I got this game as a kid and accidentally installed it in French. I couldn't understand most of what was going on or what things did in the menus and did not know how to reinstall the game, so I was kind of stuck playing the first level without really knowing exactly what to do. But the game looked so cool to me and I wanted to play it so bad that I took French as an elective in highschool the very next year and learned the language just so I could play this game.
Being a kid was amazing. "I need to learn this." and so you do, and it seemed hard, but it wasn't. I'm 51 and trying to master a new programming language and I get frustrated and tired, but back then I think it just felt like learning was being challenged, and it was exciting.
Some of my favorite touches in this game: -When you persuade citizens to join you, they can pick up weapons dropped by armed npcs. Then if you fire at something, they do too. This gives you an "npc shotgun" and it felt really fun to unleash it! -You could persuade cops and even agents to join you after you got past a threshold of persuading (IE, after 5 civilians you could persuade a cop, etc) -If you persuaded agents, they would join your roster and you could redeploy them on missions! -If you picked up a weapon on a mission that you didn't have access to, you could immediately research it instead of waiting for the natural progression to take place! -Research happened in real time, so if you had enough money, just leave your game running overnight and come back to a full tech tree! I loved this game so much.
@@rupertcadell2685 It's available on GOG, at least for the Mac. I'm just playing it again, after more than 25 years. I feel so happy. :) Just checked: available for Mac and Windows, as "Syndicate Plus", paired with "American Revolt" - didn't test this one, though.
Probably would have been mine, too, if they had sold it to my underage ass at the time... 😀I remember clutching it tightly, walking up to the cashier and them telling me it's 18+ and I can't have it... 😞I don't even remember, what I bought instead I was so disappointed...
As much as I loved this game back then, the lack of multiplayer, terrible enemy AI and repetitive missions held it back somewhat. The expansion pack American Revolt fixed the multiplayer issue.
it was very cool for the time, but unlike some other bullfrog titles it really doesn't hold up. all of the sim/management elements end up being nearly meaningless and the gameplay is actually very simple and repetitive.
Out of all of the many iconic vehicles in videogames, syndicate's hover clown car is by far my favorite, you could fit an army in that inconspicuous popular civilian vehicle, I love it.
Brings back memories! Clicking the two mouse buttons together at the same time sets all 3 stat bars to max for emergency actions. Stun lock enemy agents against walls by positioning your agent to shoot them as they come around a corner and shoot them into a wall within range Enemy agents target your lowest number agent first, place your #1 a fair distance behind your 2, 3, 4 to game the AI Basic load out includes 2 miniguns on each agent, miniguns are the mainstay Persuadertron range and power increases with more targets persuaded. Use your 2, 3, or 4 agent to persuade enough people you can capture enemy agents by placing your persuading agent a fair distance between the enemy and your #1 agent. The enemy agents will be persuaded as they run by without anyone getting accidently shot Don't kill your own agents with lasers or rocket launchers I think paying to reload weapons and items before selling gets a better sell price? Corp name "Cooper Team" gets you a ton of money and equipment at the start with maxed out agents
It was the brain upgrade that increased the persuade range. Also, highly overlooked was the scanner. Having 1, gave you a wider radar view. You can actually see the opposing syndicate appear on the minimap as the combat music triggered. On pc, each agent was default hot keyed. (1-4)So you could play this with 2 hands, and spare your mouse click. Play this like a modern rts, but back in 1993/1994. This was when warcraft 1 was around, and no battle group hotkey. A feature ahead of its time
I'm cringing every time the player sells a mini gun for 3000 and buys a new one for 10000 instead of reloading for 800. But I probably did the same thing back then.
I used to mind control the _entire town_ and made everybody hop onto the armoured personnel carrier.Then I'd blow the vehicle up just to see a ring of fire (burning people) expanding from the wreck. Good times.
I vividly remember one mission where peds lined the street for a parade and you had to blow up the vehicles. Persuadatron, get in a car, drive through the crowds, enjoy.
I miss being young not knowing how to really play games. I have fond memories of fumbling around in this one. Now I watch my kid fumble around in Astro and Crash Bandicoot. 😅
25 years ago. Seems incredible to think it was so long ago. I absolutely loved this game, and I remember the gameplay being exhilarating. For the life of me, I cannot remember why I wanted to see the gameplay, but this brings back happy memories.
