The MARIO ARG/Creepypasta Fully Explained

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Published 2023-08-02
Over the course of a month and more, I have delved head-first into the mystery of the MARIO creepypasta of years yonder. What I didn't expect to find is that this rabbit hole would go down deep for 15+ years, involving several different rom hack copies of Mario World, scattershot internet references and web pages, and so much more.

What I found was a full-blown ARG, and one of the first of its kind - a video game alternate reality game.

I documented my process through 2 previous uploads you can watch right here:
Part 1:    • M A R I O - The Unsolved Mario ARG  
Part 2:    • The Mario ARG Has Finally Been Solved  

This video is simply me putting the both of them together, either for people who've yet to see either videos, or those who would prefer the experience to be consumed in 1 video. Enjoy!

All Comments (21)
  • @Tabby3456
    7 year old me: You're pointless MARIO: 39 buried... Zero found...
  • @pepperbee_
    Somehow M A R I O having homestuck gifs from 2011/2012 on his profile is understandable looking at the entire ARG they did. Same for My little pony gary's mod. Definately the type of individual to come up with this whole story.
  • @suly5836
    So in recap: A troll kid who really hated mlp (ironic cause he admits to be a brony) and TBBT, made a romhack for fun and started to make stuff up on the track; the entire story makes no sense, and was made to keep the attention of the ARG alive until he got bored and ditched the project entirely. For what it looks like, the romhack and the creator are now infamous around the forums from where it came out, if we tell by that pic depicting them as an idiot (or maybe it was just an angry anon, who knows).
  • @SpringDavid
    I just realized that "time?" on Luigi's rom is actually him asking about time. Like someone with dementia.
  • @ness6714
    The biggest "its just a prank bro" to have ever
  • @DeerLaloutus
    watching this reminds me of the godzilla NES Creepypasta, I remember first being introduced to it on a gmod roleplay server. Our friend convinced us to watch the full hour long reading and we all set up our couchs and other "chairs". That today is probably still my favorite Creepypasta, aswell as one of my favorite online memories.
  • @Judey_Toons
    This guy speaks like an arch nemesis on a phone call with you, telling you how to escape the saw trap.
  • @mothgardener9735
    petscop and amanda the adventurer being referred to as a creepypasta now [because the internet loves throwing the word creepypasta at everything over the years] apparently upsets me greatly arghghghhh petscop would be a unficton horror series[and is not a arg, despite what it is known as], and amanda would just be a horror game
  • @artemispage6405
    Hey Peter, I'm halfway through this, and I think this would be an apt time to mention that the line "20 percent cooler" is a reference to one of Rainbow Dash's more infamous quotes from My Little Pony. You mentioned this main guy posting MLP pictures in gmod, right.. I suggest you take a look at those, since he's now made a direct reference to that in the midst of the mayhem.
  • @Scarletx_
    The “icecreammonkeyfan” video is part of a separate arg by ChainmailChasers. I have seen multiple channels including blameitonjorge use this video as evidence when it’s just a horror project/arg that has nothing to do with the original. Just wanted to let you know.
  • @DomsDumpster
    the hey peter monologue bridge at 30 mins really stalls the entire video. just for constructive criticism, if you ever merge two videos again, you should cut something like that out and just seamlessly blend the two essays; a second video introduction in the middle of the video that we've already been watching for 30+ mins is not necessary. your viewers don't need to be reminded what they're watching and why it's so important that we continue to watch - we've been paying attention if we made it that far. all in all this is a good video though and you've done well keeping up with this ARG! im glad to finally see it laid to rest. good reporting, mate, keep it up.
  • @jujuatchuuu
    Even if the "ARG" went into nothing, it was pretty great too see you dig up smth from 15 years ago and make the ppl that where involved actually appear to comment on it, super cool
  • @thegoodoldays911
    Man I totally get feeling the need to preserve your memoriies. Memories make up almost the entirety of who we are so the prospect of losing them is scarier than any story.
  • @bigsalmon7973
    Dang, this really was a wild ride, it all seemed ao unconnected, but I like your interpretation, a bit of a bummer how it concluded the way it did, but there is some niceities knowing it has an end. An awesome video regardless
  • when he said i wanted to investigate a creepypastas from his childhood, that reminded me of a couple stories and creepypastas that i tried to find but i cant find but ik are real and i watched, one was about a weird farm games and its name or the game play was about theses cows that made weird star milk or something, in that video their were 2 other stories but i cant remember them, another one was called the mario death whistle. the short of it was that when the guy would play it at time mario would be kill and hooked i think after hearing a whistle, another one was about a kid who kept going from foster home to foster home and to choose the military or the McDonald foster home or something after sometime weird things started to happen and i cant really remember. what i do remember is that at the end the kid (teenager) was in an empty city and was raining and he was telling his story from a laptop he found sitting somewhere. the last one and the one i really wanna find is about this guy whos world started to get over run by this McDonald like company. what would happen is that people would eat the food that was described as looking like gross flesh and organs, and everyone loved it but not the narrator. the narrator said that they refused to eat it, as time when on people who kept eating it for some time would become so fat and big that their heads would come off and float and i think the body would explode. there was this whole thing about him going to the factory where they made the food but i dont really remember. at the end of the story the said that all of the food in the world become this flesh thing and that even in his house that was all that was left and he tried it and he said that it was the best thing he ever ate and it ends.
  • @arce5473
    me, not knowing about creepypastas and misreading the title, expecting to see a Mario Action-RPG game:💀
  • @Shenorai
    It's funny how a spooky game winds up leading to a sort of time capsule from the era.
  • @deoxisreign3319
    Thank you for deep diving into my two favorite Mario horrors