Willy Beamish might not be a household name, but it's easy enough to kill him in his own house. If you're a fan of Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Beneath a Steel Sky, or any other adventure game where it's possible to die in colorful, creative ways if you do something brilliantly stupid, then these new Adventures of Willy Beamish videos might just be for you.

We've got two collections of death/game over sequences from the cartoony adventure game about a pluckly child who, from what I can tell, needs to win a frog jumping contest to score a date with the attractive new school nurse, who is being extorted by these two soap opera rejects who control the local bullies and gangs. Willy's dad is in cahoots with the soap opera rejects, but after accidentally letting loose a crazy pet bat, the soap opera rejects decided to drop him into a pool of acid for his incompetence. From the look of it, Willy's mom, the CEO of a sugar factory, would have done it herself if she'd had the chance.

Anybubbles, you can piece together exactly what's going on for yourself as you watch poor little Willy Beamish get processed into a bag of sugar, drowned in a treasure chest at the bottom of the ocean, fall into an alternate dimension, and other wonderful things. Also, there's a strange video of a Duke Nukem wannabe stumbling around on a stage because he's been drinking "cola." Have fun with all that, but remember that you really came here to watch Willy get dissolved in a vat of acid.





And on the subject of watching a little boy die over and over again, be sure to check out Paul's run of the delightfully unusual SNES RPG EarthBound, which is both funny and well-paced because he cuts out all the extraneous battle footage (I.e. half the game):