@@maximumhate666 My dad bought my mom a 286 12 MHz in 1988. At the time, it seemed like such a frivolous purchase. Then my brother borrowed Ultima 4 from his high school buddy, and we played it for hours and hours. I quickly realized that it was the best purchase my father ever made!
Exactly. Old games were mostly unique from each other with the engines and graphics styles. When games started chasing photorealism all the magic was gone. Most of the modern games even share the same controls and back then every game was a supprise with different hud, mechanics and stuff. Today only indie games are unique like classics we love. That's why most of my games on Steam are retro inspired indie games that explore what can be done with modern PCs capabilities using retro stylistics and mechanics.
@@mattx5499 That's true about the controls. Did you ever play Ultima IV? Nearly every key on the keyboard was assigned a specific action. It was as clunky as hell, but the game was still as fun as f*ck!
DOS Nostalgia That was beautiful. I had an adlib card on my first PC but not the Gold version. First time I've heard anything from the gold, and I have to say, that sounds way better than any soundblaster card I've heard.
Beautiful. I remember playing at least a good 60 percent of these. Amongst my favourites: Dune, Alone in the Dark, Fate of Atlantis, Quest for Glory (the third was a masterpiece!) and Legend of Kyrandia (not as good, but still has a place in my heart). And all with a 486dx-2 66... with the infamous TURBO button :D
back then most games where really fun and not just trying to focus on graphics like most games today are so boring because they spend so much time on the graphics and not the story and gameplay
Note Ultima underworld, Wolfenstein 3D and Ultima VII in particular. That was the trifecta of games that really beat the amiga, showed that the PC was now powerful enough to do in software what the amiga could do with hardware acceleration and more. Underworld essentially invented the western first person immersive RPG. Nothing like it existed before it; it stands there in 1992 like this bizzare anachronism. Like finding a rabbit fossil in the pre-cambrian. It wasn't just graphically; it had factions, it had rudamentary stealth mechanics, swimming, jumping, basic physic engine, an ingame map where you could take notes directly on the map, slanted floors, slanted walls, bridges. The game fulfilled the role of dungeon master. The action didn't happen to an abstract representation of a party moving on a grid with 90 degree angles; the action happened to you. No game before it I would have called immersive, except for maybe space sims like Elite. I was not naive to 3D even back then; I had played Stunt car racer on the amiga, Hunter and star glider 2. I had even tried VR on the amiga (!) on a trade show at about 5-10 FPS (it's not as sick inducing as you'd expect, because it is too unconvincing to induce motion sickness; dactyl panic or something similar it was called, players shot crossbows at each other). No game before or since has been as impressive to me. System shock, the elder scrolls, Half-life, Thief and Deus ex all unabashedly borrowed from it. Today it doesn't look that special because we can look at games that came after it; mostly by the same developer, like System shock and thief. But before it, there was nothing. If you look at a game like Wolfenstein 3D, it was much more incremental. You can see predecessors like the catacombs 3D games, Hovertank 3D and so on. You can see how it grew out of the 2D games.
c:\> cd games\wolf3d c:\games\wolf3d> wolf3d.exe then lots of fun hours well, sometimes configuring sound were horrible; address, DMA, IRQ i had a soundblaster, but i always was curious about one called roland hahahaha
Yeah, that goddamn IRQ. I did not understand its meaning back then and had to guess the number each time. Well, there weren't too many variations - 7 or 11 usually, I'm not sure if I remember correctly. There was always this Gravis Ultrasound, in all them setup.exe's, and the title alone made want it. Never got it, then it turned out to be not that awesome anyway. But the Sound Blaster itself was, like, woah, I was so impressed when I've heard non-Adlib sounds in Doom. I even thought that I could hear the doomguy's breathing and his heartbeat. Everything felt so real.
Martijn van Zanen Oh yeah. I remember hearing a lot of envious remarks over my BBS being one of the first in my area to have a CD-ROM drive w/ one of those shareware discs. Then a few months later I had plenty to be envious about myself when my 486/SX 25mhz was crushed by the DX2 66mhz and faster. Unless you were rich, you couldn't stay ahead of the curve for long in those days.
