I've found a few games on LGR's channel that I used to play the hell out of as a kid but forgot the name of, such as Magic Carpet, Commander Keen and the original Duke Nukem games (The latter I called Commander Kool, because the games play very similarly, Duke Nukem is WAY cooler than Commander Keen and I couldn't read at the time anyway)
I was addicted to this a child. I used to play for hours until I had a bad head. I have it now and still find it strangely addictive in my late 20's...
I never thought I'd be see a review of this game. Ever. I still have my W95CC in my collection with the MSB demos! I never understood this game much but many hours planted into it!
Thanks for the memories LGR. Played this game a lot 27 years ago. I played for hours before I ever understood what the game objectives were. The graphics for the time were pretty good, but the controls were so smooth, or at least that’s how I remember it. The way you could hover around corners was so fun( for the time). Though to be honest, I don’t have a lot of desire to go back and play those windows 95 games.
I love you LGR. This came up in my feed, and is in fact a game I was thinking about the other night (also while watching your videos) and could not remember the name of! Holy crap, it's Hover!
I remember getting up to level 56 or something like that and my score was over 11 million when I lost, I was upset because the scoreboard only has enough digits to display up to 9,999,999 but it actually put my high score as 11 million :3 in case you couldn't tell I was addicted to this game back in the day...along with Super Solvers Gizmos and Gadgets, Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System, and (when I was really really young) Gorillas on DOS. My mom never let us have a video game console so those were all I had...but I have such good memories of those games!
I was pretty easily entertained. Still am, in fact. Anyway, I would play this for /hours/ on my grandparents' computer whenever I went to visit. We didn't have it at home. I think I love it so much now, because it reminds me of my grandfather and being at his house.
I remember discovering this game. It was one of the most amazing moments of my life back then. So.much.fun. My friends never liked it much though, for some reason.
You know, for a 3d environment dating to 1995, the graphics are pretty darn impressive. You're stuck with the horrible polygon count of the day, of course, but those textures are pretty decent. And hey, if you're a little kid at the time (the way I was), why not play some basic ctf game? Just because it's basic fun doesn't make it not fun.
I have been looking for this game for the longest Freaking time. This game was my pc childhood and was engrained in my brain. I remember not knowing the goal of this game ever and just drive around the areas for hours. Ahhhhh great times
I played the heck out of this game in my preteen years. You essentially outlined these days with terrifyingly accuracy. Thank you for making this video.
The cloak actually turns you to look like their faction, you can use it to prevent them from taking your flag by using it while going towards your own flag. Cheers!
Good god for the longest time I thought I was the only human being on the planet who played and remembered this. I just randomly found it on the computer while I was clicking any executable I could find looking for games. I loved this thing, though I don’t remember almost ever actually ‘playing’ it so much as just driving around and ramming into stuff.
+Ronny Webster (Ronny1031) Tell me about it. When you had maybe like five other games and due to beign young and stupid were stuck in each one of them, it's time to go through Hover! yet again.
I was introduced to this game from the school windows 95 computer... My home PC didn't have hover and I never played it ever again. Then found this video at the age of 30 - thank you LGR
Man I remember this game. The spring powerup was the only really good powerup, and it was also one of the most annoying to use when the flag was on an upper floor in the sewery level. It's funny that this game, and Weezer's buddy holly video blew my mind back then.
I just saw a picture of the logo on Facebook and got so excited haha. I played this game so much and discarded the memory for some reason, like Bingbong from that Pixar movie. Man, nearly 30 years ago...
ive been looking for this game for ages... turns out i too wore undeserved nostalgia goggles as a child and thanks to you i have yet another unrepressed memory of a game i should have kept in the back of my memory... thanks.
I played this when I was young and could not remember what it was called until I seen you post this. This was my favorite free game when I was young. The funny part is that it made me fill like I was in MADS hideout in inspector gadget.
Holy fuck I used to play this all the time on the old 95. This brings me one step closer to finding another game I used to play. It was kind of like star fox 64 except not on-rails. You'd fly around in a black ship and get awesome powerups and at the end you'd fight a giant red cobra. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.
i swear this is the game i played endlessly as a kid, but the layout and the levels look really different from how i remember them. was there another version?
