GET OFF MY LAWN is a channel devoted to playing and discussing PC games that are at least twenty years old.
I'm James, and I've been gaming on a variety of ancient machines since the eighties. Sometimes I even know what I'm doing!
Random DOS Game Show is my main show, where I do a blind playthrough of a random DOS game with a twenty minute time limit, often with terrible consequences.
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I played a demo of this back in the 90s and really enjoyed it. I never played the full game and forgot what it was called. However, I just described it to ChatGPT and it correctly identified it! Hurrah! I enjoyed your video and look forward to playing the game myself 😊
I was about to comment that it's probably not because the game won't let you do six fruits in a line, but that each time it wouldn't move, there was stuff in the way 😂
I loved this game. Halifax Town for life. EDIT: Yes, building the squad up by belting Sliema Wanderers and Hamrun Spartans. This game has a bunch of cheats, too. You can max out all your players to 99 and also have unlimited cash.
7:15 I mean, there's always a market for low spec games for older computers, especially during the '80s and '90s when PC tech was progressing at a breakneck pace. I'm sure there were still a fair number of people holding onto their CGA machines at the dawn of the decade.
This looks like it'd run on the 808x mini laptops; definitely an interesting spin on the Breakout concept! Speaking of ERE Infomatique, I'm definitely curious to see what you'll think of Captain Blood, if it hasn't popped up yet!
Hey Lawnie I've been watching you for a while because I've been looking for a game from my childhood for well... a while. I came to love your content. I asked Reddit, and countless other sources so maybe Imma shoot my shot with you and your subs: It was a shareware game that came on a demo disk (possibly floppy), and the gameplay was almost identical to Xquest (1994) and it came out close to 1996 but the sprites and tiles were similar to Bolo Adventures games. I know I'm not misremembering it but I can't prove I'm not. It's my white whale of lost media. I'm not asking you to find it, maybe it was just a tech demo that only me, the dev, and a couple of kids in the 90s played forgot about, but I do want to know what it was.
@@Ditchhead np ^.^ I know about far too many games at this point, so figured I'd at least say something on the off-chance I'd stumble upon it! Do you remember any other details? Also, I've seen that there were 3 Bolo Adventures games out there, was it a particular one you're thinking of, or just the series?
@@StormkeeperPU well, like I said it was definitely a Xquest clone, just a bad one. The intro did the exact same thing they did in that game when they use uh, sprites instead of words, eg "There are 🪱attacking you 🚢" And the story was that you, the player, are aliens that repaired an enemy spaceship to escape an enemy planet? EDIT: and if you can't find it I appreciate the effort. I subbed to your channel just for the support.
@@Ditchhead That's definitely not a game I've encountered so far, but sometimes, I end up stumbling upon stuff I didn't expect to encounter whilst looking for something else when I'm doing some research, so maybe that might be the case here eventually! Also, thank you for the sub!
After using Timbres of Heaven, I'm convinced it's just a meme soundfont. I've used Fatboy ever since. Wish you didn't need to dig through archives to get it. Also it makes RPG Maker XP's OST sound amazing.
Ah, Dagenham... Twinned with no town but in a certain pact with Erith! I've technically lived in both places, though in the case of the former I was kind of on the outskirts of it when I attended UEL, which was a long time ago now! I do wonder how demanding this game is, as I could see it running on a 486 or Pentium, but I'm not so sure about a 386!
what you referred to as a rag was actually a tip by one of the patrons. collecting the tip will award points as well as start a stage show stopping some patrons to face away from the bar giving you a chance to catch up
This'll probably work on any VGA-equipped 808x mini laptop, though you could run it on a Book 8088 v1.0 - if you still had one - if you hooked up an EGA card to it!
One of many arcade ports for the PC; this will probably work on the 808x mini laptops, or at least I am aware a lot of the arcade ports released in the 80s do! This one looks both fun and straightforward!
I wish more early DOS games took advantage of composite mode. The colors are so much better and more than make up for the blurrier image quality. While the first run of arcade cabinets had you serving Budweiser beer (complete with controllers made to look like actual beer tap handles), subsequent versions of Tapper changed it to sodas, presumably in an attempt to make it more family friendly. Later cabinets were renamed Root Beer Tapper, and this DOS port has you serving Mountain Dew. It's generally good to try and serve customers as far down the bar as possible, as they're more likely to slide out the doors and not demand multiple drinks. Running down the bar to pick up tips takes precious time, but it triggers an on-stage showgirls routine that can distract patrons and keep them from moving closer for a while. I might sound like a Tapper pro, but in all honesty I can't get past the third level of this port even on Beginner mode. It's a hard game, but still lots of fun!
Yep, I remember playing this one back in the day. Pretty decent DOS port, for the time. Also, it just occurs to me: is Tapper the first "time management" game?
I wasn't sure what I was expecting with this game as this one passed me by back in the day, although it looks reminiscent of Smash TV or Total Carnage; it looks pretty fun though!
@@StormkeeperPU not really, as you never got closed into an "arena" and shoot everything and then proceed in alien breed, it's more like smash tv all right
@@Zontar82 Lawnie couldn't recall the game on the tip of his tongue, so I mentioned it was "Alien Breed", which does indeed share a perspective with this game, though I'd probably compare that game more with Take No Prisoners or Mageslayer, in that all 3 games have a top-down perspective with a much more open map, as opposed to single screen arenas!
