I know! I keep discovering games on RUclips I totally forgot about. Sometimes I don't remember the title, but after I see a bit of the game I realize how familiar it is. Nostalgia.
How hard was it to catch the brickster when you were a kid? I remember we’d give up and someone else would try for like an hour. We were really young. I had Lego island 2 as well, but we never had this much fun.
This game legitimately gave me night terrors as a kid. I vividly remember having brutally violent hellish dreams where the Brickster would murder me and everyone I loved. Care to guess which ending I got?
Sorry Im late saying so, but holy shit! I go nightmares from this game too! Not as violent but still freaky! The Brickster got scary af sometimes and I still wouldn't be surprised if I got more if I played this again 0.0
@Sastré uuuuh... thanks? i kinda have other people crushing on me at this time dude.... sorry. They kinda have priority. :/ What does me being attractive to ya have to do with a comment I made about lego island 2 months ago? Explanation por favor.
“ARE YOU READY TO LEAVE LEGO ISLAND? IF YOU SELECT THE G R E E N B R I C K YOU’LL GO. IF YOU SELECT THE R E D B R I C K YOU STAY. GREEN GO, RED STAY” -a certain red suit infomaniac
According to lost audio files, it was going to have a manual save system. But they scraped that and made it automatically save every time you leave Lego Island.
"You can move a mountain, if you do it brick by brick" Actually, it occurs to me that the Lego universe is the only place where that line is *not* a mixed metaphor haha
"Arrrrr! Go away! I needs me beauty sleep!" For me one of my favourite discoveries was the cupboard that released a monkey every time you clicked on it.
Then imagine how I felt when I found a glitched wall in that mountain that allowed me to "dive" under the map... ...and how dissapointing it was to find that behind that door was nothing (i genuinelly imagined there would be some kind of boss fight with the brickster on his secret base)
I legit remember running up to my room and hiding under the blanket when I was a child and since then, I *refused* to play the delivery mission as Pepper.
My family could only afford one computer game for the Windows 98 Packard Bell we had. This was it. I played this for hours until the computer overheated and died. Restart, and repeat. Then I got Civ III and played that for hours until the computer overheated and died. This was a common theme. Being the first computer we had and just dial up Internet only for email, we assumed everyone’s computer overheated and died after a few hours. Nope, just a crap computer.
Yeah there's a couple of well known actors in this game, John Moris as Pepper, the late June Foray as Mama who we mainly remember as Granny off Looney Tunes and Brickster is David Lander AKA Smartass weasel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Ah, another classic game that I liked when I was a kid. The best part hands down about Lego Island was when you tried to play this game without the CD in the drive.... WHOOOOooooooOOOOPS YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER *cuts to desktop*
@@exone7372 No kidding. The Brickster sometimes mocks Pepper when you walk up to the prison as Pepper; "Hi, Pepper! Or should I say, "Paper?" ("WHEE WHEEOO" sound effect.) Ha ha ha ha, that's what I heard; you can't spell or read to well. Hey, read this: PBFFFFFFFFFFFFT!"
BigStoucheMcGee I agree the old ones from 1990-2012 period were much better, but LEGO decided to make LEGO sets much more expensive and minfigures much more detailed
As much as I have loved this channel for years this is probably the first game you've covered (barring Doom and Space Cadet Pinball) that I actually have any nostalgia for, given that I was born in the Win98 era.. thanks for all your great work Clint
Tons of memories with my sibling over lego island, rock raiders, racers, creator, etc. In the eyes of a child, these are all masterpieces and its always warming to look back at the memories of enjoying the time spent playing them.
Yeah I can remember being convinced Lego Island would always remain under the Brickster's dictatorship regime ever after. Fortunately that wasn't the case.
I definitely lost the first time (probably more) against the Brickster. While I don't remember how exactly I reacted to it, even now just watching the footage of that final part in the helicopter feels me with a tinge of dread and panic to not screw up...
Hearing the Lego people crying because of my failure destroyed my elementary soul. No matter how hard I tried I could never beat it and I was convinced I had doomed the residents of Lego Island for all eternity.
It probably depended on the computer. I was running it on Virtual PC on a G3 iMac around 2000, and it kept crashing on me. In-between the lag, that is - some parts kept playing like a broken record. I once got the musical intro to Pepper's intro video for about a minute straight before it finally crashed and exited the game.
I had this game, but something was wrong. That intro screen with the crazy guy just had a light blue flashing screen in the background. I kinda want to find it again, but I think I lost the game :(
I think that is what happens when you run the game in hardware mode on an unsupported graphics chip / card. You could fix it by running the game in software mode.
Oh my gosh... I played this game for what had to be hundreds of hours as a kid. My nostalgia levels just shot up and all of those stupid radio songs are now stuck in my head. I also got red bricks (1st place) on every activity with every character, and I did it with the massively over-responsive controls which never occurred to me at the time might not be the way it was supposed to be. What have I done with my life...
Zafran Orbian wow i only remember building stuff and trying to fight back from the monsters :P wish they Made a new game about that and not movie series.
Hell yea, remember that 2 page section of creations! I remember being in awe from those crazy detailed creations. There was always that one kid that made a basic design that made it in too.
