Yeah...and those games had content...especially TIE Fighter. Today Star Wars Squadrons felt so much like the old classics...but....only 14 Missions. 14 - why the heck did they even produce it to just make 14 Missions. The Trainingssimulator in Tie Fighter had more missions.
I completed all of these games with the exception of Wing Commander which I unfortunately never played and Death Gate I hadn't even heard of. What a fantastic year for games. UFO: Enemy Unknown is in my view still the best computergame ever made.
So you had an amazing year in 1994! :) And I agree. Up until 4 or 5 years ago, I used to replay original UFO every year in January. It was a tradition. :)
@@Rasbiff Most still are if you're willing to look for them. That said GOG/Steam give you the convenience and ease of launching them without the need to setup anything. :)
I put Heretic right next to Doom as greatest games of all time, even though it was basically just a doom clone. One of my favorites growing up. OMF2097 is the greatest fighting game of all time and the only fighting game I keep going back to. The whole aspect of upgrading stats as you go through the game made it so much fun.
I know (I mean OMF here), and no game uses the idea... So many years later... When we have the technology to do anything we imagine. And yet, all fighting games now are either MK or SF clones.
I think that the main reason One Must Fall 2097 didn't become more popular was due to everyone focusing in Rise of the Robots released the same year, that game was definition of hype. Considering the popularity of competitive gaming in the present is quite surprising that there is not a reboot/remake/sequel of Magic Carpet centered in that area.
No one seems to have done a fighter like OMF, where you have pilot training, mech purchases, repair costs etc... sadly. Would love to see a modern fighting game with those systems
@@iansrven3023 The worst thing about it is that we have the technology and hardware to make an absolutely incredible game like that. With attention to detail rivalling movies... And yet... I think the reason may be the big players and their position on the market. Devs fear a new game in such a specific genre may not get big enough audience to bring in the returns. :/
So many amazing games released that year. Doom II, Heretic, Colonization, TIE Fighter, Raptor, Pinball Fantasies... Sadly, I didn't play Transport Tycoon back in the day, but if I had I'm pretty sure I would have loved it.
Oh, you would've... It's rather great! I mean Deluxe version that came out a year later was the ultimate version of the game, but it was basically the same thing but polished. :)
@@MrKanjidude Yep, that's OTTD. It runs great on modern systems in all resolutions. And is great now as it was then. Also, it's entirely free, which is always fun.
what a year! Call me a boomer, but the 90's were so exciting, so many original ideas and new genres and overeall games I could - and sometimes do - play today. Lucky me :)
You know, I do have the remake, and I honestly don't know how. I must've purchased it one of those sleepless nights, but I've never gotten to play it yet....
it pains me to this day that we can not emulate the Soundblaster AWE 32 's music on games like Magic Carpet. If you listen to the PlayStation release of magic carpets music you can get a similar feel but its still inferior to the awe32 's music sadly. There are many games still where the best music is locked behind the AWE 32's sound card setting that still to this day cannot be properly emulated. If you had the rare privilege of growing up with one you would understand why. Image hearing amazing music on various videogames and then never hearing them again and not being able to share this experience.
Such a great year, so many of these titles i had back then and still have to this day! Also, Tie Fighter (and X-Wing) 75% off on steam and GOG as of today, what a coincidence 😉
@@OldAndNewVideoGames often the older brothers did lol until mum made us set a 30 min timer and later on we finally got multiple computers that could run the games we liked it wasn’t a problem. Find memories of doom co op and death match on the home network
The description of ES: Arena would actually fit ES: Daggerfall. I don't think Arena did make that much impact as Daggerfall, which was simply way more advanced. It is also the Dagerfall to offer the biggest world until Minecraft. Plus Arena was bugged.
I agree. Though that particular video was for 1994, and Arena released in 1994. Daggerfall was a bit later game, and I'm sure I've covered it in a video for its year. :)
I love these. Great vids. YT algorithm working for me! I used to play nascar (320x480 sadly) on Watkins Glen and would drift the chicane as best I could with a joystick. Can’t imagine how many hours I would have sunk into that, but it really helped me understand the relationship between the tyres and the tarmac for when I actually started driving. So good.
This is amazing all these retro games were just....omg Xcom was absolutely amazing, same with Xwing and TIE fighter, Duke Nukem 3d, Dooms, Quake, Mechwarrior 2 was and still is one of the greatest games... You're gonna be busy making these lists :D 94 was an amazing year. One Must Fall theme song was so good. System Shock....so amazing they are remaking it :D
1994 was a year with great games. I played the hell out of my Jazz Jackrabbit and OMF 2097 shareware copies. Those registration screens in Jazz were such a huge tease! :D Oh, and OMF 2097 has one of the grooviest theme songs. Did I mention Pinball Fantasies is my favourite pinball game? ^^
Jagged Alliance. Best tactical battles, great mechanics, best AI. Still underrated. (The only game on my channel, playing it now lol) Magic Carpet? Don't be ridiculous. Nobody were playing it after 1995. Transport Tycoon however, is the most underrated game of all time. It was better Windows before Windows. Perfect, genius interface, made by one guy.
Well, it's best games for 1994, so Magic Carpet has its place on it. There'll be another video for 1995 soon. And yeah, Chris Sawyer was a LEGEND! TTD and now OTTD are still amazing!
Regarding Raptor Call of The Shadows, one of the developers, Scott Host, is working on a remastered edition. It'll include new renderings for all the ships, and 60FPS gameplay. Also, as far as Heretic... I recently played it in VR. Pretty amazing to be honest through Sidequest.
This list shows why my interest in gaming fade afterwards. Games peaked :) UFO is a timeless masterpiece that hasnt aged a bit. My top 3 games of all time: UFO, Civ 1, Master of Magic. 2 from 1994.
Thank you! :) I have "a version" of RetroArch on my small portable console and had it on Steam Deck in the past. Might install it again. But since I got Retro Exo for my gaming PC couple of days ago, I'm just deep into my DOS gaming. xD
Master of Magic, Transport Tycoon, and Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Jazz Jackrabbit... in that order are some of the best games I ever played. Master of Magic has a Remake, this is Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (modernized) for those 2. Roller Coaster Tycoons are sufficient replacements for Theme Park. Though there is not really anything to replace Magic Carpet or Jazz with I can think of.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I have broforce and while it has very similar format but I prefer jazz jack rabbit. Broforce is like short mini level sequences while Jazz is a longer like maze run with vending machines sprinkled all over. kinda like a side scrolling Borderlands without the gun drops.
@@CD-vb9fi While it's true that most levels in Bro Force are not very big, there is a very large cummunity behind it, and there are huge campaigns made by the users, that are really fun. :)
@@CD-vb9fi It's not even mods. Broforce has a built-in level editor and downloader, and you can download thousands of campaigns made by others. It's near infinite game now. ;)
Great list, like third of the games were BIG parts of my childhood.. Those dozens of hours I spent playning Transport Tycoon as a kid.. Loved Magic Carpet- those terrain transforming spells were awesome! And I remember once installing System Shock from CD of pirated games dad brought from work- I was like 10 years old, understanding english enough to realize what the difficulty settings were for and roaming this gigantic space station was bit of a transforming experience. And playing Arena and Daggerfall after that, having whole world to roam now, I used to walk from town to town in Daggerfall, watching sun set, that excellent music.. Settlers were first strategy that ever caught my eye, Shang Tsung in MK2 was my favourite and Jazz was only platformer I ever like up till like the recent indie platformer renesaince.. Great times:)
Thank you! And I see that the list really brought all those memories back. :) Shang Tsung was your fave... Interesting. May I ask why? Was it the transformations, or his own skill-set?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames No man, Thank you:) The transformations- why pick your favourite fighter, when you could be all your favourite fighters? Also, it was possibility to show off all the moves I learned:)
It is very similar but a lot bigger! There's dozens of kinds of units, some battles take place on epic huge maps, and it's more serious. Not better though, different. Catering to very similar and yet bit different gameplay style.
