The Maze

The Maze
Also known as: The Maze Game, Scary Maze Game, The Original Scary Maze Game, Save Justin Bieber Developer: Jeremy Winterrowd Publisher: Winnarr.com Platform: Adobe Flash Released internationally: 2003 (original release), October 2004 (The Maze Game), 2010 (Save Justin Bieber) This game has unused graphics. This game has revisional differences.

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The Maze, most known by many as the Scary Maze Game, is one of the original 'screamer' pranks spread around the internet throughout the 2000s era, masquerading itself as a simple maze game.

Unseen Details

The black background of the game has an unseen transparent part of it in the very middle.

Revisional Differences

The Maze went through several revisions when it was popular, often going by different titles. As of now, there have been four different revisions

The Maze Game

The Maze	The Maze Game

This revision was made around October 2004 after the game initially released, changing several aspects, most notable the title screen. The game's name was also changed to The Maze Game.

• The shade of cyan is slightly brighter in The Maze Game.
• The play button uses a different font and shape in The Maze Game, and is also a lot shorter.
• The text 'v 1.0' can be seen below the title of The Maze Game. The title also lacks a trademark symbol.
• The blue area on the title screen is slightly shorter in The Maze Game.
• The text on the title screens are different between revisions:

The Maze	The Maze Game
Test your skills! Try to reach the goal without touching the walls How steady is your hand? Let's find out! Try and beat all four levels! sound effects will help	Test your skill! Reach the RED goal, but don't touch the walls Can you keep your mouse steady? Find out now! Beat all four levels. Hint: Turn up sound to help.

The Original Scary Maze Game

The Maze Game	The Original Scary Maze Game

This version was made a bit after The Maze Game revision, after the game exploded in popularity. At this point, the game is now titled The Original Scary Maze Game. Both this revision and the original version are available on Winnarr.com, with the original version being referred to as the 'Blue version'.

• The title on the title screen is completely different, being plain black text save for the 'Scary Maze' portion, being written in a red, blood-like font.
• The cyan in the background is replaced by an orange color.
• The play button was changed to be much more basic, being a simple square with the text 'Play' in a bland white font in the middle.
• Like the previous revision, the text on the title screen is completely different.

The Maze Game	The Original Scary Maze Game
Test your skill! Reach the RED goal, but don't touch the walls Can you keep your mouse steady? Find out now! Beat all four levels. Hint: Turn up sound to help.	Guide the blue point through the maze, but don't touch the walls! Turn up your sound!

The sound effect for the screamer was also changed. In comparison, The Maze Game's sound was a bit lower quality and played twice before looping.

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The Maze Game	The Original Scary Maze Game

The buttons at the end of the game are also much different, with the ones in The Original Scary Maze Game being a bit more generic and having different colors. In addition, The Maze Game had a button to email Winnarr.com, which doesn't exist in The Original Scary Maze Game, being replaced by a link to Winnarr.com.

The Maze Game	The Original Scary Maze Game

Additionally, The Original Scary Maze Game added titles to each of the levels, being named 'Challenge 1', 'Challenge 2', and 'Challenge 3', respectively.

Save Justin Bieber

The Maze	Save Justin Beiber

Released in 2010, this revision, titled Save Justin Bieber, is perhaps the most radically different out of the rest, having several changes.

• The title screen is completely different, having the title in a different font and different text:

The Maze	Save Justin Bieber
Test your skills! Try to reach the goal without touching the walls How steady is your hand? Let's find out! Try and beat all four levels! sound effects will help	Are you Justin Bieber's biggest fan? PROVE IT! Try and make your way through the crowd to help Justin Bieber! Adjust your speakers until you can hear Justin's hit song "baby" then press play!

• The cyan background is replaced by a light purple.
• The play button is replaced by text that reads 'Help Him! Play!"
• The blue square the player controls is now red, most likely to distinguish it from the background.
• The red squares that mark the end of a level is replaced by Justin Bieber's head.
• As stated on the title screen, Justin Bieber's "Baby" continuously plays during gameplay, though only the first few seconds before it loops.
• The screamer sequence is entirely different. The face of Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist is replaced by a photo-negative photo of Justin Bieber's face, with both the original sound effect and an incredibly loud version of Justin Bieber's "Baby" playing in the background. A link of winterrowd.com then falls onto the screen, with links to the original Scary Maze Game and links to share the game on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, as well as a replay button.

America's Funniest Home Videos

The Maze	AFV Version

Sometime after the original game became popular, a slightly edited version of the game, titled the 'v.AFV version', was released, as it was used on the show America's Funniest Home Videos.

• The title screen is slightly different, aside from 'v.AFV' being added to the side, the trademark symbol is slightly changed.
• The text on the title screen, yet again, is slightly different. Its also slightly larger to accommodate for the extra space made by the smaller play button.

The Maze	AFV Version
Test your skills! Try to reach the goal without touching the walls How steady is your hand? Let's find out! Try and beat all four levels! sound effects will help	Test your skills! Try to reach the goal without touching the walls How steady is your hand? Let's find out! Try and beat all four levels! version shown on America's Funniest Home Videos

• The level names (Level 1, 2, and 3 respectively) are written near the ends of each level.
• The screamer shown at the end is completely changed, being a white, screaming man with black eyes instead of Regan MacNeil, likely for legal reasons. Notably the same image used in another infamous screamer prank, What's Wrong With This Picture?.

• The screaming sound effect at the end is also completely different.

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The Maze Game	AFV Version