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A look into PC gaming’s past
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Monster Truck Madness proved Windows 95 had game
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Monster Truck Madness, developed by Terminal Reality and published in 1996, was among the first PC games to fully embraced DirectX and Direct3D - and it proved Windows 95 could finally replace DOS as the go-to operating system for PC gamers. Support the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/computergamingyesterday Install PCem to play Windows 95 and 98 games, including Monster Truck Madness: rucl...
This book reveals the genius behind SimCity
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This is a review of the book "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine," by Chaim Gingold. You can purchase the book here: www.amazon.com/Building-SimCity-World-Machine-Histories/dp/0262547481/ Want to support Computer Gaming Yesterday? Join the Patreon! www.patreon.com/computergamingyesterday Video sources, check them out: SimCity Amiga Gameplay: ruclips.net/video/I2Ji4qgsWuA/видео....
Homeworld 3 is good, actually...
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Blackbird Interactive's Homeworld 3 is a good game. Check out the Patreon: www.patreon.com/computergamingyesterday Learn how the original Homeworld was made: ruclips.net/video/Ui287CIpTq0/видео.html
Homeworld is a legend. Here's how it was made.
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Homeworld (1999) was the first game from Relic Entertainment. It revolutionized the RTS genre with gorgeous 3D graphics and a fully 3D battlefield. Its development was a once-in-a-generation work of passion. Support Computer Gaming Yesterday on Patreon: www.patreon.com/computergamingyesterday Sources: Homeworld Co-Creator Rob Cunningham: Extended Interview | ruclips.net/video/W8KVlgcmR4Y/видео....
Total Annihilation is a treasure (but I can never go back)
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Released in 1997, Total Annihilation would come to define a sub-genre of real-time strategy games that go all-in on epic combat. But all I want to do is play it on a 16-inch monitor on my old Sony Vaio. Support on Patreon: patreon.com/computergamingyesterday Here's some ways to play Total Annihilation today: Total Annihilation on GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/total_anihilation_commander_pack Total A...
YouTube comes to your retro rig | SkiFree is now an RPG! | Retro PC Gaming News
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Retro PC gaming news for the week ending January 12, 2024. Stories this week: RUclips on your Retro PC: protoweb.org/get-started/ SkiFree gets a tribute role-playing game: www.protovision.games/games/yeti_mountain.php?language=en Atari 400 Mini announced: atari.com/products/atari-400-mini Ayaneo Next Lite, budget handheld for retro PC games: www.ayaneo.com/article/807 City of Heroes: Homecoming...
Elder Scrolls Daggerfall Remake Released | Retro Adventure Games Come to iPhone
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All the retro PC gaming news you need to know for the week end January 5th, 2024. Daggerfall Unity website: www.dfworkshop.net/ City of Heroes Homecoming license announcement: forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/47223-ncsoft-homecoming-license-announcement/ ScummVM 2.8.0 news: www.scummvm.org/news/20231230/ ScummVM on the app store: apps.apple.com/us/app/scummvm/id6446184412 ScummVM iOS port det...
ScummVM rescues weird 90s games, Blizzard goes all-in on WoW Classic | Retro PC Gaming News
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Retro PC gaming news for the week ending December 22, 2023 ScummVM adds more Macromedia Director Games: www.scummvm.org/news/20231214/ D4 Enterprise seeks player feedback on PC-88 ports: www.timeextension.com/news/2023/12/d4-enterprise-wants-to-know-what-classic-japanese-computer-games-it-should-bring-to-switch Google form for EGG Console feedback: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-XYPM7aPs2B...
John Smedley’s new shooter, E3 is dead, and Nintendo nukes Zelda for PC (again)
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John Smedley is working on a first-person shooter: www.linkedin.com/posts/john-smedley-7a33534_we-are-looking-for-an-experienced-ue5-level-activity-7141203710851887104-qxyF E3 is dead: www.ign.com/articles/e3-is-dead-for-good Fan-based remaster of Link’s Awakening comes out for PC, is taken down: New Homeworld 3 video: www.eurogamer.net/unofficial-links-awakening-pc-port-put-to-sleep-by-nintend...
Phil Spencer Talks Starcraft | EverQuest Successor Playtest | Retro PC Gaming News
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All the PC retro gaming news for the week ending December 8th, 2023. Stormgate Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/stormgate/stormgate Sign up for Monsters & Memories playtest here: monstersandmemories.com/updates/update-37-december-playtest Join Tribes 3 playtest here: www.tribes3rivals.com/ Stories this week: Baldur's Gate 3 takes up six awards at The Game Awards www.pcgamer.com/baldurs...
