LGR - Crime Wave - DOS PC Game Review 

the kidnapper at 2:43 and the main protagonist look surprisingly similar... The plot thickens!

LGR as Super Crime Fighter Lucas McCabe was the best possible casting they could've done. You really knocked it out of the park on this one, Clint!

Copy protection? Who would want to copy 8 floppy disks?

You and I, good sir, remember teletubbies much differently.

This was one of the first games I got to play on my first PC (386 DX 40) and it looked AWESOME back in 1991 - in my memories it played way more fluent than this ... and Geez, we all loved the girl, I showed her to my friends like I would have shown my first Playboy Mag, with a soft-spoken voice and a conspirative smile on my face^^

Oh man, that president's daughter...

I love your videos on "not Narc"....You should do a video on Narc!

That Pink Floyd sample is from a song called "One Slip," by the way. Funny hearing it sampled here, but hey...nice usage. :-)

Why is this so freaking good? Because it's friday and I have pizza and beer. And beer. Did I mention I love you Lazy Game Reviews/Clint?

Hey LGR, I just wanna let you know, you're awesome, keep doing what you're doing. You're the best.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CLINT!!! Me and my good friend Lars used to play this SO much!! We even made a cardboard "computer" and painted a scene from this game when my uncles computer, which had Crime Wave, broke! YASSSSSSSSSSS!

I had this game back in the day. I don't remember it being as slow as seen here, but my memory probably just isn't serving me correctly. Thanks for taking me back to the childhood once again, LGR!

That impression was more Duke Nukem than Kung Fury.

This game brings back so many memories! I remember playing it at a friends house on his huge IBM pc. His dad worked at IBM so he was one of the few to own such a beast of a pc. I remember to be amazed of the movie-alike short scenes. Nowadays that would be no more than an animated gif. Thanks for bringing back the memories!

Damn, the President's daughter is smokin!

LGR, have you done a video on Turbo Buttons yet? Surely such a thing would be fantastic!

I've been on a binge going back and watching all of your previous videos after discovering you this summer. So far I've managed about 250 or so, but you keep coming out with more and ruining my plans with more awesome videos lol.

Loved the music in the end. Retaliator! I could listen to this theme for hours on my SB16 when i was a kid. Played that game over and over again, and even against my dad through null-modem (serial com port).

Probably would've played flawlessly with the Demon Destroyer Gunn.

Hope you cover the Tex Murphy games someday!

I remember playing Crime Wave a lot when I was a kid, I loved this game back then. I managed to get to the final boss multible times but never would manage to finish the game. Great to finally see the ending. :)

0:52 Lift up this glorious cover to reveal the contents of the box, including a quick rundown of the game's characters and the promised octuple floppy disk set. Ahh... More floppies are good floppies.

That girl who plays the presidents daughter, is smoking hot.

5:28 Ah, the turbo button - a relic of the early 90s....

I was thinking about this game recently (I don't really know why) but didn't know the name. I just remember the gameplay, and how often I played it as a kid on my Gateway 2000 machine. I never thought I'd be able to find anyone else who knows about this game. This brings back very vague memories, but mainly the memory of me being a kid and playing this on my family's very first computer. Thank you for reviewing this! I saw a few of your videos prior to watching this, and was seriously debating of leaving a comment on one video asking you if you know this game. All I knew to describe about it was that you were a guy in white overalls with red boots going around town shooting people either because you were the bad or good guy. Body parts of those whom you shot would fly up in the air. This is all I remembered from about it; I don't even recall the beginning scenes or the objective. I'm so glad I looked through your videos. You, sir, earned a sub!

You got a great channel it's like my childhood all over again! I had this game copped it from software etc. back in he day I also love drug wars and crime patrol I gotta see if u did a review on those classics keep on bro I'm hooked!

This really hit me in my childhood, thanks for making this video!

i love your voice over impersonations. So Good!

0:44 Sci-fi Bono, screaming crazy guy, a height-challenged ninja kicking at a trucker in his pajamas. It's just too perfect!

Dude! I got this game from a friend once and I could never get it to run. So cool to see it action now. Also, Retaliator music at the end

i love your vast knowlege of games and commentary you make great content very underrated youtuber. :)

Fond memories of old dos games a time when getting it running was half the fun factor and going wow it works ! I use to tinker with settings like this to see all the games glory ega,vga,svga and many more video settings and sound setting were a challenge in these older titles it seemed but I liked that cause you had to do more then pop it in.

i really dig your low brow toilet humor in your videos Clint. never change.

