Spend stupid noney on the Tyson fight or on Oasis tickets, not me. Now £90 for "The Spectrum" that finally got delivered yesterday, absolutely, because I do nostalgia right 😂
I walked into a shop and bought the new Spectrum over the counter. The sensation of authenticity was burst when it actually worked out of the box; then had the audacity to actually load a game, on the first attempt... I was disappointed I didn't need to retune the telly. nor wrestle with tone controls on a '70s cassette recorder. There was absolutely no scope for a tantrum. I'm gutted.
Fab show as usual. I'm sure I saw the composer of freelancer pop up last week talking about Rob Hubbard . Surprised you guys didn't mention it as I always wondered what Hubbard got up to in the later years. Also totally agree with Neil about Dragon's Lair, it's a thing of beauty even if there isn't much of a game underneath.
I've lost count of how many times I've played through Half Life. It's still great today. And I totally agree with Dave here, it's better that they didn't give a voice to Gordon Freeman.
I remember In an interview in a French magazine, Eric Chahi reported that he thought dragon's lair was done in vectors and was when he saw the amount of Amiga disks he figured it was all bitmaps , prompting the desire to make Another World in vectors to fit all animations on less disk space
I bought my Amiga 500 from Swansea Microstore, you can't see it in the ad but there were stairs to a second floor. It became Evesham Microstore then closed down. It's currently "Swansea 1 shop stop" (a non-profit organisation).
StarCraft was a huge part of my late teen years absolutely adored it. 98/99 during the dawn of the internet we regularly dragged my friends PC over to mine to have serial null modem competitions on StarCraft and Dark Reign :D
For anyone out there who has a VR headset, there is a fantastic VR mod for Half Life 2 that you can just download from inside steam. It was released as a semi-official VR mode for the game. It's really, really good, and seeing that world in VR is so cool. You get all of the nostalgia and on top of that you get a totally fresh way to play it. Total nostalgia overload. I love VR so much for these types of things. There are mods for the Quake and Doom games as well, and it just never gets old for me, seeing these classic games as if I was in there. If you want a VR headset I can recommend Quest 3. There are modded classic games that run native on those things, maby id software games particularly. It is a lot of fun. You need VR legs before you get into these types of VR games though, they're pretty intense.
Ah now that’s some serious nostalgia spent hours in work when I should have been training on something, looking up the best graphics card to play Half Life 2 at a decent frame rate - settled on a Radeon 9800pro. Happy days when that bad boy arrived. Loved it.
I'm definitely going to have a look at the warcraft 2 re-release. I used to love playing warcraft 2, on the thin co-ax ethernet network we cobbled together in our hall of residence, with the thin co-ax being strung from 1 bedroom window to the next.
On the subject of games and auto fire, there was some shooter (cannot remember it for the life of me) on the PC and we decided to see how far it could get without playing and just resting a pencil case on the space bar. The answer is a lot longer than the game designer probably intended, I think it was something like 45 seconds before the ship got killed .
For dragon's lair, the only time I've played it in the arcade was at the galloping ghost in Bolingbrook, IL, which is the largest arcade in the world with around 1k cabinets. What's awesome there is you pay one price when you get there and all the games are free play. They even have Sega Sonic the hedgehog and Golden Axe revenge of death adder as well
You were being a bit negative on GOG’s preservation Neil. If they’re not doing it then a ton of games will only be available from dodgy abandonware sites or by using dodgy patches from who knows wear. Remember that a lot of people get sick of the hassle, particularly if it’s a windows 95/98 era game. They can be impossible to get working from original media (from someone who has enough CD coasters)
I remember it was 25 US Cents/minute to dial into Compuserve or AOL in Syracuse, NY from the top of New York State or 10 cents/minute for the local dialup ISP as they were not on the local phone exchange So, I mostly played on couple local BBSs so no phone charge and no service charge
if there's nothing wrong with us using emulation or virtual machines or DOSBox to play games then perhaps your relative is more connected with retro than any of us by wanting to use Win98 in a VM for every day usage. Perhaps we're the ones who are wrong and we've become the slowly boiled lobsters of 26 years of Windows "upgrades" ?
