The same can be said about a lot of shareware, finding registered versions of them is like digging for gold. But instead of gold, it's a disk with the registered version or something
I got CD-Man on a shareware "EGA Games" disk many moons ago. I still have it somewhere, but it's on a 5¼-inch floppy so it'll take me a while to dig it out and check if it's the pre-release version or 1.5.
Thanks for making this video- It was one of my very first games. We got it from a shareware of the month club and played it on my dad's 286. Same version as shown in the first half of the review.
It's a bit belated, but from what I've read, Version 2.0 wasn't actually finished. The finished model was supposed to have Soundblaster support, digitized sound, and all sorts of other goodies. You'll see some of the animations from the final maze aren't done yet, either; they just recycle animations from a previous maze instead. Creative Dimensions got the images of the "spinning Pac-man" from a set of publicly available 3-D pics of Pac-man. There were probably some legal troubles the company had with Namco after that; Creative Dimensions seemed to disappear for a number of years after releasing the public alpha. It might also explain why the full game was never finished.
Great review, man. I played this game when I was in elementary school on my older sister's DOS computer. It came free with the computer and was one of the only games she had.
@Borin81 I have a diskette with "v1.5" as well. It was rather identical to the pre-release shareware game though, as all 1.5s I've found are, hence my dilemma of never having found the supposed "real" v1.5 with 5 levels and no Snoofer. I'm curious if yours is the same!
Ooh gosh, I recognized CD-man from the ending on one of your most recent vedios and hoped you'd done a video on it, and you had! I had forgotten this childhood game of mine completely. I had the snoofer version 2.0. Such mamories.
There still actually is blood when the white character gets eaten by the shark, but it appears to be toned down and there is no big dam of blood after you die.
I played this as a very young child and I can assure you that I did my absolute best in the second level every time I played. That blood puddle terrified me.
OMG! What a classic! I think the next level had sharks! Good ole' days! I played this even beofre the Original PAC-MAN! So this one has a special place in my heart!
We got the shareware disk of this in the early 90s, I don't exactly remember when, but we played it endlessly for quite a bit, it was fun. I liked the different environments.
Nice little review! I just thought about sending you a request to do one for CD-MAN, so this HAS to be telepathic in some way...! Never heard of CD-Man 1.5 nor 2.0, but I do remember having played the 'full', original version once. It didn't differ that much from the version you remembered; only in that it had more than two and a half levels. The effects were all there... And OH YEAH, I also remember thinking 'where's the CD' when I first got the game...
In your intro, what are you drinking? This is an important question! And, nice video. You are one of the few RUclipsrs that make videos that I actually watch until the end.
I used to play CD-MAN 2.0 with my cousin. I loved this game. I don't think I ever got past the space level, but I didn't mind trying over and over again.
Ah! I wish they or someone else make version 3.0 and call it the "Deluxe" version! It will be with 3 additional levels without the need to repeat each level once or twice. That would be perfect! Plus the ability to choose from the two different characters. And add adlib music. That's all. In addition maybe... on-line hi-score, so people can compete with each selves and servers with looping levels for anyone to join (up to 4 players at a time) lol.
I played this a lot when I was younger. I would get up early just to play this game before school and I was somehow entertained with the same three levels over and over again. I was also considering putting some gameplay video of this in my Shareware Revolution video, but I already had lots of video from several different games, and I don't remember seeing "Shareware" anywhere in the game.
I actually tried out this game on my newly repaired Gateway 466c computer, along with doom and and wolfenstein! I remember getting a whole box of games from a friend back in germany with this game and a few arcade ports like renegade and double dragon. Great times.
I know of some DOS game I played that also was somewhat of a Pacman clone with the ability to use keys to open door and I think you were supposed to collect treasure to progress to the next level. What makes me remember this game is that instead of lifes, you had a health bar and for each time you took a hit, you heard that classic DOS beeping sound. I know it's farfetched but as the "master in computing" you are, I thought I would give this a shoot as CD man reminded me of the game.
