Awesome! I was the programmer of the 1985 Jingle Disk and the original version we sent to clients in 1984. I wish I had found this video earlier. Your knowledge of Thoughtware and the Jingle Disk backstory is impressive, and completely accurate.
I can't fully explain why, but even 10 years later this is still just one of my favorite holiday themed RUclips videos ever made. It's this perfect combination of relaxing and funny and interesting with a dash of personal history. Honestly, I really genuinely love this video. Anytime I put the LGR christmas playlist on shuffle to go to sleep around the holidays, I almost always start with this one. It's an amazing video.
Your Christmas themed episodes are always really fun to watch. I guess it's just the atmosphere of it that you capture so well, making me feel like nothing's wrong in the world. Your sense of humor with the commentary is fantastic too.
I love it, they went into business trying to make people more intelligent by designing training programs and realised, 8 bit Christmas cards made more money.
Lazy Game Reviews Yup, unfortunately my mind went straight to the Mega Man titles. That's what's permanently burned into my brain. Although I can't help but be nostalgic for even that anyway.
I actually showed this to a friend of mine by chance, and she went nuts over it, saying she remembered playing with this all the time growing up. I didn't know she had a PC growing up. Didn't even know she had an interest in anything electronic-based except TV shows. LGR brings people together in the most amazing ways :)
Oh, Jingle Disk, Jingle Disk Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to watch LGR on a really cold day Jingle Disk, Jingle Disk Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to watch LGR on a really cold day
LGR! I nearly split my gut while watching this video man! Your narration is one of the things that keeps me watching all your videos, even when I don't care about the product at all. Haha keep up the awesome work, sir.
I just can't get enough of the top-down screen transitions common back then! Lovely and nostalgic! Reminds me of the Windows 95 laptop my family used to have. Also, thanks to watching this video 8 years after its release, I can compare the growth of not just the channel and video quality, but also Clint himself as a person. Best wishes for Clint and the channel and looking forward to more things!
4:40 - That entire sequence with the cat and mouse reminds me of the classic Tom and Jerry Christmas episode for some reason. Also makes me want to go hug my cat, but then, what doesn't?
I burst out laughing when he said "They may look like total crap and you may need to wear ear protection while printing, but, dude! This stuff was my jam!" Not to mention his facial expression helped.
Lazy Game Reviews you are the best and you make great content you really deserve more subs and I love the fact that you respond to your viewers. Loved the video by the way!
This is actually interesting because I was just letting your Christmas game reviews play one after another (I'm feeling jolly and am a big fan)...and this review chronicles the formation of Hi-Tech Expressions...who made the We're Back: A Dinosaur Story game along with Funcom...whose source code was used as the basis for Daze Before Christmas. Just an interesting relation to another one of your videos.
This got me thinking about long, long periods of time at home just silently watching the few simple animations in the C64 Christmas Demo, not completely aware of what all of them represented. Cozy times, basking in front of the warm glow of the C64 monitor. Good, good times.
Reminds me of the Commodore 64 Christmas demo. I would load that up every year and play it. It was made in 1982 and used as a floor demo to sell units. You should do a video on that.
Holy crap me and my sis used to play with this when I was really young.. It all came back to me about 1/2 way in.. I may have forgotten it forever if not for this vid.. (It's been about 29 years)
I remembe Hi-Tech Expressions. Never knew about the management training software roots, so thanks for that. I probably would have printed stuff if I had this on our family C64.
Thanks LGR for making me aware that the words "santa" and "satan" are really similar. This might give us so much room for conspiracies like...Im at a loss for words
Jingle Disk, Jingle Disk, Jingle all the way ♫ That 7:21 Jack in the box image and "OH YOU DON'T LIKE CLOWNS?" text as well as that Santa's sled image at 7:43 with the text "BOOM HEADSHOT!!!" would be good to have on a t-shirt
I loved greetings cards programs as a kid... Not because they were particularly fun but because they were normally included in the junk software packs you get with new computers in the 90s.
So, you started out standing at 0:18, then continued on bent legs until 0:54? It doesn't seem like you sat down. Your height seems to change. I sense discomfort. Is this a new routine to max out your quads?
