Originally I had (what I felt was) a more appropriate song in the introduction, but RUclips copyright bots caught an OPL3 rendition of a hit song anyway, so I couldn't use it. See the original version here: ruclips.net/video/1-Fkg75b9l4/видео.html
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What is that, some MIDI rendition of the First Samurai theme? Sounds almost like the Amiga version, but not quite. Especially the snare is different, so I guess it's not the original tracked tune?
@@brunopaluco eu nunca joguei, sabia da existência por causa de uma revista de videogame antiga que meu irmão comprou acho que no final dos anos 90 e que ele tem até hoje. lá tinha os screenshots e uma review
Very nice. I remember playing Liero with friends and that one kept us untertained for at least a couple of years for a quick hot seat multiplayer round here and there. Interesting to see all the other DOS games from that year, thanks! Remind me to fire up my Cyrix again :-)
Great to see another one of these, this style of video is how I found this channel many years ago. Fun to see Liero at the end, I didn't realize that was '98. We played that so much in my high school computer tech class in 2000/2001, haha.
Liero was a product of blooming Finnish indie game scene of mid-90s, there were plenty of other gems as well (Wings, Threat, Slicks'n'Slide, Triplane Turmoil), some even the same style (Molez), not sure why Liero specifically became such hit interntationally.
surprisingly there were still some dos games around even in 1999 - Airline Simulator 2, and i think some Football Masters games - and also Battlecruiser 3000ad continued to be a dos game in all its versions up to version 2.09 in the late 90s i have found there were dos games still out in the 97-99 period that however were sold as being for windows 95/98, and even the box requirements might state this but then when you go to install it would be a dos installation. - 442 Soccer and Battlecruiser 3000ad version 2.08 did this There also was Prost Grand Prix , which is a nice F1 racing simulation, not as agood as Microprose GP2 but not too bad
Man, I love 1998 when it comes to gaming but yeah, DOS gaming certainly wasn't at the top there anymore. Thank you for this collection of games. The worst game in this collection is Extreme Paintbrawl, no question about that. For best it's more difficult, I guess The Great Giana Sisters. Also respect that Gronkh is one of your patrons (if it is him), he is arguably the biggest LPer here in Germany.
Here I am, skipping through all the video, half awake, knowing that I won't find anything good or even interesting. Suddenly LIERO!!! that game was fucking great, I played it a lot, I had no idea it was so old. I played it in 2001/2002 I think and later I remember there was a Liero extreme that was..... meh I liked liero because it's a fast paced worms, and I don't like turn games like worms.
Great look at DOS games in '98. Have to admit I wasn't able to play as much around this time as I was focused on my formal education and career - so great to look back at some of these games that I didn't get into!
I was born in 1982. I played all the games I could growing up, but the only game I have heard of and played on this list is Redneck Rampage and Liero. The rest were complete news to me. Strange... I live in Sweden by the way.
i remember mid 90s fixing my audio creative card on dos, off course i forgot all that shit although i still have a copy of Lords of the Realm 1& cannon fodder.
Dear Anatoly, thank you so much for this and your previous videos! I had so many quality moments just enjoying these. Here's a question: if you made a 1998 video, do you have one for 1996 and 1997? I looked and didn't find. If not done yet, are they planned?
Wow, Wrecking Race is beautiful, really nice aesthetic, very colorful, dense map detail, nice palette. I've never seen ganja farmer, but Paratrooper was one of my favorite old 8bit CGA games.
Some of this is really nostalgic. I remember thinking Gunmetal looked so awesome seeing it in retail stores, but we never did pick it up. We did get NAM, because my brother was a fan of BUILD engine in general. What a crap game. The Varginha Incident I only know about because of Civvie11, of course. Really ambitious game for the time, but the developers' ambitions outstripped their ability. Bethesda's Burnout game was pretty cool. A successor to X-CAR, it ran on the same engine as that game and as Daggerfall, Skynet, and others. Chub Gam 3-D looks so bizarre I'm tempted to call it outsider media. lol. But Liero is legendary.
never realized how perfect that Hard Disk Cafe song from LSL5 fits for an outro, it's so sweet and tugs further on that nostalgia, what a delightful choice
Were all of these re-released on Steam or something? I've got boxes of old games from the 90's I can't run anymore because of hardware/driver/whatever incompatibility. Want a copy of Doom2 on 10 3.5 floppys? Tie Fighter has fewer disks. Not sure why I'd be looking at DOS games after both Win95/98SE were released . . . . .
