Microshaft Winblows 98 - A Parody of Windows (Installation & Demo)

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    As requested by many of you, today we're taking a look at Microshaft Winblows 98. This program was released in the late '90s, right around when the Microsoft DOJ lawsuit was just beginning. It had a goal of making fun of Microsoft and Bill Gates. Let's see how good (or bad) it is!
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Комментарии • 429

  • @Tornado_Mang
    @Tornado_Mang 4 года назад +50

    FUN FACT: The developer of this software is Wayforward, who are still developing games to this day and are responsible for games such as Ducktales Remastered, the Shantae series, Double Dragon Neon, and so much more

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 года назад +8

      Surprised to hear they didn’t lose all will to live, after this ...

  • @andrewkoontz
    @andrewkoontz 4 года назад +517

    I remember my dad buying this and getting upset when it wasn't Windows 98......

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад +5

      Yeah

    • @ruler_of_everything
      @ruler_of_everything 4 года назад +98

      was your dad BLIND??? there's a thing on the cover that says "NOT THE REAL THING" and "A PARODY ON CD ROM".

    • @dashw
      @dashw 4 года назад +54

      @@ruler_of_everything i mean there are people who buy fake switches even though the name is clearly not switch so i don't doubt that

    • @FunBoysGaming
      @FunBoysGaming 4 года назад +10

      I kind of doubt that mate.

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад

      Me Too

  • @Jamie-yp7qz
    @Jamie-yp7qz 4 года назад +60

    Did some reading on this program. Apparently WayForward (who later made the Shantae series) helped out with developing this program

  • @jasonblalock4429
    @jasonblalock4429 4 года назад +130

    Wow, those ridiculous themed program windows on the desktop actually make me a little nostalgic for the very late 90s. To think there was a time we thought it was cool to have apps shaped like jelly beans. (It was kind of "gas leak year" for the entire shareware\freeware industry...)

  • @arnob1711
    @arnob1711 4 года назад +441

    WinBlows 10, I would pay for that

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад +4

      Yep

    • @enderjed2523
      @enderjed2523 4 года назад +13

      No need to pay, it already exists, and it’s called Windows 12

    • @bitcat3909
      @bitcat3909 4 года назад +2

      @c6amp That's a *huge* burn to Microsoft...

    • @ruler_of_everything
      @ruler_of_everything 3 года назад +2

      Get ready to have not 2, but 20 people interrupting what you're doing to say something "funny".

    • @andreytop1gg
      @andreytop1gg 3 года назад +4

      I would pay for WinBlows 11

  • @SECONDQUEST
    @SECONDQUEST 4 года назад +233

    It's been a while. I love these style of parodies. There were some really funny (for a kid) windows mock ups made in flash.

    • @joeconti2396
      @joeconti2396 4 года назад +16

      Windows RG was the best one

    • @sllvksacgsakjc9357
      @sllvksacgsakjc9357 4 года назад +4

      @@joeconti2396 did you mean "really good"? Haha!! Hah.. heh...
      ..I'll go now

    • @PowerUpT
      @PowerUpT 4 года назад +12

      Windows 93 is the best. More of a modern one, though.

    • @Headshotnoby
      @Headshotnoby 4 года назад +12

      windows doors, windows hiv/aids, windows 2000000000 (actually, let's not talk about that one...), windows donghorn,...

    • @MondySpartan
      @MondySpartan 4 года назад +8

      The good old days, I remember going to Newgrounds just to play those Windows parodies!

  • @positivanollan6353
    @positivanollan6353 4 года назад +399

    The "garage sale" is obviously a nod to the fact that Apple bult their first computers in a garage, before they even had an office 😃

  • @uselessDM
    @uselessDM 4 года назад +219

    As bad as this is, I always liked the title.

    • @rastusbojangles
      @rastusbojangles 4 года назад +16

      to this day I still refer to microsoft as microshaft

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад +1

      OMG @@rastusbojangles

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад +1

      Lmao Windows Gamer

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад +1

      Hehe

    • @tl1882
      @tl1882 3 года назад +4

      @@rastusbojangles i call them michaelsoft

  • @TeionM83
    @TeionM83 4 года назад +67

    Next video: installing and running Microshaft Winblows 98 on Windows 10.

    • @chmtctu
      @chmtctu 4 года назад +1

      It will work so I am excited to see it

  • @chmtctu
    @chmtctu 4 года назад +48

    Run it on Windows 10. I know it will work. I tried it

  • @DavidWonn
    @DavidWonn 4 года назад +90

    6:52 I always thought that "Lose" was put there to be the opposite of WIN, the commonly used command to start Windows in the early 90s.
    Anyway, this was a fun trip down memory lane, remembering seeing this in stores.

