LGR - Life and Death - Apple IIGS Game Review
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Put on your surgeon's mask and gloves, it's time to operate! Life & Death puts you in the shoes of an abdominal surgeon fresh out of med school. While the goal is to save lives, whether or not you want to play by the rules is up to you.
I love how the game tells you that carving "FART" into a patient "wasn't the proper procedure".
That'll teach em to eat beans! 😅 I died laughing!
I don't think you realize something... One of the very first videos I did here was a quick review on The Sims 3. That got me my initial audience. Around this time I also started pursuing my other interests in vids, like vintage hardware/software. The Sims games are a part of my life & a big part of what I do here. It's always been this way on this channel and will stay that way so long as they keep releasing them. I still do way more retro vids than Sims ones, I don't see why you're complaining.
I feel like i found a gem from the past
@@Litepaw I wonder to which comment he was replying to hahahaha
@@karlagerman-skrinjaric6548 same haha!
What happened to the thumbnail? Now it shows the scene with the phone instead of the Title Card with the name of the game.
I remember cutting open patients, dumping all of my tools in them, and then sewing them back up and sending them on their way. Those were good times....
Wow all those little extras included with the game like the fake letter and cool booklets. You just don't get those extra touches anymore, now you're lucky to get a 2 page "manual"
Where all the manual is just basic controls and seizure warnings.
Right!
yeah and the actual tutorial is mandatory in EVERY game rather than printing it in that book so that it doesn't conflict with the experience of the game itself.
Unless you get the collector's edition. Then you'll be hard pressed to find space for all the plastic tat.
I honestly miss that. I remember being seriously excited when Working Designs rereleased the LUNAR series on the PlayStation back in the day, and where most companies would have just pushed out a simple port and been done with it, WD rebuilt the game from the ground up with bonus features included, included a soundtrack CD, a Behind The Scenes DVD including outtakes and such, and threw in a hard cover instruction book with concept art, comparisons between the original and rerelease, and a "getting started" strategy guide. /That/ made me excited about games again... so of course the company collapsed. =(
2:00 That mask would be a huge selling point at this particular point in 2020.
I was just about to say the same thing lol
And 2021. Darn! I thought I'd be the first one to comment during the pandemic! lmao
And the title screen at 2:20 too.
Great now i hate all of you! Good Job!
Yeah they helped so much 🙃
Indeed! Stay tuned for more on this :D
Aw you didn't include the scream when you cut into the patient without anesthesia. Aaaaaaaah!
That scared the piss out of me the first time it happened
You were right "Someone comes with slight discomfort, put him under the UltraScan and see what his insides look like". If you want to see if his/her aorta has grown prematurely
Holy crap, LGR looked creepy snapping that glove on.......
lol yea right
this game looks awesome! I've never heard of it, and all the little features like the mask and gloves and the small booklet on surgery and even the copy protection... it really shows how much love was put into this game. thanks for showing me this! I'm gonna go download this now...!
Indeed it is. Expect to see more of it soonish.
I had the PC version, no pager/copyright system. I could never properly operate on a patient. The scalpel would always kill the patient, and a screen of red would descend. Those manuals would have been some help...
Actually, the graphics are arguably better on the Mac version even though they're in black and white. The resolution is higher and the graphics are more detailed, so it's a bit easier to do surgery.
I almost died laughing when you put on the mask and gloves! Best served at 0.25x with the most ominous music in your collection!
heh, its like a Surgeon Simulator 1988!
Dang it I just made that joke
@@xxxslyraiderxxx8945 oops
so, the patient woke up, and his skeleton was missing! anyway, that's how I lost my medical license...
Your profile pic fits your comment well!
Dr. Pepper is that you!?
MEDIC
ARCHIMEDES, NO! Its filthy in there...
I need to buy the game for the mask and gloves. You know, shortages and stuff.
I freaking love Carnivores. What an intense hunting game, especially when you get past the herbivores and start going after the straight up carnivores. Incredibly satisfying to walk around your trophy room after a successful hunt, hehe. The later games in the series are pretty good too, but the original two games are still my preference.
Ah, that music right in the beginning. Budbrain Megademo (Amiga, 1990)
And the end sections of it were totally NSFW.
Makes the game as tough as possible. Patients die easier, surgery is harder, the deadlier diseases are more common, etc.