Thanks for another holiday video, with blasts from the past. : D That printer brought back such, well not really lovely, but it brought back memories. XD Not from Morris, nor of the club, but I live like 45 minutes away~ XD
I used to have the Epson LQ300 at work they used to buy recycled ribbons, which ended up printing in blue, once someone sent a legal sized picture of some singer that day the poor little printer literally cried in pain.
Lazy Game Reviews Can you even still buy those reams of continuous perforated paper for old printers these days? Remember printing out banners on that paper in those days? Ah the days of "Happy Birthday" with a pixelated birthday cake graphic on each end. Also trying to line up the top of the paper so the printer knows where the top of the first page starts?
I guess the reason Rudolph's nose was so red was excessive blood flow to the area, which culminated in this program in him getting the world's most explosive nosebleed. Poor Rudolph. Get better! :
Man, the Hi-Tech Expressions logo reminded me that I need to get The Flintstones: Dino: Lost in Bedrock. Said game would freeze at the title screen after the opening tune is played on my old 8086. Now that I have a PIII DOS machine, it's time to get it done with.
Santa Claws is real! He rides around New Vegas slaying children and sleeping in front of his fire! Just ask AlChestBreach! =P Seriously though, this was welcome in more ways than one, so keep putting these out and I shall continue enjoying them! =)
Souji Monaru Aha, they're styles are very different, but I know one thing, at least... there is definitely one other person that watches both. Vash did an 'Ask Vash' thing and one of the questions had been if he'd ever watched AlChestbreach... so. :P
Great video! I'd love to see a sequel that follows up on Hi Tech Expressions' future endeavors, publishing such NES Classics as City Connection, The Hunt fir Red October... Fun House... Remote Control? Orb 3-D? Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival? ...You know what, forget I said anything.
OMG! I started watching your videos few weeks ago, saw this one only 3 days ago. Today I decided to dig out my old Commodore 64. It was given to me by a relative 15-20 years ago, and it came with a box of random disks and stuff. Going through this box, what do I find but a copy of the Jingle Disk with versions for both the C64 and the Apple II
Hey, Clint. Is it sad that I want you to read classic Christmas stories in the same way you read what was happening in the "cutscenes"? Because that would make for a hilarious video. What can I say? I've been a big fan of your dry humor, and I think that Christmas stories are in need of an update to point out all the technical issues that come with Yuletide cheer.
Have you ever gotten your hands on any of that management training software? I ask because I kinda want to know what exactly could they do, in that early MS-DOS era, to train managers in management and managing... What could possibly be on that disk?
Oh man, I was rooting for the cat to get the jerk mouse, so disappointed, that it got sidetracked by the fish from Boxa Claus... But I guess that's one of the most accurate depictions of a cat in computer software ever, give them food and they forget everything around them. Just like the cats of my parents, but not as fat.
When i saw throne of darkness in the background i just stared at it, thinking "i remember that game from my childhood and it was awesome" (and it still is in my opinion).
Awesome! I was the programmer of the 1985 Jingle Disk and the original version we sent to clients in 1984.
I wish I had found this video earlier. Your knowledge of Thoughtware and the Jingle Disk backstory is impressive, and completely accurate.
we need more backstory of you
Tell us more
I can't fully explain why, but even 10 years later this is still just one of my favorite holiday themed RUclips videos ever made. It's this perfect combination of relaxing and funny and interesting with a dash of personal history. Honestly, I really genuinely love this video. Anytime I put the LGR christmas playlist on shuffle to go to sleep around the holidays, I almost always start with this one. It's an amazing video.
"Santa's Not Real" Well, my holiday has turned to shit now.
Thanks, LGR.
Also: Santana isn't real, either.
Lazy Game Reviews Guess I can keep his guitar then
@@LGR what?!? Damn it, not Santana too! 😭
Your Christmas themed episodes are always really fun to watch. I guess it's just the atmosphere of it that you capture so well, making me feel like nothing's wrong in the world. Your sense of humor with the commentary is fantastic too.
I'm right there with ya.
Never said that. Amirite?
Ahhhh, Miyu, the lost member of Star Fox. I've got you now!
Maybe it's the nostalgia? Old tech, stories from the past, the season, it all just comes together. That and Clint just feels like a very swell guy.
I love it, they went into business trying to make people more intelligent by designing training programs and realised, 8 bit Christmas cards made more money.
the Hi Tech Expressions heart makes my own flutter. It reminds me of Hare Brained Adventure so hardcore. The nostalgia is severe.