So many 80s and 90s shows I couldn't watch from beginning to end from my early childhood like He-Man, Thundercats, Mazinger, I know I didn't watch either all of the V, Knight Rider, A-Team but these don't have that huge nostalgia factor to me. Much later in the 90s we got cable and a VHS and that made it easier, I even got the first Seasons of X-Files. But if we are talking about games, damn, I think I can count with my fingers the games I have completed. 😅 Maybe I should do something about it. 😂
Dune II was released in 1992. What about Mega Lo Mania from 1991 or Powermonger (bit more of a stretch) which used the Populous engine to deliver something a lot closer to an RTS than Populous. That's before you go back to the various strategy games from the 1980s that established certain elements of RTS games even then.
I used to like the fact you at least tried to be apolitical, but your shameful plug of blueskies is making me rethink that. Be realistic, stick to logic and videogames. If you wish to include politics, talk about the farmers in the UK; if not, stick to retro.
There's nowt political about the move to BSky. The new X branding of the former Twitter is a turn off, aesthetically. It now feels like an incel incubator service. I was waiting for a viable alternative to emerge, and now it has arrived.
Spend stupid noney on the Tyson fight or on Oasis tickets, not me. Now £90 for "The Spectrum" that finally got delivered yesterday, absolutely, because I do nostalgia right 😂
I walked into a shop and bought the new Spectrum over the counter. The sensation of authenticity was burst when it actually worked out of the box; then had the audacity to actually load a game, on the first attempt... I was disappointed I didn't need to retune the telly. nor wrestle with tone controls on a '70s cassette recorder. There was absolutely no scope for a tantrum. I'm gutted.
Fab show as usual. I'm sure I saw the composer of freelancer pop up last week talking about Rob Hubbard . Surprised you guys didn't mention it as I always wondered what Hubbard got up to in the later years. Also totally agree with Neil about Dragon's Lair, it's a thing of beauty even if there isn't much of a game underneath.
"Bombjack is alright for 5 minutes? "???? How very dare you sir , one of the best arcade games of all time 😮
Dave has as much taste in games as he has hair.
@bombjack2413 not much 🤣
I've lost count of how many times I've played through Half Life. It's still great today. And I totally agree with Dave here, it's better that they didn't give a voice to Gordon Freeman.
Growing up in the US in the 80's we got a lot of British tv shows.The Tomorrow people is one that sticks in my mind.
I remember In an interview in a French magazine, Eric Chahi reported that he thought dragon's lair was done in vectors and was when he saw the amount of Amiga disks he figured it was all bitmaps , prompting the desire to make Another World in vectors to fit all animations on less disk space
25:35 The RTX-Remix version of HL2 isn't out yet, it's still being worked on.
I bought my Amiga 500 from Swansea Microstore, you can't see it in the ad but there were stairs to a second floor. It became Evesham Microstore then closed down. It's currently "Swansea 1 shop stop" (a non-profit organisation).
StarCraft was a huge part of my late teen years absolutely adored it. 98/99 during the dawn of the internet we regularly dragged my friends PC over to mine to have serial null modem competitions on StarCraft and Dark Reign :D
Another compelling video guys - thanks!
For anyone out there who has a VR headset, there is a fantastic VR mod for Half Life 2 that you can just download from inside steam. It was released as a semi-official VR mode for the game. It's really, really good, and seeing that world in VR is so cool. You get all of the nostalgia and on top of that you get a totally fresh way to play it. Total nostalgia overload.
I love VR so much for these types of things. There are mods for the Quake and Doom games as well, and it just never gets old for me, seeing these classic games as if I was in there.
If you want a VR headset I can recommend Quest 3. There are modded classic games that run native on those things, maby id software games particularly. It is a lot of fun. You need VR legs before you get into these types of VR games though, they're pretty intense.
Dave, you are dead to me following your comment about Bomb Jack. It is one greatest single screen platform games of all time.
Funnily enough when we recorded this morning I clarified my position! (Dave)
@@ThisWeekinRetro I’ll forgive you Dave and you’re no longer dead to me. 😉
Ah now that’s some serious nostalgia spent hours in work when I should have been training on something, looking up the best graphics card to play Half Life 2 at a decent frame rate - settled on a Radeon 9800pro. Happy days when that bad boy arrived. Loved it.
