Wow, I never realized Warcraft II & Command & Conquer were released the same year. I started with C&C Red-Alert, and I wouldn't find Warcraft until WC3. But WC2's graphics are light-years ahead of C&C. It's unbelievable. Maybe C&C was using fully-rendered & had more units on screen while WC2 utilized something like sprites? Everything just looks so much more solid. It's almost like N64 vs PS1 in difference.
I can remember having a Windows 95 game of some kind, and it had promotional material for other games in the box from LucasArts I think. Wish I could remember what game it was, but anyways it had a poster for The Dig. It had no additional information, and I always wondered what the hell it could be. Thanks to you and this video I now know what The Dig was! At 6 years old I probably wouldn't have thought much of it, but it looks very interesting now.
people now don't know the struggle of playing fps with a keyboard but no mouse aiming page up/down to look or down was the biggest bane of my childhood
Not just PC gaming. PlayStation hit North America in 95, and I will argue that it changed games forever. Think of the pioneering designs we got from PS1. Final Fantasy VII through IX, Resident Evil 1 & 2, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear Solid. PC & N64 were more powerful yes, but PS1 was a perfect storm: 700mb discs & multi-disc capabilities. Of course PC did this first, and a few consoles before PS1 as well. But there was a stronger market incentive, and it had a standardized hardware platform unlike PC. Sony's dev-kits & their full support of 3rd party developers were also key.
Hearthstone isn't half bad, though it wasn't my cup of tea. Age of wonders 3. Goat simulator!!! Watch dogs. Shadow of mordor. Buuut yeah, they're solid games, but they're not AMAZING. Warcraft 2 was like AMAZING at that time.
Zandonus It was really amazing back then as well as Command and Conquer which was the beginning of a legend. Hard to choose between the 2 (if one had to)
dammit dan What good games came out last year exactly? .. Assassins Creed Unity? Watch Dogs? Destiny? ... lol .. last year was TERRIBLE .. the best game was probably Shovel Knight
Dark Tenka Agreed. 1995 was a hell of a good PC gaming year. Also Discworld, Tyrian and NFS1 came out the same year. And if you look towards the consoles, the most technically advanced 16bit games came around, where the Genesis and SNES were maxed out at the same time as the PSX and Saturn were introduced and flexed it's muscles with Wipeout, Sega Rally and Virtua Fighting 2. Oh my, what a gaming year it was.
It's not that they are old but look at these. The Dig with the music, atmosphere, story and breath taking pixel artwork. Command & Conquer that had a simple but engaging style of base building plus a great soundtrack. Descent 2 was what a sequel should be, an upgrade of everything with more than before and polish and it was a unique kind of fps where floor and roof meant nothing unless you were easily disoriented plus the number of controls to move. Warcraft 2 was the same as Descent 2, an upgrade and addition of everything from the previous game. Try and compare Assassins Creed Unity to Assassins Creed 2. They are doing it wrong. Plus Lucas Arts didn't just make The Dig but also Full Throttle the same year and both were really great point and click games with different themes. It's the variety of games that matters and the quality. Patching, updating and alphas has made companies lazy idiots that use them as excuses to rush and sell a game quicker. How many times haven't you heard them say the game was rushed because publishers wanted a Christmas release
There was a game, I think it's an arcade. Where you are a guy with a shotgun, and you can shoot backwards. And there was these monster you had to kill but also innocent people detained, hanging from the arms. You could just pass them by or you could shoot them too. The shotgun level increased as the game advanced. I can't remember the name.
I believe Albion was originally released in Germany in 1995 then translated to English for an international release in 1996. So as it is the English version I'm showing in my video it probably should have been 1996. Sorry.
IVe been born in 1986. Ive played all these games except for dark forces. Its really intresting to think about how did they make us get to know about all these games. These days everyone had internet, back then I didnt know anyone with internet. So how did I end up with all these games, I really cant remember anymore. Not saying that 1995 was better then 20 years later. But I think i was born on the right moment to see the rise of the gaming industery. (how ever at my school I was the "nerd" for having a pc)
+m9078jk3 This game appears on my 1994 video. It was originally released in 1994 on 3DO and then later in 1995 on DOS. I know, it should really be on this video.
3:54 warcraft 2 was a real deal. I remember building bases near mines and literally collecting gold in minutes. The mechanics of the game were just amazing you got swordsman, archers, catapults and mages all units had their own advantages. Animation was also great and colorful. World of Warcraft (WoW) from Blizzard company is NOT of the same quality - too many heroes, raw geometry graphics and countless spells. Just too boring to level these heroes and bow to more powerful one. Gash, you need to study 100 pages manual before you can succeed, unlike in W2 where you could start playing without even reading about the game itself.
God early 3D games like MechWarrior look bad by today's standards. They look like something a high school student would have made 12 years ago as an abandoned experiment the first time they used 3D game-making software. I personally feel like 3D games didn't really start getting good until 1996.
And even though systems like the N64 and PC had excellent 3D games during 96-98, a lot of the stuff related to how to display graphics well wasn't figured out until at least as late as Quake 3, released in late 99.
