_"We're Dead!"_*

Grapnel: according to a guide i found, you stand near a wall and press up + B to climb some walls. Won't be of help anytime soon, but there it is.

I'd like to see you play a game or two of NES Baseball. That game ruled.

"Go North to get the Grapnel. Make sure you have it before entering the jungle." Proceeds to go east and wastes 20 minutes. Lol god damnit Arin.

So, is it just me, or did they completely forget that the game instructed them to go north for the grapnel almost immediately? Guess it wouldn't be Game Grumps if they didn't forget crucial instructions in mere seconds.

The prequel to The Stanley Parable!

OMG I had this game as a kid and I found it absolutely inscrutable, I'm THRILLED that you guys played it!!!

"How do i do this?!" Second to last block on the second bridge. "This is impossible!" Second to last block on the second bridge "I need a playthrough!" Second to last block on the second bridge "I'm dying here!" Second to last block on the second bridge "I can't do this anymore." Second to last block on the second bridge "This game is ridiculous!" Second to last block on the second bridge

I love how they gave Stanley every kind of voice imaginable.

They literally figured out how to pass the bridge part by jumping quickly and then abandoned that idea immediately because Arin messed it up a couple times. That's game grumps

I love how Stanley moves, it's so bouncy

i had a look at the walkthrough dan was reading and it literally tells you how to use the grapnel right after you get it, im pretty sure arin was supposed to climb that wall with it

9:33 Thank you, Dan. Now I want a NSP cover of Holy Diver.

"I didn't know!" "YOU DO KNOW!"

This will show my age, but whenever I hear Dr. Livingston, I remember this ongoing bit on Sesame Street where Ernie, I now assume was supposed to be Stanley, would search through the jungle til he came across another character and say the famous words," Stanley Livingston I presume?" Of course it was never him, that was the joke.

Wow, Stanley's gone a long way from pressing two buttons in his office

The walkthrough Dan located explains exactly how to use the grapnel multiple times.

Game: You should go North. Arin: I guess I'll go West.

Stanley: **Gets off boat** **Immediately meets Che Guevara and Carmen Sandiego**

I like arins energy while playing while Dan is just laughing at some of his failures

So here’s Stanley, but they still haven’t heard his Parable in full yet. (Only a small demonstration of it several years ago.) This injustice must be rectified.

MY GOD. this is a game I've not seen in YEARS. I'm actually excited? the random games off "the shelf" are great!

“Can you turn that down gun ship!” I laughed 😂

I love when they play these old games lol

Yes, back to the one-off classics! 💙

1:34 "something about this text..." *stares intensely at how badly the 1 and 4 are misaligned*

29:58 Arin: *trying to climb huge boulder* "how do i use my grapple? read the walkthrough" Dan: "oh, of course: to enter the temple, stand on the red rock" lmao wtf dan

If you've read King Leopold's Ghost this game becomes really disturbing.

When I see the word "Bumble" I think if that snow monster from the 1964 "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer"... I'm pretty sure the great Cornelius Yukon (man I wish we'd see more of him, great character all around) called the snow monster a "bumble" (Such an awesome movie btw, especially with Burl Ives as the singing snowman)

10:20 this arguing is giving me life

I’m posting this dog 🐶 on every video until they finish playing The Dog Island

I like the episode where they try to cross a bridge for a loooooooong time.

For those who were wondering, you're not expected to memorize which parts of the bridge collapse - you find a "bridge map" in the temple that causes Stanley to automatically bounce upwards when he steps on a bad bridge section. Also, there's a strength power-up southeast of the port that dramatically reduces the number of punches needed to defeat enemies.

I do love Arin's persistence in never trying to do anything different when he finds what he is currently doing doesn't work. You have to press B to make the grapnel latch on to a surface.

I don't expect them to play this again, probably, but this game seems pretty interesting to me

"Take my guff!" "One, two! Three, four! Five, six! Snake punch!"

god, I remember this game as a kid, I spent HOURS just wondering around lost, looking for any sort of clue or way forward.

Arin "How do you use the grapple?" Dan "Stand on the red rock" I love you guys

Dan is kinda bad at reading walkthroughs NGL. I googled this game and, within 15 seconds, found out how to use the Grapnel. It's literally in the same paragraph that he was reading everything else. Love ya, Dan, but you kinda dropped the ball here.