Adam Olympia I remember deciding to go for the p75 or the dx4 133 mhz. Glad I went for the intel p75 with Edo ram. It sure was fast for its time ( I clocked it even on 90 mhz haha) It came with no sound card and no cdrom drive. Installing win 95 on floppy ( took forever lol) My first pc was a sx 386 25 mhz with 1 mb. And ofcourse a monochrome monitor. Good days:)
I remember feeling so privileged with my 486/80, with 8 MBs RAM. I had a Soundblaster sound card, plus a dedicated modem. I miss the "good old days" lol
Picq's original ALG music is the best there is IMO. There's an analog recording from a real AdLib Gold on youtube and the net for download somewhere ;)
Same thing with Ultima Underworld. The engine could handle full physics, slanted platforms, and 3d objects, where even the Doom engine had steps instead of slanted platforms
A lot of games here I remember but never got to play, a few I've never seen 'til now and then of course the beloved games here ... the games I actually played. Some of my favorites here include ALONE IN THE DARK, ULTIMA UNDERWORLD and perhaps the most epic game of all time, WIZARDRY: CRUSADERS OF THE DARK SAVANT ... my god what a glorious game (and I actually finished it and yes it took freakin' forever and ever). Anyway thanks for the bringing back the memories!
I was playing a few Apple/PC games around 92 (mainly Apple 1 or 2 and later Macintosh), I was too young to remember all of them, but their must have been a lot of point and click games at that time. The only game I liked in the video was the Wolfenstien 3D game, I remember playing that game and Doom for the first time in 1999 or 2000 after getting some new shareware/demo games for my new Pentium 3 computer, I was very excited to play the games, even though I played Quake about a year or two before, I don't think my father knew what kind of game he bought his kids back then, me and my brother were puzzled and scared as we played Quake for the first time because my father didn't buy games like that for us so we thought we would get in trouble for playing this kind of game so for 2 weeks we didn't play it until my father ask us why weren't we playing the new game he got us. By the time he realized what he had purchased, it was to late to return it and I was half way through the game.
Glad you included ultima VII on this list, seems to be overlooked WAAAAY too often on lists like these. In my opinion it may be the most immersive RPG ever created, and the lengths they went to in detail and craft are still amazing today.
Also glad Underworld was on here as well, definite the landmark game as far as 3d games are concerned, with real 3d models and an actual ability to create slopes, multi layered levels, and and thin platforms, in addition to being able to look up and down. The game wouldn't be really matched till system shock came out, and not by another company until quake years later
michael norris it was my introduction to ultima, and I think it was the best one, except it was really easy to ignore the path the game expected you to take if you discovered the flying carpet early, as I did. xD but I like it when games can be played any way you like.
@@joedoe1096 exactly. I've dumped hours into the game just messing around creating massive powder keg stacks and blowing whole town to bits. The game is loads of fun and you can put in 100 hours easy without even touching the main quest
i would have loved to have gotten a pc back then,but they were bloody expensive. i did have an amiga a 500+ though so it wasn't all bad :-) remember seeing wolfenstein 3d on someone's pc though and my jaw dropping to the floor.
so many good games, especially many adventures. But my favourite is Ultima Underworld: such a creepy soundtrack ! Just finished part 2 3 years ago, still a great game
Man does this take me back, to a time when part of what got me through a dreary high school day was knowing I could fire up my 386 after coming home. I played the shit out of Dune (didn't like the Strategy element of Dune II) and Wolfenstein, Alone in the Dark gave me the creeps and I never finished Fate of Atlantis unfortunately (must have played The Last Crusade 200 times).
This compilation was awesomely edited. Thank you for putting this together, DOS Nostalgia It took me over 20 years, but I noticed that all the soundtracks have the same kind of feel to them with the soundblaster midi setup. I wonder A. if that's why I like just about all the soundtracks from the time and B. if it sounds annoying to new-gen gamers who are exposed to many different sound palates and composers. LucasArts; Sam and Max: Hit the Road, Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle...are you freaking kidding me? Straight up EPIC soundtracks. Jeremy Soule might be the only contemporary VG composer I follow to date.
+Tony Hugill You're referring to the Adlib sound. Some people love it, some people hate it. I happen to love it. I still compose with adlib synth sometimes to this day :)
mycapibara, the Ad Lib sound card was basically the same as the Sound Blaster sound card, except that it lacked the ability to play digital recordings.
Minecraft can suck it! The golden age of PC gaming was just incredible. Even the bad games were good unless they were made by Hi Tech Expressions.(YOUR WELCOME!) I had Robocop 3. Those early 3D RPGs were really cool.
