Star Control II was the best game of 1992 for me and remains one of my favourite of all-time. Ultima VII and Dune II were not far behind. All three captured my imagination as a 7 year-old and pushed the limits of gameplay at the time. What a great year for classic DOS games!
DOS definitely getting on top now. Even the fact that they finally got Dungeon Master in this year demonstrates that no-one could ignore the PC games market anymore.
Yep, and while the Dungeon Master might have been a bit late to the party DOS was not only not going anywhere, it was in the very forefront of gaming and it stayed there pretty much until Windows took over. Sure, there were some consoles trying to pick from it along the way but there were just too many PCs worldwide by then for them to even have a fighting chance.
Thank you! And yeah, 1992 was better than I expected it to be. Some real bangers released and they finally looked great. Didn't sound as good as Amiga yet (it's best compared with Moonstone's intro on both platforms) but that would change in couple of years too. How's weather there? It's cold and even snowed once couple of days ago here in the North. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesthe only disappointment is that Indy 4 fate of atlantis should be on the big screen many years ago...now its late...p.s the weather is good not cold here it seems that the snow will be late here.I live in seaside city so the snow is smthg rare here....last years snowed 1 day in whole year in town but it didnt last....in witch country u live dear fella?
@@johnziggiridis3168 Apparently there's new Indy in the making and even Harrison Ford is going to play "some" role in it. I'm not one to fear change, meaning I don't mind creative freedoms for the story but I'm not sure that they'll be able to pull it off so many years later without doing some kind of a reboot. I'm from Poland. And while we used to get snow yearly, it's not a given anymore because of the climate change. So now you never know. We may very well get just a few days more as much as a whole snowy winter or no snow at all. It's a weather roulette here! ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames hope all the best for the holidays dear friend for u and family. P.s keep the good work u are doing in the retro scene we all need it.Especially us who lived the big jump in video games and I speak for the early 80's mid 90's era.
@@johnziggiridis3168 We did kinda witness games going from couple of dots on a CRT to photo-realistic behemoths that we have today, didn't we? And yeah, if we're not gonna preserve memories of classics on video and in the writing they will eventually disappear.
Oh, you deserved it! There are games that I just can't play or wouldn't be able to get as far into as I need to for the video. And channels like yours (which I'm subscribed to obviously) are the lifesavers offering excellent source of high quality gameplay. Not to mention that I'm not as good at some games as I used to be (or as I hoped to be). :) So, thank you! For running your channel as well as you do! :)
These games were apart of my first formative years. It's frightening how much i've forgotten, so thanks once again for the trip down memory lane. Certainly feel you've got your video/audio editing to a high standard now. And oh boy, poor you for 1993! Don't go burning yourself out my dude, your videos are very entertaining, it's always a pleasure to watch a new release.
Thanks a lot! I'm always trying to do a bit better with each video. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but it's this trial and error that will hopefully one day end up with a truly polished release. 1993 will be a really special video... I've started with around 150 titles and got it down to around 90. It took me another few days of research to get it to 71. And I'm happy with what I ended up with. I shouldn't lose any more than extra 3-4 if any. But it will be easily way over an hour long video. I could split it in two but I don't wanna break the formula mid-series. That said, I worry that latter years may be even tougher to reduce in their number of games... Oh, well, I suppose that's a problem for the future. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Interesting. I agree with not breaking from the formula, i do think about these videos in the future and a consistancy approach is going to look the best. Perhaps you can take those cut games and put them on your patreon as extra's? But yeah, more work and a problem for the future xD You got this mate.
@@Shabbyorange101 Now that's an excellent idea! Another, perhaps a bit shorter video with all the missing games. Of course it would extend the time before the episodes further but it's something worth considering. Maybe when I take on another platform. We'll see... Thanks anyway!
Glad you like it! This coming week I'll be releasing Part 6 covering 1993 and it's gonna be soooo much better. The games were definitely getting more and more advanced with each year, introducing new mechanics, new gameplay ideas and with constant progress of graphics and sound hardware, they also looked and sound better. And there's been so many great ones released in 1993, it's taking me ages to complete the video. But it will be a good one! :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Can't wait. I started out with an Amiga 500, but around 1990/91 it started to get to slow for the kind of games I liked, so I "upgraded" to a 386-25 so I could play more advanced strategy games like Railroad Tycoon.
