I've never forgotten that demo. I've been itching to play the original again. Aaand I just saw your update!! I'm finally gonna buy Rocket Jockey after over 25 years! And there's not a damn thing my mom can do about it!
Dude, my parents bought me Rocket Jockey after I played the demo for so long. I happened to see it in an Acme of all places back then and it was down to like $10 so they sprang for it. It was so fucking worth it. I was like 8. Edit: That mission in this video that has you without a rocket cycle and a bunch of referees on high-tier rocket cycles? That's called Referee's Revenge and it's hard as fuck, but I DID IT. You have to dive towards one of the referees going after you at just the right time, knock them off their bike and try to get to it and steal it before they do.
i was one of the few who bought the full version of this game back in the 90s. Bought it from the "Electronic Boutique" ("EB games" and Now "Game Stop"). Came in the old big game boxes and everything. Took a lot of bullshit newspaper deliveries as a kid to earn enough money to do it. Top Ten all time fav game to this day. I Still have the CD which you can play in a cd player for the wonderful soundtrack. Long Live "Rockey Jockey" PS anyone ever try "Dr. Fung's Nerve Tonic"?
For all the years I just remember the game’s name incorrectly until yesterday when I just found the empty cover of the game while clearing my mom’s house, I was one of the few thousand people who had the chance to play this game back in 98, I still remember picking it up on the discount bin. Amazing cover, fantastic game, unique mechanics still to these days.
Thanks, really appreciate it. It's a crying shame that this is so underrated and overlooked. There's a few people that have been doing retro reviews, but there's still a lot of really great and interesting games that don't get a look at all. Really wish I could have played the multiplayer on this back in the day, or that this somehow gets restored by someone like Nightdive Studios.
@@Gilgamechasaur I just read an article that Rocket Jockey is coming to steam! it seems like it is just a release of the game, not a remake or remaster. Hopefully they have made some changes that make it work on modern hardware.
@@superscatman4236 Wow! Yeah, it has a steam store page. Interesting. But no indication that they've done much to modernise. They're also releasing Obsidian, a fmv adventure game from the same developers, more or less around the same time. I was curious about doing that one too. Very interesting. Thanks for letting me know.
when i got this game from I think Big Lots or a thrift store or something in the late 90s, I felt like it was really well made and a lot of fun. My friend and I had a lot of fun with it. And it always felt like an unknown game only I knew of
This game looks amazing, too bad I'd never heard of it back in the day! There were a lot of awesome, weird, specialized "sports" games back in the day, like Dead Ball Zone, Blast Chamber, etc., back in those days.
4:10 that guy must have been psychic, taking inspiration from 1999's Star Wars Episode I for a 1996 game 😂 If anything, this screams Rocketeer to me (and also a much older game called Rocket Ranger)
@@Gilgamechasaur no worries mate, I just figured it was the developer misremembering in an interview, which happens. (as opposed to George Lucas flat out lying about Chewbacca being inspired by his dog)
There was a re-release on Steam that is apparently not great, but because it's sold again the abandonware sites took down their downloads. I can't condone it... but... I'm sure the abandonware version with the 1080p patch exists somewhere, and if you already have a copy, I can't see anything unethical with that.
This looks like a fun game. While this game goes well beyond the idea, I wonder where the concept of traveling at high speed then firing out a cable that latched onto a pole thus creating a rapid cornering came from, while watching this video i remembered that Batman the movie on Amiga did the same thing on its driving level. Now im curious about the idea, does it go back further, could it have came from a movie or book.
@@Gilgamechasaur Ive played it and I havent had problems other than my lack of skill. Really didnt feel like it did when I was younger though. Maybe I am just jaded, now that its been 20 years.
Maybe I'll take break from flying jets in MSFS. See a nice dedicated team who grew up loving this game made a kind of indie remake like a lot of older great, hidden PC/DOS/Amiga/etc games...Awesometon games
At that time, 3d accelerators still weren't a necessity for PC gamers, and a lot of releases just weren't fully 3d polygonal titles. I'm pretty sure I didn't have a 3dfx voodoo or whatever it was then. PS1s and Nintendo 64 were sort of pioneering and democratizing 3d graphics. Quake was sort of a big deal to PC gamers. Most shooters were what we call 2.5D, like Duke3d, released in the same year, or previous title Doom, where things start looking weird when you look up and down. 2.5d shooters like Outlaws and Redneck Rampage still kept getting released after. It was a gradual transition. The 2.5d Build-engine used for Duke3d kept feeling fresh because generally those games felt more interactive and lookeed less brown and bland than quake did, with more interesting settings, arguably. But Quake had a kinetic physicality that few games could really match. A few years later, 3d games would start being released that required pc gamers to have 3d cards. I might have phrased it bad, and if I was feeling argumentative, I'd probably disagree that 2 years is a long time, but I think that covers it.
