When MS-DOS 5.0 was released, back in 1991 I believe, I was a fifth grader. I convinced my parents to buy a copy of it for me one Sunday afternoon when we were out running errands. The next day, I was "sick" (cough cough) and did not go to school so I could stay home and load it on my Amstrad PC1512-DD (complete with 40 meg hard card, 1200 baud modem later upgraded to 2400, and a Media Vision Thunderboard... that took up all three expansion slots). That was back in the last glory days of computing when it took more than a pulse to operate one and be connected to the rest of the world on one. I miss those days, and geez, watching these videos sometimes hurts me when I think about all the cool, old equipment I once had that got thrown away or sold or donated over the years! I love your videos though, man!
Oh and Thomas and Tim is totally classic danish 90's television animation show. See the "DR" logo on the box? That's national danish broadcasting service (Danmarks Radio). I didn't know about any games, so this is a nice surprise. Another danish classic Skipper and Skeeto 2: The Great Treasure Hunt (danish: Magnus og Myggen: den store skattejagt) is, at least in original danish version, a great point and click adventure. Please check it out sometime :) ... wow they were sent to you from Australia? *mind blown*
That Panasonic you got there is a Toughbook, or some earlier version of the same concept. We'd use them on EMS rigs since it was a bumpy environment and the thing was liable to get dropped more than a few times (hopefully in the ambulance, sometimes on the pavement - falling out of the ambulance). I know some PD's used them, too. Thanks for all the content, and Merry Christmas.
ohhh Twinsen' s Odyssey! I have the OEM version that came with a Sound Blaster card. It was a nice adventure game, an early attemp of a 3D axteriors, 2D interiors... and the music is Awesome!
I remember my father being issued a laptop with a built in printer when he worked for Mitsubishi. When they upgraded to newer models he was very upset at losing the functionality of that built in printer.
Merry Christmas! There's nothing better than getting back home from a Christmas dinner, my dexterity dramatically limited by the gigantuous amounts of food in my belly and finding out there's a new LGR video waiting for me. Best wishes and thank you for all the great content.
I used to have one, I bought it used in '94 or so to play Road War 2000 and word processing but when I moved into dorms I put a BIOS password on it to keep people from messing with it, got a desktop to play Heretic death-match over serial then forgot the password for the laptop. I took it apart and popped the weird proprietary CMOS battery pack out but to reset it but wasn't able to get it working again and eventually it went to electronics recycling in the Great Purge of '06. I thought it was a neat and compact machine and I hope LGR gets a chance to play with it.
Hi Clint!Thanks for the video on Christmas!! All the best to you and yours and I am confident you will hit 1,000,000 subscribers sometime in the upcoming year.
I'm from the future, and Clint has 1.32M subscribers as of this day. Lol jk but honestly he received some really cool things that I would not be able to find anywhere
Thomas and Tim are a Danish cartoon series, broadcast by Danmarks Radio in the 1990s. The series is about two boys who, through their imagination, experience a lot of adventure they find themselves.
I just noticed you were over 3/4 million subs. Lots of great content on this channel! I have had a wonderful year watching it all. Hope you enjoy making these videos as much as you did 10 years ago. And best wishes in the new year Clint!
I remember that bubble jet laptop. I recall looking at it when I was searching for a laptop to take with me to Korea. I ended up getting a laptop and separate printer (also a bubble jet because it was the smallest printer you could buy at the time).
The Gamers Elite that was about 98% of my collection of them. I kept 1 PC Gamer Disk and a couple of others that had some full games on them. Soon as I can image them I’m sending them to their proper LGR home.
Merry Christmas lgr! You got me so into retro computing this year that I built my first older rig! I’m having a great Christmas and I hope you are too and I’m great full that I found your channel
If the 8-Bit Guy had a time machine to travel back in time he would probably revolutionise the C64 gaming industry because of all the modern knowledge and tricks we figured out through so many people doing C64 demos.
Tough Book... Those are great we have them at work. And that IBM is amazing if it has the black and white TFT screen. We had those where I worked in the 90's for sale that screen was amazing.
