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Creepy

Mr. Mix

Creepy

Jon Grilz

Fiction, Arts, Performing Arts, Drama

4.45.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

How far can you get?

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Presented by The Orphans podcast found at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-orphans/id1155883792?mt=2

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Sound Design by Zachary Fortais-Gomm

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Title music by Alex Aldea

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Intro/Outro Narration by Joe Stofko



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0:00.0

This is creepy.

0:08.0

A podcast dedicated to sharing the most famous chilling and disturbing creepy pastures

0:16.6

and urban legends in the world.

0:19.0

Whether these stories truly happened or simply fabrications is for you to decide.

0:27.0

These stories may contain graphic depictions of violence and explicit language.

0:33.0

Listen to discretion is advised.

0:38.0

Mr. Mix.

0:40.0

Does anyone remember an old PC game from the early 1990s called Mr. Mix?

0:45.0

It's mainly a typing game, similar to Mario Teaches typing where you have to type words into a box to make a chef

0:52.0

that titular Mr. Mix put ingredients into a bowl.

0:57.0

Unlike most typing games, however, this game is notorious for having an insane difficulty curve.

1:04.0

The game has a words per minute requirement for each level, being as low as 10 on level 1 and as high as 85 on the third.

1:12.0

By level 5, the requirement reaches over 500, effectively making it impossible to proceed any further.

1:19.0

One of the main things to be promoted about this game immediately was the background music.

1:24.0

The music on the first level was an unsettling paradigm, which was how old,

1:28.0

sick of progressively louder as the level went on, often causing damage to early computer speakers

1:33.0

and were not designed to handle extremely high volumes of sound.

1:37.0

The second level had no music at all, and the third had what sounded like an extremely low-quality recording of a hair dryer playing in the background.

1:46.0

The main two levels had extremely loud high-pitched ringing throughout the level that caused severe eardrum damage to those who managed to get that far.

1:56.0

Another rather disturbing aspect of the game was the design of Mr. Mix himself.

2:02.0

He was a large, round-faced, overweight man with large, bitty eyes and red spots on his cheeks.

2:09.0

Most children who played the game reported that in vivid nightmares, Mr. Mix,

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