Z Longplay (PC DOS) [All Missions]
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Developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade in 1996
** Updated 23/02/2020 **
Mission 08 is incorrect - I've uploaded a new video with mission 08 restored here: • Z Longplay (PC DOS) [Q...
A re-upload of my longplay of this rock-hard RTS from 1996 as a single 6+ hour video. Sadly, I didn't keep the source, so it's limited to 720p, but it's still decent enough quality. I figured if I didn't release it now I'd never get around to it!
This is the original MS-DOS release from 1996, using Roland MT-32 music option.
The game is available on GOG: www.gog.com/ga...
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#thebitmapbrothers
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![Z Walkthrough | Level 20 - Z [Ending]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cJXciXl3DTs/mqdefault.jpg)
![Z Walkthrough | Level 20 - Z [Ending]](/img/tr.png)
![Z Longplay (PC DOS) [Mission 17: Car Park]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8g6j_rqEGZo/mqdefault.jpg)
Mission 08 is missing from this video (mission 07 duplicated) - I've uploaded a new version of this video that includes mission 08 here: ruclips.net/video/AQM3yFQG5Ho/видео.html
Umm....excuse me if I’m curious....what rating is this game?
@@masterdrewt6698 Not sure it paid the fees to receive a rating, but I'd say minimum 13+. Characters in it consume alcool for humorous effects.
Fovar Berma hm.....well I suppose. But what about 2 of the foul languages such as s!#& and %#$ Damn?
@@masterdrewt6698 I couldn't say, I heard worse from 6 y.o. kids.
Fovar Berma whats that?
This game has aged so well, still looks cool and is fun to play even in 2020
That's the thing about pixel art: it's either good or it isn't. Once we reached the Amiga/SNES era technology could no longer improve it, more resolution just makes it smaller, not better. Funny how amazing Starcraft 1 looked back in the day with its semi-realism and pre-rendered 3D units and is so dated nowadays, but Z is still fresh and crisp.
do you play it online?
@@karlhans6678 no only singleplayer
@@dickbison Bitmap Brothers used to do cool things.
What are they doing now..
@@wmonk5642
Being irrelevant, since their entire back catalog was sold off to other companies.
I had completely forgotten about this game and suddenly youtube recommendations. ;3
Me too! Now I wanna play it but I don't have it anymore. Also, I doubt it would even work on my Laptop. It is from a time where I still had Windows 95 after all!
@@Cyon2012 I mean you could buy it on steam or gog.com but sadly it´s a pretty shitty version.
@@BloxX09 Yeah... unfortunately I made exactly this mistake. I thought it would be the old version but.... it cannot really be played like how it is.
My god, I remember getting so infuriated about the intelligence level of the robots when I played this back in the 90's on my win95 machine. I still have the original box and manual, and all bots have different intelligence levels. The grunts and warriors are the dumbest, often getting stuck on terrain, or doing things they are absolutely not supposed to do. The snipers are the most intelligent and would try and dodge tank rounds, or rockets. You could do wonky stuff too, take a little wimpy jeep and dance around a heavy tank, hoping for the driver to poke is head out to take rifle shots at the jeep, just for the jeep to shoot the driver out the heavy tank that took over 7min to manufacture. SO much fun, and soooo much dread!
My main beef with the ios remake a few years back was that the a.i was somehow dummer than the original grunts. Your soldiers just tried to walk onto the enemy rather than shoot them half the time.
I did always love how your soldiers did their own thing like grabbing flags and grenades on their way to somewhere else.
Yeah, there is plenty of opportunity in this game for microing units ;)
I wonder how many times he passed 15+ levels before success and insert in this video )
I've noticed how quick the computer player will start an attack while generally myself and every human (cough) would wait to amass vehicles and frontline fodder before even considering a frontal attack on fort
wasnt that bad man, at least it wasnt like command and conquer path finding where you tell a unit to get up the screen a tiny bit and he walks around a mountain to get there all because there is some other unit there
i remember this game being sooooo hard back in the day
Z - Unlegal game at 2022 🤣🤣🤣
"Quit to DOS."
I feel old now -.-
_c:_
_cd z_
_dir /w /p_
_setup.exe_
*Shit, what's the port of my Sound Blaster again? Gotta try them all once more...*
C:/
autorun
setup.exe
@@fovarberma752 load “$’,8
Ah the good Times. I remember this Game beeing pretty hard for someone coming from Comand and Conquer.
