I truly admire this level of dedication to Waterworld. I've been watching your videos here and there for about 5 years or so. Been through a lot in that time, and there's something comforting knowing you've consistently worked on these videos.
Wow! Sounds like you have been here since the beginning of the channel! I'm glad to hear this little corner of the internet could give you some comfort!
So, my wife randomly became a Waterworld lore buff, which was rather confusing because, to my knowledge, she had never even heard of Waterworld. Then she shows me that this channel was recommended to her out of nowhere and now we've been watching all of your videos together lol. We both really enjoy the content and hope that your channel continues to grow. Also, something I believed you'd find interesting is that she has never seen Waterworld before, like ever, and now she's became a fan of it through this channel lol. I wonder how many people you've introduced to Waterworld in a similar way.
Haha, wow, what an interesting comment! I had never really thought about people coming to the channel never having seen the film (and still getting enjoyment from my videos)! Actually, I feel that's a really high compliment to the work here on the channel. But yeah, so happy you and your wife are having fun watching the deep dives!
Heck yeah! So happy to hear I could be an inspiration! I think the game is totally worth a play through. I used DosBox, which took some learning to use, but honestly, if I can get it running, I think anyone with some computer smarts can get it running too!
I stumbled on your channel when UA-cam recommended your Deez video. Waterworld is pretty Niche(nowadays), but its remained one of my favorite movies. I loved rewatching it on VHS when I was a kid. Its oddly comfortable in its own way, hope you know your videos are appreciated.
Really nice play-through of the game, brought with the same insight and passion that makes Atolls other videos so great. Thanks for the great work, partner!
SNESdrunk's video "3 Hours of Relaxing Super Nintendo Music, Part 1" starts out with Waterworld's theme and game cover art...for months I have heard this and wondered what is this place and the story behind it. Quickly found your channel and already loving all your content and glad I decided to finally dive deeper into the topic!
Oh yeah, Dean Evan's SNES Waterworld Soundtrack is an absolute masterpiece! Glad you found the channel and want to learn more about the Waterworld universe!
55:45 Is that an alternative-earth Reddy Kilowatt Character? Like SMEAT is a minor alteration of a recognized brand. It does look different and I think it's probably a mascot of some manner of brand from the early 90's.
I'm commenting before even watching the video to say that since discovering your channel a few days ago, I've been on a semi-binge. Only 1-3 videos a day. Lol You present the topic in a clearly, well thought-out manner. You seem to straddle the line of being laid back and chill while moving fast enough to not let any one thing take up too much time. You even still engage with comments on years old videos. And even seen when they are borderline hateful comments, you're civil and seemingly let it roll off your back. Keep up what you're doing, I'm here for it.
Hey, glad to hear your enjoying the video library! Yeah, interacting with other fans in the comments is really the payoff for creating these videos. And if comments ever get a little weird, well, UA-cam actually has some great moderating tools, but for the most part people just wanna share their idea about the film!
Thank you TrackZero! Yeah, I hope to follow up this one with some shorter videos over the summer, and maybe another big deep dive at the end of the year.
Thanks for coming and checking out the video John! Yeah, the game is worth a play though. It's very satisfying once you get a good group of troops going!
Hello, for years I thought I was one of the few who loved Waterworld as its cult movie and you don't know how happy I was when I found out about your channel. I was surprised to learn that there was a Waterworld game for gameboy, since I have a huge number of games on this platform, now I have a goal to pursue. By the way, there is a Polish developer called Teyon who have made games based on movies with their own plots and where they have already shown what they are capable of with Terminator Resistance and now with Robocop Rogue City, now that there is a developer willing to follow the path of Ocean but this time doing things right, I have not stopped contemplating that Waterworld could be the next video game on their list. By the way, what is your opinion of Buoyanci's game?
Hey Ripast, so happy to hear you found the channel and are enjoying the deep dives! Yes, in my opinion, Waterworld gameboy is a hidden gem, but be warned, its extremely difficult. I would suggest playing it like I did, beat every level, but use the games one cheat code to revert to what ever level you last died on, like a save state. Beating the whole game in one sitting is psycho old school gamer stuff, and just way too difficult. I have not heard of Teyon before, but looking at their work, I do get very excited by what I see! Man, it would be great if they got the Waterworld license! I have not played Buoyancy, but it looks fun! Maybe I will have to review all these Waterworld themed games at some point, with Sunkenland and Raft included!
Oh man you made it so much farther than I did when I played this back in the late 90s. Seeing all the graphic icons brought back memories! Thanks for showing how far you can get in the game, especially the unused footage from the movie. I love stuff like that.
Yeah, playing through this reminded me of how much I love the RTS genre! I will have to check out some other RTS games now that I know how to use a dos emulator. Any suggestions for other games from the mid 90s??
@@TheAtoll The absolute gold standard is Command and Conquer, which has a fantastic remaster from a couple years ago. If you want to go a bit deeper, the first game from that team was an RTS based off of Dune which is really cool, worth checking out!
12:10-12:23 Having a magazine must've been like having a bar of gold, hence Helen's line from Max Allan Collins' novelization and the Extended TV/Ulysses Cut of *"Waterworld":* "If I had a magazine, I would retire."
Yes, thank you Josh! Wow, flexing some deep Waterworld knowledge here in this comment. While I was scripting this section, I kept thinking to myself "I know there are other references to the fact that magazines are specifically cited as valuable in the universe, but what was it?" You totally nailed it. Very nice!
Always a good day when an Atoll video is out! I actually prefer the Eye of God as the McGuffin over the tattoo, it simplifies and smooths over a lot of problems I had with the original story.
Oh yes! This one took awhile to make and I also commissioned to animate a music video for a local band, so that's why their was a bit of silence there. I hope to do some shorter vids over the summer, so hopefully it won't be as long of a gap between uploads!
@@TheAtoll Thank you for the reply! I stumbled across this channel and got super hooked and already went through all content, I'm a big waterworld fan with recently getting the 4k blu ray of it to add to my collection.
I’m so glad you got to play through this! Seriously, I adore this channel and am always so excited when you post something new. Thank you for your dedication, it is truly appreciated.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Yeah, I hope to make some shorter videos over the summer before plunging back into another true deep dive towards the end of the year.
