*To see the game titles, turn on English Captions* Or better yet, leave them off and see how many you can name... The game in the thumbnail is "Narco Police" 6:10
Im glad someone who is uploading Obscure games lists is actually filling them with legitimately obscure games. Iv seen so many like "obsure 90's games" and they stick Wolfenstein, Monkey Island or Prince of Persia in there.
Anyone know this 90s 00s PC Game? I'm not sure if these were the same game or 2 different ones. One was the screen would fill with doughnuts and you matched them to clear the screen. Another was a puzzle game I definitely remember one of the puzzles was filled with ceiling arches and one was a cathedral. Basically the computer would break the image (not jigsaw pieces, but squares I believe) and you moved them around until the image was complete. This game also contained yhatzee. A brown board as you collected each yhatzee combination (2 di for 2 of a kind 5 di for full house) displayed on the side. I think this was a compilation of games but may also be 2 separate games. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and can help, I would be so grateful.
@@sarahbouse1825 The doughnuts one, if it's the one I'm thinking... was it like a mahjong type of board game? What I'm thinking is, or was for Windows 95 (or 98?), I remember playing it with colorful huge donuts as tiles. Google "Morejongg 95" and look for images, hopefully that's the one. No idea about the rest though.
Being a 90s kid, I appreciate the work and effort for your DOS compilations that you are doing. It does not go unnoticed. Thank you for having taking that time Gary.
I second this! This is a great selection of titles, most of which I'd never heard of and will be seeking out longer gameplay videos or trying them out myself. Thank you!
Commenting for the algorithm. You deserve the boost. I'm searching high and low for an old war game with minimal graphics. No human troops as far as I remember. Just vehicles. I want to say the view was almost top down but not quite and the battlefield may have been a grid. Your channel gives the best hope of finding it. It was an early 90s or late 80s game.
There's just something about VGA graphics that are timeless. I don't know what it is but it just seemed to inspire a particular kind of artistry that was missing from anything since then.
@@Tossphate Well, actually most of those games were in CGA (but not in the original 320x240 with 4 colors, but in the so called MCGA Mode, which was 320x200 (with 256 Colors) which was widely preferred to VGA mode, which was 640x480 with 16 Colors)
Hearing these speaker sounds makes me think that maybe sound cards were the the much more relevant step towards making the PC a proper gaming platform than even 3D accelerators.
Usually these lists aren't that obscure, but that was quite a selection, only played a handful of these on DOS. Some were more popular on other systems, but I bet a few of these sold no more than 10,000 copies.
I spent my childhood playing games on the C64 and Amiga, and many of the games in this video are considered at least relatively well-known among the users of those machines. But I agree, many of these must have been obscure to PC users of the day especially because PCs were not considered games machines back then, also because of their high price.
Maybe it's just because I was a kid at the time, but these games hold such a special place in my heart because it took a damn miracle to get things installed and running well in the first place!
Kosmonaut had a much more well known(with a good soundtrack) version called Skyroads made a few years later. Less PC Speaker, faster paced. These are great! Thanks for posting lesser known ones.
It's amazing to see how unique games were back then. Creators had the freedom to try new things and pave the way for modern gaming. Looking at many of these games, I can tell they were good in concept but weren't executed well.
It's so weird (and fun) to suddenly see something you haven't seen or thought about at all for like 32 years or so. In this case it was the Spider Man game. I definetely had this, but unlike some other games, it had just vanished from my mind..
with many games I'm glad that I switched from the Amiga to the PC in 1994. The sound of the games alone is very remarkable. ;) Nevertheless, a great video that takes me back to my youth
Haha this is a crazy selection of games Gary -- I only know a few! Interesting video indeed. Thanks for this video's Patreon steamkey: it's WAYWARD SOULS, a 2019 pixel-art action roguelite RPG with randomized dungeons. Looks pretty addictive -- and the Death Road to Canada devs made it. Cheers!
CATACOMB! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for years. My little brother and I would play it for hours. I always thought your character looked like Elvis, and that made the game funnier to me.
A stroll down memory lane! I recognized Zeliard and Alpha Waves and Monty Python's Flying Circus for sure - the rest look vaguely familiar as the sorts of games I'd see friends checking out at the B wing computer lab in high school.