I remember LEGO Mania Magazine. It came free with a subscription to the LEGO Club. I also remember LEGO Brickmaster, where they gave out free LEGO building sets (mostly small LEGO sets in polybags) with their LEGO Brickmaster Magazine subscriptions.
Yeah, and I got the Lego Catalog, too. I remember seeing those incredible spaceships for the hardcore builders that sold for over $1000... I also had an account on lego.com which was like an early MySpace for kids.
Brainshaker95 It's definitely a more full fledged game, but you don't get to build anything. I loved the game though. Hated that it seemed to take 7 years to load every scene or level. That spinning CD/pizza was the bane of my existence.
Yes you have to give Lego Island 2 a try. I remember quite liking it. You travel to all sorts of places, doing a pretty decent verity of mini games along the way. Lego Racers still beats it tho, its THE lego game in my eyes.
I think a better choice would be Lego Island Xtreme Stunts. Lego Island 2 was fun when I was a kid, but looking back now, it's definitely not a very good game from a gamer's perspective.
I definitely like this game a lot, I don't think it has aged very well but it was pretty ambitious for its time and I admire its effort. There was a definite amount of work put into making it worthwhile which can be hard to appreciate but I remember playing it a ton just for a lot of the detail and effort that was put into it. But you are certainly right, the overarching game simply has too little to do and you can finish most of the major stuff in a short amount of time. Did enjoy this though, for sure! Also, thank you for clarifying the 10FPS thing...I was so sick of seeing reviewers completely clueless as to why the game was so "poorly programmed" when they were playing the game on hardware way past the game's original release date.
For future reference, LI2 has entirely terrible loading times, caused by a programming mistake. There is a fan patch out there that vastly improves it, but without it you'll be waiting a pretty long time.
@Q A I wish I had that shit box of a PC cause it would be more likely to run this game properly than any PC you can possibly get your hands on or build today.
It ran terribly and was so laggy on my PC. It wasn't until I went to my friend's house and played it did I get to experience how it was supposed to run. The difference was night and day,
ive never actually played it nor did i really grow up with it, but watching youtube videos of it as a kid really holds a special place with me, its super nostalgic
Dexter Riley they did. I still have mine somewhere. it's based off the old medieval sets. or was it Lego knights? I don't remember the actual set names, just building the sets, then a couple days later destroying them to build a giant robot or something.
I loved this game. The game rewarded exploration by giving you short performances from the characters in specific areas. I felt like everybody on the island were my friends, I even liked the Brickster. The game has so many idiosyncrasies that there's just nothing like it.
This was an awesome game when i was a little kid, going from mostly 2d games to a island where you could walk around and do many different things was really something special.
I must've spent actual days playing this game as a kid. I haven't seen any clips from this game since then I had goosebumps the entire video and felt a little emotional having all these memories again
"Look out! It's the mean, mean, Pizza Machine!" To be fair, the only "mean" thing a machine like that could've ever done is destroying your cholesterol.
Well, this just isn't true. A lot of people making games are very dedicated. There are some very good games nowadays. Gameplay are graphic wise, games have never been as good as what they are today, and there are some very interested scenarios out there. A lot of passionate people work in the game industry.
I dont even have a CD or DVD or Blue Ray Drive anymore. Time and technology moves forward. As a game design student and follow graphic designer I know how expensive a manual can be. (and noone would read it anymore, we have internet and pdf).
Am I the only one yearning and pleading for another Rock Raiders game? That game was soo underrated, all those cool vehicles, gathering energy crystals while fighting against air, monsters and lava...hmm, BTW LGR, please review it, PLEAAASE?
The guy who owns DDI actually wanted to make a Rock Raiders sequel (minus the lego) within the last few years, but his plans ended up being yet another minecraft clone and he didn't take too kindly to criticisms of his ripoff ideas that were pretty much the same crap as the rest of his frankly awful company, so it's just kinda in limbo now if it's ever going to happen at all.
Nope, there's lots of us who wish (generally knowing it's a silly wish, since the developers who actually made it went to shovelware and then under, and Lego abandoned the IP years ago) they'd make a sequel or at least a fixed rerelease or something.
I loved ghost riding all the cars. Then I realized I couldnt get any cars.... So i had to walk everywhere.... And I learned about the race area the week before my brother broke the disk.
This game was such a happy fun time when I was a kid. Now as an adult I view Lego Island as Lego's first and only horror game! It's the debug mode you unlock by typing in OGEL. The resulting weirdness/creepiness is clearly the inspiration for the end level of Lego Island 2.
The nostalgia is strong with this one. The first PC game I ever bought after fully exhausting all of the bundled software that came with my first Pentium II PC.
One of the greatest regrets of my childhood... At the age of 7, after my 11-year-old brother beat the Brickster in what seemed like the most intense battle ever, I stupidly forgot to save the file and opened up an earlier version of it. I never got to explore the island post-battle, and we never went back and beat it. I'm so sorry, Will.
It is just absolutely friggin astounding how they had their style of humor nailed down so early. Loads of physical gags and character personalities in the lego movie feel like they were ripped from this game
@@TtEL I never did unfortunately. However, the later Lego games that tied into movie franchises were also a vast improvement over this, so in hindsight, it wasn't a big loss.
