What's even more incredible is how playable and fun it was. It's something noone expected. On the other hand, Papyrus did became masters of the genre within the next few years, so they clearly knew what they were doing. xD
This series is so good! Nostalgia trip deluxe. SimCity and Street Rod are the games I played the most from this year. Although we didn't really start playing them until 92-93-ish.
I came here for Harpoon, M1 Tank Platoon, Indy 500, F16 Combat Pilot and Battle of Britian! As an Amiga gamer back then, this is where I played these iconic games!
17/18 months has gone.. :) You have come so far.. Still gonne be watching and supporting all new stuff but decided to sort out my subscriptions while im on the move.. :) Thanks for everything Poland
I loved Sierra games in the 90's. I played them when they were updated from tying to mouse. Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight 3. The ability to transfer your hero between games in Hero's Quest was cool. Good times :)
I cut my (gaming) teeth on those old DOS games. Sometimes they were a real pain to get to work. Modifying the autoexec.bat file, creating boot disks etc. but they were awesome games.
Yep, and remember having to work out how to free the base RAM, the first 640kB cause some older games completely ignored the megabytes after, and just wanted as much of the first chunk as possible. xD
Ah, that stack of floppies you had to rifle through to pick the boot disk for every game. That was part of the satisfaction of a game in those days. Getting them to run. Getting them to run with sound!
That is the reason I got into IT. I had to know how memory management worked and the ins and outs of DOS to play games. Everything else flowed from there.
Wasteland is one of my favorite games of all time. It had the feel of 80's post-apocalyptic imagery. It is understandable that "you had to be there" for this one to really click, and most people just know the "spiritual successor" Fallout series, and sadly the sequels Wasteland 2 and 3 just don't fit into that setting being a product from not only decades later, but with heavy influence from Fallout itself. Anyway, I'll always love the first one.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Well, for last ten years I am living in rural area, so no. Sometimes doing some computer music but rarely nowadays. I have some songs (first band included) on my account, if You are interested.
Sierra text parser games are one of the reasons I could start learning english from when I was only 5 years old. There was no internet, or really any toddler language courses. So this was the only way, and it was fun. It was slow going at first, but now I'm basically bilingual. Great memories from that era of games.
Indi 500 was probably the most high-tech game back then. I had a release supporting Sound Blaster 2.0. Street Rod and the MicroProse flight simulators were super good. However I think you missed "Budokan" which was amazing game back then, also 1989. Speaking of "Rick Dangerous" we must mention John Romero's first game - "Dangerous Dave" first version of which was silly but ok. MicroProse's "Airborne Ranger" 1987 but I think worth mentioning. And LucasFilm Ltd "Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders" was 1988 but I think we could mention it here too.
Thing with those lists is that it's difficult to compile a list without dropping some awesome games, and also regardless of how much you try to objective, bits and pieces of your own gaming preferences always push through when deciding on those last few spots. ;) Don't know if that's any consolation, but the games that I've "missed" here, I've covered in other videos in different series in the past already.
Nice video! Especially thanks for the name of the game constantly visible on top right corner, so when I skip some part I always know the name of the game.
Glad you enjoy it! And yeah, I always keep the names there, for that reason exactly. Also if someone's looking for a game from their youth and don't remember its story or much about it, just how it looked like, then they don't have to go back in the video to check the title. It's a little convenience for everyone, and no trouble for me. :)
Love this channel!!! And I am not a fan of nostalgia in general but your comments are so spot on and just seeing games I basically forgot come to life again is great thank you and keep up the good work!
I had F16 on Amiga. Brilliant for it's time. I used to play a 3rd person space ship game that allowed you to upgrade your ships with weapons, power & sheilds etc. It had a hyperspace function that would take you to the next stage & classical music played when you warped. I can't remember the name, but it was excellent for DOS.
I actually had an amstrad cpc 6128 around this time, got into the pc gaming about 1992. Awesome time to start, the lucasarts and sierra adventure games were all there waiting for me😁
man, bringing back the memories. Loved Neuromancer so much when I was kid back then. I played it on C64. Same for Curse of Azure Bonds before the rest of the FR series started to go down the hill in quality in terms of RPG gameplay/open world choice.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames My grandfather had a tape deck as well. I remember when I was in grade school playng Temple of Apshai and Snoopy's Lemonade Stand from his tape deck. Took a long time to load it up!
Mars of Titan was my favourite RPG of the time - so open, so many choices! Close 2nd would be the Buck Rogers RPG, Matrix Cubed! And who knew Neuromancer the game would end up becoming Cyberpunk 2077, the game, and Wasteland ending up being Fallout New Vegas!!!?
44:22 You cannot land and refuel on your own Aircraft Carrier coming from left. You must pick the „runway“ coming from right. WoF is such a great game, if you think you got only ONE button for all the actions. Landing, Dogfights, Bombs, Rockets,… What a masterpiece.
Wings of Fury was meant to be played on the Amiga. But BoB, OMG! Played the crap out of that game both on the A500 and in DOS. I was very exited when SWOTL arrived and of cource 1942 Battlehawks was also a game I played alot. I still have the original disks and manuals for the DOS versions of BoB and SWOTL... From Commodore 64/128 and Amiga 500 to DOS gaming in the 90'ies. I feel privileged that I got to experience the childhood of computer games 😎
Another very important game that came out in 1989 was the very first John Madden Football, which is not a superstar franchise. It was a very impressive simulation, in may ways better than what we have today.
True. Though I had to land on the 25 somehow, so cuts were made. Have you seen the similar videos for all the other years that I've made? There are some gems in those too. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I didn't mean to criticize (and I did mean to say now is a superstar franchise, not the word not). I thought you might not be a fan of USA sports, in which case, you might never have seen or heard of it. I was just letting you know! 🙂
@@lordmikethegreat I didn't take it personally, don't worry about it. :) I've few american sports games covered in other videos. And here I was just stating facts. I actually write that very line about having to cut games to fit in a very limited 25 metric at least once or twice daily, so I don't even think much about it. xD
So awesome seeing my name on the start screen! Good job on the video. Did you know that wings of fury was also released in japan under the name “wings” in that game you fly a japanese plane and bomb american soldiers :p I wish i could play Space quest. I love the setting. But the random deaths always freaked me out :(
Thanks! :) And no, I didn't know actually, and it's something that could end up being a fun video in the future. Something like regional differences between the games. Obviously under much less terrible title. xD Yeah, deaths in adventure games are terrible!
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I still think it's a pretty good open world space rpg that holds up in gameplay. It had it all- freedom to be good bad or neutral, minigames, upgradable ship, multiple worlds.
SimCity, Neuromancer, Space Quest III, Wasteland, Starflight II, TFH: Battle of Britain, Indiana Jones III... been there, played that - and it was a great time to be around ☺.
Yup, I know. I've got it covered in other videos. Many of them actually. Even the 3D one, which was not the step in the right direction in my eyes, even if not a bad game in its own right.
I have the Hero's Quest big box in my collection of Sierra games but also have Hero Quest (in a small rerelease box). Was always wondering, if I should also get the Quest for Glory I version (VGA "Remake"?). Actually got 7 of the games in this video in my collection, mainly RPGs and Adventures + Sim City. Mines of Titan hase acutally a quite nice box with an embossed silver writing of the title.
@@Alexanderrr3r I'll have a look around if I can find it for a decent price then. Also need to get the Quest for Glory 4 as I only got this game in the Quest for Glory Anthology box.
I know you don't usually show sports games, but "Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs" was something special at the time. A revolutionary game, that no other basketball video game had come close to doing before. This game was the closest thing we could imagine to the real thing, and essentially the first game in what would become EA's NBA Live game series.
Yup, getting those autoexec.bat and config.sys files properly setup, especially for those earlier games was a constant struggle. Bit easier later on when we could address the entire RAM, and didn't had to "fight" for as big of a chunk of first 640k to be available anymore.
Old memories came back, thanks. We had a C64 in Hungary, which we smuggled through the iron curtain around 1987 or 88, I remember we could not have any legal games on it, so in Hungary there were a widespread copy centers for games. I remember getting Warlords, which was my favorite. And I remember we had Indiana Jones, but due to lack of English knowledge, we had no clue what to do there.