    • @arizonaxperience
      @arizonaxperience 3 года назад +3

      @Lucas Zhu looks like we have a smart*ss here

  • @peterbustin2683
    @peterbustin2683 4 года назад +31

    I love the Netscape plane going down the right hand side !

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 года назад +27

    9:20 _The Road Ahead_ was the book that famously made no mention of the Internet whatever, since Gates and Microsoft didn’t see it as being relevant to their business plans. Until a hastily-appended addendum was tacked on to the book to try to remedy this glaring shortcoming.

  • @PixusPanic
    @PixusPanic 4 года назад +42

    This parody must have made you Pyst inside.

  • @John-qb8wh
    @John-qb8wh 4 года назад +12

    The shitpost before shitposts, this is amazing
    A decade ahead!

  • @bitcat3909
    @bitcat3909 4 года назад +203

    Finally a worthy opponent to *Dad jokes*

    • @OILERS084
      @OILERS084 4 года назад +5

      Bombows 98 : *Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!*

    • @Pedro1745
      @Pedro1745 4 года назад

      @@OILERS084bombows 98?

    • @Tamago-xe4eb
      @Tamago-xe4eb 4 года назад +5

      @@Pedro1745 he means michealsoft binbows 98

    • @cristiadorel4079
      @cristiadorel4079 3 года назад

      The opposite of Dad joke is mom jokes

    • @theofanis7203
      @theofanis7203 3 года назад

      Finally a worthy opponent to *unoriginal comments*

  • @JeskidoYT
    @JeskidoYT 4 года назад +26

    6:39 surprisingly, that shut up menu is relatable to today's vaporwave meme culture

    • @juango500
      @juango500 3 года назад +4

      I... I... m u s t e s c a p e

  • @ScuappysDroneVideos1
    @ScuappysDroneVideos1 4 года назад +31

    I had this and their other program Star Warped (a star wars parody) ahhh childhood memories :-)

    • @ScuappysDroneVideos1
      @ScuappysDroneVideos1 4 года назад +6

      I may still have a copy of it too, if I can find it, I would be happy to send it to you.

    • @MichaelMJD
      @MichaelMJD  4 года назад +6

      That would be awesome! Thanks for offering

    • @ScuappysDroneVideos1
      @ScuappysDroneVideos1 4 года назад +1

      @@MichaelMJD cool, I will take a look to see if I still have it and email you if I find it.

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад +1

      Me Too @@ScuappysDroneVideos1

  • @Sleestiq
    @Sleestiq 4 года назад +13

    5:35 the start button turned into "START or we'll hurt you" also the scrolling status bar changes to "NO LAUNCH NO LUNCH"

  • @Ayanbadin
    @Ayanbadin 2 года назад +7

    As Scott the Woz said:
    "This Game Blows!"

  • @intylab
    @intylab Год назад +3

    3:12 The first time I played, the message was "Where do you want it today?"

  • @RyanMan767
    @RyanMan767 4 года назад +13

    6:34 - "I... I... m u s t... e s c a p e"
    holy crap, some time travelling shit right here. cracked the millennial A E S T H E T I C surreal nihilism like decades before it's time. bravo

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 года назад +7

    8:38 That is a Macintosh-style scrollbar.

  • @Lagib28
    @Lagib28 4 года назад +9

    I got this and 2 other Parotty programs at a dollarstore long ago. One was a Star Wars parody, but I can't remember its name. The other was a parody of Myst, called Pyst. They were about the same quality as this one.

  • @trollbreeder2534
    @trollbreeder2534 3 года назад +5

    Microshaft Winblows 98 is basically one of those flash game windows parodies you'd find on Newgrounds, including the dumb start menu jokes and weird programs. Except this is a commercial game. It sold for money.

  • @jfh400
    @jfh400 4 года назад +7

    I played through every single bit of this when I was a kid and I loved it. I still reference some of the Campus Cam videos to this day. But I've never been accused of having good taste.

  • @amia-P.
    @amia-P. 4 года назад +14

    hahaha, the name makes me giggle! Love ur videos Michael!
    Please try install this on windows 10!

  • @souptaels
    @souptaels 4 года назад +29

    I would love if you livestreamed this and complete everything that this program has to offer.

  • @SilverSentinel
    @SilverSentinel 3 года назад +11

    The 90s were a different time, man. I actually searched this game out while talking to a friend about this game because I owned it as a kid. Bought it new off the shelf, in fact. 🤣

  • @michaelpylypiak-clancy7929
    @michaelpylypiak-clancy7929 4 года назад +9

    From Mike Rosoft?

