@dukeofthedance I don't know, man... I can neither change the chapters display, nor I can find your comment here to reply. Something's really odd. If you look in the video description, all the timestamps there are fine, so chapters should also be. I've even disabled and re-enabled them and it didn't fix it at all. It's something that didn't happen with any other of my videos... xD
@@KingofCrusher For whatever the reason I cannot see your comments. I only saw your apology in my email. I did not block you or anything, don't know what happened. And don't worry about it. You took a little jab at my accent but it was done in a sorta humorous way. I don't mind it. It is what it is and while it may change in time, for now that's me. ;) And trust me, it's nothing compared to some comments I used to get in the past. :D
Oh Vida X, I remember this was the first game that pushed me into world of file format hacking and hex editing just to extract those Vida photos 🤣 . I wonder if source photos in high res still exist? Vida still looking hot 😂.
Once again i want to thank you for bringing us so many awsome Videos 🙂 Honestly i think i knew maybe 10% of these games beforhand 🤔 I hope you and all my fellow viewers are well and i wish you all a fantastic day💜💜💜
I'm glad that you like them! There's many more to come. In fact I just finished rough scripting the first episode of the new early windows-based series (though, don't worry, Obscure DOS Games are not going anywhere and there'll be more to come), and if all goes well, I'll record the voice overs for it between tonight and tomorrow night, which would mean it should release either very late tomorrow or on Wednesday. I have games for the second episode picked as well, but after the first I think I'll do either next one for 10 Years of C64 and Obscure DOS, or the same two but in opposite order. Haven't decided on it yet. It all depends how busy I'll be at work. And most of all, I'd like to thank you for your ongoing support too. So, THANK YOU! :)
Zeliard! Big Red Racing! Traffic Department 2192! ZZT! One Must Fall 2097! Solar Winds! Spycraft! EGA Trek! Good lord, what a nostalgia trip this video is. This was all a huge part of my childhood. Thank you. ❤
Thank you so much! I figured that there's plenty enough videos called 100 games in 10 minutes and such, so similar but longer and with something actually said about the games would be something new(-ish). :)
Bro, Tongue of The Fat Man is easily the worst game I've ever played. It's objectively terrible. That you suggest anyone play it seems like an attack. Fans of fighting games will actually take damage from playing it.
I'm happy you liked them! The second season is in the works already and since we're on the subject, have you seen this one yet? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bWFMytEIhsg.html
@@Mark-rm2yu Good luck! ;) It's over 10 hours and 600 games. ;) But seriously, if you'll like it, I have few more of these and working on few at the moment too.
Blackthorne was absolutely fantastic. Granted, I played the SNES version, but still a really fun game. Very immersive. EDIT: Wow, the Horde! Haven't thought about that in a long time. Never played it hands on, but some friends and I watched it being played at a local electronics store wayyy back in the day.
Most other than the 32X versions of Blackthorne were virtually identical. So if you liked one, you liked them all. Horde was a surprisingly fun take on tower defense, with no towers and some controller attacking, as opposed to only passive witnessing and upgrading. It's fun.
Truly rare. I think I personally only played like ~4 on this list. It wasn't my most avid period of PC gaming (that came a bit later like 1997+), but I'm still surprised you found so many I hadn't even _heard_ of! *Corncob* I'd totally forgotten, but I honestly remember enjoying it quite a bit as one of the best-playing arcade flight sims of its time. *Tongue of the Fat Man* everyone should look up the box art, just so I'm not the only one with that image stuck permanently in their mind (didn't actually play this one until _much_ later, but it was always advertised in gaming mags I'd read).
Well then, if there's only four then it's definitely a win for me. :) I don't know if you follow the second season of the series, the one that's coming out episodically? But the next, third episode of it will be released today later on, and it features really interesting games. And I had a lot of fun preparing it, so hopefully will be as interesting to watch. :)
Liero had mad settings. gun reload time 0 + big nukes was quite amusing to me. Alot of silly features such as dirt ball, (that smaller ball err green ball i think it was?) fan for strangely hilarious way of combat thats not directly lethal.