I'm definitely going to have a look at the warcraft 2 re-release. I used to love playing warcraft 2, on the thin co-ax ethernet network we cobbled together in our hall of residence, with the thin co-ax being strung from 1 bedroom window to the next.
Steam is great in many ways, but there's no denying that the platform killed off physical sales on PC.
Warcraft was originally going to be a Games Workshop "Warhammer" game, but GW wouldn't grant the license at the last minute.
On the subject of games and auto fire, there was some shooter (cannot remember it for the life of me) on the PC and we decided to see how far it could get without playing and just resting a pencil case on the space bar. The answer is a lot longer than the game designer probably intended, I think it was something like 45 seconds before the ship got killed .
For dragon's lair, the only time I've played it in the arcade was at the galloping ghost in Bolingbrook, IL, which is the largest arcade in the world with around 1k cabinets. What's awesome there is you pay one price when you get there and all the games are free play. They even have Sega Sonic the hedgehog and Golden Axe revenge of death adder as well
Nether Earth on the 8 bits in 1987 was definitely an RTS, and then there is Carrier Command.
I spent hours in Dune2 and Warcraft2, but my favorite strategy was Bitmap Brother’s “Z”. More contemporary analogue is Warhammer 40k
You were being a bit negative on GOG’s preservation Neil. If they’re not doing it then a ton of games will only be available from dodgy abandonware sites or by using dodgy patches from who knows wear. Remember that a lot of people get sick of the hassle, particularly if it’s a windows 95/98 era game. They can be impossible to get working from original media (from someone who has enough CD coasters)
If only Rockstar treated their GTA series like Valve does HL
I remember it was 25 US Cents/minute to dial into Compuserve or AOL in Syracuse, NY from the top of New York State or 10 cents/minute for the local dialup ISP as they were not on the local phone exchange So, I mostly played on couple local BBSs so no phone charge and no service charge
if there's nothing wrong with us using emulation or virtual machines or DOSBox to play games then perhaps your relative is more connected with retro than any of us by wanting to use Win98 in a VM for every day usage. Perhaps we're the ones who are wrong and we've become the slowly boiled lobsters of 26 years of Windows "upgrades" ?
Now image that most of the U.S.A. military systems are still running Windows 95. They're also not connected to the internet.
@MorMacFey-v2g well I guess there's nothing wrong with that. If they work and don't BSOD.
So many 80s and 90s shows I couldn't watch from beginning to end from my early childhood like He-Man, Thundercats, Mazinger, I know I didn't watch either all of the V, Knight Rider, A-Team but these don't have that huge nostalgia factor to me.
Much later in the 90s we got cable and a VHS and that made it easier, I even got the first Seasons of X-Files. But if we are talking about games, damn, I think I can count with my fingers the games I have completed. 😅
Maybe I should do something about it. 😂
First game I played at Butlins Minehead was donkey kong..... and yes I am a bit older than Neal ;)
Are you going to make poor Duncan make a super cut of all Ultima mentions this year?
Dune II was released in 1992. What about Mega Lo Mania from 1991 or Powermonger (bit more of a stretch) which used the Populous engine to deliver something a lot closer to an RTS than Populous. That's before you go back to the various strategy games from the 1980s that established certain elements of RTS games even then.
bombjack is awesome and not just for 5 minutes lol
The common trend I see is people not going after the lit bombs. It's like not running in Super Mario Brothers, then complaining the game is slow.
Wait.... you have never played Half Life 2 all the way through?? 😳
No “three imaginary disc formats” jokes to be found? I feel so let down!
On the D&D epsiode ua-cam.com/video/m1_6SeRRflo/v-deo.htmlsi=ZFoiZ8eGX2qW5pS2
First like😊
I used to like the fact you at least tried to be apolitical, but your shameful plug of blueskies is making me rethink that. Be realistic, stick to logic and videogames.
If you wish to include politics, talk about the farmers in the UK; if not, stick to retro.
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Complains about politics, proceeds to talk about politics. How about practising what you preach?
There's nowt political about the move to BSky. The new X branding of the former Twitter is a turn off, aesthetically. It now feels like an incel incubator service. I was waiting for a viable alternative to emerge, and now it has arrived.
@@stevehiggins9351 an example that serves a purpose.
It always makes me chuckle when some rando thinks it's up to them to control the narrative and tell others what to do.