1998 is probably the most legendary year in all of gaming. A large number of games on a lot of "top X games of all times"-lists came out in 1998. Looking forward to the rest of this list!
Caesar 3 has an active community, and the Augustus mod (updates in resolution and gameplay as well) with the recently released Reconquered campaign (made by CommissarMarek) makes it a totally fresh and very challenging fun for 2024 audiences. Highly recommended.
@@vazzeg Your welcome. UAE is the best Amiga emulator. You can find tutorial on UA-cam. As for PC Emulators, there is at least 2 good. One is "DOSBox". Also setup guide on UA-cam. UA-cam have guides for anything. ;)
I think I played a demo of Incoming that I got with some 3d video card. It sort of reminded me of missile command crossed with armourgeddon. Good times!
I still haven't seen it, but are very keen on how it is. I mean, I kinda know that it's great cause I'm neither blind nor deaf, but I wanna see it for myself. :)
I was still working as a video games phone retailer at this point (pre my online gaming helpdesk set up) and "Incoming: Final Conflict" was dead easy to sell and do tech support for. Sell it: The preetiest graphics around (at the time) AND tech support was solved EVERY TIME with a DirectX re-install (I ended up wrting a step by step guide that was posted out to I'd say about 60% of our tech support callers ending in no re-call/returns of the problem). This was probably the PEAK of early Windows based serious gaming, i.e. when games were starting to use facilities beyond DOS, having already shifted from DOS to Windows, to the more complicated lands of DirectX (which were ALL solved by reinstalling DirectX....(pretty much every time hence the creation of DirectX!)). Things got more compliocated from then on....to ACTUAL tech support levels :P
Oh! Bio Freaks! I knew that game wasn't a fever dream! 😂 I played it quite a lot. Agree the controls are both floaty and heavy at the same time. For some reason, at the time of its release, I looooooved it. Can't say it aged well now that my tastes have improved lol
I loved Dune II, and thus I also very much enjoyed Dune 2000. It perhaps did not offer anything really new, but it looked and played great at (at the time) modern resolutions. The FMV sequences featuring John Rhys-Davies were also a blast to watch. I was a bit sad that I never saw anyone else talk about the game.
"If I do say so myself" is usually said by someone who is praising something they have done, in other words "it's expected that I would say that the thing I've done is good, however it is good despite the fact that you would expect me to say it is good even it were bad". That seemed simpler to explain in my head 😅
Noted, and I can imagine. A lot of things sounds simpler when I think them, and then I say them aloud, and even I get lost in what I was trying to telegraph. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames thanks for all the videos by the way, you've helped me find some games I remember from childhood but could never find the name of them!
@@westloar Oh, no worries, that's why they're being made. In a big part. The other is preservation. And the other other fun. Both mine and hopefully my viewers as well. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah! It's meant to convey modest pride in something you've done or made, to soften what could otherwise seem like bragging -- "this cake turned out great, if I do say so myself" -- like you could say about these excellent videos!
Grand Touring - I've never seen this, but watching the video, I like that the scenery in the distance (skybox?) doesn't seem as "floaty" as other early racers. It's hard to describe, but in a lot of old racing games, as you go around curves and up and down hills, the road you're driving on seems really disconnected from the scenery in the distance. Like the amount of movement is all wrong. It just doesn't look right. This one isn't perfect, but it seems pretty good for the time. Dune 2000 - I bought a copy of this many years ago. When a local closeout store first opened up here, they used to have loads of computer games for $5 each and I bought a bunch of them. I never actually got around to playing Dune 2000 though. I'd played Dune 2 on the Amiga and basically bought it on that basis alone. I don't know if it was accurate or not, but I once read a complaint from a user saying that it was impossible to kill sandworms in this version. Warbirds - I never saw this one, but it reminded me of something. I was once in a store, looking at their computer games and there was some combat flight simulator that could only be played online, on I think Compuserve. I knew the game had been discontinued for quite some time. As I was looking, a woman came up and picked it up, studying the back as if she was checking to see how appealing it looked. I spoke up and told her that she wouldn't be able to play it as the servers were shut down. She was looking for a game for her son, and thanked me for letting her know.