You know what I would like Open XCom to do? Well, unless it does it already, as I've not been following it for years now... I would like it to combine Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep in one game.
Never cared for StarWars. At all. But I had Tie Fighter on my 486-SX-33 PC back in the day and I finished it, it wasn't a bad game. Perhaps playing TieFighter was the reason I later discovered and loved Freespace 1 + 2. Remember those games fondly!
Yeah, I get that. I don't care much for SW either. And not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just not as great as most make it up to be. The games are usually very solid and fun though.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah presentation was great on Tie Fighter. Static screens with animations, speech, music etc. Very impressive. But honestly, I couldn't care less for X-wings or B-wings, a hairy yeti or a camp bronze automation. Freespace was slick though. Combat was silky smooth and responsive.
It was SOOOOO amazing with Discovery MOD, and playable online like an MMORPG, with different classes, open World and the whole shebang you'd expect from any MMO.
Doom II: While I've never felt it was more than an expansion pack for Doom, it's still Doom and that's pretty good. X-Com: The most important game of it's type Jazz Jackrabbit: While it has some Mascot Platformer style, it's more comparable to Vectorman. Raptor: I never played this one. It's interesting that when 3D and real time strategy were the realm of the regular priced box game, the shareware makers were filling the Vertical Scrolling shooter space. Magic Carpet: This is the premium time of the Bullfrog era where every new game was a new idea. You can feel some of the DNA of Populus merged with this 3D perspective. The terrain modification was spectacular at the time. The gameplay depth may seem lacking now, but it's still a unique idea. Wing Commander III represented what we thought good CD-ROM gameplay might be. This was a normal game enhanced by video cut scenes.. The video may distract from how much the graphics have advanced since Wing Commander II. If there was a first generation of Wing Commander with WC1&2, Privateer, and Academy, this is the second generation with WC3&4, Privateer 2, Armada (Sort of), and then finally a 3rd gen with Prophecy and Secret Ops. All that said, WCIII was a big game which also represented the importance of the genre starting to decline. Under a Killing Moon: "One of the most important adventures of 1994". Yep. The Tex Murphy series represented the peak of the "realistic" side of adventure games. MKII: I have trouble caring about the PC version of a console fighting game because they were usually late and bit quite right. Tie Fighter felt more bold and important than X-Wing. The first game put you in a Star Wars simulation, which was largely new. But the second game made you the bad guy. Battle Isle II: A game I wanted to play more, but didn't get around to. Pinball Fantasies: Another hot genre of the 1990's. Beneath a Steel Sky is what I think of as the 1990's Euro-Point-and-click game. They don't look real like Tex, but they have the serious themes. And if they are French, they are trippy. Colonization: Love this game. I played a bunch this year. If you want to play the Civ IV version, make sure to get the patch which makes it play like this the original. Aces of the Deep is an odd one because the name ties it to Dynamix's flight sims, but it is in the world of Gato and Silent Service. (Also, Ace is a pilot term). Unlike those games, but like Tie Fighter, you are in the role of "Bad Guy" (sort of) playing the Germans. This is a logical choice since in the earlier days of WWII, the German subs were dominant (and also their torpedoes worked.) Despite the respect this game has, it doesn't have any follow-ups. The Settlers: There's a lineage of strategy games that lives on to this day and Settlers is one of the most important games in the genre. Like with the Dune/Warcraft style RTS it's not so simple since multiple series of games were innovating. For the most part, the genre has a cross pollination of later The Settlers and later Caesar which leads to games like Anno. The individual moving people on the map have some similarity to Populus, but the perspective is particularly unique. Heretic: Essentially, this is Raven's follow-up to the less remembered ShadowCaster. Both games are based on Id engines (Wolf3D and Doom). ShadowCaster tries to do something very Origin and has some very Origin cinematics. Heretic, on the other hand, is unmistakably a Doom based game with a different theme. NASCAR Racing isn't as important of a technical step as Papyrus' previous Indy 500, but it's the state of the art for realistic racing sports in 1994. It's more evolution than revolution. Yet it was probably more influential in the gaming space. Theme Park: The problem I have with Theme Park now (and not at the time) is the existence of RCT. Arguably, there's more Sim here than RCT, but it doesn't feel like it makes real parks. Little Big Adventure: What is this....oh..."Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure". I was aware of it, but never got around to it. One Must Fall: Must they? If Fighting game ports don't do much for me, PC native fighting games do less. This was a game we were all aware of. Transport Tycoon: How much time have I spent playing OpenTTD in the past year? Hard to say, it doesn't count the time; I've spent hours in the past week. The original was TTD made it better, and OpenTTD keeps getting better. Master of Magic: Civ + MOO + MTG. It's a good thing Microprose had the MTG license at the time because WotC might have complained about the games and colors in the game. As much as I liked it, the biggest problem with MoM at the time was the fact it wasn't polished. The AI was not especially good. There are many patches now and even some recent DLC for the original. System Shock: The flop that made a genre. Recently, the term "Immersive Sim" or "ImmSim" has been used for what System Shock is. In some ways, it's owes a lot to the design behind Ultima VII. System Shock was a technical marvel, although playing the unmodified or unremastered original is a little strange because of the non-standard controls. System Shock II, on the other hand, played well but was an extremely dated looking game on release. Death Gate: A less popular style of adventure game. I think long term players went for game where they were present as opposed to the "view of the room" style game. It's like the older Macventure games, and it's a genre Legend was refining since 1990's Spellcasting 101. I'm surprised the Legend game on the list for 1994 wasn't Hoboken. Arena: A game whose original concept only remains in the title, Arena. Originally a game about battle in an Arena, it turned into a freeform RPG, a genre, and a legacy. Like Daggerfall, this game is a much proto-game as game, lots of randomness and incomplete ideas. I live.