Acid Tetr...er, "Super Acid Block Attack", ate plenty of my time, along with Jump n' Bump. Forgot all about Stix World and Chub Gam until now. Thanks for this!
Lovin' that intro with you in person, nicely done. Also lovin' the way you announce the games with that DOS font/UI, excellently done! Not to mention that nostalgic intro 'Anatoly remembers' straight from the 'Accolade' intro that I remember it from the very old Grand Prix DOS game. Perhaps you can add audio to it similar to Accolade intro, but of course as unique work. Oh man that'd make it complete! Anyway another subscriber for you!
Hi! I'm looking for an old game that looked just like Liero, but i remember you were a caveman or something (also dinosaurs), and there were rain and snow simulation, if anyone can help me pls
I don't think I've played any of these games, as I was onto Windows by 98'. It is a sad state of affairs that Bethesda games were more innovative in 1998 than they are today.
You have no idea HOW LONG I have looked for Queen eYe. I played it as a demo. Out of 8 games I played as a child that left deep impression, THIS is the onest I had hardest time to find, now only 4-5 more left to go and I can die happy. THANK YOU
leaving as a self note: green-nalien kid puzzle mansion game, toiletpaper shareware, digger shareware, spring shareware, dog-adventure mario stage, snex 9x king of games v15 emulator 99, adventure arm game, big kingping glasses game, duke nukem alts. relative cds multiple game. elemental temple cards, gamepark adventure time and adventure guy cartoon. hunting pc magazine demos. chicken ufo hunt. x-com dos. mario tunnels with turtles, bunny JUMP (OMG YOU have this). kongregate shooter arm. Lemmings, creatures, space quest V. except for a few among that list, I have found almost all of them, thank you.
Hello friend, I'm from Peru, in Peru I had a pirate disk that had more than 100 games for msdos, I think I played it in 1997, I don't know the name, it was like a character like a kind of astronaut soldier, or something like that with clothes or yellow armor with light blue, I remember something like that, it was a platform game, it was very nice, do you know which one I mean? Please if you know something tell me, thanks. 
It reminded me of Commander Keen. I used to play the demo that was distributed along other games in a shareware CD. Some of the games from Commander Keen series are now available on Internet Archive.
Ironically, the 3D games that ran on PC in 1998 were way better than everything that was possible on the SNES/Genesis, but man did the 2D games look terrible compared to these 2 then obsolete consoles
You're looking at a small sample of games for the PC platform, with a lot of amateur games in there. It is, after all, 1998, and I can assure you that proper studio 2D games didn't look terrible compared to obsolete consoles.
The game with Spanish dialog in it had the most hilarious animation for the soldiers walking. They kind of sashay their hips back and forth as they mince towards you.
If you mean "The Varginha Project", that's Portuguese. Varginha is a city in Brazil, where legend has it aliens were sighted. I haven't played the game myself but I'm sure that's what the story's about!
4:57 Sint Nicolaas i plaued it 😂great to see a real dutch tradition here. Altough some people in The Netherlands try to destroy this centenial old tradition. Sinterklaas en zwarte piet altijd welkom bij ons thuis.
i feel like i am insane but i know for a fact that there was "ZPC" probably referencing zero population count, a first person shooter in 96-98 it made it to Level (magazine) demo disc in like 96 or 97. it was one of very few games that attempted a comics book look, i do not think it was cell shading back than but it easily could have been. So my question is dose ANYONE know if that was just a game that never made a release or was that something like a prank. if it DID make release could you point me to more resources? it is one of my unicorn games that i have no idea where they've gone (the other one i at least know has been released the alcatraz side scrolling stealth beat them up type game ported from 8 bits)
Late nineties we’re a lost time for me. My pc (given to me) packed up in 1995 and I didn’t get another one (a Mac) until the early 2000s so I missed out quite a few years
Damn dude, 24K subs, not bad at all. I remember when we used to work at best buy. Of course you unfriended me on facebook over something, don't remember what exactly. Well anyway, glad the channel is still going and doing well. I've a pretty good video editor now, and work for youtubers with millions of subs. If you ever want something specific done for a video let me know.