Not gonna lie, I wouldn't go to shops for games these day, when everything can be purchased online, but I miss the feeling of doing it too. Or of being in a new to me town, and accidentally finding somewhere a shop with games, and then exploring it, naively hoping that it would have different games than the ones I was used to. xD
Harpoon, and Harpoon II, is now closely the same as Command: Modern Air and Naval Operations. Very in-detail kind of simulator.a good in-depth knowledge of old, new and future platform, weapons and systems is needed to fully enjoy the game
Wasteland was my first rpg and totally hooked me on the genre and the post apocalyptic setting as a whole. Totally agree on the impact and importance of the game. Played almost all of these and the fallout series for untold thousands of hours. Another great video.
Warlords playing with a bunch of friends was great fun in multi-player. We played that one on the Amiga though. Did not even know there was a PC version back then.
Harpoon was an amazing game for its time. And really, it's more simulator than game even. There were literally hundreds of things you had to keep in mind unless you wanted to get trashed. Set a good formation for all naval groups, super important. Speed for all units, too fast for ships and formations becomes nonfunctional and subs can hear you from FAR away, too slow and you become easy to target with longrange missiles... Etc... I can brag that i've won all the original game scenarios as both sides. Basic truth, if you're given enough Backfire bombers, you can ALWAYS win the scenario. Never played on PC though, just Amiga. Sword of the samurai was a great game. Basically, it's the ancestor of Total war series, minus the RPG stuff. Battle chess... *lol* You just played it to see all the different takeouts. And wow, someone brought up Space rogue. I had that on the C-64 and it took me ages to figure out how to finish it. But i had a lot of fun hunting pirates in the meantime.
Harpoon was always a little bit too much for my young self, and I was never as good at it as I was at Silent Service 2 and Aces of the Deep. These two were more straightforward and focused on subs only. I figured that showing a few encounters between the pieces in Battle Chess would be more interesting to watch then just chess. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah, Harpoon is a largescale advanced combat simulator while SS2 and AotD are submarine gamesims. At least 2 levels of magnitude difference in complexity. In the subsims, unless you do something really bad or have bad luck, the question is usually how successful you can be. While in Harpoon, there's thousands upon thousands of mistakes you can make and a constant stream of decisions you have to make to have any CHANCE of success. But, the sheer satisfaction of taking one of the difficult or big scenarios and then, for example sinking the three entire USN carrier groups within minutes of each other AND get away with it without taking any losses of your own... That's just NICE. I think i had to replay that scenario about a dozen times before i managed that, and it took a lot of juggling forces around and several tries to figure out how to move units to not get them smacked down before they could reach positions. Not to mention the difficulty just in setting up targeting and how much to fire, when and from where. ... Of course, THEN i figured out how to mod the game... ;)
Space rogue was amazing. And as you showed but didnt reference, it had a game within the game. You could go to an arcade machine within the game and play on it.
Oh yeah, quite few games back then have done it, right? I mean, Day of the Tentacle had a full Maniac Mansion of a PC in one of the rooms in Dr Fred's house. :)
Great retrospective. So many games on your list that I remember fondly. I have a particular soft spot for Curse of the Azure Bonds which was one of the most enjoyable development projects I've ever been a part of (I was lead PC dev). It was a classic 'content mostly' where we had all of the core systems in pretty solid shape and we were building on top of what we already knew how to do. Awesome team. Super fun project.
Thanks a lot! And oh my days! Are you serious? WOW! So I go to meet a legend! I hope it didn't sound sarcastic, I had no such intentions. I might have not played GoldBox games as much as I'd like to, but I did some, and they were all amazing! So, meeting someone who's responsible for at least a part of that childhood/teen amazement is something special. So, thank you for being a part of gaming history and providing us all with countless memories! :)
Just had to say thx for your work on this Curse of the Azure bonds was by far my favorite gold box game and ranks pretty high up on my list of best games of all time. Though consistently getting wrecked by Fire Knifes until I really learned how to use fireball was one of the most frustrating learning curves ive ever had 😜
@@evers6214 Oh man... I remember that. There was a pretty massive internal debate about difficulty in general and, for better or worse, we leaned pretty hard into well... hard. But I'm glad you stuck with it. :)
@@scotbayless i think you made the right call keeping it challenging. Aside from extending play time it really made every move feel important. The mix of strategy and luck kept fights interesting, and it made finding even a +2 weapon exciting because you knew that extra little bonus was going to make a difference. The entire play through was very satisfying and memorable.
Nice batch. Familiar with several of them but Sword of the Samurai is one of the curveball games that influenced me a lot. I've made several attempts at recreations of it over the years. Never finished any of them of course.
So many great games, but I admit I have my rose-tinted glasses. I was given my first pc in 1987, a monster with a whopping 512k of RAM. These games were played, replayed, & traded with friends. Copy protection was in its infancy, so my friends & I made sure not to buy duplicate titles and instead make copies for one another. Wasteland was very similar to The Bard's Tale series, so familiarity with one helped with the other. There is a remastered version which gives it smoother visuals without functionally changing the game. I recommend it for those who find the original offputting. It & 1990's "Dark Knights of Krynn", a Dragonlance "gold box" game are on my PC now. Space Quest was so much fun, but there were times when I couldn't figure out how to interact with the objects onscreen. There were no wikis & walkthroughs, so we had to go to a BBS & post a question, then hope for the best. I apologize for the extra long comment. It saddens me that Mechwarrior didn't make the cut for essential games of '88. One great thing about these old games is so many are available via abadonware sites, if you don't want to pay Steam $10 for a 35-year old game.
Yeah, the piracy was nothing unusual back then, and most of us never gave it a passing thought. And Wasteland is definitely worth experiencing, whichever the way - old or new. Since you used BBSes, did you play any MUDs on them too? No need to apologise for longer comments, I want this channel to become a small community, so the discussions are definitely encouraged. Especially, that I enjoy them too. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Wow. Massive tip of the hat to you, sir. Yes, I played MUDs for far too many hours. It was an unhealthy addiction for me. There were so many, so it was always possible to find one or more which appealed to any given user. I didn't hang it up until about 10 years ago. MMORPGs filled that niche, for better or worse. I also wrote & designed areas for a few MUDs. If you enjoyed D&D, reading, & a bit of coding, (not that uncommon a mix among tech nerds), it was enjoyable. The main task was to write descriptions of rooms, objects, & NPCs which were interesting & helpful without making it a chore to read. Thanks. That was a pleasant walk down memory lane. Now help grandpa back to his chair.
@@Mr._Anderpson Sadly, my experience with MUDs was rather limited. For a whole plethora of reasons, but the idea of them and how they operated always enchanted me. Even in the times of full blown 3D SVGA graphics. Judging from what you write, I take you don't dabble in anything MUD related anymore? I'm sure there's gotta be at least few left working, somewhere, on an old server running, forgotten by the owners, living its own digital life... ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It isn't a bad idea, revisiting something that I enjoyed so much. You know the drill. You have kids and a lot of the old hobbies fall away, at least for a while. I stay away now because I'm much older. Free time is at a premium. Most of my gaming occurs in the winter, when I don't have to work around mowing, gardening, & social obligations. Amusing side story. There were MUD clients, which allowed a player functions like setting paths, triggers, & macros. One had a 30-day trial period. We would set the clock on the PC forward by 200 years, install the client, and reset the clock. The trial version would then be viable for 200 years and 30 days.
Some classics here. Fond memories of Akanoid 2 (Though I played this more often on an Acorn Arcemedies at school along with Lemmings in the 90s), A-10 Tank Killer, SimCity, Harpoon (though I didn't always know quite what I was doing with these games that I remember), Indy500 (this and later G. Crammond's Grand Prix were favourites for racing back in the late 80s/90s), Battlechess and Battle of Britain (though I played a lot more of Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe which followed it later).
It was an interesting year, no doubt about that. :) I've other years covered too, so some of the other ones you remember are sure to be there as well. That said, if you were to pick one game from the 80s, and one from the 90s, as your personal best - what would they be?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames From the 80s, possibly it would be Alley Cat, an oldie but one of the first I remember playing on the PC. For the 90s, probably either Worms or Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. Lots of fun with friends during school lunchtime with Worms. I'd love a modern faithful remake of SWotL. Though I rather enjoyed such gems as F-19 and EF2000 amongst others. And of course Command & Conquer was always a favourite.