Have you played Pac-Man: Adventures In Time? It's a great Pac-Man game exclusive for the PC with a lot of level variety and 3D graphics that still look good today. I wanted to keep playing just to see what the next maze looked like or what unique addition it had this time.
so many old pc games i had never heard of...largely because i didnt have a computer in the 90s....my first pc wasnt until about 2000/01. but iv heard of cd man, although iv never actually seen it until now
@phreakindee 1.5 is the shareware version, it only had 3 levels but no god mode. The version you have seems to be 1.0 which is the pre release test version.
... I didn't even remember this game, but the 1st and 2nd level bring me very very distant memories. Well not really MEMORIES, but I'm sure I've seen the screens before...
I wonder if the full version of CD-Man 1.5 with all the levels and the yellow PacMan as the main character instead of the Snoofer exist in any shape or form on the web. If there were some way to edit the graphics itself using the game-files it would be cool.
I loved this game as a kid! I had the same one as you had with the unfinished part.. and not having a clue about how these things worked i was always hoping it would be done the next time i booted the game :D
I've drawn a winter version of the first level: i.postimg.cc/nrNkHps2/cdmanv3.png And here's an alternative version with more snow: i.postimg.cc/rF6ZXNSk/cdmanv31.png
When I was just a kid but not so much like the man-child I am today, I had the handheld 2-player version of Pac-Man (80's ENTEX). I can't remember where it went though... :(
I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. Watching this review reminded me of the shareware discs I had as a young child. There was this game that was basically Pac-Man with guns. Poorly made too. Ring any bells?
What if you replace the sprite for the white thing in 2.0 with the CD-Man from the older shareware release? Maybe its something simple like copying a file from one to the other.
I tried that and it's not working. I also tried to copy the unfinished level 3 from the initial version and paste it in version 2, and it works, but the graphics are glitchy and it's barely playable.
i have CD-man on a 3.5 disk somewhere, which i got from school back in the day, and i think it is a 1.5 version too, atleast its an old shareware version of it.
In the 1.0 version you get 3 levels with wrap around. In 2.0 you get 5 levels, but unfortunately this video doesn't say what happens when you beat level 5. Does to wrap back to level 1, or tell you that you won, and take you to a credits screen?
Matrilwood I know I'm a year late here, but... how? Just because it was well-known like CoD is now? They're absolutely, positively incomparable in any way. And to not have heard of Mega Man until so recently blows my mind on so many levels.
hip indeed I'm guessing on someone else behalf here, but it could be that a game of a certain type exists (COD, Pacman) and a LOT of games very like them got released, or that a genre type is the 'top thing' in certain eras, maze game for the 80's and FPS for now? Just guessing as I say though. As for Mega Man, I hadn't personally heard of the character or games at least until the PS1 release. This was pre-internet (for me at least) and in the UK where the NES and Mega Drive/Genesis had opposite popularity compared to the USA. So it's not THAT far-fetched :P
Hey, don't bother getting Full 1.5, because I doubt it exists :) 1.5 shareware is pretty much the same as "pre-release" version. Even F1 key works! And the third world is still under development in 1.5. And 1.5 manual says worlds 4&5 are available in 2.0. And finally, pre-release version and 1.5 shareware have exactly same files :) (only help file changed in 1.5, and cd-man.exe became dmmain.exe)
2:10 That’s not a dagger, that’s just a cross with the acronym“RIP” inscribed. The picture quality is hard to see it, but the spiders make CD-Man deflate with a cross inexplicably rising.
1.5 shareware is easy to find. The 1.5 full version is not.
The same can be said about a lot of shareware, finding registered versions of them is like digging for gold. But instead of gold, it's a disk with the registered version or something
I got CD-Man on a shareware "EGA Games" disk many moons ago. I still have it somewhere, but it's on a 5¼-inch floppy so it'll take me a while to dig it out and check if it's the pre-release version or 1.5.
Creative Dimensions! That's why it's called CD-MAN. I've never figured that out all these years. ahhhhhhhhh.
