Civvie goes back to DOS for the trashiest game yet. Speedy's channel: / speedyspcfan Patrons see episodes early: / civvie11 Twitter: / civvie11 #FreeCivvie #RetroGaming #IslandPeril
The Voodoo God guy is giving his all. That's a performance that says: "Fuck it, I may be in Island Peril, but I'm going to own every second of screentime in that shit."
hes my favorite part, he chews the scenery even in his sprites so much that he had the scenery for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and as a side for all of those meals...late night snack, too
@@oz_jones I looked him up. He was one of the few guys out of the group to do more than just this and softcore porn. He was in Soldier with Kurt Russell!
"Damballah is riding me!" That's actually proper voodoo terminology. I am mildly impressed this game got something that relatively obscure correct, instead of going with the standard Hollywood image of voodoo.
@Jesse Rodriguez From what little I know of Haitian Vodou, the loa are sort of like "angels" to Bondye the Supreme Creator, acting as intermediaries between the distant "god" and mankind. In regards to the "riding" part, loa manifest in the ritual space by possessing the ritualist (mounting the horse, or "Chwal"), acting through them. Also, funnily enough Damballah is among the greatest of the loa, which implies that the Voodoo God's power levels are indeed great. Also also, while Civvie only managed to translate Mambo Grande into "Big Mambo", in regards to Vodou a mambo is a priestess of the faith, derived from the old Fon word "nanbo" which apparently means "mother of magic". So if they used the term mambo correctly (part of me doubts that they did, but we'll roll with it), "Mambo Grande" probably translates more accurately to "High Priestess". Which all things considered is a pretty cool name for a magic weapon, since it also sounds like a Summon from an RPG. Or a Stand from JoJo. (many Stands in Part 3: Stardust Crusaders were named after cards from the Major Arcana, including High Priestess)
The "Mambo Grande" weapon shown at 14:14 is a poorly digitized photo of a Big Trak, a programmable toy tank made by Milton Bradley in 1979. That's the only thing about this FPS I don't find horrendous.
Yeah. He did the best thing you can do with a bad script, he hammed it up and put all his energy into over acting. The Nicholas Cage method of reading shitty lines. I'd love to see the voodoo god in something else, he was decent in this.
Amialythis johnson You never know, this could be the moment in which he’s discovered. He could be the lead role in the next blockbuster. Either that or the next blockbuster will be based on this game and his character will be played by Nicolas Cage.
I don't know if anyone noticed, but the BFG in this game... literally... uses the BFG muzzle flash. It's just been turned blue. This is the _Limbo of the Lost_ of Doom clones.
@@rayvenkman2087 If comments and evidence are to be believed he went on to be a character actor in a number of projects and roles (over 140 according to IMDb); I guess he was a gay inmate named Cleo in "Anger Management"? Pretty much the only performer who had a career after this.
He's all over the place. Lots of small roles, but some prominent, e.g. All American and even the Lethal Weapon series. Used to play on the Cleveland Browns I guess. Major respect for the guy either way.
90 GB of Island Peril footage. Reminder: Most modern AAA PC games clock in around *maybe* 75 GB. This man suffers for his art. Also, his crimes. #FreeCivvie
@@LonelySpaceDetective HDoom stopped developing after the Tumblr purging. its author was also making a GZDoom based MGQ Game (complete with the 3 part story) dunno at all what happened after that.
@@gabbyprincip1575 | And, thankfully, like a fine spice, he doesn't overdo it. I'm not a fan of Plinkett, I find those videos simply... I hate to say 'cringy', but... Civvie makes it works, though.
16:42 -17:12 I thought I should let you know there is a modern game that also does this "killing unnecessary enemies" trick. It's called Fallout 76. Circle in spirals, wheels within wheels.
HOM is not a Doom bug but an effect caused by the way these games are rendered. The screen framebuffers are not cleared between frames, it just draws a new scene over the old one, and normal scenario assumes that the whole screen will be covered by the new scene, making clearing unnecessary, however when you're outside of the scene or there are gaps in the scene, you end up with patches of the old frame showing through the new one where nothing new was drawn, you may also get a flickering effect because of double or triple buffering, and cycling between chunks of multiple previous frames.
@@AsmodeusMictian An Incel is someone who is exeedingly angry at the world because they aren't getting sex. I want to give them pity because of their ridiculous resolution, but with the things they say, I rather not. It isn't some hip way to say loser.