@@prockrog5219 Lucky! As much as I love Amiga, and have amazing memories of playing on it, I stuck a bit longer than you did with it. A bit too long to be honest. So, I moved to PC around 1995-ish... I mean, there was a huge library of awesome games to play on it by then but I've missed on some day-one experiences.
This is the year I got my first DOS system, a Tandy 1000RLX/HD in early spring that I sold to buy a 486 with CD in the fall. My first game was Monkey Island 2 because they didn't have a copy of D-Generation I had seen a few months before. I had several of these games back then, but wished I had even more... Thanks, what a great year.
Thank you so much! :) It's just a one of the many. In fact, the whole series covering all the years is also available in a single video that's like 12 hours or so long. xD
41:39 "Come to think of it, I can't recall any game that does it even today." -> Rules of Engagement 1 + 2 interlocks with Breech 2 + 3 -> Alternate Reality The City interlocks with Alternate Reality The Dungeon Those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head. I had no idea the OG Caesar did it too...
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Not a criticism, just a point for improvement. P. S. I enjoyed your talk about Star Trek; I also agree that the UFP is something we should aspire to a species, and I also agree it seems unlikely. 😜
@@Retrohertz Oh, I didn't take it as criticism. And even if it was, constructive one is always welcome. Otherwise without external feedback it's hard to do anything better. :) And Star Trek is a subject that I kinda fear of touching on video as I may go overboard and just talk about it for way longer than I should've. I don't exactly understand why we're so confrontational and obsessed with feeling of power as species. If we were to cooperate and forgo the divisions of race, religion and nationality and just Earthlings together we could achieve much more. If all that creativity and invention that we're capable of would be redirected from warfare and arms race into bettering our collective lives. And no, I'm not a s*cialist or c*mmunist and don't subscribe to their notions even though I heard people comparing Star Trek's philosophy to these ideals. They are inherently wrong. Darn it! I've done it again and kept talking about ST... xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I completely agree with you. Hopefully more people will think this way as we start to deal with global problems - climate change, migration, inequality etc. Something has to change.
@@Retrohertz I'd start with "de-throning" for the lack of a better word of all World tyrants. And then I'd limit politician's max earning to 3 times the average salary so that they would start working for us and not themself. That would obviously have to come with complete transparency of their assets and wealth but I feel that could discourage them from taking bribes. And if all that would be in place, complete shift of focus from arms to eradicating hunger and poverty. Then split between general scientific progress and huge investments in medicine. We really should've rid World of cancer years ago. After that, let's look outwards - current space programs are not bad, but they could be better... And I'm on a rant again. xD
Great video, I always look forward to your updates! Thanks for all your work! I was still Amiga only in 1992 but am now catching up on the dos games. I’m glad I purchased an MT-32 a couple years ago as prices are crazy now.
Thanks for watching! :) Yeah, by 1992 I was still using Amiga too. As a matter of fact, most of the games in this video I either played on Amiga first or couple of years later when they were not new anymore. MT-32 is something I was always interested in, especially cause it offered super high quality alternative to midi. Which I always thought of being an interesting format seriously crippled by the lack of proper hardware implementation that could use real life samples of instruments to simulate orchestral music in games...
15:25 : ""Titus the Fox""" Another DOS platform game (let's not forget 24:30 : ""bomberman"" also) that will always be in my heart!! as a kid i've been watching my best friend playing it on his PC. It was a *very difficult* game but was incredible addictive and also from the technical side , it had very good/realistic physics-calculations. (jumping more times on the trampoline would get you higher for example ,or the way the iron-ball you threw to the enemies was bouncing , that's another example ) *edit* : again , thanks for the memories !!
I didn't have a soundcard (only built in pc speaker, the crappy one) so many times i would listen to music on the stereo while playing. I put on a playlist from 1992 with songs i used to listen to, and then i watched this video. It was so close. I could almost feel it. Amazing times. They still are, just different.
Thanks for watching :) It was the idea behind all of these series (DOS/Amiga/C64/...) to bring back the memories of games, and not only by showing the gameplay, but also by highlighting what they were about.
Oh... I'll never forget the monopoly like jump celebration when I finished Alone in the Dark 1 😂 Great video as always. Just so you know, because of you, I now spend my free time crying blood tears while trying to finish Rick Dangerous 1 😆
It's a very old video, but thank you! Also, beating RD is like beating one of those modern souls-likes, so an achievement in its own. And not many can say that they did. :)
Oh!! I'm always honest with my gaming history. Many of the games of your videos I have played as a kid but were to hard for me at the time. I don't see the 100% of the video, I usually forward 10 secs when there are games that I dont know at all or just dont like too much. Still, all of your videos and your narrative gives a great vibe 😊
Thanks! Working on DOS 1995 now, should be out end of this week on Patreon if all goes well and Monday on YT. If something interrupts me, it'll be out day or two later at most. When I'm done with DOS, I think of covering C64 and then Sega Genesis.
