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Today we're talking about the absolute classic animated series, Courage the cowardly dog.

This thing was pure nightmare fuel, bottled up an IV directly into kids eyeballs back in the late 90s.

Now I want you to open your mouth and say a.

If you aren't familiar with it the show is about an elderly couple sweet Muriel and Grumpy Eustace, who lived near the fictional town of Nowhere, Kansas, with their easily frightened dog courage.

Every episode the three would end up encountering all sorts of horrors ranging from spirits, aliens, monsters, even terrifying relatives.

Alone was I with tender courage, and all his fur is furry forage, which I say did encourage me to be quite naughty Courage. created Premier on Cartoon Network. And even though it ended years ago, it's still kicking around.

Last year, a game designer named Nathan Gabriel went online to claim that he had found an old

hard drive at a yard sale, containing the only known copy of a Courage game for the PS1 a game that went unfinished and

unreleased. Ladies and gentlemen we got ourselves the classic creepy pasta story.

Boy goes to yard sale, boy finds haunted game, scares ensue. Rather than release 24 Let's Play's here on YouTube,

Nathan and his partner Chico Games decided to pull together the assets

they found and put it all on Itchio for everyone to experience.

But before even hopping into the game I did some research.

Even though Courage seemed like the perfect cartoon to turn into a video game back when

every successful show had its tie-in, Courage only ever got a few browser games.

No official standalone title was ever planned.

So with my theorist senses tingling,

I decided to give it a go on GT Live.

I don't buy that for a second.

So I was gonna say, if it's on Ichio I don't know okay we'll see we'll see I have a feeling that this is something more than what it seems.

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