Thanks for making this video- It was one of my very first games. We got it from a shareware of the month club and played it on my dad's 286. Same version as shown in the first half of the review.
I've watching reviews of pacman clones by LGR for the past hour or so, no regrets, best way to spend Sundays
It's a bit belated, but from what I've read, Version 2.0 wasn't actually finished. The finished model was supposed to have Soundblaster support, digitized sound, and all sorts of other goodies. You'll see some of the animations from the final maze aren't done yet, either; they just recycle animations from a previous maze instead. Creative Dimensions got the images of the "spinning Pac-man" from a set of publicly available 3-D pics of Pac-man. There were probably some legal troubles the company had with Namco after that; Creative Dimensions seemed to disappear for a number of years after releasing the public alpha. It might also explain why the full game was never finished.
For a game from 1989 it looks damned great!
Ohh god how gorgeous this game looks to this day~!
*_By this day the 1.5 full version of CD-MAN has pretty much become another urban legend._*
Great review, man. I played this game when I was in elementary school on my older sister's DOS computer. It came free with the computer and was one of the only games she had.
@Borin81 I have a diskette with "v1.5" as well. It was rather identical to the pre-release shareware game though, as all 1.5s I've found are, hence my dilemma of never having found the supposed "real" v1.5 with 5 levels and no Snoofer. I'm curious if yours is the same!
Ooh gosh, I recognized CD-man from the ending on one of your most recent vedios and hoped you'd done a video on it, and you had! I had forgotten this childhood game of mine completely. I had the snoofer version 2.0. Such mamories.
There still actually is blood when the white character gets eaten by the shark, but it appears to be toned down and there is no big dam of blood after you die.
Ha! That blood slick cracked me UP the first time I saw it!
I played this as a very young child and I can assure you that I did my absolute best in the second level every time I played. That blood puddle terrified me.
CD Man was like on every computer with MS DOS for quite some time. A classic in freeware.
**vargskelethor shareware madness intensifies**
I played the $#1t outta this back in the early 90's (pre-release version). It was really awesome!!
"We found a bootleg."
- Joel
This game was on every shareware cd rom back in the 90s. I loved this game. I play this on my laptop with dosbox.
Nice to see another fan of the 640x350 EGA mode too :)
Wari was another game that made good use of that as I recall.
OMG! What a classic! I think the next level had sharks! Good ole' days! I played this even beofre the Original PAC-MAN! So this one has a special place in my heart!
I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be a cross- shaped tombstone, not a dagger.
(Notice how it says "RIP" on it).
We got the shareware disk of this in the early 90s, I don't exactly remember when, but we played it endlessly for quite a bit, it was fun. I liked the different environments.
OMG i still have this game, and a lot of other old dos games like jazz, dave, mars, omg who else played dave and mars in them beautiful dos days?
Nice little review! I just thought about sending you a request to do one for CD-MAN, so this HAS to be telepathic in some way...! Never heard of CD-Man 1.5 nor 2.0, but I do remember having played the 'full', original version once. It didn't differ that much from the version you remembered; only in that it had more than two and a half levels. The effects were all there... And OH YEAH, I also remember thinking 'where's the CD' when I first got the game...
In your intro, what are you drinking? This is an important question!
And, nice video. You are one of the few RUclipsrs that make videos that I actually watch until the end.
I used to play CD-MAN 2.0 with my cousin. I loved this game. I don't think I ever got past the space level, but I didn't mind trying over and over again.
One of the first games i played on PC with PoP
and yeah its really good looking for EGA graphics
Nice review
Ahhh we had this game growing up! We used to mess with the game speed, that made it much more exciting :D
Ah! I wish they or someone else make version 3.0 and call it the "Deluxe" version! It will be with 3 additional levels without the need to repeat each level once or twice. That would be perfect! Plus the ability to choose from the two different characters. And add adlib music. That's all. In addition maybe... on-line hi-score, so people can compete with each selves and servers with looping levels for anyone to join (up to 4 players at a time) lol.
