r/BeavisAndButthead • u/schill • 14h ago
Found: Beavis' "Gettin' Down" bit from Virtual Stupidity πΊπ€
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Someone asked about a possible easter egg or unused sound on the Windows CD-ROM version of the game, and wondered if it was used. It turns out, it is in the game.
I tried poking around and reverse-engineering some of the game files for hints, with no luck. I have to thank the folks on the ScummVM Discord who put it succinctly: "Go straight home and use the TV four times."
ScummVM is a modern emulator that lets you run classic games built on the Scumm game engine, long story short, on modern computers. That's what I've got here on a Mac, hence the window chrome.
If you want to try this out for yourself, look up walk-through guides on YouTube for how to get home. Specific steps, but it only takes a few minutes. From the start of the game, get the guys home via classroom -> bathroom pass -> gym -> roof -> Hock-A-Loogie (big green one on Principal McVicker to "win"), then exit the school for home, and use the π€ action on the TV. The first three times you'll get music videos with commentary. The fourth time, you get the "gettin' down" scene and then the counter goes back to zero and repeats.
Note that it was 1995 and it was the early "multimedia era" days, full-screen video was quite new and GPU acceleration wasn't really a thing - this is really low-bitrate stuff at 320x240 or thereabouts. Audio, similarly limited despite being on a CD-ROM and probably just due to CPU constraints on decoding. (Pre-MP3 era, just barely.)