I remember you commenting in the deluge video you weren't sure how to make the game work. Glad to see you found a way, old games like this don't always have good let's play/playthroughts. Really interesting to see the groups of people and tid-bits of lore the devellopers came up with, too.
I love world building like that! I wonder if the USS Ticonderoga atoll was inspired by the USS Ticonderoga CH-47 or was meant to represent a generic navy ship.
Great job once again! I always look foreward to your next videos. Wish I could have played this back in the 90's, great to see it here though. Keep up the great work bud!
Thank you Matt! I have so shorter videos planned next for the channel, so hopefully there will be less time in-between uploads for the rest of the summer!
Hey so this game called "sunkenlands" just released recently and its as close as we are gonna get to a modern waterworld themed game , its a ton of fun , if you are here you would enjoy it
Thanks so much for continuing to generate valuable content on this subject! Your videos are so informative and pricelessly logging materials that would otherwise get lost. They are so therapeutic as well. You should consider doing audiobooks on a separate channel. Keep up the great work.
Great video as always. I remember this era of PC gaming. I have a lot of nostalgia for it but was never good at the games - could only ever get through a level or two. Nice to have you walkthrough the story of the game - those cutscenes are so cute. Would definitely be interested in you covering the other games if there's some good content in them.
Haha, you're so right, the cut scenes are cute. I also was pretty bad at these sorts of games as a kid :) You know, I think you're the first person to express interest in seeing me play the other games, and giving it some more thought, I probably won't. This is the most interesting Waterworld game with its storytelling and FMV. The other games are good plays for sure, but maybe they would not make great standalone videos.
@@TheAtoll Ah fair enough, I have a lot of nostalgia for this era of gaming but yeah I guess most were just repetitive shooters. I did enjoy all the lore and little bit of world building this particular game seemed to have.
Another great video on a obscure tie in product to one of the best movies of all time imo. I enjoyed this video immensely, can’t wait to see what video comes next!
Legit would love a remake or even a spinoff fps, make it like a mix of darktide/apacehulk woth a level of randomness where your raiding atols, ships, etc. We are getting so many classic films made into games (starship troopers, robocop, etc.) And i could honestly see a great waterworld game being a thing, also you should do a full uncut lets play on the hardest difficulty, you play rts really well, i take it you have played before? Your docturn legit reminds me of the OG C&C Brothsrhood of Nod pros with the whole multi group hit and run attacks, also i like the theory on the Ticonderoga but have aomething to add, what if the laymen, with their higher overall tech base, high quality weapons and training are basicly the water world version of the brotherhood of steel? Decendents of the US navy who over genorations have had their understanding of their technology go full on warhammer 40k admech and now worship tech and maintain it via "rituals" (matenance) they no longer understand the meaning of but that they make things work, it is an interplay game after all:)
Oh man! I really think your on to something with this Layman theory, love it! I played a few RTS's growing up, but this is the first one I have played in awhile. I don't believe the game has a difficulty level option though, which I was surprised about!
When I woke up this morning I didn't expect a video on Waterworld to show up on my homepage - then discover it is from a channel actually completely dedicated to Waterworld - and then to spend the rest of the day basically just binging it. It's almost 1am...I need to go to bed... One more.
@TheAtoll Yeah, I've really enjoyed going through all your videos the past couple days. Nearly watched them all now. I was wondering - do you have any plans to do an in-depth video on the Trimaran like you did with The Deez and the Atoll?
@@misanthropos6211 Yes, without a doubt. We are still uncovering what happened to the second Tri, it's current location was only recently discovered by me and other super fan Jamie Going (who I shout out in a number of these videos). But in the meantime, there is the video on the toy Trimaran by Kenner here on the channel which actually goes into a lot of the behind-the-scenes details of the boat.
You know what, I had the same exact thought! I think in a rough draft of the script for this video I had even wrote about that theory, but when I actually compared the mad max mask and the mask in the game side by side, they didn't look all that simular besides being rounded in shape. But who knows! It certainly could be a reference to this other great post apocalyptic film!
This is such an interesting game; no other piece of media outside of the film adds so much to Waterworld lore, and I find it hilarious that despite being hyped up as a hero for all time in promotional material for the film, and costing an arm and a leg to hire, the Mariner chooses to run away the instant things don't go his way! One question: Is there any chance of uploading the soundtrack to this game on your channel? That one sample played near the end was great, and I'd like to hear more, but I couldn't find the music anywhere online.
Hey thanks for checking out the video Leprechaun! Yeah, I think your right, the music has not been posted anywhere. I'll see if I can rip the audio files from the CD and share the music somewhere!
A full playthrough? Oh boy, I can only imagine how excruciating that would be to watch. Haha, I'm not the best gamer. If your looking for all the live-action cut scenes that appear in between missions, they have all already been published here on UA-cam by Jonh Abbitt. Just search "the quest for dryland", it should be the top result.
@TheAtoll dude full game playthroughs are hugely popular - the people who want to see it will happily sit through it. I can't play video games so I like to watch them, just like millions of others in the same boat as me. Consider doing it! No commentary as well, it's more enjoyable with original sound. Thanks for reading!!
@@TheAtoll You're welcome! Btw, it's MP83 here. This is my other channel, purely for MSX microcomputer stuff from the 80s and 90s. I was too lazy to switch to my personal channel. :)
im not even into waterworld. I watched it on PPV as a kid. I just think you have a really cool channel. well done videos! great editing. you have my sub.
Wow, this really is like the highest compliment the channel could receive! The fact that you enjoy the videos without even much interest in Waterworld, wow, it makes me really feel like I am doing something right here. Thank you so much for your subscription!
@48:43 i wonder is elon musk, enjoyed this movie, also this game. the eye of god, and his satilites, he also said on joe rogan, when rogan asked. "if you ever reach mars, what will your titile be? without missing a beat elon says, "god emperor" referencing dune. jokingly. of course. so i wonder if elon enjoys mad max and water world. leading him to promote care for earth, leaving earth, and seeding the solar system.
