This game was my reward for being brave having my tonsils taken out. My six year old self was scared, and I still feel panic when those footstep approach!
Decided to do a 5 year Anniversary channel marathon so here is my HI to try and make the algorithm be nice. Fun and great no matter how many times i have watched them.
The ZX81's top heavy 16k Ram Pack as it was more commonly known, that quite often had to be taped to the actual ZX81 to stop it leaning and bending/breaking the connector. My first ever computer when I was around 6, I had an orange external mechanical keyboard that had been wired in.. Spending days programming out of magazines and ending up with a clock.. This game was one of the first I had as well, along with some fantasy adventure game that I can't remember the name of. lol Sometimes I miss those days.. lol
I used to play this back in 1982 with a friend - for a 16k black and white game without any sound, the atmosphere it creates is amazing. You get genuine jumps!
Not to mention the anxiety of dreaded Ram Pack wobble every keypress, even after you had mounted it and your doorstop in an appropriate mound of Pay Doh ( or blu-tac )
I remember a friend of mine owning a ZX81 and showing me the game. Given the limitations of the computer the game is excellent and somehow I feel the lack of sound adds to the atmosphere. That being said I would loved to have seen a Spectrum conversion of this game as I think it could have been a real hit.
Fabulous review of one of my first purchases after getting my ZX81 back in 1982. There was a reasonable amount of hype around this game at the time ... and even now it's the first game I think of when looking back at my ZX81 gaming. Great video :-)
Must of spent hours on this game in early 80's. Also like the original sound of Horace at 3:32 - heard that many times as a kid when bit by the spiders 🤘🏻🕹. Great video Sarah loved it 🤗
Another great video with some wonderfully detailed information about how the game was put together. You do a great job with these retro games, Octav1us, keep up the amazing work :)
"You duck-tampering bastard!" LMAO The bits where Horace sneakily tries to touch your butt, and then tries to hug you at the end is perfect. Seriously this is absolutely brilliant! Well done Sarah and Retro Princess! LOVED it! Incredible start to the 7 days! :D
The block characters from the ZX81 weren't part of Unicode at the time; Unicode didn't exist until the 1990s. 🐱💻 In fact, once these characters were rolled up into Unicode, the consortium decided that the ZX81 characters 0x08 and 0x88 should both map to the same Unicode codepoint U+2592, despite them having alternating checkerboard patterns. So it's true to say that these characters are still not entirely part of Unicode, even today. 🐱🐉
This game really was terrifying back in the day. I got it when it first came out, pretty sure it was late 1981. I'd been given a really old 28" B&W telly for my ZX81 as my parents were sick of me using their telly. Imagine lying on the floor, playing 3D Monster Maze in front of a huge 28" telly and that effing T-REX appears! Still anxiety-inducing after 40 years. Play on a real ZX81 with the unresponsive keyboard for maximum terror as you dance around the keypad trying to escape.
I love all the hard work you have put into the series. I know its not been easy. I hope the rest of the series comes together smoothly for you. Wishing all the best.
I do enjoy the fact that you give the older games a fair shake. The Sinclair wasn't big in the states, and I sort of wish it had at least a bigger presence if only for the exposure. My first computer was an Atari 800XL. Good stuff.
"OK we've got a runner, everyone to the dodge-em's" is pure comedy gold lmao! Reminded of the time when we used to innately add imagination to graphics when playing computer games: "See that X? That's you, Tim, you're the Barbarian Warrior Ulric the Bloodthirsty from Zogoth!"
I've been meaning to play this game for a while, but I haven't got round to getting the RAM expansion for my ZX81. Great video, immensely enjoyable. I'm looking forward to the rest of the week, it's the one thing I enjoy about Halloween.
Ah, the fun you can have with an old ZX81 game. Brilliant vid, described the game with fun acting elements. I remember my brother had a ZX81 with the heatpack of death. I spent hours programming in a Maze program from one of the magazines.
Guru Larry sent me! :D I totally enjoyed this video and that game is indeed impressive for the hardware it's on. The ZX81 was my older brother's first computer. Well... the Timex Sinclair 1000 because we're on the other side of the pond. Sinclair never did get a decent foothold over here but that little home micro firmly established my brother's passion for computers and he passed that same passion on to me growing up.