Grand Touring is actually pretty fun if you don't expect it to be anything more than it is. So, if you don't look for Gran Turismo or Screamer 2 in it, you will like it. Dune 2000, was a great game for fans of Dune 2, but not so much for those who played more modern at the time RTSes. I really like your Warbirds story. You're a cool dude! :)
Grand Touring is interesting. Got to say it looks quite good. I’m curious, even if it is a bit easy. BIO F.R.E.A.K.S name just shouts late 90’s. 😄 I vaguely recall playing it 2 player with someone & thinking it wasn’t good. DX-Ball 2 is a pretty great Arkanoid clone & if you’d like to see where that kind of game can go it’s a great game. Damage Incorporated is frustrating, at least the team command element. If you want to know what “rage quitting” is give it a go, you’ll find out. It’s not the worst thing ever but trying to lead an NPC team can bog the game down if you let it. In other respects it’s a pretty good FPS but keep the leadership element in mind. Last Bronx is not a bad game but it kind of gets lost in a sea of 1v1 fighters of the time. Shame really as is fun to play. Also that title is very Japanese game circa 1998, you can see what they were going for but it’s a bit off the mark. 😄 Warbirds was & is excellent… all the way up to the point they wanted a subscription from you. At that point they could f**k off. Incoming is excellent. You get a good range of vehicles/weapons & plays great with all of them. It can seem a little hard to start with but you quickly get the hang of it. It’s a classic for a reason & also 1 to own if you’re interested in 3D accelerators of the time. Great list, thanks. ‘98 was a great year for gaming, as we’ll see as this series goes on.
Grand Touring is not a bad game at all, if you don't expect more of it than it can offer. So, if it looks good to you, chances are, you'll like playing it too. :) I think both DX-Ball games did one thing very well, they modernised them, and packed as much action in them as it was possible without changing the formula too much. The sub in Warbirds was just unthinkable for the time. I mean some of the MMOs today, incomparably more advanced games however you wanna look at it, have it at a similar or lower price. Naturally, I couldn't agree more about Incoming. It's fantastic! I played on like 3 different generations of GPUs back then. So, even if it lacked something, staying power and fun it was not. :) I've most of the next episode written already, and also pretty cool games in that one. Including one of the very rare and obscure ones, but also my absolute favourites.
4:38 "... under the rule of nine mega-corporation that strive for control and profit, effectively eliminating any real power that the government might have had in the past." *(Looks around and laughs nervously in American)*
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'd be more sad if they were some lovely 2d fighter lol. kind of reminds me.. I wonder when cyber gladiators came out 🤣 c. A guilty pleasure of mine..all 5 fps of it. at least on my old pc at the time lol.
@@Bowen_Landry Oh man, you reminded me how understanding we were back then of low FPS. I mean, 15-20 seemed like a butter smooth gameplay at a FPS. Today, if I don't get 60, I hardly wanna touch the game. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames yup. for me, as long as it's a non dip 30 I'm good. but I certainly prefer better. now it's a non-stop whinegasm about framerates not being over 9000 🤣
@@Bowen_Landry Personally 45+ is good for me, and I've nothing to complain about. At 30 I'm annoyed by jerky horizontal camera movement. Funny enough, it only ever happens in 3D games, so if it's a 2D one, I'm quite comfortable with 30 as well.
If I were to say so myself the reason english is hard for people to learn as a Second Language is because of idioms. Idioms is intentional disuse of the language for comedy purposes.
Caesar 3 - still alive still play with augustus mod Grand Touring - never heard and dont like races Bio FREAKS - i got in on CD but it nowanna run DX-Ball2 - perfection requires no change. stil alive in steam :D Damage Incorp - never heard SCBW - my favorite strategy. still alive with community and with best remaster i ever seen Last Bronx - best 3D fighting fighting game of those years. RedEYE , Zaimoku and kurosawa pain in ass :D DUNE 2000 - epic soundtrack its rock cause its dune. but against the backdrop of StarCraft as a strategy it’s nothing. build 50 tanks, go through the attack and go for a walk. They will do everything themselves. WarBirds - never heard Incoming - I don’t understand anything, but it was very interesting))))
I definitely have Warcraft 2 somewhere, in one of the earlier DOS videos. I don't remember how deep of a look it is, but given these were simpler and shorter than they are now, I'd say it's a 2-minute-long segment at most. When I get to W3, it may be a longer one.
