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I didn't really play Molyneux games after this, so as far as I'm concerned he's pretty much the greatest game designer that's ever lived :D

Chris created some classic games for sure. But I remember finding Locomotion extremely disappointing. The biggest issue for me was the small map size limit (for 2004 it was already noticeable). I think the trains could be quite long too, but that just made the small maps all the more disappointing. That fact it didn't add a huge amount of actual new gameplay over TTD didn't help either. Open Locomotion is not (yet) the answer either. Sadly the devs are quite slow and apparently need to recreate the entire codebase in C++ before adding any new features such as bigger map size. So maybe by 2030 if we're lucky!

With a huge shout-out to Allister Brimble for composing such wonderfully catchy songs!

About that SACD thing... I've actually tried that some time ago, trying to use a PDM/DSD algorithm to drive the speaker instead of PWM, to see if it would sound better. I have found that regardless of the CPU used, you cannot exceed 595 kHz sampling rate, because the control logic of the speaker (via an 8255 PPI chip) is always running at 1.19 MHz, even on a fast Pentium-class machine or better, and you always need two IO cycles to toggle the PC speaker output. So no, you can't *quite* get SACD quality, but yes it's pretty nice. An example recording can be found here: soundcloud.com/scali/1bit-pdm-encoding-test-595-khz

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Loved every single minute I played this game. At the same time I also loved Capitalism. I guess I am entrepreneur material... 😁

I really like Derail Valley because the speed limits are basically just a warning. You can go as fast as you want, and even experience your derailment without a window popping up saying "You've Failed."

Midtown Madness 2 was developed by Angel Studios, now known as Rockstar San Diego - creator of GTA5, the game with the most “sense of place” ever. I would like to see a London done with such attention to detail.

Considering Revs ran on a Commodore 64, and a 32k BBC micro, it's astounding how well it plays and how so immersive it is. Plus it was the first ever racing sim, with nothing to be influenced by - Crammond went in blind and created a whole sim racing genre out of a few kilobytes. It's absolute programming mastery & wizardry. The only game that compares to this is Elite, equally astonishing. Elite gets a lot of praise, and very rightly so. Unfortunately Revs is often overlooked. Probably my top two 'How the hell did they come up with that and pull it off with that hardware?' games of all time.

I had the demo from somewhere, and like with demo of ps1 euro disk of Populous: the Beginning I was able to hack or cheat in both. PS1 must have cheat code, or some other overflow bug that opened the spells and missing training and construction huts, but DK had it so that I could go and change the simple level code and introduce the monsters that weren't supposed to be in demo version in the game, but they didn't have textures, and were just dots that moved around the level. Later on through some friend of a friend, who was adult and I wasn't or didn't trust in my english skills yet pirated me both of these games. I bought Black & White. Both games, then I heard there was Fable, but after Minecraft came out so I was late on Fable, but yeah... I got to play DK, DK2 and Populous: the Beginning in the end. I must have got the game with floppy disk, or the pc I first got. It was a gift of some sorts... Windows 95 was on it. Big chunk of a display, and the pc was "solid" also...

The details man, the details of this video is something else. Well done! Chris Sawyer is the God of gamecoding.

To be fair with Gremlin, Whiplash/Fatal Racing was my "We have Daytona at home" for years and I eventually began to actually prefer it. Eventually found a place that would rent Slipstream 5000 and go to play it for quite a while. Heck, used to play a lot of Fatal Racing over modem with a friend. Mom used to love the OST. It came bundled with my AWE64 + CDROM combo

Anytime anyone mentions game progression, I'm reminded of Radical Entertainment's Hulk Ultimate Destruction, how it makes that game so much better and how a similar system doesn't feel as great in their own Prototype game and later is just terrible in Prototype 2. It's the same system: earn points to acquire new moves. The difference? in later games (Prototype 1 and then worse in 2) they made a lot of abilities too cheap to make the game's beginnings more impressive, but as you progress there are many moves that pale in comparison to the new ones you can get right after the mission, while the more expensive ones are endgame-type moves that you can't use that often, or they are for specific situations. The end result is that you get the standard set of moves just a couple of missions in and then that's how you play the rest of the game. Hulk Ultimate Destruction, on the other hand... you start with very few moves, you're always looking for the next move and it always takes you a couple of missions to get it so you get intimate with each move and add it to your repertoire.... and none of them become obsolete. Prototype looks way better and it's more spectacular (as it came after, for more advanced hardware), but Hulk just plays better just on progression alone.

Plot twist: if you hadn't binned your old CDRs, you might have found them to be unreadable anyway. As it happened to me. My carefully curated files. Gone.

apparently nothing has changed a year after :(

Pizza Tycoon was and is one of my favorite games. I actually still play it on occasion. As a kid in my early teens, I soon discovered how much more lucrative it was to deal in "Ice Cream" than in pizza! I would say that the game was much closer to being the 34th BEST game of all time (as of the time of that review) than being among the 50 worst games.

Most definitely still seems Modern SOMEHOW and imo looks a ton better than DK2

And then the humble PC speaker was deleted in favour of a sounder which could just about beep, if you got one at all. I remember PC speaker driver on Win 3.1, setting up the volume with a test piece of the Trumpton fire brigade call

I think Polish train simulator SimRail has a similar vibe with the fully interactive cockpits, live weather and a full timetable on multiplayer servers. It really feels like you’re playing on a live rail network, much more than any other train sim.