Before the Amstrad I mentioned earlier, I had the Color Computer 2 and that speech synthesizer! I also had the little 300 baud Direct Connect Modem Pak. That's the machine on which I started dialing BBSes. The modem did not dial itself. No, sir! You had flip the switch to originate, pick up the phone, dial the host yourself, and when you heard it answer, you manually engaged the modem by pushing a button on it, and then you hung up the phone and watched the characters appear in all its 300 baud glory! MAN I miss those days!
I work in the PCB field, and my god some of those gifts Clint gets remind me of all the pain i have to go through and yet give me some hope that there is some usefulness in what i do.
See, this is the thing kids from this era will never know, going to a brick and mortar store and buying boxed software and games. One of my favorite things from the 80's was going to babbage's and looking through all of the boxed software and games. You would buy a game or two and maybe on the ride home you and your friend would open the box and read the manuals and whatever. Didn't seem like that big a deal back then but now I remember it fondly. Now you just go to Steam or wherever and download the game.
Merry Christmas! For those who have nostalgia for Ye Olde Floppy, they're still available. In fact there are USB floppy drives, plug it in and Windows even recognizes it as the A: drive.
Little Big Adventure... Holy moly, I have played that game and the sequel like, maybe 7 months ago because it's so enjoyable to play em! Very much worth playing... Twinsens Odyssey was called "Little big adventure 2" here, in the Netherlands. That game has bags of character!
Hey Clint big fan of your channel.Possibly my favorite channel due to the nostalgia rush i get when watching your videos!.I was wondering if you could perhaps do a video/tour on your modern build/setup, that you use for editing and running more modern games.I know it is not really your thing but id be interested to see your workstation and the sort of hardware you use as someone that loves classic tech.Keep up the good work!.BTW Dusk Episode 2 is out !!!
It strikes me that a really good use of 3D printers would be to use them to print replacements for all those little plastic bits and bobs that break or go missing in older machines. It'd be really useful if you could get STL files of those parts.
You got a free P70! Lucky man. I had to buy mine locally last year, but I still feel lucky to have found one at all. These were near $20,000 computers in 1989-91.
X-Fools holds a special place in my heart, since I played it as a kid. It's mostly unoriginal and mildly amusing mini-games, but the parody X-Files intro movie was legitimately funny.
Whhoooaa! IBM MM-1! I forgot about those. I now remember considering getting one when I converted my new PS/2 77s into an Ultimedia model. I never did run across one in the off-lease or used market.
Ooh, a Handbook! Those things are great - never had a good solid spot in my collection for one since i've already got a Gateway 4DX2-50v tower representing the 486 era and my Libretto 70CT is a bit too similar, though.
Totaly awesome, al that stuff every time ! Wonder or you going to show some Sinclair Z80 stuff as you received such system some time ago, I now the stuff must be working and time isn´t a luxury with so much laying around speciale reviewing hardware takes a lot off it !!
MusicMatch Jukebox was bundled with my Diamond Rio PMP300 mp3 player. Still got that little thing and it's parallel port interface cable in the deep storage vault.
Wow, I remember collecting those game informer demo discs for the Xbox 360 avatar portraits, I think by the time I stopped subscribing to the magazine I had well over 300 or so icons. Looking back I don't actually know why I did that as I never really changed the icon I used.
Sideshow The Game Freak that was a collection starting with the very first PC Gamer mag I bought which was the one with “Warcraft Adventures” on it (PushingUpRoses used my magazine scans in her video on that).
Lol, I always hoped someone would send you Twinsen's Oddysey, It's the sequel to Relentless/Little Big Adventure one and it is my absolute favorite childhood game and is available on GoG. I really can't gush enough how amazing that beautiful game is.
Lovely video! I would really love to see a review, of the Thomas and Tim games. They were a big part of my childhood. I actually never knew, that they were available outside of Denmark.
