LGR - Odell Down Under - PC Game Review
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Fish simulators are few and far between. In other games you can fish the fish, but in Odell, you ARE the fish! Enjoy the swim in the land down under in this review of:
Odell Down Under for Windows 3.1
After almost a decade of searching I finally got the box for the game!
Almost thought I just imagined seeing it as a kid since I couldn't even find photos, but nope :)
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Make an app of this. Post haste!
I've asked my friends "Do you remember that game from elementary school where you play as a fish?" and they looked at me like I was crazy. Thank you for posting this video and helping me prove that this game really exists.
Same situation here
I used to play this game like crazy when I was a kid, along with the Magic School Bus games. So simple, but so many hours of great fun.
I was looking for this game too😅
OMG I REMEMBERED PLAYING THIS AT MY SCHOOL'S COMPUTERS! My sister and I usually used The Great White Shark because it can eat everything.
Not gonna lie, the great white was the best
Hey, I remember this game. It was always a blast when you got to play as the shark, cuz you could eat just about anything as long as it wasn't deadly poisonous.
I played Odell Lake on the apple IIe when I was a kid...that game was almost as good as Oregon Trail
ZOMBIE BRAINEATER That was the name of it! I knew I remembered something like this, but I played it on C64..You have my thanks :D
Glad to help...I loved playing these games when I was a kid
Those were my games in elementary school. This didn't come out for a bit, so Oregon trail was king. But this was my game when our school got it anyway. It needs an app.
i loved this game and its pretty colors as a 90s kid. thanks for putting it on youtube!
This is a really fun little game. I definitely see it with nostalgia goggles on, but I still think it's pretty cool regardless. As a kid, I wasn't a very skilled gamer, so I wound up mostly just being the Great White in Practice mode like you were saying, because whenever I tried to legit play the game, I always died and it made me sad and that's no fun. I still have the CD lying around somewhere with all my other old PC games. I'll have to dig it up some time, it's been years since I played it. Hearing the menu music made me smile.
This theme song has been stuck in my head since 1st grade. I haven't even seen this game since then. I'm 22 and I could play this song by memory.
Oh man.. This brings back great memories
Oh man! My elementary school days.
Played the hell out of this as a kid! Omg that intro music takes me back
I would buy a modern remake of this.
+pillowcase1 hungry shark evolution
Seaman (?) jk
VR game with unreal engine 5, playing as prey fish is horror mode
there is a game called Down Under on Steam, released in June 2023. it's really similar so go check it out
I remember playing this at school thanks for the review
Of all your quirky game videos, this one stuck with me the most. I have to own this some day.
Totally forgot about this game! Played it all the time in computer lab at my elementary school
Did you do something different because here lately a lot of your videos from 10 years ago have been showing up in my recommended. I can't complain because it's amazing and it shows how much you have evolved but I find it fascinating. I'll admit I didn't discover you till about five years ago so it's nice seeing these.
the algorithm does that. watch one, it sends you more.
Practice mode
I remember at the local aquarium they had this game and a couple other fish related games on display on an old Mac and my friends and I would always play this when we were there on school trips
In the Create-A-Fish mode, you could make a superfish that could eat everything, including sharks.
verkaforever
I remember that fish!
I certainly remember it looking better through my nostalgia filters. But I still love the concept of both this game and E.V.O. There aren't enough foodchain type games, really, and it's always fun!
Whoa, its updated Odell Lake. Cool! I played the shit out of Odell Lake as a kid but didnt know this existed, think by the time it came out I woulda been a teenager and not interested. But now I want to track it down.
There was a much older version of this game called Odell Lake or something like that. I remember playing it on an Apple 2 when I was a kid in the schools computer lab.
8 years later and I found like 10 copies on ebay of it. Funny how things like that happen. You would think it was even more scarce.
Finally found the name of this game...I remember playing this in the 90s on the school mac computers. The graphics are pretty good.
I had this video playing in the background and didn't realize what it was until I actually looked at it...and then nostalgia slapped me hard in the face. Damn.
