The Complete History of Five Nights at Freddy's 1

hey guys super horror bro mike here and in today's video we begin a new series on the channel as we return to the world of fazbear entertainment with a look at the history behind each and every mainline five nights at freddy's game last year i put together a detailed rundown of the animatronics inhabiting scott corfin's terrifying yet captivating universe and now we turn to the games themselves each episode will look at a particular game in this case the original fnaf and then touch on the following associated elements development history story and gameplay and finally easter eggs and secrets along the way i'll also sprinkle in a few interesting trivia facts too this will be a basic template for each episode of the series as we cover everything from the original fanaf all the way up to security breach when it arrives later this year so sit back relax and let's travel back in time to the year 2014 when a horror game legend was born [Music] in order to understand how five nights at freddy's came to be we first need to understand why scott caulfin is the creator and mastermind behind the entire franchise but while most of the internet knows him for his work in the horror genre it wasn't always like this force god he came from humble beginnings often working on independent games with wholesome family friendly values in fact corvin's very first game was a project affectionately titled doofus which he made as a teenager in the early 90s believe it or not this colorful and simplistic arcade game was made on click team fusion the same game engine as fanath would eventually adopt itself back then it was known as click and play from this kooky dino shooter scott would eventually move on to a series of games created via the use of pre-rendered visuals these include chipron sun's lumber company and desolate hope both of which were criticized for containing creepy animatronic-esque character designs despite being aimed at children especially true in the case of chipper fun fact scott kaufman created over 60 games before finally hitting mainstream popularity and acclaim with a five nights at freddy's franchise which he has focused on ever since so you could say by this point he had well and truly honed his craft now while these early days of struggling to create a successful game series may have looked bleak for scott the criticism he received about the rather creepy animations for his character renders in chipper and sons were in fact what led to fanaf's creation scott was reportedly ready to quit game creation altogether but decided to turn the criticism to his advantage and play to his strengths he would create a game where family-friendly mascots turned evil and scary animations were essential dipping his proverbial toe in the waters of a genre he'd previously shied away from horror games hence for birth for five nights at freddy's and it's cast of terrifying animatronics five nights at freddy's was first submitted to the steam greenlight program on june 13 2014 a kickstarter launched for following day but was cancelled soon after perhaps as scott realized he could get the game made with his own budget but a fun fact is before removing this funding campaign it did reveal an interesting tidbit about the central antagonist freddy fazbear he was originally simply to be called freddie bear a play on teddy bear alongside the steam greenlight page and kickstarter a trailer was also launched over on scott's youtube channel to give players a sneak peek at the concept for the game check it out [Music] fun fact you may have noticed foxy does not appear in this trailer and it is bonnie who runs down the hallway in his place now it could be that foxy was a late addition to the game or perhaps his model wasn't ready to show yet or the animatronic mechanics changed during development either way it's a cool little change that now remains exclusive to this trailer like many of scots early for naf games it didn't take long for the announcement of five nights at freddy's to the game's final release a demo launched on july 24 2014 and fnaf was greenlit and released on steam shortly after on august 18th of 2014 an android and iphone version came the same year on august 25th and september 11th respectively the game opened to massive success becoming an internet phenomenon and this was in some part due to the overwhelming support from the youtube community notable playthroughs from creators such as markiplier and pewdiepie added to the game's initial traction and over the following years fanaf transitioned from cult indie classic into one of the most popular horror game series of all time we've covered how fanaf came to be but maybe there are some of you out there in the audience asking well what is this game and what the heck is it all about in this section of a video i'll quickly answer those burning questions however it must be stated we will not dwell too much on speculation and theory talk that opens a whole can of worms and could lead to an entire video by itself instead we will focus on simply the information given to us by the game at the time of its release so here goes we take on the role of a mysterious security guard named mike schmidt a character since speculated to be michael afton this information is given to us upon the completion of the game where we see a paycheck featuring said name fun fact the amount on this payslip roughly