  • @tpjoao
    @tpjoao 4 года назад +6

    Poor Billygotchi just starved of money throughout the whole video...

    • @16Marguie
      @16Marguie 4 года назад

      Oh No

    • @tpjoao
      @tpjoao 4 года назад

      @@16Marguie ikr

  • @oldsport
    @oldsport 4 года назад +24

    14:25 i think windows can not take this program anymore 😂

    • @camila_lt
      @camila_lt 3 года назад +1

      It was really Windows or it was a parody crash?

    • @danm983
      @danm983 3 года назад

      @@camila_lt parody crash

  • @attack0nmem0ry
    @attack0nmem0ry 4 года назад +7

    Buried deep within the puns of this tech parody game are the voice acting talents of Maurice LaMarche & Tom Kenny; I wouldn't pay for it, either, but I'd play through just to hear their contributions. 🍻

  • @antishulk
    @antishulk 4 года назад +10

    I watched Toms Scott’s video on how to read binary and I got the question correct 12:00

  • @bricklander
    @bricklander 4 года назад +3

    9:52 that Doh tho

  • @thelunchbox420x
    @thelunchbox420x 4 года назад +18

    Hell yeah! Kitboga!

    • @Thiesi
      @Thiesi 4 года назад +1

      Wait a moment - what's a Kitboga?

    • @KC9UDX
      @KC9UDX 4 года назад

      @@Thiesi really?

    • @Thiesi
      @Thiesi 4 года назад +1

      @nevik10 But I didn't do anything, bro.

    • @Thiesi
      @Thiesi 4 года назад +1

      @nevik10 What you think I'm fool here bro?!

  • @Redbird041
    @Redbird041 4 года назад +10

    you know it's good when you hear Michael laugh

  • @LG633TV
    @LG633TV 2 месяца назад +4

    Speaking of Kitboga, I wanna see him put a bunch of scammers against this OS

  • @dragonick2947
    @dragonick2947 3 года назад +5

    I think when I was little, I saw a screenshot of Winblows, thinking it was actually Windows 95, and for a while afterwards I assumed that early versions of Windows had extremely curvy windows.

  • @seanb7969
    @seanb7969 4 года назад +8

    I enjoyed playing this game but I was also a geeky teenager back then.

  • @musicalneptunian
    @musicalneptunian 4 года назад +6

    Better than Windows 10!

  • @Maks7594
    @Maks7594 4 года назад +4

    14:23 this program decided it wanted to crash.

  • @peterbustin2683
    @peterbustin2683 4 года назад +14

    Id love to put this on all the governments computers !

  • @Blu-chan
    @Blu-chan 4 года назад +6

    Now just wait till he uploads: Microshaft Winblows 98 running on Windows 10

  • @Kitsudote
    @Kitsudote 3 года назад +2

    "Hello?! Wat are you waiting for? Windows 99?"
    I laughed more than I like to admit...

  • @MastaGambit
    @MastaGambit 4 года назад +1

    Aww, I was hoping you'd look at Bill's Personal Outlook

  • @reconbbs360
    @reconbbs360 4 года назад +4

    Less talking more clicking! 😂

  • @samuelhulme8347
    @samuelhulme8347 4 года назад +3

    Someone should of put it on Bill Gate’s computer in the 90s!

  • @pizzagob1in17
    @pizzagob1in17 4 года назад +5

    14:19
    I've seen actual Microsoft Windows OS in the 90s be *more* stable than Microshaft Winblows!

    • @fathanfachri
      @fathanfachri 11 месяцев назад

      Michaelsoft Binbows is my favourite thing

  • @snowytuna6602
    @snowytuna6602 3 года назад +1

    Mom can we play mario party?
    Mom: we have mario party at home
    Mario party at home:

  • @blainepalmerza
    @blainepalmerza 4 года назад +7

    Awesome video, Michael!
    Love this!

    • @fathanfachri
      @fathanfachri Год назад +1

      "Michael"? More like Michaelsoft Binbows

  • @meligarcia
    @meligarcia 4 года назад +6

    *_CLICK ON SOMETHING!!!_*

  • @PickleDuckOfficial
    @PickleDuckOfficial 4 месяца назад

    1:56 | Loading Animation In The Setup Window: *S P E E D*

  • @CastawayRJ
    @CastawayRJ 4 года назад +3

    Microshaft Winblows 98 sounds annoying, but at the same time, Microsoft was in court for the antitrust case in 1998, because they were monopoly, so seeing a program that is essentially making fun of Microsoft is pretty funny.

