LEGO Island: The First Lego Game on PC 

As a kid this world felt massive and so full of life. Crazy playing it as an adult and seeing how small it really was.

This game legitimately gave me night terrors as a kid. I vividly remember having brutally violent hellish dreams where the Brickster would murder me and everyone I loved. Care to guess which ending I got?

“ARE YOU READY TO LEAVE LEGO ISLAND? IF YOU SELECT THE G R E E N B R I C K YOU’LL GO. IF YOU SELECT THE R E D B R I C K YOU STAY. GREEN GO, RED STAY” -a certain red suit infomaniac

"You can move a mountain, if you do it brick by brick" Actually, it occurs to me that the Lego universe is the only place where that line is *not* a mixed metaphor haha

I played Lego Island religiously as a kid. Thank you for bringing back so many memories!

Failing to stop the Brickster has haunted me for decades

I still remember the excitement of finding that secret little cave thing. I felt like I won the lottery.

*WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO INSERT THE CD!*

This game traumatized me when I was like 3 when I accidentally let the brickster out, I never wore stripes again

Fun Fact: The kid who voices Pepper in this game also voiced Andy in the Toy Story series.

My family could only afford one computer game for the Windows 98 Packard Bell we had. This was it. I played this for hours until the computer overheated and died. Restart, and repeat. Then I got Civ III and played that for hours until the computer overheated and died. This was a common theme. Being the first computer we had and just dial up Internet only for email, we assumed everyone’s computer overheated and died after a few hours. Nope, just a crap computer.

After all those years, I'm still left with one question... WHAT'S BEHIND THE DOOR!?

6:20 "The sign says 'no pizaz', nothing about pizzas, how was I supposed to know?"

Ah, another classic game that I liked when I was a kid. The best part hands down about Lego Island was when you tried to play this game without the CD in the drive.... WHOOOOooooooOOOOPS YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER *cuts to desktop*

look at those classic lego minifigures

You had to be probably less than 10 years old to enjoy this game. The memories with my brother are much better than the game itself.

Please take a look at Lego Rock Raiders. It is the best lego game ever!

As much as I have loved this channel for years this is probably the first game you've covered (barring Doom and Space Cadet Pinball) that I actually have any nostalgia for, given that I was born in the Win98 era.. thanks for all your great work Clint

I remember this game being buggy and cryptic as hell. This was the OG dark souls.

This game is great. Can you please review Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge and Lego Island Xtreme Stunts?

I remember when I first played this I lost to the Brickster. I cried so hard! I'd never lost anything before.

Anyone else get Lego Magazine as a kid?

Interestingly, some copies of the game included an Infomaniac minifigure.

I always had a weird feeling playing this as a kid, I didn't know why or what it was. Now that I'm older I realize the feeling was depression

Please, oh please, for the love of god, tell me you're doing Lego Island 2 and Lego Island extreme stunts!

You should play Lego Island 2 someday, it's actually a game

Oh my gosh... I played this game for what had to be hundreds of hours as a kid. My nostalgia levels just shot up and all of those stupid radio songs are now stuck in my head. I also got red bricks (1st place) on every activity with every character, and I did it with the massively over-responsive controls which never occurred to me at the time might not be the way it was supposed to be. What have I done with my life...

I remember getting this game for christmas one year but my shit box of a PC couldn't run it. So many tears...

Let's see how many people I can give shivers with one music track: Hospital.

I had this game, but something was wrong. That intro screen with the crazy guy just had a light blue flashing screen in the background. I kinda want to find it again, but I think I lost the game :(

This game blew my mind as a kid. The idea of freely roaming around an open world was groundbreaking to many of us.

4 y/o me was always scared by the brickster, my sister said he could break free and chase you....

I would eat dem pizaz

I had a Lego chess game that was pretty cool. It always made me wonder why they never actually made a physical chess set made of Lego

3:31 Never knew Octan was an actual company in the LEGO universe. I thought they just made that up for The LEGO Movie. 🤔

Infomaniac didn't say "здравствуйте" That sad

I remember playing this! I also had the Lego Racers too!

I definitely like this game a lot, I don't think it has aged very well but it was pretty ambitious for its time and I admire its effort. There was a definite amount of work put into making it worthwhile which can be hard to appreciate but I remember playing it a ton just for a lot of the detail and effort that was put into it. But you are certainly right, the overarching game simply has too little to do and you can finish most of the major stuff in a short amount of time. Did enjoy this though, for sure! Also, thank you for clarifying the 10FPS thing...I was so sick of seeing reviewers completely clueless as to why the game was so "poorly programmed" when they were playing the game on hardware way past the game's original release date.