Yep, my point exactly with Doom. It's not 2, it's more like 1.2a, but it's fine, cause back then gamers didn't wan't something else but more of the same. Naturally, Quake changed that but that came couple years later. X-Com/UFO, yep, I play it to this day. Occasionally, but it's as enchanting now as it was then. And the build up to the final mission is just fantastic. Same as going through the few stories-high alien ships is. Oh, Raptor is amazing! It's easily one of the best DOS shoot'em ups, and if you ever get a chance, check it out. :) Magic Carpet wooed with its presentation and fast gameplay, no doubt about that. And gamers loved it. Personally, I didn't care much for it. Don't know why, it was like Little Big Adventure to me, the game I knew about, everyone seemed to go bananas for it, and yet, it just didn't land for me. I feel that MK2 on PC was the best version of the game other than the arcade one. It didn't omit anything that was in the original and looked and played as good. Well, keyboard controls in 2-player mode may have not been the most comfortable on those old keyboards, especially that most only could read up to 5 key presses at once, but other than that, it was perfect. I had the exact same problem with BI2. I played a lot of it, but always felt like I could play more. Played Colonization first on the Amiga, and I gotta say, that that version, other than the disk swapping from time to time, felt the best, most natural to me. And sounded way better than PC. That said, I played and still have the Civ4 version of Colonization too, and you're right, it's near identical. Since we're on the Settlers, have you seen the new game Manor Lords that just came out in Early Access? It looks rather interesting, especially the supply and demand mechanics similar to Settlers, and it's been made largely by one person. You know that NASCAR Racing did rather well outside of US, even in countries that cared not for NASCAR at all. I liked it, we had no NASCAR here at all, TV didn't show it either, and I had no clue what it was, and I played the game quite a lot. It transcended its intended userbase it seems. I never got into RCT. Not the statement on the quality of the game, just statement. I don't know if it was lack of time, or was I into other genres when it came out, but I somehow did not play it a lot. I agree with everything you said about Transport Tycoon. And I know already that some people will give me $hit for not including Deluxe version in the 1995's video, even if I've mentioned here that because of it being included, and Deluxe version being just polished one. But that's a problem (that's not really a problem) for then, first I've an Amiga video in the making, and it's a rather fun one, with pretty interesting and yet little known games. Should be out later on tonight. For you, on YT tomorrow. When I discovered Master of Magic, it blew my mind. It was few years after it came out, I believe Civ2 was out by then, but MoM just landed, and was exactly what I wanted to play. Also, I think it's better than first Civ. Here you go, I said it. :P You know I wanted to add Hoboken, same way I wanted to add Superfrog instead of Jazz Jackrabbit. But I felt that Superfrog was not as popular on PC (as opposed to what it was on the Amiga), and Hoboken was a bit too obscure, and most people didn't know or cared for it. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I mean Arena originally supposed to being and Arena-centric game. I saw a documentary on it once even. It had some amazing ideas, that took years to properly implement, and some, to this day aren't. :) Also, I'm really disappointed with Starfield. I mean I've completed it and the side quests were some of the best Bethesda has done for years, and I mean it, but the main quest was just flat, and had no satisfying ending. No ending really at all. Saw Fallout show though, and I'm playing NV now, waiting for Fallout London (F4 MOD) that should be out soon and will be a size of 4 + 2 of its expansions, and even dabbled in 76. So, yeah, got that Fallout fever again. xD You're alive indeed. :) I hope you're OK though?
I actually have all Eador's but never had a chance to give them any time. Same with KB, while I did play first a little, I haven't even unwrapped KB2, and it's still foiled in its jewel case. xD
Doom II! Obviously, it had to be here, it wasn’t the revelation the original game was but it was a great followup. Jazz Jackrabbit was never as big over here as it was in the US but it is a great game with a very ‘Amiga’ feel to it. Raptor is outstanding! It’s perhaps not recommended for people with heart conditions because it will get your heart rate way up! 😂 The addition of game saves is a huge selling point to me but that said jumping in to the game half way through can be a bit of a shock as you haven’t worked up to that point? Magic Carpet was a revelation in it’s day for being fully 3D & its game play is original but going back to it now it feels both stiff & floaty at the same time. Wing Commander III was the first game I can remember that actually had professional actors in it & it was also a great game. That doesn’t seem like a big deal now but back then it was a big deal. Under a killing Moon used some neat tricks to make it look way better than your PC could actually manage back then. Although game play was a bit slow it wasn’t a game that was meant to be fast paced & it did a fantastic job of drawing you in to an authentic (by the standards of the time) world that didn’t feel like clicking on a series of slides. Highly recommended. Mortal Kombat II proved the marketing team still hadn’t learned to spell “Combat” but it was also a great sequel that built on the first rather than trying to do anything radically different… apart from the CPU cheating issue. Shame really as I like MK 2 one player. 😕 Star Wars: Tie Fighter was impressive in software rendering, so much so the hardware 3D patch made it better. Minch Yoda… I’ll do you 1 better, at one point in the script writing process he was called (& I’m not joking) “Buffy.” Yep, in the early stages of the script Yoda was called “Buffy” of all names! “Luke, you must go to the dagobah system […] there you will learn from Buffy, the Jedi master who trained me.” 😂 Pinball Fantasies is fantastic! I still play it to this day. It’s so good, even with the limitations of it’s day. Beneath a Steel Sky is one of my all time favourite games. Even the voice acting is not bad, good for the day & whilst the humour is very British it hit’s a good balance of humour & drama, even if the subtitles don’t always match up perfectly with the dialogue. Heretic was based on the Doom engine but it was very much it’s own thing. The weapons were very original & different from the norm. Nascar looks & plays so well but as you said, dependant on your system. It was a surprisingly popular in the UK even though the motor sport was not. Theme Park is one of the few management games I actually played. That should tell you something because I don’t play management games. Little Big Adventure is interesting but just never grabbed me. Robot Jox is soooo bad it’s good! 😄 one must fall seemed graphically impressive for the day. They tried to do something different & largely succeeded. Never played Master of Magic but you make it sound interesting? Same for Death Gate? System Shock! Holy crap what a game! It’s not perfect, the HUD is too fussy & combat can be a bit fiddly but otherwise what a fantastic game & it had a huge influence on gaming. Elder Scrolls: Arena was absolutely the biggest game not set in space & was let down by the combat controls but was still compelling enough to have a massive impact on gaming & gamers. Awesome list, thanks. What a great year for PC gaming.
You know, I love Superfrog WAY more than Jazz Jackrabbit. And I wanted it in this video but I also wanted to remain at least as much as I can impartial to it. Pick universally considered as best in their genres titles for the year, so I had to go with Jazz. But in my eyes, he has nothing on the magical toad that's addicted to Lucozade Orange. And no wonder, it's delicious! ;) What I loved about saves in Raptor is that I didn't have to play through it in one go. I could save and resume later. Do something else, go somewhere, and didn't have to work my way from level one. Yeah, Under a Killing Moon was one of the games I wanted to play the most when I had an Amiga. I was soooo jealous of it. It seemed like everything I would be into. And for the most part it was. It had a story, atmosphere, grim dark World, and a mystery. That's always fun! Minch Buffy Yoda, the great Jedi Master! OMG! I find those curiosities way better than the movies were. Sorry. xD I think that Nascar games were popular everywhere. They were just decently fun racers with excellent driving and tons of realistic touches making them feel true to life. And whether sport was popular where we were was irrelevant. To this day I've no idea how many circuits are they racing for. Well, but how could one not love Theme Park? Management aside, it was such a cute _and_ fun game! I see we agree on LBA. Good game, but not for me either. I'd argue that despite its qualities OMF2097 failed. Why? Cause the series dead. And all we have now are Street Fighters, Mortal Kombats and Tekkens. So yeah, as much as I enjoyed it, I think it failed. Oh, Master of Magic is fantastic. Better than first Civ! Thanks for your (as usual) kind words! I'm going for the best games per year now, cause I've covered most already, and these will only feature the absolute cream of what each year could offer. As a sorta guide to what to pick, if one would want to sample what the particular year was famous for.
Master of Magic... I have spent more hours in this game than any other. Still love it.The remake is pretty good,if someone wants to play MoM in modern day graphics.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It is very close to the original. It started with a few UI problems, but they have been fixed.There are 2 expansions. I love the original,but the remake is more stable.
One Must Fall soundtrack is so good. There are a lot of SFX from UFO: Enemy Unknown that are used in Perfect Dark on the N64, wonder how that happened. Did they buy the same soundpack, or did Rare 'borrow' it from UFO?