That Panasonic metal laptop is a ToughBook. If I'm not mistaken they were originally developed for the military back in the early 2000's. As beaten as that one is it may have been over there.
I have the same weakness (Irresistible attraction) for computer things vintage. This was the best computer porn video of the yuletide season! I will miss this category.
I remember seeing thomas and tim back in the day on danish tv, funny to see them all the way over at you, they useally was a filler episode in another kids tv show i owned on tape.
DUDE! THOMAS AND TIM! :D It's based on a shortlived Danish cartoon series of the same name from my childhood. Good stuff, my personal introduction to the point and click genre
I still use musicmatch jukebox because screw itunes using 2GB of ram. ALSO, service merchandise was a chain of catalog stores, where you’d look from a catalog IN THE STORE and come out and bring you what you wanted
Am I the only one here who likes to watch LGR while trying to sleep and almost always falling a sleep because LGR is so relaxing?
It's LGR-ASMR!
check out play with junk, and big clive. sleepytime for sure
I'd love to watch you restore more computers!
When MS-DOS 5.0 was released, back in 1991 I believe, I was a fifth grader. I convinced my parents to buy a copy of it for me one Sunday afternoon when we were out running errands. The next day, I was "sick" (cough cough) and did not go to school so I could stay home and load it on my Amstrad PC1512-DD (complete with 40 meg hard card, 1200 baud modem later upgraded to 2400, and a Media Vision Thunderboard... that took up all three expansion slots). That was back in the last glory days of computing when it took more than a pulse to operate one and be connected to the rest of the world on one. I miss those days, and geez, watching these videos sometimes hurts me when I think about all the cool, old equipment I once had that got thrown away or sold or donated over the years! I love your videos though, man!
The Microsoft BoB video is quite high on my wishlist of LGR videos. Happy holidays!
Oh and Thomas and Tim is totally classic danish 90's television animation show. See the "DR" logo on the box? That's national danish broadcasting service (Danmarks Radio). I didn't know about any games, so this is a nice surprise.
Another danish classic Skipper and Skeeto 2: The Great Treasure Hunt (danish: Magnus og Myggen: den store skattejagt) is, at least in original danish version, a great point and click adventure. Please check it out sometime :)
... wow they were sent to you from Australia? *mind blown*
That Panasonic you got there is a Toughbook, or some earlier version of the same concept. We'd use them on EMS rigs since it was a bumpy environment and the thing was liable to get dropped more than a few times (hopefully in the ambulance, sometimes on the pavement - falling out of the ambulance). I know some PD's used them, too.
Thanks for all the content, and Merry Christmas.
ohhh Twinsen' s Odyssey! I have the OEM version that came with a Sound Blaster card. It was a nice adventure game, an early attemp of a 3D axteriors, 2D interiors... and the music is Awesome!
No idea how my box to you got labelled as from "Diana" ... I'm gonna blame the folks at the shipping place.
Twinsen's Odyssey and Relentless were 2 of my favourite games of all time. I really need to play it again.
Don't worry. We all have to be able to look impressed and grateful this time of year!
LGR Videos are always such a pleasant experience
That After Dark shirt is glorious and I need one now.
No joke I use to love MusicMatch Jukebox.. it came with a dvd writer I had back in the day..
I used MusicMatch extensively along with my MiniDisc to record a morning radio show. My Pentium 166 OverDrive was just fast enough to keep up.
Some really nice portable computers in this one, the Gateway looks like a great little device and both the IBMs look awesome....very jealous :)
Oh my gosh! Thomas and Tim! Had a flashback to a moment in my childhood right now, that I had completely forgotten! Those games were so good!
Clint has better Christmas presents than the rest of us
I remember getting a whole basket full of those multocored floppy disk shareware games
Merry Christmas everyone
Wow that Gateway Handbook reminds me of those mini laptops from the mid-late 2000's. Pretty cool looking piece of tech
I remember my father being issued a laptop with a built in printer when he worked for Mitsubishi. When they upgraded to newer models he was very upset at losing the functionality of that built in printer.