I just discovered your channel yesterday and i have to say: I feel entertainend and well informed by your videos! And that comes from a retro-console-player without experiences at playing on the PC. Thank you! :)
Hey Clint, how did you figure out what the correct speed for this game was supposed to be? I've always played it rather twitchily, even on my old Windows 95 machine when I was a kid. I just assumed that was how it was supposed to be.
As mentioned in the review, around 10fps is the intended speed as far as I have been able to tell. So, a Pentium 120MHz with a 2MB 2D video card is about the max system specs you'd want, at least in the original version of the game. I've heard there's a later re-release that fixes the CPU issues though.
Lazy Game Reviews Right, but I was more wondering how you were able to tell. For example, I would have difficulty figuring out a game's optimal framerate if I had not seen it running optimally before. ^^;
I have three copies of the game - one original release, two post-Windows XP re-releases, and the only differences are the launchers/installers. The actual game data and executables are completely identical.
I got this game through one of my Scholastic book order forms back around 2009/2010 and despite the case saying the game was compatible with XP, it never worked and ultimately blue screened our desktop
Well, you've finally done it. you've hit on a PC game I am actually incredibly nostalgic for... and that's kinda rare given I've always been a primarily console-centric individual. Which shouldn't be a surprise because this game sold like gangbusters from what I've been told. its my second PC gaming memory behind like... Sonic 3D Blast's PC port.
This game shaped my childhood like none other (ok, maybee with trhe exception of Pokemon) I loved everything about it. The athmosphere, the music, the characters, the story and especially this LSD-like Racing game... I don't think that i would be into videogames as much as I am now without this and I still play it today once in a while
I remember loving this game so much as a kid--mostly just because I loved Legos haha, but beyond that I was actually pretty well taken with the illusion of the open world. I loved just doing the pizza deliveries and cruising around the island--very much the same sort of mild, lowkey pleasure that I've gotten later in life via driving for Uber, or driving 45 minutes to work each day for another job, or running cross country after school, or other such forms of simple, repetitive, menial activity. Doesn't speak very well to the gameplay haha, but as a literal child I enjoyed it. If there was one gripe I actually do remember it was the fact that you couldn't get that goddamned lego skateboard anywhere in real life! Haha, oh how I yearned for that Lego skateboard, or maybe not "yearned" but in any case I wanted it for my little lego worlds, but so far as I could discover by looking at toy store shelves and the straight up Lego Magazine my child self talked my folks into getting me a subscription for somehow, that skateboard was phantasmagorical, legendary--ungettable haha. I got over it. That said, to this day if someone shows me an actual physical Lego set with the skateboard in it, I think I might poop. Poop in ecstasy, mind you.
very accurate review, i totally agree with it, even having played the game as a child. I remember most the soundtrack and the characters, the gameplay itself was quite crap, and it crashed a lot. But damn if I didn't get excited every day to play it when i was so young.
That game had the best character and world I've ever played (this is coming from a kid who was probably the biggest lego obsessive in England circa '98). Looking back it probably did a lot of things wrong, but the sounds, music and especially the setting were so charming. I've been trying to get it to run to no avail, I'd love any tips if someone has them.
ohhh man this like one of the first few 3D games I ever played on PC. My oldest brother was a total nerd and kept our PCs up to date with all the latest tech the 90s had to offer.
How come people have commented on this a week ago if it was published less than an hour ago? Was it private just for people that support you in Patreon?
This game was my childhood, so many memories. I'm pretty sure I always failed though and was scarred for life by the scary Brickster taking over (still haunts me to this day)! It's true the appeal of the game is mainly the nostalgia ( i even found myself singing along to the brick by brick song, still remember the words 17 years later! )
MattKC made a debugging tool for the game called Lego Island rebuilder, which allows you to unhook the turning from the frame rate, and replace it with the higher quality versions from the studio tapes
I played Lego Island religiously as a kid. Thank you for bringing back so many memories!
You bet :)
Holy Lego's! To think this brought two of my favorite RUclips personalities together!
I know! I keep discovering games on RUclips I totally forgot about. Sometimes I don't remember the title, but after I see a bit of the game I realize how familiar it is. Nostalgia.
How hard was it to catch the brickster when you were a kid? I remember we’d give up and someone else would try for like an hour. We were really young. I had Lego island 2 as well, but we never had this much fun.
As a kid this world felt massive and so full of life. Crazy playing it as an adult and seeing how small it really was.
I was looking for this comment!
This game legitimately gave me night terrors as a kid. I vividly remember having brutally violent hellish dreams where the Brickster would murder me and everyone I loved.
Care to guess which ending I got?
Sorry Im late saying so, but holy shit! I go nightmares from this game too! Not as violent but still freaky! The Brickster got scary af sometimes and I still wouldn't be surprised if I got more if I played this again 0.0
@Sastré uuuuh... thanks? i kinda have other people crushing on me at this time dude.... sorry. They kinda have priority. :/ What does me being attractive to ya have to do with a comment I made about lego island 2 months ago? Explanation por favor.
Muhahaha!
anakin skyfucker lol 😂 he’s got other people on his mind quit hitting on him. Oh my god tho you’re right. Cute as a little button. Takes me back
....Thanks for articulating something i have not felt in nearly two decades....