Thank you so much for your generosity Nostalgic Injection! Very much appreciated, and as always, any donations will go right back to making more videos here on The Atoll!
I always thought of Waterworld as a cheesy but fun movie from my childhood. Didn't know it was so much more until watching your videos. If there's a remake, may you be involved.
I at first thought that mask you couldn't identify was Ready Kilowatt a sort of retro mascot for electric companies but upon looking at images of him I don't think so. Unless it is the Waterworld universe equivalent. 🤷♂️
How I would love to see a remaster of this game, a follow up... or a remake at best. First option about improving its graphics in being far more animated & realistic to date and making it a much bigger game with many new missions & choices in upgrades with equipment, ships, resources and weapons = perhaps similar to aliens dark decent, but water world style in game mechanics. Or a new game entirely like Fallout 3 & 4... from the start of the great flood, and going all the way in time before the film comes about = about how you as a survivor of any class, drifter, settler of the atolls, pirate slaver or even smoker survives in this post apocalyptic with still so many people left on the endless seas before later events & survive, suffer or prosper as you progress throughout the whole game in free roaming. Building new atoll settlements with salvaged resources with recruited populations throughout your adventures + building your own new ships or customise old ones to suite your needs, becoming a pirate king or smoker yourself... and maybe even making those underwater cities canon in game itself = like the institute from Fallout 4, a remaining piece of former civilization that's survived over the centuries... now that would be interesting to see in its own way. A fantasy world of adventure with all the water scenery in nature in its beauty above & below the waves, but still rough for those survivors in other areas still struggling & suffering in many different conditions. I can come up with so many ideas in lore that can make it a great game either way... if only many other game makers out there can see this great potential in getting a worthy team together to make it all = it would jumpstart the franchise all over again with renewed energy for more future movies, series & games... as long as they do it right in taking their time creating it and not allowing political BS to get between it all. 🤞
Yeah, it would be so cool to see Waterworld come back in video game form! I think there is a game called Sunkenland coming out later this year that sounds a lot like what you're describing.
I knew about this game from gaming magazine ads back in '98. Didn't think much of it then. The ads where pretty sub-par, and the only screenshots where form the 1st level. There wasn't even a demo of this released. However, it looks like i missed out on a great title. This game plays and looks much better than i imagined. The marketing guys screwed up big time.
Yeah, honestly I think it is lucky we got this game at all. I'm sure interplay probably debated just canceling this game like the other waterworld game they had in development. I suspect that Interplay just released the game with very little marketing to make some money back on the expensive movie licenses they had purchased.
I kinda like all these conflicting ideas about how the great deluge happened or how the world started it feels more realistic to have more than one globally accepted origin story
Hey, I wanted to ask if you (or anyone else that happens to stumble upon this comment) know anywhere where I can download this game (preferably for free)
I believe little bit of Google searching will get you what you are looking for. In fact, just the other week I saw a version of the game that plays in your web browser (without the live-action cut scenes unfortunately).
The 'Organo' people? Two things come to mind as to the name: 1. They are descendants of people from Oregon and over the centuries the original pronunciation was lost. 2. They're descendants from Health nuts that only ate Organic food. In other words, Vegetarians and possibly Vegans. With how hostile those people can sometimes be in everyday life to anyone that eats meat, I could easily see a colony of echo-chamber Vegans/Vegetarians turning into a fanatical cult that is hostile to the 'Heathans that consume living creatures!!!' Judging by the journal entry saying that they're tossing every living thing into their recycling pits that seems to confirm them being strictly vegetarian, but it looks like along the way from now to then that the ' no to killing animals because it's wrong' part got lost along the way.
Depends on the purity. I got some chits and a gallon of go juice. Or I could trade you up for some new lines. Mine are pretty worn out. Are we trading’ or not?
This makes me think of Z Nation and how they talk aboit gasoline going bad and only the refineries are capable of using the crude and changing it to gas we can use. So wouldnt every last drop have gone bad, even the crude at this point?
@@TheAtoll just food for thought. My guess, complete guess. The tanker isn't the only place left to get crude oil. My guess is the tanker is his most loyal smokers or the ones he wants to test the most. He might have got lost at sea trying to find the evidence of waters end. If they didnt run into the atoll and our main character, they would have kept going until reaching a certain point and returning. Maybe an offshore oil platform or group that was prepared for any change in sea level. And they had to tools to reconnect the well, or took a lot of time. Because the way the crude is stored in the tanker, its open to the elements and would be heavily "poluted" with years of salt water getting in. So makes sense its "new" so wouldn't be contaminated except by the small breeze. One big wave would easily get in. So hundreds of years of that and almost none of it would be crude, if the boat hadn't sank. So that also suggests it docked somewhere
Hey man so do you think they ever tell "deez nutz" jokes on the Deez? Or did the deluge happen before that joke became a thing? Also since EVERYTHING is getting a remake/ reboot now you should totally try and do a water world 2 script.
Haha! I'm sure the Smokers threw around a few Deez Nuts jokes in-between raids on Atolls! As for writing a full script, I might not be the most qualified for the task, however, I totally plan on making an animated fan film at some point in the future!