Hell yeah, Zeliard! We had that on the Tandy 1000 EX, came in a Sierra bundle. Great game, sort of a precursor to the Metroidvania genre. Amazing music too.
@@KrotowX It's soooooo good! I haven't played this game since the early 1990s but I will still randomly get tracks from it stuck in my head all the time. It may be due to the fact that I grew up with the Tandy version, but when comparing songs from other versions I very much prefer the chunky Tandy sound card for this game.
Ironically, despite being set in the USA - in North America, very few people have heard of North and South! I don't believe some of the North and South ports were even released there, so NA audiences would never have seen it. Hence, obscure.
Beetlejuice, Bugs Bunny maze one, Zeliard... Pop-up but actually Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy .... and only a handful others I remember I had as a child but probably only my parents played. I do remember they bought a huge lot of 5 1/4 disks that contained many many games, including for example Elvira's whole installation pack that was distributed in over 15 disks lol
Ah. It's mentioned in the description: all games in this video were released in 1990. (Part 2 of this video covers games released in 1991, part 3 covers 1992 etc) I will update the title of this video to make it clearer.
Hi Gary, I'm looking for one obscure DOS game and can't seem to find it. It was a detective game with a top-map view, there were few colors, if I remember correctly. I think your character had to solve a crime and you were limited to one island.
Fun fact: for every "year" themed video on this channel, the opening track is always a song that was big in that year. 1990 = Faith No More's "Epic" ...
Interesting titles. Came here to find out whether here's a game I forgotten about from my childhood but turns out I don't know any of these, so... all new games to me, woohoo :D
What a great list! Thank you for introducing us to these. It's a sin how many games have 256 colours but only bloopy PC speaker sound instead of Sound Blaster or at least Adlib sound. But did you have them configured properly? I saw Ski or Die in there, and that has a kick ass Adlib soundtrack but you only have it playing PC speaker sound in the video.
Thanks for the kind words! And yes, you are absolutely correct - in some cases, we were unfortunately not able to get "enhanced" (non PC farty speaker) sound working. DOS games can be very tricky to get running properly on modern operating systems...which is very fitting considering how difficult they could be to get running sometimes back in the day!
@GaryRetroGamer oh it's just a matter of getting DosBox settings right and using the games Setup program, or in some cases, looking up its manual for the right command line arguments. Though I can appreciate that might dramatically increase the time it takes to put a video together for 100 games...
@@Domarius64 That's exactly it. It would add a huge amount of time to video production. I once spent one and a half hours trying to get adlib support for a DOS game (I think it was Interplay's Neuromancer?) - only to finally realize that the floppy image I had actually didn't have the full drivers for it! So wasted time. Boo :(
@@GaryRetroGamer I understand now. Your videos cover 100 games each time and I see you have more than one of these videos. I think these videos do a great job of exposing us to them so we can hunt them down and figure them out for ourselves!
At the time of the Dos there were good video games, and the games fit on a floppy disk of 1 MB, or a floppy disk contained full of demo games or shareware games, when we see now some games that are almost 200 GB
I remember Rescue Rangers 2:08 ! I had heard the hype about the NES game so tried it (only knew the cartoon). it was cool and finally beat it, but was a totally different game.
NB - the reason most of these games have such terrible sound was because early PCs didn’t have proper sound capabilities built in as standard, and to get decent sound required fitting a sound card - which were expensive so few people had them. This early on PCs were still considered ‘work machines’ with gaming as an afterthought, and so we’re not set up with gaming in mind. It was Wolfenstine and Doom which did a lot to change that, and the PC found its niche as the platform for 3D gaming, sims, and RTS games, while the Amiga and the 16-bit consoles were the platforms of choice for 2D arcade style gaming.
Whats interesting is the number of games from the CGA/EGA era that are obscure for pretty good reasons - they're genres that home consoles and dedicated arcade machines usually handled MUCH better than PCs of the era. Of course, PCs could handle point and click games or anything with a lot of reading/typing better than consoles and by the SVGA and pentium era, there was nothing you could play on a console that wouldn't run even better on PC.
i remember playing a point and click game in the 90's that was on a space station i dont remember the name and i never seen it again.... watching all those video to find it
Surpringly many of them were ports from 16 bits home computers that I've seen before - was still fun to see them on the PC though :) (I had no idea Blood money was available on the PC for example)
In the late 80s I was an Amiga user myself. I didn't touch a PC until the early 90s - so I was equally surprised when putting together this video about these ports. Seeing Blood Money on the PC was pretty wild for me too!
