YMMV / Moonbase Alpha

• Awesome Music: A lot of effort goes into the text-to-speech singing.
  • Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Moonbase Oddity.
  • There is now a remix of the Steven Universe theme using memes from the game.
  • There is also a remix of "Cruel Angel's Thesis".
  • Here's a remix for the main theme of Doki Doki Literature Club!.
  • Somebody decided to remake both the song and intro of Azumanga Daioh with Moonbase Alpha called "Azumadden Daeiou". See it for yourself, here. Also here's a Comparison Video.
  • Another one now: "Moonbase Baby"; also featuring Hatsune Miku singing Jack Harlow's verse.
  • Here's a cover of Louie Zong's Hello World.
• Heartwarming Moments: Following John Madden’s death in late 2021, fans of this game paid tribute to him the only way they knew how.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Aeiou ^Explanationmotdef and their group made this video of text-to-speech stuff in Moonbase Alpha.
  • UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ^ExplanationComes out as a big, long "Uhhhhh", with a short "ooh" at the end not featured in videos.
  • 999999 ^ExplanationA very long string of nines is read as nine-nine-nine, nine-nine-nine, and so on if it is more than 18 digits long (higher than 9 hundred and so quadrillion). The text-to-speech software tends to read out numbers with more than 18 digits in groups of 3 digits each.)
  • John Madden! John Madden! John Madden! John Madden! John Madden!
    • Football!
    • Jaaaaaaawn Maahdeeeen.
  • ?!?!?!?!?!?! ^ExplanationComes out as "question mark, exclamation point, question mark" and so on. Putting in !! will produce the equivalent of "exclamation point!", and "?!" becomes "question mark!"
    • Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark! Mark!
  • ebrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr
    • Here comes another Chinese earthquake.
  • Bonus points if any of the really long ones overlap.
  • California? California! California? California! California? California!
  • Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAKKKKEEEEEE! (comes out rhyming with "sake", as in the Japanese alcohol, though they figured it out in a later video.)
  • Holla Holla Get $ (pronounced "dollar" for contrasting effect)
  • big amerikan tts (pronounced "tee-tee-ess" when typed this way)
  • NO WE NEED TO EXPLORE
  • EARTH IS FLAT CONFIRMED ^ExplanationNoclipping right next to the faraway Earth image reveals that it is part of the background skydome.
    • SUN ALSO CONFIRMED FOR FLAT
  • There's also the less popular sequel. (It's where motdef's group figured out "Snake" after messing up last time.)
  • "Command error in phoneme." ^ExplanationUsing an invalid phoneme, e.g. for singing commands, results in this being spoken.
  • MAMA MIA, PAPA PIA, BABY GOT THE DIAAAAAARRRHHHEEEEAAAA! ^ExplanationThe text-to-speech sings up to a really high pitch with this Rhymes on a Dime phrase thanks to one single command.
  • Here's a video redubbing the first motdef video onto footage of real-life moon missions (specifically Apollo 17).
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • An update adds a two-team mode set on the dark side of the moon. AKA: Everything is pitch black. There's also a glitch with too many text to speech voices overlapping (which is the result of exploiting a code to alter TTS pitch). This can result in a rather... disturbing situation.
    "The blood of the innocent shall flow for a thousand years. I will feast on your soul. You will pay for your sacrilege. Look into my eyes and know hell. I will eradicate all non-believers. There is no more room in hell for your damned soul. I am the bringer of death. I am a markerlight of flesh, in this dimension where all is prey. Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed.
    GOD BLESS THE U.S.AAAAAAAAAAAAA *Static scream*" ^Note Granted said scream immediately becomes ridiculously funny because NES John Madden promptly appears.
  • The result of typing "EST PST CST MST EST PST CST MST" counts as well.
  • Madness Dementia can manifest in seeing skulls, beautiful women, or a man in an astronaut suit, clearly dead.
• Nightmare Retardant: To counter the Terrifying Madness Dementia, most players get into the Moon Rovers. Which turn the Ghosts cringing in horror into a rather humorous game as you run them over in space, Grand Theft Auto style.
• Watch It for the Meme: Or, in this case, Play It to Re-Enact the Meme of crazy speech shenanigans.

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