I loved A-10 tank kiiller but had one issue. It used a lot of memory for 90s standard. As such, my machine had one bad stick of ram. This is when RAM was very expensive. So randomly when playing A-10, My entire system would crash and lose all progress. It suxed until I built my next machine.
Yes rick dangerous is a memory game. Relatedly if you play it at length you'll remember it forever. The lives code to input in high score doesn't work on the pc version.
It took me 6 hours to unpack the floppies to play Pool of Radiance on my Tandy 1000. Each random battle took 5 full minutes to load. It crashed at the end and there was no support. King's Quest 1-3 & Space Quest were fantasy gold. Starflight 1 & 2 were fire and 'No Man Sky' may as well be the ultimate sequel. Where is today's battle chess?!? It's the original wizard's chess! *sigh* See also: boulder dash & the kobayashi alternative
The follow up to Mean Streets, Countdown, was a great adventure game. It was 1990 though. It did not have the 3D parts of Mean Streets, but I liked it a lot more.
Street rods was goated. Street rods 2 even better. Should be remade. Buying cars and parts out of the newspaper, then driving to the diner to challenge greasers and punks to drag races... such a good idea, and could be expanded upon nicely to include taking babes on dates and having fights.
I think I got mine around 95/96 too. But I was jumping straight into backlog of games I only read about before, and replaying all those gems I never had a chance. :)
Yup, all great games, and I've most if not all covered in their respective videos in the same series. This one's only covering 1989. And the series run up to 1997, each year in its own video. :)
I was 20 in 89, so many of these titles bring back great memories, all of the flight sims, Indy 500 I couldnt make it a lap without popping a tire - and Curse of the Azure bonds - a buddy and I took turns playing, one slept while the other played and then we switched, just to get to the ending. good times
Oh, it's such a fun story about Curse of the Azure Bonds. I've not played a game like that exactly, but I remember literally playing through entire nights with a friend, trying to complete numerous games, or replaying Moonstone for the N-th time. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames we did the same thing with the first D&D game Pools of radience, we were in the military and living in japan, its great when you end up with a roomate thats as big of D&D nerd as you are.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Naw, we created the party togather and picked classes then one would play while the other watched or slept for a few hours, then we switched, until we got to the final boss - then I replayed it by myself a few times afterward.
I am surprised you didnt include the other similar flight game F29 Retaliator. loved that game. Could never figure out how to land, so i had to deliberately take enough damage so that as i destroyed the last enemy, I could safely eject and let the plane crash without getting court marshaled.
so glad I found this video. brought back some great memories. loved kings, police and space quest games. M1 was also a favorite. also blew hours on elite.
Glad that you liked it! I have similar to those on my channel covering all other years of DOS gaming. So you may wanna check them out too. Or not, you know, your call. ;)
I spent so much time on Star Flight and the F-16 simulator named "Falcon AT". I think I still have Falcon 3.0 and a bunch of 90's simulator games in a box somewhere.
You know, I treat all Tex Murphy games as entirely playable on their own, but it cannot be denied that if you've went through them in order, you actually get a lot of extra bits and pieces that are not noticeable if you only go for one of them.
Remember how i cant sleep after try simcity in childhood ;D amazing feelings and its never back. Now i have powerfull PC and can buy any game but no wanna play =(
Oh, I've so many games but so little time to play too. I do try to take one day in a week to at least play for 6-8 hours to relax. And naturally, I play a little for some of the videos. But that 6-8 hours is actually for games I want to complete and not see to get the footage of. :)
What can I say... back in my day I was too green to finish some of those games. Now that I'm a better player I can barely find some of them 😭 Never finished Rick Dangerous 1 or 2. Also Barbarian. I completed Larry the "new" version, with colors and better graphics. The one version with square heads and write menu (ala King Quest 1) was way too hard for me. Also my English was real bad then 😆
@@huaweisaturno1474 Social life is overrated and can wait a couple of weeks. ;) Also, if you have space and bandwidth, the RetroExo is the best choice. I use it for recordings. It's so simple, and requires NO configuration at all. :)
More games I'd forgotten about since I never got a chance to play them myself. IBM compatible PCs were rare at the time and usually reserved to working environments. Not that I really knew english well enough to really get much out of most PC games at the time anyway, I played my first more serious RPG with a finnish-english dictionary in one hand.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Pretty sure it was Might & Magic 2: Gates To Another World. The game has no chill, with several different kinds of monsters that can literally disintegrate half your party as their first attack. And then there's the infamous Mega Dragon... Didn't even manage to finish it, due to never understanding how to solve the INFAMOUS Jon Van Caneghem's cipher puzzles, one of which is required to be solved at the ending to finish the game XD
Mines of Titan! I played Mars Saga on C64 a lot. I have yet to try the DOS version. I really should buckle down and play it. Thanks for video, always awesome.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thank you for showing me this! I go a little A.D.D. when going through games sometimes so I remember saying I should play this but of course, I started about 20 other games and forgot lol. I've already got it loaded and ready to start this weekend.
Oh, it was... But it was not stupid hard. As in, if you managed to remember what, when and how to do, and did't panic - it was doable. It just takes time and repetition. xD
Magic carpet II Whipeout Terminal Velocity Microprose F-117A Civilization II Colonization Abuse Another world/Out of this world Need for speed 1 Iron fist 2 Commanche gold Doom Doom 2 Redneck & rampage Heretic Hexen Hexen II Cannon fodder Wolfenstein 3D Spear of destiny Etc etc etc
I was wrong in my previous assumption. This is not a good or great video, it's an awesome one. The perfect thing after a tiring work day. :) Oh, I wanted to add something about Hero's Quest. It had to be renamed later due to a copyright clash with another game. It became Quest for Glory. Quite a nice game. Ooh, Neuromancer! I read the book and apparently forgot it completely. :D And of course I'm adding all the space and sci-fi games to my list. I've heard of Space Quest and almost tried the first one, but died instantly. So I'll have to try the series again armed with a walkthrough and quick parser typing skill. There is a point in Mean Streets where you talk about the boss' wife's crippling stare and a cyclops comes up on the screen. Perfect timing! XD And your review of Rockstar! is a real comedic gem, poetry and all. :D The game itself is something else. Your grandma and mother inviting you to wild parties and offering you drugs? Wow. XD And also, nice choice for songs. :D
Thanks! You're very kind! I would hope so, I was up after 2am working on it. And I'm fine with how it ended up being. :) Though, I feel the next one (3rd episode in Windows 1999) will be even better. Go for the Quest for Glory straight away, in my opinion remake is better than this original. An no, my bosses wife is nowhere as nice as that Cyclops is. She's mean and evil to the core. And he's only a little mutated. Things happen in the future, you know, we gotta be understanding and used to things being more interesting than they are now. :P But yeah, timing was impeccable. Even if accidental. And Rockstar... They're good songs, you know. :P
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It's well worth all the work you've put into it. :) And can't wait for the next one. Well, Quest for Glory from what I've understood is just a rename, but still the same game. It looks the same as what you were showing in the video. True, that poor cyclops was just an innocent mutant. He looked kind of distressed too. Probably had something in his eye. This thing reminds me of that scene in Men in Black where the recruits had a shooting test. ;) So, did your songs make the #1 in the charts? :)
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks www.mobygames.com/game/16075/quest-for-glory-i-so-you-want-to-be-a-hero/ Remake, and a good one at that. :) And no, I didn''t play long enough to get to number 1 but I got into mid 20s. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Wait, there are two entries. One is the link you've just shared, so Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero, which is the 1992 VGA remake. And the other is Hero's Quest: So You Want To Be A Hero, with an aka Quest For Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero (without that I) from 1989, that has the mouse-over label Re-release title. Honestly, I think they should have named it: Quest for Glory: So You Want To Play A Game With A Ridiculously Long Title. :P Still a good game. I bet your ingame grandma's wild parties were a bit much for some fans, otherwise the songs would have been an instant hit. :P
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Where are you checking it out? On MobyGames? Cause those titles underneath the main one there are usuall just titles used in other markets. So perhaps it was called QfG cause they had that legal dispute in that region, and then with the next entries they just decided to change the name of all games in the series, not to worry about it in the future at all?