Since this video was made 5 years ago, and in the 385 comments it might have been mentioned, but there WERE different types of enemy drones, and they showed up as different colors on your minimap. I forget the exact colors, but one color was the drones searching for a flag and hadn't found one(blue?), one color was the drones searching for a flag and had found one(yellow?), and the third color were drones that chased you (the ones that made the sonar sound when they spotted you...green?) So no, not all the enemies were after the flags. If I was near a flag capturing drone, I would do everything to try to delay it, walls, sticky pads, etc. So there was a little more to the enemies. Otherwise, loved your review, I was the same, played this for hours on end because I wasn't allowed Doom. It's still a fun one. I Loved the sfx and midi tracks.
I used to play this as a kid. But for the longest time I didn't know how to steer as the accelerate and decelerate buttons were the up and down arrow. But steering left and right were the < and > keys. Which I naturally never tried. And since the hover vehicles look a bit to bumper cars to my adolescent brain I thought the objective was to bounce off walls going back and forth to grab the flags. I still played a ton of this.
brought me back i always loved this game don't know why. Probably because my dad was hogging the snes with dkc2 who knows. Thankyou for doing this review its awesome.
I remember finding this just out of pure boredom, going through things to see what was on all the media they sent, just like you describe I found the hidden stash. I mean we barely had a pc, let alone any software beside some really expensive CAD program for DOS my old man "borrowed" a copy of from work. So finding a whole 3d game? in 95 or early 96? FOR FREE? I was ecstatic and I played the hell out of this.
When I was a kid, for some reason we had this game on a unmarked disk in a black unlabeled case and my brothers and I would play it for hours together switching off roles of who would drive, who would watch the map, and who would sit and wait. This was the first computer game I can remember playing on a windows 98 machine so I have rather fond memories of it.
Hover! was everything I needed back in the day. We had an IDE hard drive with a huge 4 gigabytes of storage! This game was amazing, not just because there was a sky, drift physics, pleasing sounds but something taught driving coordination. I dare say this game taught me vehicle size and blind spot perception way before I could drive my car. I loved the wall, I mastered dropping two walls right ontop of the drones and the got them stuck for at least a few seconds. Great for me roaming for the flags.
There is a game similar to this that I remember as a kid I was super young.. it's future looking like that level and there were jumps in the game, I remember you could switch from the cockpit view and a third person view, and I remember I couldn't play it for crud and kept running into the wall but this game reminds me of it so much and this is the first time I've thought about it in YEARS like this video just brought it back holy cow the flood nostalgia
Omg nostalgia! Remember playing this along with Metallicas newly released album load in 96 at the same time on My familys pc i thought that was amazing doing both in the same time! I was 10
Never heard of this game back in the days. I was a grown up so I had already played Doom, Descent and probably Rise of the Triad too, so this wouldn't have done it for me. But thanks for showing this titbit of gaming history. BTW, your beard is called a "skepparkrans" here in Sweden, roughly translated to "skippers wreath" in english. Keep up your awesomeness!
I used to like the "wall". In the higher levels there were lots of enemies chasing you and dropping a wall might not stop them, but it would slow them down enough that you could get away.
I spent an ungodly amount of time playing this game as a child. It's ironic that I'm finding this video by accident while doing research for making my own hover craft game.
Such great memories! It was the only game I had on the new Windows PC the family had bought for Christmas. Such innocent times before high school, getting a job, the pandemic etc.... if only I could go back! 🙃
I owned a Gateway with Windows 95 growing up so that means I technically owned this game.....but I never knew it existed cause I was too young to set up stuff or navigate the computer, yet strangely Hover! 's esthetic and sounds gives me a nostalgic feeling for a game I never played because its still very much in style of the kind of computer games and programs I did play with as a kid, and that includes children's activity centers, edutainment programs, and even Microsoft BOB if you can believe it XD
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So many hours I passed playing this game... and it was a fun time.
Used to play this a lot as a kid! and I’m sorry you weren’t allowed to play doom….my dad was badass so I was blessed with the shareware versions of wolfenstein 3d & Doom. You have my condolences
Oh hey, I remember this. Never cared to play it more than five minutes, though, because my Acer '95 came with Descent and Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse (which was freaking awesome, by the way).
I remember playing this game when I was very young. Could never recall the title, but I never entirely forgot about it. Funny thing is, I also remember being able to shoot lasers at the other hover racer.
It even had a lot of the same powerups, like being able to place a wall in front of your goal so that your opponent couldn't score. And sometimes there were moving walls. There were lots of different maps to play on, it was a lot of fun. A huge chunk of my childhood was spent playing on my grandfathers windows 95, playing that and Jazz Jackrabbit.