Homeworld 3 DELAY | WoW Classic Revamp | DOS in a Browser??? - Retro PC Gaming News
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Retro PC gaming news for weekend ending December 1st, 2023. Have a news tip? Leave a comment! WoW Classic Season of Discovery: news.blizzard.com/en-us/world-of-warcraft/24029408/world-of-warcraft-classic-season-of-discovery-is-now-live DOS in your web browser: dosdeck.com Ayaneo Retro Mini PC: www.indiegogo.com/projects/ayaneo-retro-mini-pc-creator-of-mini-pc-2-0-era Beyond Good & Evil Remaster...
SimCity 4 vs. Cities: Skylines II - Challenge to the Throne?
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Cities: Skylines II is perfect for fans of the original...but what if you're a fan of SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, or SimCity 4?
How SimCity Works - And Why Cities: Skylines Works Better
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SimCity set the standard for city simulators that would hold for almost 20 years until, at long last, Cities: Skylines overwhelmed it. But how, exactly, did SimCity work? And how did Cities: Skylines improve on it? ...want to learn more? Check out these video sources. Will Wright's Raid on Bungling Bay Post-Mortem: ruclips.net/video/7bCjollo4ng/видео.html&t Bonus content from SimCity 2000: rucl...
The Longest Journey: Don't Miss Funcom's Masterpiece!
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Funcom's The Longest Journey was among the last popular point-and-click adventure games of its era, and it set the tone for the dialogue-heavy action-adventure and role-playing games that would rise to popularity in the mid-2000s. Want to play The Longest Journey today? Buy it at on GOG (DRM-free): www.gog.com/en/game/the_longest_journey Download the HD mod: tljhd.github.io/
MechCommander: Battletech's Most Under-Rated PC Game
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MechCommander: Battletech's Most Under-Rated PC Game
This lawsuit could have changed MMORPGs forever!
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This lawsuit could have changed MMORPGs forever!
This “The Lord of the Rings" MMO was too hardcore
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This “The Lord of the Rings" MMO was too hardcore
Dark Age of Camelot: Mythic’s MMO wasn’t what you think
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Dark Age of Camelot: Mythic’s MMO wasn’t what you think
Baldur’s Gate II: BioWare's Best RPG?
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Baldur’s Gate II: BioWare's Best RPG?
The DEATH of RTS Games...What Killed The Genre?
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The DEATH of RTS Games...What Killed The Genre?
This Babylon 5 Game Almost Changed PC Gaming
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This Babylon 5 Game Almost Changed PC Gaming
Dark Reign: Have You Played This Hidden Gem?
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Dark Reign: Have You Played This Hidden Gem?
A History of Asheron’s Call: The First Massive MMO
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A History of Asheron’s Call: The First Massive MMO
Age of Empires: A Franchise Retrospective
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Age of Empires: A Franchise Retrospective
Ultima Online's Most Infamous Murder
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Ultima Online's Most Infamous Murder
Death by EverQuest? The MMO Addiction Panic
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Death by EverQuest? The MMO Addiction Panic
EverQuest: The Ruins of Kunark Official Trailer (AI Remaster)
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EverQuest: The Ruins of Kunark Official Trailer (AI Remaster)
5 MMOs You've NEVER Heard Of (But Should Know!)
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5 MMOs You've NEVER Heard Of (But Should Know!)
This guy seems a little too knowledgable about this ‘Rainz’ character… 😒
Still the only game to effortlessly immerse me in the world. Simple mechanics yet immensely complex encounters. Just amazing.
actually... no :D
owned this new played it on my p2 266 !
I can't wait for this! What made you pick Everquest instead of World of Warcraft, RuneScape, The Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons & Dragons Online, The Elder Scrolls Online, etc.? All the best!
I think EverQuest has a pretty huge influence on the genre. RuneScape is also worth a book for sure. But I am not as familiar with that game.
Project Quarm is the new spot for EQ check it out
Already almost double the goal, congrats!
Yes! Thank you!
Nice work 👍❤
Thanks!
Awesome news.
this is relevant to my interests. pledged!
heck is that cover, some kinda lizard wizard?
i was thinking Iksar necromancer :D
YOOO! This is awesome! Congrats, Matt! I'm gonna boost this everywhere I can.