I remember a lot of it boiled down to RNG, if I won the first engagement against the computer with the units you start with then I could win the mission. If I lost the first engagement it was a slow defense, until I eventually lost
c&c is plenty hard already with cheating AI
also different genres
This game was absolutely amazing and basically impossible to search for! 😂
It had a mobile port a few years ago
@@OrangeNotLemonLime is it still available for ios?
@Nameless not sure mate. I'm on Android now.
@@Kcrude I had it on iPad a handful of years back so got to play it all over again. But I think it was pulled from the store 😭
@@danhodson7187 are you from the states? I think it’s available if you are. If not they have definitely took it down, I’m from the UK and managed to download it years ago by changing settings etc. But then I lost the game and can’t be bothered even trying to do that as for now… so it would be interesting to know if someone from the states could see if it’s available still
Childhood Memories! ❤️😀
Yes :)
Still looks cool and fresh. Like a good 2019 indie game.
lol
those face animations are smooth and accurate as hell down to the mouth movement
I love how they dont even bother changing the icon of he unit, they just change the background lol so lazy
@@RealArtVandelay dude calm down, when this game came out you were still shittin in your diaper and cried for Mommys Milk... this game was awesome when it came out and it still holds up today for fun gameplay...
Like a bad 2019 indie game, bitch. This looks like trash and the voice acting SUCKS.
Loved this game. The little portraits that talk to you when given orders ("Grunts reporting!" "Oh my God!" "Movin' out!"), the basic gameplay that's actually very fun and challenging (taking over an empty enemy tank always felt great), and _that_ CGI intro ("HEY who's flyin' this ship?!") ... the whole thing blew my tiny 10 year old mind.
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This gam just got best anticommercial world has ever seen. It still rocks.
This is from the era where developers actually put effort into their games.
Check out randg.online. Most of the abandonware of this time is complete shit.
old game good. new game bad. amirite
@@LazyBastard69 Since graphics were rudimentary back in those days, gameplay was the only thing that made the game interesting. Lazy developers these days have a tendency to focus too much on making games look cool and not caring about the quality of the game itself.
@@facelessman9224 I'm not even gonna argue with someone who uses broad, undifferentiated overgeneralizations without so much as an example.
Which modern games? Were there not old games which put style over substance? To call the graphics from back then rudimentary, and not seeing the beauty that can be conveyed through VGA, and SVGA (EGA,too) graphics is also very one sided. Also, i don't think you even play very many modern games.
What about indie games. Disco Elysium? Baba is You? Dusk? Amid Evil? Fucking Stardew Valley! Oh, and Kenshi. Have you even heard of those games? AAA also had some really good games in the last few years. Bioshock infinite, even though that's a little older by now. Tekken 7? Civ 6? Resident Evil 7? DooM 2016? Dirt Rally? Prey? The list goes on and on.
There's tons of games with deep gameplay AND beautiful graphics, or at least memorable, unique art styles, and you milking nostalgia for likes is disgusting. It's video game populism. Ok, so in the end i did argue with you, but i just can't stand blind nostalgia.
@@LazyBastard69 LOL. Dumbass.
"I'm not going to argue with you!"
Just before you post a wall of text arguing with me. OK....
U gotta be kidding me. I've been looking for this game forever and now RUclips random recommendation did the favor.
you can also buy in gog.com
Same for me. Now I know the name of a game I played when I was 5 years old!
Great run! Those cutscenes. What a game. The late 90's and early 00's were really the golden age of quality gaming.
early 1996 man not late , just after warcraft 2, you only needed a 486 dx2 66 with 8 meg ram and 1 meg graphics to run this. they made a sequal tht was bad
Z: a game where everybody's Steve Buscemi
What a trip down memory lane! awesome game! still pretty decent in 2023 ! like a cool little indy game.
The score is awesome and all the voices are OP.
Thanks for uploading that, my dude.
aww this game was soooo awesome when it was new, specially the interaction of these mental robots in the cutscenes are just glorious ;)
I like how each unit is somewhat fragile. A tank could get taken out by a jeep, a shell could take out multiple jeeps or squads. It makes each small skirmish feel very meaningful.
A tank could have its driver killed by a jeep, that is a much worse loss, because the enemy can capture it with a much better driver.
I have so many memories of watching my dad play this game...then I would try to play the game, but failed MISERABLY every time. I got a laugh out of those robots during the intro drinking the "rocket fuel" (or beer). It's like they were Bender from Futurama, yet this game was released in 1996, thus it was YEARS before Futurama first aired.