Wow I randomly remembered this thankyou for uploading
i like the way the vids are done, like something I'd put in my VCR
DOPEFISH LIVES!!! JAZZ JACKRABBIT 3 CONFIRMED!
used to love this game. i still remember the song haha
"Curses! You feel like dying!"
Ha. I'll have to remember that next time I get poisoned by an anemone. :p
Oh man...this game...I remember this being one of the most popular games in my grade school. I almost never got the chance to play it.
omg i was searching high and low for this game! i have some fuzzy recollection of playing this game when i was a kid. not sure why my dad had this random game on the pc. liked n subscribed!
You sir are awesome! Other reviews are so on topic,but you make them fun! Thank you!
these reviews are like what 90's reviews could have been like if the 90's had good internet
I've just spent several hours looking for this game online but couldn't remember the name, so thank you.
This was my favorite PC game as a kid I played in school
Elementary school computer lab! Ahhh the best days.
I loved that silly but satisfying sound effect "BÔÔÔÔ ÔÔÔÔ" EVERY TIME YOU ATE SOMETHING POISONOUS TO YOUR FISH! X'D
As a kid that sound CREEPED ME THE FUCK OUT! 🤣🤣🤣
I grew up in a small town in MN and they had an Apple IIe version called Odell Lake. They also had of course Oregon Trail, Pinewood Derby, and of course Number Munchers! You should do a video on the Munchers series by MECC! Those games where kinda a knock off of Pacman but awesome for the time!
Man, this video is the one that got me to subscribe. I remember when you only had something like a hundred subs and me thinking "why the hell isn't this guy more popular?". I guess a lot of people thought that, cuz you do pretty well now! Keep up the good work, Clint.
I love that you can hear tape hiss on these old vids
We had a sample version of Odell Down Under that came with only 4 species. The blacktip shark was the biggest one. Either the sample version or the whole version ended up coming in bundle with our "Path to the Yukon" game. Oddly enough, the Path to the Yukon game was effectively just the Yukon Trail game, complete with the same box aside from the odd title
This brings back old memories
I remember making a super fish that could definitely eat great whites. Couldn't eat giant clams though. I think that was the one food I could never eat.
I used to play this in elementary school in computer class on their (then current) Macintosh systems. Bringing back some fond memories! I used to rack my brain to figure out just what the hell a crustacean was, and why my fish does not like to eat them!
The fucking great white shark's face!
I remember this back when I was in Elementary School, this was one of my favorites next to Kid Pix, BugDom, and The Oregon Trail.
I swear that little fanfare when you eat something is from The Right of Spring.
This takes me back
Man, I remember this game as a kid! We had an old windows 3.1, 95, and Apple 2 in our classroom back in elementary school. this was a featured demo on one of the computers and holy hell did we play the crap out of it. Fantastic little game :3
@Janshevik Thats's how I remembered this game when I watched that episode.
I've always loved this game, as a kid this game looked so amazing
Hey, I remember this game. It was installed on all the school computers and I played it constantly whenever the teacher would let us. I never could beat challenge mode, if only because there was so little time.
Wow this is an old video. Clint, if you ever run out of old games to review you can always go back and review these old vids. Then in 20 years from then review those reviews. You'll never run out of material!
Im so happy right now.
"Could have used some blood curdling screams though" lol
This is the more advanced version of Odell lake game that I played along with the Oregon trail elementary school on the Apple classic 2 and Apple Macintosh 1 .
It’s weird to think that when this video came out I was still playing this game in elementary school
Used to sneak play this during my word processing classes as a kid
I was busy playing during that lesson
Quite fun. I found Museum Madness, Odell Down Under, Return to the Oregon trial, just checking around on line for them. Good fun. I loved those things back in the day. GOD the storys were so dumb...especially MM....still interesting though.
Man. I had this game on a demo CD that came with Yukon Trail. It only had the practice mode. I have no idea why, but I played the everloving heck out of it. Ironically, I almost played it more than I did Yukon Trail... almost.