This! This is the Pacman we had at school! :O
How! After all these years! GOLLY!
my mom would play this game for hours! along with bomberman, digdug, and the old NES classics thru an emulator. also this one game called Digger!
Joel: *Good game.*
Sweet...I had forgotten this game. TY for the review.
I played this game when I was young. And I just see it , so I want to play it again.
2:21 "What a snarky little dude." XD
I played this a lot when I was younger. I would get up early just to play this game before school and I was somehow entertained with the same three levels over and over again.
I was also considering putting some gameplay video of this in my Shareware Revolution video, but I already had lots of video from several different games, and I don't remember seeing "Shareware" anywhere in the game.
Ah, I didn't know about the "original" version. I only played the "snoofer" (sp?) version.
I actually tried out this game on my newly repaired Gateway 466c computer, along with doom and and wolfenstein! I remember getting a whole box of games from a friend back in germany with this game and a few arcade ports like renegade and double dragon. Great times.
The key gate concept was in _Super Pac-Man._
I know of some DOS game I played that also was somewhat of a Pacman clone with the ability to use keys to open door and I think you were supposed to collect treasure to progress to the next level. What makes me remember this game is that instead of lifes, you had a health bar and for each time you took a hit, you heard that classic DOS beeping sound.
I know it's farfetched but as the "master in computing" you are, I thought I would give this a shoot as CD man reminded me of the game.
Have you played Pac-Man: Adventures In Time? It's a great Pac-Man game exclusive for the PC with a lot of level variety and 3D graphics that still look good today. I wanted to keep playing just to see what the next maze looked like or what unique addition it had this time.
so many old pc games i had never heard of...largely because i didnt have a computer in the 90s....my first pc wasnt until about 2000/01. but iv heard of cd man, although iv never actually seen it until now
Oh ... memories! *sobs*
@phreakindee 1.5 is the shareware version, it only had 3 levels but no god mode. The version you have seems to be 1.0 which is the pre release test version.
This gives me some mad nostalgia.
I remember playing this game in 1996 in my computer class in 7th grade
What music is your intro from? I really like it and I'm hoping there's a full length version.
Pac-Man has passed
RIP LGR's old intro 2005-2015
... I didn't even remember this game, but the 1st and 2nd level bring me very very distant memories. Well not really MEMORIES, but I'm sure I've seen the screens before...
As a kid I thought it was strange that it was called CD-Man but it fit on a diskette.
I wonder if the full version of CD-Man 1.5 with all the levels and the yellow PacMan as the main character instead of the Snoofer exist in any shape or form on the web.
If there were some way to edit the graphics itself using the game-files it would be cool.
i was fortunate enough have a CD-MAN floppy laying around somewhere, but i think that was the shareware version,
Did you ever play any of the Bomberman series?
how is Dead Rising 2? good review btw
Jesus i remember playing this game as a kid back then
Yeah i played that 1.5 cd-man when i was about 4-6 years old, such memories =)
I loved this game as a kid! I had the same one as you had with the unfinished part.. and not having a clue about how these things worked i was always hoping it would be done the next time i booted the game :D
If I remember correctly, this was the first game I ever played on my PC!
I've drawn a winter version of the first level: i.postimg.cc/nrNkHps2/cdmanv3.png And here's an alternative version with more snow: i.postimg.cc/rF6ZXNSk/cdmanv31.png
LOL!
"Or the please don't sue me Namco"
When I was just a kid but not so much like the man-child I am today, I had the handheld 2-player version of Pac-Man (80's ENTEX). I can't remember where it went though... :(
I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. Watching this review reminded me of the shareware discs I had as a young child.
There was this game that was basically Pac-Man with guns. Poorly made too. Ring any bells?
all I can think of was capman from 1999.
Hey LGR, what was the game you showed in the intro at 0:10?
What if you replace the sprite for the white thing in 2.0 with the CD-Man from the older shareware release? Maybe its something simple like copying a file from one to the other.
I tried that and it's not working. I also tried to copy the unfinished level 3 from the initial version and paste it in version 2, and it works, but the graphics are glitchy and it's barely playable.
i have CD-man on a 3.5 disk somewhere, which i got from school back in the day, and i think it is a 1.5 version too, atleast its an old shareware version of it.
