the yellow man secret minigame

[76561198421173448]

After haunting for secrets I found a pretty cool secret at the car race minigame in level 4
There's a loop in down go at it and the f****** minigame now I'm not complaining I don't fu***** know what does it means I take that to you ! Tell me your theories in the comments and I'll replay to some and some not so peace

[Witt]

Everybody knows about that.

[76561198421173448]

Originally posted by Coffy™:

Everybody knows about that.

Who cares

[FenrirSlip]

Well it is true, this secret's been out for a while. :|

[WeltaChara]

We've known about that for a while now. I believe this is showing William's origin story.

[LOL21h]

Well, you're kinda late.

[Rasta_Bot]

Well, he may be late, but still, this minigame is really interesting. Instead of telling him he's late, we could make theories to solve the minigame's story.
I don't think it shows William's origins, why would the sprite be yellow then ?

[Rollerwings]

My interpretation of the Midnight Motorist minigame:

At the very least, it's safe to say this is meant to depict a dysfunctional family who tie into the story somehow. We have no reason within context to believe Henry was ever abusive so that makes the Aftons the prime candidates.

I'm going to rashly assume the Orange Guy/Motorist is indeed a guy. Not that gals can't get themselves kicked out of and barred from places (guilty as charged) but for two reasons:

a) It wouldn't make sense to introduce an all-new female antagonist anymore than a male one at the last moment.

b) Stereotypical, but if this took place years ago it would have been far more likely that Dad and not Mom was the breadwinner who would drive home from work at night to the family.

So consider what happens in the minigame. Orange Guy drives home. He has a choice to stop at what is likely a local bar or pass it by, but either way he already knows they won't let him in because of past incidents. When he arrives home, his spouse or child doesn't even look away from the TV to greet him and they already know he's going for his kid in the bedroom, warning that he's had a rough day. But nonetheless, Couch Potato can't be bothered to actually defend the kid, whether this is out of indifference or fear for his own welfare.

As the title of the minigame reminds us, this takes place at midnight. What on Earth could a little kid have done that warranted demanding a confrontation that late? No doubt nothing; Orange Guy routinely makes it a point to mistreat his kid the minute he arrives home, no matter what the hour.

Orange Guy rages when he finds the door locked: "This is MY house!" He walks out back to find the child has broken out his own window to escape and go to "that place."

If a kid wants out after hours, he's going to do the sneaky thing and quietly raise the window and slip out (also guilty as charged.) There's exactly one reason he'd have to resort to breaking the window:

It was nailed shut from the outside.

And the only character we've seen who has been locked up in his own bedroom and in Parts & Services, etc. is the Crying Child. The only justifiable reason for locking a kid in his own room is if there's a real chance he'd try to escape and put himself in danger; we never saw the Crying Child trying to run off or do any of that sort. Typical bedroom door locks are installed so the room can be locked only from the inside; not the outside. The same goes for windows.

Orange Guy rages because his kid turned the table on him and locked himself in his room when he sees it as "his" job to lock up his child when he sees fit. (Or his job and his older son's, if you theorize Michael is Foxy Bro.)

I still don't completely understand this minigame but this is what I've gotten out of it so far.

[Rollerwings]

Waitaminnit...

"Midnight Motorist" = "Night Driver," an Atari arcade/2600 game that played along the same theme, i.e. racing home in the dark. The car is even purple and the trees along the road are pines.

Well played as always, but I'm done with you, man. /s I'll be back in like 5 min.

[SenshiOfSadness]

Originally posted by breadspy:

If a kid wants out after hours, he's going to do the sneaky thing and quietly raise the window and slip out (also guilty as charged.) There's exactly one reason he'd have to resort to breaking the window:

It was nailed shut from the outside.

And the only character we've seen who has been locked up in his own bedroom and in Parts & Services, etc. is the Crying Child. The only justifiable reason for locking a kid in his own room is if there's a real chance he'd try to escape and put himself in danger; we never saw the Crying Child trying to run off or do any of that sort. Typical bedroom door locks are installed so the room can be locked only from the inside; not the outside. The same goes for windows.

I had been struggling trying to make sense of the broken window and you have come up with a wonderful idea. It makes more sense now.

However I still have to fit the animatronic’s footprints and the boy’s. Apparently the boy continues walking past the animatronic after meeting it, or the animatronic had been watching from a distance and then left when the boy came out of his home… It’s difficult to tell with just one animatronic footprint. Also, we have a hidden grave, hinting that this is probably a “Twisted” kind of animatronic, which is specialised in hunting people… wait a minute, if Orange man (if he’s William) saw the animatronic’s footprint as well, he knows that his creation is going to fetch his son and that’s why he isn’t worried about him running away. The most likely candidate for who is this animatronic is Funtime Freddy, based on this: the “power module” seen in SL looks suspiciously like the audio hallucination disk seen on the books and second, he has a storage for people just like the “twisted”.

As for who I think it’s the couch potato, it’s Michael. Two reasons for this, first we have seen him on the (same) sofa watching TV on SL so we have a reference this is his favourite hobby; second his speech text is white just like it was in FNAF 4 (as the Crying Child).