Many of the Dos Games were legendary, Dune, Dune 2, Raptor, Dizzy, Dyna, Bumpy, Pac Man, CD Man, Prince of Persia, Legend of Kyrandia, Loom, Zool, Dinoball, Jill of the Jungle, Corridor 7 among many others. I just feel sad that kid of the present generation will never understand anything about them.
1992 was great for kids who's dads worked for IBM or Apple. 1993-95 was great for the rest of us who FINALLY got a hold of a 486DX and CD-ROM. Good times.
That East Bound Down guy looking game looks fun actually... not too many popular solo quest games out there anymore except Myst which took a dive nose years ago (but heard a new one coming soon).
Ultima Underworld was the best--EVER! I was not able to finish it, though. Some of the items were too hard to find, and some of the riddles were too difficult to solve.
Nice emphasis on adventure games here. Indeed KQ6 and Indiana Jones FOA are truly incredible. Loved Cosmo as well, goofy animation aside. AND JILL!!!!!!
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cool intro ) anatoly instead accolade hahaha.., I am also old school dos gamer started in 1991 with 286 12 mhz hercules monochrome no hdd , dos and games needed to be booted from 5.25 floppy hahaha, 2 years later in 1993 upgraded to vga hdd 200 mb sb soundcard 2mb ram win 3.1 installed, played loads of games most that were actual in first half of 90-ies except doom , mortal kombat that needed at least 386 processor, until end of 1996 when I got am5x86 133mhz .., those were cool times
So many adventure games, but i was more of a console gamer back then. Still played a lot of jane fo the jungle, that robocop like platformer, Cosmos adventure (back then, apogee platformers where the rule) and of course, Wolfenstein 3D
I remember Snap!! Was also the year of "Orbital 2" one of the best nineties dance albums. And that christmas I got my SNES. Cool list!..I haven't played majority of these games!
Thanks. I had the idea for it at work and then just kept smiling for the rest of the day like an idiot because I liked it so much. I think I'm gonna keep it for other "Anatoly Remembers...". No sure if I should use different ones or just stick with the Test Drive 3 one.
it's amazing to see how much depth and originality games had in those days. To me, Ultima VII the black gate and part II serpent isle are the best game ever made.
most pc users , and thus gamers were above average intelligence , so smart people made games for smart people = quality. Later the stupid all got a computer and game studios discovered that more money was to be made making crap for the masses. why risk making a game for a niche market, and make a small profit or a loss, when you can make the same game every year and shove it to millions of brainless people for huge profits
Metalders, the sound on PC was similar to a Sega Genesis/Megadrive if you used a Sound Blaster card, but there were other sound cards that had quite different sound such as the Roland MT-32/LAPC-I.
For me, those games bring me a lot of good nostalgia back in time. I remember the struggle trying to get those KB of RAM needed for those 386 games, the IRQ and DMA port of soundcards... wtf, I even remember need to run a command on dos to get the mouse working. Those cryptic adventure games (you need help ? call HOTLINE xD) Damn, I also remember all those copy protection wheels, codes, and that stuff. And how much I spend nearly 5-6 months, writing info, maps, puzzles, and all that stuff for complete Waxworks or Elvira
me too. I was deeply addicted in playing dune 2! A friend of mine gave me 3 disks with the game compacted with ARJ tool. Could remember this like yesterday =)
most of these I remember! I was only 7 at the time, but 1992-93.. even 95 were my golden years of everything dos! I remember so fondly my dad getting a 1x speed cd rom! I know it was the next year, but I remember so fondly a HUGE lan party / computer show in my home town where we all got together and celebrated the games of '92 and '93 :D good times, if not the best of times! I still, to this day, replay a ton of these! (and dark seed STILL gives me shivers! It was so unique for it's time during the point & click era!) Dune still remains the most boring and pointless game I've ever played.:D Let the hate begin
Kings quest yess. I was thinking about it recently and was trying to remember some of the games i used to play, then in an nes punk video he mentioned sierra games and i was like OMG YEAHHHHH THAT WAS IT
This was epic.. threw me back... I remenber going to my aunt's house since my cousins had gone for college and me being in elementary school enjoying many of these titles.
Yeah, digital technology hadn't been around for more than about half a century by 1992, so _literally_ no technology... and megabytes of RAM would _literally_ be equal to zero... :)
Ultima 7 and Star Control 2 ... Most definitely two of my top 5 favorite PC games. I still go back and replay those games from time to time, and they are still tons of fun. Immortal classics.