@@MdnaBlue Incel used to mean something, now it's just a buzzword people use when they disagree with someone. It's "ok boomer" but for people closer to your demographic. Meaningless and immature.
Everytime the FMV comes up I feel like I need to hammer the escape key cause someones gonna walk in and not be sure if I'm watching porn or playing a crap ass DOS game. And I live alone. And I dunno which is more embarassing. This man truly suffers for his art.
He looks kinda like Terry too. Are we sure we haven't accidentally found where a few of today's big names got their start? I wouldn't be surprised, even today it's pretty common to use disposable pseudonyms for your first gigs.
@@KiraSlith actually he played in a sitcom starring charlie sheen called anger management. in that show he played a gay prison inmate named cleo. look it up it's actually a pretty good show.
@@ianciti It's certainly not that James Black. Birthdates are all wrong, of course the same argument applies to Crews. This guy, James Monroe Black was born in 1959, he'd be a bit older than Terry Crews or James Black (1968 and 1962 respectively).
5:55 I haven't noticed before but that editing "trick" of saving and quitting in order to show the credits, the key binds and the save system is pretty clever. It's like in movies where they do something that seems insignificant to plant a seed for later.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari intro to this is hilarious :D This is why I love Civvies channel so much, his writing is not only brilliant there’s usually at least one quirky thing in every other episode that makes it memorable.
You want some hideous FPS? How bout "TARGET"? It was crazy split screen game. Don't know anyone who finished it, even though it was pre-backlogs era where you buy one game a year and deal with it. oh and Dust (Pył), that's another weird game from 90-00 era. Just grab prepared build from russian old games site and you're done, that thing was NIGHTMARE to fiddle in DOSbox.
Civvie, you're the best. Definitely my favorite channel, and I respect that you're spreading that GoFundMe. Nobody deserves that kind of thing, and helping out your community like this is golden.
If our titular main character worked for 35 years as a D.A. and it's been 9 years since he quit that job, that means he would have to be close to 70 years old when this game takes place.
Ngl, this is still one of my favorites of your videos, Civvie. Dr Caligari is a reference I dearly love & for which I sincerely respect you. This was the video that made me take out a hit on that bell button so I would never miss an upload.
Yes so he can too bask in the disappointment that was that game, not absolutely terrible (unlike Island Peril) but just a sheer and utter disappointment. God and to think I 100%'d DNF on a friends 360.
Jesus, that intro. The low quality, the horrid acting, the sax... Looks like one of those cheap porn movies you picked up in the adult section of a seedy VHS rental back in the 90's EDIT: Well, so the actresses actually were in softcore porn movies. Somehow I'm not surprised.
where's that slow metal from? i once took speed metal tattoo at one guy's apartment, and he was so stupid, that he didn't understand that the stencil is inverted, and tattooed it like that. don't mind though, haha.
"I can't dodge anything because I need both hands" Was planning to make a joke, but the longer this went on and the more softcore adult films got mentioned, the less necessary it felt.
It feels weird that I used to own one of those white cordless phones the villain uses in that opening video. Wasn't expected PHONE nostalgia of all things but here we are.
@@jamstonjulian6947there are people who are nostalgic for the community and culture of the early internet, but I also heavily doubt that anyone would trade broadband for dial-up, as it was just objectively terrible.
First video I’ve seen. I love this old school kind of ancient PC gaming reviews with comedy inter-spliced. Like what Spoony could’ve become if he weren’t crazy... Subscribed!
I've watched your PRO DOOM series a few times now, and now I'm watching some of your other stuff. How have I not subbed sooner? Your dry, sarcastic humour (or maybe not so dry) is gold.
3 minutes in and I'm already loving it. Edit: Bodybuilders, lube gun? Gachimuchi wasn't a thing back in 1995 right? Damn this game was ahead of it's time! VaN
15:45 As for the translation "Mambo Grande," it might've used words from two languages instead of one. For Spanish, "Grande" is "Big," which was already explained in the video. Now for "Mambo", it likely came from the Swahili language, meaning "Things." Case in point, greeting young peeps informally goes like this - "Mambo vipi?" (How are Things?) - "Poa." (Good/Cool) Therefore, Mambo Grande might've just meant "Big Thing." Hope this helps.