“ARE YOU READY TO LEAVE LEGO ISLAND?
IF YOU SELECT THE G R E E N B R I C K
YOU’LL GO.
IF YOU SELECT THE R E D B R I C K
YOU STAY.
GREEN GO, RED STAY”
-a certain red suit infomaniac
Gringo, redsgay
so how do i leave
Lego 2x4RedBrick Why, you click your green brother, red brick.
Click the B R O W N B R I C K S .
According to lost audio files, it was going to have a manual save system. But they scraped that and made it automatically save every time you leave Lego Island.
"You can move a mountain, if you do it brick by brick"
Actually, it occurs to me that the Lego universe is the only place where that line is *not* a mixed metaphor haha
best song in the game.
@@sheilaolfieway1885 I don’t know, the police theme enlightened my love of jazz. I owe it a lot.
The whole soundtrack is pretty varied and decent to listen to, I'd say. I want to learn the Classical Guitar Parts to the Park song.
you can be a but hole and drive a big as truck
I still remember the excitement of finding that secret little cave thing. I felt like I won the lottery.
That door is up there with the truck in Pokemon Blue/Red and Stop 'N Swop in Banjo Kazooie as mysteries that rack my brain to this very day.
I tried for so long to find a way through that door
"Arrrrr! Go away! I needs me beauty sleep!"
For me one of my favourite discoveries was the cupboard that released a monkey every time you clicked on it.
It was already revealed what's behind the door. You can find it on RUclips.
Then imagine how I felt when I found a glitched wall in that mountain that allowed me to "dive" under the map...
...and how dissapointing it was to find that behind that door was nothing (i genuinelly imagined there would be some kind of boss fight with the brickster on his secret base)
Failing to stop the Brickster has haunted me for decades
He rules over Lego Island to this day because you failed to stop him
I legit remember running up to my room and hiding under the blanket when I was a child and since then, I *refused* to play the delivery mission as Pepper.
I had legit nightmares from him getting loose as a little kid
*WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO INSERT THE CD!*
oop ye have to insert de seedee into de coputa
You mean "WhooOOPS!"
I WANT MY CD DRIVE BACK
@@DZac up your a-
And whatever you do, don't drop it!
You mean like that other game?
Whatever happened to it?
We dropped it.
Well, don't drop it!
My family could only afford one computer game for the Windows 98 Packard Bell we had. This was it.
I played this for hours until the computer overheated and died. Restart, and repeat. Then I got Civ III and played that for hours until the computer overheated and died. This was a common theme.
Being the first computer we had and just dial up Internet only for email, we assumed everyone’s computer overheated and died after a few hours. Nope, just a crap computer.
@@AnonymousGentooman loadin... ded X4
the fuck u were so poor?
This game traumatized me when I was like 3 when I accidentally let the brickster out, I never wore stripes again
It was terrifying stuff. I remember running to my mum freaking out - THE BRICKSTER'S LOOSE!!!! :(
The crying villagers did it for me.
IT'S ALL MINE
mine?
Cmon it ain't that terrifying
Pat: CS
You don't know how traumatizing it is for 90's kids
Fun Fact: The kid who voices Pepper in this game also voiced Andy in the Toy Story series.
Yeah there's a couple of well known actors in this game, John Moris as Pepper, the late June Foray as Mama who we mainly remember as Granny off Looney Tunes and Brickster is David Lander AKA Smartass weasel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
@@robonaught sadly mama brickoliny acctuall died 2 years ago.
Kinda like how ringo starr from the beatles acctually was the narator for the UK version of thomas the tank engine.
*WHAT!?*
Do you know who voice's pepper in 2 I looked everywhere but to no avail.
Ah, another classic game that I liked when I was a kid. The best part hands down about Lego Island was when you tried to play this game without the CD in the drive....
WHOOOOooooooOOOOPS YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER *cuts to desktop*
Audio plx
@@neyoid ruclips.net/video/vmTF088r2DI/видео.html
6:20 "The sign says 'no pizaz', nothing about pizzas, how was I supposed to know?"
Fun fact, on every character other than the kid, it says no Pizza. The kid has dyslexia so it's spelled wrong when you play as his character
Nighthawk seriously?????????
@@Nighthawk20000 awww that makes me love Pepper so much more.
@@Nighthawk20000 kill it with fire!
@@exone7372 No kidding. The Brickster sometimes mocks Pepper when you walk up to the prison as Pepper; "Hi, Pepper! Or should I say, "Paper?" ("WHEE WHEEOO" sound effect.) Ha ha ha ha, that's what I heard; you can't spell or read to well. Hey, read this: PBFFFFFFFFFFFFT!"
look at those classic lego minifigures
ikr?
It makes me so happy
Your profile pic makes me think that AOL has finally created an AI to write generic coments on the internet lol
Filip Mac even the pizza turns me on
Old Lego minifigures with the minimal details are better than the current ones we have nowadays. Change my mind.
BigStoucheMcGee I agree the old ones from 1990-2012 period were much better, but LEGO decided to make LEGO sets much more expensive and minfigures much more detailed
After all those years, I'm still left with one question...
WHAT'S BEHIND THE DOOR!?
