Expert Software's Ultimate Game Collection from 1998 

You know you’ve made a good software catalog when it convinces Clint to buy a pack of word art fonts nearly 20 year later

"people getting married, they got everything!" lmao loving this one.

I was vibing to your techno mix - pure talent!

"There's not enough male stripping" -LGR

Oh my God LGR thank you so much, this disk is an irreplaceable part of my childhood. A friend had it, and he lent it to "me" (me and my brothers). I've been looking for it for ages but I didn't know what it was called, however as soon as I saw that expert logo and that rhyno my mind remembered.

As a kid, I grew up on these bundles. In my mind, it was either pay $20 for 1 game, or pay the same amount for 250 games. The answer was a no-brainer at the time. I remember buying Expert Software's 250 Best Arcade Games, and although there were a lot of stinkers, there were a lot of games that stuck out and still remember to this day. Great memories.

Love how quickly you misremembered “Shaggymane” as “Weedguy”

We need another long video of this whole collection with you and roses. This is so awful and wonderful

That quick eBay aside lets me know that at least I'm not the only one with a severe lack of impulse buy control

LGR, making key-gen music since 2020.

I think the "test drive" in Hangman Jr. was trying to get an idea of how well you spell before picking words for you to spell. I've seen edutainment do that before. It helps them set a level to start at so the game isn't too frustrating for kids.

1) seeing a Packard-Bell PC just hit me with every level of Nostalgia. 2) this collection reminds me of these old Show & Go shareware disks with similar layouts and random collection of games.

500 Games of Non-Stop fun! Press X to doubt.

I’m intrigued by the CBT game

I remember that Hounds and Jackals game, especially the sounds. I think I never really figured out how it worked. But I tried quite a few times. Enough times to basically sear those sounds into my memory.

I interested in that " Do it yourself lawyer" pack. I wonder how well that would work.

These things were my early childhood, my first experience with windows was playing a weird mixed game pack

Going through the catalog is low key asmr for me

I have two big boxes from Expert - one is the Slam Tilt Pinball (one of the best of the genre EVER) and the other is Fantasy Illustrations, which is just a clip-art collection that's super rare today. And yeah, they were just shovelware publisher for the most part, but the packing they sticked to had certain charm.

Very 90s techno loops on that techno DAW generator thing! I love it. I suspect the drums were dubiously sampled from other tracks as well! The 303 definitely had to be samples as ReBirth the original 303 VST wasn't out IIRC! I would love to see the full thing in action since I'm a 90s techno nerd hahaha

I actually played that Hounds and Jackals game when I was a kid. I distinctly remember the dogs barking at the start.

I loved Beat2000 Demo when I was a kid. Spent many many hours to create a cool track but since it was a demo I wasn't able to save it, so I recorded it on tape :D

3:30 Holy shit, that brings back some memories! So, back in the day, where I was growing up, we only had dial-up internet - which was metered according to data used but you _also_ had to pay the phone company for the phone call to the ISP. So internet access was an expensive commodity. But computers were still this exciting new thing that everyone was talking about (again, where I lived; can't say about other places - rural life is what it is) and I wanted to learn more about them. So - I actually bought those magazines with the articles about 'how to reformat to XYZ file system', 'installing linux for the first time', 'automating scheduled backups' and rubbish like that. Not because I wanted to know how to do half the stuff in them, just because they were such an insight into what a computer was and what it could do. And I read a lot more of them than I ever bought, because this being physical print media I was able to swap them with friends. I think all my old copies of these ended up with a cousin who was really into computers, or an IT department at a school a relative taught at. But they were actually really decent interesting things to have, if going online to find the information would have cost several dollars anyway and been over a 56kbps line.

Expert Is like a 1998 version of Humble Bundle.

Standing by for another Blerb where Clint mixes a song from Beat 2000. Love to hear a masterpiece :)

Every time I see a video pop up - I now see my cat going “blerb” in my head. Like a derpier version of “mlem”

This is some of my favorite content just exploring these old software compilations

Heck, I remember 40 Games for windows from Expert Software, kept me well entertained as a youngin.

Clint, I love and respect you on a whole new level(and that’s saying something) this video helped me find a collection of shareware that I had as a kid and have been searching for the better part of 20 years. I downloaded it off the internet archive and I’ve been enjoying showing my 8 year old stepdaughter the DOS games from my childhood more than I have anything in quite a while ❤️

Shaggy manes are delicious mushrooms. I saw mushrooms also on the name text. Mycology is wonderful.

That ominous cut away to you picking up that font creator on eBay simply because you found something that moderately intrigued you in the product catalog is such a relatable aesthetic ...well, it is to me anyway.