Man I need a foot in Hollywood. I have had so many ideas for a franchise reboot. The climate change angle is more relevant now than ever so it's far past time. All it would take is a bit of logical reimagining. We know the ice caps melting wouldn't flood the entire earth but rather move the coastlines in by hundreds of miles and completely cover certain island nations etc. If the cause of the deluge is say, nuclear...most of the surviving land would be uninhabitable and fresh water would become extremely scarce. People would still be forced to live at sea on floating man made isles...but I think originating from land would grant far more resources, allowing massive thriving nations instead of tiny rusted atolls. Perhaps there are two archetypes of human. The land dwellers and the sea people. And perhaps neither trusts the other because they have been separated for so many centuries and do not even share a similar culture or language. Radiation sickness could become something mythical to the ocean dwellers. Some kind of lethal plague that makes them kill land dwellers on sight whenever they are encountered. All of this would be more logical than what we got in the original film and more palatable to our more scientifically minded modern audience. What would be harder to explain is Icthyo Sapiens. A few hundred years is not nearly long enough for such a drastic evolutionary leap. What's more man is far more realistically likely to develop into cetacean like creatures. Incredibly long breath holds, webbed hands and feet, and ability to survive much greater pressure and cold. So the reboot could either go this route and greatly extend the timeframe to account for these changes, maybe even give them echolocation abilities. OR if we really want gilled fish men, be they full Abe Sapien or less dramatic, genetic engineering would be required. That could muddy the story but the only thing I can think of is a military response to the flooding. A means of creating amphibious soldiers for advanced naval black ops as part of the extreme "resource wars" resultant from such devastating climate change as much warfare would be relocated to the oceans. These too could become mythical and rare beings. Long abandoned as military command systems completely fell. Surviving the nuclear war and fallout by living below the waves. Maybe there are ancient sub aquatic military facilities where these beings were created and homed. Ancient ruins by story's present and now viewed as something of holy grounds by them. Like in the movie, all of the causes would have been long forgotten and become myth and legend, but the truth can partially be revealed by an opening narration or text crawl and fully revealed within the narrative itself. This kind of story reimagining would best be told as a long form streaming series or a film trilogy with each movie having a long run time so nothing is rushed. I've thought about this so much, I just may write a damn script. XD EDIT: Someone get a hold of James Cameron...something tells me he'd be interested. XD EDIT #2: I forgot to mention my alternative even more crazy reimagining / reboot idea...a failed colonization effort on an alien blue world. A world with one massive ocean. A wrecked colony ship with limited supplies. Hundreds of thousands of colonists left to struggle for survival. The colony ship itself being salvaged and becoming a capital city, a mecca and relic. Hundreds of years passing, a primitive society developing. Origins lost as myth and legend. A search for the single continent on the planet. Dry land. Icthyo Sapiens evolving thanks to an accelerated mutagen native to the planet etc.
I truly admire this level of dedication to Waterworld. I've been watching your videos here and there for about 5 years or so. Been through a lot in that time, and there's something comforting knowing you've consistently worked on these videos.
Wow! Sounds like you have been here since the beginning of the channel! I'm glad to hear this little corner of the internet could give you some comfort!
The way people live in water world has interested me so much, wish we would get a sequel
Haha, me too! The Waterworld universe is ripe for more content.
Careful what you wish for
When the movie hasn't quenched your thirst so you look to the fandom for it. Good content 👍🌊
Thanks Mario! Glad I could quench that thirst!
@@TheAtoll Not quite; we're Hydroholics after all.
Waterworld 2: Avatar 2: The Wet One
@@greenkoopa would have been better than what we did get
So, my wife randomly became a Waterworld lore buff, which was rather confusing because, to my knowledge, she had never even heard of Waterworld. Then she shows me that this channel was recommended to her out of nowhere and now we've been watching all of your videos together lol. We both really enjoy the content and hope that your channel continues to grow. Also, something I believed you'd find interesting is that she has never seen Waterworld before, like ever, and now she's became a fan of it through this channel lol. I wonder how many people you've introduced to Waterworld in a similar way.
Haha, wow, what an interesting comment! I had never really thought about people coming to the channel never having seen the film (and still getting enjoyment from my videos)! Actually, I feel that's a really high compliment to the work here on the channel. But yeah, so happy you and your wife are having fun watching the deep dives!
Cool 3D animation of the computer under water. 🙌 Interesting video overall
Thanks Cedric! I had a lot of fun making the new animated boarder!
Dude you literally made my month. I have been looking to get this game running but I can’t. Your passion is an inspiration
Heck yeah! So happy to hear I could be an inspiration! I think the game is totally worth a play through. I used DosBox, which took some learning to use, but honestly, if I can get it running, I think anyone with some computer smarts can get it running too!
This is the alternate timeline where the Mariner _does_ listen to Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner on his discman. ✊💯
Haha! We can only hope!
I stumbled on your channel when UA-cam recommended your Deez video. Waterworld is pretty Niche(nowadays), but its remained one of my favorite movies. I loved rewatching it on VHS when I was a kid. Its oddly comfortable in its own way, hope you know your videos are appreciated.
Hey glad you found the channel! I know exactly what you mean by "oddly comfortable". I totally feel that too!
Really nice play-through of the game, brought with the same insight and passion that makes Atolls other videos so great. Thanks for the great work, partner!
Hey Sneed, thanks so much for the great conversation in the premier chat! Appreciate you man, See you in the next one!
So you’re the fabled Loremaster of Waterworld. We thought the prophecy would never come to be.
Haha, I am spread the good word of Waterworld!
Wonderful as always! 😊
Thank you for checking it out!
SNESdrunk's video "3 Hours of Relaxing Super Nintendo Music, Part 1" starts out with Waterworld's theme and game cover art...for months I have heard this and wondered what is this place and the story behind it.
Quickly found your channel and already loving all your content and glad I decided to finally dive deeper into the topic!
Oh yeah, Dean Evan's SNES Waterworld Soundtrack is an absolute masterpiece! Glad you found the channel and want to learn more about the Waterworld universe!
This was so fun to watch! I'd love to play this someday
Hey thanks for tuning in! I feel it's worth a play through. A simple but fun game!
55:45 Is that an alternative-earth Reddy Kilowatt Character? Like SMEAT is a minor alteration of a recognized brand. It does look different and I think it's probably a mascot of some manner of brand from the early 90's.
Oh yeah, I can see that! Some one else was suggesting it might be a minor alteration of the Jack in the Box mascot.
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Aw, thanks Brandon! It means a lot to hear things like that!
Incoming The Atoll kino.
Haha, I had to look up the word kino. Thanks!
@@TheAtoll yes, that means your channel and Waterworld are amazing.
I'm commenting before even watching the video to say that since discovering your channel a few days ago, I've been on a semi-binge. Only 1-3 videos a day. Lol
You present the topic in a clearly, well thought-out manner. You seem to straddle the line of being laid back and chill while moving fast enough to not let any one thing take up too much time.
You even still engage with comments on years old videos. And even seen when they are borderline hateful comments, you're civil and seemingly let it roll off your back.
Keep up what you're doing, I'm here for it.
