Building a NEW (OLD) Windows 98 Gaming PC! - Hardware, Accessories & Games 

In my opinion, vintage PC games are the real hidden gems. People are just now starting to tap into their awesomeness. Jill of the Jungle, Realms of Chaos and really anything that Apogee games and Epic made in the 90's are big-time winners. I'm excited what this means For your channel dude, pump out that 90s 'tude!

It's amazing how well most of those games have aged! Please, please do more videos showing us some of these classic PC titles.

Re-PC is amazing. They also have esoteric parts from non pc systems fairly often. I recently upgraded my Mac G4 mystic with parts from Re-PC.

Damn, I miss Windows 98. It's one of my favourite OS's ever.

Wow this takes me back :-D I bet you'll see a fair few blue screens of death back on that 98 system!

That's my childhood dream PC right there.

Shows "dirty" keyboard: *I should clean it... **will never do.

I enjoyed this video so much! Never thought to build my own "old school" gaming pc, definitely added to my to-do list! Also, I would love to see dedicated episodes to your PC Gamer demo discs! OMG the nostalgia ♥

Nothing in the computer world has ever had an impression on me as the first time I popped a Voodoo2 into my PC and fired up Quake 2. That was the instant in time that I completely lost interest in consoles until a few years back.

this is my favorite topic you've covered in a while. I wish I still had my windows 3.1, win 98, & XP machines... really regret tossing those in the trash over the years.

Thanks so much for this video. The nostalgia really hit me hard. I didnt know somewhere inside my mind the names of Voodoo and Soundblaster still were there... thank you.

I haven't logged into my RU-vid account in a very long time. I just wanted to say that this video brought me a lot of joy. Seeing that store, Re-PC, was like heaven for me. I've always considered myself to be the world's only "90s computer enthusiast", because nobody ever wants to talk about this stuff. Everybody says "Use a virtual machine or DOSbox", but it's just not the same to me. I've been wanting to do a project like this for a long time, but you know how it is. I'm still planning to do it. There's some valuable insight in this video.

YES! Awesome video. My family's first computer was in 1998, and we had a pair of 3DFX Voodoo 2's hooked up in SLI mode. PC Gamer provided us with plenty of games to play. MotoCross Madness, Age of Empires, Battlefield 1942...all great demos. Enough that you didn't even need the full game to enjoy them! My favorite game of the time was Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. It was built on the Quake II engine, but man, the game play and sound still hold up. X-wing vs TIE Fighter was my generation's answer to the old TIE fighter game, and it had a surprising amount of depth to it. Long live 90's PC gaming!

Still better than the school pcs

98 was when I got my first PC. Your video brought back nice meories! Lovely game selection btw. Cheers!

Man.. this really took me back.. Thanx so much for making this video!!!

Oh WOW, I frequent that RE:PC store (and the one in Seattle) daily! They sell wired mice for $1, wireless mice for $2, keyboards for $2, sound cards for $1 and so on. Lots of random tech treasures, but the best thing I found there was a fully functional Grundig Satellit 700 Ham Radio for $15 (worth about $300-$500 on eBay).

Nice machine! Looking forward on how you capture footage from it.

Sir, you are the best! So interesting to see such videos) Getting the nostalgy about the childhood.

Oh the memories

You just opened a door. Now you'll need a 486 for Ultima VII and that 5 1/4" drive. You'll need a Roland MT-32 and an SC55...you'll love the audio. Matching monitor, keyboard, mouse. Then it gets crazy after that...more Retro PC Gaming videos are welcome. Tx.

This is such a rad idea for a video

"Crank it up to 800 x 600" and all the modern HD gamers began to cry.

Awesome video man, makes me remember so many games and all the computers we used to have :)

Man you blow my mind, you have such an awesome life! The gaming PC is epic

RE-PC sounds like the exact kind of company I wish we had in VA.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Brought back a lot of great memories for me!

New to this channel, glad i stumbled across this guy! Such great content.

In my opinion, this is one of the greatest RU-vid videos out there. Such a simple but fantastically fun idea. Love your work, bro!