Is it wrong that I still like The Oregon Trail, including deluxe? Indiana Jones & the fate of Atlantis is a true classic so is, Titus the Fox & Star Trek 25th Anniversary are “must play” games. Locomotion looks childish but it’s so much fun & I can say exactly the same of Gear Works. UGH! Is unique & deserves to be better known. Why do you want to start a flame war with the Dune II crowd? 😄 The Koshan Conspiracy is not 1 I know? I must check it out, same for Darklands. Oh dear, I hate to “um actually” but Hovertank 3D came before Wolfenstein 3D but was not well known, so Wolfenstein gets the credit for being ground braking in it’s time but simplistic by modern standards. Still fun though & you get to fight minigun-mech Hitler at the end. I’ve played Bomber man on many, many platforms but never PC? Alone in the dark was technically amazing in it’s day & really made 3D survival horror a thing but it’s ugly & the controls are clumsy & slow by modern standards. I still have it on original CD though. Still have Lure of the Temptress too. I like your original Moonstone video, you introduced me to it. Same for Pushover. So disappointed “Squakmonster” wasn’t your ship in 1869. 😄 I’m still traumatised by the ending to Monkey Island 2, thank goodness 3 came out. I like the pace of TMNT The Arcade Game but I do understand what you’re saying about game play & the PC version isn’t the best. Formula 1 Grand Prix was super impressive for it’s time, if you had a PC that could do it justice. Honestly I know what you mean about sports, I get taking part, that makes sense but I don’t get watching other people take part when you’re not? Great video again. That’s a lot of games but you kept it consistent all the way through, thanks.
I love Oregon Trail too. I mean deluxe more than the basic, first version. And it's no secret that I'm not American, so I had no access to it when in school and only ever played it as a grown up. It may not be the most sophisticated game but it has this enchanting charm to it and it's by all accounts definitely a rogue-lite game. And I like those. I really like Locomotion but it gets a bit too hectic for me at a certain point and from then onward it's just frustrating. But it's more of an issue of me than the game. Gear Works relaxes me. Don't know why. To be fair to Dune, later Dune 2000 was much more improved while staying very faithful to the original and if I had to I would recommend that as the first Dune RTS for anyone interested in playing it. And yeah, sometimes I just can't help myself and I gotta say what I feel even if it's not popular. For instance Heroes of Might and Magic 2 The Succession Wars in my opinion is heaps better than Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Especially while playing a custom "Gyros Too!" map. Also, if you ever get a chance I recommend that map wholeheartedly, especially if you have someone to play it with. That single map alone can provide days if not weeks of fun. It's always fun to consider existence of mecha-hitler (yes, small letter is intentional) and yep, you're right. Technically speaking Wolf3D was not first. But could we perhaps land on it being first "modern" FPS? Having near everything that games in the genre have to this day. :) Darklands is very obscure as it's German and was not pushed heavily outside of the region. Which is pity but on the other hand perhaps many PCs were saved cause of it. ;) And yeah, it's a game most don't heard about and it has many of the mechanics and ideas that were not seen in gaming for many more years since its release. It's definitely worth a look if you have time on your hands. Oh, the latest Monkey Island actually came out in Game Pass recently and I'm looking forward to attempting beating it this coming holiday season. I'm taking a week off of work, so if I manage to put enough work into videos I should have 3-4 days free to do just that. :) Sports... My point exactly. If I play (anything) I'll do my best. But if I'm to watch it, I'd rather grab a nap or do basically anything else. I mean, there's an exception, I can bare it socially with friends but I try to avoid it if I can. Well, come to think of it, I may have lied here. I don't mind watching poker as I love the game. But is it a sport per se? Thanks for as usual being the very first to watch and comment! I do enjoy our little convos here and while I plan to see Japan first within the next 24 months (I know, it's a long time ahead but it's costly and, well, work, and stuff...) but then I hope to go to US within the next 24, and I believe you're American, so if I do, I hope you'd be up for a drink and a chat in person?
@@nicholsliwilson I actually lived in UK for over 8 years, in London. I really enjoyed it, had my life built there but then personal issues brought me back home.