Sorry I meant DLC. I always mix up DLC and expansions like they are the same thing. I meant Dawnguard and Hearthfire. I was just wondering if it was worth getting those two for their price. Although I can see why you might not dedicate an entire video to them. Keep up the content! Just keeps getting better.
Just figured out what this game was called and now its all coming back to me! I used to play this game, SkiFree, Rodent's Revenge and probably some others I cant remember.
Hover! was made show off the 3D capabilities of Windows 95 gaming. Microsoft also released a slew of 3D games to tie in with Win95 including Monster Truck Madness, 3D Movie Maker and Fury3 (which was basically a clone of the DOS Epic MegaGame title, Terminal Velocity).
It was a bit like a bumper car simulator, but the controls were like Space War or Asteroids. Since it ran under Windows, the resolution & color quality were typically better than a lot of games at the time. Software rendered 3D was still popular, and hardware accelerated games hadn't quite become popular, yet. I liked it, because it heavily relied on sound, as well as graphics on the mini map. It was a bit like a playable version of the maze screensaver. Speaking of that, people were still entertained by AfterDark & animated screensavers. Hover wasn't particularly exciting, but it made a decent maze game. It was a bit like when you kill all the enemies in your favorite shooter, and start looking for secrets & hidden areas.
Our first computer was a Packard Bell and it actually came with some games like Journeyman Project. I remember finding Hover on the Windows disk one time though. I don't remember why I was on the Windows disk in the first place though...
It's the fact that it's a game that you can't "beat" - it's all about high scores. You just keep leveling up to infinity, and it gets harder and harder.
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I thought I was the only kid in the world to know about this game. I used to play the shit out of this! No one else could ever remember it.
Same here.
My exacts thoughts also for Hellbender.
For a game that came bundled with Windows 95, it did seem to go very under the radar of most people
"It's still free to download from Microsoft's FTP." Why am I envisioning a computer somewhere in an office building that everyone just forgot about?
I used to play this game as well... for alot of hours... and I never realize what the objective was.. I just drove around... for hours...
Bjørnar Haugen OMG EXACTLY THE SAME
same here
Bjørnar Haugen you made me laugh out loud
oh shit, same here. Had to laugh so hard^^
and it was AWESOME
Man I miss the "Maze" screensaver from windows 95.. this totally reminded me of it!
I was a fan of the 3D pipes. Lol
Oh my fucking god I remember this game. I thought it was just a dream I had when I was a kid!
Thanks LGR!
I've found a few games on LGR's channel that I used to play the hell out of as a kid but forgot the name of, such as Magic Carpet, Commander Keen and the original Duke Nukem games (The latter I called Commander Kool, because the games play very similarly, Duke Nukem is WAY cooler than Commander Keen and I couldn't read at the time anyway)
I know right! I even wondered if this really was something we played or if it was just a dream!
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I did too! I was wondering, myself if ever really existed!
This came with the PC my grandma bought.
Fond memories of playing this and eating pizza at her house as a kid. :D
ShadowAkatora nostalgia is a great thing :-)
ThTs awesome
Fond
I was addicted to this a child. I used to play for hours until I had a bad head. I have it now and still find it strangely addictive in my late 20's...
I never thought I'd be see a review of this game. Ever. I still have my W95CC in my collection with the MSB demos! I never understood this game much but many hours planted into it!
Thanks for the memories LGR. Played this game a lot 27 years ago. I played for hours before I ever understood what the game objectives were. The graphics for the time were pretty good, but the controls were so smooth, or at least that’s how I remember it. The way you could hover around corners was so fun( for the time). Though to be honest, I don’t have a lot of desire to go back and play those windows 95 games.
I remember my windows 95 cd had a song in it, it sounded like Oasis... it was just a little cut inside a video...
congratulations on a stellar review!
I love you LGR. This came up in my feed, and is in fact a game I was thinking about the other night (also while watching your videos) and could not remember the name of! Holy crap, it's Hover!
I remember getting up to level 56 or something like that and my score was over 11 million when I lost, I was upset because the scoreboard only has enough digits to display up to 9,999,999 but it actually put my high score as 11 million :3 in case you couldn't tell I was addicted to this game back in the day...along with Super Solvers Gizmos and Gadgets, Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System, and (when I was really really young) Gorillas on DOS. My mom never let us have a video game console so those were all I had...but I have such good memories of those games!
