10 Years of Early Windows Gaming 1998 - Episode 10 

Another cool thing about Die By the Sword was the options for big head mode and low gravity. That meant you could fill a room with big, bouncing heads! A good time for everyone ^^

I actually loved playing versus in future cop at a friend's house in the 90s, so was cool to see it here.

Delta Force... Great game, but it used voxels, which were awesome for outside, but I recall some levels with pyramids (I think they were pyramids) where the inside bits were extremely glitchy.

Future Cop LAPD is phenomenal, I have it installed on my modern PC and also managed to port it onto miyoo mini plus - to me, it aged really really well, it's very playable still, really fun, and digging the music each and every time. Thanks for the awesome video!

7:56 Funny description of the game 🤣 Thanks to feature and credits my Asghan gameplay 👍

I think Xenocracy is said as "zin-AWW-cruh-see" -- similar to democracy. Love these vids!

Delta Force was the true first Call of Duty. It was one of the games that took over my Lan parties, and all we basically did was camp all over the huge maps trying to snipe each other. So it was just a game of who could find the little pixels that didn't fit the scenery first. So much fun.

I love Die by the Sword so much! What a cool and unique game.

Grand Prix Legends looked way ahead of its time.

Anyone remember the early "Ghost Recon" games? Tactical FPS games like Tom Clanys "Rogue Spear" etc, but with multiple ways to approach the missions and the squad members you recruited gained XP and levelled up and got new skills if you kept them alive. Vastly under-rated games, I thought. And nobody ever talks about them.

Thanks to Papyrus for the GPL. Far to sparsely the niche games with most passion and uncompromised dedication got to the shop shelves. From 1985 to here, it has got ever rarer..

I must admit that I do not have fond mermories of Die by the Sword. It might have been the mechanical mouse I had back then but for me it was utterly impossible to control in any fashion. Of games in the third person rpg-ish genre I'd have to say 1999's Drakan Order of the Flame was definitely more to my liking ...and Blade of Darkness from 2001 ofc!

24:22 given RU-vid's filters the game should be called Unalive by the sword.

I have gotten used to people having to spell out certain words. There's a lot of creators having to self censor to avoid being relegated to the shadow realm.

Great stuff as always!

grand prix Legends had an interesting look.

wait which episode did cover my favourite game Baldur's Gate?

Even if I was totally uninterested in tactical shooters or war games back then, even I heard of Delta Force being played and appreciated by people. I'm quite curious about the story in Esoteria and will risk getting lost in there for a bit. :D Literally getting lost. Die by the Sword sounds like what I've always wanted RPG fights to be like. And, if I understand correctly, it's totally possible to make your character dance. :D Which is also what I've always wanted RPG fights to be like. :P

I somehow missed Vigilance back in the day? I’ll have to find a copy. Hay! You used the correct word “magazine” & not the usual incorrect word “clip.” Clip & magazine are not synonyms but most people use clip when they mean magazine. Delta Force is excellent (in spite of the escort missions) for it’s time & whilst it is looking a bit dated now it is still fun. Asghan is fun & definitely one for fantasy fans. It is a little shallow but it is very much swards & sorcery x Tomb Raider. Never played Tiger’s Bane. Not surprising really as I would look down my nose at 2D games back then but I loved Harrier Attack on the Spectrum & other Jet Strike clones in the 8bit days & I can appreciate them now. Do I get to fly a Mi-28? Future Cop is a mech game I actually enjoy. It’s very much a style of game I enjoy, like Expendable & Apocalypse & is more fun to me than first person, overly technical mech games. Xenocracy looks great? One to look up? I really hate to “errm, actually” you but the background temperature of the universe is 2.7 Kelvin. In fact George Smoot‘s “wrinkles in time,” the echoes of the big bang, raise the temperature to 3.5 Kelvin as they pass by. Even though there’s no matter as such in deep space there is the cosmic background radiation. I mean matter is just condensed radiation so there isn’t actually a true separation of the 2 but let’s not complicate this. Sorry. Esoterica really hasn’t aged well visually has it? Sounds, from what you’ve said, like it still worth playing though? The MIDI sound track was dated even in ‘98 but still has a certain charm to it. Grand Prix Legends is a great sim for it’s time, if you’re in to driving sims. I love the old cars but I’m not one for sims myself. Die by the Sward is next to me right now. If like Elder Scrolls like games you may think it shallow as a game but the combat is satisfying. It’s a fun way to work your aggression out. Definitely one to play. What a great series! Thank you. It really was a great & hugely influential year for gaming. I have several retro graphics cards from the era that were big steps forward in the technology & modern games evolved with them, leading to the tech & games we have now, as far removed as they may feel? Being severely dyslexic (I scored 3.6 out of 5 on the dyslexic score scale) I think the words you were spelling out were “sandwich,” “buttress” & “large scale commodities fraud” weren’t they? The worst part is, I can make that joke but non-dyslexics can’t. 😂

I still have Vigilance in the box :D

Wow, i found like 3rd person who remember Asghan!

18:00 Or so, but it should be just as clear as the cheeks are shiny that if the Characters had been 3d, Mr.Esoteria's shiny butt with the deep crack just wouldn't have looked the same. You would have questioned if you had been accidentally staring at Silver Pepsi Man's butt for the last hour, but with the high pixel quality of the spites you know you've been looking at a deep wedgy for longer than you ever have. That's what's important.

Never liked Windows for gaming. DOS was just faster! Far less overhead, windows was a resource hog eating up your meagre 16MB EDO RAM. Dos Quake ran FAR quicker than Winquake, same with Tombraider, Carmageddon etc. But alas, I finally had to install Windows 95 so we could play Red Alert across a network, and that was when I first tried Windows 95 Direct X games. And they were Diablo demo and a rare little game called "Firefight" similar to Jungle Strike and Desert Strike etc. 16 bit colour accelerated by DX, and both games ran fine, so I decided to keep W95 installed after all and upgraded to 32MB. Still dropped into DOS for all games that supported it, for a few years, but as PC's got faster and RAM no longer became problem, Windows became essential and DOS went the way of the dinosaurs.

No PC version of Final Fantasy VII?

It’s funny how many trash games come out a given a year that no one talks or thinks about. Kinda like movies, so many come out but only a handful will be in collective minds.

You said beltalowda like it was nothing, and I died. Will not be watching your future videos because of said death.