I understand that. I can't remember if I included it in my review video, but you can even inadvertently drop something behind a wall or immovable object in the game, rendering it IMPOSSIBLE to retrieve. This can break your game if it's a plot-necessary item.@@trzy
Games for MS-DOS had an innocence and a level of creative freedom that I miss.
Weil said. I am so grateful that I grew up back then, enjoying those fantastic times on my 286er with 12 MHz
@@maximumhate666 386 16 Mhz for me
@@maximumhate666 My dad bought my mom a 286 12 MHz in 1988. At the time, it seemed like such a frivolous purchase. Then my brother borrowed Ultima 4 from his high school buddy, and we played it for hours and hours. I quickly realized that it was the best purchase my father ever made!
Exactly. Old games were mostly unique from each other with the engines and graphics styles. When games started chasing photorealism all the magic was gone. Most of the modern games even share the same controls and back then every game was a supprise with different hud, mechanics and stuff. Today only indie games are unique like classics we love. That's why most of my games on Steam are retro inspired indie games that explore what can be done with modern PCs capabilities using retro stylistics and mechanics.
@@mattx5499 That's true about the controls. Did you ever play Ultima IV? Nearly every key on the keyboard was assigned a specific action. It was as clunky as hell, but the game was still as fun as f*ck!
I still listen to the Dune soundtrack on youtube from time to time. What an epic game that was.
shodanxx You can listen to the Adlib Gold version of the soundtrack here: ua-cam.com/video/gUfGyfbzl9k/v-deo.html Download included.
DOS Nostalgia That was beautiful. I had an adlib card on my first PC but not the Gold version. First time I've heard anything from the gold, and I have to say, that sounds way better than any soundblaster card I've heard.
+shodanxx You should listen to "Dune a spice opera" that are the original dune tracks enhanced. I still listen to them very often.
Dune...the graphics and concept were too far beyond its time
shodanxx and I still listen music from street fighter 2 . Ken stage music . Guitar arranging.Hiroaki Yoshida .bomb if u like electronic guitar
Beautiful. I remember playing at least a good 60 percent of these. Amongst my favourites: Dune, Alone in the Dark, Fate of Atlantis, Quest for Glory (the third was a masterpiece!) and Legend of Kyrandia (not as good, but still has a place in my heart). And all with a 486dx-2 66... with the infamous TURBO button :D
Personally I think 1990-1993 was the best year for adventure games! That's just me though.
God, I LOVE the original Alone in the Dark!
Remember, all these came out in one year. Today we get 2-3 "decent" AAA's!
the early 90s was a golden age, so many good titles each year it was absurd. These days it's all about making money and not about making good games
And so many different genres!
We don’t even get that today. It’s just copies of copies co copies
Every few years we get lucky and maybe one or two legitimately great AAA games will be released. But thankfully we have a very healthy indie scene!
back when games used to have a soul
hahaa ok
back then most games where really fun and not just trying to focus on graphics
like most games today are so boring because they spend so much time on the graphics and not the story and gameplay
If you wonder how Dune and Dune 2 could be released in the same year. They were developed by different studios. Interesting story though.
Man they were doing incredible things in adventure genre
And remember, while you could spend $15 on a clue book, there was no walkthroughs on the web!
@@gamingtonight1526 you didnt have to if you got a magazine.
@@purefoldnz3070 That worked only for the more popular ones though, good luck finding a magazine that wrote a walkthrough to a total obscore game :D
@kagemarunl I wouldn't mind doing one for each of the years 1990-1995, especially considering that those were arguably the best years for DOS.
It seems like Point and Click games dominated DOS the way Platformers dominated consoles at the time.
Note Ultima underworld, Wolfenstein 3D and Ultima VII in particular. That was the trifecta of games that really beat the amiga, showed that the PC was now powerful enough to do in software what the amiga could do with hardware acceleration and more. Underworld essentially invented the western first person immersive RPG. Nothing like it existed before it; it stands there in 1992 like this bizzare anachronism. Like finding a rabbit fossil in the pre-cambrian. It wasn't just graphically; it had factions, it had rudamentary stealth mechanics, swimming, jumping, basic physic engine, an ingame map where you could take notes directly on the map, slanted floors, slanted walls, bridges. The game fulfilled the role of dungeon master. The action didn't happen to an abstract representation of a party moving on a grid with 90 degree angles; the action happened to you. No game before it I would have called immersive, except for maybe space sims like Elite. I was not naive to 3D even back then; I had played Stunt car racer on the amiga, Hunter and star glider 2. I had even tried VR on the amiga (!) on a trade show at about 5-10 FPS (it's not as sick inducing as you'd expect, because it is too unconvincing to induce motion sickness; dactyl panic or something similar it was called, players shot crossbows at each other). No game before or since has been as impressive to me. System shock, the elder scrolls, Half-life, Thief and Deus ex all unabashedly borrowed from it.
