Memories of ODDWORLD

[Jbot123]

This is where you can share memories about Oddworld. They can be happy, sad, weird, or funny. How you were introduced to Oddworld is an example.

It was a sunny day in Arizona. I was sitting at the kitchen counter, eating a microwave waffle, when I noticed something in the pile of mail we had received. It was a crisp copy of that month's issue of Nat Geo Kids magazine. (the magazine that has nothing to do with geography). I slowly opened it up, expecting a envelope full of Animal Jam trading cards, and I saw a photo of Munch, Abe, and some fuzzles standing on a pile of mutilated interns. I stared directly at Munch. I screamed in terror and quickly turned the page. I never heard or saw Oddworld again until about two years later, when I played Munch's Oddyssey at my relative's house. I was a fan after that.

[Connell]

My dad got a Playstation One for Christmas, must have been '97 or '98, he also got Exoddus. I was brought up from about 4 or 5 years old watching him play, and naturally when I could play Playstation to a respectable standard I stole all his Tomb Raiders, Tekkens and the one with the funny blue guy I'd grown up next to. Literally I can't remember life where I didn't know who Abe was. Two of my earliest memories of being alive are Feeco Depot. and one of the Paramite chambers.

Found out I was playing the sequel when I was about 10 and acquired a copy of Oddysee. A fond memory I have is the first time I reached the Stockyards, and noticing the Mudokon in the pen with the Scrab and shitting myself as I didn't have a clue how to save him.

Also remember when I was about 12 going on a family day trip into to the city (I'm from the deep southern countryside of England) and going into the Game shop and seeing Abe on the xbox and having a fit because I had no idea any other Abe games existed. Then it was shit and I was so disappointed. Even before I was such a hardcore Abe fan I thought it sucked.

Also had a mint condition copy of Oddworld Adventures II when I was younger, many car trips enjoyed playing that beast. Thought it was great at the time.

[Vyrien]

I got a PS1 for my 6th birthday (I think) which came bundled with Oddysee and Spyro 2.

Ahh sweet nostalgia

[Steamer_KING]

When I got a PS1, when I was about 6 years, a special disc came with it.


So, I just played all the games it had, but when I reached Abe's Oddysee I was scared. I thought it was a game of terror. But after one or two tries, I fell completely in love with the game. I purchased the GT edition, but somehow lost it, so got a Infrogames Edition of it for 5 bucks. Great deal. Few months after that, I got a demo with Exoddus. Loved it even more! But didn't had the full game until some years later, when I was about 14, a friend of mine gave it as a birthday present and Korn's "Take a look in the mirror" disc. Man, that summer was one of the best summers I ever had. When I play the game I remember the music and when P play the music, I remember the game. And because I really like Oddworld, I play Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus at least one time per year. It's a tradition now.

[Crashpunk]

I remember this really well, which is surprising cause my memory is shite.

My memories of Oddworld actually began after I first started playing games. My Uncle is a big gamer so when the PS2 was announced, he decided to give his old PS1 to me. It came with Crash Bandicoot 1 and 2, Spyro 2, Tomb Rader 1-3 and... Abe's Oddysee.

I played the Crash and Spyro games first but never really touched AO or Tomb Rader. I remember messing about with the menus, but that's about it. Perhaps I got distracted when I got a Game Boy Colour, I remember playing Pokemon Gold non-stop for ages.

It wasn't until my other Uncle gave us a few games for our new family PC I played Oddworld for the first time. (He gave us Abe's Exoddus plus a few other games I can't really remember). I tried playing Abe's Exoddus alone but it scared the living SHIT out of me. I've already told stories about the game scaring me as a kid, long story short, I got nightmares.

So I told my Dad this and we decided to play though it together as we were both interested in it. -like a little project. We worked as a team to complete the game, I thought of different ways you could save the Mudokon or get past a part ect. whilst my Dad actually played the game. It took us many months to play but we eventually completed it with the Good ending.

After we finished it, we then realized we had Abe's Oddysee on the Playstation! completely forgot all about it! So me and my Dad did the same thing, we played though it together. It took us much longer than Abe's Oddysee due to the fact we couldn't Quicksave plus my dad was really used to the PC controls. Anyway, we did in the end. We didn't get the good ending though.

A few years later (around 2006-2007), I replayed the games on my own and that's when I got really into the series. I then joined the Oddworld forums back in 2008.

I still own my original copies of AO and AE, in really good condition too.