  • @hankai7
    @hankai7 4 года назад +2

    Can you take a look at Progressbar 95?

  • @AlejandroFerrariMc
    @AlejandroFerrariMc 4 года назад +2

    That "Roll a head" is very similar to a Gubble stage.

  • @ZX48K
    @ZX48K 4 года назад +23

    It would have been better if it was called "Microshat Windowblows"

  • @mushroomsamba82
    @mushroomsamba82 4 года назад +1

    7:14 wait a minute... "MIXER NIXED"

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 года назад +2

    1:23 In much of the world, they would be pronounced differently, too. Yet not in the US?
    I’ve wondered how you tell the difference between, say, “waiting” and “wading”? As in “I’ve been waiting for a while for the flood waters to recede” versus “I’ve been wading ...”.

  • @04liamb
    @04liamb 3 месяца назад +3

    somebody should make a windows 11 version the jokes would write them selves

  • @danewilson7883
    @danewilson7883 2 года назад +1

    11:55 this is the biggest laugh in an mjd video

  • @ggn3
    @ggn3 4 года назад +1

    I had this and another Parroty Interactive parody called Star Warped (obvious Star Wars parody) I had bought from a local dollar store years ago when I had a Windows 98 computer. Definitely campy with the humor both were attempting to pull, especially with Winblows running things into the ground with the Windows puns.

  • @Kitsudote
    @Kitsudote 5 месяцев назад +1

    14:26 unintentionally the best joke in the game 😆

  • @Lim95
    @Lim95 3 года назад +1

    “Win Bill Gate’s Money” = “You Don’t Know Jack”

  • @ExecooteOfficial
    @ExecooteOfficial 3 года назад +2

    litterally, Winblows

  • @crepspinboss9048
    @crepspinboss9048 3 года назад

    Friend:I need to copy your homework it’s a emergency
    Me:ok but don’t make it obvious
    Homework:

  • @millennialchicken
    @millennialchicken 3 месяца назад +1

    This looks like the perfect definition of "having the ability but not the talent." Now, if it was a copy of Michaelsoft Binbows now, we'd be talking something hot

  • @The98597thMark
    @The98597thMark 4 года назад +2

    I remember this! All the way down to that microshaft exploder music and the "where do you want to go? TODAY?" haha. Yeah it was lame and like a lot of parody, didn't age very well. But I was a kid and always appreciated this kinda stuff, I thought it was great.

  • @rogehmarbi
    @rogehmarbi 4 года назад +2

    11:58 I thought Steve is going to pull a binary solo right there

    • @voidghost4933
      @voidghost4933 7 месяцев назад

      Come on sucker lick my battery

  • @dinkarfowkar999
    @dinkarfowkar999 3 года назад +3

    Imagine a version of this in Windows 11

  • @Xyaena
    @Xyaena 4 года назад +1

    Just to announce what the ESRB "reviewed" the program as: Comic Mischief, Suggestive Themes.

  • @TrueWatercolor
    @TrueWatercolor 3 года назад +2

    7:14 What was that?

  • @coolkitty1654
    @coolkitty1654 4 года назад +2

    Hey MJD, there’s two other programs I know of, P.Y.S.T. (A parody of M.Y.S.T.) and Star Warped (A parody of Star Wars)

    • @ggn3
      @ggn3 4 года назад

      Besides those three, they also did an X-Files parody called X-Fools.

  • @cee128d
    @cee128d 4 года назад +3

    I actually picked that up when it came out.

    • @KC9UDX
      @KC9UDX 4 года назад

      It's still on my shelf. Never opened it

    • @cee128d
      @cee128d 4 года назад +2

      @@KC9UDX I don't remember opening mine either. It was on a clearance rack for 99 cents or some ridiculously low price like that.

    • @KC9UDX
      @KC9UDX 4 года назад

      @@cee128d I paid full price whatever that was. At that point I'd give money to anyone discrediting Windows. Too bad it didn't matter.

  • @N68dodgeboy
    @N68dodgeboy 3 года назад +3

    I'm sorry, but I laughed way harder than I should've at "Run" 6:45

  • @bluey-next777
    @bluey-next777 9 месяцев назад +1

    11:50
    THIS IS MY FAV PART

  • @StevenSmyth
    @StevenSmyth 4 года назад +3

    Yeah, over all it blows. Except that binary trivia question. It landed on every level. Even the guy doing SJ was good.