I've never seen a lap-top-printer like that! I love those amalgalm products.
I want to know the model so i can get one aha
Totally! I would go to a StarBucks and fake-type a novel and print it hahaha.
Canon NoteJet BN120C
I think the IRS bought a bunch of those at one point? There were three different models of them made, the first retailing for over US$5000.
Merry Christmas! There's nothing better than getting back home from a Christmas dinner, my dexterity dramatically limited by the gigantuous amounts of food in my belly and finding out there's a new LGR video waiting for me. Best wishes and thank you for all the great content.
Hope you enjoy the Handbook, I'm glad it made it intact! The back panel flips open to expose the expansion ports, it is a pretty neat little unit.
You bet I will!
Lazy Game Reviews Cheers!
That little thing looks awesome, I hope Clint reviews it soon. I kind of have a thing for cool portables.
I used to have one, I bought it used in '94 or so to play Road War 2000 and word processing but when I moved into dorms I put a BIOS password on it to keep people from messing with it, got a desktop to play Heretic death-match over serial then forgot the password for the laptop. I took it apart and popped the weird proprietary CMOS battery pack out but to reset it but wasn't able to get it working again and eventually it went to electronics recycling in the Great Purge of '06. I thought it was a neat and compact machine and I hope LGR gets a chance to play with it.
Wow.. Thomas & Tim was a danish kids show from around the mid-nineties.. Remember watching it as a child!
Service Merchandise!! Loved that place in Lubbock and Midland Texas back in the 80s.
Tomas and Tim is a danish franchise, awsome!!
Clint got salty at them peanuts lol.
that's why salty peanuts are the best flavor
I see what you did there.... I like it.
In all fairness, that's probably the hundred-gazzillionth time he's been hit with the packing peanut gag.
whoever sent them to him really (honey) roasted him...
In his defense, anyone that does that must be nuts
Hi Clint!Thanks for the video on Christmas!! All the best to you and yours and I am confident you will hit 1,000,000 subscribers sometime in the upcoming year.
I'm from the future, and Clint has 1.32M subscribers as of this day.
Lol jk but honestly he received some really cool things that I would not be able to find anywhere
MusicMatch came with *absolutely everything* for a few years.
Thomas and Tim are a Danish cartoon series, broadcast by Danmarks Radio in the 1990s. The series is about two boys who, through their imagination, experience a lot of adventure they find themselves.
I just noticed you were over 3/4 million subs. Lots of great content on this channel! I have had a wonderful year watching it all. Hope you enjoy making these videos as much as you did 10 years ago. And best wishes in the new year Clint!
I remember that bubble jet laptop. I recall looking at it when I was searching for a laptop to take with me to Korea. I ended up getting a laptop and separate printer (also a bubble jet because it was the smallest printer you could buy at the time).
I drooled over them when they were featured in Popular Science.
funhaus would KILL for thise demo discs
The Gamers Elite that was about 98% of my collection of them. I kept 1 PC Gamer Disk and a couple of others that had some full games on them. Soon as I can image them I’m sending them to their proper LGR home.
I was thinking the same thing! Bruce would weeze to death at that box
Merry Christmas lgr! You got me so into retro computing this year that I built my first older rig! I’m having a great Christmas and I hope you are too and I’m great full that I found your channel
I love this guy's voice!
OMG Thomas and Tim!!! I remember watching that show as a child. It's from Denmark, cause DR stands for Denmarks Radio :D
omg, i used to collect sylvanian families as a kid growing up in the 80s. proper bit of nostalgia right there.
If the 8-Bit Guy had a time machine to travel back in time he would probably revolutionise the C64 gaming industry because of all the modern knowledge and tricks we figured out through so many people doing C64 demos.
Tough Book... Those are great we have them at work. And that IBM is amazing if it has the black and white TFT screen. We had those where I worked in the 90's for sale that screen was amazing.
17:16 WOW. So jealous you got that! I definitely share your fondness for demo discs. Best part of the magazine!