The animation that plays when you beat a mission always made me laugh because it's clearly the very same location every time. So the implication is that every time Eurocorp takes over some obscure little territory on the other side of the planet, they throw a massive party back home. Now that's gotta be confusing for the citizens who are probably being kept deliberately in the dark about Eurocorp's shady dealings overseas. "Why are we partying this week?" "I dunno, something about a 'victory in Bolivia'. Screw it, pass the booze!"
I think I may have beaten American revolt. Can't remember clearly. I just remember being soo chuffed that no longer getting completely worked once i was playing it so much that everytime I closed my eyes I could see little men running around. It was months of compulsive single minded play. . Must have been high school I think. Never had such motivation to achieve anything in my life since.
I recently played American Revolt again (the expansion) and calling it difficult isn't accurate - it's downright unfair and ridiculous! Your squad gets spammed with endless waves of enemies within a couple seconds of each mission starting! The random jet bombings are pretty unforgiving as well.
Syndicate Longplay (PC DOS) [60 FPS]: Experience the true meaning of "hostile takeover" in this brilliant real-time blend of strategy and action from Bullfrog! Read the video description for my review!
6h of gameplay later, and while I enjoyed reviving my childhood, I was saddened by the fact that your original squad suffered casualties right at the end. Thanks mate for sharing with us this gameplay!
Did you ever play Satellite Reign? It's a decent mess around in this kind of vein, a little too complicated in places but fun. Some of the same developers, I think?
I've played this on my childhood so much, that I remember everything about it, my favorite move was to use the persuader and make an army of everyone on the town than kill the target... So nostalgic
This was great multiplayer too. Made me laugh as I remembered it was cheaper to sell your weapons and buy new ones, than to reload them, when I saw you doing that :) 6 hours of syndicate, outstanding dedication to an old classic, much appreciated. Cheers. :)
[EN] I played at a friend's 386 DX4 / 33 in Syndycate on a black and white monitor, I could not afford a PC or Amiga in 1993-1994, only earning money in 1997 I bought a PC with AMD K5 PR166 (116 MHz) 16MB_RAM 4.3GB HDD, Matrox Mystique, the best thing is that I played until 2000, then only PC work ... (I learned to program Delphi on it myself - only books and deduction method: /) there is a tear in the eye because it's been almost 30 years !!! [PL] grałem u kolegi na 386 DX4/33 w Syndycate na czarno białym monitorze, mnie nie było stać finansowo w 1993-1994 roku na PC lub Amiga, dopiero zarabiając w 1997 roku zakupiłem PC z AMD K5 PR166 (116 MHz) 16MB_RAM 4.3GB HDD, Matrox Mystique, najlepsze jest to że grałem do 2000 roku potem już tylko praca z PC ... (nauczyłem się sam na nim programować Delphi - tylko książki i metoda dedukcji :/) łezka się kręci w oku bo to już prawie 30 lat !!!
Good memories are coming up when I see this game! Syndicate was a piece of art! ...the sound, the music, the vibe of this game - just incomparable. Only downer was the bad AI
kids today will be wtf is this , back then it was cuttin edge stuff , a lot of old forgotten games were just as good when new as games made now , an we had the joy of playin them , great times , aye !
Early SVGA high resolution game. I played it on 386DX 40, cirrus logic 1 mb (vram?), 4 mb ram, SB 16, Sony cd rom double speed. Monitor ADI 14". Last played this october 1995.
The colour palette is one of the best I've seen in any game - it reproduced the halogen-lit urban cityscape as best as possible given the limitations of the time
@@henrikhyrup3995It was only 16 colors during missions! This wasn't SVGA yet, just the very seldomly used high-res mode of VGA. This is the limitation that (in combination with for the time very high resolution) gave the game its very distinct aesthetics.
+Luke McGarr I'd always played this game based on a bug where the game refunded the full amount when selling a weapon, hence it made no economic sense to bother reloading weapons. It wasn't until that point that I realised that the bug must have been fixed in the version I was playing :)
Not sure if you're aware of this or if anyone posted about it but you can click both mouse buttons at the same time to put your selected agents into "alert" mode, which maxxes out all 3 stats. It's a life saver on Atlantic Accelerator. That and some long range weapons. Not sure how helpful this is 8 years later but some day you might get the urge to play again.
This was such a cool game back in the day. Loved the details in it of the weapons and tools and upgrading te body. Made you feel like a real badass. Way ahead of its time.