  • @cyberp0et
    @cyberp0et 3 года назад +4

    Micro$haft Windblows performed an illegal operation and will close.

  • @billchildress9756
    @billchildress9756 3 месяца назад

    I bought this little bit of humor when it first came out and I still have it amazingly enough! I also have PYST.

  • @Mario583a
    @Mario583a 4 года назад +3

    Try out Windows 93.

  • @LouLou-xl3kz
    @LouLou-xl3kz 3 года назад +2

    Try it on windows 10

  • @joaquimjesus6134
    @joaquimjesus6134 4 года назад +2

    what virtual machine you used for install Windows 98?

    • @absolutewisp
      @absolutewisp 4 года назад +1

      I think he uses VMWare Workstation, although it should work on others like VirtualBox too

    • @joaquimjesus6134
      @joaquimjesus6134 4 года назад

      @@absolutewisp thanks.. and what video driver is used?
      i tryied VBex, but i get Blue Screen... the SSD and the VMWare tools have video drivers with less than 128 VRAM :(

  • @Nostalgia_Realm
    @Nostalgia_Realm 4 года назад

    Tech tip: Run Windows 9x in PCem, not in VirtualBox or VMWare. VirtualBox gives me weird sound stuttering and stability issues from time to time.

  • @CatalinaMaxCisternasJofre
    @CatalinaMaxCisternasJofre 3 года назад

    If you press the start menu and move the mouse cursor through Outta Control Panel and more settings, I must hear stock sound effects.

  • @minilopkastudios4711
    @minilopkastudios4711 Год назад +1

    I like seeing Michael who is serious almost all the time laugh

  • @NewRepublicMapper
    @NewRepublicMapper 4 года назад +1

    We Have Windows 98 At Home
    Windows 98 At Home:

  • @vincenzomottola7778
    @vincenzomottola7778 4 года назад +1

    Did you Know? WayForward, the developers who made Shantae worked on Microshaft Winblows 98

  • @Inescapeium
    @Inescapeium 3 года назад +1

    "CLICK ON SOMETHING"
    Me: *No, I don't think I will.*

  • @mjdxp5688
    @mjdxp5688 4 года назад +4

    There's a reason I never bothered to try this out. It seems to go for being weird and random rather than going for any real jokes. I guess a really young kid could get some enjoyment out of this, but I feel like kids wouldn't really get most of the jokes in here, so who was this marketed towards?

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 4 года назад +2

      People who look at the title "Microshaft Winblows" and think "That joke's so funny, I'm going to spend my money on that!"

  • @ElGrandoSmogio
    @ElGrandoSmogio 3 года назад +1

    if winblows 11 will have a bluescreen instead of black screen, im buying it

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 4 года назад +2

    12:02 I think the right answer is 1. I only had to decode the first two characters to narrow it down.
    Edit: dang.

    • @camila_lt
      @camila_lt 3 года назад

      The first two characters are the same, ha

  • @reallauradee
    @reallauradee 4 года назад

    Where are the actors who played Meg and Graham now?

  • @stevebsteve
    @stevebsteve 18 дней назад

    MJD with a Kitboga reference 💎💎💎💎

  • @Tetriser
    @Tetriser 2 года назад

    Gotta be honest, "where do you think you're going today" cracks me up so hard

  • @totallyadeadchannel
    @totallyadeadchannel 3 года назад +1

    Imagine: *When Microshaft Winblows 98 Was Released In April 1 2016*

  • @EastTexasRanching
    @EastTexasRanching 4 года назад +2

    Keep that windows98 installation CD and reg number. I just used an old Windows98 Installation CD to find a problem on an install of Windows 7 hangup. It is easy to access fdisk from booting the CD, as well as some other utilities. This was on an old laptop that ran Windows Vista (so you know why I was upgrading it) and had started hanging during bootup. I cannot tell you how much I hate Vista. Anyhow, I have my Windows95, Windows98, Windows XP, and Windows 7 CD's along with a couple Redhat Linux CD's. Always good to keep them on hand. You never know when they will come in handy.

  • @pauldswiftie13
    @pauldswiftie13 4 года назад +2

    Very interesting indeed.

  • @TorchwoodLeeds
    @TorchwoodLeeds Год назад +1

    ha can't believe you follow Kitboga as well! 😁

  • @photolabguy
    @photolabguy 4 года назад +2

    Serious question. Is Michael a smoker?

  • @Ampersand100
    @Ampersand100 4 года назад

    The actor playing Graham was also the principal on the TV show Community.

    • @CFlat930
      @CFlat930 3 года назад

      He was the doppeldeaner