I played some of these at a go home after summer camp. We would only play them if it was raining. OMG I still remember the computer guy saying if you can get it to play you can play it 😆
Lots of Nostalgia here. Anyone remember a sci-fi vertical shooter where when you died it was Bill Paxton's line from Aliens, "Game over man"? My brother and I swear that it exists we just can't seem to find it
@@EsmeAmelia Because some bad RUclips channels were stealing these videos and uploading them to their own channels. I am hoping that without titles, they will be too lazy to add their own and won't steal them anymore
Most of 'em are actually quite well known titles. California Games, Elvira, Narco Police...extremely well known even. Maybe the PC versions are less known in comparison with the Amiga and Atari ST versions at the time? could be, but obscure they or not.
This is discussed in the video description. Yeah, definitely popular on the 16-bits - but if you were exclusively an MS-DOS gamer, you probably wouldn't have heard of most of these. Bear in mind that MS-DOS was favoured in the US, while the 16-bits were much bigger in Europe. In the US, the Amiga/ST didn't have a big foothold at all.
@@GaryRetroGamer yeah, could be. Amiga and Atari were quite big in Europe. Most had these titles in their collection I think (be it bought or cracked). PC got very big after the demise of Commodore and with titles like Wing Commander and Doom. Say 1994.
Yeah I think as this series of videos continues - especially when it hits 93/94 - you'll see the stream of Amiga/ST ports slowly disappear. Although, for me - "Syndicate" will always be an Amiga title first!
Hello Gary i just pass by on your channel and i have a question if you can help me. Do you know 2d platform game early year 2000s which looks like its the protagonist its blue witch somehow and there is the diamond and worm in there. the game looks like spelunky. i just want play that game but i dont remember the game title its old game, i f you kindly please help me it would be good thank you :)
ive been looking for a 90s game. i just cant remember the name of it but it came on a cd which had a bunch of demos and various games on it. there was this one game where u control a space ship/plane from a top down perspective but it felt like it was open world and youre able to turn and control the plane. you go around destroying buildings and picking up upgrades and make money to buy better weapons. i think it was controlled with a mouse. im pretty sure if was somewhere between 1997-1999. maybe 2000. but definitely before CS 1.6 or half life days. anyone have an idea?
@@twoheadedthingies5000 nope. i just remembered i used keyboard to control. i think space was to shoot. it had 2d graphics. definitely looked like 2d art from top down perspective like modern twin stick shooters camera angle. it was based on a planet. not in space. and it was a silver ship. it had that 90s realistic but fake graphics. didnt look like a 3d model or environment. graphics looks like fallout 1.
Can you help? Anyone know this 90s 00s PC Game? I'm not sure if these were the same game or 2 different ones. One was the screen would fill with doughnuts and you matched them to clear the screen. Another was a puzzle game I definitely remember one of the puzzles was filled with ceiling arches and one was a cathedral. Basically the computer would break the image (not jigsaw pieces, but squares I believe) and you moved them around until the image was complete. This game also contained yhatzee. A brown board as you collected each yhatzee combination (2 di for 2 of a kind 5 di for full house) displayed on the side. I think this was a compilation of games but may also be 2 separate games. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and can help, I would be so grateful.
North and South was the shit on the Amiga. The tennis game really looks awesome with high speed 3d animation. I guess that sound blaster really could have done something good for these games
Can someone please help me? I’ve been searching for a childhood game for ages and didn’t find it yet and this is driving me crazy 😭 Its from the DOS era,you control a warrior with blue armor and shoot arrows in your enemies,but through the stages you eventually get some power ups like more arrows and I remember one that turn your armor red. Its like those shooting games that you control aircrafts but instead of planes is that warrior that I mentioned. Does that infos ring any bell?