Originally I had (what I felt was) a more appropriate song in the introduction, but RUclips copyright bots caught an OPL3 rendition of a hit song anyway, so I couldn't use it. See the original version here: ruclips.net/video/1-Fkg75b9l4/видео.html
Show over half an hour of copyrighted content. RUclips: "This is fine! Fair use!"
Use three seconds of copyrighted music. RUclips: "HOW DARE YOU! STRIKE!"
What is that, some MIDI rendition of the First Samurai theme? Sounds almost like the Amiga version, but not quite. Especially the snare is different, so I guess it's not the original tracked tune?
@@starnamedstork It's the OPL2 fm synth rendition from the DOS port.
Ahhh, the Varginha Incident.. the pinnacle of Brazilian game industry
It reminds me of Corridor 7.
a trilha sonora é muito boa.
Yes
Eu não sabia da existência do Varginha Incident KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
@@brunopaluco eu nunca joguei, sabia da existência por causa de uma revista de videogame antiga que meu irmão comprou acho que no final dos anos 90 e que ele tem até hoje. lá tinha os screenshots e uma review
some of these games actually look pretty good for MS-DOS
The Redneck Rampage games weren't that great but damn I love the level design in most of it.
Why does everyone say that.
Their use of the unenhanced (Blood, Shadow Warrior) Build Engine, unique. E.g., road bumps, second episode.
@@Skyrilla bc ppl are sheep
@@Widerspruchsfreiheit What video games used enhanced built engine?
The torrnado in the trailerpark. Loved it.
Very nice. I remember playing Liero with friends and that one kept us untertained for at least a couple of years for a quick hot seat multiplayer round here and there. Interesting to see all the other DOS games from that year, thanks! Remind me to fire up my Cyrix again :-)
Great to see another one of these, this style of video is how I found this channel many years ago. Fun to see Liero at the end, I didn't realize that was '98. We played that so much in my high school computer tech class in 2000/2001, haha.
Liero was a product of blooming Finnish indie game scene of mid-90s, there were plenty of other gems as well (Wings, Threat, Slicks'n'Slide, Triplane Turmoil), some even the same style (Molez), not sure why Liero specifically became such hit interntationally.
surprisingly there were still some dos games around even in 1999 - Airline Simulator 2, and i think some Football Masters games - and also Battlecruiser 3000ad continued to be a dos game in all its versions up to version 2.09 in the late 90s
i have found there were dos games still out in the 97-99 period that however were sold as being for windows 95/98, and even the box requirements might state this but then when you go to install it would be a dos installation. - 442 Soccer and Battlecruiser 3000ad version 2.08 did this
There also was Prost Grand Prix , which is a nice F1 racing simulation, not as agood as Microprose GP2 but not too bad
My most hated subset of retail DOS games is DOS games wrapped in Windows-only installers. Ran into those a few times.
Man, I love 1998 when it comes to gaming but yeah, DOS gaming certainly wasn't at the top there anymore.
Thank you for this collection of games. The worst game in this collection is Extreme Paintbrawl, no question about that. For best it's more difficult, I guess The Great Giana Sisters.
Also respect that Gronkh is one of your patrons (if it is him), he is arguably the biggest LPer here in Germany.
what an amazing video i was born in the 90s and this kind of games were my first introduction to pc, very nostalgic i love the graphic style
Please make more, I love these videos so much!
Can we just acknowledge how great Thief is though, like to this day it's still a fantastic game and definitely deserves a playthrough.
One of my favorite games of all time!
Liero! thank you for this video \o7
Ah yes, Liero, Ganja Farmer and Jump 'n' Bump. Bringing up fun times.