Arr, press “print screen” on your keyboard to take a screenshot. Now leave me alone.
Duke nukem is behind it
Nothing.
I got through the textures ones. There is nothing behind.
I've heard that the door was supposed to lead you to Lego Racers, but that would take too much space on the CD so they had to scrap it.
As much as I have loved this channel for years this is probably the first game you've covered (barring Doom and Space Cadet Pinball) that I actually have any nostalgia for, given that I was born in the Win98 era.. thanks for all your great work Clint
Thank you, I'm happy to bring on some nostalgia and am glad you're still enjoying after all this time :)
You had to be probably less than 10 years old to enjoy this game. The memories with my brother are much better than the game itself.
Little did he know that there was a grown Swedish man making smash remixes out of their songs.
Tons of memories with my sibling over lego island, rock raiders, racers, creator, etc. In the eyes of a child, these are all masterpieces and its always warming to look back at the memories of enjoying the time spent playing them.
Me and my twin brother spent hours playing this game. It felt like our first exposure to an open world game. Magical.
I remember when I first played this I lost to the Brickster. I cried so hard! I'd never lost anything before.
Losing to the Brickster is definitely the worst way to lose for the first time. Frightening as anything.
Tohab Especially as a 3 year old.
Yeah I can remember being convinced Lego Island would always remain under the Brickster's dictatorship regime ever after. Fortunately that wasn't the case.
I definitely lost the first time (probably more) against the Brickster. While I don't remember how exactly I reacted to it, even now just watching the footage of that final part in the helicopter feels me with a tinge of dread and panic to not screw up...
Hearing the Lego people crying because of my failure destroyed my elementary soul. No matter how hard I tried I could never beat it and I was convinced I had doomed the residents of Lego Island for all eternity.
I remember this game being buggy and cryptic as hell. This was the OG dark souls.
Ikr! this was so brutal shit.
It probably depended on the computer. I was running it on Virtual PC on a G3 iMac around 2000, and it kept crashing on me. In-between the lag, that is - some parts kept playing like a broken record. I once got the musical intro to Pepper's intro video for about a minute straight before it finally crashed and exited the game.
I had this game, but something was wrong. That intro screen with the crazy guy just had a light blue flashing screen in the background. I kinda want to find it again, but I think I lost the game :(
I think that is what happens when you run the game in hardware mode on an unsupported graphics chip / card. You could fix it by running the game in software mode.
This game is great. Can you please review Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge and Lego Island Xtreme Stunts?
He did both already
@@lieffian I don’t think that’s correct
@@cal-scot I’m pretty sure he did
@@lieffian might wanna double check
@@cal-scot huh, guess it was someone else then that I watched that did all three, my bad
Oh my gosh... I played this game for what had to be hundreds of hours as a kid. My nostalgia levels just shot up and all of those stupid radio songs are now stuck in my head. I also got red bricks (1st place) on every activity with every character, and I did it with the massively over-responsive controls which never occurred to me at the time might not be the way it was supposed to be.
What have I done with my life...
😂
This game blew my mind as a kid. The idea of freely roaming around an open world was groundbreaking to many of us.
I always had a weird feeling playing this as a kid, I didn't know why or what it was. Now that I'm older I realize the feeling was depression
Interestingly, some copies of the game included an Infomaniac minifigure.
The Infomaniac figure is so damn expensive on eBay
Steffano Poggioli There was one included with LEGO Xtreme stunts that is way cheaper that you probably saw
yeah i had that minifigure
Please take a look at Lego Rock Raiders. It is the best lego game ever!
Oh yeah i remember man that was a survive game and intens for a lego game
Well it was an Exploration RTS game, but yes it had survival elements with limited Oxigen and a few enemys here and there.
Zafran Orbian wow i only remember building stuff and trying to fight back from the monsters :P wish they Made a new game about that and not movie series.
Sony God I agree.
Agree'd.
Anyone else get Lego Magazine as a kid?
Hell yea, remember that 2 page section of creations! I remember being in awe from those crazy detailed creations. There was always that one kid that made a basic design that made it in too.
Heck yes!
Dros it's still around (and im 10)
I remember LEGO Mania Magazine. It came free with a subscription to the LEGO Club.
I also remember LEGO Brickmaster, where they gave out free LEGO building sets (mostly small LEGO sets in polybags) with their LEGO Brickmaster Magazine subscriptions.
Yeah, and I got the Lego Catalog, too. I remember seeing those incredible spaceships for the hardcore builders that sold for over $1000...
I also had an account on lego.com which was like an early MySpace for kids.
You should play Lego Island 2 someday, it's actually a game
Brainshaker95 it's great
Just not on GBC. It sucks. I remember having the choice between that and Pokemon Crystal back in the day.
Boy oh boy did I choose wrong.
Brainshaker95 It's definitely a more full fledged game, but you don't get to build anything. I loved the game though. Hated that it seemed to take 7 years to load every scene or level. That spinning CD/pizza was the bane of my existence.
Yes you have to give Lego Island 2 a try. I remember quite liking it. You travel to all sorts of places, doing a pretty decent verity of mini games along the way.
Lego Racers still beats it tho, its THE lego game in my eyes.