OMG thanks so much! I remembered the game BEER.EXE from back in my childhood. Played it in the mid 90s on my first 386, but i only knew it as BEER.EXE Without this video, I might have never found it again.
Yep, it was like less puzzley and more action heavy Flashback. And yeah, I know that there's no such work as "puzzley" but it worked in my head, so I'm leaving it here anyway. ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I actually was going to bring up flashback. Flashback was a lot more aggravating though. Way less ways do tdefend yourself and way more aggravating ways to die. Hey gunna finish this video... I take it you didn't put dos versions of games like ultima underworld and so on right?
I would hardly call Stunts an obscure game. Back in 1990 when it came out I had this game and everyone I knew who had a PC also had this game. I remember seeing it in all the software shops back in the day too. Took me months to save up to buy it. Maybe it was just common where I lived but I was always under the impression it was a popular game. I just took a quick look at the Wiki and back in 1994 PC Gamer ranked Stunts the 22nd best PC game of all time (Up till that point anyway) so I think that's another clue to it not being very obscure.
what a savage! just the kind of content i was searching for.. hidden gem for d.o.s and early windows. Perhaps you can help me. Im searching for a Windows 95/98 game about tanks.. was multiplayer or against bots. Graphically its like a java game with those dreamweaver effects. You can shoot lasers. You can make the tanks explode and see the burnt carcasses of defeated enemies while still battling.
I'm glad you like it! If you wanna see something spectacularly long I have my whole 10 Years of DOS Gaming series also released as a songle 10.5h long video on RU-vid. ;) Was the game Return Fire from 1996? Of not, then share a bit more details, anything you remember may be useful.
NFL Challenge was a terrible game, probably one of the first "games" I had ever seen but I don't think I ever wanted to play it as it was just playing back random games or something super boring.
I haven't played Overkill for over 2 decades but watching you play it and I still knew every single sprite and gameobject behavior by heart and could call exactly what would be happening where. What nostalgia.
Great game! :) I have that with Superfrog and Fury of the Furries. I can pretty much complete some of the first levels by heart in my head with eyes shut.
Nice to see the Finnish hot-seat classics Triplane and Liero there. In the 90's hot-seat multiplayer games were really popular in Finland and a lot of such games were developed that were simple, but really fun to play! They were all skill games, so they offered great competitive gaming experience. Huddling around one keyboard with friends and siblings to play these games was an integral part of Finnish 90's PC gaming. In addition to Triplane and Liero there were: - Rocket / space ship fighter AUTS and its later more advanced successors Wings and Rocket Chase - Top-down racing game Slicks 'n' Slide - Tapan Kaikki series (TK), a top-down shooter that was like a multiplayer version of Miami Hotline - Mine Bombers, which was a bit like Liero
Well, these two were amazing and not very spread outside of the country, so they were definitely sooner or later landing on the list of obscure games. :) And thanks for the suggestions. I've actually only ever heard of one of them, so they gotta be pretty rare too.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Those games were really niche and were distributed on floppy disks between friends or, if you were really fancy, on Finnish BBS servers. Since their heyday was before internet, I doubt any of these games spread outside Finland. When access to internet got more common in the late 90's, most of these games were already forgotten by then.
Thank you for presenting this video in a different way to the individual sub list videos such that you also make the transitions quicker and put up permanent game title and release year for each covered game. It helps us to keep up with what all these games are. But, of course, the timecode list is in the description as well. So it's extra useful.
Omg I am so glad I watched this video. Seeing The Last Eichhof made me remember my youth. I am so glad to find out what this amusing beer bottle space shooter was called XD
i love blackthorn, its one of the few games that got a grip in me. the gameplay is really well done, animations are smooth and the story just cries 80s fantasy to the fullest. its like a timemachine back into my youth for me!
It was great! I always looked at it like a less puzzle'y and more action packed Flashback. And you're right, it's like a movie with Schwarzenegger or Stallone in a video game form.