I owe my uncles and my dad for getting me into Oddworld as well as Gaming, If it wasn't for them, I might not of got into Oddworld at all. :O

-Oh yeah, My uncle who gave the PS1 got an Xbox around christmas time and I remember him playing Munch's Oddysee. I was blown away seeing Abe in 3D.

[STM]

I didn't actually get a PS1 until sometime between September 2004 and May 2005, I know this because I remember a girl in my class telling me her Mum had given my Mum her brother's old PS1 and I spent the next few minutes following her around asking whether or not she was bull-shitting me. XD

Turns out she wasn't and later that day I sat down and got into a game of Premier League Stars. That PS1 sort of broke but my Uncle who was a bit of a gamer, gave me his PS1 and a huge bundle of games sometime in 2005 - 2006. I played Abe's Oddysee for the first time the evening he brought all that over. I loaded up his memory card save which was on that early screen in Rupture Farms with the sleeping slig and the mudokon scrubbing the wall. I had no idea how to play so I didn't touch it for another couple of weeks.

Sure enough I eventually fell in love with it and put Abe's Exoddus on my Christmas list for years to come - of course I only got it when we got the first family computer and internet for it in 2007.

Oddworld Forums was one of the first websites I ever went on and it was here I think I found out about Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath. I'm pretty sure I got those games in 2010 when I bought an Xbox just to play them.

Gooooood times.

[Sidewinder Fang]

I remember playing the ps1 AO demo back in the day, and that I thought all the mudokons were called Abe, trying to get past the end alive, etc.

[Jordan]

i can't exactly remember the first time i actually played oddworld, i think it was some time when i used to go to my cousin's house to play on his PS1. actually, it was more a case of me watching him play on it. i watched him play worms, tomb raider, oddworld, and some other games. i was always intrigued by oddworld and had seen it several times going to people's houses. eventually, when i was about 7 my dad took me to a game/vhs rental store and i saw abe's exoddus sitting there in a basket of games that were on sale. i begged him for it, he got it for me and i absolutely fell in love with it. i'm pretty sure it was the game that got me into a habit of staying up late playing video games all night. it still scared the shit out of me though.

[Jbot123]

It's always that crazy uncle with the hand-me-down games, isn't it?

[DarkHoodness]

Heh, this has turned into a "How did you become interested in Oddworld?" thread. Some interesting stories here - Funny that most people seem to have been given AO when they were young rather than buying it for themselves, and that it turned out to be very influential for them.

My story:

I was staying with my cousin back in 1998. I was 11. We went round one of his friend's houses, and they were both looking through what was on a PS1 demo disk. One of the demos was for Abe's Oddysee - I watched them play through it thinking that I hadn't ever seen a platform game that looked anywhere near as good, or as fun (I grew up with PC DOS games and wasn't familiar with consoles). In fact that may have been the first time I saw a Playstation 1 in action, I can't remember.

Two years later in 2000 I had a friend who wanted to lend me the PC version of Abe's Oddysee. Recognising it, I accepted that offer. Unfortunately his and my parents fell out and so I lost contact with him... Effectively I stole his game. :S But I still have the CD and still use it 13 years later every time I want to give AO a replay.

In 2001 I found Infrogame's "Replay" re-release of Abe's Exoddus (PC) for £10 in Electronics Boutique. Bought it along with Worms Armageddon with some pocket money I saved. I remember re-reading the info on the back of AE's box while on the train home from town and being really excited to play it. Heh.

Both games helped me through some weird times that I had around the early 2000s, mostly involving a housing development being built over some local woods and being involved in the protest to try and stop it from happening. I remember going out to do petty sabotage on construction equipment late on moonlit nights while avoiding the security guards (minor stuff, I was too chicken to do any real damage), feeling a little like Abe going through the Stockyard levels. Fun times.

[Steamer_KING]

I remember going out to do petty sabotage on construction equipment late on moonlit nights while avoiding the security guards (minor stuff, I was too chicken to do any real damage), feeling a little like Abe going through the Stockyard levels. Fun times.

[Nepsotic]

Someone gave me their old.playstation along with a shitload of games. I always used to play the racing games with dad and sometimes spyro etc. Until he found AO in the box with a broken case. He told me it was really good but I wasn't too impressed. Soon I played it with him and then never stopped. The best memories I have is playing Abe with My dad. It makes me sad really, I wish we'd play it more often but we haven't in about 5 or 6 years.
Such good times, and funny. We used to get stuck on certain levels and I remember once he kicked My moneybox out of the window by accident.
We used to call the mudokons 'mudikons'.
My dad used to play them with My brother (who isn't My dad's son) when I was a Little baby too.