I loved this game. The game rewarded exploration by giving you short performances from the characters in specific areas. I felt like everybody on the island were my friends, I even liked the Brickster. The game has so many idiosyncrasies that there's just nothing like it.

This was an awesome game when i was a little kid, going from mostly 2d games to a island where you could walk around and do many different things was really something special.

i grew up with the game Lego Loco.. anybody else?

Any plans to review Lego Island 2 at some point?

I just discovered your channel yesterday and i have to say: I feel entertainend and well informed by your videos! And that comes from a retro-console-player without experiences at playing on the PC. Thank you! :)

Lego Racing 2 tho? Mastapiece!

"Look out! It's the mean, mean, Pizza Machine!" To be fair, the only "mean" thing a machine like that could've ever done is destroying your cholesterol.

A CD? A Manual? Things that show you that actually a minimum of dedication was put into the product? Relics from the past :(

This game, especially the music, is just 100% pure my childhood. I love it so much.

I must've spent actual days playing this game as a kid. I haven't seen any clips from this game since then I had goosebumps the entire video and felt a little emotional having all these memories again

I got distracted during the intro because I could see a reflection of Clint turning a crank to make the camera come down :p

Am I the only one yearning and pleading for another Rock Raiders game? That game was soo underrated, all those cool vehicles, gathering energy crystals while fighting against air, monsters and lava...hmm, BTW LGR, please review it, PLEAAASE?

"Hopped up on something strong and proooooobably illegal." I laughed harder than i should. Well done XD

ive never actually played it nor did i really grow up with it, but watching youtube videos of it as a kid really holds a special place with me, its super nostalgic

Will be supporting on Patreon soon! First RU-vidr I feel I NEED to support. Such quality work, humor, fun and overall goodness. Thanks so much Clint

I didn't know what to do after giving the brickster the pizza. Obviously I lost and the ending scared the shit out of me!

3:09 when you realize other suns are sunning our sun which is sunning other suns and could be sunning a black hole

This game was such a happy fun time when I was a kid. Now as an adult I view Lego Island as Lego's first and only horror game! It's the debug mode you unlock by typing in OGEL. The resulting weirdness/creepiness is clearly the inspiration for the end level of Lego Island 2.

YESSSS I've been waiting for this! The soundtrack really is surprisingly good lol.

This was my first (LEGO) game and still one of my all-time favourites!

wow man...I really enjoyed this game back when it came out. I felt really warm watching this. Thanks for the video.

I just love watching these videos and drinking myself to sleep.

*7:16* *LMAO* Clint your too funny! Love the video and your channel! Thanks for the quality entertainment and snarky commentary!

For 8 minutes I was ten years old again! Thanks for the flashback LGR =)

I had this game when it first came out, I must have been around 6, and I loved it so much but never completed it. Thank you for making me smile

Thanks for showing this, I've completely forgot about that game. One of my favourites back in early 2000s :) It's funny to see it right now, now I really want to find my old bricks and play a little. Please keep showing old games, these throwbacks were real good to feel. And of course, keep thrifting :)

nostalgia overload

You should review all old Lego PC games. I played a lot of Lego Racers and Lego Rock Raiders in my childhood on Window Me.

I remember at the time, the fact that your vehicles would be where you parked them last when you came back to your save seemed mind blowing

My favorite game of all time

I loved ghost riding all the cars. Then I realized I couldnt get any cars.... So i had to walk everywhere.... And I learned about the race area the week before my brother broke the disk.

"spastic garry's mod machinima" hahaha subbed

im so happy someone finally plays this and puts it on yt I loved it when it came back and i remember tring to make my own lego charcaters with bits i had and playing like the game

One of the greatest regrets of my childhood... At the age of 7, after my 11-year-old brother beat the Brickster in what seemed like the most intense battle ever, I stupidly forgot to save the file and opened up an earlier version of it. I never got to explore the island post-battle, and we never went back and beat it. I'm so sorry, Will.

About the creativity part.....was there ever a lego game in wich you can build freely what you want? O.o I mean, in the later games (batman, star wars and so on) you also just "build" sometimes stuff and it works automatically.

The nostalgia is strong with this one. The first PC game I ever bought after fully exhausting all of the bundled software that came with my first Pentium II PC.

2:07 'With fewer accidental expletives.' *F U K*

My computer could hardly run this but boy did I try! Thanks for the review it brought back some good memories!