I used to love these kind of demo game compilations before I had access to the internet on my computer. I would spend hours going through the games and then playing a select few for weeks on end. The beat2000 program was pretty cool. I guess that's how all the late 90s sick beats were created.

Holy shit I almost forgot about Expert Software! They always had those 100-in-1 game discs at Babbage's/GameStop back in the late 90's and I fell for the trap and bought them every damn time like candy at the grocery store check out!

Seeing Helious for the first time in 25 years brings back some repressed memories. Such a weird and frustrating game to play.

Oh man, seeing Hodj'N'Podj in that catalog brings back some memories. Old buddy of mine and I used to play the crap out of that against each other. Actually a pretty good time back in the day.

I have been looking for this software forever! I have been watching your videos for so long, and did not realize that you did a video on this! This was bought for us grandkids to play on the old work computer my grandparents had for their business. Male strip show was the one piece of software that I have been searching for for so long, I remembered it as aliens and a very avant garde art style. Thank you for what you do man, you always make my day!

"Male Strip Show" sounds like a fun adventure game

Man, those old collection discs were rad back in the day. I had a few that I think were pretty much just bootleg compilation discs that had all sorts of random games on them. A lot of them shovelware, but sometimes there was a real game in there between them. Knowing nothing about PC games at the time, it often took me a while to realize that some of the better games that I really liked from them were actually hugely beloved titles. Biggest one that comes to mind being the original Fallout. I actually didn't realize Fallout was a real beloved franchise for the longest time because even when I did find a Fallout game in stores and bought it, it turned out to be Tactics. So for a while I just assumed my memories of liking that one game from that one compilation disc was just wrong.

We have indeed seen that Hangman Jr. game show up on Shovelware Diggers! ;)

Just seeing the Packard Bell monitor brings back a lot of memories.

the blue to black gradient, with the white times new roman with a shadow.. fills me with excitement and nostalgia. as does that embossed packard bell logo wallpaper! haha wow.

Thank You so so much for trying that Male Strip Show game, you had me laughing more than i have in a long time. Wow was that funny.

Oh thank you thank you thank you for your struggle with the dll thing. I never found out what to do when that pops up in those shovelware cds and now i can try all the games i couldn't when i was a kid. I have been meaning to browse through the collections for a while now and it's a good time to see what to do to atleast get a change to see them work.

This is a top shelf blerb! I remember digging through broken shovelware as a teen. Good times!

thanks for the comfy video clint

I think every gamer had one of this game collection once in his lifetime.

This was a wonderful video!

I bought one of this kind of CDs when I had my first computer. It had a lot of showelware games but some jewels like Warcraft, A-Train, 1865 and Abuse.

"I'd love to find that" follwed by ominous music

I had that same damn Packard Bell monitor with the side speakers in 1997!! Wow. I'm glad I don't have it anymore.

Vinesauce Joel used that Beat 2000 thing to create.. Uh, beautiful things. Lol.

I was thinking only the other day about a CD collection of these sorts of games that my aunt and uncle got me for a present years ago. I got rid of it but now I'm on my nostalgia trip, wish that I'd kept it. Thanks for uploading the disc image, I think I'll grab it and fill my boots with that!

THE PACKARD BELL NAVIGATOR! Oh man, i loved that house

Oh wow! Crystal Calibrun! I remember that one so well! Had a really nice BGM too!

Oh god, this was from a Joel Shareware Madness. Haha.

@16:18 sounds your kitchen utensils make! Thank you Sir! fun to see these software collections.

Seems like not even early Windows was safe from these weird "500-in-1" game packs

Hodj N Podj was a fun little thing. My brother and I played it a lot as youths. It's how I learned to play Mancala.

Amazing!!! I had the CD when I was a child. Damn, I want this now in 2023!!!

I had a subscription to Smart Computing and a couple others in the 90's, seems it was an easy christmas gift for me for several years in the 90's

15:47 I'd listen to more techno stuff from Clint like this.

The weirdest thing just happened, as soon the Ebay image popped up, my phone notified me that my Ebay order of civ 2 is expect by Nov 19

That late night lighting is great. You should it more often

This is where it all started and I’m proud to say I remember those mid 90s days...... you can even see those architectural programs Will Wright said got inspired from, I love this ❤️

I like that the fLiPeD oUt installer uses a warning dialog to let you know it finished successfully.

"Tarot: Unlock Life's Mysteries Through The World Of Tarot"... That CD-ROM title in the catalog looks quite interesting!

Expert Software was one of the better shovelware companies, and I miss them dearly. Tons of memories. Remember Spin Doctor? Fun game, that.

I remember getting a Mr. Pibb video game from McDonald's as a kid, I think on a floppy disk, and it was actually a really good first person shooter-type adventure game.