1992. That's the first golden year of DOS. Most of the games from 1989 were either better on the Amiga (usually because the sound quality was much better) or not very good. It wasn't until 1992 when it really clicked; games could safely assume some kind of half-decent sound card, a faster CPU than an Amiga (particularly the old amiga 500's that games still had to target because they were so omnipresent), a VGA screen and a hard drive. This year also dropped the 3 killer games; wolfenstein 3D, Ultima underworld (the most ahead-of-it's-time game ever created by a wide margin) and ultima VII.
DOS era and the 1990s saw a boom in space and scifi games. Amazingly people only talk about arcade and FPS and not scifi games. There were incredible games during DOS era and during the war of the videocards during late 1990s.
Yep, Frontier was my all time favourite. And surprisingly I wasn't too keen on Elite. Arcade games are more universal genre, that most are into. Space games, only some care for.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Star Control 1 and 2. Hi-Octane, The Dig, Carrier command, Stellar 7, Earthsiege, Mechwarrior 2 games. Can you make a video about them?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Hi-Octane is super arcadish combat racing. Pure adrenaline. In my machine in Dosbox, I use these settings: Machine svga_s3 CPU type 386 slow Cycles max 50% Up 10 Down 20 Core auto My machine is slow and old. And this game is sensitive to settings.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Carrier command is a port from Amiga to PC. When you start the game you need to enable mouse. Do not let yourself be underwhelmed by polygonal graphics, the simulation is very immersive.
Help, I'm looking for a game I don't know the name of. It was a DOS RPG. You had four characters ( I think). You start in a medieval town and you head into the sewers. There are levels upon levels of tunnels. Sometimes the walls change appearance as you descend. I think mostly it was Grey stone walls covered in green slime/mold. You encounter more normal enemies in the upper levels like " ruffians" or " thieves". As you descend you begin encountering skeletons, vampires and other supernatural creatures. If you died you had to return to a monastery on the surface to get your character revived for a payment of gold. If you inspected the walls of the tunnel ( you couldn't see it) but text would tell you that someone has written " help" on the walls. When I reached the end of the demo, I think I had to save a nude woman who was being held captive near some dimensional portal. This is really bugging me. I got to find this.
@OldAndNewVideoGames No, it wasn't. I just checked them out on your suggestion. But you got the right idea. Definitely that sort of game. What I can say is the graphics more closely resembled Eye of the Beholder but like Ishar, the characters are arranged at the bottom of the screen rather than to the right. My father tells me I will not find it, when I asked why he said that it would have been a rather obscure title and a bit clumsy. I guess he thinks other games in the genre to be more superior. It was a game he had on a demo disk when I was a kid in the 90s. Although I dont know how old the game was at the time. I sincerely appreciate your help. EDIT: I will definitely check out other games in these two series to see if a particular game in the series is the game in question.
Physically it sounds like Abandoned Places and every Abandoned Places had a title like "Abandoned Places Dawn of the Hammer of the Storm Heirloom Tomato" or whatever.
It's incredible that we had a truly 3D racing sim before the 1980s were over.
What's even more incredible is how playable and fun it was. It's something noone expected. On the other hand, Papyrus did became masters of the genre within the next few years, so they clearly knew what they were doing. xD
I dont know I could never make a lap with out busting a tire, I will say F-16 was amazing, and the D&D games where a good time.
@@tomr3422 You can always reduce the difficulty though :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I believe I tried that, I was a crash magnet - I decided to stick with flight sims less stuff to hit in the air
@@tomr3422 The logic checks out ;)
This series is so good! Nostalgia trip deluxe. SimCity and Street Rod are the games I played the most from this year. Although we didn't really start playing them until 92-93-ish.
Yeah, I moved to PC a bit later than 89 too, so I played most later as well. And thank you! :)
I came here for Harpoon, M1 Tank Platoon, Indy 500, F16 Combat Pilot and Battle of Britian! As an Amiga gamer back then, this is where I played these iconic games!
:)
MicroProse was the best. Their manuals were like library books.
@@Teeveepicksures And their games were fire!
17/18 months has gone.. :) You have come so far.. Still gonne be watching and supporting all new stuff but decided to sort out my subscriptions while im on the move.. :) Thanks for everything Poland
Thanks for everything! :)
I loved Sierra games in the 90's. I played them when they were updated from tying to mouse. Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight 3. The ability to transfer your hero between games in Hero's Quest was cool. Good times :)
Good times indeed, and we *need* to be able to move characters between the iterations of modern games now too!
20:08 Gunsel sounds like the name of an Alabama child of Hansel and Gretyl
Oh boy did I love Warlords! My brother always won, but we spent days playing it.
It was a fun game indeed. Though, I've spent way more time playing the second.
I cut my (gaming) teeth on those old DOS games. Sometimes they were a real pain to get to work. Modifying the autoexec.bat file, creating boot disks etc. but they were awesome games.
Yep, and remember having to work out how to free the base RAM, the first 640kB cause some older games completely ignored the megabytes after, and just wanted as much of the first chunk as possible. xD
Ah, that stack of floppies you had to rifle through to pick the boot disk for every game.
That was part of the satisfaction of a game in those days. Getting them to run. Getting them to run with sound!
That is the reason I got into IT. I had to know how memory management worked and the ins and outs of DOS to play games. Everything else flowed from there.
@@KevinRank :)
@@Bob3D2000 And mouse support! And then the CD drive drivers... xD
Wasteland is one of my favorite games of all time. It had the feel of 80's post-apocalyptic imagery. It is understandable that "you had to be there" for this one to really click, and most people just know the "spiritual successor" Fallout series, and sadly the sequels Wasteland 2 and 3 just don't fit into that setting being a product from not only decades later, but with heavy influence from Fallout itself.
Anyway, I'll always love the first one.
I agree that at the time of its release Wasteland was more special than anything else out there.
Rockstar, I have it still installed. Stick with LSD and booze and you actually live long enough to see your albums on top of the charts.
Well here you go, here's an advice like no other! I'm hearting the comment so that more could see it. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I started with my first (punk) band few years before Rockstar came out. Of course I played sh*t out of it. 🙂
@@RudolfSikorsky Really? You still in the band?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Well, for last ten years I am living in rural area, so no. Sometimes doing some computer music but rarely nowadays. I have some songs (first band included) on my account, if You are interested.
Thank you for this series, it reminds me why the Amiga was such an important part of history. Why I loved it so much. (Intel outside)
Thanks for watching! :)
Sierra text parser games are one of the reasons I could start learning english from when I was only 5 years old. There was no internet, or really any toddler language courses. So this was the only way, and it was fun. It was slow going at first, but now I'm basically bilingual. Great memories from that era of games.
Oh, I get that. I too learned English from games and movies, I just don't dig the whole parser gameplay. But that may be my ADD. xD
HOW dangerous?
RICK Dangerous.
Holy sweet potato fries, Batman! That's an excellent description of difficulty. It's between very difficult and souls-like tough. xD
All the Sierra "Quest" games are amazing artworks, and the humor is still spot on.
True, though I can't play those with parsers. The mere thought of them raises my blood pressure to dangerous levels. ;)
I loved the Hero Quest games when they first came out. Great to see it as your first mention.
They were fine games indeed. Unlike what other RPGs were at the time.
I learned how to type on Hero's Quest, King's Quest, and Police Quest.
Oh memories. Thanks for posting! 😊😊
My pleasure! And glad you liked it! :) Have you seen the other videos in the same series I've done for the other years of DOS?
38:30 oh boy, the peasants of Hitachi don't know yet that in a couple centuries they will be producing construction equipment and magic wands
Indi 500 was probably the most high-tech game back then. I had a release supporting Sound Blaster 2.0. Street Rod and the MicroProse flight simulators were super good. However I think you missed "Budokan" which was amazing game back then, also 1989. Speaking of "Rick Dangerous" we must mention John Romero's first game - "Dangerous Dave" first version of which was silly but ok. MicroProse's "Airborne Ranger" 1987 but I think worth mentioning. And LucasFilm Ltd "Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders" was 1988 but I think we could mention it here too.
Thing with those lists is that it's difficult to compile a list without dropping some awesome games, and also regardless of how much you try to objective, bits and pieces of your own gaming preferences always push through when deciding on those last few spots. ;)
Don't know if that's any consolation, but the games that I've "missed" here, I've covered in other videos in different series in the past already.