Thank you! I'm glad you like those. When I finish with the DOS series I'll take a few weeks off from those hour long videos and will get back to reviews etc. for few weeks. To catch up with all the other stuff I didn't managed to do while I was working on these. But, when I'm done with this short break I was considering a similar series for either C64 or Sega Genesis/Megadrive. I haven't decided which one yet.
@@blumcole Megadrive would be much easier to cover, no doubt about that. Far less games on it and there's much more high quality footage available meaning I wouldn't have to play all the obscure games myself for the video. Which, don't get me wrong, I don't mind, it just extends the time these take to make.
I think it's worth noting that unless you have to play it on DOS, there is either the Dune Legacy fan port/remaster or the Dune 2000 remake as a good alternative to the original Dune 2. Thanks for the vid, I'll come back with a music focused list as before when I'm less tired. :)
Excellent point, Dune 2000 especially is easily accessible and runs perfectly on modern systems. And please, do feel free to come back with all the details regarding the music. :)
Ultima VII: The Black Gate is only Ultima VII: Part 1 in retrospect. Serpent Isle is much more of an expansion pack (even if it is not the literal expansion, Forge of Virtue). Serpent Isle throws away many of the things that Black Gate did and uses the engine in a different way. Serpent Isle is linear; It can't have the Magic Carpet because the world is not open. You call Ultima VII the first for many things, but it's more like the last. Every remaining game, including Serpent Isle, takes away things that made Ultima what it was. Nothing in the story past Black Gate is worth following; it's like the last good season of a TV show before it goes off the rails. The closest Ultima in gameplay to Black Gate is Ultima Online, for all it's faults and despite being online because at least it's open.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Let's be real, I'm just a very grumpy old man. There was so much I wanted after Ultima VII that I didn't get. I didn't hate Serpent Isle, but it didn't really work right, and then the story was off the rails in 8 and 9 - I couldn't finish it (and not just because it wasn't possible to finish it out of the box). Because of experiences like this I've reached a point where I no longer need to finish a series when I don't feel like I'm getting what I want anymore. Sometimes it's better to imagine what it could have been.
Star Control II was the best game of 1992 for me and remains one of my favourite of all-time. Ultima VII and Dune II were not far behind. All three captured my imagination as a 7 year-old and pushed the limits of gameplay at the time. What a great year for classic DOS games!
Star Control 2 while i got a bit late to the PC party, was one of the first games I payed when I moved from the Amiga. And yeah, 1992 was pretty good.
DOS definitely getting on top now. Even the fact that they finally got Dungeon Master in this year demonstrates that no-one could ignore the PC games market anymore.
Yep, and while the Dungeon Master might have been a bit late to the party DOS was not only not going anywhere, it was in the very forefront of gaming and it stayed there pretty much until Windows took over. Sure, there were some consoles trying to pick from it along the way but there were just too many PCs worldwide by then for them to even have a fighting chance.
This was when the PC really started to overtake the Amiga and ST.
@@Retrohertz Yeah, and SVGA really ended both of these. Pity but such is our gaming history it seems.
Greets from Greece dear friend. Excellent games presentation and detailed infos. I believe this was a very good year for dos games.
Thank you! And yeah, 1992 was better than I expected it to be. Some real bangers released and they finally looked great. Didn't sound as good as Amiga yet (it's best compared with Moonstone's intro on both platforms) but that would change in couple of years too.
How's weather there? It's cold and even snowed once couple of days ago here in the North. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesthe only disappointment is that Indy 4 fate of atlantis should be on the big screen many years ago...now its late...p.s the weather is good not cold here it seems that the snow will be late here.I live in seaside city so the snow is smthg rare here....last years snowed 1 day in whole year in town but it didnt last....in witch country u live dear fella?
@@johnziggiridis3168 Apparently there's new Indy in the making and even Harrison Ford is going to play "some" role in it. I'm not one to fear change, meaning I don't mind creative freedoms for the story but I'm not sure that they'll be able to pull it off so many years later without doing some kind of a reboot.
I'm from Poland. And while we used to get snow yearly, it's not a given anymore because of the climate change. So now you never know. We may very well get just a few days more as much as a whole snowy winter or no snow at all. It's a weather roulette here! ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames hope all the best for the holidays dear friend for u and family. P.s keep the good work u are doing in the retro scene we all need it.Especially us who lived the big jump in video games and I speak for the early 80's mid 90's era.
