@dukeofthedance I don't know, man... I can neither change the chapters display, nor I can find your comment here to reply. Something's really odd. If you look in the video description, all the timestamps there are fine, so chapters should also be. I've even disabled and re-enabled them and it didn't fix it at all. It's something that didn't happen with any other of my videos... xD
@@KingofCrusher For whatever the reason I cannot see your comments. I only saw your apology in my email. I did not block you or anything, don't know what happened. And don't worry about it. You took a little jab at my accent but it was done in a sorta humorous way. I don't mind it. It is what it is and while it may change in time, for now that's me. ;) And trust me, it's nothing compared to some comments I used to get in the past. :D
Oh Vida X, I remember this was the first game that pushed me into world of file format hacking and hex editing just to extract those Vida photos 🤣 . I wonder if source photos in high res still exist? Vida still looking hot 😂.
I haven't played Overkill for over 2 decades but watching you play it and I still knew every single sprite and gameobject behavior by heart and could call exactly what would be happening where. What nostalgia.
Great game! :) I have that with Superfrog and Fury of the Furries. I can pretty much complete some of the first levels by heart in my head with eyes shut.
Once again i want to thank you for bringing us so many awsome Videos 🙂 Honestly i think i knew maybe 10% of these games beforhand 🤔 I hope you and all my fellow viewers are well and i wish you all a fantastic day💜💜💜
I'm glad that you like them! There's many more to come. In fact I just finished rough scripting the first episode of the new early windows-based series (though, don't worry, Obscure DOS Games are not going anywhere and there'll be more to come), and if all goes well, I'll record the voice overs for it between tonight and tomorrow night, which would mean it should release either very late tomorrow or on Wednesday. I have games for the second episode picked as well, but after the first I think I'll do either next one for 10 Years of C64 and Obscure DOS, or the same two but in opposite order. Haven't decided on it yet. It all depends how busy I'll be at work. And most of all, I'd like to thank you for your ongoing support too. So, THANK YOU! :)
Zeliard! Big Red Racing! Traffic Department 2192! ZZT! One Must Fall 2097! Solar Winds! Spycraft! EGA Trek! Good lord, what a nostalgia trip this video is. This was all a huge part of my childhood. Thank you. ❤
Thank you for presenting this video in a different way to the individual sub list videos such that you also make the transitions quicker and put up permanent game title and release year for each covered game. It helps us to keep up with what all these games are. But, of course, the timecode list is in the description as well. So it's extra useful.
Thank you so much! I figured that there's plenty enough videos called 100 games in 10 minutes and such, so similar but longer and with something actually said about the games would be something new(-ish). :)
One thing bro, the "game logic" of gas stations doing repairs was actually real life. You'd take your car to "the garage" which would be both a gas station and a mechanic. That was actually how things were.
Nice to see the Finnish hot-seat classics Triplane and Liero there. In the 90's hot-seat multiplayer games were really popular in Finland and a lot of such games were developed that were simple, but really fun to play! They were all skill games, so they offered great competitive gaming experience. Huddling around one keyboard with friends and siblings to play these games was an integral part of Finnish 90's PC gaming. In addition to Triplane and Liero there were: - Rocket / space ship fighter AUTS and its later more advanced successors Wings and Rocket Chase - Top-down racing game Slicks 'n' Slide - Tapan Kaikki series (TK), a top-down shooter that was like a multiplayer version of Miami Hotline - Mine Bombers, which was a bit like Liero
Well, these two were amazing and not very spread outside of the country, so they were definitely sooner or later landing on the list of obscure games. :) And thanks for the suggestions. I've actually only ever heard of one of them, so they gotta be pretty rare too.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Those games were really niche and were distributed on floppy disks between friends or, if you were really fancy, on Finnish BBS servers. Since their heyday was before internet, I doubt any of these games spread outside Finland. When access to internet got more common in the late 90's, most of these games were already forgotten by then.
i love blackthorn, its one of the few games that got a grip in me. the gameplay is really well done, animations are smooth and the story just cries 80s fantasy to the fullest. its like a timemachine back into my youth for me!
It was great! I always looked at it like a less puzzle'y and more action packed Flashback. And you're right, it's like a movie with Schwarzenegger or Stallone in a video game form.
The Last Eichhof has probably the best easter egg I've ever seen in a game. If you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete while playing instead of restarting the computer it returns you to the dos prompt and displays the text "James Bond's quitting style"
This was fun to watch. Oxyd, God of Thunder, and Hugo's House of Horrors were the only games I knew about growing up. I spent a lot of time on the Hugo games alone.
Thanks! Hugo games I actually had very limited experience with. So the opposite to you. I think I saw a buddy of mine played one when I came over, but then since I was there, we switched to something multiplayer. Good times. :) Anyway, I'm working on the second season now, first episode is out already and the second should be end of this week or beginning of next. Depending if I decide to make it first or next for 10 Years of Early Windows Gaming. :)
Finally someone who has cosmo’s cosmic adventure in their list. Before wolfenstein 3d and the OG DOOM came out - cosmo was my jam. I was like 6 or 7 when that came out, and it was my first venture into PC gaming. Have a serious soft spot for that little green alien with the suction cup hands, tousled red hair and his little red spots everywhere.
I don't remember what my first game exactly what, but I think it was something on C64. Maybe Jumpan Junior... Hmm... You got me thinking here now... xD
I'm happy you liked them! The second season is in the works already and since we're on the subject, have you seen this one yet? ruclips.net/video/bWFMytEIhsg/видео.html
@@Mark-rm2yu Good luck! ;) It's over 10 hours and 600 games. ;) But seriously, if you'll like it, I have few more of these and working on few at the moment too.
55:38 - I've had this game in the back of my mind for YEARS, and I couldn't for the life of me remember it's name till I saw this footage, and now I know it's God of Thunder. Ahhhhh thank you, now I can put a name to the random images in my head xD All I could remember was that the bg was super green and you threw a hammer at things lol Oh, and Vinyl Goddess is one of my fave ever DOS games, I played it over and over as a kid lol. And the soundtrack is a BANGER.
"Banger" you say? Leather Vinyl Goddess of Phobos is definitely something. :) Also, I'm glad that I could help with the pesky game. I know how annoying it can be remembering something without that one, last, most important detail, like the name for instance. xD
There were a lot more games from my childhood on here than I expected. On a side note, if it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it anyway, after all, this is Overkill!
