Iron Assault for DOS: Obscure Stop-Motion Mechs of 1995 

Thank you sir, I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Awesome work on the music, really sets the mood for the game nicely 👍

Damn the music has been in my head for nearly 3 decades. I decided to pick it up again and damn its so good to listen to it again. The music is so incredibly catchy! Thank you for an awesome childhood!

@@peterphan21 Thanks! I am flattered!

And StarSiege!

Dollar? I 'ardly knew 'er!

Robocop

Well played.....well played!

Brilliant

my only thought is the Super Smash TV host lol

How does he get those lines out without giggling?

I got that joke lol

@@DXSUCKIT1990 i didnt

@@mistery8363 BM in medical terms means bowl movement. So he is making an explosive poop joke lol

@@DXSUCKIT1990 oh ok thanks lol

"Crapping all over...." Excellent choice of words for this video.

I dont know if it was the best they can do. They probably did it to stand out.

People still crap all over something if it isn't bleeding edge, particularly in the graphics department.

There's something very charming about the cutscenes' jankiness. Almost like you could tell the devs enjoyed making those cutscenes.

In this case it would’ve been CGI that would dreadful now compared to the stop-motion animation.

Weeb

oh yea i see a good bit of gundam parts in there

@@krakenloco jealousy isn’t kawaii

@@krakenloco says the guy with a pipboy cover art. Nerd.

Definitely some Macross pieces too.

@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yeah but that was Digital Domain.

I disagree. MW2 FMV was already mentioned, but that took DD 3 months and around $100k from what I heard. It's all about time/money and getting the right people on the job. Throwing something together in the last two weeks of production in Lightwave or 3D Studio simply wasn't cutting it...even in 1995. Most CG you saw in games of the time wasn't "cutting edge" at all unless it was from some larger, well-funded studio. Most of it was rather mediocre, often rushed. Simply due to the fact that most studios had no dedicated teams or artists for cut scenes or FMV, so regular artists often did double duty. I didn't work on game-related stuff that often (VFX guy at hearth) and I cranked out my fair share of mediocre/ugly shit but it was either full-time on ingame assets or full-time on prerendered/FMV stuff.

Sorry I messed up your 69...lol but i totally agree..."cough" Robocop

No matter how razor thin the uncanny valley it's always there.

This game would have blown my ten year old mind, now it just feels cozy and pleasant. those old synth sounds.. the low res really making the art stand on its own... so nice.

That was my first thought - Terminator fan-film!

Maybe a Robot Chicken tribute

From producers who SAW RoboCop...

there's a litttttle gundam in there too. those 70sriffic bellbottom legs are straight out of Zeon.

they're not ED209, they're kitbashed zentraedi gluags from macross

@@ViewpointProd cool seeing you here yep even the director of robocop said they were inspired by japanese robots

@@ViewpointProd um... the primary mech featured in the animations is VERY clearly and obviously a Robocop ED-209 with the head/face part swapped out. It has the 209 legs, arms/guns, & under body. It’s the first/main one walking from right to left. First thing I noticed & the most obvious...

Big agree. Being high/medicated and watching his Vids makes me so chill

hahaha you beat me to this comment,sir!

@@CatManDoom84 me too lol

Huh huh huh! Huh huh huh! He said BM!

I wanna know how many times he had to record that line.

I don't get it?

You mean MW4: Mercenaries from 19 years ago? Jokes aside, they are all "Older ones" at this point outside of Piranha's 2.

Windows 95 ones.

Am a huge fan of mechwarrior so i totally agree

MW2 for sure

@@jsteezy80 mw2 is legendary! Everyone remember the mw2 and mw2 mercs intro.

I recognized a lot of Jagd Doga parts.

I mean, original battletech from the 80s included a lot of borrowed anime designs, so hey. They are in good company with Mechwarrior for that.

I was gonna mention this myself, if there was higher res pics available, i would love to try making some of these lol

Was about to mention this myself. Plenty of Gundam model kit parts used to make these!

and at least one sdf macross and several zentraedi ones

Was thinking the guys of Wing Commander did do a mech game to?

Was that the Origin of the menu barracks? ;-)

@@nickwallette6201 Yes its very close in function, but not exactly the same, like there are more beds in Wing Commander, there was a bar you interact with pilots, and a flight simulator, and a space lock (to exit dos) and a door to start the misson etc

Look up a movie called robo jocks. He mentioned it in the video.

@@sinisterthoughts2896 Robot Jox* and it was filmed in Italy, too, heh.

And written by sci-fi author Joe Haldeman.