Here I am, skipping through all the video, half awake, knowing that I won't find anything good or even interesting. Suddenly LIERO!!! that game was fucking great, I played it a lot, I had no idea it was so old. I played it in 2001/2002 I think and later I remember there was a Liero extreme that was..... meh
I liked liero because it's a fast paced worms, and I don't like turn games like worms.
Do show more about programming with SVGA and DOS extender, the holy grail of DOS game programming..
SVGA VESA VBE >3.0 and DOS4GW...
Great look at DOS games in '98. Have to admit I wasn't able to play as much around this time as I was focused on my formal education and career - so great to look back at some of these games that I didn't get into!
Imagine you're from 1998 and wonder what video games 20 years later will look like and see the Minecraft graphics....
Thank you. Very interesting video. I also gonna probably watch Goldrush with Alyssa Milano and Bruce Campbell.
Came to the comments just for the name 😂
Good to know it was at least the two actors I thought I recognized.
Is it worth the watch ?
I was born in 1982. I played all the games I could growing up, but the only game I have heard of and played on this list is Redneck Rampage and Liero. The rest were complete news to me. Strange... I live in Sweden by the way.
Does that status bar face in "Mr. Pibb" look SBAHJ-ish to anyone else or is that just me?
i remember mid 90s fixing my audio creative card on dos, off course i forgot all that shit although i still have a copy of Lords of the Realm 1& cannon fodder.
I immediately recognized Sint Nicolaas art style as that from Charlie the Duck
Liero is a masterpiece. It's like live action Worms
Baldurs Gate! Half Life! Starcraft! enough said.
That ganja farmer game...classic.
There are a few titles that I never heard of before. Great list!
I've only played Bubble Bobble, Popcorn, North vs South and Star Control. And these were great games especially Star Control!
Dear Anatoly, thank you so much for this and your previous videos! I had so many quality moments just enjoying these.
Here's a question: if you made a 1998 video, do you have one for 1996 and 1997? I looked and didn't find. If not done yet, are they planned?
No, these videos don't exist yet. Yes, I have them planned, and have lists of games written. Not sure when, but some day.
29:26 Not gonna lie, for a 1998 DOS game this lip sync and facial animation is pretty good
Facial animations are actually motion captured. Lots of effort went into making assets for this frankly terrible game.
Really dug a couple of the games near the end that i never heard of before. Tao and Queen are ones i'm going to have to check out sometime.
Wow, Wrecking Race is beautiful, really nice aesthetic, very colorful, dense map detail, nice palette.
I've never seen ganja farmer, but Paratrooper was one of my favorite old 8bit CGA games.
Yup
Yeah, but it is a really hard game.
@@tidzej5400 Paratrooper or Wrecking Race?
@@spladam3845 Wreckin Crew ;) Controls are overreactive for example.
Some of this is really nostalgic. I remember thinking Gunmetal looked so awesome seeing it in retail stores, but we never did pick it up. We did get NAM, because my brother was a fan of BUILD engine in general. What a crap game.
The Varginha Incident I only know about because of Civvie11, of course. Really ambitious game for the time, but the developers' ambitions outstripped their ability.
Bethesda's Burnout game was pretty cool. A successor to X-CAR, it ran on the same engine as that game and as Daggerfall, Skynet, and others.
Chub Gam 3-D looks so bizarre I'm tempted to call it outsider media. lol. But Liero is legendary.
Personally, I really enjoy NAM. I think the game is very misunderstood.
For me 1998 was Half-Life all day.
So much fun was had playing Liero against a friend.
Stix World looks amazing!
at last, you’re back! can’t tell how I love these videos of yours!
Same here!
Praise Jah!!! More herb 🌿🙌
never realized how perfect that Hard Disk Cafe song from LSL5 fits for an outro, it's so sweet and tugs further on that nostalgia, what a delightful choice
LOL when you died in 3D Hunting: Grizzly. thats an existential nightmare. wonderful.
Ah, a treat for true connoisseurs!
Cant wait for 1996 and 1997
god id love to just make a career out of playing old dos games
Oh boy, me too.