Omg I am so glad I watched this video. Seeing The Last Eichhof made me remember my youth. I am so glad to find out what this amusing beer bottle space shooter was called XD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I was lucky and grew up with them; one of the earliest RPGs I ever played was Phantasie; first in a trilogy of cRPGs that were mostly known on the C64. Phantasie II wasn't even ported to DOS, though 1 and 3 were. Went from there to the Silver Box (Hillsfar) and Gold Box (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, and Dark Queen of Krynn). Then to Eye of the Beholder and Dungeon Hack, and Dark Sun. The Summoning and Veil of Darkness were relatively late comers for me; I had played a lot of SSI RPGs by then. Much later I went back and tried Wizard's Crown; which was the forerunner of the Gold Box engine, and better in some ways.
@@drg5352 WOW! That's a solid classic RPG experience! I haven't played GoldBox games when they came out seriously. Meaning that I did try them out, but I think I might have been too young or too ADHD to be able to enjoy them to the fullest and persevere. Years later, when RPG became my favourite genre, I kept putting it away for later, for when I'll have time, and years passed, and I've never found it. Time that is. Now, it is unlikely that I'll ever play them unless I win a lottery or get fired. Basically something that would pretty much guarantee unlimited free time. Although I'm sure, I'd probably spend most of it working on my videos anyway. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I basically grew up with classic RPGs; my grandfather was an OG nerd; he played D&D when Elf was a class, and Chainmail before that. His first home computer was a breadboard that he wired the chips to. By the time I came along, he was on a Commodore 128, and thus I got to experience computer RPGs in some of it's earlier forms. Never a time like now. The Gold Box games are all largely still very playable; I just took a run through Champions of Krynn over the last couple of weeks, alternating with Baldur's Gate 3. They aren't as long as modern RPGs; I think Champions took maybe 15 hours (granted I remember a good deal of it) versus the average of 45 hours per BG3 run. Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds are the hardest to get into, as they lack some of the QOL features like the Fix command and auto-spell memorization of later games. Probably the weakest aspect is their adherence to AD&D racial level limits rules, which means for the four games starting with Pool of Radiance, Human single classed characters are the way to go until Pools of Darkness, when you Dual them. The Kryn games are better, as the Elves at least don't have a limit on Mages, Clerics, and Thieves; so you can create a multi class character and not be totally worthless by Dark Queen.
@@drg5352 You make them sound more appealing than I already thought that they were. :) Granted I spend 140 hours in BG3, so I'd probably take 30-ish per each of Goldbox games. Oh, have you played any of the side-games on the engine? I mean both Buck Rogers titles and the others? I'm very keen on all of them as RPG with turn-based combat was always my jam, and I tried numerous times many of these but never persevered.
Zeliard is absolutely fantastic, I cant say how many times I get it through. Ok where's dosbox... Thank you so much for your compilations, this one really is outstanding, Ive saw no more than 1/10th of the list, and all of them are really have very strong charisma.
Bro, Tongue of The Fat Man is easily the worst game I've ever played. It's objectively terrible. That you suggest anyone play it seems like an attack. Fans of fighting games will actually take damage from playing it.
I've played 6 of these games, though only two with significant time (Morraff's World and Stunts). Truly some obscure gems in here, was a blast learning about them!
I'm glad you liked the video! There's also another complete second season of the series and 5 or 6 episodes from the third. So, if you're into these unknown DOS oldies, I've a lot of them on the channel. :)
I had Blackthorne I believe on the SNES, but maybe it was Genesis. Very hard game that I had an amazing time beating. The instruction manual had a very long and interesting backstory. Rare but cool for that era.
Nearly all versions of Blackthorne were more or less the same, all super fun and playable. CD32 version looked different, instead of 2D sprites, its looked pre-rendered and it just didn't sit well with me...
I've heard of Hugo's House of Horrors and played it as well as it's sequels, Hugo 2: Whodunnit, and Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom. In Grade School, and to an extent in High School, I started to write my own Hugo adventure stories as a way of using an already existing, yet relatively unheard of fictional character and creating a more developed version of that character.
Blackthorne was absolutely fantastic. Granted, I played the SNES version, but still a really fun game. Very immersive. EDIT: Wow, the Horde! Haven't thought about that in a long time. Never played it hands on, but some friends and I watched it being played at a local electronics store wayyy back in the day.
Most other than the 32X versions of Blackthorne were virtually identical. So if you liked one, you liked them all. Horde was a surprisingly fun take on tower defense, with no towers and some controller attacking, as opposed to only passive witnessing and upgrading. It's fun.
I remember "Robot Jocks" movie! it was shown in cinemas in country I was born when I was a kid! When I grew up, I always thought it was something from "Mechwarrior" Universe, because of how similar the robots were to Mechwarrior ones! Also, I remember thinking that "Jox" was a name - as in, "A Robot called Jox", just like in the "Short Circuit" there was this robot called Johnnie-Five - because I did not know enough English to deduce that it's a short for "Jockeys", a flashy word for "riders", so "Robot Riders" essentially.
Do you remember Robotix though? It came in two versions. Some regions got animated series of a number of 6-9 minutes long episodes, while another got it all stitched together as a singular animated movie. Similar theme of robots and pilots, but more like budget version of Transformers in space.
I know about Oxyd, One Must Fall 2097, Jill of the Jungle, Hugo’s House of Horrors, Solar Winds: The Escape, Overkill, and my favorites Monster Bash, Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures and Jason Storm in Space Chase.
I have Metal and Lace on 3.5" floppy with the decoder wheel DRM and the Adult content addon disk. I bought it back in the 90's from a local mail order software company with a store front.
2:51:41 You are 100% correct - I did not realise it was an EGA game till you said it. It's amazing that an artist could make something so cool with those terrible colours.
I know, right? Sometimes the limitations are what inspired us to beat them (or the odds). I just realised that this sounds way too deep for what we're talking about. LOL ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesThose were the days where pushing the technical limits meant something! Now AAA games are just cash cows for some investor. Indie games are where the innovation continues to happen - there's fewer technical boundaries to push but they push the boundaries of design and experience and what games can be!
Thank you! Take a look at the second season's video (the link to it is at the end of this one in the top left). Perhaps there's some games you've not heard of too.
I played Monster Bash and Vinyl Goddess of Mars so much when I was a kid! :D I love seeing all of these though, since even the esthetics brings back memories.
I'm going to watch this, hoping I find this point and click game that I can barely remember anything about. All I remember is that you crashed on a planet with your dog. That's all I remember. I hope it finally shows up again.
@OldAndNewVideoGames I think you crashed with a spaceship on the planet, in the desert, and your dog ran away. Then you went to explore and find the dog I think. That's all I know for sure. Maybe one of the first places you find, was a bar or café. It's a very distant memory. I'm pretty sure it was a point and click adventure game, something like Space Quest perhaps, but maybe the graphics were more primitive. Edit: I just looked at Space Quest and those graphics are pretty primitive. It probably looked something like that. XD
Truly rare. I think I personally only played like ~4 on this list. It wasn't my most avid period of PC gaming (that came a bit later like 1997+), but I'm still surprised you found so many I hadn't even _heard_ of! *Corncob* I'd totally forgotten, but I honestly remember enjoying it quite a bit as one of the best-playing arcade flight sims of its time. *Tongue of the Fat Man* everyone should look up the box art, just so I'm not the only one with that image stuck permanently in their mind (didn't actually play this one until _much_ later, but it was always advertised in gaming mags I'd read).
