Just a friendly day at the skatepark.

You know.. before I spun the wheel this next go around, in the back of my mind I was like... I hope it doesn't give me The Backrooms 1998... and then it gives me The Backrooms 1998. No seriously does Mr. Wheel have a grudge on me?

Some may say I am a mentally strong man... Some may say I have balls... the harsh truth? I have no balls. XD! No jumpscare mode for me please! So we jump in and the game starts with an old tape recording. Seems like some old family videos. Either a compilation or it was overwritten by your 90s teen boy recording his friends at a skatepark. Not too long in and our protagonist on a skateboard himself trips down and goes right through the ground into what we know as... the backrooms. Stunned he held on to his camera. The first room we end up in has a vent, chair covered in a cloth, rug, our skateboard, oh and a shit load of bugs too. Anyways I get moving forward. The first few rooms are more the tutorial area. Getting me familiar with game mechanics. I find a drawing of what looks to be a hooded figure with no face. On the back is a message. A very... disturbing one. Perhaps it's a distress message? A young kid going to see a friend just to be kidnapped or trapped? I don't know. Either way, it is definitely disturbing. I find an anglehead pocket flashlight which will definitely come in handy. I have to be careful with it though. It tuns on batteries. There's a door that's boarded up. I need to find something to help me get rid of the planks. Some very... VERY light crates block another door. After going through it and a brief exploration, I find a crowbar. Very very convenient. And an extra battery for my flashlight. I pull off the planks and get through the next door. My camera flashes and... yeah you know? I think I'm good... I think I should stop here... but I don't I move on. There's a door that has.... a lot of arrows pointing to it... I think it's trying to tell me to go in. I can't. The door is locked. XD! Moving on, there's a small room holding... what looks like... I don't know... a piano? It's hard to tell as it's covered by a cloth. There's a small hole I can crouch through. Also arrows pointing to it. Going through it, there are some lockers I can hide in... oh fuck I can hide in lockers. I'm trying to find out where a nearby noise is coming from. There's a radio playing some... not very settling music. To the left is an image of a young boy with his face censored out. Seems like this was a picture of a boy named Thomas. On the back is a note saying "Thomas when he was younger with his favorite jacket after eating lunch. So happy! - Love you x".

Are we Thomas? Is Thomas the individual who got trapped in his friends house? Is Thomas alive? That is the big question of them all. Despite me turning the radio off, it seemingly turned itself back on once I got away from it... why did mr. wheel pick this fucking game? Further ahead lies a room containing a small little tricycle. That seems to be it. Sometimes it's the simpler things that creep you the hell out. But nothing is more creepier than a plastic fetus doll with its umbilical cord on it... my camera glitches out again. I just so badly want to close this game and play... I don't know at this fucking point a My Little Pony flash game. XD! I see a faint figure in the distance... fuck I don't want to get close to that thing. But thankfully it seems like there is no threat. All it is is a mannequin. Lots of them... a lot of... naked... female... mannequins... Hey yeah so it's a matter of time before my Twitch page is banned. XD! Seems like one of the lights in the mannequin room has uh... had a better day. Moving past through the next open door is... well I've seen more disturbing dolls... I mean this one only has a soulless face, a very... uh... dark chest and... 2 long spider leg looking arms and no legs. Yep. I've seen creepier. Another small area has a desk holding a door key I can use to unlock the door with the arrows pointing at it. Of course not before the creepy doll gets sent off into space with its seat blasted across the hallway, the mannequins getting their heads chopped off, the mannequin light blowing up, the tricycle moving on its own, the radio playing a news report about... a... gruesome discovery of Thomas...oh... maybe he didn't make it. A bookshelf falls over just as I am walking back under the small hole I can crouch through. Thankfully I am still able to get through even with the hole being partially covered. I make it to the door with the arrows pointing and... someone is on the other side of it... can I stop playing now? No? (sigh)... fuck me... once I do open it, it seems like whatever was there is now gone. But what is there? A giant WUSSY message... okay... fuck you too game. XD! And now there's a bunch of drawings all over the wall. It seems like I am not alone here... there's something waiting for me. Hence the warnings on the wall. I have to be... very silent. I pick up a spray paint gun. Perhaps I can use this to warn other visitors dare they get down here too.

There's a nice blank canvas for me to which I make a very... innocent looking smiley face... looking back now... it's not very innocent. More very... very disturbing pictures and messages are written on the wall. Essentially... I have to be quiet and hide... oh that sounds like a lot of fun. I do my best to stay as low as i can. It's very dark. Hell even my flashlight ain't doing a lot of work. After stepping on some glass despite trying to avoid it, all I can do is just follow the arrows and move forward. I can peek left and right... though I don't think that helps me a whole lot. It's hard to see where I am going. My guy continues to talk as I move forward... like dude! Shut up! After hearing... a very... demonic cry... I'm like... maybe I should just keep the game paused for the next half hour of my stream and call it a day! But for some fucking reason... I keep the ball rolling. despite me having no balls. XD! I decide to leave a... heartwarming message on the wall. Just in case anyone else ends up here. I want them to know... despite us never meeting... that it was nice knowing them. I put the fresh battery in my flashlight... oh boy either I have to hope I find another extra battery somewhere or preserve this one like hell. Another one of those creepy face drawing can be seen at the end of the hallway with a fake door to the left... well shit where do I go? Back I guess. Going back, I notice an opening that... didn't seem to be there before... either I missed it or that just showed up. Once again this new path ends in a dead end with one of those creepy face drawings. So back again I go. Very back... so far back that I feel like I am going too back. Did I miss a turn? Am I going the right way? I go back to where the glass was and stepping it makes something fly right in front of my face... I am stunned I haven't had a fucking heart attack at this point. I hide in a locker as a subtle noise can be heard from the distance... I don't know what drugs I have been taking to convince myself to move on. There's a couple more boarded up doors. The first one provides a door key under a very... lovely picture of a... dark... silhouette. The 2nd door has the same picture but no item. At this point I get... a little too curious. I thought from what I... uh... thought... that items acted as save points. So after picking up the door key I went back to the main menu thinking I had a save point.

Turns out, that was a shit bad idea. Come to realize items do not act as save points. And I had to start over from the beginning. If you watch the VOD on the NeedNoVODs channel when it gets uploaded, it'll look like as if I didn't restart at all. You're welcome. XD! So I approach the bloody doors and uh... well let's just say everyone's nightmares in one comes out of it. Oh yeah I forgot. This is the backrooms. XD! I am able to hide through a locker. Not knowing if I am safe... I know whoever else was there wasn't. I wait for that thing to get the fuck away before I can move onward. But alas... seems like it stayed near. But hey... I did find out how you save the game! There are these VHS players you can use once and only once. But that's all you need really. Unfortunately I used it at a HORRIBLE time. As the moment I reload my save, I am dead. Talk about just every fucking thing going horribly wrong for me. So I have to restart again. This time I do show my whole rerun in the recorded VOD. It doesn't take me long however to get back to where I was. Despite being cautious, that monster comes back after me. I have to fucking bolt like hell to safety. You know as I hear the monster chasing me... I can hear a child crying in agony. Has this monster somehow... attached itself to Thomas? Despite the health loss, I am able to safely this time make it to the VHS player and save my game and also exit the fucking game.

And now I can sleep.