corresponds to the going rate of pay back in 1993 so while we are not given a definitive year that fnaf takes place in we can speculate for mid 90s and given the decor and technology this seems accurate as the title suggests we work the night shift at freddy fazbear's pizza a sort of chuck e cheese type establishment fun for the whole family complete with bad food and even worse entertainment in the form of creepy singing animatronics however unlike chuck e cheese these particular robots are possessed by the spirits of several missing children and now roam the halls of a pizzeria by night looking to cram any humans they detect into endoskeletons as remarked by our only companion phone guy so just be aware the characters do tend to wander a bit uh they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night something about their servos locking up they get turned off for too long each of the five nights we spend at the pizzeria contain a phone conversation with this mysterious caller they start jolly enough but eventually devolve into something far more sinister and creepy hey do me a favor maybe you could check inside those suits back there fun fact phone guy is actually voiced by creator scott corfin himself and appears in several fanaf games as we will see as the series continues very little is known about phoneguy other than he is also an employee of fazbear entertainment and seems to meet a sticky end before our arrival the rest of the story is pretty vague and this has led to the creation of many fan theories which attempt to explain what exactly is happening here we now know the missing children referenced by newspaper clippings throughout the game were abducted and killed within the backroom of the pizzeria by william afton the man who designed and built the animatronics their spirits now possess afton hid the bodies of his victims inside these suits causing the children to bond with their animatronic coffins and then haunt for building by nightfall so the objective is to survive 5 nights with each becoming progressively harder to see through night shifts begin at midnight and end at 6 00 am successfully finishing a night results in the following sequence [Music] [Applause] despite five nights at freddy's difficulty being pretty brutal at times especially for new players who don't fully understand the mechanics the basic gameplay loop is very simple using the mouse we point and click our way around a camera security system accessed from a tablet in the security office this tablet can be used to keep track of the various animatronics making sure they aren't getting too close to our location if they do then we must use the electronic doors to the left and right of our room the wrinkle here is that we have a limited amount of power and with every action from checking cameras to boarding down doors our power meter gradually depletes this means we must only check up on the animatronics and safeguard ourselves when absolutely necessary otherwise the power runs down and freddy says hello once all five nights are complete a sixth and seventh night become available as bonus rounds these are extremely difficult and intended as super challenges for players who want a little more pushback from the game [Music] of course it wouldn't be a fanaf retrospective without a look at the animatronics themselves as previously mentioned i have put up a detailed look at each of these characters before but in the interest of keeping everything together in one place here is a quick recap of each [Music] chica is a yellow chicken sometimes confused as a duck she is always hungry for pizza and even carries a sweet treat known as mr cupcake on a tray as a sidekick of sorts however the cupcake only ever appears at the beginning of the night and is not an item chica brings with her while out hunting her bib reads let's eat again confirming her ravenous appetite during the day chica was the backup singer for the fazbear band as she states in her portion of the showtime song hey i'm chica the lady of the group my singing is a treat so sweet but keep an eye on your pizza because i'm a bird who likes to eat during each night chica will attack from the right side of the office she can often be heard clattering about in the kitchen which is a good way to detect her presence if we allow chica to reach the office and don't close the door before referencing our camera once more then the following jump scare plays out in terms of her origins chica's design seems to be inspired by chuck e cheese mascot helen henny this makes sense as the restaurant chain was a known influence for the fanaf games and so their characters naturally feed into this both helen henny and chica are backup singers in their respective bands some have also concluded that chica may have taken design cues from an early mcdonald's character called birdie the early bird there is certainly a similarity for sure another inspiration which seems very plausible is the character of chica from the chica show who is also an overtly happy yellow chicken [Music] bonnie is a purple rabbit who despite the name is indeed male as you can see from his instrument of choice bonnie is banned guitarist and proclaims as much in his showtime song bonnie's my name i'm hopping along the a cotton tail my guitar is blazing this rabbit's hair raising just listen to me whales take it bunny bonnie always attacks from the left side of the office moving gradually