I was pretty easily entertained. Still am, in fact. Anyway, I would play this for /hours/ on my grandparents' computer whenever I went to visit. We didn't have it at home. I think I love it so much now, because it reminds me of my grandfather and being at his house.
I remember discovering this game. It was one of the most amazing moments of my life back then. So.much.fun. My friends never liked it much though, for some reason.
You know, for a 3d environment dating to 1995, the graphics are pretty darn impressive. You're stuck with the horrible polygon count of the day, of course, but those textures are pretty decent. And hey, if you're a little kid at the time (the way I was), why not play some basic ctf game? Just because it's basic fun doesn't make it not fun.
Looks like it's based on the same animation routines as the "brick walls" screen saver.
Raycast 2.5d games and demos were big back in the early 90s.
I used to play this game all the time as a kid, but I couldn't remember what it was called. Thanks for making this!
I have been looking for this game for the longest Freaking time. This game was my pc childhood and was engrained in my brain. I remember not knowing the goal of this game ever and just drive around the areas for hours. Ahhhhh great times
I played the heck out of this game in my preteen years. You essentially outlined these days with terrifyingly accuracy. Thank you for making this video.
This is the game I probably played the most at a young child.
I still have it on my computer, and it works great!
damn! this brings back some memories
What, you're not going to mention the Weezer music video?
+Tb0n3 Yes! I remember that!
Did you try the fish? KENOSHA WISCONSIN'S OWN.......WEEZER!!! ^_^
remember the Rob Roy trailer?
Cinepak goodness...
OMG yes
man this game was my childhood. I wish i could find a copy of this again.
The cloak actually turns you to look like their faction, you can use it to prevent them from taking your flag by using it while going towards your own flag. Cheers!
Good god for the longest time I thought I was the only human being on the planet who played and remembered this. I just randomly found it on the computer while I was clicking any executable I could find looking for games. I loved this thing, though I don’t remember almost ever actually ‘playing’ it so much as just driving around and ramming into stuff.
Hours and hours spent playing this at our junior high school library waiting for my mom to pick me up... cool to discover this again!
I remember my Acer had Hover! Fury3, Tyrian, and Jazz Jackrabbit.
I love finding out about the games I played when I was a kid. I never remember them until you show them to be LGR, thank you!
I gotta say, I really love your reviews, subscribed! And I wish you the best.
I was 5, we just got a pc with w95, endless hours upon hours on this game, ahhh I've finally found its name as well!
THIS GAME!!! THIS FREAKIN GAME!!!
man thx 4 making those viedios they just crack me up you earnd your self a new subscriber
Ah, Hover. 9/10 year old me spent far too much time playing this game back in '95.
+Ronny Webster (Ronny1031) Tell me about it. When you had maybe like five other games and due to beign young and stupid were stuck in each one of them, it's time to go through Hover! yet again.
I was introduced to this game from the school windows 95 computer... My home PC didn't have hover and I never played it ever again. Then found this video at the age of 30 - thank you LGR
Omg I LOVED this game as a kid!!! I've been looking around for it and sure enough you had a review on it, thanks! lol
I love the weird otherworldly feel that these early raycasting engines gave.
Man I remember this game. The spring powerup was the only really good powerup, and it was also one of the most annoying to use when the flag was on an upper floor in the sewery level.
It's funny that this game, and Weezer's buddy holly video blew my mind back then.
This game was the best game as a kid!, I still love this game! 💗
I just saw a picture of the logo on Facebook and got so excited haha. I played this game so much and discarded the memory for some reason, like Bingbong from that Pixar movie. Man, nearly 30 years ago...
ive been looking for this game for ages... turns out i too wore undeserved nostalgia goggles as a child and thanks to you i have yet another unrepressed memory of a game i should have kept in the back of my memory... thanks.
Lovin these reviews!
Such a blast to my past
And a few that I never have seen before!
You sir are the man
(killer beard btw)
I played this when I was young and could not remember what it was called until I seen you post this. This was my favorite free game when I was young. The funny part is that it made me fill like I was in MADS hideout in inspector gadget.
Holy fuck I used to play this all the time on the old 95.
This brings me one step closer to finding another game I used to play. It was kind of like star fox 64 except not on-rails. You'd fly around in a black ship and get awesome powerups and at the end you'd fight a giant red cobra.
If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.
Reilly444 I am not sure, but what about Stellar7 or Nova9?