Should have had some footage of you playing it from your live streams. Great work covering 3D Monster Maze, love the technical research you found on it.
Lost it at the witness statement. Water everywhere. Massive congratulation on getting this finished, by the way; fate was unkind and you punched it in the face. Bloody well done. (also yey RP moar RP fings)
A fun review. Thanks :-) PS - My Dad had an old Tandy Color Computer and we used to play a similar game Dungeons Of Daggorath. My two kids used to hide their eyes in case the spider came. (But, oddly enough, they weren't affraid of the axe-wielding troll.) Now, years later, they play Call Of Duty and I asked them if they were scared of the zombies. "Of course not." they replied "Why? Are you? You big chicken." Cheers from Canada :-)
1:59 Actually, the first survival horror game was technically "Haunted House" for the Magnavox Odyssey. I say "technically" because, like all Odyssey games, it's just two white dots on a screen with a plastic overlay over your TV to constitute graphics.
You've played another blinder, Octy! I loved the continuity porn at the end along with Coptavius' appearance. But above all, you made me want to play 3D Monster Maze now.
So... you end up as a ghost, wandering a maze while a giant mouth tries to eat you. It almost sounds like a 3d version of... DONKEY KONG! YES! I knew that's what it was!
As a boy I had the BBC version/clone/whatever of this game, the creatively titled 'Maze'. It didn't have dinosaurs, but it did have villains. In hats. And actually (seriously), just hearing their echoing footsteps as they walked nearby was truly enough to make 8-year-old me nearly have toilet related incidents. I used to love it, it was actually quite creepy, except... It didn't have Horace. No Horace in game? Therefore, obviously a totally rubbish game. (Even though I wasn't a Speccy boy, my memory nowadays likes to retcon Horace into every classic old computer game I played, purely because of this channel!)
Reminds me of the game on the '81 called Mazog's which was for its time abs brilliant looked just about the same except the walls were predominantly black and the monsters were space invader-esque and quite involved random workable mazes.
Lurve it! It's both cute and horrifying! Imagine doing a live-action version of this game. Go to maze, someone sits in elevated chair with megaphone telling you status of T-Rex and guy in T-Rex costume! That would be fun!!! 😂😂😂
I had a very similar game on the commodore 16 called 3d gloober, it was in colour and i never ever knew what i was meant to be doing and it had no dinosaurs in it just some weird blobby ghost thing that you just randomly bumped into
i do not know what i feel about mazes with dinosaur omnivores inside of them. but i do cherish a video from Oktavius anytime (and hey double points for two videos). right so early 3D maze with horror theme, it is impressive how much have game developers tried for this dimension, nice to see that someone shines a light on long forgotten titles. quick side-question: was the green screen running a rib on how they achieved the 3D in first place? (i assume they did something similar to parallax scrolling to ease the necessary computations),
oooh Retro Princess appearance. I know her from UA-cam videos! You one of them good eggs to the smaller youtube guy Octav1us. 3D Monster Maze can get f***ed. Game was panic inducing to me as a kid. Great game. There was also a game based on Aliens on the speccy that was similarly stress inducing.
Oh sweet! I have that t-shirt! Only in black because I can't pull off any other colour. I'd never heard of Everpress before I ordered it so don't know if it's down to you or them for the quality of the shirt but it's really good. Nice and soft and looks good
This game was my reward for being brave having my tonsils taken out. My six year old self was scared, and I still feel panic when those footstep approach!
I got super Nintendo after had mine out. And some rescue rangers stuffed animals haha
Screw Horace, I'd gladly go on a date with Octavius in a ZX81 T-Rex maze.
Decided to do a 5 year Anniversary channel marathon so here is my HI to
try and make the algorithm be nice. Fun and great no matter how many times i have watched them.
Hilarious. This is peak Octavius.
HE IS HUNTING FOR YOU
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
REX HAS SEEN YOU
RUN, HE IS BEHIND YOU
That is still pretty damn creepy
ROFL I love the graphics of the T-Rex getting close-up. Great video, Octav1us!
