You see an old movie projector set up in the middle of a carpet, it's directed toward a frayed canvas. There are a few film reels on the ground, not very well organized. The cutrains are pulled shut to darken the place. You look behind one, but you only see a bare brick wall. The smell of popcorm fills the place and there are some unpopped kernels in the carpet.
You have no idea how to operate this thing, but there is a handy step-by-step manual pinned to the canvas.
The first few videos are jr's playthroughs of ZampanioSim. They also contain a lot of lore and additional information, so it could be useful even if you think you found all possible secrets or.
It was pointed somewhere that these playthroughs mirror the attributes of Zampnio's cardinal directions. North is a more-or-less normal let's play of a game that's not real, East in nothing but being lost and confused and South is pure lore, nothing else.
There are other ZampanioSim videos on jr's channel, but they are short and have no commentary. If you are interested, you can look them up too.
The rest of the videos have various content and are from various people.
~The Watcher of Threads
Jr's playthroughs
This one is not a playthrough, but it's an interesting discussion about the story.
Wario Ware
Fnf mod
There was a Zampanio mod for Friday Night Funkin. It doesn't work anymore, probably because incompatibilities with an update, but this video documented it. The relevant part is between 2h 3m (timestamped) and 2h 17m.
The Hær@ld's videos
cd and tg explore hell
This is from the age of the Marked. They were looking for a Zampanio remake in Roblox and found this weird game.
Video of Hex
This is the only video on Hex's youtube channel. Hex invited a few unmarked to Manylands. Short discussion and music.
Eye-Remembr explorations
The blog to which this channel belonged was deactivated. The videos are availabele now, if they happen to be deleted, it will be sad. Very fitting for Zampanio, but sad. These are more or less narrated explorations of ZampanioSim.
The Medium's stream
The Medium streamed this during a Halloween event. Only audio, and very low quality.
'spooky spaghetti'
'snakes snakes. snakes and ladders. [garble]. bingus beam. bingus beam. real bingus beam. doo doo doo doo doo da da da da da da da da da bingus beam [garble] zampanio [garble] miss a few [garble] miku [garble] if you ask them and they say otherwise thats not a real person [grable] grunklesnorf [garble] your sticks <eleavtorstuck >'
'once upon a time there were 317 rabid wasps in your location?'
'ill put on some other zampanio until they get back'
'pawnio time' 'zampanio moment.'
'once upon a time. 1972. a game called zampanio. or at least thats one version of the story. there's also zampanio's contemporaries. pong and goncharov. many believe goncharov was inspired by zampanio. yod. who is yod?'
'wow thank you for sharing. so interesting. what do you mean by that. can you elaborate? no. ok.'
'is this your first time in Lavinraca or are you long time Lavinrockers?'
'why are you crying Zepoch? im simply your guide, [no] your medium. your horrifying horror entity thats giving you the cursed [GRABLE]
'yeah! everyone loves zampanio' i am such a good mimic :3'
'ah yeah we love statefarmofficial. we eat it it. we hollow it out and wear its skin.'
'we found the wanderer. can we get a wanderer pog in the chat? oh hey its k. yoooo k. you saw k in the notebook sim. this is k from k teaches typing. oh. let me read this to you. <reads the despap cito no nidhogg i give you the choice speech>. yes there are parallels to <garble> yggdrasil in zampanio. and there are also parallels to house of leaves. <yelp> oh its statefarmofficial. i love statefarmofficial. we talk about statefarmofficial all the time. go to state farm in the locker. we eat statefarmofficial. we feast on them. we consume them. and uh. wear their skin as a suit. that's statefarmofficial. oh hey. its one of my bffs (i saw ria after statefarm official)
'oh hatsunemikufan. this is parker. say hello to parker. <pause> oh hey. <pause> um. alright. alright im going to get off of that but if you want you can go to eyedlr sometime and look around. '
'which background. which background. let me go back. let me go back. we must go back. we must go back. we must return. this? which one. the doorway? the doorway? the doo- this doorway? interesting. interesting. fascinating. i'm going to go back and check on something real quick. oookay. I'm going to try this again and see if I can get a response. [referring to cam's eyedlr] THERE WE GO. okay. oh you would think that, [garble], but here's a funny little fact. this user is not allowed to speak. if this user speaks, they die...and if you tell them/ask them about zampanio. they will speak. by reflex. by obsession. and they will die! that lets you post as much as you want. they cannot hurt you. they cannot hurt you...'
oh and since we have a new viewer. let me -oh no thats northnorthnorth. you know i'll sure this for a little bit. this is eyedlr. it will. its like a um. thing. eyedlr is a thing. you can find some fruitsim. yum yum yum. <pause> yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum. you can do that on your own. eat so much fruit. <pause> um. yep! this is here. but let me show you one more thing- let me show you one more thing- here we go! <shows north again.>
Second stream by the Medium, this time with video too.
Description: Hi! I saw the maze was going to change, so I recorded this so the future will see it all. I could not find some things the intended way like the Ring, or whatever the eighteenth secret is, which I believe would be the manner. I fill those small voids with something else.