Hey, glad to hear your enjoying the video library! Yeah, interacting with other fans in the comments is really the payoff for creating these videos. And if comments ever get a little weird, well, UA-cam actually has some great moderating tools, but for the most part people just wanna share their idea about the film!
I just found your channel this past week, I love that you're still making videos man. Thank you.
Hey, glad you found and are enjoying the channel! More videos to come!
One of most in depth Atoll vids yet, amazing work dude!!
Thank you TrackZero! Yeah, I hope to follow up this one with some shorter videos over the summer, and maybe another big deep dive at the end of the year.
@@TheAtoll Can't wait!
I just played it I would say the best water world game hoping in the future will see another water game for PlayStation and Xbox in the future
Yeah, it would be great to see more waterworld games! There is a game called Sunken Land coming out later this year which might fill that niche!
You channel made my interest in Waterwold growing. I should re-watch the movie.
Oh very nice! Yeah, definitely worth a re-watch.
Great breakdown! I had no idea this game existed! I’ll have to check it out. Good vid as always.
Thanks for coming and checking out the video John! Yeah, the game is worth a play though. It's very satisfying once you get a good group of troops going!
Hello, for years I thought I was one of the few who loved Waterworld as its cult movie and you don't know how happy I was when I found out about your channel.
I was surprised to learn that there was a Waterworld game for gameboy, since I have a huge number of games on this platform, now I have a goal to pursue.
By the way, there is a Polish developer called Teyon who have made games based on movies with their own plots and where they have already shown what they are capable of with Terminator Resistance and now with Robocop Rogue City, now that there is a developer willing to follow the path of Ocean but this time doing things right, I have not stopped contemplating that Waterworld could be the next video game on their list.
By the way, what is your opinion of Buoyanci's game?
Hey Ripast, so happy to hear you found the channel and are enjoying the deep dives! Yes, in my opinion, Waterworld gameboy is a hidden gem, but be warned, its extremely difficult. I would suggest playing it like I did, beat every level, but use the games one cheat code to revert to what ever level you last died on, like a save state. Beating the whole game in one sitting is psycho old school gamer stuff, and just way too difficult.
I have not heard of Teyon before, but looking at their work, I do get very excited by what I see! Man, it would be great if they got the Waterworld license!
I have not played Buoyancy, but it looks fun! Maybe I will have to review all these Waterworld themed games at some point, with Sunkenland and Raft included!
Oh man you made it so much farther than I did when I played this back in the late 90s. Seeing all the graphic icons brought back memories! Thanks for showing how far you can get in the game, especially the unused footage from the movie. I love stuff like that.
So glad you enjoyed it Jamie! I was always terrible at these games as a kid too, haha!
Absolutely love these RTS games with FMV cutscenes, thanks for sharing your gameplay Lord Atoll
Yeah, playing through this reminded me of how much I love the RTS genre! I will have to check out some other RTS games now that I know how to use a dos emulator. Any suggestions for other games from the mid 90s??
@@TheAtoll The absolute gold standard is Command and Conquer, which has a fantastic remaster from a couple years ago. If you want to go a bit deeper, the first game from that team was an RTS based off of Dune which is really cool, worth checking out!
12:10-12:23
Having a magazine must've been like having a bar of gold, hence Helen's
line from Max Allan Collins' novelization and the Extended TV/Ulysses Cut of *"Waterworld":* "If I had a magazine,
I would retire."
Yes, thank you Josh! Wow, flexing some deep Waterworld knowledge here in this comment. While I was scripting this section, I kept thinking to myself "I know there are other references to the fact that magazines are specifically cited as valuable in the universe, but what was it?" You totally nailed it. Very nice!
Always a good day when an Atoll video is out!
I actually prefer the Eye of God as the McGuffin over the tattoo, it simplifies and smooths over a lot of problems I had with the original story.
I can't disagree! The tattoo premise is pretty convoluted when you start digging into it, haha
i was starting to wonder if there was gonna be new content and happy!
Oh yes! This one took awhile to make and I also commissioned to animate a music video for a local band, so that's why their was a bit of silence there. I hope to do some shorter vids over the summer, so hopefully it won't be as long of a gap between uploads!
@@TheAtoll Thank you for the reply! I stumbled across this channel and got super hooked and already went through all content, I'm a big waterworld fan with recently getting the 4k blu ray of it to add to my collection.
I’m so glad you got to play through this! Seriously, I adore this channel and am always so excited when you post something new. Thank you for your dedication, it is truly appreciated.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Yeah, I hope to make some shorter videos over the summer before plunging back into another true deep dive towards the end of the year.
I remember you commenting in the deluge video you weren't sure how to make the game work. Glad to see you found a way, old games like this don't always have good let's play/playthroughts. Really interesting to see the groups of people and tid-bits of lore the devellopers came up with, too.
Yeah, the developers really expanded on the Waterworld universe with this game!
@40:15 go juice a go-go must be a reference to the gwar song Sadam-a-gogo....i think. idk. any one else have thoughts on this yet?
Hmm, I think that "a-go-go" is a British term for a nightclub or disco?
yes!! more lore from the Loremaster!
Haha! I love talking the lore!
I love world building like that! I wonder if the USS Ticonderoga atoll was inspired by the USS Ticonderoga CH-47 or was meant to represent a generic navy ship.
It's not completely clear, but I do think that it was based on the USS Ticonderoga CG-47 with it's more battle ship, vs air craft carrier, design.
Great job once again! I always look foreward to your next videos. Wish I could have played this back in the 90's, great to see it here though. Keep up the great work bud!
Thank you Matt! I have so shorter videos planned next for the channel, so hopefully there will be less time in-between uploads for the rest of the summer!
great job with this vid! I was trying to play this on dos box a few weeks ago but the cutscnes were bugged!
Oh nice! Too bad about the cut scenes though. Hopefully this video will help to fill in some of the holes!
Hey so this game called "sunkenlands" just released recently and its as close as we are gonna get to a modern waterworld themed game , its a ton of fun , if you are here you would enjoy it
Oh yeah, I was following the development of that game! It looks really cool, I'll have to check it out now that its released!