+Reilly444 Decent ? :)
The Bitgod Experience I think that would be the better guess ^_^.
i swear this is the game i played endlessly as a kid, but the layout and the levels look really different from how i remember them. was there another version?
"Oh look, a sanitized version of Doom" - My older brother upon finding this on his new Windows machine some time in the early 90's
YOU are such a person with detail planning !!!! wonderful!
You have no idea how happy I am to see this review XD
Since this video was made 5 years ago, and in the 385 comments it might have been mentioned, but there WERE different types of enemy drones, and they showed up as different colors on your minimap. I forget the exact colors, but one color was the drones searching for a flag and hadn't found one(blue?), one color was the drones searching for a flag and had found one(yellow?), and the third color were drones that chased you (the ones that made the sonar sound when they spotted you...green?) So no, not all the enemies were after the flags. If I was near a flag capturing drone, I would do everything to try to delay it, walls, sticky pads, etc. So there was a little more to the enemies.
Otherwise, loved your review, I was the same, played this for hours on end because I wasn't allowed Doom. It's still a fun one. I Loved the sfx and midi tracks.
I used to play this as a kid. But for the longest time I didn't know how to steer as the accelerate and decelerate buttons were the up and down arrow. But steering left and right were the < and > keys. Which I naturally never tried. And since the hover vehicles look a bit to bumper cars to my adolescent brain I thought the objective was to bounce off walls going back and forth to grab the flags. I still played a ton of this.
Use to play this game all the time when I was a kid in the mid 1990s . Enjoy playing it .
brought me back i always loved this game don't know why. Probably because my dad was hogging the snes with dkc2 who knows. Thankyou for doing this review its awesome.
I remember finding this just out of pure boredom, going through things to see what was on all the media they sent, just like you describe I found the hidden stash. I mean we barely had a pc, let alone any software beside some really expensive CAD program for DOS my old man "borrowed" a copy of from work. So finding a whole 3d game? in 95 or early 96? FOR FREE? I was ecstatic and I played the hell out of this.
Omg! I had blocked this game out of my brain entirely. The memories are flooding back!
It was the very first game my mom bought and we got our first pc. It will always have a special place in my heart
When I was a kid, for some reason we had this game on a unmarked disk in a black unlabeled case and my brothers and I would play it for hours together switching off roles of who would drive, who would watch the map, and who would sit and wait. This was the first computer game I can remember playing on a windows 98 machine so I have rather fond memories of it.
This one and the pinball were my "all free time consumer" when I was a child... good old times...
thanks for finding me a cool freeware game to download, LGR!
I played this forever as a kid. One of the first games i played on our Win95 machine.
I dont care much about these games. I just watch your vids for the awesome commentary
I remember playing this every now and again as a kid, outside of playing that maze/quiz game in Encarta 95.
Started playing this when I was five years old.
I will never forget this legendary chunk of my childhood.
Hover! was everything I needed back in the day. We had an IDE hard drive with a huge 4 gigabytes of storage! This game was amazing, not just because there was a sky, drift physics, pleasing sounds but something taught driving coordination. I dare say this game taught me vehicle size and blind spot perception way before I could drive my car. I loved the wall, I mastered dropping two walls right ontop of the drones and the got them stuck for at least a few seconds. Great for me roaming for the flags.
There is a game similar to this that I remember as a kid I was super young.. it's future looking like that level and there were jumps in the game, I remember you could switch from the cockpit view and a third person view, and I remember I couldn't play it for crud and kept running into the wall but this game reminds me of it so much and this is the first time I've thought about it in YEARS like this video just brought it back holy cow the flood nostalgia
Omg nostalgia! Remember playing this along with Metallicas newly released album load in 96 at the same time on My familys pc i thought that was amazing doing both in the same time! I was 10
Never heard of this game back in the days. I was a grown up so I had already played Doom, Descent and probably Rise of the Triad too, so this wouldn't have done it for me. But thanks for showing this titbit of gaming history.
BTW, your beard is called a "skepparkrans" here in Sweden, roughly translated to "skippers wreath" in english. Keep up your awesomeness!
I used to like the "wall". In the higher levels there were lots of enemies chasing you and dropping a wall might not stop them, but it would slow them down enough that you could get away.
remember playing this game on elementary school computer back in mid 90's
6:21 the most epic smile ever
I spent an ungodly amount of time playing this game as a child. It's ironic that I'm finding this video by accident while doing research for making my own hover craft game.