This totally rules. Computer games were always better than the greatest games in the console wars. They were so far ahead on so many things.
I remember owning the original copy but not being able to play on my pc for some reason as a kid. Like it was yesterday… Yet its over 20 years now.
If it wasn't a soundcard issue.. It was a random type things in the config sys boot floppy... So much frustration getting games to work
@@PHorncastle actually you just need to read what it asks
This was my first game ever on PC as a child, like 8-9ears old, i remember how the game got harder and harder and i became better and better at it every time i came back to give it another try, until i finally could get past the "car park" level on the city map and finally beat the game, after maybe 2 years if i recall correctly, i just know it took me at least one year
LOL. This is 20 years old now I think, good game!
Steelrad make it 25
I never played this game, a shame I missed it.
I started my RTS ventures one year later with Age of Empires.
I'd appreciate it if someone can point me the right Abandonware version of this game.
I used to play it in 1997 and several maps were very different from what they have in those sites. Been playing this until today.
Example:
1. Level 11 and 12 was swapped. I didn't like it; Level 12 in the original was actually harder than 11. When it's swapped I felt kinda betrayed.
2. In Heavy metal (the actual level 12), there were no walls to impede access to the flag on the lower right of the map. In the other version, they have walls so I had to go through the upper side before accessing it.
.....and others.
Wow, how is a Z video getting this many views and comments?
Because people like you are watching RUclips recommendations 😉
Игра настолько самобытная и цельная, что до сих пор не надоедает. Тянет поиграть❤
One ot the best games. Very balanced and interesting.
I never heard of a real time strategy game where there was a little guy in the corner that would talk and animate to the player.
That alone is pretty cool and this game seems rather obscure.
Terrans of Star craft are just a cheap copy oh the Z soldiers
Funny thing. I could actually see them kinda fit into star craft.
The protoss beat them to the punch with a robotic faction though.
Still i bet they'd do well in a crossover.
Fun fact: Most of the stuff Blizzard did starting with the original Starcraft is "stolen" from Warhammer 40k. With Warcraft 3 they also startet to steal from Warhammer Fanatasy.
@@Cainite It's a popular accusation but most faction ended up feeling somewhat unique compared to warhammer 40k/fantasy.
With one possible exception in the form of zerg, take away Kerrigan and the bugs are basically a tyranid splinter fleet.
@@Sonlirain Yeah, all that fancy hover tech the protoss use and that they were made by another, way older race is definitively *not* the eldar... NO!
@@Cainite Hover tech and made/uplifted by another race?
Both are really common tropes in science fiction.
And the protoss don't really use hovertech for ground units, anything larger than a probe is flying (Carriers, scouts, shuttles) planted in place (pylons) or a 4 legged walker.
So there are no direct parallels to eldar units either.
Even if they were based on the eldar they were changed sufficiently to not be just "stolen" ideas, instead they drifted apart to become their own thing.
Ah this game, I remember playing it as a kid and being really bad at it. After months I was only able to get to the first level of the lava planet, I didn't realize back then you have to try and make your guys move out of shots and that sorta thing, always sent my guys straight in when the enemy got close and wondered why I did so poorly.
Cool upload....never seen this one..
1996, well I'll be damned. I hear the sound of Win95 booting up after breakfast on a Saturday morning. Back when the Mouse was square, glided on a ball, and had three buttons w/o the scroll wheel. *sigh*
Still remember this. Really good old day game.
If you leave your unit in the swamp area, your soldiers will got eaten alive by crocodile. SO hilarious.
Always loved the female announcer in this game, she was so laid back but didn't sound half-arsed.
Обожаю эту игру. До сих пор иногда запускаю и балдею)
Готов приобрести. Серьезно
Could never finish that damn game. At some point it was just becoming too hard
I use to love getting pyros inside an APC. Seeing fire spew out from all angles as I charged the fort was a sight to behold
I'm sure if they would make a reborn of it, with the same garphics, new maps and playable on 1 Vs 1 Online, this game would be a blast. A good game is good game, the time has no effect on it, and this one is still GREAT !
Hey Sylvain. The original did have multiplayer 1v1 online. It was very basic though: Dial up modem so you had to make sure no outgoing calls from the house were made! I played against my cousin a few times. We were very good at the game. It was alot of fun.
One of the best games of all times!
This game feels like Terminator in American western style.