Check the MAK/SF3D series if that's what you want: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6AY36gQoR7A.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschinen_Krieger_ZbV_3000

@@sinisterthoughts2896 Beat me to it - but yeah, it's pretty great.

YES, CLAN WOLF FOR LIFE!

@@horuslupercal3872 Get bent wierdo.

Maybe he didn't play it much. That was my go to. That and doom, decent and heretic. My hard drive was only 250MB so I had to uninstall and reinstall games constantly. Oh the times

A few years after that I had to do the same on a 3g hard drive.

Is

Taco Bell is always the answer for explosive BMs.

@@swordmonkey6635 White Castle can be classified as a weapon of mass destruction

@@swordmonkey6635 as someone who is lactose intolerant, Taco Bell is cheaper to buy than laxatives

@@nilus2k Oooo boy, White Castle. Sometimes it's worth the pain.

u need IBM

Yeah...Graffiti was comparatively small and most of their resources at the time went into another, far more successful project: Screamer

... where every meal is a #2!

Minus falling down stairs.

Plus, some talented modder from ZDoom forum is making Doom version of this game and it's a lot better.

@@captainjurgh8142 Any idea if the mod's coming to the modern console ports?

From GZDoom, yes.

My BMs always have explosive potential, there's a few missed opportunities.

I remember CyClones. It was available at the library when I was young and I thought it was cool since it was like Doom but you were a cyborg.

Seeing that cover art brought back a game that I had completely forgotten

It had a number of terrific sequels as well. I remember Screamer Rally especially as a really fun game.

@@Renzsu i actually don't remember if I ever played Rally, but S1 was so cool! (too bad it'd randomly crash on third tier tracks for me). S2 i didn't like as much, it was a good racing game, i guess, but the more sporty setting ruined the vibe set up by S1 for me.

Shockingly *accurate*

Sending it to my mech friend as well haha

I believe the correct term is mechrosexual.

So will my meth-enthused friend as well.

You’re not wrong.

I thought you said your Mech-infused friend 🤣

Off to Sam's club. I'll grab you a crate of em.

Oh that's a fun one! More Power Armor than mechs though.

It reminds me of the PC magazine review spreads from back in the 90s. Not the lamp - too homey. But the warm colors.

"Just another day in the 21st century"

After four thousand years of total war the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other side.

the legs are definitely familiar. My first thought was that the legs might be from a Zaku, but the shape isn't quite right

I think gelgoog legs

I'm pretty sure the zeon-y legs of that one are actually from a jagd doga, because that's the only MS I know of that has that thick area around the knee that then flares out like that. Also the shoulders on another mech are definitely from a GM command

@@ValTek_Armory one of the mechs is based off teh zaku 2 from the looks of it. One is basically a barzam with some extra parts. One uses the dom's legs with a chest i'm not familiar with and the arms from a mech from macross. the titel screen mech is based off of zentradi battle pod from macross. and those are just the ones i can notice. If i can find the cutscenes by themselves might be able to say more.

@@Neowattmk4 theres a couple. Theres one that looks to be just a zaku-2 with extra bits glued on. And another of the mechs seems to be a mech from macross with the legs of a dom.

Ooh, that's what they're called! Always enjoyed the few occasions games came packed in those. Quake being a notable example.

When your war is sponsored by Taco Bell

Head down the hall to unleash your payload.

"Dropping you off - good luck!"

You beat me to it. 4:50

Stop giving my baby momma explosives 😫😭😫

Truly.

I recently watched that again. Wow a movie of its time lol

lol MW black knight killed my first computer. so advanced the graphics card pulled too much juice and popped the psu smoke and all.

The truth, it hurts

I enjoyed it back then too.

Good question. Of my fifteen years of using RU-vid, I have probably down-voted maybe ten videos, all of which were egregiously horrible, and wasted my time.

Some peopme are really hateful of everything and everyone for no reason, don't try to find a illogical answer. Alternatively, write it off as RU-vid being buggy

I'd say it looks more creative than ROTT

Maybe, the sheer amount of cutscenes is a little crazy. I wish more effort went into the actual presentation and gameplay though, ROTT has it beat there imo.

@@DaedalusRaistlin Well, IMO ROTT gameplay sucks. It has lots of cool features, it has great humor, but as a game it sucks, if compared with, say, Doom/Heretic. Music is awesome too.

I haven’t played it in a while, but I remember liking ROTT quite a bit. Also you could walk around at different heights, jump on a trampoline thing, ascend stairs, end up on the top of a wall...

ur second after me 👍