@@dosnostalgic Good one :D
I agree it would be definitely be more fun than where I work at that’s for sure. 😊
double agent is clone of Spy v.s Spy
Me and the few weirdos in the back; Don’t forget panzer dragoon saga ….for SEGA SATURN!🤯🤣
Gunmetal remind me descenr (forsaken 64) for how it moves ...
Oh, old good times!
Were all of these re-released on Steam or something? I've got boxes of old games from the 90's I can't run anymore because of hardware/driver/whatever incompatibility. Want a copy of Doom2 on 10 3.5 floppys? Tie Fighter has fewer disks. Not sure why I'd be looking at DOS games after both Win95/98SE were released . . . . .
What a year...
Acid Tetr...er, "Super Acid Block Attack", ate plenty of my time, along with Jump n' Bump. Forgot all about Stix World and Chub Gam until now. Thanks for this!
Boovie looks like a cute Boulderdash rip... hell I'd play this now, someone port it somewhere!
Redneck Rampage 100%
When you realize you have been playing Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard all along..
Dang! '98 DOS games were pretty horrible! With the possible exception of Redneck Rampage, this whole list sucked! Love your vids tho ❤️👍
Lovin' that intro with you in person, nicely done. Also lovin' the way you announce the games with that DOS font/UI, excellently done! Not to mention that nostalgic intro 'Anatoly remembers' straight from the 'Accolade' intro that I remember it from the very old Grand Prix DOS game. Perhaps you can add audio to it similar to Accolade intro, but of course as unique work. Oh man that'd make it complete! Anyway another subscriber for you!
Those are some of the most embarassing games i`ve seen in a long time. Like they belong to some obscure console.
Hi! I'm looking for an old game that looked just like Liero, but i remember you were a caveman or something (also dinosaurs), and there were rain and snow simulation, if anyone can help me pls
So awesome to see another one of these!
lots of fun games here,tho by 1998 windows really showed with games like half life that it was a better platform to make games on than ms dos
Off topic maybe, but what's that movie playing in the background during the intro? Is that Alyssa Milano?
Redneck Rampage was the only game I even tried to play from your list.
Mr .pibb is coca cola superhero
Pepsi Man is Pepsi super hero
does that mean they both see Dr pepper as there doctor?
I don't think I've played any of these games, as I was onto Windows by 98'. It is a sad state of affairs that Bethesda games were more innovative in 1998 than they are today.
Finally, thanx Anatoly, i waited for so long for this video. But wait, did i miss something? There are no 1996 and 1997 videos, are they?
There aren't. Yet.
Wonder if you can find th done I don’t know the name but it was like a dungeon rogue game addicting
I used to play Jump 'n bump so much!!! Amazing game with 4 people. Used a flight stick as one of the controllers 😄
It's funny and sad how mobile games still look like Sing Nicolaas.
Does anyone else remember PC Gamers UKs review of 3D hunting grizzly? It was better than the game.
This video is a great example of how it was back then.
Never heard of a bunch of these, particularly Ganja Farmer. What a concept, haha!
As a PC gamer I hate to admit it but consoles were superior back than
You have no idea HOW LONG I have looked for Queen eYe. I played it as a demo.
Out of 8 games I played as a child that left deep impression, THIS is the onest I had hardest time to find, now only 4-5 more left to go and I can die happy.
THANK YOU
leaving as a self note: green-nalien kid puzzle mansion game, toiletpaper shareware, digger shareware, spring shareware, dog-adventure mario stage, snex 9x king of games v15 emulator 99, adventure arm game, big kingping glasses game, duke nukem alts. relative cds multiple game. elemental temple cards, gamepark adventure time and adventure guy cartoon. hunting pc magazine demos. chicken ufo hunt. x-com dos. mario tunnels with turtles, bunny JUMP (OMG YOU have this). kongregate shooter arm. Lemmings, creatures, space quest V.
except for a few among that list, I have found almost all of them, thank you.
That soundtrack on Extreme Paintball though!
"Double agent" seems a cool remake of Spy vs Spy games!
i still have copies of the monkey island series lemmings baulders gate warcraft series.