I had Blackthorne I believe on the SNES, but maybe it was Genesis. Very hard game that I had an amazing time beating. The instruction manual had a very long and interesting backstory. Rare but cool for that era.
Nearly all versions of Blackthorne were more or less the same, all super fun and playable. CD32 version looked different, instead of 2D sprites, its looked pre-rendered and it just didn't sit well with me...
The Last Eichhof has probably the best easter egg I've ever seen in a game. If you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete while playing instead of restarting the computer it returns you to the dos prompt and displays the text "James Bond's quitting style"
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I was lucky and grew up with them; one of the earliest RPGs I ever played was Phantasie; first in a trilogy of cRPGs that were mostly known on the C64. Phantasie II wasn't even ported to DOS, though 1 and 3 were. Went from there to the Silver Box (Hillsfar) and Gold Box (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, and Dark Queen of Krynn). Then to Eye of the Beholder and Dungeon Hack, and Dark Sun. The Summoning and Veil of Darkness were relatively late comers for me; I had played a lot of SSI RPGs by then. Much later I went back and tried Wizard's Crown; which was the forerunner of the Gold Box engine, and better in some ways.
@@drg5352 WOW! That's a solid classic RPG experience! I haven't played GoldBox games when they came out seriously. Meaning that I did try them out, but I think I might have been too young or too ADHD to be able to enjoy them to the fullest and persevere. Years later, when RPG became my favourite genre, I kept putting it away for later, for when I'll have time, and years passed, and I've never found it. Time that is. Now, it is unlikely that I'll ever play them unless I win a lottery or get fired. Basically something that would pretty much guarantee unlimited free time. Although I'm sure, I'd probably spend most of it working on my videos anyway. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I basically grew up with classic RPGs; my grandfather was an OG nerd; he played D&D when Elf was a class, and Chainmail before that. His first home computer was a breadboard that he wired the chips to. By the time I came along, he was on a Commodore 128, and thus I got to experience computer RPGs in some of it's earlier forms. Never a time like now. The Gold Box games are all largely still very playable; I just took a run through Champions of Krynn over the last couple of weeks, alternating with Baldur's Gate 3. They aren't as long as modern RPGs; I think Champions took maybe 15 hours (granted I remember a good deal of it) versus the average of 45 hours per BG3 run. Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds are the hardest to get into, as they lack some of the QOL features like the Fix command and auto-spell memorization of later games. Probably the weakest aspect is their adherence to AD&D racial level limits rules, which means for the four games starting with Pool of Radiance, Human single classed characters are the way to go until Pools of Darkness, when you Dual them. The Kryn games are better, as the Elves at least don't have a limit on Mages, Clerics, and Thieves; so you can create a multi class character and not be totally worthless by Dark Queen.
@@drg5352 You make them sound more appealing than I already thought that they were. :) Granted I spend 140 hours in BG3, so I'd probably take 30-ish per each of Goldbox games. Oh, have you played any of the side-games on the engine? I mean both Buck Rogers titles and the others? I'm very keen on all of them as RPG with turn-based combat was always my jam, and I tried numerous times many of these but never persevered.
This was fun to watch. Oxyd, God of Thunder, and Hugo's House of Horrors were the only games I knew about growing up. I spent a lot of time on the Hugo games alone.
Thanks! Hugo games I actually had very limited experience with. So the opposite to you. I think I saw a buddy of mine played one when I came over, but then since I was there, we switched to something multiplayer. Good times. :) Anyway, I'm working on the second season now, first episode is out already and the second should be end of this week or beginning of next. Depending if I decide to make it first or next for 10 Years of Early Windows Gaming. :)
55:38 - I've had this game in the back of my mind for YEARS, and I couldn't for the life of me remember it's name till I saw this footage, and now I know it's God of Thunder. Ahhhhh thank you, now I can put a name to the random images in my head xD All I could remember was that the bg was super green and you threw a hammer at things lol Oh, and Vinyl Goddess is one of my fave ever DOS games, I played it over and over as a kid lol. And the soundtrack is a BANGER.