2009, eh... wow, he's really improved.
I remember playing this game back in the day as a demo on the Mac I think it was. Yeah the two I played thr most was thr Great White Shark and the Parrot Fish. Mainly cause it munches on coral and coral was very abundant. Though for the great white, I had to always try and find that right fish that would replenish my e ergy because of parasites and such building up. Overall a very fun game.
This game was my childhood
The tip of that juuuust got me Odell.
I remember a game called Odell lake back in grade school. This looks similar to that.
the giant grouper was the secret op it ate everything and liked it. plus even great whites were scared of it.
Holy crap I completely forgot this game exists. I think I use to play it at school.
Didn't know Odell Lake had a sequel, but I was out of elementary school in 96.
It's boring for an adult, but as a kid I could enjoy it for more than 30 minutes. Since it's a game made for children it doesn't have to be more complex than this. And it serves well it's educational purpose. You can learn a lot about fish food chain. The Create a Fish mode is great for understanding how different traits evolved to serve different life styles. It's basically a game about marine ecosystems.
I found you through the old games and pc history
I found this game by the comments, so I will write details here for others to find: Odell Down Under, a 90's CD ROM game by MECC, where you are a fish and eat larger and larger fish. There is a shark, grouper, unicornfish, barracuda etc., hide behind a plant or in a cave, and you can create a fish in green, pink, yellow, red or blue and give it skills such as speed, agility and endurance.. When you eat something it says aargh! You can eat coral, sponge, shrimp, snails and other fish. It was released in 1993 and 1996. Hope you all enjoy the memories!
Holy crap, what a difference in filming quality compared to today.
Jaws is technically a fish and that game on the PS2 is very funny for the novelty factor.
Yeah I used to spend some time with this game back in the past.
I had some fun playing this, even though it's pretty simple game.
If you want to kill few minutes, then is isn't that bad of choice for that.
Played to so much when i was a kid.
I remember this game! :D Wow, This game was included in some 100+ game CD-Rom disc back in the 90's. Ofcourse 95% were shareware programs/games but still I remember well this game!
Played this in school!!! Oh yeah the memories.
Man this was one of my favorite games as a kid, I think I got the disc from some cereal box. I would spend hours just eating things as the great white shark
It's from Extreme Rock Climbing, actually. LGR did a review of it. ;)
Yes Moto Racer 1 & 2 are part of my 3DFX Voodoo-related awesome memories too. ^^
I still play this song on DOS sites when I'm high as balls. The game has a lot of bugs (sometimes plankton isn't on the map, so if that's the only thing you eat - too bad, you die!) But I love completing tournament for fun.
So this must be a sequel to Odell Lake. I used to play that on my C64.
Wow I love this game
"Fartfish Wang"
Oh you...
Lol with a sonic blast 😅
Memories elementary days 1996-2002
I remember its predasessor Odell Lake
I always played as the humphead wrasse. It could eat just about everything.
Wow, I hate pop up especially on my phone.
I don't know how you can enjoy that game.
That must take the patience of
Buddha.
Stay Awesome. 😎👍
Phreakindee, did you know there was a prequel to this on the Apple II called Odell lake? Certainly not as memorable, but it's work checking out if you want to see what inspired this gem in edutainment.
What? Was this before "practice moooode"?
Ah, finally!
This was a very relaxing video
Education by trying is good.
I actually played this in school as a child way back in the 90s. Basically it’s as if the devs behind the game were watching that classic Don Knotts animated film The Incredible Mr. Limpet when they were in the middle of brainstorming the concept of their next edutainment game. 😆
i still play this game!
You just whacked me with the nostalgia stick!
Imagine a remake of this game! That would be awesome!
Am I the only one who thinks of a little mexican fish in a sombrero when I hear the name El-Fish?
The “Minnesota Educational Computing Company”, I believe.
This is a nice relaxing game. I like to play it sometimes for a couple of minute, but after that I like to play something with more action.
I totally forgot about this game.