I think a better choice would be Lego Island Xtreme Stunts. Lego Island 2 was fun when I was a kid, but looking back now, it's definitely not a very good game from a gamer's perspective.
Let's see how many people I can give shivers with one music track:
Hospital.
that shit slaps
My favorite game of all time
I definitely like this game a lot, I don't think it has aged very well but it was pretty ambitious for its time and I admire its effort. There was a definite amount of work put into making it worthwhile which can be hard to appreciate but I remember playing it a ton just for a lot of the detail and effort that was put into it. But you are certainly right, the overarching game simply has too little to do and you can finish most of the major stuff in a short amount of time. Did enjoy this though, for sure!
Also, thank you for clarifying the 10FPS thing...I was so sick of seeing reviewers completely clueless as to why the game was so "poorly programmed" when they were playing the game on hardware way past the game's original release date.
Please, oh please, for the love of god, tell me you're doing Lego Island 2 and Lego Island extreme stunts!
At some point, hopefully!
For future reference, LI2 has entirely terrible loading times, caused by a programming mistake. There is a fan patch out there that vastly improves it, but without it you'll be waiting a pretty long time.
Here's that patch, BTW: www.rockraidersunited.com/topic/7381-li2-mod-manager/
4 y/o me was always scared by the brickster, my sister said he could break free and chase you....
I remember getting this game for christmas one year but my shit box of a PC couldn't run it. So many tears...
@Q A I wish I had that shit box of a PC cause it would be more likely to run this game properly than any PC you can possibly get your hands on or build today.
It ran terribly and was so laggy on my PC. It wasn't until I went to my friend's house and played it did I get to experience how it was supposed to run. The difference was night and day,
ive never actually played it nor did i really grow up with it, but watching youtube videos of it as a kid really holds a special place with me, its super nostalgic
I remember playing this! I also had the Lego Racers too!
Lego racers was awesome, the music is still stuck in my head to this day
hah going to have to look it up i cant remember
You look like The Gaming Historian.
@@starpencil aaah fuck now it's back in my head
Will be supporting on Patreon soon! First RUclipsr I feel I NEED to support. Such quality work, humor, fun and overall goodness. Thanks so much Clint
I would eat dem pizaz
SnitchesonHitlist
😂😍😋🤤
3:31 Never knew Octan was an actual company in the LEGO universe. I thought they just made that up for The LEGO Movie. 🤔
This is why I was surprised there no mentions at all of Lego Island in the movies.
@@vidcas1711 Loss of IP?
I kinda remember there being Octan branding on race car LEGO sets back in he day
@@brwi1 my family could never afford to buy me LEGOs but I got a gift once of an Octan tanker and I loved it. Had like a thousand pieces
plenty of sets had that company. tanker trucks gas stations race cars..
This game, especially the music, is just 100% pure my childhood. I love it so much.
I had a Lego chess game that was pretty cool. It always made me wonder why they never actually made a physical chess set made of Lego
Dexter Riley they did. I still have mine somewhere. it's based off the old medieval sets. or was it Lego knights? I don't remember the actual set names, just building the sets, then a couple days later destroying them to build a giant robot or something.
and now I want a Lunchables, and to watch cartoons before heading off to school.
Kyle Scheffler Sorry, I meant a classic Staunton design chess set, but made of Lego.
Because making the Staunton design pieces in Lego would mean you had a plastic Staunton chess set. Who would be happy with that?
I have a wonderful quadruple weighed plastic Stanton set that I've owned for nearly 10 years now
i grew up with the game Lego Loco.. anybody else?
iSevenSimmer Yes!
FUCK YEAGH
***** Lego creator was pretty lame
***** It wasn't capable of much though. You'd place a building there and you could fly into it with a helicopter and nothing would happen.
Lego Loco was fantastic. I wonder if Clint would like it more than this.
Any plans to review Lego Island 2 at some point?
I'd love to! Don't currently own a complete copy though.
Rappasi how did you comment a week ago?
HAHAHA i am confused too about it ;P! same for Clint he replied a week ago :P !
The video was private until now. It was posted in LGR's patreon page a week ago.
+Letroll1234 Patreon supporters get to see videos early:
www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews/posts
"Hopped up on something strong and proooooobably illegal."
I laughed harder than i should. Well done XD
I loved this game. The game rewarded exploration by giving you short performances from the characters in specific areas. I felt like everybody on the island were my friends, I even liked the Brickster. The game has so many idiosyncrasies that there's just nothing like it.
I didn't know what to do after giving the brickster the pizza. Obviously I lost and the ending scared the shit out of me!
This was an awesome game when i was a little kid, going from mostly 2d games to a island where you could walk around and do many different things was really something special.
I got distracted during the intro because I could see a reflection of Clint turning a crank to make the camera come down :p
now I can't un-see it lol
Birdie McChicken I was busy looking at the red guy to the right who is staring at me seductively
I had to watch it again, but yeah, I can see him!
I remember seeing my brother playing this a lot back then. This brick by brick song was a massive flashback!
I must've spent actual days playing this game as a kid. I haven't seen any clips from this game since then
I had goosebumps the entire video and felt a little emotional having all these memories again
"Look out! It's the mean, mean, Pizza Machine!"