#content ❤❤❤ … Pure brilliance!

RCT1 is one of my favourite games of all time. I never bought 2 until the era of OpenRCT2. When I was 13 when RCT2 came out and honestly I couldn't justify getting it when it looked so similar to the original. Obviously having played it now, its brillian, but I could only get so many games at that age and no matter how shallow this may seem, 2 didn't seem like much of an upgrade from a casual viewpoint.

No music in this game :( :(

I absolutely love your narration. Thank you so much for this video!

There is one underestimated reason, why we often feel that these games looked better when we played them in the past, than they do look today. When someone programmed a game, they aimed the graphics to look as good as possible on a crt screen. The pixelation of crts was used to create subtle shades, nuances and softer pixels in the games graphics. With todays super clear, bright LCD screens, these effects are not visible anymore, making the games look more simple, blend and pixels are crisp and sharp and as a consequent more visible.

I just stumbled upon this, great video. I made a bunch of the cars seen here, I went by Slayer back then. I haven't played C2 in years, but there was a few cars I started to make and never finished that every now and then I think about going back and working on if I could get car-ed to work on windows 10 lol. Were you on the CWA board back in those days?

those comments dissing your production quality were so mean

Rockstar should never have bought the company that develops the world's best racing games, open world building and game engines. The fact that it was a company that paid such attention to details even under the conditions of that day explains why these people are developing the entire technical infrastructure of GTA IV and RDR 2 today.

Great video. Fantastic game, cant wait for the Foundation 4 uodate to be done, its shaping up to be an even bigger upsate than Simulator or overhauled.

My only beef with Dungeon Keeper was that the last few levels seemed to be designed as such that the only way to win was to train up a high level monster, poses it, and then head-shot the enemy dungeon heart. And that's just a cheap way to play IMHO... I want to train all my creatures, and then have a massive fight on the doorstep of my enemy, pushing deeper into their dungeon, taking it room by room. But that just doesn't seem possible in the late-game, and people tell me I'm playing it wrong. I appreciate the reason why gold is limited, and you need to get on with it, but also I'd love a version where you can play a long-game.

Superb! Myself and a friend (Simon Chamerlian) in 1993 wrote shareware called 'OLGA' Off Line Games Application. In simple term, back then, it interacted with bulletin board to send email packages. Essentially, it used the email to send the state of a graphical game and if you have the OLGA control centre you could read the emai packages and it would translate into a graphicak game, you move and then package it up and send the email etc. We were intervied on a few national bbc stations... they were the days.... I carried on myself with TGC (the game creators) and other things, writing apps that would be #1 on the apple istore for years. Sadly Simon is no longer with us, but hs memory lives on.

Thank you for your guide.

I have a similar story with Warcraft III. I stomped the game as it shipped with Huntress rush before I had good internet. Got good internet, thought "Oh wow I should play against real people" and suddenly my huntress rush as night elves didn't work so well because they got nerfed early on. Took me a while to figure it out.

It's amazing game! Since my dad showed me this game when I was 6 I like it and play it, when I have time. This game is about 2 years older than me, it's still getting updates!

As much as I'd love to see a proper remake, I'd even settle for a version of the game that could run at 60fps; even 30fps would be a huge step up

is that what the 7/8 mean in the buildings! ive always thought it was accept/provides. mind blown.

1:15: Oh right. I am still confused that I paid so little for all that. Now I've "bought" the game through a donation :D

All I remember from QBASIC was playing Gorillas. I didn’t even know you could program stuff. I was just 8 in 1994 and as Windows 95 took over and simplified things I never properly learned DOS or Windows 3.1.

Never understood why Catacomb Abyss has better pixel resolution in weapons used (hand) and Wolfenstein 3d use same pixel resolution for textures on weapons

it's hard to beat working windshield wipers in a driving game.

I got pretty good at Revs eventually. No really. I also remember _The Sentinell._ Good times.

even the first game's destruction physics was awesome. alien somewhere in the 3 foor building? Blow out the first floor and let the whole thing collapse. The feature's absence from all the "inspired" titles in the 2000s was felt hard. Glad they reintroduced the mechanic in the 2009 re imagine

I wrote a stat program to display population 3d histogram of data in QBasic in 1985 in MD training. Used a AT&T PC with 2, 360k floppies. My program was easier to use and more functional that the Training program mainframe. Still have that machine in my attic.

Wow, someone who actually knows what he's talking about 🥰 no one ever mentions the undocumented 286 calls 🎉 subbed bc i was there, too 😅

How could I download a copy of APOC that could run on a modern rig like a surface pro (saaaayyyy).....5 or 6?

The second one was surprisingly popular here in Germany. It's also one of my favorite adventure games.

Space Hulk. Megalomania. SPX turbo pascal library (I could rip the .voc files from the Syndicate: American Revolt demo, and play a jet strike through my PC speaker). Hell, considering stuff like M.U.L.E has voice files on the NES, way before 16bit, etc, I'm not sure you've really covered the beeper properly. "Welcome Yellow Flapper!". As true now, as it was then.

"An amount of fun" seems to sum it up well.

i tried to set up a coal to powerplant but they keep going between the coal and the depot and not going to powerplant nvm the orientation was wrong

Agent X on the 48K Spectrum is another good example of the single beeper pushed to its limits.

10:20 - I remember that time I opened the Duke Nukém 3D configuration file in notepad and found RPG Blast Radius and damage. Turned it into a nuke that'd wipe entire areas :D