I remember attempting a wireframe 2.5D-ish first person view in computer class... I didn't have the maths yet to describe what was going on so it was one wall that got horribly distorted if you "moved" around too much. I also never really enjoyed Quake, to be honest. They took the "we don't need no stinkin' story" too far and then covered it all with VGA brown. ROTT, Duke, Shadow Warrior and Blood were way more fun and appealed to my crude adolescent sense of humour. That Shard of Azrael absolutely blew my mind but all I could do was shoot little dinosaurs as and die at 3 frame per second. I'm itching to get THAT game now that I saw your review again. Damn I'm old.
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I've never forgotten that demo. I've been itching to play the original again. Aaand I just saw your update!! I'm finally gonna buy Rocket Jockey after over 25 years! And there's not a damn thing my mom can do about it!
Dude, my parents bought me Rocket Jockey after I played the demo for so long. I happened to see it in an Acme of all places back then and it was down to like $10 so they sprang for it. It was so fucking worth it. I was like 8.
Edit: That mission in this video that has you without a rocket cycle and a bunch of referees on high-tier rocket cycles? That's called Referee's Revenge and it's hard as fuck, but I DID IT. You have to dive towards one of the referees going after you at just the right time, knock them off their bike and try to get to it and steal it before they do.
i was one of the few who bought the full version of this game back in the 90s. Bought it from the "Electronic Boutique" ("EB games" and Now "Game Stop"). Came in the old big game boxes and everything. Took a lot of bullshit newspaper deliveries as a kid to earn enough money to do it. Top Ten all time fav game to this day. I Still have the CD which you can play in a cd player for the wonderful soundtrack. Long Live "Rockey Jockey"
PS anyone ever try "Dr. Fung's Nerve Tonic"?
I wish someone would do a remake of this game. Super simple fun.
For all the years I just remember the game’s name incorrectly until yesterday when I just found the empty cover of the game while clearing my mom’s house, I was one of the few thousand people who had the chance to play this game back in 98, I still remember picking it up on the discount bin. Amazing cover, fantastic game, unique mechanics still to these days.
Watching reminded me i saw miserlou live and it was a blast and it rocked. A rocket blast i rekon
Thanks for this. I had no idea it is so rare, I'll make sure to hang on to my copy!
Oh my god, this is the exact sort of game I'd be playing right next to Destruction Derby as a kid, lol.
i love the shareware, junk drawer, willy-nilly, icon garbage "arcade games 2" type games
Loved this game as a kid and got it for Christmas in '96. Awesome video, great job! Subscribing!
Thanks, really appreciate it. It's a crying shame that this is so underrated and overlooked. There's a few people that have been doing retro reviews, but there's still a lot of really great and interesting games that don't get a look at all.
Really wish I could have played the multiplayer on this back in the day, or that this somehow gets restored by someone like Nightdive Studios.
@@Gilgamechasaur I just read an article that Rocket Jockey is coming to steam! it seems like it is just a release of the game, not a remake or remaster. Hopefully they have made some changes that make it work on modern hardware.
@@superscatman4236 Wow! Yeah, it has a steam store page. Interesting. But no indication that they've done much to modernise. They're also releasing Obsidian, a fmv adventure game from the same developers, more or less around the same time. I was curious about doing that one too. Very interesting.
Thanks for letting me know.
Holy shit someone remembers Rocket Jockey this is amazing
Thank you for making this video and talking about this hidden gem of a lost era. Oh the nostalgia 😂
when i got this game from I think Big Lots or a thrift store or something in the late 90s, I felt like it was really well made and a lot of fun. My friend and I had a lot of fun with it. And it always felt like an unknown game only I knew of
Man, I loved that game. But I remember it being really hard to run a few years after its release....