@@johnziggiridis3168 We did kinda witness games going from couple of dots on a CRT to photo-realistic behemoths that we have today, didn't we? And yeah, if we're not gonna preserve memories of classics on video and in the writing they will eventually disappear.
I'm proud that my gameplay made it here. This is exactly why I started the channel 🙂
Well done, keep up the good work 👍
Oh, you deserved it! There are games that I just can't play or wouldn't be able to get as far into as I need to for the video. And channels like yours (which I'm subscribed to obviously) are the lifesavers offering excellent source of high quality gameplay. Not to mention that I'm not as good at some games as I used to be (or as I hoped to be). :)
So, thank you! For running your channel as well as you do! :)
These games were apart of my first formative years. It's frightening how much i've forgotten, so thanks once again for the trip down memory lane.
Certainly feel you've got your video/audio editing to a high standard now. And oh boy, poor you for 1993! Don't go burning yourself out my dude, your videos are very entertaining, it's always a pleasure to watch a new release.
Thanks a lot! I'm always trying to do a bit better with each video. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but it's this trial and error that will hopefully one day end up with a truly polished release.
1993 will be a really special video... I've started with around 150 titles and got it down to around 90. It took me another few days of research to get it to 71. And I'm happy with what I ended up with. I shouldn't lose any more than extra 3-4 if any. But it will be easily way over an hour long video. I could split it in two but I don't wanna break the formula mid-series. That said, I worry that latter years may be even tougher to reduce in their number of games... Oh, well, I suppose that's a problem for the future. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Interesting. I agree with not breaking from the formula, i do think about these videos in the future and a consistancy approach is going to look the best.
Perhaps you can take those cut games and put them on your patreon as extra's? But yeah, more work and a problem for the future xD
You got this mate.
@@Shabbyorange101 Now that's an excellent idea! Another, perhaps a bit shorter video with all the missing games. Of course it would extend the time before the episodes further but it's something worth considering. Maybe when I take on another platform. We'll see... Thanks anyway!
You have put a huge amount of effort into these videos. I'm very impressed
Thank you! I do my best. :)
Thanks so much for the series! Great nostalgic fun, and I even discovered some new games to try out!
Glad you like it! This coming week I'll be releasing Part 6 covering 1993 and it's gonna be soooo much better. The games were definitely getting more and more advanced with each year, introducing new mechanics, new gameplay ideas and with constant progress of graphics and sound hardware, they also looked and sound better. And there's been so many great ones released in 1993, it's taking me ages to complete the video. But it will be a good one! :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Can't wait. I started out with an Amiga 500, but around 1990/91 it started to get to slow for the kind of games I liked, so I "upgraded" to a 386-25 so I could play more advanced strategy games like Railroad Tycoon.
@@prockrog5219 Lucky! As much as I love Amiga, and have amazing memories of playing on it, I stuck a bit longer than you did with it. A bit too long to be honest. So, I moved to PC around 1995-ish... I mean, there was a huge library of awesome games to play on it by then but I've missed on some day-one experiences.
This is the year I got my first DOS system, a Tandy 1000RLX/HD in early spring that I sold to buy a 486 with CD in the fall. My first game was Monkey Island 2 because they didn't have a copy of D-Generation I had seen a few months before. I had several of these games back then, but wished I had even more... Thanks, what a great year.
Oh my! MI2! Now, you could hardly asked for a better game to start with! It was (and is still truely) a blast! :)
What a wonderful video. And So much work has been put to this video and editing!
Thank you so much! :) It's just a one of the many. In fact, the whole series covering all the years is also available in a single video that's like 12 hours or so long. xD
41:39 "Come to think of it, I can't recall any game that does it even today."
-> Rules of Engagement 1 + 2 interlocks with Breech 2 + 3
-> Alternate Reality The City interlocks with Alternate Reality The Dungeon
Those are the only two I can think of off the top of my head. I had no idea the OG Caesar did it too...
And this is how I learned something new making videos for UA-cam. Thanks! :)
I enjoyed your narrative at the start, but the music was too loud and drowning you out. I'd consider reducing the music/sound volume during narration.