Today it doesn't look that special because we can look at games that came after it; mostly by the same developer, like System shock and thief. But before it, there was nothing. If you look at a game like Wolfenstein 3D, it was much more incremental. You can see predecessors like the catacombs 3D games, Hovertank 3D and so on. You can see how it grew out of the 2D games.
c:\> cd games\wolf3d
c:\games\wolf3d> wolf3d.exe
then lots of fun hours
well, sometimes configuring sound were horrible; address, DMA, IRQ
i had a soundblaster, but i always was curious about one called roland hahahaha
Ah the MT-32
Yeah, that goddamn IRQ. I did not understand its meaning back then and had to guess the number each time. Well, there weren't too many variations - 7 or 11 usually, I'm not sure if I remember correctly.
There was always this Gravis Ultrasound, in all them setup.exe's, and the title alone made want it. Never got it, then it turned out to be not that awesome anyway.
But the Sound Blaster itself was, like, woah, I was so impressed when I've heard non-Adlib sounds in Doom. I even thought that I could hear the doomguy's breathing and his heartbeat. Everything felt so real.
Awesome! I still use Norton Commander in DOS & Total Commander in Windows. Every day of my life!
Ultima VII was the best!
The time people where showing off. "but i got a 4x cdrom you got only a 1 speed"
haha
Martijn van Zanen Oh yeah. I remember hearing a lot of envious remarks over my BBS being one of the first in my area to have a CD-ROM drive w/ one of those shareware discs. Then a few months later I had plenty to be envious about myself when my 486/SX 25mhz was crushed by the DX2 66mhz and faster. Unless you were rich, you couldn't stay ahead of the curve for long in those days.
Adam Olympia I remember deciding to go for the p75 or the dx4 133 mhz. Glad I went for the intel p75 with Edo ram. It sure was fast for its time ( I clocked it even on 90 mhz haha)
It came with no sound card and no cdrom drive. Installing win 95 on floppy ( took forever lol)
My first pc was a sx 386 25 mhz with 1 mb. And ofcourse a monochrome monitor. Good days:)
Martijn van Zanen Ow I member!
I remember feeling so privileged with my 486/80, with 8 MBs RAM. I had a Soundblaster sound card, plus a dedicated modem. I miss the "good old days" lol
oh boi, single speed sucked so hard ... why did you bring that up?! :D
Commanche was friggin awesome for its time, the graphics really were amazing
that dune game had the best soundtrack
+starfox Search for the original - Dune: Spice Opera by Stéphane Picq and Philip Ulrich
Picq's original ALG music is the best there is IMO. There's an analog recording from a real AdLib Gold on youtube and the net for download somewhere ;)
+Helmut Kohl It's on my channel :) ua-cam.com/video/gUfGyfbzl9k/v-deo.html
I even bought the CD, back then :)
I play it every now and then via you tube OST
*sigh* They just don't make games like they use to.
The two Ultima games in this list were so far ahead of their peers.
Amen.
Thank you
Played them in 1996 and was still blown away by them!
I liked ultima vi better
37:31 So hard to believe it was made in 1992! That 3D world outperformed Wolfenstein!
Same thing with Ultima Underworld. The engine could handle full physics, slanted platforms, and 3d objects, where even the Doom engine had steps instead of slanted platforms
Nice! You even got it right with the 1992 versions SQ4 (talkie) KQ6 (non-talkie). AND you have a full games list with time index. Top notch YT video!
A lot of games here I remember but never got to play, a few I've never seen 'til now and then of course the beloved games here ... the games I actually played. Some of my favorites here include ALONE IN THE DARK, ULTIMA UNDERWORLD and perhaps the most epic game of all time, WIZARDRY: CRUSADERS OF THE DARK SAVANT ... my god what a glorious game (and I actually finished it and yes it took freakin' forever and ever). Anyway thanks for the bringing back the memories!
Wolfenstein made me vomit... But I kept playing.. !
Hehehe i thought i was the only one...
So many quest games back then. Some were pretty much more creative than todays point and cliks.