The ZX81's top heavy 16k Ram Pack as it was more commonly known, that quite often had to be taped to the actual ZX81 to stop it leaning and bending/breaking the connector. My first ever computer when I was around 6, I had an orange external mechanical keyboard that had been wired in.. Spending days programming out of magazines and ending up with a clock.. This game was one of the first I had as well, along with some fantasy adventure game that I can't remember the name of. lol
Sometimes I miss those days.. lol
Now I know where michael crichton got his idea for Jurrasic park from. Robbing tart.
Awesome stuff the two of you! So happy to see great content like this appearing to be stuffed into my eyes!
My favourite part was when a little bit of fear wee came out of Horace. Can totally relate.
I used to play this back in 1982 with a friend - for a 16k black and white game without any sound, the atmosphere it creates is amazing. You get genuine jumps!
Not to mention the anxiety of dreaded Ram Pack wobble every keypress, even after you had mounted it and your doorstop in an appropriate mound of Pay Doh ( or blu-tac )
I used to Blu-Tak mine to the ZX81 just for this game!
Great vid, thank you Octav1us and Retro Princess for keeping UA-cam funny!
This was genius. RP was ace too.
Been waiting for your new 7 days of scare series! Amazing work as always... HORACE!!! 😁
I remember a friend of mine owning a ZX81 and showing me the game. Given the limitations of the computer the game is excellent and somehow I feel the lack of sound adds to the atmosphere.
That being said I would loved to have seen a Spectrum conversion of this game as I think it could have been a real hit.
Fabulous review of one of my first purchases after getting my ZX81 back in 1982. There was a reasonable amount of hype around this game at the time ... and even now it's the first game I think of when looking back at my ZX81 gaming. Great video :-)
Must of spent hours on this game in early 80's. Also like the original sound of Horace at 3:32 - heard that many times as a kid when bit by the spiders 🤘🏻🕹. Great video Sarah loved it 🤗
As usual, you managed to entertain me to the max :) Great job as always, Octav1us - your work is only getting better and better!
Another great video with some wonderfully detailed information about how the game was put together. You do a great job with these retro games, Octav1us, keep up the amazing work :)
'Some wee came out' Ah, the tactless days of times gone by...
Fantastic video! Really looking forward to the next six episodes 👍❤️
Horace goes weeing...
"You duck-tampering bastard!" LMAO The bits where Horace sneakily tries to touch your butt, and then tries to hug you at the end is perfect. Seriously this is absolutely brilliant! Well done Sarah and Retro Princess! LOVED it! Incredible start to the 7 days! :D
The block characters from the ZX81 weren't part of Unicode at the time; Unicode didn't exist until the 1990s. 🐱💻
In fact, once these characters were rolled up into Unicode, the consortium decided that the ZX81 characters 0x08 and 0x88 should both map to the same Unicode codepoint U+2592, despite them having alternating checkerboard patterns. So it's true to say that these characters are still not entirely part of Unicode, even today. 🐱🐉
i wish more youtubers were like you! supporting smaller channels! Love it! Thank you!
This is stuff that would’ve given me nightmares as a kid, holy shit.
Its nightmare inducing as an adult
That bit with the cop was amazing XD. Dealing with T-Rex maulings with the same calm and detached demeanor as if it were a speeding ticket.
This game really was terrifying back in the day. I got it when it first came out, pretty sure it was late 1981. I'd been given a really old 28" B&W telly for my ZX81 as my parents were sick of me using their telly. Imagine lying on the floor, playing 3D Monster Maze in front of a huge 28" telly and that effing T-REX appears! Still anxiety-inducing after 40 years. Play on a real ZX81 with the unresponsive keyboard for maximum terror as you dance around the keypad trying to escape.
I love all the hard work you have put into the series. I know its not been easy. I hope the rest of the series comes together smoothly for you. Wishing all the best.
I do enjoy the fact that you give the older games a fair shake. The Sinclair wasn't big in the states, and I sort of wish it had at least a bigger presence if only for the exposure. My first computer was an Atari 800XL. Good stuff.