Well then, if there's only four then it's definitely a win for me. :) I don't know if you follow the second season of the series, the one that's coming out episodically? But the next, third episode of it will be released today later on, and it features really interesting games. And I had a lot of fun preparing it, so hopefully will be as interesting to watch. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I misunderstood sorry, I'm not the brightest lol. After watching I played the DOS version. I liked it much better than the 32X version. I was surprised that it actually looked better.
@@truth3899 No reason to apologise, nothing happened. :) And yeah, most versions looked identical other than the 32x, and it did look a bit out of place with the pre-rendered sprites. Pixel graphics age better. :)
Man..., there is so much work in your videos! Your voice is well recorded and you have no weird mouth noises. Making those videos would take you how many hours? You are amazing! Subscribed!
Thank you for the subscription and more importantly your kind words. :) A 20-25-ish minutes long video takes around 2-3 days of 6-10 hours each. But I cheat, cause I tend to have some time off in my day job, so I often do a bit of previews writing and research when I'm "working". All the heavy lifting is done at home though. ;)
I honestly don't remember. There's at least one in every video and I don't keep a list. Most of the time these are indies, sometimes oldies, but from time to time AA or even AAA game may come around if I get a spare key somehow. :)
Played Black Thorne (good game), Tongue of the Fatman, Dark Legions (great game), Stunt (great game) and Jill of the Jungle. But were aware of Metal & Lace and Big Red Race at the time.
I had Dawn Raider as a kid and I have no idea how I got it, but I loved playing it even though it was so hard. I was surprised by how bad it actually looked when I revisited 20 years later. I also didn't remember you had to keep pressing the fire key instead of being able to hold it down. (I appreciate that holding it down was how you charged the lazy) After 5 mins my hands were too sore to keep going.
Wolf looks cool, lol. Would have loved that in 1994, shame I didn't stumble onto it. I've been trying to find this ms dos side-scrolling beat em up where you are a regular looking guy with a black tank top and blue jeans (or possibly white pants) who kinda looks like Jeane Claude Van Damme or something and you fight regular looking tough guys by just kicking and punching them, and in the background I remember white buildings that look kind of like italy or greece or something. BUT the main distinct thing was a panther was SOMEHOW involved, like maybe you reached a power up level where a panther would run across the screen and kill everyone or something like that? It is killing me finding this game.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames lol and me neither. I always knew it was crap even when I was like 7, it was just bothering me not knowing what it was. I have no intention to play it again. Hehe
24:41 the alpha beta concept turned out to be bull. Even the proponent of it eventually tried to undo the damage. The misconception came from putting a group of strange, unrelated wolves into an enclosed space, which made them act out of character and aggressive. Normally they behave more like a commune based on sharing and looking out for each other.
Triplane was like weeks of fun with my cousins. There were three of us, and that's just a little too many inputs for a keyboard from back then, so one of us every once in a while, whenever everyone was performing complicated air acrobatics, would lose an input or two and either crash or get shot down. It was something we accounted for, and part of the fun. :)
Liero had mad settings. gun reload time 0 + big nukes was quite amusing to me. Alot of silly features such as dirt ball, (that smaller ball err green ball i think it was?) fan for strangely hilarious way of combat thats not directly lethal.
I wonder if you ever played the game D/Generation? It was sort of cyberpunk, where you worked your way through this industrial tower floor by floor. Kind of a cool game as I remember, probably shareware from the early 90's.
My favorite DOS games were: Ultima (specifically V + VI) Bard's Tale Dungeon Master Prince of Persia Olympic Games Archipelago Castle Wolfenstein AD 2400 Swashbuckler
OMG thanks so much! I remembered the game BEER.EXE from back in my childhood. Played it in the mid 90s on my first 386, but i only knew it as BEER.EXE Without this video, I might have never found it again.
Yeah, I think most of them are taken as these are previous ten episodes all rolled into one. For those who prefer long-form videos. But there will be a video or two next week, so you'll get your chance picking them up again. :)
There's an obscure DOS game I remember that was educational prior to 1993. You played as either a knight, a princess, or an elf and battled through a labyrinth full of enemies and items. When you found the dragon, you fought it by answering questions correctly. It would then allow printing your test to show your parents. Have you come across anything like that?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thank you for checking, this is similar to the educational questions it would ask. I think it may have been even older than this as the frame rate was very low and there was just a flat side view of the maze with no perspective. You could see one screen of the maze at a time, but a globe item would allow you to see the whole maze for a few seconds to plan your route.
Regarding Charlie The Duck. Did you get past the obstacle? I assume you had to wait for the caterpillar to respawn, jump on it from the middle platform and get a boost to the top part? Edit - Never mind. I had to watch a walkthrough video because I was so curious. Apparently it's just a hard jump from the middle platform.
What game is represented in the thumbnail? I feel like I had that game on my first family computer when I was 8 but I can't find it in this video and I've wondered about that game for years.
Veil of Darkness @ 2:22:15 really is such a damn good vampire story. I grew up beating my head on that game when I was like 10 or 11 in the 90s and loved every minute of it. Played it again this year and the charm is still there. Warning to anyone thinking of trying it out, spoilers be damned: The hedge maze SUCKS. It sucks really bad. You can clear it in like 10 - 15 minutes but it feels like hours. However, if you've gotten to that point just push through it. The ending is such a banger and will make up for the stinking hedge maze. Also, the game manual has like a 30-page lore introduction to the vampire lord. It's and quick, admittedly dry read, but it does enrich the story quite a bit if you're in to that sort of thing. Great candidate for a remake too. I can't gush about the game enough.
WOW... You reminded me that games used to have big box releases with books, booklets, maps and such, and that there were usually few things there, that enriched the experience. Now we get a box with Steam installer and a game code. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah I *suspect* old game manuals are overlooked and forgotten about a LOT these days. When I see a retro game reviewer go back and talk about these games, and they complain that has no tutorial or item descriptions and they feel lost ... I try to leave a comment to remind them that back in the 80s and 90s all that information was in the game manual and you gotta take that into account before tearing a game apart. Why make an in-game tutorial when you can just put it in the manual that's sold with the game? Times have changed haven't they.