It's cool to see you shout out Anna Rudolph. She's very cool, has a great sense of humor.
I know, right? Also, she deserves it and her channel should be bigger. And I know it's million times bigger than mine, but I stand by what I said.
Nice video! Especially thanks for the name of the game constantly visible on top right corner, so when I skip some part I always know the name of the game.
Glad you enjoy it! And yeah, I always keep the names there, for that reason exactly. Also if someone's looking for a game from their youth and don't remember its story or much about it, just how it looked like, then they don't have to go back in the video to check the title. It's a little convenience for everyone, and no trouble for me. :)
Love this channel!!! And I am not a fan of nostalgia in general but your comments are so spot on and just seeing games I basically forgot come to life again is great thank you and keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot! Comments like this one make my day! :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames and your writing is excellent!!!
@@sigouinfb Thanks! :)
My favorite from 1989 is the original Mechwarrior. it is very processor speed dependent I like it best on a 12-16mhz 286
I remember having to use moslo on those older games with faster CPUs. xD
I dont remember if it was the first or second MW game now, but a few years ago it ran well on DOSBOX, I replayed it a couple of times.
@@tomr3422 Most of these old work quite well, and when using RetroExo they require literally no configuration. :)
Ohhh man you hit a happy nerve. I must have played at least 300-400 hours of MechWarrior.
I played it on an AMD 386 DX 40 that ran at 33mhz without the "turbo" button and it was fantastic!
I had F16 on Amiga. Brilliant for it's time.
I used to play a 3rd person space ship game that allowed you to upgrade your ships with weapons, power & sheilds etc. It had a hyperspace function that would take you to the next stage & classical music played when you warped. I can't remember the name, but it was excellent for DOS.
Frontier?
I actually had an amstrad cpc 6128 around this time, got into the pc gaming about 1992. Awesome time to start, the lucasarts and sierra adventure games were all there waiting for me😁
Oh, that must've felt like a huge generational jump!
24:26 "No one cared who I was until I put on the wizard hat"
Where do I know the quote from? It rings the bell so hard, and yet, I don't know in which tower. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Your memory is the Bane of your existence.
Of course Bane said that.
@@AntipaladinPedigri I mean, who else would? ;)
Street Rod was great indeed, heck 2nd game was good too, but i fell in love with the 1st one.
That's fair, a gamer wants what a gamer wants. :)
Space Rogue was an all-time favorite from that era. I have the F16 box at work. :)
True, it was something special!
man, bringing back the memories. Loved Neuromancer so much when I was kid back then. I played it on C64. Same for Curse of Azure Bonds before the rest of the FR series started to go down the hill in quality in terms of RPG gameplay/open world choice.
C64 was such an amazing little system! I have very fond memories of it. No disk drive though, I had a tape deck. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames My grandfather had a tape deck as well. I remember when I was in grade school playng Temple of Apshai and Snoopy's Lemonade Stand from his tape deck. Took a long time to load it up!
@@j_atkinson Yeah, later on in C64's life we got speed loaders and speed loading cartridges. They were game changers. :)
Mars of Titan was my favourite RPG of the time - so open, so many choices! Close 2nd would be the Buck Rogers RPG, Matrix Cubed! And who knew Neuromancer the game would end up becoming Cyberpunk 2077, the game, and Wasteland ending up being Fallout New Vegas!!!?
Yep, all great games, and all classics. Old and less old. :)
44:22 You cannot land and refuel on your own Aircraft Carrier coming from left. You must pick the „runway“ coming from right.
WoF is such a great game, if you think you got only ONE button for all the actions.
Landing, Dogfights, Bombs, Rockets,…
What a masterpiece.
And here you go, someone who remembers the game way better than I do. Thanks! :)
Also, the one button thing may have come from the Amiga.
Wings of Fury was meant to be played on the Amiga. But BoB, OMG! Played the crap out of that game both on the A500 and in DOS. I was very exited when SWOTL arrived and of cource 1942 Battlehawks was also a game I played alot. I still have the original disks and manuals for the DOS versions of BoB and SWOTL...
From Commodore 64/128 and Amiga 500 to DOS gaming in the 90'ies. I feel privileged that I got to experience the childhood of computer games 😎
Yup, I went down the identical path, and it was an adventure and a half! :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Sure was 😄
19:14 that Blue LEGO brick was used to get bigfoot to step on it to make it scream and reveal its location
Another very important game that came out in 1989 was the very first John Madden Football, which is not a superstar franchise. It was a very impressive simulation, in may ways better than what we have today.
True. Though I had to land on the 25 somehow, so cuts were made. Have you seen the similar videos for all the other years that I've made? There are some gems in those too. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I didn't mean to criticize (and I did mean to say now is a superstar franchise, not the word not). I thought you might not be a fan of USA sports, in which case, you might never have seen or heard of it. I was just letting you know! 🙂
@@lordmikethegreat I didn't take it personally, don't worry about it. :) I've few american sports games covered in other videos. And here I was just stating facts. I actually write that very line about having to cut games to fit in a very limited 25 metric at least once or twice daily, so I don't even think much about it. xD
Woo! Wasteland! A game that inspired two important series; Fallout and Hero League of Hoboken
Both great games :)
So awesome seeing my name on the start screen! Good job on the video.
Did you know that wings of fury was also released in japan under the name “wings” in that game you fly a japanese plane and bomb american soldiers :p
I wish i could play Space quest. I love the setting. But the random deaths always freaked me out :(
Thanks! :)
And no, I didn't know actually, and it's something that could end up being a fun video in the future. Something like regional differences between the games. Obviously under much less terrible title. xD
Yeah, deaths in adventure games are terrible!
@@OldAndNewVideoGames as terrible as text parsers?
@@Teddyfunhouse Only Pro Soccer 2190, Action 52 and Bible Stories are worse than text parsers, with PS2190 being the worst of them all. And by a lot.
Loved Space Rogue. The first pc game I ever bought on my own.
Oh, then no wonder it's such an important memory :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I still think it's a pretty good open world space rpg that holds up in gameplay. It had it all- freedom to be good bad or neutral, minigames, upgradable ship, multiple worlds.
@@Freshbrood Oh, for sure. :)
SimCity, Neuromancer, Space Quest III, Wasteland, Starflight II, TFH: Battle of Britain, Indiana Jones III... been there, played that - and it was a great time to be around ☺.
It truly was great!
FYI: Hero's Quest was renamed "Quest for Glory: So you want to be a Hero." Sierra didn't want to get sued by Milton Bradley.🤔
Yup, I know. I've got it covered in other videos. Many of them actually. Even the 3D one, which was not the step in the right direction in my eyes, even if not a bad game in its own right.
I have the Hero's Quest big box in my collection of Sierra games but also have Hero Quest (in a small rerelease box). Was always wondering, if I should also get the Quest for Glory I version (VGA "Remake"?).
Actually got 7 of the games in this video in my collection, mainly RPGs and Adventures + Sim City. Mines of Titan hase acutally a quite nice box with an embossed silver writing of the title.
@@moomah5929 Yes, you should. It is the very same QfG1 with graphics of QfG4. Awesome stuff.
@@moomah5929 That's quite a collection!
@@Alexanderrr3r I'll have a look around if I can find it for a decent price then. Also need to get the Quest for Glory 4 as I only got this game in the Quest for Glory Anthology box.
I know you don't usually show sports games, but "Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs" was something special at the time. A revolutionary game, that no other basketball video game had come close to doing before. This game was the closest thing we could imagine to the real thing, and essentially the first game in what would become EA's NBA Live game series.
I have few sports games here and there, but true, they're in the definite minority. Probably cause other genres often had better titles. Probably. xD
Just getting those old DOS game’s running was an accomplishment
Yup, getting those autoexec.bat and config.sys files properly setup, especially for those earlier games was a constant struggle. Bit easier later on when we could address the entire RAM, and didn't had to "fight" for as big of a chunk of first 640k to be available anymore.
Old memories came back, thanks. We had a C64 in Hungary, which we smuggled through the iron curtain around 1987 or 88, I remember we could not have any legal games on it, so in Hungary there were a widespread copy centers for games. I remember getting Warlords, which was my favorite. And I remember we had Indiana Jones, but due to lack of English knowledge, we had no clue what to do there.