No. Sorry. I think I've said this to you before, but I got rid of it because it was more trouble than it was worth. Lots of people complained about it being unnecessary and somewhat aggravating, and I agree. It did nothing to improve the video in any substantial way. Stats show that most skipped it or left the video before it was done. Plus I had it for a long time and I got bored of it. It's not coming back. I will continue to tweak the current intro, but the old ones as they were are done for.
Dr Pepper... is back
and he's come for MORE
DICKS.
Cheeseburger Freedom Man lmao
2012 - Comes with a mask and gloves - what a funny concept!
2020 - IT COMES WITH A MASK AND GLOVES?! - I WILL GIVE YOU $200 FOR THAT GAME!
This is one of those games that had my family convinced I was a psychopath just because I'd be cracking up while carving patients up and listening to them scream. ;/
It still convinced me that you are a psychopath, 30 years later
Are you?
I remember playing this in middle school, and I've been trying for years to remember what it was called. Good thing I found this video.
I have fond memories of emulating this game back when I was like 10 years old, I had extreme difficulty finding the numbers for the pager thing, and actually managed to get someone (I believe I found them on some forum) who still had theirs to personally email it to me so that I could play the game. Good friggin times.
little did we know how important that mask would be 8 years later....
Certainly considered it, yes. They're underrated for sure.
DOCTOR PEPPER
DOCTOR THUNDER
(is back)
LGR predicting the future at 2:09
It would have been nice if you would have demonstrated what a successful surgery actually looks like.
I did, at 07:06 in the video! Granted, it wasn't a flawless operation, but it was successful. The dude just tells you "congrats on the surgery" and that's that, you move onto the next patient.
Lazy Game Reviews Thanks for responding to me. Are you certain it was successful? Because at 06:55 it says "Oh no! We've lost the patient!" Or do you mean you succeeded at some other operation and just jumped straight to the "winning" screen?
Chuckler127 He meant 5:55
I played this as a child. So cool back then. Just wanna say I'm so sorry to the npc's who suffered so horribly at my juvenile whims
Comes with a mask… This game was ahead of the times.
Which name, phreakindee? Just like it's spelled: freak-in-dee. It's also said several times in the Slag Voss interview on my channel.
You're awesome, Clint. Myself, and no doubt many others, certainly appreciate your videos & the work that goes into them. :)
...that sounds freaking AWESOME, actually.
2:02 mask and latex gloves - now that's the game for 2020!
funy!
"That'll teach him to eat beans." Hilarious dude. Well done!
Time to visit thrift store to get a box for that sweet, sweet mask and gloves!!
It's extra punishing when your head doctor is Luke Skywalker.
More like a grumpy old Han Solo.
Holy cow! I remember my older brothers playing this back in the day. Good times. :D
Ah, this takes me back to 8th grade. The computer lab at school had this installed on every machine, and it was awesome!
Omg! This would today be called "ultimate limited platinum collectors edition" and cost 150$ ( season pass w/"nightmare mode" excluded)
Cool looking Apple computer.
'and hear the lamentation of their women!' Gave me one of those delayed hysterical laughs which ended up with me coughing. Well done sir!
I USED TO PLAY THIS!!! This video brings me so much joy
So I see we all flew to the comments after seeing the mask and gloves 💀💀
2:05 who would have thought that bit was foreshadowing our future in 2020
Loved that game! there was also a Neuro surgery version too. spent a lot of hours of malpractice!
I use a composite to HDMI scaler and capture with an AVerMedia Game Broadcaster HD internal capture card.
Surgeon simulator 1988
Yes, but they just don't release stuff as often as I do. For instance Pat just released a new NES Punk review the other day, and JewWario is also on RWTV now with his You Can Play This series. But I'm one of the few that release something new every week. A lot of them stay pretty darned busy with other things, like running the site, working on The Video Game Years and all sorts of stuff behind the scenes.
God, I just tried playing the DOS version of this game. Note to everyone: do NOT attempt surgery without a guide! Following a guide I made it all the way up to closing the patient, but I missed a few steps and gave them the wrong drug by accident. We lost 'em. I was so devastated.
Masks and gloves... Nailed it in 2020!
Note to self: Don’t let Clint operate on you!
Aha! I see it on your shelf: Whiplash! I'm dying for you to do a video on it--love your vids...
one of the first games i played on the 286AT of a friend.. aww.. life was good back then.
dr. pepper is back
Wow I finished the dos version back in the day and I was never aware of the fact that you can change your signature.
Have to replay that.
Greetings
I reviewed Arena last year, look on my channel. Haven't done Daggerfall yet but I'll get to it someday.
2:01
epic forshadowing
Nope, unfortunately it's not on GOG yet.