To be fair, the only "mean" thing a machine like that could've ever done is destroying your cholesterol.
A CD?
A Manual?
Things that show you that actually a minimum of dedication was put into the product?
Relics from the past :(
Well, this just isn't true. A lot of people making games are very dedicated. There are some very good games nowadays. Gameplay are graphic wise, games have never been as good as what they are today, and there are some very interested scenarios out there.
A lot of passionate people work in the game industry.
case in point: Stardew Valley, made by one dude.
@@CodeLife_12 The manuals for most of the games sure aren't though.
I dont even have a CD or DVD or Blue Ray Drive anymore. Time and technology moves forward. As a game design student and follow graphic designer I know how expensive a manual can be. (and noone would read it anymore, we have internet and pdf).
Sometimes you get digital manuals from the publishers. At least on steam. Tbh I never read them but the product looks a bit more complete with it imo
Am I the only one yearning and pleading for another Rock Raiders game?
That game was soo underrated, all those cool vehicles, gathering energy crystals while fighting against air, monsters and lava...hmm, BTW LGR, please review it, PLEAAASE?
The guy who owns DDI actually wanted to make a Rock Raiders sequel (minus the lego) within the last few years, but his plans ended up being yet another minecraft clone and he didn't take too kindly to criticisms of his ripoff ideas that were pretty much the same crap as the rest of his frankly awful company, so it's just kinda in limbo now if it's ever going to happen at all.
***** What a god-damn-shame.
Rock Raiders was great, probably the only good game Data Design made.
Nope, there's lots of us who wish (generally knowing it's a silly wish, since the developers who actually made it went to shovelware and then under, and Lego abandoned the IP years ago) they'd make a sequel or at least a fixed rerelease or something.
+Jebediah Oldenheimer uio
I remember at the time, the fact that your vehicles would be where you parked them last when you came back to your save seemed mind blowing
Infomaniac didn't say "здравствуйте"
That sad
Hey may wear red, but he's no commie
@@xavierjackson1518 What's language got to do with communism?
H E L L O
@@catriona_drummond Russia = Communism
@@catriona_drummond it's a joke about the soviet union
nostalgia overload
*7:16* *LMAO* Clint your too funny! Love the video and your channel! Thanks for the quality entertainment and snarky commentary!
Glad you're enjoying, and thanks for watching!
:)
For 8 minutes I was ten years old again! Thanks for the flashback LGR =)
Lego Racing 2 tho?
Mastapiece!
"There ain't no island. You're gonna get trolled."
I loved ghost riding all the cars.
Then I realized I couldnt get any cars.... So i had to walk everywhere.... And I learned about the race area the week before my brother broke the disk.
Actually I think it was the secret area not the racing area.
You should review all old Lego PC games. I played a lot of Lego Racers and Lego Rock Raiders in my childhood on Window Me.
_ALL_ of the old Lego PC games!
_ALL OF THEM!_
IKR
Rock Raiders was VERY hard - I so want to see a complete playthrough
Bruh same !!
This was my first (LEGO) game and still one of my all-time favourites!
This game was such a happy fun time when I was a kid. Now as an adult I view Lego Island as Lego's first and only horror game! It's the debug mode you unlock by typing in OGEL. The resulting weirdness/creepiness is clearly the inspiration for the end level of Lego Island 2.
I just love watching these videos and drinking myself to sleep.
I do the same making them, cheers👍
The nostalgia is strong with this one. The first PC game I ever bought after fully exhausting all of the bundled software that came with my first Pentium II PC.
bundled stuff used to be awesome, at least sometimes, instead of the spyware trash we get now
"A game that charmed my pants off, and I'm not wearing pants" oh LGR 😏
Between that an "an infomaniac", it makes you wonder...
"spastic garry's mod machinima"
hahaha
subbed
wow man...I really enjoyed this game back when it came out. I felt really warm watching this. Thanks for the video.
One of the greatest regrets of my childhood... At the age of 7, after my 11-year-old brother beat the Brickster in what seemed like the most intense battle ever, I stupidly forgot to save the file and opened up an earlier version of it. I never got to explore the island post-battle, and we never went back and beat it. I'm so sorry, Will.
It is just absolutely friggin astounding how they had their style of humor nailed down so early. Loads of physical gags and character personalities in the lego movie feel like they were ripped from this game
I loved that game when I was a kid!!
I remember wanting this game so much when I first saw it in the Lego catalog. After I finally bought it with chore money, a neighbor stole it from me.
Did you ever get it back?
@@TtEL I never did unfortunately. However, the later Lego games that tied into movie franchises were also a vast improvement over this, so in hindsight, it wasn't a big loss.
I just discovered your channel yesterday and i have to say: I feel entertainend and well informed by your videos! And that comes from a retro-console-player without experiences at playing on the PC.
Thank you! :)
I had this game when it first came out, I must have been around 6, and I loved it so much but never completed it. Thank you for making me smile
I loved this as a kid lol but my overactive imagination helped make this amazing for me.
Hey Clint, how did you figure out what the correct speed for this game was supposed to be? I've always played it rather twitchily, even on my old Windows 95 machine when I was a kid. I just assumed that was how it was supposed to be.