Thank you! I very much appreciate it
2:56 I had the first Everquest auction on eBay; 1000 platinum on Tunare that went for $750'ish. There's a long conversation about it on the Everquest usenet group.
bit more info; The thread is titled "1000 plat forsale on Tunare Server" in the alt games everquest usenet group. Despite some of the replies on there, I didn't start that thread or tell anyone else to. The only person on the server I initially told about this was Kaylum. I remember telling him to keep it between us and how I wasn't sure if it'd get any bids. He offered to buy it for $20 if it did go bidless (I vaguely recall him saying something about skipping eating a pizza for a day or something like this but might be wrong about that, lol). Used to chat frequently with Kaylum and viewed him as an outsider amongst the high(er) level folks on Tunare. Didn't want the entire server to know! At the time I created that auction, I had something like 3500 platinum. I was Sutekh on Tunare.
Something you'll find in the book: the developers were absolutely stunned when this began to happen. They had no idea anyone would want to pay real money for characters and items in the game. It was a different time, wasn't it?
@@computergamingyesterday Yup, my thinking was that it'd have some mild interest and may get $50'ish, but also had some thought it may get no bids at all. Was shocked when it took off within a day after listing. It was over $1000 for a bit, but these bids were removed prior to it selling (unsure if people retracted bids later or if they were removed by eBay itself). I can't pull the original auction on eBay anymore & I remember asking them some 5 yrs or so ago if they could retrieve it from their archives so I could save it, but was told this wasn't possible. I remember being run off eBay when they caved to it being "intellectual property." Unsure what caused this, lawyers from Sony itself, customer complaints, etc. I do remember this Jonathan Yantis fellow having some legal background and him not buying this argument and starting up his bulletin board and contacted all the big sellers to sell on his storefront, which became the primary place for a bit after eBay stopped allowing sales. This later became the mysupersales site which he sold for, what, 20 million or something a while back? I forget exactly.
Wow, excited! Ah bummer, the shipping is more than the book itself to the uk :(
there will be an ebook as well!
YOU’RE DOING A BOSS FIGHT BOOK!? SOLD! And congratulations!
Thank you!
According to the one official guide, apparently SimCity 3000 has a tile by tile value on each tile of road, road by bus, rail, subway, and other things like getting on a bus station and swapping between one method to another, like car to bus station, etc. I seem to recall it coming out to something like this: Roads, directly from one zone tile in a straight line to another zone tile, can go about 1/4 the map Roads by bus go slightly further Rails about half way across the map Highway I think is equal to rail, except via a car or bus Subway can go across the entire map Then there is the value to transition travel methods. If you have to drive to the train station to reach it, it takes a bigger chunk of time than a single road tile to switch travel methods. Meaning having to drive more than a block to a train station to get to work can greatly reduce the effectiveness of bothering to take the train. It can also just generate even more local traffic issues driving to the train station, especially if you use the IRL logic, a person might drive a few blocks IRL to get to the station. However, this is compounded by the fact that industry born traffic checks can't go by bus or subway ever, and means industry always needs direct access to roads or rail, and by extension, both limits how far away industry can be from the other zones, and also means you might have to run undesirable trains occasionally through residential areas, at least until you get to 100% clean industry and can put them right up against stuff like residential zones. This results in annoying things, like a R to R, R to C, R to I, C to R, C to C, C to I traffic can all use subway to travel the entire map, but your I to R, I to C, or I to I traffic can only be at most half a map away, if you use trains. Also, apparently there's at best an 80% chance or such, WITH ordinances, to use non personal vehicle travel. Meaning if you want to ensure 100% successful traffic attempts, everything has to be built confined by road travel restrictions. I used to love SimCity 3000, even while not fully understanding the traffic for years, as overall I thought it was the best city sim made (until Skylines). But I always wondered why traffic flow felt so, weird. Now I know. And when I built a recent city using all this in mind, and built things in squares around bus stations and later subways, I began to realize that an ideal city seems to require building a ton of mass transit entry points directly in range of zone tiles. This most recent city, once I got the ordinances going, was the first ever where I eventually saw road traffic almost disappear after getting subways and trains everywhere. Also, while the game doesn't have physically rendered traffic jams, at least in SimCity 3000, there is supposed to be something to calculate being stuck in a traffic jam via the simulation, that's supposed to increase travel distance per tile, which can reduce travel efficiency, and result in a failed trip. And apparently the game will try to recalculate future travel attempts around the jams. So SimCity 3000 does have traffic management, just not in the same overt, physical way. At this point, it's still a good game, but by understanding how to better manipulate the road traffic to nearly not exist, and get people on mass transit, I kinda feel like my zoning strategy has become super cookie cutter by necessity. Skylines, however, as you point out, actually follows some sense of IRL logic, and you can actually get people to travel all the way across town to a job, and not just two blocks away.