This game looks amazing, too bad I'd never heard of it back in the day! There were a lot of awesome, weird, specialized "sports" games back in the day, like Dead Ball Zone, Blast Chamber, etc., back in those days.
I got this out of a bargain bin in the 2000's, shocked that it's THE surf rock.
4:10 that guy must have been psychic, taking inspiration from 1999's Star Wars Episode I for a 1996 game 😂
If anything, this screams Rocketeer to me (and also a much older game called Rocket Ranger)
An Ars Technica interview quotes that scene fron Batman and the speeder bikes from return of the jedi, not episode 1. That was my bad.
@@Gilgamechasaur no worries mate, I just figured it was the developer misremembering in an interview, which happens. (as opposed to George Lucas flat out lying about Chewbacca being inspired by his dog)
1:28 I kind of love that the logo for Jill of the Jungle is just...Jill's boobs. Red bikini means...second chapter, I think?
Man I miss this game. Would love to get it running again
There was a re-release on Steam that is apparently not great, but because it's sold again the abandonware sites took down their downloads.
I can't condone it... but... I'm sure the abandonware version with the 1080p patch exists somewhere, and if you already have a copy, I can't see anything unethical with that.
It's free in the Internet Archive!
man i have not seen fatty bears birthday in years i think i was like maybe 5or10 when i last play it dam that was a good kids game
This looks like a fun game. While this game goes well beyond the idea, I wonder where the concept of traveling at high speed then firing out a cable that latched onto a pole thus creating a rapid cornering came from, while watching this video i remembered that Batman the movie on Amiga did the same thing on its driving level. Now im curious about the idea, does it go back further, could it have came from a movie or book.
I'll tell my children this was Jet Moto.
It has a interesting concept and seems it got released yesterday into steam too?
Yep, although from the reviews it's a bit of a rough port
@@Gilgamechasaur Ive played it and I havent had problems other than my lack of skill. Really didnt feel like it did when I was younger though. Maybe I am just jaded, now that its been 20 years.
Maybe I'll take break from flying jets in MSFS. See a nice dedicated team who grew up loving this game made a kind of indie remake like a lot of older great, hidden PC/DOS/Amiga/etc games...Awesometon games
Nice!
Although the Dune update for Flight Simulator looks very nice. Been too busy to check it out yet.
At least 2 years of 3D for consoles and PC was still in transition?
At that time, 3d accelerators still weren't a necessity for PC gamers, and a lot of releases just weren't fully 3d polygonal titles. I'm pretty sure I didn't have a 3dfx voodoo or whatever it was then. PS1s and Nintendo 64 were sort of pioneering and democratizing 3d graphics. Quake was sort of a big deal to PC gamers. Most shooters were what we call 2.5D, like Duke3d, released in the same year, or previous title Doom, where things start looking weird when you look up and down. 2.5d shooters like Outlaws and Redneck Rampage still kept getting released after. It was a gradual transition. The 2.5d Build-engine used for Duke3d kept feeling fresh because generally those games felt more interactive and lookeed less brown and bland than quake did, with more interesting settings, arguably. But Quake had a kinetic physicality that few games could really match. A few years later, 3d games would start being released that required pc gamers to have 3d cards.
I might have phrased it bad, and if I was feeling argumentative, I'd probably disagree that 2 years is a long time, but I think that covers it.
I remember attempting a wireframe 2.5D-ish first person view in computer class... I didn't have the maths yet to describe what was going on so it was one wall that got horribly distorted if you "moved" around too much.
I also never really enjoyed Quake, to be honest. They took the "we don't need no stinkin' story" too far and then covered it all with VGA brown. ROTT, Duke, Shadow Warrior and Blood were way more fun and appealed to my crude adolescent sense of humour. That Shard of Azrael absolutely blew my mind but all I could do was shoot little dinosaurs as and die at 3 frame per second. I'm itching to get THAT game now that I saw your review again.
Damn I'm old.
Wait what? They listened and put it up for sale?
I just looked this up and found out that Elon Musk helped program it. That's so bizarre.
what the lol Apparently he was a summer intern at the company. Never stopped thinking about rockets I guess. How did I miss that.
This looks insane, not my thing though
my man here using vlc in 2023 :/
It really whips the llama's ass