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Cookie's Bustle

Cookie's Bustle

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About

Cookie's Bustle: Nazo no Bombo World is an obscure point-and-click adventure game developed by a small company called Rodik, Inc and was only released in Japan on March 18th, 1999. In early 2023, the game received major attention after an anonymous person attempted to erase it from the internet.

History

Cookie's Bustle was developed and published by Rodik Inc. in 1999.[1] The game stars Cookie Blair, a five-year-old girl from New Jersey who thinks she is a teddy bear. She must win a gold medal by participating in a sports competition in Dero City. Dero City is run by aliens, who prior to the beginning of the game crash landed in Bombo World and were offered the northern portion of the fictional country by its president in exchange for their technology. The game is notable for its use of dark comedy, absurd humor and difficult puzzles to solve.



Investigation

On December 14th, 2022, Twitter user @patbytes[2] made a tweet revealing that an anonymous person has been copyright-claiming various YouTube videos of the game under various names like Ukie, GRACEWARE and NINTENDO (shown below, left). Ten days later, the same user[3] tweeted four more screenshots, showing that this person (under the alias Brandon White) filed multiple claims against the Internet Archive, resulting in the entire section of Obscure Japanese Games being removed, only to be recovered sans Cookie's Bustle (shown below, right).


pat! @patbytes All @ClassicsOfGame footage of Cookie's Bustle has been removed from YouTube following a copyright claim from "Ukie". A walkthrough by WordsHere was removed by "GRACEWARE". Attempting to search the game on YouTube has zero relevant results, and has no download on My Abandonware. 40 Classics Of Game 146 14K views • 3 years ago 30 VIITOT A DAILY Classics Of Game 142 18K views • 3 years ago SELECT 0:27 11 Classics Of Game 145 15K views • 3 years ago Classics of Game 133 31K views • 4 years ago Video un able This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by GRACEWARE 7:54 PM Dec 13, 2022 3:17 Surocom Classics of Game 21K views • 3 years a Classics of Game 128 views 4 years a Video unavailable This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Ukie andonware > Puzzle > Cookie's Bustle GO TO HOME COOKIE'S BUSTLE WINDOWS - 1999 ALT NAME YEAR PLATFORM RELEASED IN GENRE DEVELOPER クッキーズ・バッスル~謎のボンボワールド~ 1999 Windows United States Puzzle ... Rodik Cookie's Bustle has been removed from the Internet Archive. Public records show four patents filed for "COOKIE'S BUSTLE" by Brandon White via an online attorney program. "GRACEWARE, SL" is listed at a nonexistent street in Andorra pat! @patbytes uspto.report/company/Gracew... interoco.com/copyright-depo... Bustie Type of the object Name of the object Date of first publication Date of the registration Certificate No Mark Image English Composite Copyright Work (Work of Drawing) Brand "Cookie's Bustle" 97700297 not 07/12/2021 07/12/2021 EC-01-003437 Registration | Serial COOKIE'S BUSTLE COOKIE'S BUSTLE $7700295 not registered Live Pending COOKIE'S BUSTLE Live/Pending 97700293 not registered Live/Pending COOKIE'S BUSTLE 07201298 and canisterad Tualandina Company GRACEWARE, SL GRACEWARE, SL GRACEWARE, SL GRACEWARE, SL Other 07/12/2021 07/12/2021 EC-01-003437 irademark Application Date 2022-12-01 2022-12-01 2022-12-01 2022-12-01 USPTO Trademark & Patent Fillings Trademark applications and grants for Graceware, Sl. Graceware, SI has 4 trademark applications. The latest application filed is for "COOKIE'S BUSTLE" Company Profile Company Aliases • GRACEWARE, SL • sl graceware State Incorporated Entity Type Address Type of the object Name of the object Date of first publication Date of the registration Certificate No Author of the work English Work of Science 23/01/2022 23/01/2022 Cookie's Bustle Gameplay Concept EC-01-003503 ANDORRA Brandon White (Japan) LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Av. del Ferner, 7 Bustia 2 Andorra la Vella ANDORRAAD500 Other 23/01/2022 23/01/2022 EC-01-003503

On January 19th, 2023, @patbytes[4] discovered that GRACEWARE is a non-existent street that may be a front for a company based in Andorra la Vella called GESTORIA GESTA. The user noted that Andorras is infamously known for its use as a tax haven. It is also revealed that Cookie's Bustle was originally in the hands of the collector until it accidentally got leaked online a few years ago.


"GRACEWARE, SL", legally, is based in the tourism microstate of Andorra, far from the UK. Andorra la Vella has no "Av. del Ferner", that is a typo on "Fener". The address leads to "GESTORIA GESTA", an international "tax prep" company. Andorra is known for its use as a tax haven. R SECTION(current) G ADDRESS pat! @patbytes COUNTRY/REGION/JURISDICTION/U.S. ORY TAL CODE HUUR Fes GESTA GRACEWARE, Av. del Ferner, 7 Andorra la Vella Andorra AD500 XXXX GESTA Avinguda del Fener, 7 O Directions Save Nearby 0 Send to phone Share Avinguda del Fener, 7, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany Andorra GGSR+84 Les Escaldes, Andorra Suggest an editon Avinguda del Fener, 7 Add a missing place ener Avinguda del Fener GESTORIA GESTA GESTORIA GESTA 50 ***** (1) Taxpreparation Closed Opens 9:30 AM Avinguda del Fener Avinguda del Fenet, 7, AD700 Andorra la Vella[al is the capital of the Principality of Andorra. It is located high in the east Pyrenees, between France and Spain. It is also the name of the parish that surrounds the capital. As of 2015, the city has a population of 22,886, and the urban area, which includes Escaldes-Engordany plus satellite villages, has over 40,000 inhabitants. The principal industry is tourism, although the country also care foreign income from being a tav haven

On January 22nd, 2023, Vinny of Vinesauce fame streamed the game on Twitch, drawing more attention to the game (shown below). Thanks to this, many people are now trying to archive the game in many ways while avoiding legal troubles with "Brandon White."



On January 29th, 2023, @patbytes uploaded the video on his Youtube account that details the history behind it.



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External References

[1] Moby Games – Cookie's Bustle.

[2] Twitter – patbytes

[3] Twitter – patbytes

[4] Twitter – patbytes

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Does it bother anyone else that the easiest way to have something happen is for somebody else to get noticed trying to make the opposite happen?

Like, we ask for more honesty and accuse people of doing psyops, and then accuse accusers of psyops of being nuts, and so on and so forth, but clearly that's literally the only thing that works.

This game is such a pile of nothing that nobody cared about but now because ONE PERSON wanted the opposite suddenly it's the entire internet's duty to preserve it forever out of sheer desire to hurt that one guy.

There are hundreds, THOUSANDS of games out there with small fanbases or desperate development staff and a hundred people on their side who would do anything, ANYTHING to be paid attention to, and nobody will ever do it, but because somebody wanted the opposite for this game suddenly its a moral imperative to give it something that it neither deserved nor wanted.

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