Glad yours is good nostalgia! For many, it's associated with pretty bad ports like Mega Man :)
Lazy Game Reviews Yup, unfortunately my mind went straight to the Mega Man titles. That's what's permanently burned into my brain. Although I can't help but be nostalgic for even that anyway.
LGR p
I actually showed this to a friend of mine by chance, and she went nuts over it, saying she remembered playing with this all the time growing up.
I didn't know she had a PC growing up. Didn't even know she had an interest in anything electronic-based except TV shows.
LGR brings people together in the most amazing ways :)
Oh, Jingle Disk, Jingle Disk
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to watch
LGR on a really cold day
Jingle Disk, Jingle Disk
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to watch
LGR on a really cold day
You do some fine work LGR, hope you have an awesome Christmas!
Thank you very much, hope you do as well!
we need a word to express the feeling you get when you see 2 unrelated youtubers you are subbed interact with each other
Merry Christmas from LaSalle county Illinois. By the way, want our disk back!! lol
I'm from Morris IL. (which is in Grundy County, but we are used to doing thing with other counties)
Cook County here. Hi, neighbors! Lollll
I wish I also had a festive, snowy Christmas card that says, "LGR Just Farted."
You should totally do a video on Sierra On-Line's awesome virtual christmas cards!
I'd love to! Perhaps next year, as all the Christmas videos for this year are already made and ready to upload.
LGR I really hope you get to these one Christmas. They were always fantastic.
"am i not gangster?" that intro made me want a Rolling Rock for some reason. love the videos. peace :)
LGR! I nearly split my gut while watching this video man! Your narration is one of the things that keeps me watching all your videos, even when I don't care about the product at all. Haha keep up the awesome work, sir.
"BOOM, HEADSHOT!!" xD
Man, if I had ANY retro games (something older than my copy of Half-Life), I would ship them to you immediately!
Dear Santa,
Please give LGR more subscribers because he fucking deserves it.
Love (if you comply) FE.
He now is way over 1 million! Santa came thru 😃
I just can't get enough of the top-down screen transitions common back then! Lovely and nostalgic! Reminds me of the Windows 95 laptop my family used to have.
Also, thanks to watching this video 8 years after its release, I can compare the growth of not just the channel and video quality, but also Clint himself as a person. Best wishes for Clint and the channel and looking forward to more things!
4:40 - That entire sequence with the cat and mouse reminds me of the classic Tom and Jerry Christmas episode for some reason.
Also makes me want to go hug my cat, but then, what doesn't?
Have a good Christmas, LGR, you amazing person, hope you have many more to come.
i just relized that i cant remember how i found your videos. either way still love them.
Glad to hear it :)
I burst out laughing when he said "They may look like total crap and you may need to wear ear protection while printing, but, dude! This stuff was my jam!" Not to mention his facial expression helped.
quality voice acting, I think you should win an oscar
I've never seen such intense folding action in 60 Frames Per Second!
Thanks for the amazing videos, Clint! It makes me nostalgic for things that i've never had. Everything is top notch! Keep it up!
Such a cute software package box and all. Love it.
I have such a fondness for programs like this. It really was so special as a kid to get one of these- especially with the card creator.
Lazy Game Reviews you are the best and you make great content you really deserve more subs and I love the fact that you respond to your viewers. Loved the video by the way!
Haha, I always get a kick out of your own video throwbacks like opening the soda can.
Thanks for posting this! I was just thinking about it, and I looked it up to see if I could figure out what it was called so I could see it again.
Very cool man, also Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas bud!
"Ho Ho Ho I sure do like boxing!"
I have to admit, the voices for the mouse and santa were pretty advanced for the time.
Oh wow! think I have vague memories of my dad getting this disk. You've opened up the deep recesses of my mind LGR!
Management: We hate it
Staff: WOW this is great!
Management: You like it? Lets sell it.
fuckers.
I had Cardware and Partyware on my old C=64! Loved those programs as a kid. Classic stuff.
This is actually interesting because I was just letting your Christmas game reviews play one after another (I'm feeling jolly and am a big fan)...and this review chronicles the formation of Hi-Tech Expressions...who made the We're Back: A Dinosaur Story game along with Funcom...whose source code was used as the basis for Daze Before Christmas. Just an interesting relation to another one of your videos.