I still remember hearing PC speaker music on a friend's PC without a sound card, I think it was either king's quest or legend of kyrandia and it sounded TERRIBLE lol
Maybe someone can help me with this, but I vaguely remember a game that was a top-down space shooter (similar to Asteroids), and it had three ships you could choose from: The Crab (a blue ship that was slow and tanky), the Mantis (a green ship that was fast and hard to control), and the Pheonix (well-balanced), but I cannot for the LIFE of me remember the name of it.
I'll try to write here, maybe someone knows the game I'm looking for since I can't find it in all the lists I look at. The game was of the type ball that jumps perpendicularly to a platform that could only be moved left and right (type Arkanoid). By bouncing the ball (if I remember correctly it was metal) you had to kill the enemies while avoiding obstacles and the peculiar thing was that the enemies were crushed by this ball with splatter effects XD (at least for the time). I don't remember anything else, I was quite young. Does anyone have similar memories?
I'm kind of shocked at how good the games looked and yet how bad they sounded at the same time. There's such a lack of music mostly, and the games with music in them seem to have no sound effects. Awesome video nonetheless.
*To see the game titles, turn on English Captions* Or better yet, leave them off and see how many you can name...
The game in the thumbnail is "Narco Police" 6:10
Great idea to incorporate into future projects!
Im glad someone who is uploading Obscure games lists is actually filling them with legitimately obscure games. Iv seen so many like "obsure 90's games" and they stick Wolfenstein, Monkey Island or Prince of Persia in there.
Anyone know this 90s 00s PC Game?
I'm not sure if these were the same game or 2 different ones. One was the screen would fill with doughnuts and you matched them to clear the screen. Another was a puzzle game I definitely remember one of the puzzles was filled with ceiling arches and one was a cathedral. Basically the computer would break the image (not jigsaw pieces, but squares I believe) and you moved them around until the image was complete. This game also contained yhatzee. A brown board as you collected each yhatzee combination (2 di for 2 of a kind 5 di for full house) displayed on the side. I think this was a compilation of games but may also be 2 separate games. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and can help, I would be so grateful.
@@sarahbouse1825 The doughnuts one, if it's the one I'm thinking... was it like a mahjong type of board game? What I'm thinking is, or was for Windows 95 (or 98?), I remember playing it with colorful huge donuts as tiles. Google "Morejongg 95" and look for images, hopefully that's the one. No idea about the rest though.
Wow, I know only 2 games!!! Stunts and of course ski or die. Excellent collection.
Being a 90s kid, I appreciate the work and effort for your DOS compilations that you are doing. It does not go unnoticed. Thank you for having taking that time Gary.
Thanks for your kind words and for giving me a reason to keep making them!
I second this! This is a great selection of titles, most of which I'd never heard of and will be seeking out longer gameplay videos or trying them out myself. Thank you!
I'm actually impressed, I was expecting to see the same old popular DOS games, but I only recognized 6 out 100. Really great!
Commenting for the algorithm. You deserve the boost. I'm searching high and low for an old war game with minimal graphics. No human troops as far as I remember. Just vehicles. I want to say the view was almost top down but not quite and the battlefield may have been a grid. Your channel gives the best hope of finding it. It was an early 90s or late 80s game.
Bad Blood was incredible at the time, my first PC game love. Great retro content, thanks for the memories :-)
There's just something about VGA graphics that are timeless. I don't know what it is but it just seemed to inspire a particular kind of artistry that was missing from anything since then.
Yes it's true. Even EGA, as ugly as it is, has its own vibe.
But not CGA... We don't speak of that.
@Tossphate haha I was thinking that. Definitely I wasn't a fan of it as a kid, but now it's got hints of nostalgia, it too has its own distinct look.
@@Tossphate Well, actually most of those games were in CGA (but not in the original 320x240 with 4 colors, but in the so called MCGA Mode, which was 320x200 (with 256 Colors) which was widely preferred to VGA mode, which was 640x480 with 16 Colors)
It was the software used to create the art. Deluxe Paint was great for creating art.
Hearing these speaker sounds makes me think that maybe sound cards were the the much more relevant step towards making the PC a proper gaming platform than even 3D accelerators.
Usually these lists aren't that obscure, but that was quite a selection, only played a handful of these on DOS. Some were more popular on other systems, but I bet a few of these sold no more than 10,000 copies.
