The Lego Video Games of the 90's | Looking Back 

The thing about Lego island is that it encapsulates the attitude of the time. It's really a product of that manic over the top early 90's / late 80's sense of humor that was in other media.

The cinematic opening of Lego Racers was such a blast to watch. Never skipped watching it on our family pc with W2000nt os😂

Great video! Top notch editing!

I'm surprised that Lego Island failure cutscene didn't traumatise an entire generation lmao

This video is criminally underviewed, the production value alone is amazing and I love the amount of info being delivered. I only ever had Lego Island so learning about all these other Lego games is really cool. Keep up the great work!

The bad ending was actually shortened and less obnoxious in the final game. Still managed to be traumatizing though, and what the Infomaniac said to the player afterwards never made up for it. I always quit out of the game with the escape key and try again later, whenever I was about to lose.

Using a song from 009 Sound System with the Movie Maker outro at 17:55 shows how much attention to detail you have. Just brilliant!

Lego Island 1 was the first Lego game? That's absolutely wild to think about.

The in-game engine introduction of the N64 LEGO Racers was copied from the demo release of the PC version, which also used in-game renders instead of FMVs. That's probably why it was the only LEGO game on Nintendo 64, as LEGO games at the time relied heavily on FMVs, and LEGO Racers was the only one that could take the easy way out in that regard.

This deserves so much more viewership. An incredible analysis of a bygone era of Lego that so many of us fondly remember, even if some of it has aged a little bit rough. Rock Raiders and Lego Racers were always my favorites, though Lego Island had its charm too, as a zany adventure that leaned hard into an utterly massive amount of audio for a game of its era.

Loved _Lego_ _Racers_ . Such a great game. Wish they'd refined the concept; the second game didn't do it justice.

6:40 Tbh. that Bad Ending fitted the Brickster perfecty: He was Chaos and Doom!

omg the lego island 2 super stationmaster scene makes so much more sense after seeing lego loco. i always thought that was so random - even as a 7 year old

I found myself pausing and rewinding at so many instances throughout this video, just to appreciate the 3D animations and special effects! SO GOOD! Even from the very beginning with the recreated Lego logo animation I knew this was gonna be a great video. Admirable and entertaining throughout, mister moons!

5:22 This is uncut version and was only in BETA versions, in Final versions it was cut to some seconds to not traumatize and scare children Final version Bad Ending: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Em7eZ-KX8Q.html

Warp to now and Manic Miners just got it’s 1.0 release that includes multiple campaigns and all the core features. The only thing missing is mod support that’s coming sometime down the road. Hopefully the guy also adds cut content to better flesh out the game and allow map makers to create cool levels. Great video. It was definitely interesting.

Did you know that in 1991 developer FarLight created a Lego Game and that Lego never used it? From 1991 to 1992, developer FairLight worked on a Commodore 64 platformer titled Linking Leroy Visits LEGOLAND, expecting the LEGO Group to approve it. If published, it would have been the first LEGO video game. Nonetheless, the LEGO Group never in any way endorsed the game or approved of the usage of the name and logo, and the project was ultimately cancelled

Lego Island remains a favorite of mine.

That intro unlocked a feeling I haven't felt I years

I’d love to see one of these videos for the other original Lego titles before they started their licensing model.

Dude I loved Lego island

Not to be a stickler, but the bad ending video you showed for Lego island was actually cut from the final game and changed for a much shorter, lighter in tone ending that’s more wacky than depressing, cause they were worried about upsetting kids

This games were my childhood. I grew up with so many of them. What a great video and naustalga trip.

I’d love to see a follow-up to this video including some of the 2000s games, like Legoland and Drome Racers This was such a fun look at the old games, and left me wanting more!

Ahhhh fuck that intro is awesome, brings back lots of memories

I remember playing these Lego games in my youth. Good times.

So many fond memories of games like Lego Island 2, Lego Loco, Lego Rock Raiders, Lego Racers 1 and 2, Lego Chess, the Legoland game I think it's a product of its age + me being a simple child with endless time But it was fenomenal, finding all cutscenes in Chess, doing as many tricks as possible in Lego Island 2, being haunted by its fishing mini game in my nightmares, racing my friends in Lego Racers... all in our favourite Lego theme I hope some day games like these can come back... but I doubt it haha

this was super cool! id love to see a sequel video about the games from the 2000's, pre TT!

Man. This is so underrated! You should have more subs mate!

Watching this and thinking back, Lego clearly had a bad habit of releasing games with broken or missing features, sometimes still advertised in the booklet or opening video. I am bothered to this day by the 5 new locations they said would appear on the map in Lego Island when I captured the Brickster.

This video is amazing and it was worth the time you have spent to it! I really like it and watch it over and over when I wanna find out some details of the Lego games!

The crazy thing about Lego Friends is that it seems to have absolutely ZERO to do with Lego at all. Like, aside from the title, there's no legos in the game. And it predates the Lego Friends sets by more than a decade. Very strange.

