History VideoGame / Shipwrecked64

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: One of the levels is helping Bucky's friend Olive finish the "punishment" the wolf has assigned to her for disturbing his peace by collecting a bunch of coconuts while timed. If the player punches Olive during this segment, the timer skips ahead ten seconds per hit. [[spoiler:Repeatedly failing the level this way plays the victory cutscene, but it glitches out so the artifacting creates the face of the Olive Otter "Starling" looking straight at the player.]]

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: In the neutral ending of the game, the gang offers Chief Wulf a chance to escape the island with them, but he refuses because the rest of the wolves can't fit, and he would rather die with his people than abandon them.. [[spoiler:The good ending addresses his concerns with a bigger boat.]]

* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Brandon Lester (The "Bucky Beaver" Starling) kills Gary Wilson by slamming his head into a microwave, then shoving his face onto a burning stove.]]

* EverybodyDiesEnding: In the worst of the MultipleEndings, the volcano erupts, and everybody on the island is killed. You get this ending by either [[JustBeforeTheEnd letting the five days run out]] or [[NonStandardGameOver failing the volcano stage]].

* SpitefulSuicide: [[spoiler:Conner commits suicide as a final act of petty spite towards Mark, putting the full blame for everything terrible that went on behind the scenes onto him.]]

''Shipwrecked 64'' is a [[HorrorVideoGames Horror]] PlatformGame by Squeaks D'Corgeh, first released for PC on July 16, 2022. Ostensibly, it was not meant to be a PC game; it was originally an incredibly rare Platform/Nintendo64 game that "soft launched" in 1997, developed by Cogware Games as part of a partnership with the Broadside Animation Studio. After obtaining one of the only remaining copies via an online seller named "Daniel", a team known as the Shipwrecked Recovery Crew (SWRC) created a custom emulator in order to experience the game in its true state, and [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame uncover the dark secrets lurking within its code]].

''Shipwrecked 64'' is a [[HorrorVideoGames Horror]] PlatformGame by Squeaks D'Corgeh, first released for PC on July 16, 2022. Ostensibly, it was not meant to be a PC game; it was originally an incredibly rare Platform/Nintendo64 game that "soft launched" in 1997, developed by Cogware Games as part of a partnership with the Broadside Animation Studio. After obtaining one of the only remaining copies via an online seller named "Daniel," a team known as the Shipwrecked Recovery Crew (SWRC) created a custom emulator in order to experience the game in its true state, and [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame uncover the dark secrets lurking within its code]].

* UnwinnableByDesign: Fail at the tasks in the 1997 version too many times, and they become impossible; in Olive's, the coconuts and trees disappear. In Giovanni's, the stoves ignite almost immediately. And in Walter's, the hook will snag Bucky whether he moves or not. [[spoiler:Played with, as these are part of the steps to access the secret route of the game.]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Though not entirely wrong to be upset at Mark over his treatment of "Shipwrecked", Connor seriously swung below the belt by outright mocking his wife's terminal cancer out of spite towards him.]]

---> ''"Are you paying attention? Hello? You're just skipping past all of these, aren't you? You're as inconsiderate as I remember."''

* ImmortalityImmorality: The true motivation behind the [[spoiler:Starling Project, which Broadside Animation spearheaded.]] With Rex Broadside's passing, the company he founded was desperate to outperform Disney, [[spoiler:and they sought to bring Rex back from the dead so that they could benefit from their founder's creativity.]] To that end, the Starlings were an [[spoiler:experimental form of organic technology overseen by Mark Mullins, amounting to [[RevenantZombie Revenant Zombies]] made from the corpses of the deceased that were made to wear various Broadside mascot suits. Of the third generation of Starlings, Brandon Lester was the first to be transformed, before Olivia Finch, Gary Wilson, and Nathan Wilson followed suit after they were murdered.]]

* UnwinnableByDesign: Fail at Olive or Giovanni's tasks in the 1997 version too many times, and they become impossible; in Olive's, the coconuts and trees disappear, and in Giovanni's, the stoves ignite almost immediately. [[spoiler:Played with, as these are part of the steps to access the secret route of the game.]]

* DevelopersForesight: If you press the button too fast when speaking to Walter for the third time, [[WelcomeToCorneria when he repeats himself]], he gets annoyed with Bucky.
--> ''"Are you listening? Hello? You're just skipping past all of these, aren't you? You're as inconsiderate as I remember."''

* ShipwreckedOnAnIsland: As the game's title suggests, the surface plot is that Bucky and his friends crashed their boat on the island of Nulla Terra after some rough weather.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The ending for finding all of the demo's secrets finishes with someone recording their perspective as they jump off of a roof. The full game's ending reveals this person to be Connor Thomas.]]