Warlords and Indiana Jones to be honest sound a lot like Amiga games. :)
Loved those 'gold box' D&D games - curse of the azure bonds was so legit my junior year in high school - good times!
Yup, they were so much more than those bog standard first person dungeon crawlers!
Mean Streets! Wow, been trying to remember that games name for like 2 decades. I liked that game alot
Well, then... Now's as good time as any to give it another go. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames i am seriously going to try
I miss the trips to the computer store for shareware and the smell of those places
Not gonna lie, I wouldn't go to shops for games these day, when everything can be purchased online, but I miss the feeling of doing it too. Or of being in a new to me town, and accidentally finding somewhere a shop with games, and then exploring it, naively hoping that it would have different games than the ones I was used to. xD
Harpoon, and Harpoon II, is now closely the same as Command: Modern Air and Naval Operations. Very in-detail kind of simulator.a good in-depth knowledge of old, new and future platform, weapons and systems is needed to fully enjoy the game
:)
Wasteland was my first rpg and totally hooked me on the genre and the post apocalyptic setting as a whole. Totally agree on the impact and importance of the game. Played almost all of these and the fallout series for untold thousands of hours. Another great video.
Yeah, Fallout is one of these games in most of its iterations that I can play to death. xD And thanks!
Warlords playing with a bunch of friends was great fun in multi-player.
We played that one on the Amiga though. Did not even know there was a PC version back then.
Oh, PC got an amazing Warlords 2, that was an upgrade and a half!
Harpoon was an amazing game for its time. And really, it's more simulator than game even. There were literally hundreds of things you had to keep in mind unless you wanted to get trashed. Set a good formation for all naval groups, super important. Speed for all units, too fast for ships and formations becomes nonfunctional and subs can hear you from FAR away, too slow and you become easy to target with longrange missiles... Etc...
I can brag that i've won all the original game scenarios as both sides. Basic truth, if you're given enough Backfire bombers, you can ALWAYS win the scenario. Never played on PC though, just Amiga.
Sword of the samurai was a great game. Basically, it's the ancestor of Total war series, minus the RPG stuff.
Battle chess... *lol* You just played it to see all the different takeouts.
And wow, someone brought up Space rogue. I had that on the C-64 and it took me ages to figure out how to finish it. But i had a lot of fun hunting pirates in the meantime.
Harpoon was always a little bit too much for my young self, and I was never as good at it as I was at Silent Service 2 and Aces of the Deep. These two were more straightforward and focused on subs only.
I figured that showing a few encounters between the pieces in Battle Chess would be more interesting to watch then just chess. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah, Harpoon is a largescale advanced combat simulator while SS2 and AotD are submarine gamesims.
At least 2 levels of magnitude difference in complexity.
In the subsims, unless you do something really bad or have bad luck, the question is usually how successful you can be.
While in Harpoon, there's thousands upon thousands of mistakes you can make and a constant stream of decisions you have to make to have any CHANCE of success.
But, the sheer satisfaction of taking one of the difficult or big scenarios and then, for example sinking the three entire USN carrier groups within minutes of each other AND get away with it without taking any losses of your own...
That's just NICE. I think i had to replay that scenario about a dozen times before i managed that, and it took a lot of juggling forces around and several tries to figure out how to move units to not get them smacked down before they could reach positions.
Not to mention the difficulty just in setting up targeting and how much to fire, when and from where.
...
Of course, THEN i figured out how to mod the game... ;)
This is amazing, I love Starflight 2 :) just not the ending lol
It's a great game, years ahead of the era it released in.
17:21 *in a German voice* "Zeer gonna need za bigger U-Boot"
Loved Harpoon, Space Quest 3 and SimCity!!! Good times
Good games :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames You should've mentioned Leasure Suit Larry series also. They were a wonderful time-waster, amirite! :D
@@DarqIce Yup, good games. :)
Space rogue was amazing. And as you showed but didnt reference, it had a game within the game. You could go to an arcade machine within the game and play on it.
Oh yeah, quite few games back then have done it, right? I mean, Day of the Tentacle had a full Maniac Mansion of a PC in one of the rooms in Dr Fred's house. :)
I played almost all of them back when they were new. haha
Must've been hell of a year! :)
YES! Popstar/Rockstar. I freaking love those games.
It's just fun. And what more could you really expect from games? :)
Great retrospective. So many games on your list that I remember fondly. I have a particular soft spot for Curse of the Azure Bonds which was one of the most enjoyable development projects I've ever been a part of (I was lead PC dev). It was a classic 'content mostly' where we had all of the core systems in pretty solid shape and we were building on top of what we already knew how to do. Awesome team. Super fun project.
Thanks a lot! And oh my days! Are you serious? WOW! So I go to meet a legend! I hope it didn't sound sarcastic, I had no such intentions. I might have not played GoldBox games as much as I'd like to, but I did some, and they were all amazing! So, meeting someone who's responsible for at least a part of that childhood/teen amazement is something special. So, thank you for being a part of gaming history and providing us all with countless memories! :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Absolutely my pleasure. :)
Just had to say thx for your work on this Curse of the Azure bonds was by far my favorite gold box game and ranks pretty high up on my list of best games of all time. Though consistently getting wrecked by Fire Knifes until I really learned how to use fireball was one of the most frustrating learning curves ive ever had 😜
@@evers6214 Oh man... I remember that. There was a pretty massive internal debate about difficulty in general and, for better or worse, we leaned pretty hard into well... hard. But I'm glad you stuck with it. :)
@@scotbayless i think you made the right call keeping it challenging. Aside from extending play time it really made every move feel important. The mix of strategy and luck kept fights interesting, and it made finding even a +2 weapon exciting because you knew that extra little bonus was going to make a difference. The entire play through was very satisfying and memorable.
Nice batch. Familiar with several of them but Sword of the Samurai is one of the curveball games that influenced me a lot. I've made several attempts at recreations of it over the years. Never finished any of them of course.
Any of the attempts were any close? Or maybe you made something in its vein?
I spit my coffee out at "stinky feet"
Not on your laptop's screen, I'd hope? :)
Harpoon was great, my first ultra detailed wargame simulation I played. Warlords was so fun ,and so addicitve.
Yup and yup :)
Ark2doh came out in 89? Damn, no wonder it works so well on a 286.
Yup :)
The first Sim City and Space Quest 3... i did not need more game the entire year 1989.
Ha ha ha :) But true, they were excellent choices to take you through it. :)
So many great games, but I admit I have my rose-tinted glasses. I was given my first pc in 1987, a monster with a whopping 512k of RAM. These games were played, replayed, & traded with friends. Copy protection was in its infancy, so my friends & I made sure not to buy duplicate titles and instead make copies for one another.
Wasteland was very similar to The Bard's Tale series, so familiarity with one helped with the other. There is a remastered version which gives it smoother visuals without functionally changing the game. I recommend it for those who find the original offputting. It & 1990's "Dark Knights of Krynn", a Dragonlance "gold box" game are on my PC now.
Space Quest was so much fun, but there were times when I couldn't figure out how to interact with the objects onscreen. There were no wikis & walkthroughs, so we had to go to a BBS & post a question, then hope for the best.
I apologize for the extra long comment. It saddens me that Mechwarrior didn't make the cut for essential games of '88. One great thing about these old games is so many are available via abadonware sites, if you don't want to pay Steam $10 for a 35-year old game.
Yeah, the piracy was nothing unusual back then, and most of us never gave it a passing thought. And Wasteland is definitely worth experiencing, whichever the way - old or new.
Since you used BBSes, did you play any MUDs on them too?
No need to apologise for longer comments, I want this channel to become a small community, so the discussions are definitely encouraged. Especially, that I enjoy them too. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Wow. Massive tip of the hat to you, sir. Yes, I played MUDs for far too many hours. It was an unhealthy addiction for me. There were so many, so it was always possible to find one or more which appealed to any given user. I didn't hang it up until about 10 years ago. MMORPGs filled that niche, for better or worse.
I also wrote & designed areas for a few MUDs. If you enjoyed D&D, reading, & a bit of coding, (not that uncommon a mix among tech nerds), it was enjoyable. The main task was to write descriptions of rooms, objects, & NPCs which were interesting & helpful without making it a chore to read.
Thanks. That was a pleasant walk down memory lane. Now help grandpa back to his chair.
