The Scary Maze Game became so popular that mainstream media began making direct parodies/skits of the game, with the most notable example of this coming from Saturday Night Live in 2010. This video spawned a trend of Scary Maze Game reaction videos on YouTube and other video sharing platforms, where people convince unsuspecting friends or family members into playing the game and recording their reactions to the jumpscare that appears at the end of the game, making for some great comedy. This video showcased a young boy playing the Scary Maze Game and being brought to tears upon seeing the screamer pop up on his computer screen at the end of the game.
The Scary Maze Game began to gain steam a few years later in 2006 when a reaction video was uploaded to YouTube on May 20, 2006. This picture of Regan MacNeil appears at the end of the third level of the game.
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Once the player reaches the end of the third level in the game, a picture of Regan McNeil’s face (the possessed girl from the 1973 horror movie The Exorcist) suddenly pops up on the screen, accompanied by a loud scream. The Scary Maze Game is a flash-based web browser game created in 2003 by American game developer Jeremy Winterrowd, and the game itself can still be played via his website where he published the game at Winterrowd World (The goal of the Scary Maze Game is to navigate your mouse cursor through a multi-level maze without touching the walls, requiring intense concentration and precision. One of these jumpscares was in the form of an infamous flash game known as the Scary Maze Game.
These pieces of media were often used as a prank by people wanting to scare their friends and family members. From the mid to late 2000s, there was a trend of jumpscares being discreetly embedded into videos and other forms of media on the internet, designed to frighten unsuspecting viewers.
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