closer and often hiding in the nearby janitor closet if he manages to get inside the office bonnie will not immediately grant the player a game over screen rather he lays in wait until we bring up our tablet once more and then pounces with a following jump scare here are some facts about bonnie while developing the game scott corfin mentioned that bonnie the rabbit was his most feared animatronic in fact he even had nightmares about him this was mainly due to scott using bonnie as the placeholder jump scare for all characters in the early stages of development he even stated that he never really found the other three all that scary bonnie's origin is believed to derive from chuck e cheese's mascot mr munch and also guitarist jasper t jowls next up we have everybody's favorite pirate foxy a red fox with damage up and down his body revealing sections of the endoskeleton beneath foxy has a hook for a hand and wears an eye patch over his right eye unlike the other animatronics foxy doesn't roam around for pizzeria by night instead he peeks out from behind his curtain in pirate's cove and slowly creeps to the edge of his camera feed if we allow him to leave the camera then we must quickly close the door to the left of the office and switch to the hallway camera to send foxy back to his cove when switching to the left hall camera we see the freaky fox sprinting full pelt towards us something i personally have always found quite unnerving sometimes we can hear foxy singing a rather strange tune from behind his curtain take a listen it is unknown why this singing occurs making it all the more unsettling here are some foxy facts foxy was in large part a creation of one of scott's children according to one of scott's sons foxy was created during a road trip to visit family in new york scott would ask his children for input into the character's designs to add a little extra spookiness to them scott also added to these comments by suggesting the reason why foxy's body is so torn up was due to him being hard to model on a bumpy car ride who knows if this is true or simply a joke but it's undeniable that foxy's origins are interesting foxy is also the only character in fnaf history to date to not jump together player by attacking directly into camera instead appearing in the doorway in terms of inspiration free characters often attributed to foxy's design are chuck e cheese character foxy colleen showbiz pizza places ralph dewolfe and most notably the dastardly foxy loxie from disney's 1943 short animation chicken little [Music] the fourth animatronic is of course freddy fazbear himself star of the show at freddy fazbear's pizza as he moves about we can hear freddie making spine spine-chilling laughing sounds these are actually the sounds of a girl giggling but slowed right down [Music] freddie becomes active from knight free onwards and it is imperative we keep our camera on him as often as possible this is because freddy can only move when we aren't looking at him so regularly checking the camera feed is a good way to hold him back if freddie reaches the hallway outside of our office he will never leave meaning we must now keep the doors closed from this point on and most times this results in the power failing and a game over occurring freddie greeting us with the following scare there are several fun facts about freddy fazbear so let's list off a few quickly the music we hear while freddie patrols is a rendition of george byzette's torador song from the opera carmen [Music] freddy's appearance seems to take influence from both the 1977 classic version of chuck e cheese and showbiz pizza place mascot billy bob both wearing a hat and bow tie with similar coloration and of course lead members of the band freddie was of course the main singer while on stage [Music] got a hat and a big bow tie well i'm a big brown bear but don't be scared i'm a real fun-loving guy scott corvin originally planned for freddie to be far more elusive and mysterious only moving from the stage when the power went out completely however as development continued scott reevaluated the situation and decided he wanted to make freddy a far more prominent part of the adventure freddy will at times flash upon screen as the night guard experiences hallucinations during these hallucinations if we pause the action we see freddy has eerily realistic and bloodshot eyes you may notice freddy has faint handprints on his head and chin these are likely from the children of the pizzeria but could also be the bloody handprint of a child william afton stuffed inside freddie's suit a chilling force [Music] there is one last animatronic to cover one you might not ever see even if you've completed fnaf multiple times a yellow version of freddy known as golden freddy it is speculated that golden freddy contains the ghost of a young girl named cassidy yet another of william afton's victims in order to access golden freddy in the game we must be extremely fortunate or unfortunate depending on your perspective there is a 1 in 100 000 chance of spotting a golden freddy poster on the wall of hall 2b if we cite this poster cassidy can be heard laughing [Laughter] switch back to the office at this point and golden freddy will now be sat directly before us a spooky vision that insta kills the player unless we quickly bring the tablet back up and look away fun fact during one of fungi's conversations with the night guard he