B.I.O. Freaks looks like it could've belonged on the N64 alongside War Gods and Mace: The Dark age. Remembering back, I have to say that 3D fighters during this era were uniquely terrible. At least Cardinal Syn for the PS1 had some goofy characters.
1998 is probably the most legendary year in all of gaming. A large number of games on a lot of "top X games of all times"-lists came out in 1998. Looking forward to the rest of this list!
Let's hope so! So far 1997 ruled, but I'm barely starting with 1998. And the next one in couple of days or so. :)
Caesar 3 has an active community, and the Augustus mod (updates in resolution and gameplay as well) with the recently released Reconquered campaign (made by CommissarMarek) makes it a totally fresh and very challenging fun for 2024 audiences. Highly recommended.
Thanks. I did not know that.
Well, look at that... I'm hearting this comment so that more of my viewers could see it. :)
Thanks!
They got it on mobile?
@@sideeggunnecessary yes, it seems so.
Google Caesar 3 android.
You should get instructions how to procedd
Man you're a legend, I hope your videos live forever!
Ha ha ha :) Thank you! The next one's tomorrow, and the another of those Windows ones in around 2 days.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Damn nice, crazy work you're doing! For posterity!
@@AbuN4z1r Thanks! :)
Love playing Dune 2000 back in the day!
Same. Do you know any way to play it nowadays?
@@vazzeg You can play it on a AMIGA or PC Emulator.
@@V3ntilator thank you!
@@vazzeg Your welcome. UAE is the best Amiga emulator. You can find tutorial on UA-cam. As for PC Emulators, there is at least 2 good. One is "DOSBox". Also setup guide on UA-cam. UA-cam have guides for anything. ;)
@@vazzegYour welcome. You can find guides for Amiga and PC versions on UA-cam.
Thank you for all this goodness =D I've been looking for Last Bronx title since i was a kid, but only found the title now by watching your videos =D
Well then, glad that I could help! :)
I think I played a demo of Incoming that I got with some 3d video card. It sort of reminded me of missile command crossed with armourgeddon.
Good times!
Yes, it did came with some cards. And yeah, the turret levels were precisely like that. :)
Oh man, I have been trying to remember the name of Incoming for 20 years. Thank you!
Glad that I could help! Enjoy it, it's an awesome game! :)
Clever of you to include Dune 2000 as the timing is good to coincide well with the recent release of the epic movie, Dune: Part 2.
I still haven't seen it, but are very keen on how it is. I mean, I kinda know that it's great cause I'm neither blind nor deaf, but I wanna see it for myself. :)
So much good. Still play StarCraft II to this day
No wonder, many people do! So there's gotta be a reason for it! :)
I was still working as a video games phone retailer at this point (pre my online gaming helpdesk set up) and "Incoming: Final Conflict" was dead easy to sell and do tech support for. Sell it: The preetiest graphics around (at the time) AND tech support was solved EVERY TIME with a DirectX re-install (I ended up wrting a step by step guide that was posted out to I'd say about 60% of our tech support callers ending in no re-call/returns of the problem). This was probably the PEAK of early Windows based serious gaming, i.e. when games were starting to use facilities beyond DOS, having already shifted from DOS to Windows, to the more complicated lands of DirectX (which were ALL solved by reinstalling DirectX....(pretty much every time hence the creation of DirectX!)). Things got more compliocated from then on....to ACTUAL tech support levels :P
LOL :) What a memory! :)
Oh! Bio Freaks! I knew that game wasn't a fever dream! 😂
I played it quite a lot. Agree the controls are both floaty and heavy at the same time. For some reason, at the time of its release, I looooooved it. Can't say it aged well now that my tastes have improved lol
Oh, don't worry about it! I loved so many stinkers back in the day, just because they were something new to distract me from what I knew already. :)
I loved Dune II, and thus I also very much enjoyed Dune 2000. It perhaps did not offer anything really new, but it looked and played great at (at the time) modern resolutions. The FMV sequences featuring John Rhys-Davies were also a blast to watch. I was a bit sad that I never saw anyone else talk about the game.