"OK we've got a runner, everyone to the dodge-em's" is pure comedy gold lmao! Reminded of the time when we used to innately add imagination to graphics when playing computer games: "See that X? That's you, Tim, you're the Barbarian Warrior Ulric the Bloodthirsty from Zogoth!"
FABULOUS TROUSERS
I've been meaning to play this game for a while, but I haven't got round to getting the RAM expansion for my ZX81.
Great video, immensely enjoyable. I'm looking forward to the rest of the week, it's the one thing I enjoy about Halloween.
Ah, the fun you can have with an old ZX81 game. Brilliant vid, described the game with fun acting elements. I remember my brother had a ZX81 with the heatpack of death. I spent hours programming in a Maze program from one of the magazines.
Reminds me of playing TRS 80 games like Asylum, and Deathmaze 5000. Absolutely NAILS hard, but sooooo addictive. Excellent video, Sarah.
Guru Larry sent me! :D
I totally enjoyed this video and that game is indeed impressive for the hardware it's on. The ZX81 was my older brother's first computer. Well... the Timex Sinclair 1000 because we're on the other side of the pond. Sinclair never did get a decent foothold over here but that little home micro firmly established my brother's passion for computers and he passed that same passion on to me growing up.
After owning a Grandstand "Pong" clone this was legitimately the first video game I ever played. Great video!
This game is amazing considering the hardware limitations.
Yes. This was all done in 64x48, which even in 1982 was considered low resolution.
Fab video, I love that Horace is your side kick, nice touch :)
Absolutely brilliant! Loved the vid and I have loved the game for decades.
We absolutely need more Horace please. Proper funny!
When you can actually understand him without subtitles.. that is the mark of a true spec head.
I don’t think anyone’s ever done more with 16 bloody k than this.
Should have had some footage of you playing it from your live streams. Great work covering 3D Monster Maze, love the technical research you found on it.
I appreciate all the effort that went into this video. Great job!
Lost it at the witness statement. Water everywhere.
Massive congratulation on getting this finished, by the way; fate was unkind and you punched it in the face. Bloody well done.
(also yey RP moar RP fings)
So... it's basically like Spooky House of Jump Scares way before this was even a thing? Pretty clever
"You duck tampering bastard" creasing up here! Lll
It's amazing what they achieved.
this was brilliant video and well done octav1us and retro princess
Do carnival barkers in the UK say "roll up"? I find cultural trivia like that a bit fascinating.
Solid start to the seven days of scary O, good work.
Fantastic video and now I'm majorly hyped for the rest of the week. 11 out of 10 awesomes.
What wonderful silly fun! I *almost* feel sorry for Horace. Except for the bit where he tells the T-Rex to eat you, that’s just cruel...
This gave me nightmares all through my teens (and beyond). :)
Horace and Octavius are back! They made My day; the World is saved!
A fun review. Thanks :-)
PS - My Dad had an old Tandy Color Computer and we used to play a similar game Dungeons Of Daggorath. My two kids used to hide their eyes in case the spider came. (But, oddly enough, they weren't affraid of the axe-wielding troll.) Now, years later, they play Call Of Duty and I asked them if they were scared of the zombies. "Of course not." they replied "Why? Are you? You big chicken." Cheers from Canada :-)
Great stuff Octav1us. Scary maze. scary T-Rex, scary amount of machine code for one guy to do back in the day.
1:59 Actually, the first survival horror game was technically "Haunted House" for the Magnavox Odyssey.
I say "technically" because, like all Odyssey games, it's just two white dots on a screen with a plastic overlay over your TV to constitute graphics.
You've played another blinder, Octy! I loved the continuity porn at the end along with Coptavius' appearance.
But above all, you made me want to play 3D Monster Maze now.
I CAN't Belive YOU WASTED a POPSICLE! go back, pick it up, and wash it off!
lol jk
Wow must have been a great game in its day..will have to look out my zx81 and see if I have the game.. Love the channel.. Keep up the great work
Oh crap, a T-Rex! ...DOYOUTHINKHESAURUS!?
Great video, Octav1us ^^
This episode made me smiling :) Great job!