Man those games are pretty bad :-) Ganja Farmer is the best of them haha
Great video once again. That Acid Tetris had pretty neat and relaxing music.
You listed some of the greatest games on consoles in 1998 and didn't mention Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?
Yeah, I forgot a bunch. Didn't name Unreal either. I only had about 10 minutes to record everything at 5:30 in the morning, so I got what I got. 🤷
Hello friend, I'm from Peru, in Peru I had a pirate disk that had more than 100 games for msdos, I think I played it in 1997, I don't know the name, it was like a character like a kind of astronaut soldier, or something like that with clothes or yellow armor with light blue, I remember something like that, it was a platform game, it was very nice, do you know which one I mean? Please if you know something tell me, thanks.

It reminded me of Commander Keen. I used to play the demo that was distributed along other games in a shareware CD. Some of the games from Commander Keen series are now available on Internet Archive.
if the amiga was around , could of been totally different, it was a beast of a computer
Stixworld must have been quite something I reckon
Ironically, the 3D games that ran on PC in 1998 were way better than everything that was possible on the SNES/Genesis, but man did the 2D games look terrible compared to these 2 then obsolete consoles
You're looking at a small sample of games for the PC platform, with a lot of amateur games in there. It is, after all, 1998, and I can assure you that proper studio 2D games didn't look terrible compared to obsolete consoles.
.. First minute of watching I get tears In my eyes 😢.. this makes me emotional 😮
Clash must've been the inspiration for Clash of Clans lol
The game with Spanish dialog in it had the most hilarious animation for the soldiers walking. They kind of sashay their hips back and forth as they mince towards you.
If you mean "The Varginha Project", that's Portuguese. Varginha is a city in Brazil, where legend has it aliens were sighted. I haven't played the game myself but I'm sure that's what the story's about!
Did people actually boot up MS-DOS itself to play these games? I would assume most people ran them inside 9X/ME which was DOS based..
Idk if many did, but they *could have*, and that's what matters. 🤷
4:57 Sint Nicolaas i plaued it 😂great to see a real dutch tradition here. Altough some people in The Netherlands try to destroy this centenial old tradition. Sinterklaas en zwarte piet altijd welkom bij ons thuis.
3:16 is that the sound effect from among us. Well, I mean did among us use that one.
Miss the fun and adventure 2d platforms gave
Yeah this games look pretty crap, the best time for dos was over.
Always wondered why they yell "To bee! To bee!" at 4:42... So to bee or not to bee?
Thanks for the list, now i remember why i ended playing games in 1998 for a few years. Holy Moly, what nonsense crap games.
As I point out in the intro, 1998 was probably one of the best years for videogames ever.
im goign to be going back and playing arena and daggerfall soon cant wait lol.
Ah, my friend. Thank you for the content.
A great year for fps
Yeah, I somehow forgot to mention Unreal.
i feel like i am insane but i know for a fact that there was "ZPC" probably referencing zero population count, a first person shooter in 96-98 it made it to Level (magazine) demo disc in like 96 or 97.
it was one of very few games that attempted a comics book look, i do not think it was cell shading back than but it easily could have been.
So my question is dose ANYONE know if that was just a game that never made a release or was that something like a prank. if it DID make release could you point me to more resources? it is one of my unicorn games that i have no idea where they've gone (the other one i at least know has been released the alcatraz side scrolling stealth beat them up type game ported from 8 bits)
ZPC came out for Windows in 1996. Developed by Zombie, published by GT Interactive.
@@dosnostalgic Many thanks!
also good video .)
Late nineties we’re a lost time for me. My pc (given to me) packed up in 1995 and I didn’t get another one (a Mac) until the early 2000s so I missed out quite a few years
Chub Gam reminds me alot of cruelty squad lol
What's that Bruce Campbell movie?
Damn dude, 24K subs, not bad at all. I remember when we used to work at best buy. Of course you unfriended me on facebook over something, don't remember what exactly. Well anyway, glad the channel is still going and doing well. I've a pretty good video editor now, and work for youtubers with millions of subs. If you ever want something specific done for a video let me know.
That tennis game looks better than Match Point 2022
Dude so cool you are continuing this series!! :)