Thanks! Noted, will do better next time. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Not a criticism, just a point for improvement. P. S. I enjoyed your talk about Star Trek; I also agree that the UFP is something we should aspire to a species, and I also agree it seems unlikely. 😜
@@Retrohertz Oh, I didn't take it as criticism. And even if it was, constructive one is always welcome. Otherwise without external feedback it's hard to do anything better. :)
And Star Trek is a subject that I kinda fear of touching on video as I may go overboard and just talk about it for way longer than I should've. I don't exactly understand why we're so confrontational and obsessed with feeling of power as species. If we were to cooperate and forgo the divisions of race, religion and nationality and just Earthlings together we could achieve much more. If all that creativity and invention that we're capable of would be redirected from warfare and arms race into bettering our collective lives. And no, I'm not a s*cialist or c*mmunist and don't subscribe to their notions even though I heard people comparing Star Trek's philosophy to these ideals. They are inherently wrong. Darn it! I've done it again and kept talking about ST... xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I completely agree with you. Hopefully more people will think this way as we start to deal with global problems - climate change, migration, inequality etc. Something has to change.
@@Retrohertz I'd start with "de-throning" for the lack of a better word of all World tyrants. And then I'd limit politician's max earning to 3 times the average salary so that they would start working for us and not themself. That would obviously have to come with complete transparency of their assets and wealth but I feel that could discourage them from taking bribes. And if all that would be in place, complete shift of focus from arms to eradicating hunger and poverty. Then split between general scientific progress and huge investments in medicine. We really should've rid World of cancer years ago. After that, let's look outwards - current space programs are not bad, but they could be better... And I'm on a rant again. xD
ahhhh! Overkill was the name of the game I remember playing. Now I remember it. Great shooter.
Nice one! :)
Such a excellent series of vids...so many memories...thank u
Thanks for watching! There's many more to come!
omg, this video was one big trip down memory lane!
Glad you liked it! 1992 was a good year indeed. But wait just a few days more for 1993, oh boy, that one was epic!
Great video, I always look forward to your updates! Thanks for all your work!
I was still Amiga only in 1992 but am now catching up on the dos games. I’m glad I purchased an MT-32 a couple years ago as prices are crazy now.
Thanks for watching! :)
Yeah, by 1992 I was still using Amiga too. As a matter of fact, most of the games in this video I either played on Amiga first or couple of years later when they were not new anymore. MT-32 is something I was always interested in, especially cause it offered super high quality alternative to midi. Which I always thought of being an interesting format seriously crippled by the lack of proper hardware implementation that could use real life samples of instruments to simulate orchestral music in games...
15:25 : ""Titus the Fox"""
Another DOS platform game (let's not forget 24:30 : ""bomberman"" also) that will always be in my heart!! as a kid i've been watching my best friend playing it on his PC.
It was a *very difficult* game but was incredible addictive and also from the technical side , it had very good/realistic physics-calculations.
(jumping more times on the trampoline would get you higher for example ,or the way the iron-ball you threw to the enemies was bouncing , that's another example )
*edit* : again , thanks for the memories !!
You're welcome! :)
DOS had so many amazing games, and there were still more I never heard of and I keep discovering every year.
I didn't have a soundcard (only built in pc speaker, the crappy one) so many times i would listen to music on the stereo while playing. I put on a playlist from 1992 with songs i used to listen to, and then i watched this video. It was so close. I could almost feel it. Amazing times. They still are, just different.
Glad I could help bring back the memories. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames You've made so many good videos about gaming from those years, I'm glad there are people like you around :) Thanks!
@@mindtreat Well, you're welcome and thanks for watching! Without viewers these would be effectively a love letters to the games of yore. xD
Very good video and fantastic memories. Thank you!
Thanks for watching :)
It was the idea behind all of these series (DOS/Amiga/C64/...) to bring back the memories of games, and not only by showing the gameplay, but also by highlighting what they were about.
Oh... I'll never forget the monopoly like jump celebration when I finished Alone in the Dark 1 😂
Great video as always. Just so you know, because of you, I now spend my free time crying blood tears while trying to finish Rick Dangerous 1 😆
It's a very old video, but thank you! Also, beating RD is like beating one of those modern souls-likes, so an achievement in its own. And not many can say that they did. :)
Oh!! I'm always honest with my gaming history. Many of the games of your videos I have played as a kid but were to hard for me at the time. I don't see the 100% of the video, I usually forward 10 secs when there are games that I dont know at all or just dont like too much. Still, all of your videos and your narrative gives a great vibe 😊
@@huaweisaturno1474 Thanks! :) I do my best. :)
Really enjoying these vids - keep them coming 👍👍
Thanks! Working on DOS 1995 now, should be out end of this week on Patreon if all goes well and Monday on YT. If something interrupts me, it'll be out day or two later at most.
When I'm done with DOS, I think of covering C64 and then Sega Genesis.