references a gruesome incident as for pizzeria known as the bite of 87. they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too but then there was the bite of 87. yeah it's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe so it's interesting to note that if we input the ai levels to 1987 on night seven then gold and freddie will jump scare us and crash our game [Music] this next section is dedicated to the secrets and easter eggs found throughout five nights at freddy's the first of these can be activated straight off the bat from the security office see the celebrate poster over here while clicking freddie's nose rewards us with a satisfying honking noise when switching to camera 5 the employees only room there is a 1 in 20 chance of the animatronic heads and endoskeleton all staring ominously into camera likewise when checking in on camera 1a the animatronic stage at the beginning of each night a rare instance sometimes triggers where all three robot critters become aware we are watching them and gaze right back at us every now and again when switching to certain cameras in the hallways of the pizzeria phantom posters will sometimes appear these display newspaper clippings which speak of a hidden backstory we touched on earlier involving william afton and to the missing kids there are four of these newspapers and they read as follows kids vanish at local pizzeria bodies not found two local children were reportedly lured into a back room during the late hours of operation at freddy fazbear's pizza on the night of june 26th while video surveillance identified the man responsible and led to his capture the following morning the children themselves were never found and are presumed dead police think the suspect dressed as a company mascot to earn the children's trust five children now reported missing suspect convicted five children are now linked to the incident at freddy fazbear's pizza where a man dressed as a cartoon mascot lured them into a back room while the suspect has been charged the bodies themselves were never found freddy fazbear's pizza has been fighting an uphill battle ever since to convince families to return to the pizzeria it's a tragedy local pizzeria threatened with shut down over sanitation local pizzeria freddy fazbear's pizza has been threatened again with shut down by the health department over reports of a foul odour coming from the much-loved animal mascots police were contacted when parents reportedly noticed what appeared to be blood and mucus around the eyes and mouths of the mascots one parent likened them to reanimated carcasses local pizzeria said to close by year's end after a long struggle to stay in business after the tragedy that took place there many years ago freddy fazbear's pizza has announced that it will close by year's end despite a long search for a buyer companies seem unwilling to be associated with the company these characters will live on in the hearts of the kids these characters will live on stay to the ceo what makes these reports creepier is another rare secret again a poster that can appear on the wall of camera 4a it shows a group of crudely sketched children all screaming and wide-eyed these are almost certainly afton's victims calling out from beyond the grave [Music] one final easter egg you might catch on the very same wall is the mysterious line it's me again this seems to be from the ghosts of a fallen children in particular the child trapped within freddy fazbear finally on rare occasions after receiving a game over screen or booting into the game for the first time we see an ominous face appear the face belongs to bonnie and sits on our screen for approximately 10 seconds before the eyes eventually light up we then find ourselves back at the main menu this super creepy easter egg is randomly generated and has only a 0.1 percent chance of appearing as we close the curtain on today's video let's take a moment to look at how five nights at freddy's has evolved after launching to date the game has become available on a variety of platforms outside of pc and mobile it was remastered by click team and launched on playstation 4 xbox one and nintendo switch where a new generation of players can now experience the animatronic terrors for themselves the franchise was also purchased for movie rights by warner brothers studios back in 2015 and since then bloom house productions have signed up to adapt it with a script currently in place and tentative movie release of 2022 scheduled there has also been a sea of toys books clothing and other merchandise too which is a testament to just how popular fanaf has become but more importantly there have been no less than seven more mainline games to date and these will be the topics of future videos as this new series continues but with that we have reached the end of today's video and this in-depth retrospective of the original five notes at freddy's game i hope you found this video both entertaining and informative remember to circle back in a few weeks for episode 2 where we'll dive into a fan favorite as we look as for nav 2. in the meantime if you did enjoy watching today please remember to hit that like button comment down below and of course subscribe for more horror related content thanks for watching and i will see you on the next [Music] video you

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Length: 26min 18sec (1578 seconds)

Published: Mon May 03 2021