Thanks so much for continuing to generate valuable content on this subject! Your videos are so informative and pricelessly logging materials that would otherwise get lost. They are so therapeutic as well. You should consider doing audiobooks on a separate channel. Keep up the great work.
Hey thank you for the kind words! It's been a really fun journey digging up all this lost lore, and I still have more to share!
Great video as always. I remember this era of PC gaming. I have a lot of nostalgia for it but was never good at the games - could only ever get through a level or two. Nice to have you walkthrough the story of the game - those cutscenes are so cute. Would definitely be interested in you covering the other games if there's some good content in them.
Haha, you're so right, the cut scenes are cute. I also was pretty bad at these sorts of games as a kid :)
You know, I think you're the first person to express interest in seeing me play the other games, and giving it some more thought, I probably won't. This is the most interesting Waterworld game with its storytelling and FMV. The other games are good plays for sure, but maybe they would not make great standalone videos.
@@TheAtoll Ah fair enough, I have a lot of nostalgia for this era of gaming but yeah I guess most were just repetitive shooters. I did enjoy all the lore and little bit of world building this particular game seemed to have.
@29:42 did any one tell you what the hole and the peg and the disgine represent?
Haha, not yet! Still a mystery....
Another great video on a obscure tie in product to one of the best movies of all time imo. I enjoyed this video immensely, can’t wait to see what video comes next!
So glad you enjoyed it Ace! Yes, I think I will make a few shorter videos in the coming months and end the year with another deep dive!
@@TheAtoll Whatever video you make next, I can’t wait to watch it and learn just a little bit more about this wonderfully well crafted universe!
I didn’t know I needed this channel. I love waterworld and built many trimarans out of paint stirrers.
Glad you found the channel! Feel free to send me pictures of your paint stirrer models on Instagram if you would like!
Legit would love a remake or even a spinoff fps, make it like a mix of darktide/apacehulk woth a level of randomness where your raiding atols, ships, etc. We are getting so many classic films made into games (starship troopers, robocop, etc.) And i could honestly see a great waterworld game being a thing, also you should do a full uncut lets play on the hardest difficulty, you play rts really well, i take it you have played before? Your docturn legit reminds me of the OG C&C Brothsrhood of Nod pros with the whole multi group hit and run attacks, also i like the theory on the Ticonderoga but have aomething to add, what if the laymen, with their higher overall tech base, high quality weapons and training are basicly the water world version of the brotherhood of steel? Decendents of the US navy who over genorations have had their understanding of their technology go full on warhammer 40k admech and now worship tech and maintain it via "rituals" (matenance) they no longer understand the meaning of but that they make things work, it is an interplay game after all:)
Oh man! I really think your on to something with this Layman theory, love it! I played a few RTS's growing up, but this is the first one I have played in awhile. I don't believe the game has a difficulty level option though, which I was surprised about!
When I woke up this morning I didn't expect a video on Waterworld to show up on my homepage - then discover it is from a channel actually completely dedicated to Waterworld - and then to spend the rest of the day basically just binging it. It's almost 1am...I need to go to bed...
One more.
Haha, glad you're enjoying the channel!
@TheAtoll Yeah, I've really enjoyed going through all your videos the past couple days. Nearly watched them all now.
I was wondering - do you have any plans to do an in-depth video on the Trimaran like you did with The Deez and the Atoll?
@@misanthropos6211 Yes, without a doubt. We are still uncovering what happened to the second Tri, it's current location was only recently discovered by me and other super fan Jamie Going (who I shout out in a number of these videos). But in the meantime, there is the video on the toy Trimaran by Kenner here on the channel which actually goes into a lot of the behind-the-scenes details of the boat.
@@TheAtoll I was literally just watching that video on the toy one.
I love waterworks and I LOVE these videos! Thanks so much for all you share.
So glad you like them! Thanks for checking out the channel!
Great as always!
Thanks Adam!!!
55:53 it could possibly be influenced by Mad Max Thunderdome when max is exiled to die in the desert
You know what, I had the same exact thought! I think in a rough draft of the script for this video I had even wrote about that theory, but when I actually compared the mad max mask and the mask in the game side by side, they didn't look all that simular besides being rounded in shape. But who knows! It certainly could be a reference to this other great post apocalyptic film!
If the tv show waterworld ever comes to existence will have a chance to face more smoker armadas whom have regrouped after the Deacon was gone
Yeah, let's hope!
Man this was worth the wait
Glad to hear it! I plan to make some shorter videos in the coming months, so hopefully the wait won't be as long before the next video!
@@TheAtoll sweet deal, I'll be waiting till then
This is such an interesting game; no other piece of media outside of the film adds so much to Waterworld lore, and I find it hilarious that despite being hyped up as a hero for all time in promotional material for the film, and costing an arm and a leg to hire, the Mariner chooses to run away the instant things don't go his way!
One question: Is there any chance of uploading the soundtrack to this game on your channel? That one sample played near the end was great, and I'd like to hear more, but I couldn't find the music anywhere online.
Hey thanks for checking out the video Leprechaun! Yeah, I think your right, the music has not been posted anywhere. I'll see if I can rip the audio files from the CD and share the music somewhere!
@@TheAtoll Thanks!
Can you upload a full playthrough? No commentary, so we can see the videos in full form. PLEEEEEEASE??!!!
A full playthrough? Oh boy, I can only imagine how excruciating that would be to watch. Haha, I'm not the best gamer. If your looking for all the live-action cut scenes that appear in between missions, they have all already been published here on UA-cam by Jonh Abbitt. Just search "the quest for dryland", it should be the top result.
@TheAtoll dude full game playthroughs are hugely popular - the people who want to see it will happily sit through it. I can't play video games so I like to watch them, just like millions of others in the same boat as me. Consider doing it! No commentary as well, it's more enjoyable with original sound. Thanks for reading!!
I'm hyped!
Thanks for the lively conversation in the chat MSX! You really kept it going and I super appreciate that! See ya in the next one!
@@TheAtoll You're welcome! Btw, it's MP83 here. This is my other channel, purely for MSX microcomputer stuff from the 80s and 90s. I was too lazy to switch to my personal channel. :)
A survivor type show with the Waterworld theme where a group tries to survive on an atoll would be a fun watch.