Have you seen the new Dune game? And if yes, what are your thought?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Dune: Spice Wars? Ah, no. I understand it is similar to the developer's previous title Northgard, which I did not enjoy.
@@MrKanjidude Oh, OK. Fair enough. xD
"If I do say so myself" is usually said by someone who is praising something they have done, in other words "it's expected that I would say that the thing I've done is good, however it is good despite the fact that you would expect me to say it is good even it were bad".
That seemed simpler to explain in my head 😅
Noted, and I can imagine. A lot of things sounds simpler when I think them, and then I say them aloud, and even I get lost in what I was trying to telegraph. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames thanks for all the videos by the way, you've helped me find some games I remember from childhood but could never find the name of them!
@@westloar Oh, no worries, that's why they're being made. In a big part. The other is preservation. And the other other fun. Both mine and hopefully my viewers as well. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah! It's meant to convey modest pride in something you've done or made, to soften what could otherwise seem like bragging -- "this cake turned out great, if I do say so myself" -- like you could say about these excellent videos!
Grand Touring - I've never seen this, but watching the video, I like that the scenery in the distance (skybox?) doesn't seem as "floaty" as other early racers. It's hard to describe, but in a lot of old racing games, as you go around curves and up and down hills, the road you're driving on seems really disconnected from the scenery in the distance. Like the amount of movement is all wrong. It just doesn't look right. This one isn't perfect, but it seems pretty good for the time.
Dune 2000 - I bought a copy of this many years ago. When a local closeout store first opened up here, they used to have loads of computer games for $5 each and I bought a bunch of them. I never actually got around to playing Dune 2000 though. I'd played Dune 2 on the Amiga and basically bought it on that basis alone. I don't know if it was accurate or not, but I once read a complaint from a user saying that it was impossible to kill sandworms in this version.
Warbirds - I never saw this one, but it reminded me of something. I was once in a store, looking at their computer games and there was some combat flight simulator that could only be played online, on I think Compuserve. I knew the game had been discontinued for quite some time. As I was looking, a woman came up and picked it up, studying the back as if she was checking to see how appealing it looked. I spoke up and told her that she wouldn't be able to play it as the servers were shut down. She was looking for a game for her son, and thanked me for letting her know.
Grand Touring is actually pretty fun if you don't expect it to be anything more than it is. So, if you don't look for Gran Turismo or Screamer 2 in it, you will like it.
Dune 2000, was a great game for fans of Dune 2, but not so much for those who played more modern at the time RTSes.
I really like your Warbirds story. You're a cool dude! :)
4:52 so it's exactly like real life!
:)
Grand Touring is interesting. Got to say it looks quite good. I’m curious, even if it is a bit easy.
BIO F.R.E.A.K.S name just shouts late 90’s. 😄 I vaguely recall playing it 2 player with someone & thinking it wasn’t good.
DX-Ball 2 is a pretty great Arkanoid clone & if you’d like to see where that kind of game can go it’s a great game.
Damage Incorporated is frustrating, at least the team command element. If you want to know what “rage quitting” is give it a go, you’ll find out. It’s not the worst thing ever but trying to lead an NPC team can bog the game down if you let it. In other respects it’s a pretty good FPS but keep the leadership element in mind.
Last Bronx is not a bad game but it kind of gets lost in a sea of 1v1 fighters of the time. Shame really as is fun to play. Also that title is very Japanese game circa 1998, you can see what they were going for but it’s a bit off the mark. 😄
Warbirds was & is excellent… all the way up to the point they wanted a subscription from you. At that point they could f**k off.
Incoming is excellent. You get a good range of vehicles/weapons & plays great with all of them. It can seem a little hard to start with but you quickly get the hang of it. It’s a classic for a reason & also 1 to own if you’re interested in 3D accelerators of the time.
Great list, thanks. ‘98 was a great year for gaming, as we’ll see as this series goes on.