"Banger" you say? Leather Vinyl Goddess of Phobos is definitely something. :) Also, I'm glad that I could help with the pesky game. I know how annoying it can be remembering something without that one, last, most important detail, like the name for instance. xD
I remember "Robot Jocks" movie! it was shown in cinemas in country I was born when I was a kid! When I grew up, I always thought it was something from "Mechwarrior" Universe, because of how similar the robots were to Mechwarrior ones! Also, I remember thinking that "Jox" was a name - as in, "A Robot called Jox", just like in the "Short Circuit" there was this robot called Johnnie-Five - because I did not know enough English to deduce that it's a short for "Jockeys", a flashy word for "riders", so "Robot Riders" essentially.
Do you remember Robotix though? It came in two versions. Some regions got animated series of a number of 6-9 minutes long episodes, while another got it all stitched together as a singular animated movie. Similar theme of robots and pilots, but more like budget version of Transformers in space.
I know about Oxyd, One Must Fall 2097, Jill of the Jungle, Hugo’s House of Horrors, Solar Winds: The Escape, Overkill, and my favorites Monster Bash, Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures and Jason Storm in Space Chase.
Regarding Charlie The Duck. Did you get past the obstacle? I assume you had to wait for the caterpillar to respawn, jump on it from the middle platform and get a boost to the top part? Edit - Never mind. I had to watch a walkthrough video because I was so curious. Apparently it's just a hard jump from the middle platform.
Finally someone who has cosmo’s cosmic adventure in their list. Before wolfenstein 3d and the OG DOOM came out - cosmo was my jam. I was like 6 or 7 when that came out, and it was my first venture into PC gaming. Have a serious soft spot for that little green alien with the suction cup hands, tousled red hair and his little red spots everywhere.
I don't remember what my first game exactly what, but I think it was something on C64. Maybe Jumpan Junior... Hmm... You got me thinking here now... xD
My favorite DOS games were: Ultima (specifically V + VI) Bard's Tale Dungeon Master Prince of Persia Olympic Games Archipelago Castle Wolfenstein AD 2400 Swashbuckler
I've heard of Hugo's House of Horrors and played it as well as it's sequels, Hugo 2: Whodunnit, and Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom. In Grade School, and to an extent in High School, I started to write my own Hugo adventure stories as a way of using an already existing, yet relatively unheard of fictional character and creating a more developed version of that character.
There were a lot more games from my childhood on here than I expected. On a side note, if it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, shoot it anyway, after all, this is Overkill!
I have Metal and Lace on 3.5" floppy with the decoder wheel DRM and the Adult content addon disk. I bought it back in the 90's from a local mail order software company with a store front.
12820 Children are just young grown ups, thats what i dislike about that way i was grown up. Kids should have moral decisions early so they dont grow up without them, they dont learn nothing if they dont want to and you lose that chance once they leave childhood. No one tells you there is no such thing as grown up, they make it sound like you evolved to the next pokemon and now you can handle life. You are the same child you were as a kid as you are now an adult but you have to do everything you where happy wasnt your job as a kid.
Well, I do agree to certain degree. I too feel that if kids are given meaningful choices from young age with an explanation of what each choice means, then they would grow up to be better. That said, me at my teenage years and now, I'm the same person, just with much much more experiences that I can draw from.
24:41 the alpha beta concept turned out to be bull. Even the proponent of it eventually tried to undo the damage. The misconception came from putting a group of strange, unrelated wolves into an enclosed space, which made them act out of character and aggressive. Normally they behave more like a commune based on sharing and looking out for each other.
Cool video but the time stamps are broken on over half the video. And while I respect your work that you put into this, I'm not going to watch a multi hour video with a lot of games I either know about or have no interest in to find those gems I don't know about and actually all interested in.
Yep, I know, sorry about that. But if you look in the video description, they are correct. RU-vid somehow broke them and there's no way of fixing them anymore. I don't know why they're like that, I've remade them from scratch, I've copied and pasted them, nothing works. It's just a bugged description. xD
What game is represented in the thumbnail? I feel like I had that game on my first family computer when I was 8 but I can't find it in this video and I've wondered about that game for years.