@@MinecraftMartin They have but... You have to remember about the piracy scene in the 80s and 90s. I don't know how prominent it was in the US, but in Europe, you couldn't go outside without tripping over a random and abandoned box of pirated floppies. ;) Im exaggerating but it was a huge factor nonetheless.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh yes, you're not wrong. My dad often handed me pirated games with crack disks lol Yeah the pirating scene has always been thick in the US as well I think.
Yep, it was like less puzzley and more action heavy Flashback. And yeah, I know that there's no such work as "puzzley" but it worked in my head, so I'm leaving it here anyway. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I actually was going to bring up flashback. Flashback was a lot more aggravating though. Way less ways do tdefend yourself and way more aggravating ways to die. Hey gunna finish this video... I take it you didn't put dos versions of games like ultima underworld and so on right?
There's a second season compilation video on my channel too, and 6 or 7 episodes from the third as well. Perhaps you'll find some titles in these too. :)
It reminds me of a joke by Chris D'Elia about streets being mean and a buddy of his visiting him with his daughter. It's in one of his specials on Netflix, I highly recommend it!
@dukeofthedance I don't know, man... I can neither change the chapters display, nor I can find your comment here to reply. Something's really odd. If you look in the video description, all the timestamps there are fine, so chapters should also be. I've even disabled and re-enabled them and it didn't fix it at all. It's something that didn't happen with any other of my videos... xD
Your awesome accent rules so hard.
@@KingofCrusher For whatever the reason I cannot see your comments. I only saw your apology in my email. I did not block you or anything, don't know what happened. And don't worry about it. You took a little jab at my accent but it was done in a sorta humorous way. I don't mind it. It is what it is and while it may change in time, for now that's me. ;) And trust me, it's nothing compared to some comments I used to get in the past. :D
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Ha thank you, you got a new fan & sub:)
@@KingofCrusher That's weird, this comment I actually see here on YT. And thank you! :)
Oh Vida X, I remember this was the first game that pushed me into world of file format hacking and hex editing just to extract those Vida photos 🤣 . I wonder if source photos in high res still exist? Vida still looking hot 😂.
I have been looking for Traffic Department 2192 for over a decade now. Thanks so much!
Glad I could help! Only proves how obscure it is. :)
I haven't played Overkill for over 2 decades but watching you play it and I still knew every single sprite and gameobject behavior by heart and could call exactly what would be happening where. What nostalgia.
Great game! :)
I have that with Superfrog and Fury of the Furries. I can pretty much complete some of the first levels by heart in my head with eyes shut.
Haven't played OMF 2097 in years, but the theme music is a permanent playlist resident with themes from Captive and Crusader: No Remorse.
I have the same thing but with a bit older games: Rodland, Bubble Bobble and Mordor: Depths of Djelenol :)
Once again i want to thank you for bringing us so many awsome Videos 🙂 Honestly i think i knew maybe 10% of these games beforhand 🤔 I hope you and all my fellow viewers are well and i wish you all a fantastic day💜💜💜
I'm glad that you like them! There's many more to come. In fact I just finished rough scripting the first episode of the new early windows-based series (though, don't worry, Obscure DOS Games are not going anywhere and there'll be more to come), and if all goes well, I'll record the voice overs for it between tonight and tomorrow night, which would mean it should release either very late tomorrow or on Wednesday. I have games for the second episode picked as well, but after the first I think I'll do either next one for 10 Years of C64 and Obscure DOS, or the same two but in opposite order. Haven't decided on it yet. It all depends how busy I'll be at work.
And most of all, I'd like to thank you for your ongoing support too. So, THANK YOU! :)
Zeliard! Big Red Racing! Traffic Department 2192! ZZT! One Must Fall 2097! Solar Winds! Spycraft! EGA Trek! Good lord, what a nostalgia trip this video is. This was all a huge part of my childhood. Thank you. ❤
Thanks for watching, and it's comments like this one that keep me going. :)
Thank you for presenting this video in a different way to the individual sub list videos such that you also make the transitions quicker and put up permanent game title and release year for each covered game.
It helps us to keep up with what all these games are.
But, of course, the timecode list is in the description as well. So it's extra useful.
You're welcome and I'm glad that you enjoy these! :)
And yeah, timecodes are a must! As a viewer I prefer videos with these as well.
It took me like 6 months to watch the video in small installments. Now I finally!! finished it. Thanks. Lovely choices.
WOW! Quite the time investment. What if I tell you that there's also a similar for the whole second and then another for third season? ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Woa! time to view then :) thanks
@@JohnPorter4096 Well, each next is arguably better than the last, so enjoy! :)
Some of these really take me back to hanging out with my dad 30 years ago
Oh man, these must be some cool memories :)
Respect you for doing an extensive description for each individual game. Great job!
Thank you so much! I figured that there's plenty enough videos called 100 games in 10 minutes and such, so similar but longer and with something actually said about the games would be something new(-ish). :)
One thing bro, the "game logic" of gas stations doing repairs was actually real life. You'd take your car to "the garage" which would be both a gas station and a mechanic. That was actually how things were.
I suppose it may have been era appropriate :)
Nice to see the Finnish hot-seat classics Triplane and Liero there. In the 90's hot-seat multiplayer games were really popular in Finland and a lot of such games were developed that were simple, but really fun to play! They were all skill games, so they offered great competitive gaming experience. Huddling around one keyboard with friends and siblings to play these games was an integral part of Finnish 90's PC gaming.
In addition to Triplane and Liero there were:
- Rocket / space ship fighter AUTS and its later more advanced successors Wings and Rocket Chase
- Top-down racing game Slicks 'n' Slide
- Tapan Kaikki series (TK), a top-down shooter that was like a multiplayer version of Miami Hotline
- Mine Bombers, which was a bit like Liero
Well, these two were amazing and not very spread outside of the country, so they were definitely sooner or later landing on the list of obscure games. :)
And thanks for the suggestions. I've actually only ever heard of one of them, so they gotta be pretty rare too.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Those games were really niche and were distributed on floppy disks between friends or, if you were really fancy, on Finnish BBS servers. Since their heyday was before internet, I doubt any of these games spread outside Finland. When access to internet got more common in the late 90's, most of these games were already forgotten by then.
@@JuhoLepisto Those little known game often tend to be the most fun. Even if they don't have as high production value as AAA games do.
i love blackthorn, its one of the few games that got a grip in me. the gameplay is really well done, animations are smooth and the story just cries 80s fantasy to the fullest. its like a timemachine back into my youth for me!
It was great! I always looked at it like a less puzzle'y and more action packed Flashback. And you're right, it's like a movie with Schwarzenegger or Stallone in a video game form.
I owned it on the SNES back then
One Must Fall 2097 is one of my all time favourite games, and probably one of the biggest reasons I'm so into mecha today
The design behind it was at least novel. And some would risk saying that it was groundbreaking. :)
OMF 2097 was such a good experience!