And the oddest thing of it all, noone made anything similar since. And I'm not even talking the mechs, but the RPG progression, of having to upgrade fighters between the fights. It's a such a fun idea for a single player playthrough.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames yeah I saw some of that when i played the, I think shareware version of it back in the day. would've been awesome of that's what they did with cyber gladiators ;/
Never liked it. Always seemed more like a tech-demo than a game to me, similar to Far Cry ... kinda soul less but very good looking. Bullfrog really were pioneers, but Magic Carpet is a long way from Syndicate and Dungeon Keeper.
@@TheVanillatech I was never a huge fan either, but when it released I had my strategies and RPGs, so other genres were only gaming palette cleaners for me. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah me too! I was too into Doom II still, designing maps by then, and Terror From The Deep etc. My friend had a really fast rig, he'd bought a Pentium 100 basically the week it came out. And he loved Magic Carpet, I'd watch him play it and was impressed with the technology etc but it bored me to death. He seemed to like it though, he finished it. But not my cup of tea. Bullfrog tech demo, is what I'd label it. Like Tube. Remember "Tube"? Hehe. At least that was FUN. But not as much as Skyroads. Man, nostalgia overload! :D
@@TheVanillatech Not all games need depth. Some are fine just being what they are, so pieces of entertainment to go through and then forget about forever. I treat most FPSes like that. ;)
What a year for games! Just look what gaming is like now. No fun games anymore. Graphics has been stuck on the same level for a decade or more. No new gameplay ideas anymore. And have I mentioned games aren't fun anymore?
14:42 I think there was another game where the cpu is cheating. I think it was Soul calibur. Some combos or attacks are REALLY hard to pull off, humanly inpossible even. The Cpu pulls them off flawlessly every time.
No serious competition for Raptor in the 90's? Even on just PC I liked Tyrian better. There were so many options in the arcades and consoles, and to just knock them all down like that...
Magic Carpet was beautiful and boring as fuck. Jazz Jackrabbit a poor Sonic-like which was already all Cliff Bleszinski style: stupid game, unimaginative mechanics but still good thanks to god-like developement team who work for him.
I hate the terrible games the Atari ST, Amiga and DOS from the 80's and 90's with awful icon interface that are just unintuitive. This video shows some the worst.
@@MKRENB You love ice cream? Pizza? beer? I can guarantee you use the word “love” for mundane stuff that are not really worthy of love. The same way I used hate for things not worthy of hate. So get off your high horse and fuck the fuck off.
@@federicocatelli8785 Good point. Games Panzer General, WarCraft, Command & Conquer showed that fairly complex games that became very popular could have clean and sensible interfaces.
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TIE Fighter will remain one of my absolute favorite computer games of all time. So many great memories.
Yeah, it was a good one. And I say it as NOT a fan of Star Wars. :)
Definitely! First game I ever really got into as a lil gamerlet
Yeah...and those games had content...especially TIE Fighter.
Today Star Wars Squadrons felt so much like the old classics...but....only 14 Missions. 14 - why the heck did they even produce it to just make 14 Missions. The Trainingssimulator in Tie Fighter had more missions.
What a landmark year in PC gaming. So many amazing titles.
Yep, one of the best!
I completed all of these games with the exception of Wing Commander which I unfortunately never played and Death Gate I hadn't even heard of. What a fantastic year for games.
UFO: Enemy Unknown is in my view still the best computergame ever made.
So you had an amazing year in 1994! :) And I agree. Up until 4 or 5 years ago, I used to replay original UFO every year in January. It was a tradition. :)
I completely agree on UFO as the best game of all time.
Correct. UFO is GOAT.
The fact so many of these games in the many lists this guy has done, are still readily available on Steam and GOG, is truly great.
Yep, keeps them alive. But for each one that's available, there's at least 10 that aren't. That's why game preservation is so important. :)
Not when you consider that many of them used to be available *for free* on abandonware websites before that.
@@Rasbiff Most still are if you're willing to look for them. That said GOG/Steam give you the convenience and ease of launching them without the need to setup anything. :)
Nice to see these games run like they wore meant to be played. Smoothly.
:)
Thought 1st May was an holiday in Poland....your never resting hero👏
It is. And I don't. :P
But that's fine, I like it.
I put Heretic right next to Doom as greatest games of all time, even though it was basically just a doom clone. One of my favorites growing up. OMF2097 is the greatest fighting game of all time and the only fighting game I keep going back to. The whole aspect of upgrading stats as you go through the game made it so much fun.
I know (I mean OMF here), and no game uses the idea... So many years later... When we have the technology to do anything we imagine. And yet, all fighting games now are either MK or SF clones.
And don't forget the music in OMF :P
I think that the main reason One Must Fall 2097 didn't become more popular was due to everyone focusing in Rise of the Robots released the same year, that game was definition of hype.
Considering the popularity of competitive gaming in the present is quite surprising that there is not a reboot/remake/sequel of Magic Carpet centered in that area.
Rise of the Robots... Now that's a $hit nugget no one wants to remember. ;)
Magic Carpet VR!!!
And OMF was such a fun game back in the day
Used to play insane amount of UFO, Colonization, and One Must Fall. Still among my all-time favorites.
So did I! Well, mostly the first two, but I did. Tons. And it was the best! :)
This year was possibly the best year for video games so far. One Must Fall 2097, so good, Transport Tycoon, so good, so many others, so good.
Just wait till tomorrow (Saturday). :) 1995 was incredible too! xD
No one seems to have done a fighter like OMF, where you have pilot training, mech purchases, repair costs etc... sadly. Would love to see a modern fighting game with those systems
@@iansrven3023 The worst thing about it is that we have the technology and hardware to make an absolutely incredible game like that. With attention to detail rivalling movies... And yet... I think the reason may be the big players and their position on the market. Devs fear a new game in such a specific genre may not get big enough audience to bring in the returns. :/
So many amazing games released that year. Doom II, Heretic, Colonization, TIE Fighter, Raptor, Pinball Fantasies...
Sadly, I didn't play Transport Tycoon back in the day, but if I had I'm pretty sure I would have loved it.
Oh, you would've... It's rather great! I mean Deluxe version that came out a year later was the ultimate version of the game, but it was basically the same thing but polished. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Awesome. I've seen there is an open source version floating around. I should give that one a try.
@@MrKanjidude Yep, that's OTTD. It runs great on modern systems in all resolutions. And is great now as it was then. Also, it's entirely free, which is always fun.
Master of Magic is CLEARLY an early version of Heroes of Might and Magic... wow!
It's really fun! I'd say it's more of a Civilization with magic, but some similarities to Heroes games are there too. No doubt about that.
what a year! Call me a boomer, but the 90's were so exciting, so many original ideas and new genres and overeall games I could - and sometimes do - play today. Lucky me :)
Oh, for sure it was an amazing year! Well, years really. :)
System Shock Remake is incredible, i never finished the 1994 version, but am on final level on remake, it's brilliant
You know, I do have the remake, and I honestly don't know how. I must've purchased it one of those sleepless nights, but I've never gotten to play it yet....
My kind of content, thanks a lot! WC3 will always be one of my favourites!