As mentioned in the review, around 10fps is the intended speed as far as I have been able to tell. So, a Pentium 120MHz with a 2MB 2D video card is about the max system specs you'd want, at least in the original version of the game. I've heard there's a later re-release that fixes the CPU issues though.
Lazy Game Reviews Right, but I was more wondering how you were able to tell. For example, I would have difficulty figuring out a game's optimal framerate if I had not seen it running optimally before. ^^;
I have three copies of the game - one original release, two post-Windows XP re-releases, and the only differences are the launchers/installers. The actual game data and executables are completely identical.
2:07 'With fewer accidental expletives.'
*F U K*
😂😂😂
1997: *”WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER”*
2023 version: *”WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER FROM 1997”*
I got this game through one of my Scholastic book order forms back around 2009/2010 and despite the case saying the game was compatible with XP, it never worked and ultimately blue screened our desktop
3:09 when you realize other suns are sunning our sun which is sunning other suns and could be sunning a black hole
Well, you've finally done it. you've hit on a PC game I am actually incredibly nostalgic for... and that's kinda rare given I've always been a primarily console-centric individual. Which shouldn't be a surprise because this game sold like gangbusters from what I've been told. its my second PC gaming memory behind like... Sonic 3D Blast's PC port.
If only GOG.com could bring back the old Lego games.
This game shaped my childhood like none other (ok, maybee with trhe exception of Pokemon) I loved everything about it. The athmosphere, the music, the characters, the story and especially this LSD-like Racing game... I don't think that i would be into videogames as much as I am now without this and I still play it today once in a while
I remember loving this game so much as a kid--mostly just because I loved Legos haha, but beyond that I was actually pretty well taken with the illusion of the open world. I loved just doing the pizza deliveries and cruising around the island--very much the same sort of mild, lowkey pleasure that I've gotten later in life via driving for Uber, or driving 45 minutes to work each day for another job, or running cross country after school, or other such forms of simple, repetitive, menial activity. Doesn't speak very well to the gameplay haha, but as a literal child I enjoyed it.
If there was one gripe I actually do remember it was the fact that you couldn't get that goddamned lego skateboard anywhere in real life! Haha, oh how I yearned for that Lego skateboard, or maybe not "yearned" but in any case I wanted it for my little lego worlds, but so far as I could discover by looking at toy store shelves and the straight up Lego Magazine my child self talked my folks into getting me a subscription for somehow, that skateboard was phantasmagorical, legendary--ungettable haha. I got over it. That said, to this day if someone shows me an actual physical Lego set with the skateboard in it, I think I might poop. Poop in ecstasy, mind you.
very accurate review, i totally agree with it, even having played the game as a child. I remember most the soundtrack and the characters, the gameplay itself was quite crap, and it crashed a lot. But damn if I didn't get excited every day to play it when i was so young.
I was rather disappointed with how the game world looked while playing compared to the opening cinematic!
there's a patch for 64 bit computers.
Funny i had issues with the controls more than anything.
My game crashed when going down a specific path after releasing the brickster
7:18 is the exact look I had on my face as an 8 year old when I lost this game for the first time
Rock Raiders > all other Lego games
OMFG yes! Also the original Lego chess that game was amazing.
Lego Racing > all other lego games
naa the best Lego game is star wars
I made a Windows XP machine JUST for playing RR. It is soo awesome. there is also a mod that makes it more difficult I think.
LGR DO THIS
I loved, loved, loved that game as a kid. I STILL remember every lyric to the Brickolini's jukebox songs.
You nailed it on the personality aspect, Lego Island seems to have set a tone and sense of humor that've been mimicked in Lego games since
Lego Racer was the shit!
I was just coming here to say that. Talk about creative, you could build your own car brick by brick!
That game had the best character and world I've ever played (this is coming from a kid who was probably the biggest lego obsessive in England circa '98). Looking back it probably did a lot of things wrong, but the sounds, music and especially the setting were so charming.
I've been trying to get it to run to no avail, I'd love any tips if someone has them.
But the menus were confusing (as a child :( )
Yeah, Lego Racers was awesome!
But as CaveManta said, going back, its... a lot easier then I remember it being as a kid. Still love the game though.
lego racer 2 was the best
The polygon graphics were too intense for some computers if I remember. Especially the characters.
The racing course on this game was litty af
The brick by brick song gets stuck in my head every now and again lol that's what brought me here today
ohhh man this like one of the first few 3D games I ever played on PC. My oldest brother was a total nerd and kept our PCs up to date with all the latest tech the 90s had to offer.
How come people have commented on this a week ago if it was published less than an hour ago? Was it private just for people that support you in Patreon?
Yes, it was. That's how my Patreon works!
WHOOPS! You have to put the CD in you computer 💿
Can we hear more about the fact you're not wearing any pants? I am an'infomaniac afterall...
This game was my childhood, so many memories. I'm pretty sure I always failed though and was scarred for life by the scary Brickster taking over (still haunts me to this day)! It's true the appeal of the game is mainly the nostalgia ( i even found myself singing along to the brick by brick song, still remember the words 17 years later! )
MattKC made a debugging tool for the game called Lego Island rebuilder, which allows you to unhook the turning from the frame rate, and replace it with the higher quality versions from the studio tapes