@@zisonet Yes, yes it was. :)
We played the crap out of OMF in the late 90s on our 486 PCs
@@RyanTheScar Well, it was unlike any other fighter out there.
Love the dos games as I was a kid during the golden era of dos gaming. Cheers. Great channel
Thanks! :) New Obscure DOS Games episode is dropping tomorrow, 18th I believe, so you're in the right place and time. :)
The Last Eichhof has probably the best easter egg I've ever seen in a game. If you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete while playing instead of restarting the computer it returns you to the dos prompt and displays the text "James Bond's quitting style"
Seriously? Then it is an amazing easter egg!
I just love blackthorne, i still want to go back and finishnthat
There's no better time than now then! All versions of it, other than the 32X are pretty good too. :)
This was fun to watch. Oxyd, God of Thunder, and Hugo's House of Horrors were the only games I knew about growing up. I spent a lot of time on the Hugo games alone.
Thanks! Hugo games I actually had very limited experience with. So the opposite to you. I think I saw a buddy of mine played one when I came over, but then since I was there, we switched to something multiplayer. Good times. :)
Anyway, I'm working on the second season now, first episode is out already and the second should be end of this week or beginning of next. Depending if I decide to make it first or next for 10 Years of Early Windows Gaming. :)
Finally someone who has cosmo’s cosmic adventure in their list.
Before wolfenstein 3d and the OG DOOM came out - cosmo was my jam.
I was like 6 or 7 when that came out, and it was my first venture into PC gaming.
Have a serious soft spot for that little green alien with the suction cup hands, tousled red hair and his little red spots everywhere.
I don't remember what my first game exactly what, but I think it was something on C64. Maybe Jumpan Junior... Hmm... You got me thinking here now... xD
The nostalgia watching Stunts is great. I remember spending hours on the weekend playing that game.
Yeah, my friend and I would always start at the "Default" track and then proceed to race on ones each of us created.
Overkill! Haha I was just thinking about this game. I used to play it on my dads PC back in the 90s. A classic. So many good memories
It's f funny how fondly we remember games from our childhood, isn't it?
The original Archon was great, still love it. Great content.
I agree. If there's someone to play it with, it's a blast!
Holy cow! I haven't seen some of these for so long I forgot about them. Thanks for the shout of nostalgia.
I'm happy you liked them! The second season is in the works already and since we're on the subject, have you seen this one yet?
ruclips.net/video/bWFMytEIhsg/видео.html
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I'll stay tuned for the second. And no, I haven't seen that one. I'll watch it next.
@@Mark-rm2yu Good luck! ;) It's over 10 hours and 600 games. ;) But seriously, if you'll like it, I have few more of these and working on few at the moment too.
I will never forget Privateer (Wing Commander)!!
While I liked these, I was always more into Frontier. You know, open world, be your own adventure, that kind of thing... ;)
55:38 - I've had this game in the back of my mind for YEARS, and I couldn't for the life of me remember it's name till I saw this footage, and now I know it's God of Thunder. Ahhhhh thank you, now I can put a name to the random images in my head xD All I could remember was that the bg was super green and you threw a hammer at things lol
Oh, and Vinyl Goddess is one of my fave ever DOS games, I played it over and over as a kid lol. And the soundtrack is a BANGER.
"Banger" you say? Leather Vinyl Goddess of Phobos is definitely something. :)
Also, I'm glad that I could help with the pesky game. I know how annoying it can be remembering something without that one, last, most important detail, like the name for instance. xD
There were a lot more games from my childhood on here than I expected. On a side note, if it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it anyway, after all, this is Overkill!
:)
Omg I am so glad I watched this video. Seeing The Last Eichhof made me remember my youth. I am so glad to find out what this amusing beer bottle space shooter was called XD
Glad that I could help. :)
Veil of Darkness and it's engine-sibling The Summoning are two of my favorite titles from the early 90's. SSI was my jam back in the day.
Yeah, SSI were the GOATs. Sadly, I learned to appreciate most of their games years after they premiered.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I was lucky and grew up with them; one of the earliest RPGs I ever played was Phantasie; first in a trilogy of cRPGs that were mostly known on the C64. Phantasie II wasn't even ported to DOS, though 1 and 3 were.
Went from there to the Silver Box (Hillsfar) and Gold Box (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, and Dark Queen of Krynn). Then to Eye of the Beholder and Dungeon Hack, and Dark Sun. The Summoning and Veil of Darkness were relatively late comers for me; I had played a lot of SSI RPGs by then.
Much later I went back and tried Wizard's Crown; which was the forerunner of the Gold Box engine, and better in some ways.
@@drg5352 WOW! That's a solid classic RPG experience! I haven't played GoldBox games when they came out seriously. Meaning that I did try them out, but I think I might have been too young or too ADHD to be able to enjoy them to the fullest and persevere. Years later, when RPG became my favourite genre, I kept putting it away for later, for when I'll have time, and years passed, and I've never found it. Time that is. Now, it is unlikely that I'll ever play them unless I win a lottery or get fired. Basically something that would pretty much guarantee unlimited free time. Although I'm sure, I'd probably spend most of it working on my videos anyway. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I basically grew up with classic RPGs; my grandfather was an OG nerd; he played D&D when Elf was a class, and Chainmail before that. His first home computer was a breadboard that he wired the chips to. By the time I came along, he was on a Commodore 128, and thus I got to experience computer RPGs in some of it's earlier forms.
Never a time like now. The Gold Box games are all largely still very playable; I just took a run through Champions of Krynn over the last couple of weeks, alternating with Baldur's Gate 3. They aren't as long as modern RPGs; I think Champions took maybe 15 hours (granted I remember a good deal of it) versus the average of 45 hours per BG3 run.
Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds are the hardest to get into, as they lack some of the QOL features like the Fix command and auto-spell memorization of later games. Probably the weakest aspect is their adherence to AD&D racial level limits rules, which means for the four games starting with Pool of Radiance, Human single classed characters are the way to go until Pools of Darkness, when you Dual them. The Kryn games are better, as the Elves at least don't have a limit on Mages, Clerics, and Thieves; so you can create a multi class character and not be totally worthless by Dark Queen.
@@drg5352 You make them sound more appealing than I already thought that they were. :) Granted I spend 140 hours in BG3, so I'd probably take 30-ish per each of Goldbox games. Oh, have you played any of the side-games on the engine? I mean both Buck Rogers titles and the others? I'm very keen on all of them as RPG with turn-based combat was always my jam, and I tried numerous times many of these but never persevered.
Zeliard is absolutely fantastic, I cant say how many times I get it through. Ok where's dosbox...