Makes me miss DFC 😢. DAoC is still awesome, but wish the prequel MUD was still around. The best game I've played to this day.
Watching this after the fall of Homeworld 3 reminded me of when I was excited for that game. Was a good video to watch, and I hope you create that HW cataclysm video.
I've seen some people and families destroyed during my time on EQ and EQOA for the PS2. EQ wasn't the culprit, but it was the medium by which these things occurred. I saw some things play out that I didn't really understand when I was a 13 year old playing my dark elf shadowknight. Now that I'm an adult in my 30s I am slightly disturbed. Ultimately these issues are people issues, not video game issues.
I'm definitely gonna give this a go on a private server
I thought it was a fair objective review.
Compare the amount of dopamine and time to delivery of everquest to call of duty, you had to work for lateral hours for even the tinyiest of advancements in stats, and that tiny hit of dopamine was so powerful it kept you coming back months after months. Comparatively call of duty floods your system with dopamine rewards and diminishes its potency
By the time velious was released the dev team of everquest had become adversarial to the end game top guilds, so much so that the final dungeon of velious was designed with intent to punish the number one guild in the server, once the four warders were killed, they were gone permanently from the server, denying the experience to every other guild who may have been slower
Simcity 4 is still the king, let's be real.
I remember playing the open beta when they stress tested the border forts
I played EQ so much that they flew me and my wife out to San Diego to tour the studio and meet the team. So many of that team have now passed away. 😢
Greatest, most memorable game of my entire life.
Thank you I was looking at this book yesterday. Which link are you referring to regarding the working mechanics of the game? 🤔
DAOC is the best Mmorpg ever.
Well, I played this game a lot when I first installed it in 2000 (two CD's came out with CD-Action, a Polish magazine about games and computers, very popular in Poland back then). It was my first experience with RTS and I was 7 years old. I often come back to this game (played it today for about 2 hours) and it never gets old.
lol the vids homey uses for beta are obviously not beta but are from like 2009+ or whenever global T chat came into being.
To shoehorn resource gathering in, the game would have to be more like a 4x game with RTS combat missions.
Funnily enough, Mechcommander 1 is the perfect mirror of the upcoming MW5:Clans. In MW5:C, you play as a mechwarrior of Clan Smoke Jaguar during the 3049 invasion of the Inner Sphere, in MC you play as an Inner Sphere commander taking the fight to the Jag's home planet of Huntress
It’s still alive on Project 1999
Man I loved this game. I still love this game. Played it for 10 years straight. Still hope on it now an then and play it today. I miss MMO like this one. Wish some one would make a MMO like this one again. Hell if they just rereleased Ac with todays graphics and nothing else changed. They wouldn't be able to take my money for the game fast enough. Asheron's Call for me was the best damn MMORPG to ever come out. Nothing else has ever come close to being this good.
Kool your a total nerd and will never have a woman!!!!!
Online games in the late 90s really were something else. I remember playing an online shooter called "splatterball" on AOL for $1.99 a month (which I paid for using my mom's credit card, which I was also severely punished for). The game was almost unplayable using my 56k modem, but man, I still absolutely loved it.
Splatterball! I mention that in my Dark Age of Camelot video…it was made by Mythic Entertainment.
i disagree that WoW killed off previous MMO's Asherons Call & Everquest suffered player losses due to Stawars Galaxies! get the details right.
the pvp keep system is the same one mythic they used in warhammer online.
i luved this game.
Dnd 2 and 3 did it right. These days when everyone can be anything, then nothing is special and it all lacks flavour.
SC have beaten C&C, full stop. It’s only C&C fans who still live in their own fantasy world that C&C somehow had a tremendous impact in the industry.
No, it is not Maybe it is good for some kid who played mobile games and don't know flick about Homeworld games, but for everybody else, it is a disgrace
Played this over gameranger last night. It's still great.
It is still the best MMO ever
objective opinion: this was/is the best MMO ever made
Somehow Ubisoft releases the same AC game each year and gamers still buy it.
Because, as sad as it is , the AC franchise along with many others got "normiefied" or dumbed down/simplified so much to have amass appeal to a large audience while losing much of the original or quality features it once had. That's why I stopped playing AC after Syndicate because I saw it coming, I knew it was going down hill.
Lmao the murderer picture😅
Dark reign will break your balls, and force you to learn guerilla warfare in a way that no other RTS will.
I have such good memories about this game! Wish we could have a mobile version
Played for the last 20 years. I’ve played since I was 7 years old. The game is what made me love gaming. My entire family played ! Blades of Unity-Guinevere ;Midgard!!!