* HauntedTechnology: Surprisingly, for a game with so many ominous glitches, [[spoiler:subverted. It turns out that nothing that occurs in the ''Shipwrecked 64'' game itself is paranormal; the presence of the Dwellers and various secrets found in the game were actually programmed in by Connor Thomas, who decided to use the game as an elaborate exposè of Broadside Animation and their Starling Project. This was in response to Mark Mullin rescinding funds for the game, in which Connor decided to take revenge by gathering Broadside company files that would reveal their entire sordid affair, shortly before committing suicide in 1997.]]

** [[spoiler:The Bucky "Starling," made from the body of Brandon Lester, murdered Olivia and the other residents that were then converted into the other HostileAnimatronics.]]

* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: [[spoiler:In one black and white clip, the Bucky "Starling" is seen bludgeoning a person to death with an office chair, complete with a GoryDiscretionShot.]]

* JumpScare: Hornz, the creature of the forest, will get up close and personal with the camera if it catches Bucky, [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment even in the otherwise-harmless 2023 mode]]. [[spoiler:The Starlings are also rather fond of doing this, both in cutscenes and during encounters, but at least they only show up in 1997 mode and the demo.]]

* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: The game doesn't try to directly harm the player, but there is a clear paranormal element in the "glitches" that reveal the truth behind the creation of Bucky and ''Shipwrecked'' itself.

* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Brandon Lester, as the Bucky Beaver Starling, carried out the murders of three Broadside Beach employees at the behest of Mark Mullins within the span of a few months; Olivia Finch was dragged outside her cabin and drowned in the lake, Gary Wilson was slammed against a wall and had his face burned by a fryer, and Nathan Stewart had his neck snapped and was beaten by an office chair.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The ending for finding all of the game's secrets finishes with someone recording their perspective as they jump off of a roof.]]

* GlitchEntity: It's abundantly clear that [[spoilers:the Dwellers]] are ''not'' supposed to be in the game world. They flicker in and out of existence, they can appear BehindTheBlack, and they have [[ArtStyleClash a dramatically different art style]].

* AssetActor: Most of the humans in the backstory have characters representing them 1:1. When they need to be depicted visibly, they'll share those characters' models.

* EverybodyDiesEnding: In the worst of the MultipleEndings, the volcano erupts, and everybody on the island is killed. You get this ending by either [[JustBeforeTheEnding letting the five days run out]] or [[NonStandardGameOver failing the volcano stage]].

The "original" game is currently available for download [[https://squeaksdcorgeh.itch.io/shipwrecked-64 here]]. A "restored" version was released on January 1st, 2024, and a Platform/{{Steam}} page for it is located [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2160220/Shipwrecked_64/ here]]. The Website/YouTube page of Squeaks D'Corgeh is located [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1mqBDuaWRPFUaHyZchR97w here]], which includes [[AnalogHorror various videos]] on a place called Broadside Beach that's directly linked to the "development" of ''Shipwrecked 64''. A Twitter account connected to the game is located [[https://twitter.com/64shipwrecked here]].

[[folder:Tropes for the "original" version]]

* AuthorAvatar: InUniverse, [[spoiler:Chief Wulf is Connor Thomas.]] In an EasterEgg, he drops the pretense and uses his real name to speak to Bucky.

* DoingInTheWizard: Just for Walter's level. In the demo, it had an unseen force watching Bucky and abducting him if he moves in the dark. In the full game, he gets caught by the dam's security and pulled up by a fishing line.
* {{Expy}}: Rex Broadside to Creator/WaltDisney. Bucky was created in exactly the same way as Franchise/MickeyMouse, with his creator's previous creation (Broadside's ''Blot'', and Disney's ''WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'') being accidentally sold to a large company, devastating said creator and necessitating the creation of a new character, a rodent which would eventually prove a global phenomenon which included a successful theme park. The original lore even had Broadside die in 1968 like Disney, though that part was {{Retcon}}ned to have him die in the late eighties -- shortly before the major events of the backstory -- instead.
* ExpyCoexistence: Creator/{{Disney}} also exists in-universe, and Broadside Animation struggling to compete with them is part of the lore.

* IronicallyDisabledArtist: Stumbles O'Hare is a painter who somehow lost his hands. He's able to paint with his mouth, but Bucky has to help him keep his ink jar topped up and his canvas from falling over.

* CruelAndUnsualDeath: Of the [[spoiler:murdered Broadside Beach employees, Gary Wilson]] had arguably the worst death when the [[spoiler:Bucky Starling slammed his head against a wall several times before using a kitchen fryer to burn his face off.]]