Thanks for watching! :) And no wonder, it's a great game!
it pains me to this day that we can not emulate the Soundblaster AWE 32 's music on games like Magic Carpet. If you listen to the PlayStation release of magic carpets music you can get a similar feel but its still inferior to the awe32 's music sadly. There are many games still where the best music is locked behind the AWE 32's sound card setting that still to this day cannot be properly emulated. If you had the rare privilege of growing up with one you would understand why. Image hearing amazing music on various videogames and then never hearing them again and not being able to share this experience.
86box has AWE32 emulation.
I don't know enough to judge it's accuracy though.
Sadly I only had a Sound Blaster PRO compatible card, so I can't imagine the difference. But I heard that it was rather big.
Lucky you I had an humble sb16 in DOS era.
"What a time to be alive!"... is what I was saying in 1994 when I played most of these games. Some really great picks here
Yep, 1995 was even more difficult to pick only 25 titles from focusing on just the best games, and covering all genres. xD
The Settlers was originally released on the Amiga in 1993, then ported to the PC a year later.
Yup, and I played it first on the Amiga with two mice with a buddy of mine, it was great!
UFO ... THE start of an amazing series !!!
Oh... I play them to this day. Mostly the new ones, but I do. :)
Such a great year, so many of these titles i had back then and still have to this day!
Also, Tie Fighter (and X-Wing) 75% off on steam and GOG as of today, what a coincidence 😉
Well, here you go! Thanks for the info, I'm hearting your comment so that more folks could grab them while they're cheap. :)
17:08 "Tie fighter"
I empathise. I can't tie ties either for the life of me, and I fight them. I fight having to wear them.
You sound like you should be put in, and kept locked off in the X Wing. ;)
Shame Ecstatica didn't make it to the list, that game was ahead of it's time.
Yeah, sorry about that. Not all games could fit into only 25. :/
Loved One Must Fall
There was no game like it since :)
Hello, genius/visionary/great man! Really been enjoying these videos! Thanks for making them!
And sweet jesus, Magic Carpet. My computer could NOT run that at all.
Thanks! :) For kind words and watching them. ;)
Well, it was a rather demanding title. But also one that somehow everyone was into.
Love you videos , I’ve played so many of these games growing up. Often having to fight over who got to use the computer between my two brothers.
Did you? Won the most, that is. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames often the older brothers did lol until mum made us set a 30 min timer and later on we finally got multiple computers that could run the games we liked it wasn’t a problem. Find memories of doom co op and death match on the home network
@@rokinz3270 :)
The description of ES: Arena would actually fit ES: Daggerfall. I don't think Arena did make that much impact as Daggerfall, which was simply way more advanced. It is also the Dagerfall to offer the biggest world until Minecraft. Plus Arena was bugged.
I agree. Though that particular video was for 1994, and Arena released in 1994. Daggerfall was a bit later game, and I'm sure I've covered it in a video for its year. :)
I love these. Great vids. YT algorithm working for me!
I used to play nascar (320x480 sadly) on Watkins Glen and would drift the chicane as best I could with a joystick. Can’t imagine how many hours I would have sunk into that, but it really helped me understand the relationship between the tyres and the tarmac for when I actually started driving. So good.
Here you go, and they say games make people aggressive... And not only they don't but also teach us stuff. :)
Also, thanks! :)
Tie fighter is one of my all time favorite games! OMF is up there too!
OMF will be featured in the next video too. I've really interesting set of games for that one.
This is amazing all these retro games were just....omg
Xcom was absolutely amazing, same with Xwing and TIE fighter, Duke Nukem 3d, Dooms, Quake, Mechwarrior 2 was and still is one of the greatest games...
You're gonna be busy making these lists :D
94 was an amazing year. One Must Fall theme song was so good. System Shock....so amazing they are remaking it :D
These 25 Essential/Must Play videos are already all done. All most important years are covered. I'm making other DOS videos now. :)
1994 was a year with great games.
I played the hell out of my Jazz Jackrabbit and OMF 2097 shareware copies. Those registration screens in Jazz were such a huge tease! :D Oh, and OMF 2097 has one of the grooviest theme songs.
Did I mention Pinball Fantasies is my favourite pinball game? ^^
Yeah, it was a banger of a year! And yep, I know of your excellent taste in pinball games already. It's stellar! :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Why, thank you! So is yours :D
@@TeaAndTankControls Ha ha ha :)
Wow 1994 was an amazing year then. All those games are excellent.
Yup, mid 90s were great on DOS!
I had Magic Carpet 2 as a kid and would pore over the manual planning the massive armies I would have lol
Oh my... it's a cool game even if technically not all about that.
Jagged Alliance. Best tactical battles, great mechanics, best AI. Still underrated. (The only game on my channel, playing it now lol) Magic Carpet? Don't be ridiculous. Nobody were playing it after 1995.
Transport Tycoon however, is the most underrated game of all time. It was better Windows before Windows. Perfect, genius interface, made by one guy.
Well, it's best games for 1994, so Magic Carpet has its place on it. There'll be another video for 1995 soon. And yeah, Chris Sawyer was a LEGEND! TTD and now OTTD are still amazing!
Regarding Raptor Call of The Shadows, one of the developers, Scott Host, is working on a remastered edition. It'll include new renderings for all the ships, and 60FPS gameplay.
Also, as far as Heretic... I recently played it in VR. Pretty amazing to be honest through Sidequest.
Oh, I'd love to see a remake of Raptor!
This list shows why my interest in gaming fade afterwards. Games peaked :) UFO is a timeless masterpiece that hasnt aged a bit. My top 3 games of all time: UFO, Civ 1, Master of Magic. 2 from 1994.
Oh, wait for 1995, it was surprisingly fantastic!
I'm surprised Warcraft 1 didn't make your list.
Warcraft 2 did in video for 1995. It's not out yet, working on it now, and should be out for Saturday hopefully.
I'm playing System Shock remake these days....what a coincidence
I have it too! I've been thinking about giving it a go for a while now, but time is not something I have a lot of. xD
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I tried playing the original BioShock on dosbox but I could not get the hang of its interface.
The remake is much easier to play
@@federicocatelli8785 I'm sorry, what?! There was an old BioShock game?
Retroarch is beautiful for retro games. I love your channel man. I fall asleep to the vids they are so relaxing.
Thank you! :) I have "a version" of RetroArch on my small portable console and had it on Steam Deck in the past. Might install it again. But since I got Retro Exo for my gaming PC couple of days ago, I'm just deep into my DOS gaming. xD
Master of Magic, Transport Tycoon, and Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Jazz Jackrabbit... in that order are some of the best games I ever played. Master of Magic has a Remake, this is Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (modernized) for those 2. Roller Coaster Tycoons are sufficient replacements for Theme Park. Though there is not really anything to replace Magic Carpet or Jazz with I can think of.
Maybe Broforce for Jazz? It's a stretch, I know, but it's so good!
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I have broforce and while it has very similar format but I prefer jazz jack rabbit. Broforce is like short mini level sequences while Jazz is a longer like maze run with vending machines sprinkled all over. kinda like a side scrolling Borderlands without the gun drops.
@@CD-vb9fi While it's true that most levels in Bro Force are not very big, there is a very large cummunity behind it, and there are huge campaigns made by the users, that are really fun. :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I have not tried any community mods for Broforce... was not even aware that there was one.