Is it wrong that I still like The Oregon Trail, including deluxe?
Indiana Jones & the fate of Atlantis is a true classic so is, Titus the Fox & Star Trek 25th Anniversary are “must play” games.
Locomotion looks childish but it’s so much fun & I can say exactly the same of Gear Works.
UGH! Is unique & deserves to be better known.
Why do you want to start a flame war with the Dune II crowd? 😄
The Koshan Conspiracy is not 1 I know? I must check it out, same for Darklands.
Oh dear, I hate to “um actually” but Hovertank 3D came before Wolfenstein 3D but was not well known, so Wolfenstein gets the credit for being ground braking in it’s time but simplistic by modern standards. Still fun though & you get to fight minigun-mech Hitler at the end.
I’ve played Bomber man on many, many platforms but never PC?
Alone in the dark was technically amazing in it’s day & really made 3D survival horror a thing but it’s ugly & the controls are clumsy & slow by modern standards. I still have it on original CD though. Still have Lure of the Temptress too.
I like your original Moonstone video, you introduced me to it. Same for Pushover.
So disappointed “Squakmonster” wasn’t your ship in 1869. 😄
I’m still traumatised by the ending to Monkey Island 2, thank goodness 3 came out.
I like the pace of TMNT The Arcade Game but I do understand what you’re saying about game play & the PC version isn’t the best.
Formula 1 Grand Prix was super impressive for it’s time, if you had a PC that could do it justice. Honestly I know what you mean about sports, I get taking part, that makes sense but I don’t get watching other people take part when you’re not?
Great video again. That’s a lot of games but you kept it consistent all the way through, thanks.
I love Oregon Trail too. I mean deluxe more than the basic, first version. And it's no secret that I'm not American, so I had no access to it when in school and only ever played it as a grown up. It may not be the most sophisticated game but it has this enchanting charm to it and it's by all accounts definitely a rogue-lite game. And I like those.
I really like Locomotion but it gets a bit too hectic for me at a certain point and from then onward it's just frustrating. But it's more of an issue of me than the game. Gear Works relaxes me. Don't know why.
To be fair to Dune, later Dune 2000 was much more improved while staying very faithful to the original and if I had to I would recommend that as the first Dune RTS for anyone interested in playing it. And yeah, sometimes I just can't help myself and I gotta say what I feel even if it's not popular. For instance Heroes of Might and Magic 2 The Succession Wars in my opinion is heaps better than Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Especially while playing a custom "Gyros Too!" map. Also, if you ever get a chance I recommend that map wholeheartedly, especially if you have someone to play it with. That single map alone can provide days if not weeks of fun.
It's always fun to consider existence of mecha-hitler (yes, small letter is intentional) and yep, you're right. Technically speaking Wolf3D was not first. But could we perhaps land on it being first "modern" FPS? Having near everything that games in the genre have to this day. :)
Darklands is very obscure as it's German and was not pushed heavily outside of the region. Which is pity but on the other hand perhaps many PCs were saved cause of it. ;) And yeah, it's a game most don't heard about and it has many of the mechanics and ideas that were not seen in gaming for many more years since its release. It's definitely worth a look if you have time on your hands.
Oh, the latest Monkey Island actually came out in Game Pass recently and I'm looking forward to attempting beating it this coming holiday season. I'm taking a week off of work, so if I manage to put enough work into videos I should have 3-4 days free to do just that. :)
Sports... My point exactly. If I play (anything) I'll do my best. But if I'm to watch it, I'd rather grab a nap or do basically anything else. I mean, there's an exception, I can bare it socially with friends but I try to avoid it if I can. Well, come to think of it, I may have lied here. I don't mind watching poker as I love the game. But is it a sport per se?
Thanks for as usual being the very first to watch and comment! I do enjoy our little convos here and while I plan to see Japan first within the next 24 months (I know, it's a long time ahead but it's costly and, well, work, and stuff...) but then I hope to go to US within the next 24, and I believe you're American, so if I do, I hope you'd be up for a drink and a chat in person?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames LOL! I do use a lot of Americanisms online but I’m actually British. Nothing to worry about, I’m some text on a screen to you. 😄
@@nicholsliwilson I actually lived in UK for over 8 years, in London. I really enjoyed it, had my life built there but then personal issues brought me back home.
Great video and cool concept. I also enjoyed the Amiga videos.