I play Syndicate 1993 version by ullfrog in german by DosBox. I dowloaded and unpacked the old game. Here is how to play it and how to generate savegames: 1. Run DosBox. 2. Mount the drive onto which you unpacked the game folder by typing: Mount d d:/ (you can mount any drive) 3. After you mounted the drive, type the letter of your drive with the game folder like this example: D: Hit enter. 4. After you changed to the new drive, type gmain.exe and press enter. The game will start. In order to generate savegames, create a folder named SAVE (write in capital letters) in the game folder. Since you mounted the whole story, you can now save your game. Syndicate doesn't generate that folder by itself. That is the trick. You generate the folder and it saves the game again. Next time you active your computer,you repeat the mounting in DosBox and you will be able to load your savegame.
Thanks for this! So many memories, I remember being a bit disappointed in that last level - no real design just loads of enemy agents. I guess it was a boss-battle. That rocket-guard though! Holy shit that was nearly the end of your whole squad!
Winning the Atlantic Accelerator mission is about holding out long enough to establish a beach head as it were. Definitely need to pack some energy shields!
Watched the full 6h and wanted to comment a lot of things: - what's the original resolution and how come this video is panoramic? - pity that you couldn't do a no-miss if those 2 agents didn't die at the end. although I guess you were doing save-load - that strange word seems to be "Selected" but it definitely doesn't sound like that. Please, any of the original devs here? :) - great game despite the repetitiveness, police are too weak, agents sometimes too, but the ambience, music, sound, graphics... just so cool, specially the "agents near" music - one of those games that you REALLY need to read the manual. Auto-destruction, meaning of the drug levels, panic mode, how to persuade enemy agents... - it would be really cool to play this as multiplayer coop
Man, I wish I grew up with these DOS games (born 1990) I 've only played a few, DOOM it was on a floppy, I owned a copy of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and I might have touched a game called Heretic? I can't remember what it was called, it was DOOM except not DOOM, lol. These videos are great though! I get to check out all the stuff I've been missing.
As a kid we played zx spectrum game loaded from a cassette tape, these games were such a huge leap forward. Good to see indie games making an impact now, they have the inventive spirit of 80s and 90s game creation.
There were many "Doom clones" back then. Heretic was pretty cool because it was "Doom in D&D" and because the devs had good relations with Id Software so they had a good understanding of the code.
Love so much the monorail part 2:35:10 . Was so sad when CP 2077 didn't add usable trains in game... But thanks to mod Gods now we have trains there too :) Thanks for the great memories!
The way you start Atlantic accelerator is to equip yourselves with lasers and pick team and panic mode (both mouse buttons simultaneously) in the first two seconds. Works like a charm. At least it did in 1993.
T'was one of the first games I needed a bootdisk to play. When synd.com finally started up, I saw the rail, street, and billboard... it felt like magic.
I remember a friend showed me how to do this by editing the config.sys and autoexec.bat At first I thought the guy was crazy doing that and then I did it all the time myself 🙈 One day comanche wouldn't lauch, another day there was enough memory.. It took me weeks to understand that when the printer was powered it used some of the precious bits of memory needed to run the game 😅 Sometimes I struggled for hours before I was able to lauch a game on that mighty 386 sx 33Mhz.. But when it did, the feeling was so intense I felt my heart pounding real hard 😂 Alone in the dark, populous, doom... Lots of great memories from those days
I had this game back in the day. I was a bit too young for it I think as I couldn't really work out how to play it properly! Very complex and incredible game if you knew what you were doing!
The layout must be different last level on the pc to the Amiga? On the Amiga you walk out onto a central plaza and everyone approaches from all sides. I did it with 1 soldier. I went in with 4/5 shields and used myself as a lightning rod so they wiped each other out whilst they were blasting me all over the place. The slowdown and the Amiga mouse made that the only way that I could see of doing it!
Man, this game was awesome back in the day. Loved it to death and played it a hundred times. I was always disappointed that there was no 'real' ending to it. Syndicate Wars wasn't as good visually either. This looked and played amazing for it's time.
All this time, I thought the subject abducted in the opening cutscene was in a building. For nearly 30 years. I only just noticed that's sky above him, not a ceiling.
Yep - it's also the only game I can recall that I bought more than once. The first was on the Amiga and I loved it so much that, when I got my first PC, I had to get another copy. The VGA visuals are quite an upgrade over the Amiga's "sunbaked drought" colour palette too!
@@ItsBigIan that is so funny! I remember the manual, too, the glossy black cover. That smell. I used to pore over it more than I played the game itself. God I'm a weirdo
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Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, Themepark, etc. All of Bullfrog's games were masterpieces.
Magic Carpet, Populous, Power Monger
Hi Octane
Still playing themepark..😍
@@minimalist1981
Making people sick, or having them.beat up your entertainers never bores.