Before the Amstrad I mentioned earlier, I had the Color Computer 2 and that speech synthesizer! I also had the little 300 baud Direct Connect Modem Pak. That's the machine on which I started dialing BBSes. The modem did not dial itself. No, sir! You had flip the switch to originate, pick up the phone, dial the host yourself, and when you heard it answer, you manually engaged the modem by pushing a button on it, and then you hung up the phone and watched the characters appear in all its 300 baud glory! MAN I miss those days!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Clint and all LGR fans
Musicmatch! That just *flooded* me with memories.
Look at all that bubble wrap you got. You'll be set for days.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! LGR gave us another awesome video on Christmas Day, what a guy!
I hope you do a video on the tiny Gateway.
Waiting for the SSI-2001 replica review!!! :)
I work in the PCB field, and my god some of those gifts Clint gets remind me of all the pain i have to go through and yet give me some hope that there is some usefulness in what i do.
The panasonic looks like one of the "Toughbook" line, ruggedized systems for military & law enforcement.
See, this is the thing kids from this era will never know, going to a brick and mortar store and buying boxed software and games. One of my favorite things from the 80's was going to babbage's and looking through all of the boxed software and games. You would buy a game or two and maybe on the ride home you and your friend would open the box and read the manuals and whatever. Didn't seem like that big a deal back then but now I remember it fondly. Now you just go to Steam or wherever and download the game.
demo disks and and the first one you pull out (red n black) is one i got in my shelf xD loved the k-lite and pc-gamer demo-disks growing up.
Merry Christmas! For those who have nostalgia for Ye Olde Floppy, they're still available.
In fact there are USB floppy drives, plug it in and Windows even recognizes it as the A: drive.
Little Big Adventure... Holy moly, I have played that game and the sequel like, maybe 7 months ago because it's so enjoyable to play em! Very much worth playing... Twinsens Odyssey was called "Little big adventure 2" here, in the Netherlands.
That game has bags of character!
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura! I can't believe it's the grand champion standing here next to me.
molesting me*
:D Here! polish my spear
Wow best unboxing video you have had ever. Cool old school hardware.
You got a 550BJ... Thats up there with the 701C as a thinkpad holy grail among collectors. I am the pinnacle of envious right now.
Holy crap, Mission Humanity! Used to play that when i was a kid and i totally forgot about it. Glad someone else knows about it!
Absolutely looking forward to the Gateway Handbook video!
Din't expect to see Thomas & Tim on LGR, talk about blast from the past.
Hey Clint big fan of your channel.Possibly my favorite channel due to the nostalgia rush i get when watching your videos!.I was wondering if you could perhaps do a video/tour on your modern build/setup, that you use for editing and running more modern games.I know it is not really your thing but id be interested to see your workstation and the sort of hardware you use as someone that loves classic tech.Keep up the good work!.BTW Dusk Episode 2 is out !!!
Seeing all the cool stuff from Goodwill reminds me how barren the Goodwills in Las Vegas are. It's hard to find anything of note out here.
i totally remember those MicroAdventure books , those things were awesome
6:34 Nyet 3? Ross Scott made an episode on this! You might want to dump the floppy contents
It strikes me that a really good use of 3D printers would be to use them to print replacements for all those little plastic bits and bobs that break or go missing in older machines. It'd be really useful if you could get STL files of those parts.
You got a free P70! Lucky man. I had to buy mine locally last year, but I still feel lucky to have found one at all. These were near $20,000 computers in 1989-91.
Thomas and Tim is\was a danish cartoon series..:) Marry xmas Clint from Denmark :)
And some of the most succesful children PC-games ever produced in Denmark as well. Funny to see that they made their way down to Australia!
X-Fools holds a special place in my heart, since I played it as a kid. It's mostly unoriginal and mildly amusing mini-games, but the parody X-Files intro movie was legitimately funny.
Whhoooaa! IBM MM-1! I forgot about those. I now remember considering getting one when I converted my new PS/2 77s into an Ultimedia model. I never did run across one in the off-lease or used market.