Presumably someone will disagree with me based on Doom coming out in '93, to which I can only reply that Doom used clever tricks to give a 3D experience when it wasn't really fully 3D. Gor example, the floor was actually a single plane with height data stored separately; the game was designed in a way that made it impossible for one room to be located directly above another room.
One of the first true 3D first person shooter games to come out was Future Shock in 1995. Some early attempts at 3D didn't look very good such as Fade To Black which also came out in 1995.
i hate it when those spoiled kids today laugh about these games (especially the graphics). everybody who grew up with them appreciates them. the games today look fantastic no question(almost too realistic for my taste) but to be honest most of them are just shallow and dull. not to mention no new ideas whatsoever.
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Wow, I never realized Warcraft II & Command & Conquer were released the same year.
I started with C&C Red-Alert, and I wouldn't find Warcraft until WC3.
But WC2's graphics are light-years ahead of C&C. It's unbelievable.
Maybe C&C was using fully-rendered & had more units on screen while WC2 utilized something like sprites? Everything just looks so much more solid. It's almost like N64 vs PS1 in difference.
I can remember having a Windows 95 game of some kind, and it had promotional material for other games in the box from LucasArts I think. Wish I could remember what game it was, but anyways it had a poster for The Dig. It had no additional information, and I always wondered what the hell it could be.
Thanks to you and this video I now know what The Dig was!
At 6 years old I probably wouldn't have thought much of it, but it looks very interesting now.
Dark Forces was revolutionary in many ways. It's one of my favorite gaming memories of all time.
Remember when the demo came with
A full version of full throttle?
Got far in the PS1 version.
Also played shadows of the empire.
damn 1995 had some absolute bangers
The list:
Dark Forces
Albion
Descent
The Dig
Bioforge
Crusader: No Remorse
Mechwarrior 2
Full Throttle
Warcraft II
Command & Conquer
people now don't know the struggle of playing fps with a keyboard but no mouse aiming
page up/down to look or down was the biggest bane of my childhood
RJinthematrix penischu
Those were truly the days. Had so much fun with so many of those games. The 90s were the golden era of PC gaming. Miss them and all we had then.
Not just PC gaming. PlayStation hit North America in 95, and I will argue that it changed games forever. Think of the pioneering designs we got from PS1. Final Fantasy VII through IX, Resident Evil 1 & 2, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear Solid.
PC & N64 were more powerful yes, but PS1 was a perfect storm:
700mb discs & multi-disc capabilities. Of course PC did this first, and a few consoles before PS1 as well.
But there was a stronger market incentive, and it had a standardized hardware platform unlike PC.
Sony's dev-kits & their full support of 3rd party developers were also key.
I've played out of this list, C&C, Warcraft 2, and MechWarrior 2, all during the 90's. Good times.
the future Jedi knight games drilled Dark Forces however, i loved Katarns storyline in those Star wars games.
Love the Crusader games.
Dark Forces uses the Jedi game engine. LucasArts chose to create their own engine rather than license the Doom engine.
I just had myself a nostalgaculation! Many thanks!
Wrong MechWarrior 2 video, it taken from PS1 "arcade" version, which is a quite different game.
wow .. All of these games came out in 1995? .. fuck that was a good year.. lets go do that year again instead of 2014..
Hearthstone isn't half bad, though it wasn't my cup of tea. Age of wonders 3. Goat simulator!!! Watch dogs. Shadow of mordor. Buuut yeah, they're solid games, but they're not AMAZING. Warcraft 2 was like AMAZING at that time.
Zandonus It was really amazing back then as well as Command and Conquer which was the beginning of a legend. Hard to choose between the 2 (if one had to)
dammit dan What good games came out last year exactly? .. Assassins Creed Unity? Watch Dogs? Destiny? ... lol .. last year was TERRIBLE .. the best game was probably Shovel Knight
Dark Tenka Agreed. 1995 was a hell of a good PC gaming year. Also Discworld, Tyrian and NFS1 came out the same year. And if you look towards the consoles, the most technically advanced 16bit games came around, where the Genesis and SNES were maxed out at the same time as the PSX and Saturn were introduced and flexed it's muscles with Wipeout, Sega Rally and Virtua Fighting 2. Oh my, what a gaming year it was.
It's not that they are old but look at these. The Dig with the music, atmosphere, story and breath taking pixel artwork.
Command & Conquer that had a simple but engaging style of base building plus a great soundtrack.
Descent 2 was what a sequel should be, an upgrade of everything with more than before and polish and it was a unique kind of fps where floor and roof meant nothing unless you were easily disoriented plus the number of controls to move.
Warcraft 2 was the same as Descent 2, an upgrade and addition of everything from the previous game.
Try and compare Assassins Creed Unity to Assassins Creed 2. They are doing it wrong.
Plus Lucas Arts didn't just make The Dig but also Full Throttle the same year and both were really great point and click games with different themes.
It's the variety of games that matters and the quality. Patching, updating and alphas has made companies lazy idiots that use them as excuses to rush and sell a game quicker. How many times haven't you heard them say the game was rushed because publishers wanted a Christmas release
Relentless (Little Big Adventure) would be the only thing I add. I am so happy to see The Dig on the list though!