Black & White, The Movies, Fable
I got this game as a kid and accidentally installed it in French. I couldn't understand most of what was going on or what things did in the menus and did not know how to reinstall the game, so I was kind of stuck playing the first level without really knowing exactly what to do. But the game looked so cool to me and I wanted to play it so bad that I took French as an elective in highschool the very next year and learned the language just so I could play this game.
Some people learn Italian to read The Divine Comedy
As a Brazilian i didnt understand a thing, i played when i was like 6 or 7
Being a kid was amazing. "I need to learn this." and so you do, and it seemed hard, but it wasn't. I'm 51 and trying to master a new programming language and I get frustrated and tired, but back then I think it just felt like learning was being challenged, and it was exciting.
When I was a kid, I accidentally installed this in Spanish. All I remember was "Cargando Juego" 😅
Ce n'est pas une erreur d'avoir appris le français :). It's not a mistake to have learned french.
Some of my favorite touches in this game:
-When you persuade citizens to join you, they can pick up weapons dropped by armed npcs. Then if you fire at something, they do too. This gives you an "npc shotgun" and it felt really fun to unleash it!
-You could persuade cops and even agents to join you after you got past a threshold of persuading (IE, after 5 civilians you could persuade a cop, etc)
-If you persuaded agents, they would join your roster and you could redeploy them on missions!
-If you picked up a weapon on a mission that you didn't have access to, you could immediately research it instead of waiting for the natural progression to take place!
-Research happened in real time, so if you had enough money, just leave your game running overnight and come back to a full tech tree!
I loved this game so much.
I didn't know you could persuade agents and redeploy them. That's awesome. I really want to play this again.
@@rupertcadell2685 It's available on GOG, at least for the Mac. I'm just playing it again, after more than 25 years. I feel so happy. :)
Just checked: available for Mac and Windows, as "Syndicate Plus", paired with "American Revolt" - didn't test this one, though.
Played this game so much when I was a kid. Thanks for posting this, really brings back the memories!
I always have it installed but I don't play. I will eventualy. Better than sims4
I played this game so much aswell when i was a kid xD
me too man
💯💯💯💯
man this game was so fucking ahead of its time! The sound effects, the music, the gameplay... probably my favorite game of all time
Yeah man. I remember playing this with Ultima VII and Strike Commander. Possibly the best fucking game combo ever
The style was so very cool
@@purplerabbit638 dude! Did you have the yellow coloured CD??
@@midowazzan lol I don't remember. But it was included when you buy a Sound Blaster.
Probably would have been mine, too, if they had sold it to my underage ass at the time... 😀I remember clutching it tightly, walking up to the cashier and them telling me it's 18+ and I can't have it... 😞I don't even remember, what I bought instead I was so disappointed...
Honestly this was a masterpiece, deserved so much higher recognition.
As much as I loved this game back then, the lack of multiplayer, terrible enemy AI and repetitive missions held it back somewhat. The expansion pack American Revolt fixed the multiplayer issue.
it was very cool for the time, but unlike some other bullfrog titles it really doesn't hold up. all of the sim/management elements end up being nearly meaningless and the gameplay is actually very simple and repetitive.
Out of all of the many iconic vehicles in videogames, syndicate's hover clown car is by far my favorite, you could fit an army in that inconspicuous popular civilian vehicle, I love it.
"Police! Put down your weapons!"
*BRRRRRRRRRTTTTT*
Hehe but on ruclips.net/video/ACVZ5b8wW14/видео.html they have a payback :-)
Hahaha
My friend and I would always say 'Police. Fire all your weapons' in the same voice
Brings back memories!
Clicking the two mouse buttons together at the same time sets all 3 stat bars to max for emergency actions.
Stun lock enemy agents against walls by positioning your agent to shoot them as they come around a corner and shoot them into a wall within range
Enemy agents target your lowest number agent first, place your #1 a fair distance behind your 2, 3, 4 to game the AI
Basic load out includes 2 miniguns on each agent, miniguns are the mainstay
Persuadertron range and power increases with more targets persuaded. Use your 2, 3, or 4 agent to persuade enough people you can capture enemy agents by placing your persuading agent a fair distance between the enemy and your #1 agent. The enemy agents will be persuaded as they run by without anyone getting accidently shot
Don't kill your own agents with lasers or rocket launchers
I think paying to reload weapons and items before selling gets a better sell price?
Corp name "Cooper Team" gets you a ton of money and equipment at the start with maxed out agents
It was the brain upgrade that increased the persuade range.