I find something oddly appealing about music in early 90's computer games. Those MIDI's are glorious. I know I'm strange.

Holy crap!! The minute the title screen "One Slip" bass line kicked in, I had a heart attack lol:) did the plot scroll have "Terminal Frost" in the background already? or did you add that haha

Quite possible that the culprit was the graphic card. At those times, scrolling was normally done by screen origin offsets, and here it's copying nearly fullscreen to VRAM (probably the reason for the thick edge), that was awfully slow until several years later.

If I saw that box, I totally would have bought the game. Game-play though.. ugh. But dat presidents' daughter. Excellent review!

I'm surprised those eight floppies installed after all this time. You should do an outtake video of you installing some of these games. I remember having only a EGA monitor and PC speaker. Messing around with the install settings as a kid. Trying endlessly to set it to different settings such as Tandy graphics just to see what happened. When I got ghostbusters and speech emitted out of the pc speaker. Amazing!!

"More floppies are good floppies" - LGR 2015

I hope you never get tired of making these vids. Always make my day.

This game blew my mind when it came out.

I'm glad you did a review about this game, it's one of my first games I've played with digitized sound out of the pc speaker, which was amazing back then. Then came the Secret of Monkey Island, which was also amazing how the music they made with a simple pc speaker. Then I bought a Thunderboard adlib soundcard and that was my first era of real midi sound! Do you own this card Clint? Just an idea, Can you do a retrospective of soundcards, and maybe the soundblaster era?

i played this game to see the actress in the cutscenes

I remember seeing this on store shelves back in the day. So right on it not aging gracefully. I have seen many games in your collection video that about brought me to tears with the memories I had. Sadder still that I no longer have them to play. I'd love to jump into a game of Temple Of Apshai Trilogy again among others. I absolutely adored "Stunts" :-) Ever played the quirky fun of "Car Builder"?

I loved this game so much!! I played it just to hear the music and see the graphics... and that intro!! Just incredible, I didn't care too much about playability haha for me all Access games were simply amazing. Do you remember Amazon?

Retaliator music

This was six kinds of beautiful. It may be slow as molasses compared to today's games, but there's a certain charm to this kind of game that's pretty undeniable...though now I really want to rewatch Kung Fury again.

0:46 'Screaming Guy' is likely Doug Vandegrift AKA Rook Garner from the Access Software Tex Murphy games. He may have also designed the box art as well.

Hnnh! That F29 Retaliator soundtrack at the end of. Such a flawed gem but by god, that menu music. I still find myself humming it from time to time.

who was the actress?

Well done for actually getting through this game!

I used to work for one of the guys that played a kidnapper in the cutscenes (I think he was also one of the programmers)... he bragged about how the actress gave him permission to "just grab her" for the video. You can imagine how that went.

That cover art is probably the most beautiful thing I have ever seen...

Your videos never cease to entertain us:D

Omg, the intro sounds like the menu screen of the Rent-A-Cop dvd XD

8:35 The music from Retaliator, nice. :^)

Wow!!!! I was like 6 years old when I play this game. I didn't remember at all playing this until I saw this review and remeber it all. Wow

Very funny episode mate! The kung fury reference haha!!

8:35 That's the music from F29 Retaliator! Maybe review that one someday, it was a good game and deserves some attention

I'd like to express a wish on something i would looove to be covered by you! Prince Of Persia! Man, i love the series, i've played every game and that and any Lego games, i would play every day^^. It would be super interesting to hear your thoughts on the original game, maybe even the sequel. I love how the series progressed, but i suppose that the first and/or second installment in the series would most likely be potential review candidates for you.

Ah... Crime Wave and Britney. Britney was the only reason I played the game. :D

I remember this game from the Amiga and have fond memories of it. But I didn't remember the name! So thank you for reviewing this game and bringing it to my attention. By the way, I think that the game speed was much better on the Amiga.

makes me wonder what came first this or the hoverboard sequence in Martian Memorandum - cus they are clearly driven by the same code. also vaguely reminds me of the shooting sections of Mean Streets

Was that the theme music from F29 Retaliator, at the end? I loved that game. :)

A simpler time in gaming. There are so many games that I have fond memories of that I just can't get the hang of anymore. Tried playing Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure the other day and I just couldn't get into it. Was that a game you played and any chance of a review of it?