@@CD-vb9fi It's not even mods. Broforce has a built-in level editor and downloader, and you can download thousands of campaigns made by others. It's near infinite game now. ;)
Great list, like third of the games were BIG parts of my childhood.. Those dozens of hours I spent playning Transport Tycoon as a kid.. Loved Magic Carpet- those terrain transforming spells were awesome! And I remember once installing System Shock from CD of pirated games dad brought from work- I was like 10 years old, understanding english enough to realize what the difficulty settings were for and roaming this gigantic space station was bit of a transforming experience. And playing Arena and Daggerfall after that, having whole world to roam now, I used to walk from town to town in Daggerfall, watching sun set, that excellent music.. Settlers were first strategy that ever caught my eye, Shang Tsung in MK2 was my favourite and Jazz was only platformer I ever like up till like the recent indie platformer renesaince.. Great times:)
Thank you! And I see that the list really brought all those memories back. :) Shang Tsung was your fave... Interesting. May I ask why? Was it the transformations, or his own skill-set?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames No man, Thank you:) The transformations- why pick your favourite fighter, when you could be all your favourite fighters? Also, it was possibility to show off all the moves I learned:)
@@UsmevavyPanacek You know that I've never, not once even, played as Shang Tsung. Could you pick who would you transform into?
Tie fighter was epic
Good game!
I think maybe Warcraft should be on the list.
Warcraft II will be in video for 1995 :)
Battle Isle reminds me of the 'Wars games on Nintendo/Gameboy
It is very similar but a lot bigger! There's dozens of kinds of units, some battles take place on epic huge maps, and it's more serious. Not better though, different. Catering to very similar and yet bit different gameplay style.
Wow! In 1994 there were any prequels or sequels. Star Wars was still good!
Ha ha ha :)
Minch is an alternate spelling for minge, which means the quim.
And now I know xD
My favorite game is without a doubt ufo enemy unknown, I am currently playing open XCOM with XCOM files mega mod to that game.
You know what I would like Open XCom to do? Well, unless it does it already, as I've not been following it for years now... I would like it to combine Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep in one game.
I appreciated the thoughtful commrntary on each game. You just earned a sub from me!
Thank you very much sir! :) Wait till you see my 16-hour long Obscure DOS Games behemot... That was a task and a half. xD
Pretty interesting list, though I personally would have put Traffic Department 2192 on the list. Then again, not sure what I'd cut to do so, hm...
My point exactly. It was so tough to land on these... And 1995 was even more difficult. That should be out on Saturday though. xD
Never cared for StarWars. At all. But I had Tie Fighter on my 486-SX-33 PC back in the day and I finished it, it wasn't a bad game. Perhaps playing TieFighter was the reason I later discovered and loved Freespace 1 + 2. Remember those games fondly!
Yeah, I get that. I don't care much for SW either. And not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just not as great as most make it up to be. The games are usually very solid and fun though.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah presentation was great on Tie Fighter. Static screens with animations, speech, music etc. Very impressive. But honestly, I couldn't care less for X-wings or B-wings, a hairy yeti or a camp bronze automation.
Freespace was slick though. Combat was silky smooth and responsive.
@@TheVanillatech Oh, definitely, you can't compare it even. Same with Freelancer, it was miles better!
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Always wanted to try Freelancer, every magazine raved about it back in the day. Never did. Guess I missed that boat.
It was SOOOOO amazing with Discovery MOD, and playable online like an MMORPG, with different classes, open World and the whole shebang you'd expect from any MMO.
Doom II: While I've never felt it was more than an expansion pack for Doom, it's still Doom and that's pretty good.
X-Com: The most important game of it's type
Jazz Jackrabbit: While it has some Mascot Platformer style, it's more comparable to Vectorman.
Raptor: I never played this one. It's interesting that when 3D and real time strategy were the realm of the regular priced box game, the shareware makers were filling the Vertical Scrolling shooter space.
Magic Carpet: This is the premium time of the Bullfrog era where every new game was a new idea. You can feel some of the DNA of Populus merged with this 3D perspective. The terrain modification was spectacular at the time. The gameplay depth may seem lacking now, but it's still a unique idea.
Wing Commander III represented what we thought good CD-ROM gameplay might be. This was a normal game enhanced by video cut scenes.. The video may distract from how much the graphics have advanced since Wing Commander II. If there was a first generation of Wing Commander with WC1&2, Privateer, and Academy, this is the second generation with WC3&4, Privateer 2, Armada (Sort of), and then finally a 3rd gen with Prophecy and Secret Ops.
All that said, WCIII was a big game which also represented the importance of the genre starting to decline.
Under a Killing Moon: "One of the most important adventures of 1994". Yep. The Tex Murphy series represented the peak of the "realistic" side of adventure games.
MKII: I have trouble caring about the PC version of a console fighting game because they were usually late and bit quite right.
Tie Fighter felt more bold and important than X-Wing. The first game put you in a Star Wars simulation, which was largely new. But the second game made you the bad guy.
Battle Isle II: A game I wanted to play more, but didn't get around to.
Pinball Fantasies: Another hot genre of the 1990's.
Beneath a Steel Sky is what I think of as the 1990's Euro-Point-and-click game. They don't look real like Tex, but they have the serious themes. And if they are French, they are trippy.
Colonization: Love this game. I played a bunch this year. If you want to play the Civ IV version, make sure to get the patch which makes it play like this the original.
Aces of the Deep is an odd one because the name ties it to Dynamix's flight sims, but it is in the world of Gato and Silent Service. (Also, Ace is a pilot term). Unlike those games, but like Tie Fighter, you are in the role of "Bad Guy" (sort of) playing the Germans. This is a logical choice since in the earlier days of WWII, the German subs were dominant (and also their torpedoes worked.) Despite the respect this game has, it doesn't have any follow-ups.
The Settlers: There's a lineage of strategy games that lives on to this day and Settlers is one of the most important games in the genre. Like with the Dune/Warcraft style RTS it's not so simple since multiple series of games were innovating. For the most part, the genre has a cross pollination of later The Settlers and later Caesar which leads to games like Anno. The individual moving people on the map have some similarity to Populus, but the perspective is particularly unique.
Heretic: Essentially, this is Raven's follow-up to the less remembered ShadowCaster. Both games are based on Id engines (Wolf3D and Doom). ShadowCaster tries to do something very Origin and has some very Origin cinematics. Heretic, on the other hand, is unmistakably a Doom based game with a different theme.
NASCAR Racing isn't as important of a technical step as Papyrus' previous Indy 500, but it's the state of the art for realistic racing sports in 1994. It's more evolution than revolution. Yet it was probably more influential in the gaming space.
Theme Park: The problem I have with Theme Park now (and not at the time) is the existence of RCT. Arguably, there's more Sim here than RCT, but it doesn't feel like it makes real parks.
Little Big Adventure: What is this....oh..."Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure". I was aware of it, but never got around to it.
One Must Fall: Must they? If Fighting game ports don't do much for me, PC native fighting games do less. This was a game we were all aware of.
Transport Tycoon: How much time have I spent playing OpenTTD in the past year? Hard to say, it doesn't count the time; I've spent hours in the past week. The original was TTD made it better, and OpenTTD keeps getting better.
Master of Magic: Civ + MOO + MTG. It's a good thing Microprose had the MTG license at the time because WotC might have complained about the games and colors in the game. As much as I liked it, the biggest problem with MoM at the time was the fact it wasn't polished. The AI was not especially good. There are many patches now and even some recent DLC for the original.
System Shock: The flop that made a genre. Recently, the term "Immersive Sim" or "ImmSim" has been used for what System Shock is. In some ways, it's owes a lot to the design behind Ultima VII.