Many of those landed in pirated game CDs, that spread around Eastern Europe in begin of nineties.
I spent my childhood playing games on the C64 and Amiga, and many of the games in this video are considered at least relatively well-known among the users of those machines. But I agree, many of these must have been obscure to PC users of the day especially because PCs were not considered games machines back then, also because of their high price.
Love these videos: it jogs my memory and makes me remember other games that I've played in my distant past. Thank you :)
Maybe it's just because I was a kid at the time, but these games hold such a special place in my heart because it took a damn miracle to get things installed and running well in the first place!
If you buy a Pimax vr you will get that feelings again 😂
Kosmonaut had a much more well known(with a good soundtrack) version called Skyroads made a few years later. Less PC Speaker, faster paced.
These are great! Thanks for posting lesser known ones.
It's amazing to see how unique games were back then. Creators had the freedom to try new things and pave the way for modern gaming. Looking at many of these games, I can tell they were good in concept but weren't executed well.
These games sucked ass.
It's so weird (and fun) to suddenly see something you haven't seen or thought about at all for like 32 years or so. In this case it was the Spider Man game. I definetely had this, but unlike some other games, it had just vanished from my mind..
Very nice selection. Lots of stuff I haven't heard of.
with many games I'm glad that I switched from the Amiga to the PC in 1994. The sound of the games alone is very remarkable. ;)
Nevertheless, a great video that takes me back to my youth
Kudos for the Faith No More riff at the beginning. 😎
For every DOOM and Monkey Island, there was a lot of shovelware and clones. The 90s were truly the Wild West of Gaming, and it was exciting for that.
That 'most replayed' over the Geisha pic, haha.
Haha this is a crazy selection of games Gary -- I only know a few! Interesting video indeed.
Thanks for this video's Patreon steamkey: it's WAYWARD SOULS, a 2019 pixel-art action roguelite RPG with randomized dungeons. Looks pretty addictive -- and the Death Road to Canada devs made it. Cheers!
I totally forgot about ski or die. I used to play that a lot. I also liked 4d tennis.
Thanks for doing this. I always like a rare game.
09:29 wtf isn't this Rocket League?
CATACOMB! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for years. My little brother and I would play it for hours. I always thought your character looked like Elvis, and that made the game funnier to me.
Loved Catacomb
It was made by Verbatim (the floppy disc company) , and came free with a box of 3.25"s
There was an FPS sequel, Catacomb: The Abyss.
@@jamesperkins191 oh sweet. I never knew about that. Gonna look it up.
Me: I played or at least seen every DOS game ever made.
RUclips: Have you played or seen ANY of those?
Me: ...I meant different 'every'.
If you haven't yet, please check out part 2 of this - ruclips.net/video/o-C_IYKxtO4/видео.html - maybe you'll recognize "every" game there :)
welcome traveler, hope you can find that one game you can't remember the name off.
A stroll down memory lane! I recognized Zeliard and Alpha Waves and Monty Python's Flying Circus for sure - the rest look vaguely familiar as the sorts of games I'd see friends checking out at the B wing computer lab in high school.
I have heard of most of these games, but that's why I was pretty active scouring through mags at the time. But nice video.
Hell yeah, Zeliard! We had that on the Tandy 1000 EX, came in a Sierra bundle. Great game, sort of a precursor to the Metroidvania genre. Amazing music too.
I liked Zeliard partially because of music :)
@@KrotowX It's soooooo good! I haven't played this game since the early 1990s but I will still randomly get tracks from it stuck in my head all the time. It may be due to the fact that I grew up with the Tandy version, but when comparing songs from other versions I very much prefer the chunky Tandy sound card for this game.
@@P-_-S When Zeliard got in my hands circa 1993, I had only my office 286-s with PC speaker as single sound source around :)
North & South obscure? O_O
but
this is an AWESOME list. had no idea about even a sole existence of most of those. thank you!
Ironically, despite being set in the USA - in North America, very few people have heard of North and South! I don't believe some of the North and South ports were even released there, so NA audiences would never have seen it. Hence, obscure.
Mate I found a game I played when I was a little kid, the "Dawn Raider" ☺oh the nostalgia!!