Ooh, a Handbook! Those things are great - never had a good solid spot in my collection for one since i've already got a Gateway 4DX2-50v tower representing the 486 era and my Libretto 70CT is a bit too similar, though.
Never in my life did I expect to see a Spanish Windows 95 instructional video from Jennifer Aniston.
Clint you HAVE to review that Windows 95 tutorial vhs! Please tell me it opens with the theme song for "Friends"...
Totaly awesome, al that stuff every time ! Wonder or you going to show some Sinclair Z80 stuff as you received such system some time ago, I now the stuff must be working and time isn´t a luxury with so much laying around speciale reviewing hardware takes a lot off it !!
Twinsen's Odyssey came out over here as Little big adventure 2, best game I ever played at the time, graphics were pretty cool!
MusicMatch Jukebox was bundled with my Diamond Rio PMP300 mp3 player. Still got that little thing and it's parallel port interface cable in the deep storage vault.
Wow, I remember collecting those game informer demo discs for the Xbox 360 avatar portraits, I think by the time I stopped subscribing to the magazine I had well over 300 or so icons. Looking back I don't actually know why I did that as I never really changed the icon I used.
I would want that box of demo disc's, I just started collecting them. Good fan haul man, Merry X-Mas LGR!
Sideshow The Game Freak that was a collection starting with the very first PC Gamer mag I bought which was the one with “Warcraft Adventures” on it (PushingUpRoses used my magazine scans in her video on that).
Merry Christmas to you too. Thank you for your videos!
Lol, I always hoped someone would send you Twinsen's Oddysey, It's the sequel to Relentless/Little Big Adventure one and it is my absolute favorite childhood game and is available on GoG. I really can't gush enough how amazing that beautiful game is.
That Techmedia PC needs the woodgrain treatment.
I hope that XT to PS/2 adapter becomes something available to buy. Buying withing the country would be so convenient.
That last "portable" IBM looks awesome!
i actually had bowlatronic back in the 90s. it broke in 2003. had fun with it as a kid.
Lovely video!
I would really love to see a review, of the Thomas and Tim games. They were a big part of my childhood. I actually never knew, that they were available outside of Denmark.
...I'm jealous of the Compute's Gazette. I used to get those, when I had my C64...great magazine.
Please make a review of the Innovation SSI-2001 replica !!! I have long wanted to learn more about this sound card.
Merry Christmas, great load of "goodies" ..... thanks for all your hard work on your videos :)
Merry and lazy Christmas to you, Clint! Keep up the good work, love your show
Hey Clint, Thanks for all of your fantastic videos, have a great Christmas!
That Panasonic metal laptop is a ToughBook. If I'm not mistaken they were originally developed for the military back in the early 2000's. As beaten as that one is it may have been over there.
Gotta love the floppy disk with the word "nonsense" written on it.
Unscrupulous nonsense at that!
I have the same weakness (Irresistible attraction) for computer things vintage. This was the best computer porn video of the yuletide season! I will miss this category.
I remember seeing thomas and tim back in the day on danish tv, funny to see them all the way over at you, they useally was a filler episode in another kids tv show i owned on tape.
DUDE! THOMAS AND TIM! :D It's based on a shortlived Danish cartoon series of the same name from my childhood. Good stuff, my personal introduction to the point and click genre
I still use musicmatch jukebox because screw itunes using 2GB of ram. ALSO, service merchandise was a chain of catalog stores, where you’d look from a catalog IN THE STORE and come out and bring you what you wanted
My grandma had the Windows 95 tape. It's amazing
Happy Christmas Clint and Thank you for all the uploads in 2017.
Oh fuck, that Gateway 2000 Handbook... I've been looking for one for God knows how long!
I just watched that Win95 with Aniston and Perry the other month!!
I miss service merchandise they were big here in the northeast up too the early 90's got my first cd player there
Awesome that you now have a toughbook and that Gateway laptop is cool.
It's a toughbook. Had a cf-25 a couple of years back :D
Awesome video as usual with opening box. Thanks Merry Christmas