Also, highly overlooked was the scanner. Having 1, gave you a wider radar view. You can actually see the opposing syndicate appear on the minimap as the combat music triggered.
On pc, each agent was default hot keyed. (1-4)So you could play this with 2 hands, and spare your mouse click. Play this like a modern rts, but back in 1993/1994. This was when warcraft 1 was around, and no battle group hotkey. A feature ahead of its time
I'm cringing every time the player sells a mini gun for 3000 and buys a new one for 10000 instead of reloading for 800. But I probably did the same thing back then.
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This is one of the best game ever, I can't belive how deep was this game.
The Best dude the best ever!
best game ever with doom1 and diablo1
@@nicolaservo2113 Diablo I>2>feces>3
Agree
@@soldierforchrist631 3 turned into a really good game after about a year after launch.
I used to mind control the _entire town_ and made everybody hop onto the armoured personnel carrier.Then I'd blow the vehicle up just to see a ring of fire (burning people) expanding from the wreck.
Good times.
I used to see how many people u could set on fire at once with the flamethrower 😈
Al82: Retrogaming & Computing Could you tell me about how you felt about your parents as a child? 👨⚕️
I vividly remember one mission where peds lined the street for a parade and you had to blow up the vehicles. Persuadatron, get in a car, drive through the crowds, enjoy.
Dude same ! Fuckn hilarious! Lol
@@MrEndersai Colorado
Still jonesing this game and I'm 50 years old. Awesome cyberpunk type game ever made!
I miss being young not knowing how to really play games. I have fond memories of fumbling around in this one. Now I watch my kid fumble around in Astro and Crash Bandicoot. 😅
definitely underrated masterpiece ahead of its time
25 years ago. Seems incredible to think it was so long ago. I absolutely loved this game, and I remember the gameplay being exhilarating.
For the life of me, I cannot remember why I wanted to see the gameplay, but this brings back happy memories.
The animation that plays when you beat a mission always made me laugh because it's clearly the very same location every time. So the implication is that every time Eurocorp takes over some obscure little territory on the other side of the planet, they throw a massive party back home.
Now that's gotta be confusing for the citizens who are probably being kept deliberately in the dark about Eurocorp's shady dealings overseas. "Why are we partying this week?" "I dunno, something about a 'victory in Bolivia'. Screw it, pass the booze!"
I don't work for "Eurocorp". I work for "Aspire Corp™: Leading the way into tomorrow's future, today."
A short 3D animation in an early 1990s game. You seem to understand "a lot".
Omg I'm in tears that ending score! I haven't heard that music in many years. Thank you very much for this. Much Love
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was so addicted to this game. Played countless times. After switching from my C64 what i still love, this one was another dimension of gaming.
One of my favorite games, i remember the expansion was really difficult
oh yeah! first few seconds of those syndicate plus missions and there's gauss guns flying everywhere
I think I may have beaten American revolt. Can't remember clearly. I just remember being soo chuffed that no longer getting completely worked once i was playing it so much that everytime I closed my eyes I could see little men running around. It was months of compulsive single minded play. . Must have been high school I think. Never had such motivation to achieve anything in my life since.
I recently played American Revolt again (the expansion) and calling it difficult isn't accurate - it's downright unfair and ridiculous! Your squad gets spammed with endless waves of enemies within a couple seconds of each mission starting! The random jet bombings are pretty unforgiving as well.
I used to play this game in 1995. Awesome gameplay and soundtracks. I still play it in my computer. 💞
You seem to be super cool still playing it
Professora BR muito based, eu também jogava esse jogo na década de 90 kkkk.
Syndicate Longplay (PC DOS) [60 FPS]: Experience the true meaning of "hostile takeover" in this brilliant real-time blend of strategy and action from Bullfrog!
Read the video description for my review!
6h of gameplay later, and while I enjoyed reviving my childhood, I was saddened by the fact that your original squad suffered casualties right at the end.
Thanks mate for sharing with us this gameplay!
RIP Special Agent Dawson and Special Agent Jones
I really miss this game. I wish they made a 2020 version or something... such good times, such good memories :(. Thank you for the vid!
zillion times this
Did you ever play Satellite Reign? It's a decent mess around in this kind of vein, a little too complicated in places but fun. Some of the same developers, I think?
2 версия выходила
I've played this on my childhood so much, that I remember everything about it, my favorite move was to use the persuader and make an army of everyone on the town than kill the target... So nostalgic
then*
This was great multiplayer too. Made me laugh as I remembered it was cheaper to sell your weapons and buy new ones, than to reload them, when I saw you doing that :)
6 hours of syndicate, outstanding dedication to an old classic, much appreciated. Cheers.