Man, I love watching all of your videos. The production quality is great, it's like a TV show.

Great Video Dude! I remember this era fondly especially the jump from K62 to the P3 500. Wish I still had them both.

Wow, time machine nostalgia en force. Thx Man!

Such great games back in the day. 7th Guest, TIE Fighter, and Cyberwar were awesome!

Update video ?? Longevity ? Loved it man hope to see more of it !

Darn you Metal Jesus and your awesome videos! I wasn't even planning on watching this. I totally opened RU-vid to check out a different video.

You took me back to my childhood that I totally forgot about. Thank you.

I've been meaning to do this for a while. I got so many games on floppy I have no way of installing on current computers. Would love to play them authentically too.

"Nothin' really special here." Dude, the IntelliMouse is legendary.

I just bought an old dell pc running XP so I could play some of my old games that I loved like Shivers! I found your video telling about you being in the video! How cool! Today I'm looking up how to expand on my new/old pc and I found another video by you! I'm new to doing this kind of thing. Hopefully I can learn some stuff from your videos.

Really enjoyed this video! Keep it up Metal Jesus 😊

If I lived in the Seattle area I'd love to browse around RE-PC, would be like a kid in a candy store :D Look forward to you reviewing more retro PC games from this time, rock on!

I've never been more sold on old school pc gaming. Having an authentic 90s rig sounds awesome

I've been messing around with PCem emulator lately running Windows 98 SE. The nostalgia has been unreal! The games from that era are still as fun to play now. I can't believe your computer was only a couple of hundred bucks! I'd love to do the same sometime and ship it up to Atlantic Canada

A great trip down memory lane. Thank you for this.

dude, I got heavy childhood flashbacks :D

Im 31, this takes me back to my"BLOOD, DUKE NUKEM, WOKFENSTEIN, DOOM, DIABLO" days.....but certain explosions and my parents computer would freeze. hahaha.

Thx so much for posting this! I can’t wait to build mine and play KOTOR 1&2. Buying my 90s games back. There were a lot of good ones from this time. I have the Wing commander series up to the Price of freedom.

As someone who has a spending problem, I sincerely love your genuine care and excitement for ALL games. Whether it's the biggest AAA game, or obscure and niche forgotten gems. You see the value not in the dollar, but in the fun. Smiles per mile. 😇

Why build a super powered pc, able to play any game for the next 5 years when you can go back and play pinball again. PS: This stuff brings me back as a young kid using a pc for the first time.

Should have just talked to LGR

man the best thing about games back then was the great attention to music, quake 2 had such great and compelling music..

Aw man, that Re-PC warehouse looks so awesome. I wish we had one of those here. We do have Frys and Micro Center, but nothing like that.. That would be so great

This is what I've been wanting to get to play my old dos/win 98 games like Rama, warcraft 1,2,&3, dark forces, tie fighter, etc..

LGR would cry at the amount of pc’s he could mess with in that store! Haha

Great vid! Takes me right back to my first MMX chipset machine running Win95 and an Apache flight sim called Janes Longbow Gold. Great times.. apart from updating drivers every 10 mins!

Love these videos man

OMG. I built something like this in middle school. So many memories of playing jedi knight

So I was inspired to build one too. AMD Athlon 700MHz 128MB PC133 SDRAM 320GB WD 5400RPM IDE HDD 3DFx Voodoo3 2000 16MB AGP Asus A7V133 Sound Blaster Live 5.1 LG DVD Rom LG 52x32x52x CD Burner 17 inch Dell CRT Monitor 3.5-inch floppy drive Old Beige Case and 350 Watt PSU Grand total $220... I guess I got a decent deal, but it's hard to tell sometimes. I went to a few stores and in the classifieds for all the parts. Everything runs great and works stable, so no complaints here. Love having 3DFx to play old games like Unreal and Monster Truck Madness.

Great video, so must nostalgia... brings back so many memories.

That's awesome! I've been wanting to build one of these for a while. I wish I had one of those shops here.