My uncle had a multiple-year subscription to Smart Computing in Plain English.....he recently gave all of the issues he had to me. Nice stuff.

I noticed on the back of the box that it contained Crystal Caliburn. That was a great virtual pinball program back in the day.

I had that same Packard Bell monitor. I gave it away after college, but I kept the Pentium 200MHz machine for use as a router. those built in speakers were convenient.

I was also curious for the Ronald McDonald game and laughed at the catalogue but when you played it I had instant memories that I played it non stop somewhere I don’t remember lol, I wonder where was it

I had one of those game compilation packs for Windows 95 as a kid. It wasn't the same one reviewed here but it had a fat stack of games on it.

People may not understand now, but before high speed internet, shovelware/shareware disks were amazing. It was the equivalent of 'flash games' for an earlier generation.

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West was a fun little point-and-click game, very reminiscent of Myst or Shivers. I actually had it when it originally came out. It was put out Cyberflix. I've been trying to find a copy of it again, just because it was so fun.

I'm gonna take a wild stab in the dark here and presume before watching that this doesn't quite actually have 500 games on it.

PeanutButterGamer did a video on those Expert McDonaldLand games

As a kid msdos shareware compilations were some of my favorite things to go through. Now years later they’re probably the only msdos games I still play.

The fond memories of that monitor/speaker combo...

I remember Gubble! I was able to get both Gubble and Gubble 2 at an Ocean State Job Lot when I was in middle school; hooray for CD bargain bins. Didn't get that far into the first one compared to the second, the difficulty was surprising for a kids game. I had a hunch and went to check Steam; turns out the developer released an updated version this year on June 9th for $10, same price as the CD back then. Welp, time to go rack my brain again.

A P75 corner Packard Bell? A friend had one of them with the PB software Navigator...ohh fun times.

I picked up one of those home design “games” new in box at goodwill not too long ago, I’m not surprised it’s basically like The Sims without people and more Home Depot.

Reminds me of those Internet web site guide magazines you used to buy at the newsagents. The ones that were just like a phone book directory listing full of web sites.

I quickly saw Skunny Kart scroll by on the screen. Worth it for that alone.

Looking forward to that Font Blerb. Expert Software also re-released my favorite PC game, The Dark Eye. It is a point-and-click adventure game that is based upon the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and all the characters are clay puppets. It also has a great cast William S. Boroughs, Jennifer Hale, and Tom Kane. One of the unique points of the game is how each tale is played from the perspective of victim and murderer. It is an extremely underrated game.

I have the expert releases of both Cannon Fodder and Dust, bought at a long gone Pharmhouse store in the mid-late 90's. If you've never played Dust I highly recommend it, its a very unique adventure game.

'The shrink wrap is actually shrinking the box' ..lol

Dust was RedDeadRedemption before rdr was a thing. I replayed it on android via doxbox and windows 3.1. its a childhood classic of mine.

I have great memories of DUST a great fps/adventure title :)

I've "15.000 Games and variants" from Easy Computing. I don't have the box anymore. But I do have the 8 (!) CD-ROM's it came with. Some of the games I actually 'liked'. But most of it's use is now on my mothers Acer Desktop with Vista. For like-this-other-game game: Tetris, Mahjongg, Bejeweled. I picked it up during it's Windows XP-era release.

This reminds me of "707 great games"

Expert typing tutor on win 3.11 is what taught me how to type. I thank my grandma everyday for forcing that onto me now that I’m older

I got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday and im feeling really awful, but LGR always manages to cheer me up👍🏻

I actually did buy the 3D Font Creator back in the day at like OfficeMax. Can't say I used it more than a few times.

whoa. I'm pretty sure I bought exactly this from a computer store when I was a young kid. That jewel case seems so familiar

When I was a 4 year old in the 90s, I had that Mcdonaldland create and paint. I had the weirdest flashback seeing that screenshot in that catalog

I remember this disc. There's a lot of cool stuff in there. Wipeout 2097 was fun, and you could mess with the texture files. Beat2000, H.U.R.L, and Skunny Kart was fun too.

Cool, at first I thought you'd had a few drinks before making the video but then realised the playback speed was at 0.5. Still a great experience anyway, thanks.

There are six games pictured on the back of the box and I have four of them... guess the shareware scene was huge in the 90s👍

OH SHIT! I had a shovelware disk I loved that I lent to a friend ages ago and never got back. I've never been able to remember what it was called, so couldn't begin to replace it. It wasn't this one. BUT I suddenly remembered it because of the "500 games best value" thing on the back. I was like "Shit, I had one that claimed it had over a thousand games on it" and the light went off in my head. Now patrolling eBay for an ugly green "1001 Games and More" disk. Thank you LGR, you've saved my youthful memories.