God this brought back a lot of memories, now thinking about it Lego Island must of been the first PC game I ever played, had all the other ones but Racer, favourite had to be Rock Raiders (PS1) man I loved that game

Youre like a modern day jason bradbury, I love this and I am so glad you spoke about Racers

9:21 so cool, love secrets like these

That perfectly-recreated intro is worth a sub by itself. Also mechanically, Lego Racers is actually more of Diddy Kong Racing rather than Mario Kart specifically, since both games have upgradeable powerups (with DKR you have to run into multiple balloons of the same color, rather than "upgrade balloons")...

I dont understand why lego doesn't remake these games

I think it's also fun to think that we already had a sort of "lego multiverse" with these early games. not only with the classic characters from real sets like Johnny Thunder and friends appearing all over the games (even in recent entries such as the LEGO Movie game) but also with things like... the Super Station Master from LEGO Loco being a part of LEGO Island 2, and The Brickster being visible in that newspaper in the LEGO Racers 2 cutscene. Now, in 2024 (and the past few years too) LEGO is even bringing some of the classic game characters back into video games - Pepper Roni had been previously spotted in an educational Unity thing, and now appears in LEGO Fortnite (yep) while Rocket Racer made his first reappearance in years, and first _actual_ physical appearance as a real LEGO City minifigure also making an appearance in the newer racing game LEGO 2KDrive (it's no Racers, but it's still better than whatever Drone Racers was I suppose). So indeed the future looks a bit brighter with LEGO leaning back into more "original" ideas, bringing back "cult classic" characters, while still maintaining the now-also-classic "licensed game" formula, which honestly _even that_ got a pretty satisfying revamp with the last Star Wars one... it feels new again. Great video by the way with excellent 3D! Even for simple things like the Toy Story 2 scene... didn't have to go hard on it, but you did anyways.

I'm midway theough and already love what youve put into this. Amazing work!

Holy shit that intro... You unlocked memories. Lol

The Lego island ending is a fever dream

Pepper is the same kid as Andy in Toy Story. I was floored when I found that out.

I spent so much time playing Lego Island when I was little. Love this video!

I played Racers, Rock Raiders, and Drome compulsively. I loved those games. I pulled so many crazy stunts in lego racers... I don't think they should have been possible. 😂

Man that’s all my childhood. I’d be like 4 or 5 playing Loco and Creator

Great video, you were able to translate my thoughts on these games really well!

Very great video. Nice overview of the old lego games I will play later

This was a awsome trip down memory lane and a awsome video

Lego Racers was my childhood! I would kill to see a remake of it

Holy shit, amazing video man, you deserve more viewers. Thank you for creating this. :)

The editing and presentation in this video is absolutely impeccable, cannot wait to see the algorithm finally give you the attention you deserve man, it may take a long time but it does eventually reward consistency from what I can gauge. Keep it up bro, absolutely stellar work 👍

Amazing video. That video games were my childhood 🙂

Great video, the editing and humour are great! This video has nowhere near as many views as it deserves. This is such an interesting period of LEGO for me because of the range of different things they tried, throwing everything at the wall to not be bankrupt and stay relevant. I wish we could return to this era of such a variety of games, instead of the TT usual.

Great production, I'm glad I stumbled upon this video. Lots of nostalgia

10:06 but the biggest mystery forget the Footbridge the biggest mystery is why did the train in the intro continue to 10:11 run down the too Minifigs on the hand car hang on a second enhance that frame it's the dude with the food Pepper Damn, he used to be such a good kid!

Lego racers and Lego Loco were so much fun. Got them with christmas

Loved lego island 2 and lego rock raiders, so manny hours of fun. Remember playing g-mod on a TTT server with a lego island 2 map. The pizzeria had a button you could press to play the lego island2 song. Everyone was just chilling around there not fighting. Anyone that tried to turn it off got killed 😂

Amazing editing in this video!

dude this channel is so underrated you put so much effort into your videos and you’re really entertaining i enjoyed watching this as my first video in your channel keep it up!! :D

This is an amazing video! Randomly came upon it in my feed and to my surprise it only had 200~ views. Bloody brilliant! You got yourself a new sub!

Fantastic video. You are a real American wizard with the funny editing

I had lego island 2. And racer. The island was kinda good. But mechanics felt budget.

Great Video. I still play Lego Racers 1 this time😅 Idk but i love it.

As a seasoned LEGO Racers speedrunner I approve of this video 👍 Brilliantly edited! P.S. LEGO Chess is awesome ~

Great production and I loved your sense of humor. Good job, my man.

LEGO Racers was badass. I still want a Rocket Racer model

7:10 my stepdad actually had huge nostalgia for this game because its the first game he ever played at the ripe age of 8 in second grade and because of this games genre hes huge into strategy games like age of empires which is also a nostalgia crown jewel of his

I wish they remade Lego Island, but with the ability to build anything rather than the default models. Imagine the one-of-a-kind buildings you could construct. Or wacky Mad Max style vehicles

Awesome video! Love the animations in between the sections. Great design at 21:55 using the hats for champions. Also at 25:53, where did you learn that? I'm curious. 😋

both my kid brain and my current less kiddy brain thinks older lego games were more charming/interesting/creative before the licensed era of games (lego star wars, lego harry potter, etc). they all just became the same game!

also the loco office talking sound effect sounds just like the talking sound effect from the tonka game where you could build a road through a desert & build a skyscraper & something in the snow or mountains or something

Lego needs to do proper remakes of all these games so gamers from this era can experience these gems.