There was a game, I think it's an arcade. Where you are a guy with a shotgun, and you can shoot backwards. And there was these monster you had to kill but also innocent people detained, hanging from the arms. You could just pass them by or you could shoot them too. The shotgun level increased as the game advanced. I can't remember the name.
Great games on this list. X-Com : Terror from the deep was from 1995 too ^^
Of course it's Command and Conquer!
Great top 10!
This video hit me right in the childhood, it hit me square in the feels.
I believe Albion was originally released in Germany in 1995 then translated to English for an international release in 1996. So as it is the English version I'm showing in my video it probably should have been 1996. Sorry.
Ya in those days most updates were still either by snail mail on disks or on BBS's.
Yes, Albion is from 96.
I have Dark Forces Ps1 on my ps3. Still love that game!!
If Stonekeep weren't so buggy, it would definitely be a candidate for a top-10 in my view
Man your games posted here are Epic ones... You should have had bedlam also :P
IVe been born in 1986. Ive played all these games except for dark forces. Its really intresting to think about how did they make us get to know about all these games. These days everyone had internet, back then I didnt know anyone with internet. So how did I end up with all these games, I really cant remember anymore. Not saying that 1995 was better then 20 years later. But I think i was born on the right moment to see the rise of the gaming industery. (how ever at my school I was the "nerd" for having a pc)
If you didn't buy it from stores back then it was most likely a BBS that had it.
I loved C&C, Warcraft 2, Crusader no remorse and Screamer a fantastic racine car you did not mentionned. Thx
perfect list
Descent kicked ass in that time
haaaaa... :) command and conquer tibirian dawn :DDDD good old times :)
Yeah :)
Number 3 was a great cutscene....
The demo to dark forces is you get
To moth game over.
You should try I have no moth and i must scream
Moths are the worst, they make me scream.
what about : terminator future shock, mortal kombat 3, xcom terror from the deep and the need for speed?
golden age of pc games.
MechWarrior 2.. greatest nostalgia right there, the only true MW2! not that other garbage MW2.
Hope it comes back 2023.
Full Throttle was awesome
Terminator Future Shock - atmospheric real 3d shooter (like descent)
How about Road and Track's The Need for Speed DOS (August 31,1995) as a good 1995 PC game
+m9078jk3 This game appears on my 1994 video. It was originally released in 1994 on 3DO and then later in 1995 on DOS. I know, it should really be on this video.
3:54 warcraft 2 was a real deal. I remember building bases near mines and literally collecting gold in minutes. The mechanics of the game were just amazing you got swordsman, archers, catapults and mages all units had their own advantages. Animation was also great and colorful. World of Warcraft (WoW) from Blizzard company is NOT of the same quality - too many heroes, raw geometry graphics and countless spells. Just too boring to level these heroes and bow to more powerful one. Gash, you need to study 100 pages manual before you can succeed, unlike in W2 where you could start playing without even reading about the game itself.
"Dabu ... hu huu huuu"
Dark Forces aged so much better compared to some of the crap in the list
Same with c&c to some degree
Warcraft 2 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wasnt descent 1994?
The official release for the complete videogame (Descent) is 1995. Only a shareware demo, a couple levels, was released around Christmas 1994.
Who came from "friends" after chandler said that his 1995 laptop is meant for games.
I couldn't play Descent at all... i felt like throwing up after 3 mins... motion sickness..
C&C95 the best game. Yes!!!
Tiberian Dawn!
Killing those storm troopers was fun
Tho.
Like, where's Doom 2?
There are so many he can't get to em
All.
God early 3D games like MechWarrior look bad by today's standards. They look like something a high school student would have made 12 years ago as an abandoned experiment the first time they used 3D game-making software. I personally feel like 3D games didn't really start getting good until 1996.
And even though systems like the N64 and PC had excellent 3D games during 96-98, a lot of the stuff related to how to display graphics well wasn't figured out until at least as late as Quake 3, released in late 99.
Presumably someone will disagree with me based on Doom coming out in '93, to which I can only reply that Doom used clever tricks to give a 3D experience when it wasn't really fully 3D. Gor example, the floor was actually a single plane with height data stored separately; the game was designed in a way that made it impossible for one room to be located directly above another room.
One of the first true 3D first person shooter games to come out was
Future Shock in 1995. Some early attempts at 3D didn't look very good
such as Fade To Black which also came out in 1995.
And now we have the best graphics but the shittiest games.
Back then the graphics were damn cool and they sometimes chugged. Ya today they look awful. But for their day they were amazing and very fun.
I thought Albion appeared in 1996...hmmm
DIG
Good!Xd
i hate it when those spoiled kids today laugh about these games (especially the graphics). everybody who grew up with them appreciates them.
the games today look fantastic no question(almost too realistic for my taste) but to be honest most of them are just shallow and dull. not to mention no new ideas whatsoever.
My iPad Pro is more powerful than computers from 1995! 😛
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Penischu