@Saxonation That was called Capman.
i totally had this game - lovely
Thank you, for review this game, i tried to play it on my Pentium 133 many years ago, but it was unplayable, due to speed boost
I think I did find the 1.5 version, according to the splash screen it it's 1.5 shareware.
Those spiders gave me nightmares as a kid 😥
oh yeah, great video!!! reminds me about the good old times ;) i realy loved to play this game ;) like+subscribed ;)
My fav game during junior high :-)
They had the original version of this game on the computers at my school.
I have this game somewhere but ony played it a couple of times... If I find it and it is the holy 1.5 version I will surely send you a link.
this game is awesome
is it from namco?
PD: cool intro ^^
So did you manage to get that fabled version 1.5?
Still haven't found the registered version!
+Lazy Game Reviews What if I told you that your neighbor has it hidden in his bookcases and is not telling you?
+Lazy Game Reviews looks like it may be here: archives.scovetta.com/pub/fehq/DOSGames/00_index.htm
They list it as version 1.5 ...
I downloaded and tired that one, it is just the pre release copy with the 2.5 levels on it
Looks interesting I will have to get it
This is strange, this game is giving me some strong nostalgia despite the fact that I never played or even heard of it...
God i love this intro.
In the 1.0 version you get 3 levels with wrap around. In 2.0 you get 5 levels, but unfortunately this video doesn't say what happens when you beat level 5. Does to wrap back to level 1, or tell you that you won, and take you to a credits screen?
Hey LGR? Have a good day.
I remember this game (version 2.0). It was pretty cool.
Did you ever find version 1.5?
Not the full version, no.
love it!
bloody version obviously;)
Pac-Man, aka the Call of Duty of the 1980s.
Never heard of Mega man?
Megaman was only '87 (Pac-Man was 1980), and I'd never even heard of it until way into '00s.
Matrilwood I know I'm a year late here, but... how? Just because it was well-known like CoD is now? They're absolutely, positively incomparable in any way. And to not have heard of Mega Man until so recently blows my mind on so many levels.
hip indeed I'm guessing on someone else behalf here, but it could be that a game of a certain type exists (COD, Pacman) and a LOT of games very like them got released, or that a genre type is the 'top thing' in certain eras, maze game for the 80's and FPS for now? Just guessing as I say though.
As for Mega Man, I hadn't personally heard of the character or games at least until the PS1 release. This was pre-internet (for me at least) and in the UK where the NES and Mega Drive/Genesis had opposite popularity compared to the USA.
So it's not THAT far-fetched :P
Hm... Lemme check my multitude of shareware CDs. I'll see if I have it somewhere.
I HAD THIS AS A KID!!!!!
"Which included two swedish guys and some ambition..."
Uuuuuhhh...
"...and probably some computers."
Oh.
Love this game how to I download it,?
My brother owned that version with the original character. Must have been 17 years ago or something like that...(I'm 20 now)
I had a boxed version when I was a wee little crustacean. I think I found it at some dollar store.
If i ever find the 1.5 version for you I'll get you a copy. It was the one you are looking for
man you should do profession voice work. either as an announcer of a show or voice over work.
Hey, don't bother getting Full 1.5, because I doubt it exists :)
1.5 shareware is pretty much the same as "pre-release" version. Even F1 key works! And the third world is still under development in 1.5. And 1.5 manual says worlds 4&5 are available in 2.0.
And finally, pre-release version and 1.5 shareware have exactly same files :) (only help file changed in 1.5, and cd-man.exe became dmmain.exe)
2:10 That’s not a dagger, that’s just a cross with the acronym“RIP” inscribed. The picture quality is hard to see it, but the spiders make CD-Man deflate with a cross inexplicably rising.
really you have it can you post the link
This was the first PC game I ever had. My dad gave it to me when I was about 4 or 5. This brought back some great memories.
@rick62008 I don't have an old computer so I use DOSbox.