There's a second season compilation video on my channel too, and 6 or 7 episodes from the third as well. Perhaps you'll find some titles in these too. :)
*Does anyone remember an MS-DOS game that played a Lullaby on the title screen?* I remember it was a top-down game where the floor was gray tiles,and you had to find your way through puzzle rooms (In the same fashion as OXYD). There were lasers, broken tiles and holes, and there were some enemies that for some reason I remember as having Birdo's snout. The Title screen had the spherical main character running away from one of those enemies, and my brother used to tell me you were a tennis ball and the enemies were tennis-ball-shooting machines (Maybe that was his interpretation). I used to play it on our copy of A-Ton-of-Games from 2000 (an MS-DOS game compilation) and I wish I could recall the name to play it again. I do very specifically recall a Lullaby on the title screen
Please, DOES ANYONE KNOW a DOS EMULATOR for UBUNTU? The ones that the repository allows me to download DO NOT WORK WELL, and I would love to play several of the games seen in the video. SOMEONE ANSWER ME, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!!
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesDosBox is one of the ones that does NOT work well for me. As for DBGL Launcher, I didn't even know it. Is it then necessary for DosBox to work WELL? Is it in the Ubuntu repositories? If not, where can I download it (on a SECURE page, of course)? Thank you very much in advance!!
@@reboniak1966 DBGL is a frontend that adds very easy to use and comfortable user interface to configure everything DOSBox. Makes it easy to prepare separate configurations for each game, so that they you can just launched pre-configured each time with double-click. It's available at dbgl . org (no spaces).
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Thank you, yesterday I was investigating and installed it, but I have verified that it works using commands and . . . I have no idea how to configure it!! Could you help me? Thanks very much buddy!!
I'm going to watch this, hoping I find this point and click game that I can barely remember anything about. All I remember is that you crashed on a planet with your dog. That's all I remember. I hope it finally shows up again.
@OldAndNewVideoGames I think you crashed with a spaceship on the planet, in the desert, and your dog ran away. Then you went to explore and find the dog I think. That's all I know for sure. Maybe one of the first places you find, was a bar or café. It's a very distant memory. I'm pretty sure it was a point and click adventure game, something like Space Quest perhaps, but maybe the graphics were more primitive. Edit: I just looked at Space Quest and those graphics are pretty primitive. It probably looked something like that. XD
I wonder if you ever played the game D/Generation? It was sort of cyberpunk, where you worked your way through this industrial tower floor by floor. Kind of a cool game as I remember, probably shareware from the early 90's.
Veil of Darkness @ 2:22:15 really is such a damn good vampire story. I grew up beating my head on that game when I was like 10 or 11 in the 90s and loved every minute of it. Played it again this year and the charm is still there. Warning to anyone thinking of trying it out, spoilers be damned: The hedge maze SUCKS. It sucks really bad. You can clear it in like 10 - 15 minutes but it feels like hours. However, if you've gotten to that point just push through it. The ending is such a banger and will make up for the stinking hedge maze. Also, the game manual has like a 30-page lore introduction to the vampire lord. It's and quick, admittedly dry read, but it does enrich the story quite a bit if you're in to that sort of thing. Great candidate for a remake too. I can't gush about the game enough.
WOW... You reminded me that games used to have big box releases with books, booklets, maps and such, and that there were usually few things there, that enriched the experience. Now we get a box with Steam installer and a game code. xD
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Yeah I *suspect* old game manuals are overlooked and forgotten about a LOT these days. When I see a retro game reviewer go back and talk about these games, and they complain that has no tutorial or item descriptions and they feel lost ... I try to leave a comment to remind them that back in the 80s and 90s all that information was in the game manual and you gotta take that into account before tearing a game apart. Why make an in-game tutorial when you can just put it in the manual that's sold with the game? Times have changed haven't they.
@@MinecraftMartin They have but... You have to remember about the piracy scene in the 80s and 90s. I don't know how prominent it was in the US, but in Europe, you couldn't go outside without tripping over a random and abandoned box of pirated floppies. ;) Im exaggerating but it was a huge factor nonetheless.