Hey L.G.R I was wondering if you ever played ADOM. I just discovered it and fell in love I thought it would make an awesome plays or even a review

@01:29 I can't believe the manual actually suggests that you should tamper with the inside of your PC with a custom-made cable to enhance the sound!

Isn't the turbo button for slow things down to 8088 speed for compatibility?

When you said Crime Wave I immediately thought of this game! I didn't expect this game of the many sharing this name you'd be covering. I still have this game in my collection of old PC crap-factor games I keep around in case I need to torture myself with the games I actually thought were good when I was young. Good choice on subject matter, sir.

That's the sound of Retaliator there on the end.

Oh man, I remember this game! My brother bought it and loved it despite knowing it was garbage. I can't believe you found this. Great (hilarious) video!

Do you have any games from Access Software?

God, I remember the ad for this in CGW every month

I saw those Crusader No Regret and No Remorse boxes and lost some of my interest in this one. You can't fight my nostalgia LGR

In 1989, Access Software came out with Mean Streets, one of the first Vga 256 games ever (by the moment I know that 688 Attack Sub was the very first one from march 1989) and with the great Real Sound speaker . Playing Crime Wave you can find "Mean Streets" advertisement on the walls . Here the picture : facebook.com/MarcoPlaysDosGames/photos/a.635275463177022.1073741831.622518124452756/895863490451550/?type=1&theater

Huh, I hadn't heard Pink Floyd's "One Slip" in ages. I was wondering why that sound effect at the game's opening was bothering me until you said something.

One of the few Access Software games unplayed by me -- for the better it seems. But love the Mean Streets poster at 8:08.

I came here after seeing its ad in a vintage magazine I bought. Not disappointed!

I've got the 3.5" 4 Disk version. Very observant Pink Floyd comparison!

Haha I was actually thinking of the Sega Saturn game when you mentioned it in the last video. Looks like it would worked better a few years after when cdroms and faster cpus were the norm.

That is an amazing piece of box art.

So it is an even cheesier version of NARC. Didn't think that was possible. I remember retsupurae riffed this game and it seemed to run a lot faster

"nutsack" Hilarious. By the way, what Pink Floyd song are you thinking that funk bass thing resembles?

1:41 The code for the copy protection was "nutsack" ?! lol

I remember drooling over this when I saw it in a magazine. I never knew it was on Amiga, to me it was one of those PC games I always wanted to play and it looked amazing for the time (at least on screenshots). I just checked Amiga version and it runs slightly better, the movies are black and white though.

8 disks that's nothing, Office 4.2 and its 22 3.5 disks is something else. Installed it once, and will probably will never install it manually again.

Have you tried the "User Built Cable"

oh lord, i remember this game.. my... childhood.. it's here, it's all back!

I had this, but never got around to playing it. Sat on a bookcase shelf for YEARS....

I remember drooling over the ad for this game in computer magazines. Yet, I'm not really surprised that it sucks.

That cover....that cover. Amazing.

i seem to recall I really enjoyed this game back in the day. The sexual innuendo certainly didn't hurt either. Yeah the President's daughter was hotness. Those weren't rockets those were heat seeking moisture missiles. However seeing it now, yeah, I understand the review, but back then for me, this game was pretty good. Now I'm off to see if you did Crusader 1 and 2! Two very excellent games indeed. Cheers.

I am a big Access Software fan thanks to the Tex Murphy series. I can appreciate he goofiness of this game.

I need a full size poster of that box art!!!

It's amazing how everythign has a shadow in the game.. and realistic ones too (i.e. not just black "dots"). I wonder how the game would perform if you were to disable shadows.

damn, i remember my dad getting this and mean streets as presents back in the day

I don't know if you've ever reviewed it, but if not, you really need to look at and record your views on 'Les Manley: Lost In L.A.', or as I like to put it, the poor man's version of Leisure Suit Larry. It kept me amused at any rate and had some fairly racy scenes for 1991. :)

Great review. I got this game with my first computer. Needless to say, it was a weird experience for an 11 year old just getting into computer gaming. Not sure why, but I was totally sold on the real audio and 256 colors. Yeah, it was horrific.

This is the most early 90s game I've ever seen

at 3:30 Fostex cassette 4 track and a DBX compressor in the background!