"A game that charmed my pants off, and I'm not wearing pants" oh LGR 😏

It is just absolutely friggin astounding how they had their style of humor nailed down so early. Loads of physical gags and character personalities in the lego movie feel like they were ripped from this game

Thank you for this hit of nostalgia! I used to play this a lot as a kid.

I loved, loved, loved that game as a kid. I STILL remember every lyric to the Brickolini's jukebox songs.

I loved that game when I was a kid!!

I loved this as a kid lol but my overactive imagination helped make this amazing for me.

I played this game so many times growing up. Love it, still have my discs.

I was born in 2004 and played this on our old tower when I was 3/4. It was the first video game I ever played. Even before the plug-and-play mystery machine scooby doo games. I had little snippets of memories from the game, and some I didn't even know were from this game until I saw this video and it connected. I have wanted to play this game again for a while and now thanks for confirming it. This entire video was me going "oh I remember that!" or "wait, that's from Lego Island?". I know nobody asked but this game was what got me started and this video was more nostalgic to me than anything I've seen in a while. Thank you. I know you probably won't see this but thank you. So much.

I love the songwriting they used in this game. Really puts me in the mood for some pizaz.

The polygon graphics were too intense for some computers if I remember. Especially the characters.

I had this game as a kid, played the heck out of it. Thanks for the memories.

This game was my childhood, so many memories. I'm pretty sure I always failed though and was scarred for life by the scary Brickster taking over (still haunts me to this day)! It's true the appeal of the game is mainly the nostalgia ( i even found myself singing along to the brick by brick song, still remember the words 17 years later! )

I remember wanting this game so much when I first saw it in the Lego catalog. After I finally bought it with chore money, a neighbor stole it from me.

If only GOG.com could bring back the old Lego games.

I remember loving this game so much as a kid--mostly just because I loved Legos haha, but beyond that I was actually pretty well taken with the illusion of the open world. I loved just doing the pizza deliveries and cruising around the island--very much the same sort of mild, lowkey pleasure that I've gotten later in life via driving for Uber, or driving 45 minutes to work each day for another job, or running cross country after school, or other such forms of simple, repetitive, menial activity. Doesn't speak very well to the gameplay haha, but as a literal child I enjoyed it. If there was one gripe I actually do remember it was the fact that you couldn't get that goddamned lego skateboard anywhere in real life! Haha, oh how I yearned for that Lego skateboard, or maybe not "yearned" but in any case I wanted it for my little lego worlds, but so far as I could discover by looking at toy store shelves and the straight up Lego Magazine my child self talked my folks into getting me a subscription for somehow, that skateboard was phantasmagorical, legendary--ungettable haha. I got over it. That said, to this day if someone shows me an actual physical Lego set with the skateboard in it, I think I might poop. Poop in ecstasy, mind you.

You nailed it on the personality aspect, Lego Island seems to have set a tone and sense of humor that've been mimicked in Lego games since

7:18 is the exact look I had on my face as an 8 year old when I lost this game for the first time

Rock Raiders > all other Lego games

Oh wow, thanks for doing a video on this :) I got Lego Island in 2002(?) in a 4-pack software box from a Scholastic Book Fair. It also came with Lego Creator (essentially a virtual box of Legos with no rules), Lego Racers 2 (an actually very solid racing game for kids), and Lego Chess (the game that taught me how to play chess). All three of those other games ran fine, but I had a hell of a time getting Lego Island to run on our family's computer at the time, a Windows XP rig with a Celeron and I think 128mb of RAM, I don't remember what GPU it had. Not much of a computer, even by 2002 standards, but it was way too much for that old game. One time I "broke the computer" trying to play it, and my parents said I couldn't play Island anymore. If I remember correctly, I eventually found a patch on the internet that made it more compatible with newer machines. A few years later, I got Lego Island 2 for the PlayStation at Toys R' Us. That one is a much better game but still has issues. Terrible controls, I definitely remember that part, especially for those damn space missions. :P

I have this game and the game is awesome! thanks for reviewing the game,LGR

Lego Racer was the shit!

Well, you've finally done it. you've hit on a PC game I am actually incredibly nostalgic for... and that's kinda rare given I've always been a primarily console-centric individual. Which shouldn't be a surprise because this game sold like gangbusters from what I've been told. its my second PC gaming memory behind like... Sonic 3D Blast's PC port.

ohhh man this like one of the first few 3D games I ever played on PC. My oldest brother was a total nerd and kept our PCs up to date with all the latest tech the 90s had to offer.

i was blown away the first time i saw this on a friends pc, i had never seen apc outside of an office building before, living in a rural area of Australia any video game was good back then