Was my favourite game for like 20 years. Wish I could play an updated version from the Starcraft2 editor, becaue SC2 has the best responsiveness of Units in RTS.
theres a mod for this, an adaptation to new screen resolutions, better multiplayer and even a dedicated server. This was some times ago. Z zod maybe? cant remember
6:04:00 Realy )))) waiting for what? )))
I really enjoyed this game until the different kinds of foot units turns up and I couldn't tell what I was attacking quickly, Oki there's a few dudes my grunts can handle this, Wait they are pyschos, Oh for fucks sake.
Putin likes this game
Very unique RTS, no collecting resources (all about map control), vehicles can be hijacked
I dont really liked it in the past, i wanted a base and something to build. May be ill try it again, love the bitmap brothers and the whole retro stuff. Z was a 15 MB Rip, I was young and poor ;)
Awesome upload. Loved playing this game. Glad they ported it to the ipad too
You're welcome, Westwood and Relic... *researching* OK maybe not Westwood but the point capture system was used by Relic and the lines were used in Tiberium Sun. Oh yeah and Blizzard for using the animated portrait idea. That's a really key point in rts games because now your men are real and you are a guilty and bad general for letting those cute little guys die...
doubt relic even ever heard about it they probably saw ground control
@@incaseofimportantnegotiations who knows. Relic died when they sacked everyone just before they started work in coh 2.
It's basically about the Clausewitz' principle: "Angriff ist die beste Verteidigung" (offense is best defense)...
Weeeeeel, under some dozens of Atomic Heart gameplays, thanks to YT recommendation robot, I am here. Anyone else, maybe?..
Wow! Core memory unlocked. I hadn't thought about this game in 25+ years. The golden age of RTS games. Now I'm playing a modern new strategy game (Frostpunk 2) but these old RTS games have a real charm.
It's such a great game. I used to play this when I was a kid. I just bought it again..
link please
GoG, ok, my bad
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know it was on GOG. Just bought it for $7. The new version has a slightly different battlefield screen layout, and an annoying bug where some APCs become non-interactive after you have the starting Grunt exit the vehicle.
Only VGA, only hardcore!!!!
/DX2, 1995/
i used to love to play that game on sega when i was little the first level took me like 2 years to complete
I was testing a new strategy for each level, i have been doing a "rush strategy". where just attack the fort and use my weaker units to distract the turret as the light, medium and heavy tanks take out the turrets so i just go inside the fort between 3 - 7 mins. Can't be done on a few levels though, like level 20.
well. how can upload 21~35 Levels?
its not in the orginal Game from 1996, for more Levels need the expansion kit from 1998
Almost 30 years old but still one of the best strategy games ever made, and it still has not lost its charm after all those years. This is exactly what you want to produce as an indie dev these days. Dynamic engaging gameplay with visuals that are timeless.
Now this is my kind of ASMR
Classic! Thanks for uploading!
This game still needs a DLC.
there is a DLC, Z Expansion Kit
I still have a Z keyring from the big box of this
Do you remember the 'directors cut'? It was a virgin store exclusive, it was a bit like a data disk of sorts, but had explicit voice overs, eg the Psychos when directed to assault would shout "lets get the fuckers" - my 15 year old self loved it
Why can't we get good updated games like these anymore :(
i love this game, ! RUclips alglorism is amazing
Z is commander, red soldiers... Is that Russians?
Russia for the win ahoy👍👍
@@korana6308No this time blue team will win
@@cy_wareye7395 Yep. Blue team is Russia👍👍
@@korana6308 How did You know :Đ Lol.
If talk about flag, they got also red & blue. So no point :p
This strategy games give us one lesson - most important is resources, mins :) To keep going. So sadly thats about global world powers, how they do.
Hope that stupid war will ends soon and Ukraine will arise but i wish to see there new truly independent gov. Current bit hypocritical, said a lot about justice and democracy but same time do putting journalists in jail, talk about legacy, freedom and fights versus orthodox religion, what cames from beginning of Kievan rus.
Never mind.
God bless Ukraine to live long life.
@@cy_wareye7395 Together with BRICS and China Russia controls most of the world's minerals, and controls more of the world's economics production and resources than the west.
Also Ukraine will cease to exist soon, so your praise towards a non existent country is pointless... it has already been agreed upon (behind the curtains) between all of the parties involved that the country will disappear, and the only unsettled question right now is that the US wants to kill more Ukranians(soon to be Russians) and destroy as much of the Ukranian infrastructure as possible (before they pull the plug), and Russia obviously wants the opposite. So it's in the process of negotiations on the battlefield... They will try to sink in as much of the poor Ukranian souls before Trump gets elected( unless they can manage to put him behind the bards somehow).