My soundblaster compatible sound card appreciates this
If you are interested in the art style of that era, there's a game called I WILL BE THERE on Steam
Beetlejuice, Bugs Bunny maze one, Zeliard... Pop-up but actually Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy .... and only a handful others I remember I had as a child but probably only my parents played. I do remember they bought a huge lot of 5 1/4 disks that contained many many games, including for example Elvira's whole installation pack that was distributed in over 15 disks lol
I remember Cadaver being fun and with decent graphics. I played anything by the Bitmap Brothers 1:38
Interesting compilation. It would be good to have the first release years displayed along with the game titles.
Ah. It's mentioned in the description: all games in this video were released in 1990. (Part 2 of this video covers games released in 1991, part 3 covers 1992 etc)
I will update the title of this video to make it clearer.
Only recognized 3. Great job.
Oh, I recognize some titles. LHX and Zeliard took a lot of my evenings 30 years ago :) Passed throug Elvira and Gold of the Aztecs too.
Who ever did the sound track for Ski or Die is friggin the Goat.
Hi Gary, I'm looking for one obscure DOS game and can't seem to find it. It was a detective game with a top-map view, there were few colors, if I remember correctly. I think your character had to solve a crime and you were limited to one island.
With faith no more for intro haha good video as alwayd Gary
Fun fact: for every "year" themed video on this channel, the opening track is always a song that was big in that year. 1990 = Faith No More's "Epic" ...
Thanks for making this list, I enjoyed seeing them (if I was picky some are not really obscure but who cares :)
Real obscure stuff! I recognized only one game - LHX Attack Helicopter!
7:43 rotor also appeared on the acorn archimedes at about the same time by a different publisher
Any compilation video like this but only about 3D pc games?
Interesting titles. Came here to find out whether here's a game I forgotten about from my childhood but turns out I don't know any of these, so... all new games to me, woohoo :D
What a great list! Thank you for introducing us to these. It's a sin how many games have 256 colours but only bloopy PC speaker sound instead of Sound Blaster or at least Adlib sound. But did you have them configured properly? I saw Ski or Die in there, and that has a kick ass Adlib soundtrack but you only have it playing PC speaker sound in the video.
Thanks for the kind words! And yes, you are absolutely correct - in some cases, we were unfortunately not able to get "enhanced" (non PC farty speaker) sound working. DOS games can be very tricky to get running properly on modern operating systems...which is very fitting considering how difficult they could be to get running sometimes back in the day!
@GaryRetroGamer oh it's just a matter of getting DosBox settings right and using the games Setup program, or in some cases, looking up its manual for the right command line arguments. Though I can appreciate that might dramatically increase the time it takes to put a video together for 100 games...
@@Domarius64 That's exactly it. It would add a huge amount of time to video production. I once spent one and a half hours trying to get adlib support for a DOS game (I think it was Interplay's Neuromancer?) - only to finally realize that the floppy image I had actually didn't have the full drivers for it! So wasted time. Boo :(
@@GaryRetroGamer I understand now. Your videos cover 100 games each time and I see you have more than one of these videos. I think these videos do a great job of exposing us to them so we can hunt them down and figure them out for ourselves!
I had Stunt Driver back in the day. Fun game & I think you could design your own tracks .
man we come a long way
Narco Police looks pretty impressive (with zooming and orientation).
At the time of the Dos there were good video games, and the games fit on a floppy disk of 1 MB, or a floppy disk contained full of demo games or shareware games, when we see now some games that are almost 200 GB
Epic! :)
I remember Rescue Rangers 2:08 ! I had heard the hype about the NES game so tried it (only knew the cartoon). it was cool and finally beat it, but was a totally different game.
Nice games!!
NB - the reason most of these games have such terrible sound was because early PCs didn’t have proper sound capabilities built in as standard, and to get decent sound required fitting a sound card - which were expensive so few people had them. This early on PCs were still considered ‘work machines’ with gaming as an afterthought, and so we’re not set up with gaming in mind. It was Wolfenstine and Doom which did a lot to change that, and the PC found its niche as the platform for 3D gaming, sims, and RTS games, while the Amiga and the 16-bit consoles were the platforms of choice for 2D arcade style gaming.