Yeah totally! I love this idea!
im not even into waterworld. I watched it on PPV as a kid. I just think you have a really cool channel. well done videos! great editing. you have my sub.
Wow, this really is like the highest compliment the channel could receive! The fact that you enjoy the videos without even much interest in Waterworld, wow, it makes me really feel like I am doing something right here. Thank you so much for your subscription!
@48:43 i wonder is elon musk, enjoyed this movie, also this game. the eye of god, and his satilites, he also said on joe rogan, when rogan asked. "if you ever reach mars, what will your titile be? without missing a beat elon says, "god emperor" referencing dune. jokingly. of course. so i wonder if elon enjoys mad max and water world. leading him to promote care for earth, leaving earth, and seeding the solar system.
Quite possibly, if he is into science fiction, I am sure he would be aware of these movies!
Awwww yeah just packed a bowl gonna enjoy this one my dude
Haha! Heck yeah, light one up for me compost!
@@TheAtoll definitely will my man
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Thank you so much for your generosity Nostalgic Injection! Very much appreciated, and as always, any donations will go right back to making more videos here on The Atoll!
I'll have to give this game a spin in the future. That's for sure.
Yes, once you get a good army built, it's super satisfying! I can see why RTSs were so hot back then.
It's clear much of the budget went into the writing and the FMVs, because in terms of gameplay? Well... this game ain't no Syndicate.
Haha, it's a simple game for sure, but with that said, I'm all about the simple pleasures!
I kinda want this game now. Need to be on the lookout for it.
It's a pretty good game! I enjoyed it.
Great Video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
I always thought of Waterworld as a cheesy but fun movie from my childhood. Didn't know it was so much more until watching your videos.
If there's a remake, may you be involved.
Oh man, That would be such a dream come true! Thanks for checking out the channel!
@55:55 jack in the box? fast food chain?
Oh yeah! The spherical head is very similar!
I also think besides a naval combat game, we need a game in waterworld that is like the Panzer Dragoon Saga rpg
I had to look up Panzer Dragoon Saga because I was not familiar with it, but yeah, I could totally see a waterworld game in this style!
I at first thought that mask you couldn't identify was Ready Kilowatt a sort of retro mascot for electric companies but upon looking at images of him I don't think so. Unless it is the Waterworld universe equivalent. 🤷♂️
Wow, yes! I agree, it's probably not the reference that they game devs were making, but I see the similarity!
One of those unsolved gaming mysteries I suppose 😂
Such a cool game. Great playthrough. I wish Deacon was about 10x bigger.
Haha, Yeah, I can totally imagine the Deacon as this giant sprite monster atop the bridge of the Deez!
Being made by Interplay it looks a bit like Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics.
Oh yeah, of course! Haha, I should have made that connection in the video.
@@TheAtoll Best old school PC games.
How I would love to see a remaster of this game, a follow up... or a remake at best.
First option about improving its graphics in being far more animated & realistic to date and making it a much bigger game with many new missions & choices in upgrades with equipment, ships, resources and weapons = perhaps similar to aliens dark decent, but water world style in game mechanics.
Or a new game entirely like Fallout 3 & 4... from the start of the great flood, and going all the way in time before the film comes about = about how you as a survivor of any class, drifter, settler of the atolls, pirate slaver or even smoker survives in this post apocalyptic with still so many people left on the endless seas before later events & survive, suffer or prosper as you progress throughout the whole game in free roaming.
Building new atoll settlements with salvaged resources with recruited populations throughout your adventures + building your own new ships or customise old ones to suite your needs, becoming a pirate king or smoker yourself... and maybe even making those underwater cities canon in game itself = like the institute from Fallout 4, a remaining piece of former civilization that's survived over the centuries... now that would be interesting to see in its own way.
A fantasy world of adventure with all the water scenery in nature in its beauty above & below the waves, but still rough for those survivors in other areas still struggling & suffering in many different conditions.
I can come up with so many ideas in lore that can make it a great game either way... if only many other game makers out there can see this great potential in getting a worthy team together to make it all = it would jumpstart the franchise all over again with renewed energy for more future movies, series & games... as long as they do it right in taking their time creating it and not allowing political BS to get between it all. 🤞
Yeah, it would be so cool to see Waterworld come back in video game form! I think there is a game called Sunkenland coming out later this year that sounds a lot like what you're describing.
I knew about this game from gaming magazine ads back in '98. Didn't think much of it then. The ads where pretty sub-par, and the only screenshots where form the 1st level. There wasn't even a demo of this released. However, it looks like i missed out on a great title. This game plays and looks much better than i imagined. The marketing guys screwed up big time.
Yeah, honestly I think it is lucky we got this game at all. I'm sure interplay probably debated just canceling this game like the other waterworld game they had in development. I suspect that Interplay just released the game with very little marketing to make some money back on the expensive movie licenses they had purchased.
Incredible vid!!
Cool, glad you enjoyed it!!!
I kinda like all these conflicting ideas about how the great deluge happened or how the world started
it feels more realistic to have more than one globally accepted origin story
That's an interesting theory. And maybe the true origins just got lost to time.
I'd really love a modern story driven waterworld game
That would be such a dream come true!
I’d prefer to think that they found a different mountain that was still above sea level
Oh that's interesting, any reason for this in particular?
@@TheAtoll just to make the world bigger and to make it less alternate reality
Great video!!!
Thank you!!
@32:41 such a cool idea. submarine.
stockton rush could be a badguy in any new waterworld game that is ever made. haha.
Haha, oh man, a modern day Saint Joe.
This was great!
Thanks for checking it out!
Hey, I wanted to ask if you (or anyone else that happens to stumble upon this comment) know anywhere where I can download this game (preferably for free)
I believe little bit of Google searching will get you what you are looking for. In fact, just the other week I saw a version of the game that plays in your web browser (without the live-action cut scenes unfortunately).
Music: James Newton Howard(1995)
Directed by:Kevin Reynolds
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Are you ai?
@@TheAtoll AI?