@@Mr._Anderpson Sadly, my experience with MUDs was rather limited. For a whole plethora of reasons, but the idea of them and how they operated always enchanted me. Even in the times of full blown 3D SVGA graphics.
Judging from what you write, I take you don't dabble in anything MUD related anymore? I'm sure there's gotta be at least few left working, somewhere, on an old server running, forgotten by the owners, living its own digital life... ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It isn't a bad idea, revisiting something that I enjoyed so much.
You know the drill. You have kids and a lot of the old hobbies fall away, at least for a while. I stay away now because I'm much older. Free time is at a premium. Most of my gaming occurs in the winter, when I don't have to work around mowing, gardening, & social obligations.
Amusing side story. There were MUD clients, which allowed a player functions like setting paths, triggers, & macros. One had a 30-day trial period. We would set the clock on the PC forward by 200 years, install the client, and reset the clock. The trial version would then be viable for 200 years and 30 days.
Some classics here.
Fond memories of Akanoid 2 (Though I played this more often on an Acorn Arcemedies at school along with Lemmings in the 90s), A-10 Tank Killer, SimCity, Harpoon (though I didn't always know quite what I was doing with these games that I remember), Indy500 (this and later G. Crammond's Grand Prix were favourites for racing back in the late 80s/90s), Battlechess and Battle of Britain (though I played a lot more of Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe which followed it later).
It was an interesting year, no doubt about that. :) I've other years covered too, so some of the other ones you remember are sure to be there as well. That said, if you were to pick one game from the 80s, and one from the 90s, as your personal best - what would they be?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames From the 80s, possibly it would be Alley Cat, an oldie but one of the first I remember playing on the PC. For the 90s, probably either Worms or Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. Lots of fun with friends during school lunchtime with Worms. I'd love a modern faithful remake of SWotL.
Though I rather enjoyed such gems as F-19 and EF2000 amongst others. And of course Command & Conquer was always a favourite.
I loved A-10 tank kiiller but had one issue. It used a lot of memory for 90s standard. As such, my machine had one bad stick of ram. This is when RAM was very expensive. So randomly when playing A-10, My entire system would crash and lose all progress. It suxed until I built my next machine.
I think most of us had similar experience at some point. It's a part of the whole PC gaming experience. :)
Yes rick dangerous is a memory game. Relatedly if you play it at length you'll remember it forever. The lives code to input in high score doesn't work on the pc version.
It's fun one, no doubt about that. Tough as nails though. xD
It took me 6 hours to unpack the floppies to play Pool of Radiance on my Tandy 1000. Each random battle took 5 full minutes to load. It crashed at the end and there was no support.
King's Quest 1-3 & Space Quest were fantasy gold.
Starflight 1 & 2 were fire and 'No Man Sky' may as well be the ultimate sequel.
Where is today's battle chess?!? It's the original wizard's chess! *sigh*
See also: boulder dash & the kobayashi alternative
These are some great memories! :)
The follow up to Mean Streets, Countdown, was a great adventure game. It was 1990 though. It did not have the 3D parts of Mean Streets, but I liked it a lot more.
:)
Street rods was goated. Street rods 2 even better. Should be remade. Buying cars and parts out of the newspaper, then driving to the diner to challenge greasers and punks to drag races... such a good idea, and could be expanded upon nicely to include taking babes on dates and having fights.
I agree, it would be interesting. :)
I played a lot of these games on the Amiga didn’t get a PC until 96.
I think I got mine around 95/96 too. But I was jumping straight into backlog of games I only read about before, and replaying all those gems I never had a chance. :)
Doom,heretic, Prince of Pérsia, Warcraft 1, sim city....
Yup, all great games, and I've most if not all covered in their respective videos in the same series. This one's only covering 1989. And the series run up to 1997, each year in its own video. :)
Great choices!
Thank you, sir! What do you think of the other 9 videos in the series covering all the other years though?
I was 20 in 89, so many of these titles bring back great memories, all of the flight sims, Indy 500 I couldnt make it a lap without popping a tire - and Curse of the Azure bonds - a buddy and I took turns playing, one slept while the other played and then we switched, just to get to the ending. good times
Oh, it's such a fun story about Curse of the Azure Bonds. I've not played a game like that exactly, but I remember literally playing through entire nights with a friend, trying to complete numerous games, or replaying Moonstone for the N-th time. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames we did the same thing with the first D&D game Pools of radience, we were in the military and living in japan, its great when you end up with a roomate thats as big of D&D nerd as you are.
@@tomr3422 Did you divide the party members between you and each of you had their own?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Naw, we created the party togather and picked classes then one would play while the other watched or slept for a few hours, then we switched, until we got to the final boss - then I replayed it by myself a few times afterward.
@@tomr3422 I'm a grown up, and this still sounds like a lot of fun!
I am surprised you didnt include the other similar flight game F29 Retaliator. loved that game. Could never figure out how to land, so i had to deliberately take enough damage so that as i destroyed the last enemy, I could safely eject and let the plane crash without getting court marshaled.
I just couldn't fit all the games and wanted to tackle as many genres as possible too.
what a great video, thank you!
Thank you so much! I hope you liked the ones for the other years too? :)
so glad I found this video. brought back some great memories. loved kings, police and space quest games. M1 was also a favorite. also blew hours on elite.
Glad that you liked it! I have similar to those on my channel covering all other years of DOS gaming. So you may wanna check them out too. Or not, you know, your call. ;)
I spent so much time on Star Flight and the F-16 simulator named "Falcon AT". I think I still have Falcon 3.0 and a bunch of 90's simulator games in a box somewhere.
They're collectables now. :)
Hero's Quest: ...
looks like a game that would be fun with a Lucas Arts pointnclock interface
And it was, later on remade as Quest for Glory :)
I wish we had a modern version of neruomancer :(
mean streets was a bit rough but must be played to enjoy the rest of the tex murphy series
You know, I treat all Tex Murphy games as entirely playable on their own, but it cannot be denied that if you've went through them in order, you actually get a lot of extra bits and pieces that are not noticeable if you only go for one of them.
Remember how i cant sleep after try simcity in childhood ;D amazing feelings and its never back. Now i have powerfull PC and can buy any game but no wanna play =(
Oh, I've so many games but so little time to play too. I do try to take one day in a week to at least play for 6-8 hours to relax. And naturally, I play a little for some of the videos. But that 6-8 hours is actually for games I want to complete and not see to get the footage of. :)
Rick Dangeorus... literal try and fail. Still was awesome 😄
Didn't know Hero's Quest, I played King's, Police's, Space's... but not Hero's 🤭
Yeah, I literally did. Tried and failed. But there's a charm to it, and you do want to carry on trying.
What can I say... back in my day I was too green to finish some of those games. Now that I'm a better player I can barely find some of them 😭
Never finished Rick Dangerous 1 or 2. Also Barbarian. I completed Larry the "new" version, with colors and better graphics. The one version with square heads and write menu (ala King Quest 1) was way too hard for me. Also my English was real bad then 😆
@@huaweisaturno1474 Most of these are on myabandonware . com without spaces. Or better yet, RetroExo. Though that's nearly 1TB in size. xD
Dude, why!! 😆
You just ruined the next months of my social life 😄
@@huaweisaturno1474 Social life is overrated and can wait a couple of weeks. ;)
Also, if you have space and bandwidth, the RetroExo is the best choice. I use it for recordings. It's so simple, and requires NO configuration at all. :)
More games I'd forgotten about since I never got a chance to play them myself. IBM compatible PCs were rare at the time and usually reserved to working environments.
Not that I really knew english well enough to really get much out of most PC games at the time anyway, I played my first more serious RPG with a finnish-english dictionary in one hand.
With a dictionary? That must've been something! Do you remember what game it was htough?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Pretty sure it was Might & Magic 2: Gates To Another World. The game has no chill, with several different kinds of monsters that can literally disintegrate half your party as their first attack. And then there's the infamous Mega Dragon...
Didn't even manage to finish it, due to never understanding how to solve the INFAMOUS Jon Van Caneghem's cipher puzzles, one of which is required to be solved at the ending to finish the game XD
@@janneaalto3956 Well, most of those oldies were not known for being easy. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah, if I'd known about it at the time, I might never have gotten so into RPGs, so... happy accident? XD
@@janneaalto3956 Ha ha ha :) Yeah, definitely! RPGs are just the best! My fave too!