Why did they make a video game about Henry Stanley finding David Livingstone? So weird.

28:54 "you thoght this snake was a guff taker? well you're sadly mistaker" NO Dan! misnaken!

Dude... This game looks sick, dude. I'm sad I never heard of it.

Dan was in a singing mood and it's the best!

"Oh dude! THAT'S the 'Genesis Killer', Stanley!" lol

What I like about this game is that it is basically a testament to how games in our childhood (those of us old enough to remember NES and SNES anyway) did NOT hold your hand on anything and you just had to grin and bear it and just through sheer trial and error and a million deaths find your way through - not that there aren't difficult games now but back THEN it was totally different because you did not have the internet, you did not have anything or anyone to help you out at ALL unless maybe you called in to one of those hotlines that gave you a hint that MIGHT be helpful - and you had to hope your parents were willing to even let you make that one call - and even THEN there were just so many ways to die that you just HAD to power through a lot of games back then. A modern game would give you some indicator that this part of the bridge was weak - maybe it looks a little different or has bits crumbling off of it, but no, not back then. THEN we had to just take the L and plummet to our death and start again and try another tile. And you know what? SO much more satisfying back then when you DID finally beat a hard game. You really felt like you did that ALL by yourself - rather than just pulling out your smart phone and looking it up. You know how crazy of a realization it was when you FINALLY realized how to handle Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid? It was on the back of the case the WHOLE TIME but so many of us never realized it until we had almost driven ourselves crazy trying to figure it out (and while the internet was around this was early days yet, so sites were REALLY sparse and not terribly easy to find) If you're under 30 to 35 and don't remember these kinds of games, I invite you to do this to get the full experience of what WE went through: buy an old CRT TV set from like the early 90s if you can find one that still works. Buy an original NES console and connect it to your CRT TV. Buy a BUNCH of cartridges for that NES that still work. You are allowed one strategy guide for your favorite of the bunch but it has to be a physical PRINTED one that came out back then. Take your smart phone and any modern devices with ANY connection to the internet and put them in a bag and put them AWAY. To get the full experience, you can't use them - at all - not even once. No cheats or you didn't really experience it. Just plan for like ONE WEEK (or at least a weekend) where you are TOTALLY cut off from the internet - entirely. In fact, get rid of anything from your general area - certainly that room - that was made after, say, 1993. ONLY put things in there 1993 and before. Get some drinks, some snacks (ok, you don't have to try to eat early 90s snacks, you can get modern ones but get ones that were around in the late 80s to early 90s), and sit on the floor in a room lit only by the glow of that TV. Now spend a weekend or even a week JUST living like that. Just gaming. You're permitted a pen and paper to write down codes or map out levels. See you in a week. Return to this post and let me know how it was if this was your first time. How was it? Well....now you know. Now you know. ;)

Game: before you go west into the jungle, make sure to go north and get the grapnel Arin: grapnel, got it Game: don't forget the grapnel Arin:.... Game: DEFINITELY GET THE GRAPNEL Arin: where's the grapnel? Game: go north to get the grapnel, before heading west into the jungle Arin: INTO THE JUNGLE!!

"You want to get sued?" "Yes...Can you help?"

"GRAPNEL!" has the same energy as the "SHROUD!" from the Zelda CDi game.

this flood of 90s games is giving me so much life

Sounds looks like y'all need some save states. A lof to the difficulty on these old NES games was just that they required you to memorize the stage.

I had that propellor backpack boy!!! I never knew where it came from!! You unlocked memories I forgot about and showed me the origin of my favorite toy!!!

We definitely need a full playthrough of this!

18:15 "Ok cool" triggers Google assistant while watching on my phone 😆

I need a friendship like this.

🥺 my dog is named Stanley. I'm so proud. This is what he's always wanted. Dreams really do come true

I'm so glad you guys are playing games like these again, I feel it brings out the best in you both and the show

Well I'll say arin, and Danny are always a pleasure to watch

Wow this feeps like such a classic game grumps episode, slower paced, old but weird game, im liking it

Thank you for taking us back to 2014 Game Grumps with these old school games

Stanley, we'll remember the name. I think I speak for everyone when I say we need more of this series

1) Can't fault them for not knowing how to go north. 2) it's NES you have too look for slight detail changes. Such as on the bridge, the blocks with a rope (on it's right) were safe. 3) I love that Dan had an immediate audience member reaction of "Arin, of course you knew, it literally just happened!" 4) I'd love to see more of this one honestly. 5) Also, look at the temple on the map.