Thank you so much for your compilations, this one really is outstanding, Ive saw no more than 1/10th of the list, and all of them are really have very strong charisma.
Glad you enjoyed it! There's also Season 2 and 3 out already, so hopefully each next is better and less obvious. :)
Cant tell you how many hours my brother and i sank into OMF 2097 as kids. Loved that game!
Yep, it's one of a kind and I don't think there's been many "good" games like it since.
Bro, Tongue of The Fat Man is easily the worst game I've ever played. It's objectively terrible. That you suggest anyone play it seems like an attack. Fans of fighting games will actually take damage from playing it.
Well... Read the comments under the video. I'd risk saying that it's kinda liked for what it is.
I've played 6 of these games, though only two with significant time (Morraff's World and Stunts). Truly some obscure gems in here, was a blast learning about them!
I'm glad you liked the video! There's also another complete second season of the series and 5 or 6 episodes from the third. So, if you're into these unknown DOS oldies, I've a lot of them on the channel. :)
I remember playing Stunts as a kid and crashing on the loop the loop.
I think I played maybe 4 others.
Great video
Stunts required a lot of practice. But when you finally worked out how its innards operated, it was super fun!
I spent way too big part of my childhood playing stunts XD. You should mention Diggers, also great.
I think I have Diggers somewhere within my Amiga videos.
I had Blackthorne I believe on the SNES, but maybe it was Genesis. Very hard game that I had an amazing time beating.
The instruction manual had a very long and interesting backstory. Rare but cool for that era.
Nearly all versions of Blackthorne were more or less the same, all super fun and playable. CD32 version looked different, instead of 2D sprites, its looked pre-rendered and it just didn't sit well with me...
Ahh!! Have been trying to find the name for Solar Winds for ages now!!! Cheers!
Nice one! Are you gonna play it now?
That was one of my favorite games way back. Being able to control shields and such as well as upgrade the ship was great as well as the exploration.
I've heard of Hugo's House of Horrors and played it as well as it's sequels, Hugo 2: Whodunnit, and Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom.
In Grade School, and to an extent in High School, I started to write my own Hugo adventure stories as a way of using an already existing, yet relatively unheard of fictional character and creating a more developed version of that character.
Sounds pretty cool. :)
Blackthorne was absolutely fantastic. Granted, I played the SNES version, but still a really fun game. Very immersive.
EDIT: Wow, the Horde! Haven't thought about that in a long time. Never played it hands on, but some friends and I watched it being played at a local electronics store wayyy back in the day.
Most other than the 32X versions of Blackthorne were virtually identical. So if you liked one, you liked them all.
Horde was a surprisingly fun take on tower defense, with no towers and some controller attacking, as opposed to only passive witnessing and upgrading. It's fun.
idk why Blackthorne is even on this list, it was hard to miss when hunting for good DOS games back in the day.
I remember "Robot Jocks" movie! it was shown in cinemas in country I was born when I was a kid! When I grew up, I always thought it was something from "Mechwarrior" Universe, because of how similar the robots were to Mechwarrior ones! Also, I remember thinking that "Jox" was a name - as in, "A Robot called Jox", just like in the "Short Circuit" there was this robot called Johnnie-Five - because I did not know enough English to deduce that it's a short for "Jockeys", a flashy word for "riders", so "Robot Riders" essentially.
Do you remember Robotix though? It came in two versions. Some regions got animated series of a number of 6-9 minutes long episodes, while another got it all stitched together as a singular animated movie. Similar theme of robots and pilots, but more like budget version of Transformers in space.
Oh man, Corncob, that was such a confusing game as a child. You're right, though, I still remember it to this time.
Some games, for better or worse, are just something that you'll remember, Whether you want to or not.
Great video! Moraffs Stones. That was actually quite entertaining 😊
Thank you! Yep DOS did sure had some hidden gems :)
Polish nerd ASMR.
I'm going to sleep well tonight ~~
Good night! :)
I know about Oxyd, One Must Fall 2097, Jill of the Jungle, Hugo’s House of Horrors, Solar Winds: The Escape, Overkill, and my favorites Monster Bash, Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures and Jason Storm in Space Chase.
That's still only 9 out of 100. So, I consider the video a win. :)
I have Metal and Lace on 3.5" floppy with the decoder wheel DRM and the Adult content addon disk. I bought it back in the 90's from a local mail order software company with a store front.
Nice :)
OMG Cosmos...little old friend 👾
Ha ha ha :)
Kevin ALWAYS seems to win the Olympics
LOL
Tongue of the Fatman came out for some consoles, they changed the name to Mondo's Palace or something weird like that.
Well whatever it was weird suits it well :)
2:51:41 You are 100% correct - I did not realise it was an EGA game till you said it. It's amazing that an artist could make something so cool with those terrible colours.
I know, right? Sometimes the limitations are what inspired us to beat them (or the odds). I just realised that this sounds way too deep for what we're talking about. LOL ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesyes it's quite a performance art to make EGA look this good :)
@@Domarius64 And yet, they pulled it off. So now, why didn't most devs tried to go that extra mile?
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesThose were the days where pushing the technical limits meant something! Now AAA games are just cash cows for some investor. Indie games are where the innovation continues to happen - there's fewer technical boundaries to push but they push the boundaries of design and experience and what games can be!
@@Domarius64 True
Nice collection... I have played Darklands, Dreamweb, Bloodnet, and I greatly enjoyed Shadow of the Horned Rat...
Thank you! Take a look at the second season's video (the link to it is at the end of this one in the top left). Perhaps there's some games you've not heard of too.
I played Monster Bash and Vinyl Goddess of Mars so much when I was a kid! :D I love seeing all of these though, since even the esthetics brings back memories.
There is something nostalgic about coming back to these titles after years, isn't there?
I'm going to watch this, hoping I find this point and click game that I can barely remember anything about. All I remember is that you crashed on a planet with your dog. That's all I remember. I hope it finally shows up again.
Did you play as a dog, or was it there with you? A platformer? Adventure game? Something else?
@OldAndNewVideoGames I think you crashed with a spaceship on the planet, in the desert, and your dog ran away.
Then you went to explore and find the dog I think. That's all I know for sure.
Maybe one of the first places you find, was a bar or café. It's a very distant memory. I'm pretty sure it was a point and click adventure game, something like Space Quest perhaps, but maybe the graphics were more primitive.
Edit: I just looked at Space Quest and those graphics are pretty primitive. It probably looked something like that. XD
Truly rare. I think I personally only played like ~4 on this list. It wasn't my most avid period of PC gaming (that came a bit later like 1997+), but I'm still surprised you found so many I hadn't even _heard_ of! *Corncob* I'd totally forgotten, but I honestly remember enjoying it quite a bit as one of the best-playing arcade flight sims of its time. *Tongue of the Fat Man* everyone should look up the box art, just so I'm not the only one with that image stuck permanently in their mind (didn't actually play this one until _much_ later, but it was always advertised in gaming mags I'd read).