System Shock was a technical marvel, although playing the unmodified or unremastered original is a little strange because of the non-standard controls. System Shock II, on the other hand, played well but was an extremely dated looking game on release.
Death Gate: A less popular style of adventure game. I think long term players went for game where they were present as opposed to the "view of the room" style game. It's like the older Macventure games, and it's a genre Legend was refining since 1990's Spellcasting 101.
I'm surprised the Legend game on the list for 1994 wasn't Hoboken.
Arena: A game whose original concept only remains in the title, Arena. Originally a game about battle in an Arena, it turned into a freeform RPG, a genre, and a legacy. Like Daggerfall, this game is a much proto-game as game, lots of randomness and incomplete ideas.
I live.
Yep, my point exactly with Doom. It's not 2, it's more like 1.2a, but it's fine, cause back then gamers didn't wan't something else but more of the same. Naturally, Quake changed that but that came couple years later.
X-Com/UFO, yep, I play it to this day. Occasionally, but it's as enchanting now as it was then. And the build up to the final mission is just fantastic. Same as going through the few stories-high alien ships is.
Oh, Raptor is amazing! It's easily one of the best DOS shoot'em ups, and if you ever get a chance, check it out. :)
Magic Carpet wooed with its presentation and fast gameplay, no doubt about that. And gamers loved it. Personally, I didn't care much for it. Don't know why, it was like Little Big Adventure to me, the game I knew about, everyone seemed to go bananas for it, and yet, it just didn't land for me.
I feel that MK2 on PC was the best version of the game other than the arcade one. It didn't omit anything that was in the original and looked and played as good. Well, keyboard controls in 2-player mode may have not been the most comfortable on those old keyboards, especially that most only could read up to 5 key presses at once, but other than that, it was perfect.
I had the exact same problem with BI2. I played a lot of it, but always felt like I could play more.
Played Colonization first on the Amiga, and I gotta say, that that version, other than the disk swapping from time to time, felt the best, most natural to me. And sounded way better than PC. That said, I played and still have the Civ4 version of Colonization too, and you're right, it's near identical.
Since we're on the Settlers, have you seen the new game Manor Lords that just came out in Early Access? It looks rather interesting, especially the supply and demand mechanics similar to Settlers, and it's been made largely by one person.
You know that NASCAR Racing did rather well outside of US, even in countries that cared not for NASCAR at all. I liked it, we had no NASCAR here at all, TV didn't show it either, and I had no clue what it was, and I played the game quite a lot. It transcended its intended userbase it seems.
I never got into RCT. Not the statement on the quality of the game, just statement. I don't know if it was lack of time, or was I into other genres when it came out, but I somehow did not play it a lot.
I agree with everything you said about Transport Tycoon. And I know already that some people will give me $hit for not including Deluxe version in the 1995's video, even if I've mentioned here that because of it being included, and Deluxe version being just polished one. But that's a problem (that's not really a problem) for then, first I've an Amiga video in the making, and it's a rather fun one, with pretty interesting and yet little known games. Should be out later on tonight. For you, on YT tomorrow.
When I discovered Master of Magic, it blew my mind. It was few years after it came out, I believe Civ2 was out by then, but MoM just landed, and was exactly what I wanted to play. Also, I think it's better than first Civ. Here you go, I said it. :P
You know I wanted to add Hoboken, same way I wanted to add Superfrog instead of Jazz Jackrabbit. But I felt that Superfrog was not as popular on PC (as opposed to what it was on the Amiga), and Hoboken was a bit too obscure, and most people didn't know or cared for it.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I mean Arena originally supposed to being and Arena-centric game. I saw a documentary on it once even. It had some amazing ideas, that took years to properly implement, and some, to this day aren't. :) Also, I'm really disappointed with Starfield. I mean I've completed it and the side quests were some of the best Bethesda has done for years, and I mean it, but the main quest was just flat, and had no satisfying ending. No ending really at all. Saw Fallout show though, and I'm playing NV now, waiting for Fallout London (F4 MOD) that should be out soon and will be a size of 4 + 2 of its expansions, and even dabbled in 76. So, yeah, got that Fallout fever again. xD
You're alive indeed. :) I hope you're OK though?
One Must Fall was great. Rise of the Robots wishes it could've been as good
Rise of the Robots wishes it could've been good at all. xD
Master of Magic has a few spiritual successors like Eador and King's Bounty but none are quite as good as the original
I actually have all Eador's but never had a chance to give them any time. Same with KB, while I did play first a little, I haven't even unwrapped KB2, and it's still foiled in its jewel case. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Dang, a TRUE collector here! 😁😆
Doom II! Obviously, it had to be here, it wasn’t the revelation the original game was but it was a great followup.
Jazz Jackrabbit was never as big over here as it was in the US but it is a great game with a very ‘Amiga’ feel to it.
Raptor is outstanding! It’s perhaps not recommended for people with heart conditions because it will get your heart rate way up! 😂 The addition of game saves is a huge selling point to me but that said jumping in to the game half way through can be a bit of a shock as you haven’t worked up to that point?
Magic Carpet was a revelation in it’s day for being fully 3D & its game play is original but going back to it now it feels both stiff & floaty at the same time.
Wing Commander III was the first game I can remember that actually had professional actors in it & it was also a great game. That doesn’t seem like a big deal now but back then it was a big deal.
Under a killing Moon used some neat tricks to make it look way better than your PC could actually manage back then. Although game play was a bit slow it wasn’t a game that was meant to be fast paced & it did a fantastic job of drawing you in to an authentic (by the standards of the time) world that didn’t feel like clicking on a series of slides. Highly recommended.
Mortal Kombat II proved the marketing team still hadn’t learned to spell “Combat” but it was also a great sequel that built on the first rather than trying to do anything radically different… apart from the CPU cheating issue. Shame really as I like MK 2 one player. 😕
Star Wars: Tie Fighter was impressive in software rendering, so much so the hardware 3D patch made it better.
Minch Yoda… I’ll do you 1 better, at one point in the script writing process he was called (& I’m not joking) “Buffy.” Yep, in the early stages of the script Yoda was called “Buffy” of all names! “Luke, you must go to the dagobah system […] there you will learn from Buffy, the Jedi master who trained me.” 😂
Pinball Fantasies is fantastic! I still play it to this day. It’s so good, even with the limitations of it’s day.
Beneath a Steel Sky is one of my all time favourite games. Even the voice acting is not bad, good for the day & whilst the humour is very British it hit’s a good balance of humour & drama, even if the subtitles don’t always match up perfectly with the dialogue.
Heretic was based on the Doom engine but it was very much it’s own thing. The weapons were very original & different from the norm.
Nascar looks & plays so well but as you said, dependant on your system. It was a surprisingly popular in the UK even though the motor sport was not.
Theme Park is one of the few management games I actually played. That should tell you something because I don’t play management games.
Little Big Adventure is interesting but just never grabbed me.
Robot Jox is soooo bad it’s good! 😄 one must fall seemed graphically impressive for the day. They tried to do something different & largely succeeded.
Never played Master of Magic but you make it sound interesting? Same for Death Gate?
System Shock! Holy crap what a game! It’s not perfect, the HUD is too fussy & combat can be a bit fiddly but otherwise what a fantastic game & it had a huge influence on gaming.
Elder Scrolls: Arena was absolutely the biggest game not set in space & was let down by the combat controls but was still compelling enough to have a massive impact on gaming & gamers.