I was about 7 years old when I found out the file to hover changed my life. Made that lil show Toshiba seem like it had some power in there.
Such great memories! It was the only game I had on the new Windows PC the family had bought for Christmas. Such innocent times before high school, getting a job, the pandemic etc.... if only I could go back! 🙃
I thought I was the coolest kid on the block with Hover and Fury 3 on our Windows 95 computer back in '96. You couldn't tell me otherwise! hahaha
I owned a Gateway with Windows 95 growing up so that means I technically owned this game.....but I never knew it existed cause I was too young to set up stuff or navigate the computer, yet strangely Hover! 's esthetic and sounds gives me a nostalgic feeling for a game I never played because its still very much in style of the kind of computer games and programs I did play with as a kid, and that includes children's activity centers, edutainment programs, and even Microsoft BOB if you can believe it XD
So many hours I passed playing this game... and it was a fun time.
I like you’re voice LGR
Used to play this a lot as a kid!
and I’m sorry you weren’t allowed to play doom….my dad was badass so I was blessed with the shareware versions of wolfenstein 3d & Doom.
You have my condolences
Oh hey, I remember this. Never cared to play it more than five minutes, though, because my Acer '95 came with Descent and Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse (which was freaking awesome, by the way).
Oh nostalgia. I would most likely play this again and enjoy it for a bit.
Holy crap. Thanks for the video and memories
I think I played Hellbender more than this, which is sad, because that was only one level :p
Childhood memory unlocked 🔓
I remember playing this game when I was very young. Could never recall the title, but I never entirely forgot about it. Funny thing is, I also remember being able to shoot lasers at the other hover racer.
It even had a lot of the same powerups, like being able to place a wall in front of your goal so that your opponent couldn't score. And sometimes there were moving walls. There were lots of different maps to play on, it was a lot of fun. A huge chunk of my childhood was spent playing on my grandfathers windows 95, playing that and Jazz Jackrabbit.
I played this game as a child for hours. I found it entertaining.
holy crap I actually played this game and had completely forgotten about it, nostalgia bomb :P
Damn I remember playing this on my old computer back in high school. Memories
Oh my gosh, my brother and I listened to Buddy Holly SO MANY TIMES. Ahhhhh, my childhood.
Sorry I meant DLC. I always mix up DLC and expansions like they are the same thing. I meant Dawnguard and Hearthfire. I was just wondering if it was worth getting those two for their price. Although I can see why you might not dedicate an entire video to them. Keep up the content! Just keeps getting better.
My very first Compaq computer had this coming with Win 95. ^^ Great memories!
Oh, the nostalgia! Hover, the Weezer video, the Rob Roy trailer... the Win95 companion disc had it all!
Just figured out what this game was called and now its all coming back to me! I used to play this game, SkiFree, Rodent's Revenge and probably some others I cant remember.
Hover! was made show off the 3D capabilities of Windows 95 gaming. Microsoft also released a slew of 3D games to tie in with Win95 including Monster Truck Madness, 3D Movie Maker and Fury3 (which was basically a clone of the DOS Epic MegaGame title, Terminal Velocity).
wow, this is a memory I was looking for.
Amazing software back in the days, i still remember the mouse exterminator game... they just never stopped multipliying...
It was a bit like a bumper car simulator, but the controls were like Space War or Asteroids. Since it ran under Windows, the resolution & color quality were typically better than a lot of games at the time. Software rendered 3D was still popular, and hardware accelerated games hadn't quite become popular, yet. I liked it, because it heavily relied on sound, as well as graphics on the mini map. It was a bit like a playable version of the maze screensaver. Speaking of that, people were still entertained by AfterDark & animated screensavers. Hover wasn't particularly exciting, but it made a decent maze game. It was a bit like when you kill all the enemies in your favorite shooter, and start looking for secrets & hidden areas.
I had forgotten about this game, I played this loads. I have to get it right now....
As soon as I seeN the title I had to check this video out... I remember this game!
Our first computer was a Packard Bell and it actually came with some games like Journeyman Project. I remember finding Hover on the Windows disk one time though. I don't remember why I was on the Windows disk in the first place though...
one of the best games for win95 ever, played that alot
I still play this game to this day whenever I'm bored. There's nothing particularly special about it, but I find it so addicting.
It's the fact that it's a game that you can't "beat" - it's all about high scores. You just keep leveling up to infinity, and it gets harder and harder.