Well then, if there's only four then it's definitely a win for me. :)
I don't know if you follow the second season of the series, the one that's coming out episodically? But the next, third episode of it will be released today later on, and it features really interesting games. And I had a lot of fun preparing it, so hopefully will be as interesting to watch. :)
Blackthorne reached a much bigger audience than mentioned in this video. It was released on SNES and SEGA 32X
Yes, you're absolutely right. This is video about DOS games however. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I misunderstood sorry, I'm not the brightest lol. After watching I played the DOS version. I liked it much better than the 32X version. I was surprised that it actually looked better.
@@truth3899 No reason to apologise, nothing happened. :) And yeah, most versions looked identical other than the 32x, and it did look a bit out of place with the pre-rendered sprites. Pixel graphics age better. :)
Man..., there is so much work in your videos! Your voice is well recorded and you have no weird mouth noises. Making those videos would take you how many hours? You are amazing! Subscribed!
What is the steam code for?
Thank you for the subscription and more importantly your kind words. :) A 20-25-ish minutes long video takes around 2-3 days of 6-10 hours each. But I cheat, cause I tend to have some time off in my day job, so I often do a bit of previews writing and research when I'm "working". All the heavy lifting is done at home though. ;)
I honestly don't remember. There's at least one in every video and I don't keep a list. Most of the time these are indies, sometimes oldies, but from time to time AA or even AAA game may come around if I get a spare key somehow. :)
21:19 that's one aggressive game of tic tac toe
:D
I had Omnicron Conspiracy on Amiga. Fun little game.
Yep
Played Black Thorne (good game), Tongue of the Fatman, Dark Legions (great game), Stunt (great game) and Jill of the Jungle. But were aware of Metal & Lace and Big Red Race at the time.
What about the rest? New to you? If yes, then video's a win in my books. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It's a win I never heard of them!
@@bravalloy Good! Chances are then, that you'll like the second season that's out already too. :)
oh wow i remember playing some of these. glad to know their name again
Glad I could help. :)
I had Dawn Raider as a kid and I have no idea how I got it, but I loved playing it even though it was so hard. I was surprised by how bad it actually looked when I revisited 20 years later. I also didn't remember you had to keep pressing the fire key instead of being able to hold it down. (I appreciate that holding it down was how you charged the lazy) After 5 mins my hands were too sore to keep going.
Oh, there are so many games that I remembered vividly as amazing, and then played them again, and it was just not it. :/
Wolf looks cool, lol. Would have loved that in 1994, shame I didn't stumble onto it.
I've been trying to find this ms dos side-scrolling beat em up where you are a regular looking guy with a black tank top and blue jeans (or possibly white pants) who kinda looks like Jeane Claude Van Damme or something and you fight regular looking tough guys by just kicking and punching them, and in the background I remember white buildings that look kind of like italy or greece or something. BUT the main distinct thing was a panther was SOMEHOW involved, like maybe you reached a power up level where a panther would run across the screen and kill everyone or something like that? It is killing me finding this game.
It's not Shadow Dancer, is it?
It may be Wild Streets thought....
@@OldAndNewVideoGames 100% is wild streets, thank you so much!!! Was maddening, no search would work out, was looking for so long.
@@Hardcastle83 I'm glad that I could help. :) But I don't take the responsibility for the quality of the game though, LOL ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames lol and me neither. I always knew it was crap even when I was like 7, it was just bothering me not knowing what it was. I have no intention to play it again. Hehe
24:41 the alpha beta concept turned out to be bull. Even the proponent of it eventually tried to undo the damage. The misconception came from putting a group of strange, unrelated wolves into an enclosed space, which made them act out of character and aggressive. Normally they behave more like a commune based on sharing and looking out for each other.
You know that I actually read about it somewhere last year. It fits what I'm trying to say, but yeah, in reality, it's not the case whatsoever.
I've spent years playing SuperActionCross, what an awesome game!
Yep, I destroyed the levels in Elastomania with a buddy of mine. It was a gem!
I remember loving Triplane Turmoil as a Finnish kid. Also Wings, Tapan Kaikki and Mine Bombers among others.
Triplane was like weeks of fun with my cousins. There were three of us, and that's just a little too many inputs for a keyboard from back then, so one of us every once in a while, whenever everyone was performing complicated air acrobatics, would lose an input or two and either crash or get shot down. It was something we accounted for, and part of the fun. :)
Liero had mad settings.
gun reload time 0 + big nukes was quite amusing to me.
Alot of silly features such as dirt ball, (that smaller ball err green ball i think it was?) fan for strangely hilarious way of combat thats not directly lethal.
That sounds... oddly fun. xD
14:44 - Corncob 3D? They didn't do S**T! They didn't do anything! I'm not worried about it! I'm done; do what you want! PULL THE PLUG!
:)
I wonder if you ever played the game D/Generation? It was sort of cyberpunk, where you worked your way through this industrial tower floor by floor. Kind of a cool game as I remember, probably shareware from the early 90's.
Yup, I did. I even covered it for both PC and Amiga. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Cool, I will look for that! Btw "Space Bats of Doom" kind of reminds me of one of my fave arcade classics: "Astro Blaster".
@@willk7184 Also, amazing title. I just love games (and characters) with catchy, and often stupid names. :)
My favorite DOS games were:
Ultima (specifically V + VI)
Bard's Tale
Dungeon Master
Prince of Persia
Olympic Games
Archipelago
Castle Wolfenstein
AD 2400
Swashbuckler
All good games :)
wow so many interesting games i never heard off.
really cool
Thank you! The second season's out now too:
ruclips.net/video/4GBKCMu8Lag/видео.html
Thank you very much for what you are doing!
Oh, you're welcome. And likewise! :) Your views and comments mean a lot!
Nice video, I played few off the games on the list.
But what is the name off the game thta you used for the thumb nail/title?
Thank you! The game is Overkill.
OMG thanks so much!
I remembered the game BEER.EXE from back in my childhood.
Played it in the mid 90s on my first 386, but i only knew it as BEER.EXE
Without this video, I might have never found it again.
:)
I loved the janky HUGO trilogy. It was like a campy choose your own adventure to my young self. I found it for almost nothing on GoG too
Did you get it?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames of course ;) nearly beat all of them again, but my memory is a bit foggy
blackthorn was based af back then he could shoot behind him single handed with his shotgun and i found that cool.
Yep, that was very 80s action movie star move. xD
The Incredible Machine was hella influential on me as a kid.
Edit: I was actually thinking of Gizmos and Gadgets, but both are great.