Grand Touring is not a bad game at all, if you don't expect more of it than it can offer. So, if it looks good to you, chances are, you'll like playing it too. :)
I think both DX-Ball games did one thing very well, they modernised them, and packed as much action in them as it was possible without changing the formula too much.
The sub in Warbirds was just unthinkable for the time. I mean some of the MMOs today, incomparably more advanced games however you wanna look at it, have it at a similar or lower price.
Naturally, I couldn't agree more about Incoming. It's fantastic! I played on like 3 different generations of GPUs back then. So, even if it lacked something, staying power and fun it was not. :)
I've most of the next episode written already, and also pretty cool games in that one. Including one of the very rare and obscure ones, but also my absolute favourites.
4:38 "... under the rule of nine mega-corporation that strive for control and profit, effectively eliminating any real power that the government might have had in the past."
*(Looks around and laughs nervously in American)*
Don't beat yourself about it. It might've started in the US, but it's everywhere these days. xD
An interesting assortment to be sure. I was not expecting those fighting titles. I don't recognize them.
The next will be as interesting. No fighting games in it, if I remember my lust for it correctly. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'd be more sad if they were some lovely 2d fighter lol. kind of reminds me.. I wonder when cyber gladiators came out 🤣 c. A guilty pleasure of mine..all 5 fps of it. at least on my old pc at the time lol.
@@Bowen_Landry Oh man, you reminded me how understanding we were back then of low FPS. I mean, 15-20 seemed like a butter smooth gameplay at a FPS. Today, if I don't get 60, I hardly wanna touch the game. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames yup. for me, as long as it's a non dip 30 I'm good. but I certainly prefer better. now it's a non-stop whinegasm about framerates not being over 9000 🤣
@@Bowen_Landry Personally 45+ is good for me, and I've nothing to complain about. At 30 I'm annoyed by jerky horizontal camera movement. Funny enough, it only ever happens in 3D games, so if it's a 2D one, I'm quite comfortable with 30 as well.
I actually like StarCraft more than I like the sequel, StarCraft II. The sequel is in no way bad or anything, I'm just incredibly partial to the OG.
I get it. I prefer Heroes of Might and Magic 2 to any other too. Same reason.
If I were to say so myself the reason english is hard for people to learn as a Second Language is because of idioms. Idioms is intentional disuse of the language for comedy purposes.
Also what makes it so interesting. :)
The metro police of the metropolis
:)
Dune 2000 and its sequel Emperor are a pain to run on modern os....wish I could buy them "fixed" 😉
That would explain why there's no GOG version of the game. :/
Ah StarCraft. National sport and pastime, nuff said (says Korean)
Yep :)
Caesar 3 - still alive still play with augustus mod
Grand Touring - never heard and dont like races
Bio FREAKS - i got in on CD but it nowanna run
DX-Ball2 - perfection requires no change. stil alive in steam :D
Damage Incorp - never heard
SCBW - my favorite strategy. still alive with community and with best remaster i ever seen
Last Bronx - best 3D fighting fighting game of those years. RedEYE , Zaimoku and kurosawa pain in ass :D
DUNE 2000 - epic soundtrack its rock cause its dune. but against the backdrop of StarCraft as a strategy it’s nothing. build 50 tanks, go through the attack and go for a walk. They will do everything themselves.
WarBirds - never heard
Incoming - I don’t understand anything, but it was very interesting))))
Ah, a fellow fan of DX-Ball 2, I see. Great to meet you! It's an amazing game, and one of the best Arkanoid/Breakout clones out there. :)
yessir, here's my misspent youth
looking forward to warcraft 2 and 3 if you haven't already covered them
I definitely have Warcraft 2 somewhere, in one of the earlier DOS videos. I don't remember how deep of a look it is, but given these were simpler and shorter than they are now, I'd say it's a 2-minute-long segment at most. When I get to W3, it may be a longer one.
Ha ha ha :)
B.I.O. Freaks looks like it could've belonged on the N64 alongside War Gods and Mace: The Dark age. Remembering back, I have to say that 3D fighters during this era were uniquely terrible. At least Cardinal Syn for the PS1 had some goofy characters.
BIO Freaks did originate on N64. :)