2:10 Francis
"You'll be sorry Pee-Wee Herman!"
We need a remake of this with mod support
Oh man I see that Majesty fantasy sim box in the background. That game is seriously one of the best.
5:28 I noticed that you used the DOS version of Life and Death for the "FART" operation, but when you're explaining the operation mode at 6:10, it's the Apple IIGS version. How so?
Simple: I switched over to the DOS version there, since the IIGS version doesn't allow you to just cut patients up like that.
Ah, I see. I figured something was different with those versions.
kingcrimson234 XD That would be hilarious!
lucky that Joel got the DOS version, then
Surely “staph” room would have been a better misspelling?
You realize that only a few videos a year are on Sims expansions, right? The vast majority of the time it's other stuff that I cover.
And actually, according to my analytics numbers from RUclips, the largest number of those who watch my videos are 13-17 year old girls...
Remember when we had to go on a ''field trip'' to the hosiptal ones and we started off at the morgue. That's... NOT a good place to go if you haven't seen a dead person yet.. Urgh.. I shiver everytime I see feets like that... It's just... So unsetteling...
Carving FART into that guys stomach was a really funny spoof.
I want that freaking mask and gloves!!
2:18 I spi a raspberry pi! would you, by chance, review that glorious little machine at some point?
I really enjoyed this game as a kid. Hilarious commentary btw.
I saw you have Majesty in the background at 0:16 Lazy Gamer! That's one of my favorites!
This one popped up while I watched the king of Crustaceons one for the thousandth time... wowzers!
Apple 2gs how I miss you. Are you a doctor? No, but I played as one thirty years ago in my bedroom.
Just to chime in, even though the Apple IIGS had less CPU horsepower than the Amiga, it could actually display more colors at once. The Amiga was limited to 32 colors at once total, while the IIGS could potentially do 3200 colors with a different 16 color palette for each scanline, though realistically most games only used up to 256 colors.
YES! I always loved the IIgs version of this game the best. Kudos for your taste in platforms!
LOL I remember that game on DOS, I never had a successful surgery. This is why I am not a gamer of anything more advanced than Galaga. XD Great review!
That ridiculous squiggly cutting at 7:50 had me laughing so hard I cried.
After hours and hours playing this game, I'm convinced I could perform an appendectomy or a blood clot removal.
Now as for life and death 2, hell I could never get past drilling out a piece of skull.
Nice review.
theres no such thing as a weekend without a LGR review
That's Life & Death 2 actually, but that scream that would give, worth the price of admission. :3
Life and Death sparked my interest in medicine and now, all these years later, I'm a surgeon....im not licensed nor did I go to school but that didnt stop me.
This game came out on DOS before most people had a mouse. Windows 3.1 (so like 1990) is when most people got PCS with mice. This was a lot harder without a mouse.
Good review, have you played life & death 2?
Shogun Total War is by far my most favourite game in the Total war series. If you haven't already, a review on it would get right up in my nostalgia jiblets.
Are you using that mask and gloves?
You're talking about Life and Death 2- The Brain. You can play it through DosBox emulator and it's free to download on Abandonia :)
If anyone wants to see it, all they have to do is watch any of my older videos. The intros haven't magically disappeared from them or anything :)
i love how you can win any argument.
DR THUNDER IS BACK
5:22
...Is that Joseph Stalin? Well shit.
Good thing he got a taste of his own medicine when it came to having a knife put threw his skull.
Leon Trotsky, you sure don't like Stalin. Which is understandable
Not according to the stats I have. Seriously, most people either skipped or left the video entirely due to the intro. I got lots of emails all the time about how it was aggravating, or they heard the intro music and thought they were being Rick Roll'd. Nobody seemed to say anything positive about it when I used it, and now all of a sudden a few people want it back. I can't win, so I'm not even playing that whole "intro" game anymore.
This game cracks me up so much. I can't tell you how many times I've successfully completed surgery only to be told that I forgot to take out a butterfly clip. One thing I noticed is that the x-ray looks way better in the Apple IIGS version than the DOS version. I always had tons of trouble deciphering what was going on in the x-ray when playing my DOS version, and more than a few patients suffered because of it.
love the times when they used to put stuff in our game boxes
I played this game once...
Operated on every patient without any diagnosis...
I think Toolworks needs a psychology simulator
I just found a whole bunch more of your videos that I haven't seen yet...score!:)
Excellent opening reference. Definitely got a chuckle out of that =)
The MS-DOS version has the best scream