Johnny’s Nightmare (Cly5m)

Posted by on June 10, 2012


This game was inspired by the Johnny series by Kim Okkerstrøm (Sparlatacus). Released in 2006. – [Author’s description]

NOTE: This game was made with Game Maker version 5. To play it on Windows 7/Vista, you need to use a converter tool on the EXE, which you can download here. (I’ve also uploaded a working Win7 version below.)

[Download for Windows 98/XP]
[Download for Windows 7/Vista]

Games, Highly Recommended

9 Comments.

  1. ElTipejoLoco June 10, 2012 at 11:28 pm

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    I… do not see how anyone could make it through this without dying once. And… I don’t see why this is the highly recommended game of the latest two. But maybe it’s a matter of tastes?

    The platforming felt like playing Sexy Hiking, except the arms are paralyzed pointing down at an angle. The pixel perfect collision detection resulted in a lot of weird clipping situations and becoming stuck and… I just had an extremely unpleasant experience with this.

    Maybe I need to know more about the Johnny series by Sparlatacus to appreciate this more? I’ve no idea.

    • Terry June 10, 2012 at 11:35 pm

      I don’t always tag a post as Highly Recommended right away – I really like Foam, but I’m busy with 7dfps and haven’t played much of it yet. I may very well go back and tag it as Highly Recommended tomorrow when I get a chance to play it properly 🙂

    • auntie June 11, 2012 at 7:07 pm

      what fascinated the author about the johnny series (enough to make a fan game of it) is that the glitchiness / laziness of the games actually results in some really neat movement – like because of johnny’s long nose and precise collision checking you can actually use his nose as a lever to climb up with. so a lot like sexy hiking, yeah.

      • ElTipejoLoco June 14, 2012 at 3:18 pm

        Oh, see, that would’ve been neat to learn about. It’s too bad this is one of the few games that appear to lack a link when mousing over [Author’s Description] or the like, so I have no surefire way of knowing where it came from other than scouring search results meticulously.

  2. Sergio June 10, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    This is a classic!

    The author’s moniker should be spelled ‘cly5m’ (or ‘clysm’).

  3. jkd June 13, 2012 at 12:09 am

    One of my favorites!

  4. Ellie September 19, 2012 at 3:14 am

    Awmseoe you should think of something like that

  5. oliver June 15, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    OMG IM MAKING A SEQUEL CALLED JOHNNYS QUEST I LOVE THIS GAME AND I LISTEN TO THE MUSIC EVERYDAY 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

  6. Ted August 12, 2013 at 2:12 am

    Really great, music adds so much too.