You really have no idea how long I have been searching for 'RISKY WOOD' (which I just came to know the name).
Thank you so much.
This is about the time the first affordable CD-drives for pcs came out, the old 1X Mitsui drives.
I was playing a few Apple/PC games around 92 (mainly Apple 1 or 2 and later Macintosh), I was too young to remember all of them, but their must have been a lot of point and click games at that time. The only game I liked in the video was the Wolfenstien 3D game, I remember playing that game and Doom for the first time in 1999 or 2000 after getting some new shareware/demo games for my new Pentium 3 computer, I was very excited to play the games, even though I played Quake about a year or two before, I don't think my father knew what kind of game he bought his kids back then, me and my brother were puzzled and scared as we played Quake for the first time because my father didn't buy games like that for us so we thought we would get in trouble for playing this kind of game so for 2 weeks we didn't play it until my father ask us why weren't we playing the new game he got us. By the time he realized what he had purchased, it was to late to return it and I was half way through the game.
Glad you included ultima VII on this list, seems to be overlooked WAAAAY too often on lists like these. In my opinion it may be the most immersive RPG ever created, and the lengths they went to in detail and craft are still amazing today.
Also glad Underworld was on here as well, definite the landmark game as far as 3d games are concerned, with real 3d models and an actual ability to create slopes, multi layered levels, and and thin platforms, in addition to being able to look up and down. The game wouldn't be really matched till system shock came out, and not by another company until quake years later
michael norris it was my introduction to ultima, and I think it was the best one, except it was really easy to ignore the path the game expected you to take if you discovered the flying carpet early, as I did. xD but I like it when games can be played any way you like.
@@joedoe1096 exactly. I've dumped hours into the game just messing around creating massive powder keg stacks and blowing whole town to bits. The game is loads of fun and you can put in 100 hours easy without even touching the main quest
From a time when loot boxes were a very distant nightmare.
i would have loved to have gotten a pc back then,but they were bloody expensive. i did have an amiga a 500+ though so it wasn't all bad :-)
remember seeing wolfenstein 3d on someone's pc though and my jaw dropping to the floor.
Ah the glorious days when members of Amiga and Atari clubs verbally smashed eachother's heads in with boasts
up to 1992 the amiga was actually better than the pc for many games, but around 1992 the Pc got the edge, as this video shows
I remember my King's Quest 6 had amazing voice acting. I guess they added that in the Windows version?
CD-ROM version from 1993.
Every time I see images from Star Trek: 25th Anniversary I get instant nostalgia, one my favorite DOS games of all time...
Yeah, talk about an amazing adventure game, and a great use of the Star Trek license!
so many good games, especially many adventures. But my favourite is Ultima Underworld: such a creepy soundtrack ! Just finished part 2 3 years ago, still a great game
Man does this take me back, to a time when part of what got me through a dreary high school day was knowing I could fire up my 386 after coming home. I played the shit out of Dune (didn't like the Strategy element of Dune II) and Wolfenstein, Alone in the Dark gave me the creeps and I never finished Fate of Atlantis unfortunately (must have played The Last Crusade 200 times).
Duncan Idaho from Dune looks like Kim Jong-un.
+OVA9000 Lol I just thought exactly the same. I would like to see Kim having a new haircut like
Duncan Idaho.
great vid! i grew up with DOS and win95!
This compilation was awesomely edited. Thank you for putting this together, DOS Nostalgia
It took me over 20 years, but I noticed that all the soundtracks have the same kind of feel to them with the soundblaster midi setup. I wonder A. if that's why I like just about all the soundtracks from the time and B. if it sounds annoying to new-gen gamers who are exposed to many different sound palates and composers. LucasArts; Sam and Max: Hit the Road, Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle...are you freaking kidding me? Straight up EPIC soundtracks.
Jeremy Soule might be the only contemporary VG composer I follow to date.
+Tony Hugill You're referring to the Adlib sound. Some people love it, some people hate it. I happen to love it. I still compose with adlib synth sometimes to this day :)
mycapibara, the Ad Lib sound card was basically the same as the Sound Blaster sound card, except that it lacked the ability to play digital recordings.
Soule is very good, of course Koji Kondo and Nintendo composers are also very very good
Ahh Dune 1. True masterpiece. True RTS and roleplay storygame.
Minecraft can suck it! The golden age of PC gaming was just incredible. Even the bad games were good unless they were made by Hi Tech Expressions.(YOUR WELCOME!) I had Robocop 3. Those early 3D RPGs were really cool.