This got me thinking about long, long periods of time at home just silently watching the few simple animations in the C64 Christmas Demo, not completely aware of what all of them represented. Cozy times, basking in front of the warm glow of the C64 monitor.
Good, good times.
This was great, very amusing! I’m going to have to keep an eye out for one of these disks, and the Commodore version
Reminds me of the Commodore 64 Christmas demo. I would load that up every year and play it. It was made in 1982 and used as a floor demo to sell units. You should do a video on that.
I disastrously misread the title of this video.
*****
Sadly, that is not the word I misread
*****
Close, but still no cigar!
*****
Getting warmer!
*****
What of my reputation if I did?
***** If only!
So many views in such a short amount of time. You go, LGR!
I probably don't say it as much as I should but I love your content and I'm very grateful for your uploads, thank you for your videos. :)
Holy crap me and my sis used to play with this when I was really young.. It all came back to me about 1/2 way in.. I may have forgotten it forever if not for this vid.. (It's been about 29 years)
Super sweet little piece of software. I hope you hang up your full printed pages around the house!
You sleigh me every time you write a name or a caption into a PC game.
AYYYYYYY
BrightSkyFire
Excuse me while I go Google this guy...
I remembe Hi-Tech Expressions. Never knew about the management training software roots, so thanks for that. I probably would have printed stuff if I had this on our family C64.
this got me in the christmas mood. thanks lgr!
good material as allways. you deserve 100x times more views/subs. you'l get there.happy holydays.much love from mother Russia!
Thanks LGR for making me aware that the words "santa" and "satan" are really similar. This might give us so much room for conspiracies like...Im at a loss for words
Kind of reminds me of those later bloatware disks you got with printers for crafting your own greeting cards. So tacky, but so good...
Jingle Disk, Jingle Disk, Jingle all the way ♫ That 7:21 Jack in the box image and "OH YOU DON'T LIKE CLOWNS?" text as well as that Santa's sled image at 7:43 with the text "BOOM HEADSHOT!!!" would be good to have on a t-shirt
Oh Man, I had this, and even made a TERRIBLE VHS copy of it with me singing Christmas Songs in my squeeky 7 year old voice.
love these videos on random old programs :3
It ain't christmas unless I get my dose of Holiday LGR vids.
I loved greetings cards programs as a kid... Not because they were particularly fun but because they were normally included in the junk software packs you get with new computers in the 90s.
So, you started out standing at 0:18, then continued on bent legs until 0:54? It doesn't seem like you sat down. Your height seems to change. I sense discomfort. Is this a new routine to max out your quads?
Somebody typed S instead of C while they were wondering about the title...
Thanks for another holiday video, with blasts from the past. : D That printer brought back such, well not really lovely, but it brought back memories. XD
Not from Morris, nor of the club, but I live like 45 minutes away~ XD
Hitting me in the childhood again, LGR.
love the shirt man!! and as usual....love your video!
The printer from LGR is from germany?
It says "Vorsicht Heiss", something like "Caution, it's hot!". :D
It's actually a Japanese printer, but I guess it was meant for German and English markets!
Dot Matrix Printers... nice!
Oh yes. I love me some matrix-y dots.
I used to have the Epson LQ300 at work they used to buy recycled ribbons, which ended up printing in blue, once someone sent a legal sized picture of some singer that day the poor little printer literally cried in pain.
Lazy Game Reviews Whew. Dot Matrix Printers. That's going way back.
Lazy Game Reviews Can you even still buy those reams of continuous perforated paper for old printers these days?
Remember printing out banners on that paper in those days? Ah the days of "Happy Birthday" with a pixelated birthday cake graphic on each end.
Also trying to line up the top of the paper so the printer knows where the top of the first page starts?
I like to watch in lower resolutions sometimes because it reminds me of the early days of LGR.
"ha! Am I not gangster?!" - weird mouse colorized 1985 AD
This is really cool. In 86 buy a disk to print your own Christmas cards, no need to go to store anymore. Now we are thinking about 3d printing stuff.
I love these christmas episodes. :P
that was just awesome and really heartwarming, I too used to love these
kind of want the thumbnail art as a christmas painting to hang in december
I guess the reason Rudolph's nose was so red was excessive blood flow to the area, which culminated in this program in him getting the world's most explosive nosebleed.