@@OldAndNewVideoGames Oh yes, you're not wrong. My dad often handed me pirated games with crack disks lol Yeah the pirating scene has always been thick in the US as well I think.
Played Black Thorne (good game), Tongue of the Fatman, Dark Legions (great game), Stunt (great game) and Jill of the Jungle. But were aware of Metal & Lace and Big Red Race at the time.
Maybe you guys can help.... anyone play an old 2D arena battle game in hell and you could use various horror characters such as a face hugger and when you jump on someone you could turn into a xenomorph, there were also various weapons throughout each stage certain characters could use, and if i remember right jason was in the game also.
Was it first person perspective? Top down? Or side view? Was it multiplayer? If yes, then how many people could play at once on one computer? Do you remember anything else that could help?
@@OldAndNewVideoGames it wasnt 1st it was like a 2D side scroller and I got it off a PC demo compilation disk it did have multiplayer online but I'm unsure as to what it could handle cause i only played locally, i cannot think of anything else but i distinctly remember being able to be a face hugger from the alien movie and if you latched on to someone you could go inside them and if I remember right control them until you bursted out as a xenomorph. You spawned as a random character (not sure if they were references from other media) and could pick up weapons, I remember a chainsaw and flame thrower and for some reason like a speeder bike thing. And Im pretty sure Jason was on there or at least a hockey masked character, I think I'm remembering a ninja and a marine as well
@@OldAndNewVideoGames I misunderstood sorry, I'm not the brightest lol. After watching I played the DOS version. I liked it much better than the 32X version. I was surprised that it actually looked better.
@@truth3899 No reason to apologise, nothing happened. :) And yeah, most versions looked identical other than the 32x, and it did look a bit out of place with the pre-rendered sprites. Pixel graphics age better. :)
It reminds me of a joke by Chris D'Elia about streets being mean and a buddy of his visiting him with his daughter. It's in one of his specials on Netflix, I highly recommend it!
I played Monster Bash and Vinyl Goddess of Mars so much when I was a kid! :D I love seeing all of these though, since even the esthetics brings back memories.
2:51:41 You are 100% correct - I did not realise it was an EGA game till you said it. It's amazing that an artist could make something so cool with those terrible colours.
I know, right? Sometimes the limitations are what inspired us to beat them (or the odds). I just realised that this sounds way too deep for what we're talking about. LOL ;)
@@OldAndNewVideoGamesThose were the days where pushing the technical limits meant something! Now AAA games are just cash cows for some investor. Indie games are where the innovation continues to happen - there's fewer technical boundaries to push but they push the boundaries of design and experience and what games can be!
Zeliard is absolutely fantastic, I cant say how many times I get it through. Ok where's dosbox... Thank you so much for your compilations, this one really is outstanding, Ive saw no more than 1/10th of the list, and all of them are really have very strong charisma.
I've played 6 of these games, though only two with significant time (Morraff's World and Stunts). Truly some obscure gems in here, was a blast learning about them!
I'm glad you liked the video! There's also another complete second season of the series and 5 or 6 episodes from the third. So, if you're into these unknown DOS oldies, I've a lot of them on the channel. :)
Thank you! Take a look at the second season's video (the link to it is at the end of this one in the top left). Perhaps there's some games you've not heard of too.
Triplane was like weeks of fun with my cousins. There were three of us, and that's just a little too many inputs for a keyboard from back then, so one of us every once in a while, whenever everyone was performing complicated air acrobatics, would lose an input or two and either crash or get shot down. It was something we accounted for, and part of the fun. :)
Well, what about the rest? And if you take a look at the comments it'll be clear that it's all very subjective and in certain markets games that are known to some where completely unknown to others. Still, if you only knew of these, I still consider it a win, as you didn't about the rest. :)
Yeah, I think most of them are taken as these are previous ten episodes all rolled into one. For those who prefer long-form videos. But there will be a video or two next week, so you'll get your chance picking them up again. :)