Horace turns it into a weird sitcom and I love it
Oh, the first episode is a... non horror game? well that cant be all that scar- *NEVERMIND i was wrong*
Love it! Story mixed with a review is always welcome!
Mmm, I'd be more scared of the clown I think, lol. ;o)
Glorious, a truly classic game.
Thank you for such awsome and big amount of Work that you put in to this... you doing great.
Can't think of any more words sorry.
So... you end up as a ghost, wandering a maze while a giant mouth tries to eat you.
It almost sounds like a 3d version of... DONKEY KONG! YES! I knew that's what it was!
Loved this game as a kid!
i love horace.. he's a ledge.. i remember playing this game when i was 9!!! and it was so scary.. great review
Great video Octav1us! Looking forward to the next one. 👍
I love Horace, he's so funny. Well done.
Oh my...
I love that shirt.
Great video. Very entertaining and well produced. Skills :)
I have a big crush on octavius must be the bunny ears. Another great vid !!
Bloody hell, I owned one of these with the 16k, boxed, until 2002! When I was forced to abandon it.
I had no idea it was capable of this.
I LOVE your skits :-)
Thumbs up for the cider lolly, that's attention to detail ;)
Oh yes! I remember playing that game on my zx81 and thoroughly hating that dinosaur! 😱😂
As a boy I had the BBC version/clone/whatever of this game, the creatively titled 'Maze'. It didn't have dinosaurs, but it did have villains. In hats. And actually (seriously), just hearing their echoing footsteps as they walked nearby was truly enough to make 8-year-old me nearly have toilet related incidents.
I used to love it, it was actually quite creepy, except... It didn't have Horace. No Horace in game? Therefore, obviously a totally rubbish game.
(Even though I wasn't a Speccy boy, my memory nowadays likes to retcon Horace into every classic old computer game I played, purely because of this channel!)
Your role play is the best part of the video :)
Educational and funny, really loved this review.
Great and entertaining vid, hang in there 0ctav1us (old and obscure cat pun). Supporting and liking what you are doing, keep it going.
A computer that wasn't thought capable for gaming ran one of the first 3D games. Amazing.
Reminds me of the game on the '81 called Mazog's which was for its time abs brilliant looked just about the same except the walls were predominantly black and the monsters were space invader-esque and quite involved random workable mazes.
Wow.. That was awesome. Your definitely starting to find your stride at this now.
Great Video! 3D Monster Maze is still fun to play nowadays.
Dang it Octavius! Making me play the theme song in a different tab to make the video complete!
At the first apperance The dino looks like he is trying to floss
I loved my ZX81. Years later I saw someone use theirs on the backpack of a ghost busters Halloween outfit... blasphemy...
Again a new gem on youtube 😻
Lurve it! It's both cute and horrifying! Imagine doing a live-action version of this game. Go to maze, someone sits in elevated chair with megaphone telling you status of T-Rex and guy in T-Rex costume! That would be fun!!! 😂😂😂
Awesome work all! looks Great! :D
Classic game - great video - good fun :)
I had a very similar game on the commodore 16 called 3d gloober, it was in colour and i never ever knew what i was meant to be doing and it had no dinosaurs in it just some weird blobby ghost thing that you just randomly bumped into
i do not know what i feel about mazes with dinosaur omnivores inside of them.
but i do cherish a video from Oktavius anytime (and hey double points for two videos).
right so early 3D maze with horror theme, it is impressive how much have game developers tried for this dimension, nice to see that someone shines a light on long forgotten titles.
quick side-question: was the green screen running a rib on how they achieved the 3D in first place? (i assume they did something similar to parallax scrolling to ease the necessary computations),
oooh Retro Princess appearance. I know her from UA-cam videos! You one of them good eggs to the smaller youtube guy Octav1us.
3D Monster Maze can get f***ed. Game was panic inducing to me as a kid. Great game. There was also a game based on Aliens on the speccy that was similarly stress inducing.
Oh sweet! I have that t-shirt! Only in black because I can't pull off any other colour. I'd never heard of Everpress before I ordered it so don't know if it's down to you or them for the quality of the shirt but it's really good. Nice and soft and looks good
One of my first games.. lovely video