Ski or Die and Stunts were triple A :). I did not play the rest, so they count as obscure to me :). I v heard about some of them.
Whats interesting is the number of games from the CGA/EGA era that are obscure for pretty good reasons - they're genres that home consoles and dedicated arcade machines usually handled MUCH better than PCs of the era.
Of course, PCs could handle point and click games or anything with a lot of reading/typing better than consoles and by the SVGA and pentium era, there was nothing you could play on a console that wouldn't run even better on PC.
i remember playing a point and click game in the 90's that was on a space station i dont remember the name and i never seen it again.... watching all those video to find it
9:37 was Dennis Reynolds the artist for this game?
Kosmonaut appears to be Skyroads without the music?
Surpringly many of them were ports from 16 bits home computers that I've seen before - was still fun to see them on the PC though :)
(I had no idea Blood money was available on the PC for example)
In the late 80s I was an Amiga user myself. I didn't touch a PC until the early 90s - so I was equally surprised when putting together this video about these ports. Seeing Blood Money on the PC was pretty wild for me too!
I played some of these at a go home after summer camp. We would only play them if it was raining. OMG I still remember the computer guy saying if you can get it to play you can play it 😆
The headache inducing days of early 3D. I'm nauseous already and still don't know how I played thousands of hours worth of games like those.
wild wheels in '90 is rocket league today :D
Lots of Nostalgia here. Anyone remember a sci-fi vertical shooter where when you died it was Bill Paxton's line from Aliens, "Game over man"? My brother and I swear that it exists we just can't seem to find it
It's not a shooter, but Test Drive 2 (driving game) had a similar speech line...
Sounds like "Major Stryker" from Apogee, at least I think that's how it's spelled.
@@withchrisandkeith508 it is. My brother and I found it last week. Where it was on sale on steam for. 49. Great times
Why don't you have the game titles in the actual videos anymore?
Turn on English captions to see the game titles.
@@GaryRetroGamer I saw that, but you used to have the titles in the videos themselves. Why did you stop doing that?
@@EsmeAmelia Because some bad RUclips channels were stealing these videos and uploading them to their own channels. I am hoping that without titles, they will be too lazy to add their own and won't steal them anymore
@@GaryRetroGamer Ah, I see. That sucks.
Most of 'em are actually quite well known titles. California Games, Elvira, Narco Police...extremely well known even. Maybe the PC versions are less known in comparison with the Amiga and Atari ST versions at the time? could be, but obscure they or not.
This is discussed in the video description. Yeah, definitely popular on the 16-bits - but if you were exclusively an MS-DOS gamer, you probably wouldn't have heard of most of these.
Bear in mind that MS-DOS was favoured in the US, while the 16-bits were much bigger in Europe. In the US, the Amiga/ST didn't have a big foothold at all.
@@GaryRetroGamer yeah, could be. Amiga and Atari were quite big in Europe. Most had these titles in their collection I think (be it bought or cracked). PC got very big after the demise of Commodore and with titles like Wing Commander and Doom. Say 1994.
Yeah I think as this series of videos continues - especially when it hits 93/94 - you'll see the stream of Amiga/ST ports slowly disappear.
Although, for me - "Syndicate" will always be an Amiga title first!
@@GaryRetroGamer Loved that title! Yeah Bullfrog had some very nice (Amiga) titles back in the day. Populous, Powermonger, Theme Park..
Most of these games I can clearly understand why they were obscure! 😅
Hello Gary i just pass by on your channel and i have a question if you can help me. Do you know 2d platform game early year 2000s which looks like its the protagonist its blue witch somehow and there is the diamond and worm in there. the game looks like spelunky. i just want play that game but i dont remember the game title its old game, i f you kindly please help me it would be good thank you :)
Sorry, the game you have described isn't familiar to me. But maybe some other person reading this can help!
@@GaryRetroGamer appreciate it man, i hope some 1 read and help me to find this legend game
Thanks for reminding me why I did NOT play PC games back then.