Many of the Dos Games were legendary, Dune, Dune 2, Raptor, Dizzy, Dyna, Bumpy, Pac Man, CD Man, Prince of Persia, Legend of Kyrandia, Loom, Zool, Dinoball, Jill of the Jungle, Corridor 7 among many others. I just feel sad that kid of the present generation will never understand anything about them.
1992 was great for kids who's dads worked for IBM or Apple. 1993-95 was great for the rest of us who FINALLY got a hold of a 486DX and CD-ROM. Good times.
Good to know i am re not aleone in my addiction to games, to REAL GAMES. Not 2.5 hour HIPER GRAPHICK's WANKER;s edytion now a days.
That East Bound Down guy looking game looks fun actually... not too many popular solo quest games out there anymore except Myst which took a dive nose years ago (but heard a new one coming soon).
Ultima Underworld was the best--EVER! I was not able to finish it, though. Some of the items were too hard to find, and some of the riddles were too difficult to solve.
Nice emphasis on adventure games here. Indeed KQ6 and Indiana Jones FOA are truly incredible. Loved Cosmo as well, goofy animation aside. AND JILL!!!!!!
13:48 Hilary Clinton
the supplemental material for Rex Nebular was the most raunchy thing I'd ever read as a nine year old.
I wanted to give a thumbs up for the thumbnail, but the upvotes are at 1,337
holy shit Resident Evil 1 was so obviously inspired by Alone In The Dark didn't know that
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cool intro ) anatoly instead accolade hahaha.., I am also old school dos gamer started in 1991 with 286 12 mhz hercules monochrome no hdd , dos and games needed to be booted from 5.25 floppy hahaha, 2 years later in 1993 upgraded to vga hdd 200 mb sb soundcard 2mb ram win 3.1 installed, played loads of games most that were actual in first half of 90-ies except doom , mortal kombat that needed at least 386 processor, until end of 1996 when I got am5x86 133mhz .., those were cool times
So many adventure games, but i was more of a console gamer back then.
Still played a lot of jane fo the jungle, that robocop like platformer, Cosmos adventure (back then, apogee platformers where the rule) and of course, Wolfenstein 3D
I remember Snap!! Was also the year of "Orbital 2" one of the best nineties dance albums. And that christmas I got my SNES.
Cool list!..I haven't played majority of these games!
King's Quest and Sierra were a staple of my afternoons. This takes me back!!
Risky Woods first time seeing this game in a video loved that game and ultima underworld back in the day....dont make games like that now :(
star control II, the best dos game ever, exploration, adventure, fun combat, humor, graphics and music, its all in there.
Great list. Well done. Never played Inca. Had to laugh about this one... you play as a shooting flute made out of an Incas head? Hilarious!
Thanks. I had the idea for it at work and then just kept smiling for the rest of the day like an idiot because I liked it so much. I think I'm gonna keep it for other "Anatoly Remembers...". No sure if I should use different ones or just stick with the Test Drive 3 one.
This has been in my recommendeds for a week now. Did not know it was an eight year old vid
i was wondering why the Dune soundtrack wasnt familiar. then i remembered that my 486 didnt have speakers
Where do you get footage? Do you own all of this? Thanks for sharing.
I capture the footage myself & yes, I do own all of these in one form or another.
Wow, hard work. Someone from Argentina appreciates it. Thank you, again!
Thank you for watching!
Badass video series. Haha the music and voice acting from some of these games is so terrible!
Sherlock Holmes, Indiana and Dune - dddaaa best gameplay and music =)
quest for glory!!!!!! It wasnt thaaaat long ago I was playing QFG5... 15 years? Shiiiiiit.
Ultima 7 was incredible! Such a huge upgrade from the previous Ultima games.
And it’s in super nes
So many graphic adventures at that time, and now it's a pity that there are only so few ones.
it's amazing to see how much depth and originality games had in those days.
To me, Ultima VII the black gate and part II serpent isle are the best game ever made.
most pc users , and thus gamers were above average intelligence , so smart people made games for smart people = quality. Later the stupid all got a computer and game studios discovered that more money was to be made making crap for the masses. why risk making a game for a niche market, and make a small profit or a loss, when you can make the same game every year and shove it to millions of brainless people for huge profits
Man, all of the games with great voice acting, but the sound was pretty similar to Sega Genesis.
Still, Dune 2!