So to all the people saying you overpaid. Their pricing assumptions are based on the cost of parts to them on ebay or getting them from scrappers and don't include the time of the technician and the cost of having a brick and motor store and the fact that the owner still has to turn some sort of profit. I was a little disappointed you didn't go ahead and build it yourself because it's more fun. What you really paid for was for a technician to choose all the parts, test all the parts, burn in the system and make sure all the parts were quality, install the OS and drivers and so on. The Voodoo3 and the SB16 are worth about 60-90 on ebay combined. The value of all the other parts is pretty much negligible maybe 10-20 for all the other parts combined. The rest of what you paid for what the work that went into it. So all things being equal you didn't get a bad deal considering to take a computer into a reputable shop to have work done on it costs pretty much a minimum of 50 dollars just to take it in the door.

A single Voodoo2's max res in GLide was 800x600 unless you SLI'd two of them together; then max res was 1024x768. Because of this, the 3dfx miniGL driver that comes with Quake2 limits your resolution selection, so don't use it as it was designed with the limitations of the Voodoo 1 and 2 cards in mind. Instead, use Quake2's full OpenGL renderer for higher resolutions.

Metal Jesus how could you take out the clip of you rockin out on the stage, always in the beginning of your intro. That was the best clip you gotta find a way to insert it in somewhere, ITS THE BEST!!

Man my first PC was a 486DX @ 25mgh (33 with turbo button engaged) Kings Quest, Wolfenstein, Eye of the Beholder, Doom, Wing Commander, etc etc. for 15 year old it was heaven. Just getting the IRQ/DMA sound card/audio and the mouse to work was an achievement at times. I remember something about extended/expanded memory too. Thanks for making these videos, they're always a reminder of a very happy time of my life.

Sweet looking system you've got there! Here's the one I put together for my 43rd birthday in 2017: Celeron 400A Socket 370 CPU (from my first ever PC) Tyan Tomahawk 440 BX Socket 370 motherboard 512MB (2x256MB) Kingston PC100 SDRAM 128MB Palit GeForce 4 MX 440 128-bit AGP graphics card Turtle Beach Montego II Aureal Vortex 2 based PCI sound card Yamaha Audician 32 Plus OPL3 based 16-bit ISA sound card Intel 536EP PCI modem card (from my first ever PC, just because) 3Com 3C905-TX (Rev B) PCI network card Belkin USB 2.0 PCI card Firewire PCI card 40GB WD400BB system PATA HDD 120GB WD120BB data PATA HDD Lite-On DVD Combo PATA optical drive (beige) Lite-On DVD-ROM PATA optical drive (beige) Sitecom USB 2.0 front ports & card reader bay (beige) Mitsumi 1.44MB floppy drive (beige) My first ever PC's blue & beige midi tower PC case Mercury 400W ATX PSU Belkin red and yellow rounded PATA cables Belkin green rounded floppy cable Startech (& original) CD drive audio cables Startech CPU cooler & fan Coolermaster 80mm double ball bearing case fan (with Akasa 80mm fan filter & chrome grill) Windows 98 Second Edition

A word of warning regarding the power supply in this PC: it uses ATX connectors with non-standard wiring, much like many other Dell computers from this time. Attempting to use a standard ATX power supply with the Dell motherboard, or vice versa, may destroy the power supply and/or motherboard used. Keep this in mind if the power supply breaks or a new motherboard is required.

Great video. Speaking of game copy protection. I remember some games back in the day that came with a code wheel that you had to use figure out what code to enter to play the game.

i just found your chanel today and gosh you do make me miss my old sierra game (police quest king quest larry ect)

Hey I had proche unleashed too, I rememer thinking at the time "wow, these raplays look just like real life! its like watching the sports channel" XD

Holy crap.... no one remembers Stunts! Now we just need Commander Keen

This rocks so hard! Nice work :)

Sweet! Nice Build Voodoo card are the most seeked , Love the Old PC Demo Disks ! I have Quite a few ! collected over the years since the mid 90s

Maaan, this is making me regret having had to toss out my two old 90's PCs.