Awesome list, thanks. What a great year for PC gaming.
You know, I love Superfrog WAY more than Jazz Jackrabbit. And I wanted it in this video but I also wanted to remain at least as much as I can impartial to it. Pick universally considered as best in their genres titles for the year, so I had to go with Jazz. But in my eyes, he has nothing on the magical toad that's addicted to Lucozade Orange. And no wonder, it's delicious! ;)
What I loved about saves in Raptor is that I didn't have to play through it in one go. I could save and resume later. Do something else, go somewhere, and didn't have to work my way from level one.
Yeah, Under a Killing Moon was one of the games I wanted to play the most when I had an Amiga. I was soooo jealous of it. It seemed like everything I would be into. And for the most part it was. It had a story, atmosphere, grim dark World, and a mystery. That's always fun!
Minch Buffy Yoda, the great Jedi Master! OMG! I find those curiosities way better than the movies were. Sorry. xD
I think that Nascar games were popular everywhere. They were just decently fun racers with excellent driving and tons of realistic touches making them feel true to life. And whether sport was popular where we were was irrelevant. To this day I've no idea how many circuits are they racing for.
Well, but how could one not love Theme Park? Management aside, it was such a cute _and_ fun game!
I see we agree on LBA. Good game, but not for me either.
I'd argue that despite its qualities OMF2097 failed. Why? Cause the series dead. And all we have now are Street Fighters, Mortal Kombats and Tekkens. So yeah, as much as I enjoyed it, I think it failed.
Oh, Master of Magic is fantastic. Better than first Civ!
Thanks for your (as usual) kind words! I'm going for the best games per year now, cause I've covered most already, and these will only feature the absolute cream of what each year could offer. As a sorta guide to what to pick, if one would want to sample what the particular year was famous for.
Master of Magic... I have spent more hours in this game than any other. Still love it.The remake is pretty good,if someone wants to play MoM in modern day graphics.
I've yet to try the remake, but it's good to know that it's decent :)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames It is very close to the original. It started with a few UI problems, but they have been fixed.There are 2 expansions. I love the original,but the remake is more stable.
@@nikospolitis5635 I'm gonna give it a try one of those days. :)
23:45 Colonization starts in 1942 😂
Oh $hit! What was I thinking!? xD
serflings is a settler 1 remake /port for modern systems, for anyone who cares
Sounds like fun remake. I'm hearting your comment so that others could see it. :)
33:41 oh... You said "twin suns". I was afraid I heard "relentless twincest adventure"...
Not the site, the other's on on the "other" tube site. ;)
Good old dos games i have 13 games of those games i have over 130 dos games most of them i bought on gog
It is super cool that we get to replay many of these classics with ease these days thanks to GOG.
One Must Fall soundtrack is so good.
There are a lot of SFX from UFO: Enemy Unknown that are used in Perfect Dark on the N64, wonder how that happened. Did they buy the same soundpack, or did Rare 'borrow' it from UFO?
That's odd indeed. I don't think that MicroProse had anything to do with Rare, so... You know... These were a bit different times than today. ;)
I always thought that one must fall 2097 was an odd videogame to never hit it big. at least pc side.
And the oddest thing of it all, noone made anything similar since. And I'm not even talking the mechs, but the RPG progression, of having to upgrade fighters between the fights. It's a such a fun idea for a single player playthrough.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames yeah I saw some of that when i played the, I think shareware version of it back in the day. would've been awesome of that's what they did with cyber gladiators ;/
@@Bowen_Landry Yep :)
I cant believe it's almost 2025 and we don't have follow-ups to magic carpet genre. It was so far ahead of its time.
It would probably need a lot more content today... Unless, it could be an indie, then yeah, I see it releasing today. :)
Never liked it. Always seemed more like a tech-demo than a game to me, similar to Far Cry ... kinda soul less but very good looking. Bullfrog really were pioneers, but Magic Carpet is a long way from Syndicate and Dungeon Keeper.
@@TheVanillatech I was never a huge fan either, but when it released I had my strategies and RPGs, so other genres were only gaming palette cleaners for me. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah me too! I was too into Doom II still, designing maps by then, and Terror From The Deep etc.
My friend had a really fast rig, he'd bought a Pentium 100 basically the week it came out. And he loved Magic Carpet, I'd watch him play it and was impressed with the technology etc but it bored me to death. He seemed to like it though, he finished it. But not my cup of tea.
Bullfrog tech demo, is what I'd label it.
Like Tube. Remember "Tube"? Hehe. At least that was FUN. But not as much as Skyroads.
Man, nostalgia overload! :D
@@TheVanillatech Not all games need depth. Some are fine just being what they are, so pieces of entertainment to go through and then forget about forever. I treat most FPSes like that. ;)
What a year for games! Just look what gaming is like now. No fun games anymore. Graphics has been stuck on the same level for a decade or more. No new gameplay ideas anymore. And have I mentioned games aren't fun anymore?
I wish you would've mentioned that the games aren't fun anymore. ;)
14:42 I think there was another game where the cpu is cheating. I think it was Soul calibur. Some combos or attacks are REALLY hard to pull off, humanly inpossible even. The Cpu pulls them off flawlessly every time.
I've only played SE and SC1 a little. I've played SC2 a lot, seemed fine to me though.
Great list!
Thank you! :) I've all the other years covered in a similar manner in other videos, too, if you're interested...
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I will be looking at them all, just might take a little time.
You definitely put some time &; effort in to these
@@moz7491 It's a fun subject to talk about :)
No serious competition for Raptor in the 90's? Even on just PC I liked Tyrian better. There were so many options in the arcades and consoles, and to just knock them all down like that...
5:24 Space Jack Rabbits Must Die :)
:)
I think you forgot to include the MVG video about Mortal Kombat 2 in the description, ruclips.net/video/KUttRUpVnq4/видео.html
Yep, it was 4:40 am when I was writing the description, I'm gonna add it now. Thanks for the link. :)
Potatoist!
Ha ha ha :)
I'm nor prejudiced against them! I have a Steam Deck, I'm used to having to cut down on details. xD
45:31 dude looks like after a botched botox injection.
The bottom part is added in post. The top was captured on a toilet mid number 2 xD
simpsons doom!
Was there a WAD for that too?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames certainly was, although i can't remember if it was doom 1 or 2
@@Othraerir I think if someone's interested after reading it, they're be able to quickly google it anyway. :)
Magic Carpet was beautiful and boring as fuck. Jazz Jackrabbit a poor Sonic-like which was already all Cliff Bleszinski style: stupid game, unimaginative mechanics but still good thanks to god-like developement team who work for him.
I hate the terrible games the Atari ST, Amiga and DOS from the 80's and 90's with awful icon interface that are just unintuitive. This video shows some the worst.
Tastes are different but the usage of the word hate is a bit inflationary nowadays. Or do you really feel hate for a thing like computer games?
@@MKRENB You love ice cream? Pizza? beer? I can guarantee you use the word “love” for mundane stuff that are not really worthy of love. The same way I used hate for things not worthy of hate. So get off your high horse and fuck the fuck off.
Back in the days I would read the manual before playing anything complex
@@federicocatelli8785 Good point. Games Panzer General, WarCraft, Command & Conquer showed that fairly complex games that became very popular could have clean and sensible interfaces.
Damn. You convinced Palpatine to pose for the thumbnail??? How did you manage that? Threaten to introduce him to your bosses wife?