Actually really missing that Panic Restaurant playthrough now. That game was so hilarious and so jolly

Thanks for bringing this game to my attention. Never heard of it. after the video i grabbed the game and started playing it myself. This game is the definition of hidden gem. Hopefully the grumps come back to this game cause I feel like they would have a lot of fun and its not too hard compared to most games on the NES library. crossing the bridge is very cryptic though. You have to crawl across and your guy will automatically hop over the parts that fall out. I hope the grumps get this information and give the game another shot. Also the grapnel is hit and miss where you can use it, but to actually use it you have to be standing a space away from the ledge you want to try and hook it to and hold the buttons down until you reach the platform you climb up to. assuming its a ledge that the grapnel can even hook onto.

From the title alone, I know this will be good.

Dan is so bad at reading a walkthrough lmao

Hey help the grumps see this, the incase they didn’t figure out the bridge during this recording session, the ropes mark where the bridge goes out, 1st hanging rope under the bridge to the second is out, 2nd to 3rd is ok, 3rd to 4th is out and so on with all the support beams being ok no matter what.

Game music at 8:09: Da da da-da da-da Me: "Charge!"

34:35 I feel like arin crouch punching that guy yelling "remember the name" could be an animated lol

18:42 "Stanly in intimately getting to know different parts of the same bridge for 20 minutes."

It's the great big book of everything with everything inside! See the world around us, this books a perfect guide!

I love seeing Daniel and Arnold play vidia gums.

13:49 "the one you knew!-" lmao

I'm OK with this game being a one off Also: looks like AVGN on the cover.

13:36 🎶"Come on Stanley, you can do it..."🎶

I love that no one comes here for amazing gaming skillz, but to just listen to these two friends have an experience together and ARIN READ AND UNDERSTAND WORDS FOR GODS FUCKING SAKE!!

Anybody else OVERJOYED that they're playing more miscellaneous one-offs? Something about the dynamic is just 🤌🤌🤌

I friggin swear my dude, these guys have a psychic connection to me or something. I swear I was just singing both welcome to the jungle and holy diver today. This keeps happening with just the most random crap. I'll say something, think about a meme, or sing something to myself and later it's in the video. I might just be watching too much grumps. Maybe i shouldn't fall asleep listening to 12 hours of game grumps.

I believe in you please keep Stanleying you can do it Stanley like you have never before..

So as a child you play this game for weeks or months to beat it an Stanley finally finds his man and just say, "Dr. Livingston I presume. " then fade to black. Very satisfying.

Something about this games animation is actually kind of charming

Having never played Stanley before I've learned two things from this playthrough. One: the bridge tiles only collapse when he stops moving on them. Two: the grapnel will almost certainly work if he attempts to use it on the rock tiles but also tries using a button to grab with it.

I was prepared for this to be a “mysterious game” Arin “bought online.”

Hey I'm Stan. I'm also Stan! Staaaaaaannnnnnnnnn...

I'm not convinced this is a bad game, sorry. This looks pretty dope. Finish Bee Movie: The Game.

More old games please! They're my favorites even if they're only 1-2 episodes. :)

Arin: lets see if they have indicators for the safe spaces on the bridge Doesn't look for the indicators on the bridge.

YES! Dan sings Dio again! What a glorious day!

Arin and Dan should play though all of "the Stanley Parable"

What about DOS games? Like; Captain Comic; Halloween Harry; Biomenace; Commander Keen; Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure; Duke Nukem (you guys didn't finish the second game on steam train); Quadrilian; Mutant Space Bats; Downland; Trafic Patrol; and Hugo's House of Horrors. Most of these can be found on shareware/abandonware sites. I think you'll enjoy most of them, especially Hugo.

This game seems wildly ambitious for its time, and that’s rad!

And here we see Arin being his true self, “The Video Game Boy”.

9:34 I love that Dan sings holy diver by dio i was listening to that song just before I watched this video. SPOOKY

"This is your kampf" I almost spit out my drink

Afternoon everyone ☺️

Stanley and the adventures of crossing the bridge!

This definitely looks like an ambitious game. I think I would have loved it as a kid.

i have really enjoyed these older video games episodes. :)