Regarding NFS: Porsche Unleashed - did you play online with the rest of the PU fans back in the day? If so were you a member of any of the [??] teams? I was one of the founders of Team[RS] and had a lot of fun playing it online up until EA finally shut it down for good. 'Course one of the members of Team[RS] eventually came up with "IPLounge" which allowed for online play again. Yep, them were the days. Oh and I was known (originally) as Alt-F4 which when I joined the team became [RS]Alt. Cheers !

That warehouse PC place is *amazing* ! I'd be like a kid in a toy store, wandering through that place.

love your content man!

Love it! Remember Airborn Ranger? ;)

Still better than my school pcs

Dude your content is awesome. Just discovered the channel. Would love to start a game room when I have more space, making me very jealous!

Ah, that is a nice beast! I just completed my own old DOs machine (486), and its always a joy to go back in time.

Why are you so awesome with this stuff? It would be great if you could somehow reverse time and record footage of Napster, Netscape Navigator, and AOL Channels while you were at it! Maybe even dig into some CompuServe and Prodigy! :P

dude i just bought a psp because of your psp videos!

impressive buddy . Awesome video 10/10 :)

Oh crap, STUNTS! I must have played the ever loving hell out of that game as a kid!! You're literally the only other person I've ever seen talk about it! What a trip.

MJR you're a MASSIVE LEGEND

I for one am curious about how the capture process works for your "new" old pc.. please make a video on it!

You really made me remember the past, the good times that happened with my dad .. thanks!

Thanks Metal Jesus, I was just talking with a friend the other day about doing this for all eras of PC's. I would love to get this PC running the Police Quest and LSL series, I know they used the booklets as copy protection, at least in some of the games. System Shock 2, such a classic.

Some classics that I remember having from my early childhood (I'm a fair bit younger than metal Jesus) and would like to play again, are Carmageddon and Redneck Rampage (because I loved both) and both the 7th guest and it's sequel the 11th hour (which I have no idea if they were good or not because a very young me could never got either working, but they really intrigued me none the less) but also some shooter game which name escapes me. It was set in the old west and I distinctly remember a level where you were running around some place with caves that was kind of like the grand canyon, looking for gold I think and having to fight bandits. If anyone knows the name of the game I would greatly appreciate them letting me know, because I loved it at the time. Great video anyway Metal Jesus. Keep up the good work.

You just made my life better with this video. I remind myself all this good times of installing demos from PC magazine CD's and playing them enthusiastically.... No Master Race... no weird internet full of trolls... Just pure love for games!

BRUTAL!!!! U rock pal, awesome PC u have! MEMORIES!!

Awesome Metal Jesus, congrats com de content.

I feel you on graphics nostalgia. I watched some Syphon Filter gameplay from PS1 and was shocked. I remember it looking so much better.

PC and metal? How haven't I found you before

This is legendary! Thanks!

Man Voodoo graphics card, sound blaster 16....I'm a teenager again. I.cant tell you how many times I sat through the windows 98 installation process because I'd screw something up fiddling with it! Love this video!!!

Fine machine. I just have a feeling that a V3-3000 will not be used to it's max potential. Why P-II and not P-III-800? A bit more ultimate, would be a K6-3-plus, and V3-3500. For a really kick ass Win98. Then go for a P-III-Tualatin-1400, GF2-Ultra, 512mb Ram and V2-SLI. Or just get a V5-5000 instead of GF2/V2. Regarding the K6-3... It can be downclocked and the cache disabled to simulate a 486, even a 386. Then use a CL-5446 paired with a V2-SLI setup, for max compatibility with Dos/98 games from the entire 90's. For sound. Well... SB-Pro for early 90's. Use GUS as well, and get a real external midi setup. MT32/SC55. For Win98, then get an Vortex2. Now you only need to dual boot Dos-6.22 and Win98.

Does the host remind anyone of Gregg Turkington from “On cinema at the cinema” with Tim Heidecker?

so many memories from this video. i actually have all the original software and parts laying around to build a system and play all my old stuff. i might just have to give this a go some day.

Love the room!!