This should be a Starcraft league tournament worthy
Y’know I think R Lee remy would’ve been a good voice actor for commander Zod but I would assume it would cost to much for the voice acting
Ha i played this all the time in 1996 on my 486 with 16 meg ram. It was never that popular but so original and different i kind of liked it more than warcraft 2 and red alert at the time. If you had a pentium 100 you could play in svga. I always used the rocket soldiers in the APC it was equal to a MED tank but much cheaper
Looks great, a shame that I can only find the crappy mobile port on Steam and GOG. (And, yes I tried the Zod Online earlier and it's update failed and it won't work)
Hopefully Rebellion gets their thumbs out of their arses and announce a proper port of the classic.
they did a great job porting it to android and iphone but they didnt maintain it for updates so it got pulled from the store. they unfornutaly also put a "great" copy protection for these mobile versions which gives enemy health like 10 times the hp so its almost impossible to finish the first mission(i finished it after like 30 hours of trying to bug the AI and coultnt finish the second mission).
NEED REMAKE THIS!
i just finished the remastered game :D and i were back in 90´on my Pentium One. when we ruled this with friends. :D cool game and its still funny and better then most of todays projects. Peace.
i played this when i was like 9yo kid, I cannot pass the level when they intro heavy tanks and plays at lava. I don't know we can micro the unit at all, I just steamroll them as a kid lol. Now I need to search for this germ back
played this all the time in the late 90s on a 486 with win 95. The one thing that was perfect was this game was so original unlike warcraft and every battle was unprodictable. A med tank could sometimes beat a heavy etc. They also made it simple and just focus on holding territory. It was the perfect strat game of the late 90s
good thing about it it was that they were short levels. could be finished in 10-15 minutes each even the big ones. Unlike z steel soldiers who could last more than an hours some.
I remember this game was hard af I couldn't get passed level 2 and the sound didnt work but i thought this was the most realistic game i ever saw xD
All I remember about this game was not being able to play it. Didn't run well at all. That cover art is drilled into my memory despite that.
I always wanted to get this game as a kid, but for some reason it never happened. This is the first footage ive ever seen! I was surprised to see a lot of similarities to later relic rts, like dawn of war
Back in the day this game didn't have much success because people thought it was supposed to be like command and conquer when it was more like nervous arcade.
I remember this game running like at 2fps on cutscenes and struggling a bit on the gameplay with a SiS 6326 lmao. Still managed to end it like a million tries on the last maps. A true gem
OMG I suddenly remembered this game
those grunts sound like beavis and butthead! all they need is a meheheh inbetween lines....
too much tanks waste in the last level . really. Sometimes even the first heavy with the sniper could finish them all coming from the left.
trying to play game on steam but only see quarter of screen (after 25 years lol)
tryd everything on steam forums
any ideas ??
i played the PS1 demo when it was first came out never the full game, i was 8 years old and i LOVED IT !
This is similar like Command and Conquer games
this is real time tactics
those are real time strategies
the similar part is "real time"?
@@incaseofimportantnegotiations 75%
@@ArielDemonLady512 of VGA coverage?
@@incaseofimportantnegotiations I guess
Download it here: sourceforge.net/projects/zod/
I finally can play it on steam , too bad it runs on low FPS
Too Bad this Game was so hard. I would have loved it so much.
I used to play it when I was really youn kid. now I am 32. I brings me my good old days thank you
The humour xD. But Intelligence of the units... hell. Still classic game:). I played Z a lot.
Man that K.I. is just stupid as hell. I play ZED Online based on the ZOD engine and the bots, man, they are the real deal, just hardcore.
What a game! When they make games for great gameplay instead of just relying on fancy graphics.
Schmieriger Bolzen und Parkplatz. Perfect Game!
Nicht zu vergessen "Harte Nüsse" O_o
ich liebe das Spiel immer noch total und spiel es auch noch manchmal
Офигенная игра. Удивительно, как в ней совмещается медлительность юнитов с крайне высокой динамичностью боёв и срыванием волос с жопы, когда у тебя из-под носа уводят завод с вот-вот готовым тяжёлым танком.
Very nostalgic, thanks for the upload. I've never been able to get very far at the time. To be fair I forgot how slow the robot moved, I think a faster gameplay (but not tooo much) would have improved the game quite a bit. Also I really wished that the robot had different voices.
Overall it still looks fun and challenging to play. Maybe I'll think about it :)