:)
[EN]
I played at a friend's 386 DX4 / 33 in Syndycate on a black and white monitor, I could not afford a PC or Amiga in 1993-1994, only earning money in 1997 I bought a PC with AMD K5 PR166 (116 MHz) 16MB_RAM 4.3GB HDD, Matrox Mystique, the best thing is that I played until 2000, then only PC work ... (I learned to program Delphi on it myself - only books and deduction method: /)
there is a tear in the eye because it's been almost 30 years !!!
[PL]
grałem u kolegi na 386 DX4/33 w Syndycate na czarno białym monitorze, mnie nie było stać finansowo w 1993-1994 roku na PC lub Amiga, dopiero zarabiając w 1997 roku zakupiłem PC z AMD K5 PR166 (116 MHz) 16MB_RAM 4.3GB HDD, Matrox Mystique, najlepsze jest to że grałem do 2000 roku potem już tylko praca z PC ... (nauczyłem się sam na nim programować Delphi - tylko książki i metoda dedukcji :/)
łezka się kręci w oku bo to już prawie 30 lat !!!
Good memories are coming up when I see this game! Syndicate was a piece of art! ...the sound, the music, the vibe of this game - just incomparable. Only downer was the bad AI
If any classic game needs a proper remake, it is this game.
Satellite Reign ? At least two of the developers were involved including Alex Trower
У этой был 2 синдикат
kids today will be wtf is this , back then it was cuttin edge stuff , a lot of old forgotten games were just as good when new as games made now , an we had the joy of playin them , great times , aye !
I played this soooooo much when I was younger. I still keep an eye out for old pc boxes that I may be able play again.
one of my favorite games, i was rocking it on 386 DX, ahhh good times, thank you for upload!
Early SVGA high resolution game. I played it on 386DX 40, cirrus logic 1 mb (vram?), 4 mb ram, SB 16, Sony cd rom double speed. Monitor ADI 14". Last played this october 1995.
replaced by a playstation ?
@@nikkokokokoPfft, likely replaced by a 486dx4-120 by AMD which equated to Pentium goodness and maybe a Riva 128 (precursor to TNT).
The colour palette is one of the best I've seen in any game - it reproduced the halogen-lit urban cityscape as best as possible given the limitations of the time
It was one of the first games I remember where the PC version looked better than the Amiga, which was all yellow and orange!
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Yep 640x480/256 colours was damn good for a PC in 1993.
@@henrikhyrup3995It was only 16 colors during missions! This wasn't SVGA yet, just the very seldomly used high-res mode of VGA. This is the limitation that (in combination with for the time very high resolution) gave the game its very distinct aesthetics.
Never played it when I was a kid, but god damn was watching this fun. The soundtrack and all voice and sound effects are so good.
I adored this game as a kid, way ahead of its time.
This game just came to my mind outta nowhere...man it was so dope. Good times.
Dude, this video is a real labor.
You are doing an excellent job!
alex76gr Thanks for the comment! Finding a way to record the game reliably proved more of a challenge than actually playing it ;)
I always used lasers during the final mission. Excellent game and play through.
Lasers + Panic Mode = Guaranteed success 😀✅️
I remember as a kid the cut scenes in this game made me question reality. It single handedly got me into the sci-fi genre.
Wow the sounds!! Takes me back.. I remember pressing both the mouse buttons and that will activate the steroids on the agents!
+Luke McGarr I'd always played this game based on a bug where the game refunded the full amount when selling a weapon, hence it made no economic sense to bother reloading weapons. It wasn't until that point that I realised that the bug must have been fixed in the version I was playing :)
I was wondering exactly that
Ah yes, that makes sense now.
I play this game when I was a kid here in Brazil. Thanks for this memory in this vídeo! 😢🤗🙌
Not sure if you're aware of this or if anyone posted about it but you can click both mouse buttons at the same time to put your selected agents into "alert" mode, which maxxes out all 3 stats. It's a life saver on Atlantic Accelerator. That and some long range weapons. Not sure how helpful this is 8 years later but some day you might get the urge to play again.
This was such a cool game back in the day. Loved the details in it of the weapons and tools and upgrading te body. Made you feel like a real badass. Way ahead of its time.
AHHHHH I LOVED THISGAME SOOO MUCH!! Thanks for uploading!!!