This channel deserves more subs.

omfg i forgot about lego loco. i had all the other lego games from creator to island to racers, but we could never find loci anywhere & this was before we even had internet - and even if we did, we didn’t know of any websites where we could order the game online

This is really well done, but I wish you talked about LEGO friends lol

3:56 great!

I played a lot of these classic Lego games as a kid. They were popular among my group of friends. An irl friend thought it was odd that Pepper Roni was not in Lego Star Wars II.

Lego Island was one of the three first games I got for PC back in 1997. Over the following years I got Loco and Rock Raiders, those three were the Holy Trinity that I would go back to play again and again. Rock Raiders has to be my favorite and I couldn't beat the 2 second to last missions until I turned 16 and decided that I had to beat it, so I looked it up and realized that you had to kinda exploit some feature to be able to pass.

You forgot the best one, which is Lego Legoland as a building game.

10:11 my god, the dude with the food

Damn, that intro just nailed me with nostalgia. Well played.

Yay! It has been done and finished. Glad you gave Lego Friends the time it needed to shine!

This video is brilliant, man.

I’ll wait for your Lego Friends review……….

How did you create your intro? That was really awesome! 🎉

Interesting video. I like how you went over the different game’s strengths and weaknesses. Regardless of their quality it is nice to see that there was variety with Lego games at one point. Let’s hope that with Travelers Tales losing their exclusivity license that games with more variety will appear. Based on way people talked about Lego Island and the few clips I saw I had imagined it being like Simpsons Hit and Run where it’s a GTA clone that takes full advantage of the source material (in this case the creativity of Legos instead of the Simpsons when it was still good). Looks like I was wrong about that (maybe the newer ones are like that, I haven’t done any actual research into this game). That’s really funny how all those sound effects are so awful. I’d get really annoyed after a while. The bad ending had me floored. I can imagine the studio sounded like that when they fired everyone (I’d be furious if that happened to me seeing this game I slaved over for became a massive success and didn’t get any of the money). The hospital theme is so much better than it has any right to be. Wow! It would be nice to see a modern reimagining of the city builders. Too bad that probably won’t happen. There’s so much potential with that. I like how the racing games let you customize your car. It would be cool if they were to release a racing game where in addition to power ups/items you could add all sorts of crazy weapons to your car and do damage to the other racers. There was this one Lego racing theme that had a set up like that where all the cars had crazy designs/weapons. I’m glad that Baraklava is making Manic Miners. I hope that it will reach a content complete state soon. There’s still a bunch of features that need to be added. As well as mod support and optimization. Let’s hope he also adds the cut content and maybe even the few good things from the PlayStation versions. It would definitely be cool if he made a spiritual sequel/reimagining to Rock Raiders. Luckily the coding base would already be there and he’d just need to add new mechanics/assets. This one guy Zaric Zhakaron (one of my favorite RU-vidrs) was talking about fan games/mods saying that if you’re going to make one you should use that as a testing bed to see what does and doesn’t work, and use the experience gained from that to make your own thing. That way you’d be able to monetize it and would already have a built in audience. Great video. I noticed that one early 2000s With a Spirit song in the background. It’s a surreal experience hearing those things from when I was a kid. I remember it being used in different RU-vid compilations back in the day.

Of these six Lego games from the 90s, I recall I played the following ones: Lego Island, Lego Chess, Lego Creator, and Lego Rock Raiders.

25:25 this is really funny to me because I AM 23 and I’ve played both Lego Island 1 (also 2) and Lego Chess, but never Lego Racer. I’m pretty sure both were borrowed from a family friend with a kid 5-6 years older than me though. I they also straight up gave me my copy of Zoo Tycoon 2. Having a brother 6-7 years older than myself gives me some rather unusual nostalgic games for someone my age. The basement had the Windows 98 and I played the games my parents had already bought for my brother when he was small. 🤷‍♀️

this is an amazing video

I adored Lego Island

This video is way too good for only 11k views.

7:58 I gut laughed at this so hard that you don't even know

Manic miners is a great recreation. I only play that. It doesn't crash like the original game did a ton

24:38 You can powerslide for parts like these (And the game is called Lego Racers btw)

just so you know, lego racers 1 actually is playable with a controller, but youd still have to use the keyboard and mouse for very few important things but the mouse definitley was better for doing stuff,

loved lego island, couldnt figure out how to beat the brickster back in the day :D lego loco was also great, just like you I couldnt sent an post card to a friend

Lego island shows that it can be good meme material

Wow Lego Chess just unlocked long lost memories for me!

I loved playing Lego Racers, Chess and Creator Harry Potter when I was a kid. I really wanted Lego Racers 2 but I never got it alas :( One Lego game you didn't mention but was probably my favourite was Stunt Rally - it was similar to Racers but more focused on 'stunts' and power-ups, and by winning races you could gain better cars and pieces that you could put into your own tracks

Oof! That intro is S tier!