Obscure... It depends how old you are. I know half of them hehe
LHX was my favorite game for a long time
ive been looking for a 90s game. i just cant remember the name of it but it came on a cd which had a bunch of demos and various games on it. there was this one game where u control a space ship/plane from a top down perspective but it felt like it was open world and youre able to turn and control the plane. you go around destroying buildings and picking up upgrades and make money to buy better weapons. i think it was controlled with a mouse. im pretty sure if was somewhere between 1997-1999. maybe 2000. but definitely before CS 1.6 or half life days. anyone have an idea?
V2000 maybe? Sequel to Virus.
@@twoheadedthingies5000 nope. i just remembered i used keyboard to control. i think space was to shoot. it had 2d graphics. definitely looked like 2d art from top down perspective like modern twin stick shooters camera angle. it was based on a planet. not in space. and it was a silver ship. it had that 90s realistic but fake graphics. didnt look like a 3d model or environment. graphics looks like fallout 1.
Raptor: Call of the Shadows?
Could it be Zone 66?
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LHX Attach Chopper is one of the best titles I ever play.
Can you help?
Anyone know this 90s 00s PC Game?
I'm not sure if these were the same game or 2 different ones. One was the screen would fill with doughnuts and you matched them to clear the screen. Another was a puzzle game I definitely remember one of the puzzles was filled with ceiling arches and one was a cathedral. Basically the computer would break the image (not jigsaw pieces, but squares I believe) and you moved them around until the image was complete. This game also contained yhatzee. A brown board as you collected each yhatzee combination (2 di for 2 of a kind 5 di for full house) displayed on the side. I think this was a compilation of games but may also be 2 separate games. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and can help, I would be so grateful.
Tremendo Faith No More.
North and South was the shit on the Amiga. The tennis game really looks awesome with high speed 3d animation. I guess that sound blaster really could have done something good for these games
Can someone please help me?
I’ve been searching for a childhood game for ages and didn’t find it yet and this is driving me crazy 😭
Its from the DOS era,you control a warrior with blue armor and shoot arrows in your enemies,but through the stages you eventually get some power ups like more arrows and I remember one that turn your armor red. Its like those shooting games that you control aircrafts but instead of planes is that warrior that I mentioned.
Does that infos ring any bell?
The u-boat simulator has some impressive graphics.
I didn't know even one! Fun thx
Ha, Midwinter, the amazing freedom of an open 3D world drew me in! but I was terrible at it!
also for 1990, im surprised at the amount of CGA games still
The music and sound effects are under rated AF. Sod all these quasi realistic games and their frikking surround sound.
I still remember hearing PC speaker music on a friend's PC without a sound card, I think it was either king's quest or legend of kyrandia and it sounded TERRIBLE lol
Man. I truly felt like I was on an actual African Trail for a moment. 10/10 Crom Software.
Masterpiece!
I've played quite a few of these...
Most of the games looks great or even better when speed is in 2x
Very entertaining.
Nice list. Could have spent a lot longer watching each game though.
Maybe someone can help me with this, but I vaguely remember a game that was a top-down space shooter (similar to Asteroids), and it had three ships you could choose from: The Crab (a blue ship that was slow and tanky), the Mantis (a green ship that was fast and hard to control), and the Pheonix (well-balanced), but I cannot for the LIFE of me remember the name of it.
Every gaming platform / system has it's wide range of good titles vs. bad titles, but in my opinion, that gap is nowhere as huge as with MS DOS games
Wow! Whats the game on the thumbnail?
"Narco Police" (6:10)
I played maybe one of these? 2 if Stunts and Stunt Driver are the same game but I think they aren't.
I'll try to write here, maybe someone knows the game I'm looking for since I can't find it in all the lists I look at. The game was of the type ball that jumps perpendicularly to a platform that could only be moved left and right (type Arkanoid). By bouncing the ball (if I remember correctly it was metal) you had to kill the enemies while avoiding obstacles and the peculiar thing was that the enemies were crushed by this ball with splatter effects XD (at least for the time). I don't remember anything else, I was quite young. Does anyone have similar memories?
i used to have a boxed copy of Altered Destiny.
Some of these games were actually released during the late 80'
I'm kind of shocked at how good the games looked and yet how bad they sounded at the same time. There's such a lack of music mostly, and the games with music in them seem to have no sound effects. Awesome video nonetheless.
Amazing Spiderman was good fun, up until it wasn't.