I play Syndicate 1993 version by ullfrog in german by DosBox. I dowloaded and unpacked the old game. Here is how to play it and how to generate savegames:
1. Run DosBox. 2. Mount the drive onto which you unpacked the game folder by typing:
Mount d d:/ (you can mount any drive)
3. After you mounted the drive, type the letter of your drive with the game folder like this example:
D:
Hit enter.
4. After you changed to the new drive, type gmain.exe and press enter.
The game will start.
In order to generate savegames, create a folder named SAVE (write in capital letters) in the game folder. Since you mounted the whole story, you can now save your game.
Syndicate doesn't generate that folder by itself. That is the trick. You generate the folder and it saves the game again.
Next time you active your computer,you repeat the mounting in DosBox and you will be able to load your savegame.
Fantastico questo gioco quanti ricordi
Still remember Minigun sound :) I'm fourty :)
No one can lick Bush! Man the enemy agent music brought back memories of playing this on Genesis. The final mission was rough!
when pixels were awesome³
The Adlib soundtrack is so good too
We used to have anti-aliasing built into our brains.
Top 3 video game weapons of all time:
1. The Minigun from Syndicate
2. The Minigun from Syndicate
3. The Minigun from Syndicate
Oh man I don't know what made this game pop into my head but you have to love RUclips for feeding all of our nostalgia!! 🤩💛🙌🏼
oh my god! thanks a milion you brought back so many childhood memories spent in front of my dads 486 trying to finish this game !
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Oh man this brings back memories. Used to play this when I was 5. 26 years ago lol
5 year old playing this?
Man the memories hit hard when the Intro started lol
takes me back, loved this game
The intro music is amazing.
it is metal as fuck
Now that's a cool intro! this takes me back
Great game - I used to get a kick out of "persuading" hundreds of civilians then entering a car and watching them all fit in! 😂
Oh god, i thought i was the only one who did the same with those laser beams :) :)
I love this game as a kid
this used to be my favourite game to borrow from a friend
Bullfrog era unico, hacía obras maestras como esta. Sigo sin entender como murió a principios de los 2000s...
Still looks ahead of its time.
Thanks for this! So many memories, I remember being a bit disappointed in that last level - no real design just loads of enemy agents. I guess it was a boss-battle. That rocket-guard though! Holy shit that was nearly the end of your whole squad!
Winning the Atlantic Accelerator mission is about holding out long enough to establish a beach head as it were. Definitely need to pack some energy shields!
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays The last guy on that level is alot easier to kill with a gauss gun then a minigun.
I’ll say it again. You have impeccable taste in games.
Watched the full 6h and wanted to comment a lot of things:
- what's the original resolution and how come this video is panoramic?
- pity that you couldn't do a no-miss if those 2 agents didn't die at the end. although I guess you were doing save-load
- that strange word seems to be "Selected" but it definitely doesn't sound like that. Please, any of the original devs here? :)
- great game despite the repetitiveness, police are too weak, agents sometimes too, but the ambience, music, sound, graphics... just so cool, specially the "agents near" music
- one of those games that you REALLY need to read the manual. Auto-destruction, meaning of the drug levels, panic mode, how to persuade enemy agents...
- it would be really cool to play this as multiplayer coop
I loved this game! I don't even remember how this game came into my possession back in '94.
Видимо разработчики Zero Tolerance вдохновлялись этой музыкой.
What a game, I played this on a black and white TV, never saw it in colour. Loved the whole games including syndicate wars.
Love this game! I wonder how a speedrun would be.
Still a better cyberpunk game than Cyberpunk 2077.
You sad, smelly, ignorant little memelette. The glory of heaven is not for you.
Oof, right into CD Projekt's heart
For me, both games are good.
I'm sorry CD Project. The fact we are still talking about this after 25 years, more or less, already says it all...
Nice try, troll
Man, I wish I grew up with these DOS games (born 1990) I 've only played a few, DOOM it was on a floppy, I owned a copy of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and I might have touched a game called Heretic? I can't remember what it was called, it was DOOM except not DOOM, lol.
These videos are great though! I get to check out all the stuff I've been missing.
As a kid we played zx spectrum game loaded from a cassette tape, these games were such a huge leap forward. Good to see indie games making an impact now, they have the inventive spirit of 80s and 90s game creation.
There were many "Doom clones" back then. Heretic was pretty cool because it was "Doom in D&D" and because the devs had good relations with Id Software so they had a good understanding of the code.
Love so much the monorail part 2:35:10 . Was so sad when CP 2077 didn't add usable trains in game... But thanks to mod Gods now we have trains there too :) Thanks for the great memories!