Poor Rudolph. Get better! :
Really cool. Never knew that anything like this ever existed.
"Hi Tech Expressions" *spits out soda* Well, THERE'S a familiar name! Certainly wasn't expecting to find out their secret origin in this video!
Indeed, long before they made crappy video games, they made quite nifty greeting card making software
Cool! I'm from Ottawa, Illinois the place for when Morris residents had to "go into town"
Awesome shirt LGR dude
Man, the Hi-Tech Expressions logo reminded me that I need to get The Flintstones: Dino: Lost in Bedrock. Said game would freeze at the title screen after the opening tune is played on my old 8086. Now that I have a PIII DOS machine, it's time to get it done with.
IIRC, we had this disk back in the day - ah, memories :) It was a simpler time.
Santa Claws is real! He rides around New Vegas slaying children and sleeping in front of his fire! Just ask AlChestBreach! =P
Seriously though, this was welcome in more ways than one, so keep putting these out and I shall continue enjoying them! =)
Ahaha, YES. Someone who watches Al!
Now I'm waiting for someone who watches Vash12349... or maybe someone who watches both. :D
Aedan Clarke
Never heard of the other guy - but I shall look him up just for you! Maybe I'll even like him! =D
Souji Monaru Aha, they're styles are very different, but I know one thing, at least... there is definitely one other person that watches both. Vash did an 'Ask Vash' thing and one of the questions had been if he'd ever watched AlChestbreach... so. :P
Aedan Clarke
I'm watching his let's play of RE HD so...
Souji Monaru Enjoying it thus far? :P
3:36 - 5:51 The Rankin/Bass Christmas special that never was. :)
I lost it at "Ho Ho Ho! I sure do like boxing!"
I think we now know why Rudolph was bleeding in the end...
Great video! I'd love to see a sequel that follows up on Hi Tech Expressions' future endeavors, publishing such NES Classics as City Connection, The Hunt fir Red October... Fun House... Remote Control? Orb 3-D? Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival?
...You know what, forget I said anything.
Um, City Connection was Jaleco.
OMG! I started watching your videos few weeks ago, saw this one only 3 days ago. Today I decided to dig out my old Commodore 64. It was given to me by a relative 15-20 years ago, and it came with a box of random disks and stuff. Going through this box, what do I find but a copy of the Jingle Disk with versions for both the C64 and the Apple II
OFtopic: I spot Throne of darkness :D
Man i miss that game :(
Hey, Clint. Is it sad that I want you to read classic Christmas stories in the same way you read what was happening in the "cutscenes"? Because that would make for a hilarious video. What can I say? I've been a big fan of your dry humor, and I think that Christmas stories are in need of an update to point out all the technical issues that come with Yuletide cheer.
Whoa! I live in LaSalle county Illinois, not too far from Morris!
We had this on our IBM PC back in "the 80s".
Have you ever gotten your hands on any of that management training software? I ask because I kinda want to know what exactly could they do, in that early MS-DOS era, to train managers in management and managing... What could possibly be on that disk?
This is one of your best videos
4:00 also a good reminder to install a door knob inside the door. :p
Throne of Darkness, god i love that game, wish i knew what happened to my old copy.
Oh man, I was rooting for the cat to get the jerk mouse, so disappointed, that it got sidetracked by the fish from Boxa Claus... But I guess that's one of the most accurate depictions of a cat in computer software ever, give them food and they forget everything around them. Just like the cats of my parents, but not as fat.
Merry Xmas from the future.
Ah, the greatest of Christmas traditions- LGR :D
I used the C 64 version to print and send cards for a couple of years back then. Everyone that got one thought it was ultra-cool!
No wonder LGR doesn't believe in Santa, krampus came to his house instead as a child.
Mmmmmmmmh Christmas in a very jolly and jingle disk.
Omg I live in the LaSalle area!! I feel special for no particular reason!!
MY GOD AWESOME SHIRT!
I need 'Look at me, am I not gangsta?' on a T-shirt
When i saw throne of darkness in the background i just stared at it, thinking "i remember that game from my childhood and it was awesome" (and it still is in my opinion).
Jim said that he dropped the disk in a crack in the table. DAMN YOU JIM!!!!!
Well, that was 28 years ago.....
My dad and I just watched this and we laughed our asses off, since we are both old computer people.