Prince of Persia is a big omission from this list
Fair point, sir. Though... On PC it actually released in 1990, and I have it included in a similar 25 essential DOS games video for 1990. :)
Ah, that takes me back - funny to think that those DOS games on a 'monster' PC were only marginally better than the games on a Spectrum 48K !
True, but a year or so later, and when VGA became more wide spread, and sound cards appeared under the roofs, no 8bit could ever compare. xD
BattleChess & SimCity are the only truly legendary ones in this list!
Mines of Titan! I played Mars Saga on C64 a lot. I have yet to try the DOS version. I really should buckle down and play it. Thanks for video, always awesome.
If you liked Mars Saga, Mines of Titan is a bit expanded version, so you'll love it even more. :)
Also, thank you! :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thank you for showing me this! I go a little A.D.D. when going through games sometimes so I remember saying I should play this but of course, I started about 20 other games and forgot lol. I've already got it loaded and ready to start this weekend.
Starfleet 1, that was also epic.
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Rick Dangerous was my first Amiga 500 Game i played.
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Great year for games
True true :)
Dang I had 9 of these, and watched my buddy play 4 more on his IIGS
Good times! :)
Rick Dangerous was a heap of fun but seriously hard
Oh, it was... But it was not stupid hard. As in, if you managed to remember what, when and how to do, and did't panic - it was doable. It just takes time and repetition. xD
Magic carpet II
Whipeout
Terminal Velocity
Microprose F-117A
Civilization II
Colonization
Abuse
Another world/Out of this world
Need for speed 1
Iron fist 2
Commanche gold
Doom
Doom 2
Redneck & rampage
Heretic
Hexen
Hexen II
Cannon fodder
Wolfenstein 3D
Spear of destiny
Etc etc etc
This video is only for 1989. I have similar videos for other years, and they do in fact include many of these classics. :)
Sword of the samurai and Warlords my favorites!
Great games indeed. :)
Killing Sam Smith on Hero’s Quest 😂
:)
I was wrong in my previous assumption. This is not a good or great video, it's an awesome one. The perfect thing after a tiring work day. :)
Oh, I wanted to add something about Hero's Quest. It had to be renamed later due to a copyright clash with another game. It became Quest for Glory. Quite a nice game.
Ooh, Neuromancer! I read the book and apparently forgot it completely. :D And of course I'm adding all the space and sci-fi games to my list. I've heard of Space Quest and almost tried the first one, but died instantly. So I'll have to try the series again armed with a walkthrough and quick parser typing skill.
There is a point in Mean Streets where you talk about the boss' wife's crippling stare and a cyclops comes up on the screen. Perfect timing! XD
And your review of Rockstar! is a real comedic gem, poetry and all. :D The game itself is something else. Your grandma and mother inviting you to wild parties and offering you drugs? Wow. XD And also, nice choice for songs. :D
Thanks! You're very kind! I would hope so, I was up after 2am working on it. And I'm fine with how it ended up being. :) Though, I feel the next one (3rd episode in Windows 1999) will be even better.
Go for the Quest for Glory straight away, in my opinion remake is better than this original.
An no, my bosses wife is nowhere as nice as that Cyclops is. She's mean and evil to the core. And he's only a little mutated. Things happen in the future, you know, we gotta be understanding and used to things being more interesting than they are now. :P But yeah, timing was impeccable. Even if accidental.
And Rockstar... They're good songs, you know. :P
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It's well worth all the work you've put into it. :) And can't wait for the next one.
Well, Quest for Glory from what I've understood is just a rename, but still the same game. It looks the same as what you were showing in the video.
True, that poor cyclops was just an innocent mutant. He looked kind of distressed too. Probably had something in his eye. This thing reminds me of that scene in Men in Black where the recruits had a shooting test. ;)
So, did your songs make the #1 in the charts? :)
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks www.mobygames.com/game/16075/quest-for-glory-i-so-you-want-to-be-a-hero/
Remake, and a good one at that. :)
And no, I didn''t play long enough to get to number 1 but I got into mid 20s. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Wait, there are two entries. One is the link you've just shared, so Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero, which is the 1992 VGA remake. And the other is Hero's Quest: So You Want To Be A Hero, with an aka Quest For Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero (without that I) from 1989, that has the mouse-over label Re-release title. Honestly, I think they should have named it: Quest for Glory: So You Want To Play A Game With A Ridiculously Long Title. :P Still a good game.
I bet your ingame grandma's wild parties were a bit much for some fans, otherwise the songs would have been an instant hit. :P
@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Where are you checking it out? On MobyGames? Cause those titles underneath the main one there are usuall just titles used in other markets. So perhaps it was called QfG cause they had that legal dispute in that region, and then with the next entries they just decided to change the name of all games in the series, not to worry about it in the future at all?
Sword of the Samurai was love
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Quest for Glory is the absolute best of the best
It's a unique blend and one that nothing really could compare to at the time.
1992. That's the first golden year of DOS. Most of the games from 1989 were either better on the Amiga (usually because the sound quality was much better) or not very good. It wasn't until 1992 when it really clicked; games could safely assume some kind of half-decent sound card, a faster CPU than an Amiga (particularly the old amiga 500's that games still had to target because they were so omnipresent), a VGA screen and a hard drive. This year also dropped the 3 killer games; wolfenstein 3D, Ultima underworld (the most ahead-of-it's-time game ever created by a wide margin) and ultima VII.
DOS era and the 1990s saw a boom in space and scifi games. Amazingly people only talk about arcade and FPS and not scifi games. There were incredible games during DOS era and during the war of the videocards during late 1990s.
Yep, Frontier was my all time favourite. And surprisingly I wasn't too keen on Elite. Arcade games are more universal genre, that most are into. Space games, only some care for.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Star Control 1 and 2. Hi-Octane, The Dig, Carrier command, Stellar 7, Earthsiege, Mechwarrior 2 games. Can you make a video about them?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames The DIg was a project that Steven Spielberg had for a movie, but ended up becoming a PC game.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Hi-Octane is super arcadish combat racing. Pure adrenaline. In my machine in Dosbox, I use these settings:
Machine svga_s3
CPU type 386 slow
Cycles max 50%
Up 10
Down 20
Core auto
My machine is slow and old. And this game is sensitive to settings.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Carrier command is a port from Amiga to PC. When you start the game you need to enable mouse. Do not let yourself be underwhelmed by polygonal graphics, the simulation is very immersive.
Help, I'm looking for a game I don't know the name of. It was a DOS RPG. You had four characters ( I think). You start in a medieval town and you head into the sewers. There are levels upon levels of tunnels. Sometimes the walls change appearance as you descend. I think mostly it was Grey stone walls covered in green slime/mold. You encounter more normal enemies in the upper levels like " ruffians" or " thieves". As you descend you begin encountering skeletons, vampires and other supernatural creatures. If you died you had to return to a monastery on the surface to get your character revived for a payment of gold. If you inspected the walls of the tunnel ( you couldn't see it) but text would tell you that someone has written " help" on the walls. When I reached the end of the demo, I think I had to save a nude woman who was being held captive near some dimensional portal. This is really bugging me. I got to find this.
But, it wasn't any of the Eye of the Beholder or Ishar games?
@OldAndNewVideoGames No, it wasn't. I just checked them out on your suggestion. But you got the right idea. Definitely that sort of game. What I can say is the graphics more closely resembled Eye of the Beholder but like Ishar, the characters are arranged at the bottom of the screen rather than to the right. My father tells me I will not find it, when I asked why he said that it would have been a rather obscure title and a bit clumsy. I guess he thinks other games in the genre to be more superior. It was a game he had on a demo disk when I was a kid in the 90s. Although I dont know how old the game was at the time. I sincerely appreciate your help. EDIT: I will definitely check out other games in these two series to see if a particular game in the series is the game in question.
Sounds like the Abandoned Places series.
Physically it sounds like Abandoned Places and every Abandoned Places had a title like "Abandoned Places Dawn of the Hammer of the Storm Heirloom Tomato" or whatever.
@@GrunkyMcSaucy I like your username.
I played 7 out of the 25...
The remaining 18 are worth a try if you ever get a chance. :)
HQ1 so very good!
Did you liked the second?