Wow, that's a bit of a blast from the past. I seem to recall playing a demo of that on my Amiga. Good game.
This was a cool game for its time . Would be a good one for an update
The way you start Atlantic accelerator is to equip yourselves with lasers and pick team and panic mode (both mouse buttons simultaneously) in the first two seconds.
Works like a charm.
At least it did in 1993.
Beat the game an hour ago doing that. Still works :)
That ending though...
@blueskin1978 Lol, what ending? A credits screen felt really cheap. It still does 🤔
Boah long time ago my favorit game, remember to reconfigure the soundblaster IRQ/DMA Channel to get the sound working :-).
I played the demo to death on our 386sx 20mb HDD. It always struggled and was quite a while before we even got a sound card for it.
T'was one of the first games I needed a bootdisk to play. When synd.com finally started up, I saw the rail, street, and billboard... it felt like magic.
ah, the classic old boot disk to cut out all the unnecessary drivers and expand memory. I forgot about those.
I remember a friend showed me how to do this by editing the config.sys and autoexec.bat
At first I thought the guy was crazy doing that and then I did it all the time myself 🙈
One day comanche wouldn't lauch, another day there was enough memory.. It took me weeks to understand that when the printer was powered it used some of the precious bits of memory needed to run the game 😅
Sometimes I struggled for hours before I was able to lauch a game on that mighty 386 sx 33Mhz.. But when it did, the feeling was so intense I felt my heart pounding real hard 😂
Alone in the dark, populous, doom... Lots of great memories from those days
@@jean-philippegirard3331 it was so exciting like you said :)
Syndicate has such a great cyberpunk atmosphere
Dammm we going way back in time love it . automatic sub
Gotta love how much space you get in those coat pockets. Eight miniguns? No problem!
The screen real estate with a resolution that low really amazed me and still does
I had this game back in the day. I was a bit too young for it I think as I couldn't really work out how to play it properly! Very complex and incredible game if you knew what you were doing!
The layout must be different last level on the pc to the Amiga? On the Amiga you walk out onto a central plaza and everyone approaches from all sides. I did it with 1 soldier. I went in with 4/5 shields and used myself as a lightning rod so they wiped each other out whilst they were blasting me all over the place. The slowdown and the Amiga mouse made that the only way that I could see of doing it!
Nothing beats mid 90 pc games. The stop gap between the simple 80s and early 90 games and the heave graphic games after 2000.
Man, this game was awesome back in the day. Loved it to death and played it a hundred times. I was always disappointed that there was no 'real' ending to it. Syndicate Wars wasn't as good visually either. This looked and played amazing for it's time.
I randomly saw an img of this game. Looks cool enough to search and find this vid. Game looks lit. Will try it
All this time, I thought the subject abducted in the opening cutscene was in a building. For nearly 30 years. I only just noticed that's sky above him, not a ceiling.
I can re-feel it coming from my two little box speakers and the big TV-like screen, and the big buttons keyboard......ahhhhhhh.......
Brings back so many memories!
amazing music and ambiance!
Played this to my fingers bled. Way ahead of its time.
back those days may favorite game :-)
Amazing, used to play this in the 90s, anxiety was a thing.
2012 when this came out, this was my favorite game.
wish they made an updated version for 2023.
I used to out "Cooper Team" in for my team name and it unlocked all weapons and armor. Awesome game!!
weak.
For decades now, I have no clue what the agents are saying. "Seraclip?" "Selacliff?" I don't understand it!
It says "Selected"
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Oh my god. Thank you for answering something that has bothered me for the last 20-something years!
Class of 94. On a 486dx33 4mb ram. Who remembers that stuff…
I was lucky on a 486dx4/100 8mb ram. It was glorious. I was the envy of all my mates for about 6 weeks. haha
Such a great-looking game. the environments feel lived in and the interface is very clean and intuitive. A lovely game overall.
Yep - it's also the only game I can recall that I bought more than once. The first was on the Amiga and I loved it so much that, when I got my first PC, I had to get another copy. The VGA visuals are quite an upgrade over the Amiga's "sunbaked drought" colour palette too!
I still have the Amiga version fully boxed and complete. Didn't even play the PC version until fairly recently.
Might sound a bit odd but I remember the manual had a really strong smell due to the paper they used - it was quality :D
Yep, just gave it a sniff and can confirm this. The smell of quality.
@@ItsBigIan that is so funny! I remember the manual, too, the glossy black cover. That smell. I used to pore over it more than I played the game itself. God I'm a weirdo