Whenever I think of The Incredible Machine, I think of Data from the Goonies. :)
Hahaha, key already taken ;) Great job, near 3h movie, wow :) Keep good work. Greetings :)
Yeah, I think most of them are taken as these are previous ten episodes all rolled into one. For those who prefer long-form videos. But there will be a video or two next week, so you'll get your chance picking them up again. :)
Corncob 3D was sooooo fun.
Yeah, and the game was too. ;)
There's an obscure DOS game I remember that was educational prior to 1993. You played as either a knight, a princess, or an elf and battled through a labyrinth full of enemies and items. When you found the dragon, you fought it by answering questions correctly. It would then allow printing your test to show your parents. Have you come across anything like that?
Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue is what you're looking for, sir. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thank you for checking, this is similar to the educational questions it would ask. I think it may have been even older than this as the frame rate was very low and there was just a flat side view of the maze with no perspective. You could see one screen of the maze at a time, but a globe item would allow you to see the whole maze for a few seconds to plan your route.
Logic Master?
@@quanquin3822 I think this is it. I found a picture of game play that looks familiar. Thanks!
I not only downloaded it, but I got it working and beat it on Hard mode after 31 years.
Whoa this is an amazing compilation of treasures here. I mean, there's a little trash too😆😁 - but still really cool to see all this stuff!
Oh, trash is as important as treasures are. I mean without it, to have something to compare greats too, how could we tell one from another? ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames totally agree! Our little microtuber channel loves exploring the almost-hits and flawed masterpieces too
@@2HeadedHero I love movies that are so incredibly terrible that they become pretty darn good. So it's a curse, I'm drawn to crap. :)
That Video is awesome, it deserves more views and likes then it has!
Thank you! :) Have you seen my "10 Years of DOS Gaming" video?
ruclips.net/video/bWFMytEIhsg/видео.html&lc=Ugz176nTHbHGyoQp09t4AaABAg
Wow, Corncob3D! I had forgotten all about that game.
A classic!
Amazing vídeo ! Keep up bro!!
Thank you! :)
Regarding Charlie The Duck. Did you get past the obstacle? I assume you had to wait for the caterpillar to respawn, jump on it from the middle platform and get a boost to the top part? Edit - Never mind. I had to watch a walkthrough video because I was so curious. Apparently it's just a hard jump from the middle platform.
:)
Corncob 3D was my childhood
Good game! :)
What game is represented in the thumbnail? I feel like I had that game on my first family computer when I was 8 but I can't find it in this video and I've wondered about that game for years.
It's Overkill.
Veil of Darkness @ 2:22:15 really is such a damn good vampire story. I grew up beating my head on that game when I was like 10 or 11 in the 90s and loved every minute of it. Played it again this year and the charm is still there.
Warning to anyone thinking of trying it out, spoilers be damned: The hedge maze SUCKS. It sucks really bad. You can clear it in like 10 - 15 minutes but it feels like hours. However, if you've gotten to that point just push through it. The ending is such a banger and will make up for the stinking hedge maze.
Also, the game manual has like a 30-page lore introduction to the vampire lord. It's and quick, admittedly dry read, but it does enrich the story quite a bit if you're in to that sort of thing.
Great candidate for a remake too. I can't gush about the game enough.
WOW... You reminded me that games used to have big box releases with books, booklets, maps and such, and that there were usually few things there, that enriched the experience. Now we get a box with Steam installer and a game code. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah I *suspect* old game manuals are overlooked and forgotten about a LOT these days.
When I see a retro game reviewer go back and talk about these games, and they complain that has no tutorial or item descriptions and they feel lost ... I try to leave a comment to remind them that back in the 80s and 90s all that information was in the game manual and you gotta take that into account before tearing a game apart.
Why make an in-game tutorial when you can just put it in the manual that's sold with the game?
Times have changed haven't they.
@@MinecraftMartin They have but... You have to remember about the piracy scene in the 80s and 90s. I don't know how prominent it was in the US, but in Europe, you couldn't go outside without tripping over a random and abandoned box of pirated floppies. ;)
Im exaggerating but it was a huge factor nonetheless.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh yes, you're not wrong. My dad often handed me pirated games with crack disks lol Yeah the pirating scene has always been thick in the US as well I think.
@@MinecraftMartin I wouldn't even consider doing it now, but back then I gave it no second thought. ;)
I played the heck out blackthorne back in the day.
It was so unique for the time
Yep, it was like less puzzley and more action heavy Flashback. And yeah, I know that there's no such work as "puzzley" but it worked in my head, so I'm leaving it here anyway. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I actually was going to bring up flashback. Flashback was a lot more aggravating though. Way less ways do tdefend yourself and way more aggravating ways to die.
Hey gunna finish this video...
I take it you didn't put dos versions of games like ultima underworld and so on right?
@@z.s.7992 Well, it is a DOS centric video so UU could be there. But it's not. It's in my "10 Years of DOS Gaming" series though... :)
Bad blood was my shit when i was a kid.
:)
Great work 👍
Thank you so much 😀
55:34 this truck looks awfully like you could easily drive under it
The Fast and Furious I style. Also, arguably the best one of all the 700 movies in the series that they've made.
You're behind. There's 1400 of them now.
@@AntipaladinPedigri I can never catch up. But I get the gist though, it's all about the family, right? ;)
I have EGA Trek, and it does call them Klingons/Romulans, you must have a different version
I can't explain it. Maybe version mismatches, and the first had the names in? I really don't know. xD
Yikes! Hornet Rats?! Haha
Yeah, I really don't know why I remembered it as I hornet rather than horned which it was...
51:18 so they basically forced them into a convent...
:)
I guess I have my next 3 hours planned :)
Well then, I hope you'll enjoy it! :)
There sre some good discoveries for me here, although I would not consider Blackthorne obscure by any means.
There's a second season compilation video on my channel too, and 6 or 7 episodes from the third as well. Perhaps you'll find some titles in these too. :)
I don't think 4D Stunts was obscure. everybody knew that game. Bumpy and Stunts were the only games I knew from this list, lol.
Well then, two games is not a bad score out of a hundred. :)
Why lol?
Some of these I absolutely heard of. XD
If only some then I still consider it a win!
25:30 why is the man fighting streets? What did the streets ever do to him??
It reminds me of a joke by Chris D'Elia about streets being mean and a buddy of his visiting him with his daughter. It's in one of his specials on Netflix, I highly recommend it!
impressive video
Thank you! :)
I played shadow yserbius and fates of twinion back in the day on INN/Sierra OnLine
:)
I also played Dark legions and Hell: A Cyber Punk thriller. I think i still have the CDs around here somewhere...
Mines of Titan - SO underrated!
Yep, both on DOS and C64. :)