Metalders, the sound on PC was similar to a Sega Genesis/Megadrive if you used a Sound Blaster card, but there were other sound cards that had quite different sound such as the Roland MT-32/LAPC-I.
IndignantSkeptic I've only heard of Sound Blaster, it was the only one we had avaiable here.
Back in the day I used PC Speaker...
Damn, Ultima underworld was way ahead of its time !
Dark Seed ... that game was really disturbing.
Now almost 30 years passed since 1992
yay!, star control 2 to remove the bad taste leaved by No Man Sky
Sorry, did I just witness someone's head morphing into a pan flute and flying away?? 11:01
Oui.
Coktel Vision made the weirdest, best shit I've ever seen.
#PanfluteHead
Goblins 3
Great work, thanks!
For me, those games bring me a lot of good nostalgia back in time.
I remember the struggle trying to get those KB of RAM needed for those 386 games, the IRQ and DMA port of soundcards... wtf, I even remember need to run a command on dos to get the mouse working.
Those cryptic adventure games (you need help ? call HOTLINE xD)
Damn, I also remember all those copy protection wheels, codes, and that stuff. And how much I spend nearly 5-6 months, writing info, maps, puzzles, and all that stuff for complete Waxworks or Elvira
Thank You for all the videos Man :-)
Coming up on 30... making me feel old af
I played dune 2 in grade 3 man i loved it.. next was warcraft: orcs and humans which was damn amazing too
me too. I was deeply addicted in playing dune 2! A friend of mine gave me 3 disks with the game compacted with ARJ tool. Could remember this like yesterday =)
most of these I remember! I was only 7 at the time, but 1992-93.. even 95 were my golden years of everything dos!
I remember so fondly my dad getting a 1x speed cd rom! I know it was the next year, but I remember so fondly a HUGE lan party / computer show in my home town where we all got together and celebrated the games of '92 and '93 :D good times, if not the best of times!
I still, to this day, replay a ton of these! (and dark seed STILL gives me shivers! It was so unique for it's time during the point & click era!)
Dune still remains the most boring and pointless game I've ever played.:D Let the hate begin
What a great gaming year that was
38:18 Check out them bad-ass depth of field effects!
I remember the time when I was playing games with my friends, before our artistic career, when we wanted to become artists. How many amazing times...
Nice intro!
You want 1992? You can't handle 1992.
I was so afraid of the sandworm when i played Dune!
Indeed sounds very similar, but not quite exactly the same. Wing Commander and Ultima DO intersect a few times throughout the series though.
Kings quest yess. I was thinking about it recently and was trying to remember some of the games i used to play, then in an nes punk video he mentioned sierra games and i was like OMG YEAHHHHH THAT WAS IT
I just stumbled upon your great channel, what a treat! Anatoly, do you remember what you did in 1992?
Yes, I went to school & watched the one country I lived in turn into another. Rise of free enterprise & crime. I also played a lot of video games.
DOS Nostalgia Right, thanks. I'm just wondering whether you were living in Russia back then or in the States. :)
37:30 what a heck , this game is really 1992??
Yes
Omg I found a game which I played when I was 5 years old!! Can't belive it!!
3:12 YOU ARE DEAD NOT BIG SURPRISE
blasphemy! I loved a few good men.. and I was only 14 at the time. definitely not over-rated ;P
Adam Olympia It's not that good. You can't handle the truth.
DOS Nostalgia I strenuously object.
This was epic.. threw me back... I remenber going to my aunt's house since my cousins had gone for college and me being in elementary school enjoying many of these titles.
I'm quite impressed with what they did................with literally no technology or memory
Yeah, digital technology hadn't been around for more than about half a century by 1992, so _literally_ no technology... and megabytes of RAM would _literally_ be equal to zero... :)
amazing what the human mind can do with Stone knives and animal skins ... literally...
Ultima 7 and Star Control 2 ...
Most definitely two of my top 5 favorite PC games. I still go back and replay those games from time to time, and they are still tons of fun. Immortal classics.
Never played either but Ultima 7's strange perspective is physically painful to look at now. If only they had used a more traditional isometric view.
I understand that. I can't remember if I included it in my review video, but you can even inadvertently drop something behind a wall or immovable object in the game, rendering it IMPOSSIBLE to retrieve. This can break your game if it's a plot-necessary item.@@trzy
The 90s were the best time.
Waxworks! Gotta play that one.
Thanks for this video, had so many deja vus.
Am watching this in 2022.
Took me back years, thanks 😀