Thank you! I'm glad you like those. When I finish with the DOS series I'll take a few weeks off from those hour long videos and will get back to reviews etc. for few weeks. To catch up with all the other stuff I didn't managed to do while I was working on these. But, when I'm done with this short break I was considering a similar series for either C64 or Sega Genesis/Megadrive. I haven't decided which one yet.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'll vote Megadrive :-) C64 is a bit too garrish for my taste tbh, but I'll watch anyway. Thanks
@@blumcole Megadrive would be much easier to cover, no doubt about that. Far less games on it and there's much more high quality footage available meaning I wouldn't have to play all the obscure games myself for the video. Which, don't get me wrong, I don't mind, it just extends the time these take to make.
Dune and Waxworks are some of my favorites
Great games indeed! :)
Good work! :)
Thank you! :) You're partly responsible. ;)
I think it's worth noting that unless you have to play it on DOS, there is either the Dune Legacy fan port/remaster or the Dune 2000 remake as a good alternative to the original Dune 2.
Thanks for the vid, I'll come back with a music focused list as before when I'm less tired. :)
Excellent point, Dune 2000 especially is easily accessible and runs perfectly on modern systems.
And please, do feel free to come back with all the details regarding the music. :)
Some of the best sounding games from 1992 imo (focusing on the music):
Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings (Canadian CD-ROM ver.)(PC Redbook)
Secret of Monkey Island (CD ver.)(PC Redbook)
Fascination (CD ver.)(PC Redbook)(different)
Pinball Dreams (PC, SB Mod)
Star Control II (PC, SB Mod)
Pinball Fantasies (PC Speaker PWM)
Dune 2 (PC, GM SC-55 & GM SCC-1)
Dune (PC, GM SC-55)
King's Quest VI (PC, GM SC-55)
Utopia: The Creation of a Nation (PC, MT-32 (new-type/rev. 1))
Steel Empire/Cyber Empires (PC, MT-32)
Dune II (PC, MT-32)
Double Dragon 3 (PC, MT-32)
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (PC, MT-32)
Quest For Glory VGA Remake (PC, MT-32) & Quest for Glory III (PC, MT-32)
KGB/Conspiracy (PC, MT-32)
Legend of Kyrandia (PC, MT-32)
The Dagger of Amon Ra/Laura Bow II (PC, MT-32)
Hero Quest/HeroQuest (PC, MT-32)
Might & Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen (PC, MT-32)
Steel Empire/Cyber Empires (PC, OPL2 or OPL3)
Dune 2 (PC, dual OPL2?)
Dune (PC, AdLib Gold)
Mad Paradox (PC, OPL2)
KGB (PC, OPL2)
Harald Hårdtand i 'Kampen om de rene tænder'/Harald Hardtooth in 'The battle for clean teeth' (PC, OPL2)
Doukyusei (PC, OPL3)
Dune (PC, OPL2)
First Samurai (PC, OPL2)
Magic Pockets (PC, OPL2+Samples)
Subtrade: Return to Irata (PC, OPL2+Samples)
Amberstar (PC, Dual OPL2/OPL3?)
Great work as usual!
I can't wait to see if you enjoyed epic in my eyes (or ears) opening theme from Frontier: Elite 2 from 1993.
Ultima VII: The Black Gate is only Ultima VII: Part 1 in retrospect. Serpent Isle is much more of an expansion pack (even if it is not the literal expansion, Forge of Virtue). Serpent Isle throws away many of the things that Black Gate did and uses the engine in a different way. Serpent Isle is linear; It can't have the Magic Carpet because the world is not open.
You call Ultima VII the first for many things, but it's more like the last. Every remaining game, including Serpent Isle, takes away things that made Ultima what it was. Nothing in the story past Black Gate is worth following; it's like the last good season of a TV show before it goes off the rails. The closest Ultima in gameplay to Black Gate is Ultima Online, for all it's faults and despite being online because at least it's open.
All excellent points.
But don't you finish the show that you loved when it started just to have a closure?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Let's be real, I'm just a very grumpy old man. There was so much I wanted after Ultima VII that I didn't get. I didn't hate Serpent Isle, but it didn't really work right, and then the story was off the rails in 8 and 9 - I couldn't finish it (and not just because it wasn't possible to finish it out of the box).
Because of experiences like this I've reached a point where I no longer need to finish a series when I don't feel like I'm getting what I want anymore. Sometimes it's better to imagine what it could have been.
@@kyleolson8977 I get that. I wish there would be Matrix follow ups but they never made those... ;)
Cybercon III, 1992
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