[Connell]

My uncle raped me and gave me Oddworld games if I promised not to tell anyone.

[Varrok]

Your stories are very moving, guys

[skychase2rebirth]

In 2000 or 2001, a family friend lend us all of his "Official Playstation Magazine" demos and one of them had Abe Exoddus on it. My brother tried it and bought the game on pc. When I saw the sligs, fell in love with the game. I had a hard time finishing the game because I always did the puzzles in weird ways (mostly based on luck), I didn't know about quicksave and how to start rolling while running. (so many deaths in Bonewerkz executive office). When I saw the backstory in AE, I bought AO and loved it. Finally knowing what was behind the Rupture Farms door in Feeco, totally worth the 15$ it cost me. And when I found Paul's level editor, I have fulfilled a childhood dream and created my own levels.

tldr; Oddworld=Happiness.

[Slog Bait]

I was born and then Oddworld happened and I have never been the same.

[Sidewinder Fang]

I think that goes for everyone on this forum.

[Vyrien]

Apart from OANST

[STM]

Fuck Oddworld, I came for the boobs.

[Jordan]

Fuck Oddworld, I came for the boobs.

you came to the wrong place

all you're getting is jiggly bits of flesh that resemble boobs

[STM]

OANST used to have boobs. =(

[Steamer_KING]

OANST used to have boobs. =(

Here, have some:


Now, go play with yourself or somethin'.

[Bullet Magnet]

Impending back pain is so hot.

[Scrabaniac]

Ive recently had my first tattoo, which is a tribal version of the oddworld inhabitants logo.

[Jango]

Nice thread btw

I was only four years old when I first came across Oddysee, back in 1999. Me and my brother used to watch our mum play the demo version (just like on the video above), and used to get her to play it again and again for over a year because we loved it and didn't know how to play ourselves. During this time I went to nursery school and can distinctively remember drawing pictures of Abe and making collages of him too, out of these green/blue sticks. Me and my brother used to also play what we called: 'Abe's Oddysee: Around the house', where one of us would be Abe, and the other would be a mudokon, and we'd pretend to be going around RuptureFarms, saying "Hello" and "Follow Me" - in the house IRL. We would also sometimes stick broccoli or chips up our nostirls when eating dinner and talk like Abe. Looking back, I can't believe it had such a huge impact on me when I was only four or five years old!

We found and bought the full game when I was about 8 or 9, and played through the levels, but got stuck after the Stockyard Escape. We played again when I was about 11, but got stuck again - in Scrabania this time. Then when I was 14 we decided to give it another go, and completed the game in a few weeks (but got the bad ending). I really loved it, and we found out about Exoddus so bought that and completed it that summer (2009), and got the bad ending. This was where I joined the forum, because I really wanted to start making my own levels and loved the RuptureFarms levels to bits. (To the point where I could draw a map of ALL the RuptureFarms Zulags from MEMORY, with every single item etc. in the correct position).

Since then, I've got all 99 and 300 mudokons on both games and have made the Level Variations Thread - which has proved pretty popular. Me and my brother haven't touched any other Oddworld game, in fear it will be disappointing and not like the old ones. It's interesting how early all you guys came across Oddworld, it seems like a game that many people ended up coming across from a really young age, and have loved it since!

[Jbot123]

When Conker's Bad Fur Day had a huge effect on my early childhood. You can probably imagine that my parents weren't pleased.

[Nate]

When Conker's Bad Fur Day had a huge effect on my early childhood. You can probably imagine that my parents weren't pleased.

And how is that relevant to the 'Memories of ODDWORLD' thread?

[Jbot123]

*sigh* It is in no way relevant to this thread Mr. Nate sir. It won't happen again. (please don't punish gryffindor because of me) E: I meant to say Oddworld. I was just being brain dead. Sorry.

[LawgSkrak]

My uncle raped me and gave me Oddworld games if I promised not to tell anyone.

I probably shouldn't have laughed at this.

But I did.

[JennyGenesis]

Demo 1. I really don't need to say anything else.

But as for Exoddus, I randomly wandered into Electronics Boutique (That's what Game was called back then) one day and saw loads of copies sitting on a big shelf right by the entrance, I begged my grandparents to let me have it and they bought it for me, I assume that Exoddus was not out for long at that point.