@@TheAtoll Nope
The 'Organo' people? Two things come to mind as to the name: 1. They are descendants of people from Oregon and over the centuries the original pronunciation was lost. 2. They're descendants from Health nuts that only ate Organic food. In other words, Vegetarians and possibly Vegans. With how hostile those people can sometimes be in everyday life to anyone that eats meat, I could easily see a colony of echo-chamber Vegans/Vegetarians turning into a fanatical cult that is hostile to the 'Heathans that consume living creatures!!!'
Judging by the journal entry saying that they're tossing every living thing into their recycling pits that seems to confirm them being strictly vegetarian, but it looks like along the way from now to then that the ' no to killing animals because it's wrong' part got lost along the way.
Haha! I love this (and that's coming from a vegetarian)!
with todays tech, waterworld would make an awesome IP along side that furry road mad max game.
Yeah, that would be great to see! I think there is a game called Sunken Land coming out later this year that might fill that niche.
@@TheAtollDo you know the game "Flotsam"? Its basically an atoll building and management game
Hi everybody, how much for my 1kg of dirt?
Depends on the purity. I got some chits and a gallon of go juice. Or I could trade you up for some new lines. Mine are pretty worn out. Are we trading’ or not?
How about 30 cans of SMEAT and a pack of smokes? Nothin' like a good smoke if you miss your dirt. You're never too old to start!
Depends how much I eat
No serious offers I will take my dirt elsewhere
Tally it like pure hydro
This makes me think of Z Nation and how they talk aboit gasoline going bad and only the refineries are capable of using the crude and changing it to gas we can use. So wouldnt every last drop have gone bad, even the crude at this point?
I have to admit, I have no idea. You are right, gasoline can go bad, but I am not sure about crude oil.
@@TheAtoll just food for thought. My guess, complete guess. The tanker isn't the only place left to get crude oil. My guess is the tanker is his most loyal smokers or the ones he wants to test the most. He might have got lost at sea trying to find the evidence of waters end.
If they didnt run into the atoll and our main character, they would have kept going until reaching a certain point and returning. Maybe an offshore oil platform or group that was prepared for any change in sea level. And they had to tools to reconnect the well, or took a lot of time.
Because the way the crude is stored in the tanker, its open to the elements and would be heavily "poluted" with years of salt water getting in. So makes sense its "new" so wouldn't be contaminated except by the small breeze. One big wave would easily get in. So hundreds of years of that and almost none of it would be crude, if the boat hadn't sank. So that also suggests it docked somewhere
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Very much appreciated :)
Do you like the game Raft?
I've never played it, but it looks great! Do you recommend it??
Hey man so do you think they ever tell "deez nutz" jokes on the Deez? Or did the deluge happen before that joke became a thing? Also since EVERYTHING is getting a remake/ reboot now you should totally try and do a water world 2 script.
Haha! I'm sure the Smokers threw around a few Deez Nuts jokes in-between raids on Atolls!
As for writing a full script, I might not be the most qualified for the task, however, I totally plan on making an animated fan film at some point in the future!
Well if anyone knows lore details for this franchise it would be you. @@TheAtoll
The game Star Wars jedi outcast has video files that are larger than the actual game😂
Haha, video compression has come a long way!
Man I need a foot in Hollywood. I have had so many ideas for a franchise reboot. The climate change angle is more relevant now than ever so it's far past time. All it would take is a bit of logical reimagining. We know the ice caps melting wouldn't flood the entire earth but rather move the coastlines in by hundreds of miles and completely cover certain island nations etc. If the cause of the deluge is say, nuclear...most of the surviving land would be uninhabitable and fresh water would become extremely scarce. People would still be forced to live at sea on floating man made isles...but I think originating from land would grant far more resources, allowing massive thriving nations instead of tiny rusted atolls. Perhaps there are two archetypes of human. The land dwellers and the sea people. And perhaps neither trusts the other because they have been separated for so many centuries and do not even share a similar culture or language. Radiation sickness could become something mythical to the ocean dwellers. Some kind of lethal plague that makes them kill land dwellers on sight whenever they are encountered.
All of this would be more logical than what we got in the original film and more palatable to our more scientifically minded modern audience. What would be harder to explain is Icthyo Sapiens. A few hundred years is not nearly long enough for such a drastic evolutionary leap. What's more man is far more realistically likely to develop into cetacean like creatures. Incredibly long breath holds, webbed hands and feet, and ability to survive much greater pressure and cold. So the reboot could either go this route and greatly extend the timeframe to account for these changes, maybe even give them echolocation abilities. OR if we really want gilled fish men, be they full Abe Sapien or less dramatic, genetic engineering would be required. That could muddy the story but the only thing I can think of is a military response to the flooding. A means of creating amphibious soldiers for advanced naval black ops as part of the extreme "resource wars" resultant from such devastating climate change as much warfare would be relocated to the oceans. These too could become mythical and rare beings. Long abandoned as military command systems completely fell. Surviving the nuclear war and fallout by living below the waves. Maybe there are ancient sub aquatic military facilities where these beings were created and homed. Ancient ruins by story's present and now viewed as something of holy grounds by them.
Like in the movie, all of the causes would have been long forgotten and become myth and legend, but the truth can partially be revealed by an opening narration or text crawl and fully revealed within the narrative itself. This kind of story reimagining would best be told as a long form streaming series or a film trilogy with each movie having a long run time so nothing is rushed.
I've thought about this so much, I just may write a damn script. XD
EDIT: Someone get a hold of James Cameron...something tells me he'd be interested. XD
EDIT #2: I forgot to mention my alternative even more crazy reimagining / reboot idea...a failed colonization effort on an alien blue world. A world with one massive ocean. A wrecked colony ship with limited supplies. Hundreds of thousands of colonists left to struggle for survival. The colony ship itself being salvaged and becoming a capital city, a mecca and relic. Hundreds of years passing, a primitive society developing. Origins lost as myth and legend. A search for the single continent on the planet. Dry land. Icthyo Sapiens evolving thanks to an accelerated mutagen native to the planet etc.
Cool! Sounds like some great universe building there!
@@TheAtoll lol I'm a writer who gets completely lost in extensive well explained world building. Appreciate the compliment.~
A water world game with the game engine like Assassins Creed 4 would be an interesting game.
That would be incredible!