I received one of these for my birthday in 1996, but could never get it to work on my computer. For 16 years I’ve wondered what the game was. Thank you!
@@MattyStoked I was about 7 or 8 and saw William Wallace hanging there and asked my mom "how is he going to escape from that?". She answered me "he doesn't".
I WASN'T CRAZY. I just had the Mad Max one and my best friend had the bomber training disk. Always wondered what the other games would be about, so thank you for this. In my tiny youth-brain, the disks equated to "a new game, for our PC, and it comes with the toy???" And the experiences were over sooner than the time it took to install them. 😂
WOW! You are indeed the only source I have found covering these minigames. my brother got the commander for their birthday and we couldn’t wait to go with our mom to work so we could try the floppy disc on her computer. We spent ALL DAY trying to figure out the mechanisms of the minigame and I think finally we got to Earth just to get blown up 😂. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
I had this game. But we were so poor we didn't have a computer. So I literally could only play it when I went to school. I got caught playing it and had to serve detention lol
Those mini play sets were my favorite kind of toys as a kid! There’s something about miniature toys that makes them so much more fun to play with. I’m gonna need more on screen dancing Matty content. Love this!
So far, the most feedback has been on the dance moves. Well, the public wants what the public wants. I also LOVE small toys. My favourite toylines are the ones in miniature. Trendmasters made some pretty good ones for Godzilla, too.
My mother worked for K-Mart and was the reason I was able to get my hands on so many iconic toy lines in my childhood. The Independence Day toys hold a special place in my heart because they were so different from a lot of other toys, and they were the only ones I'd ever gotten that came with computer games. I had nooooo idea what I was doing with the games, but I still loved the idea that these super cool toys came bundled with computer games. Glad to know all these years later that it was because they didn't come with instructions. I always thought it was just me not knowing enough about computer games at the time 😂
I had a few of these when the movie came out. Once in a while I'd check online to see if anyone else remembered them, but it seemed they'd all been forgotten. Until you came along!!
This was incredible! I remember seeing these toys about and at a friend's house, but YUP...no recollection of those floppy discs whatsoever! Anyway, what a joyful watch that was. The summer of ID4 was glorious. I was 10.
I remember having the Science Officer toy but could never play what was on the disk since I didn't have a PC back then. Crazy finally getting to see what's actually on that disk all those years ago.
Who remembers the toys from Independence Day? Do you also remember the floppy disks which came with them?! If you want to skip straight to the disks, I start talking about them at 07:28.
I had the science officer and the Shocktrooper back then, and played the games for about 30 minutes before get bored with them, and started to play only with the awesome figures, LOL!
Thanks a ton for making this video!!! (that's three exclamation marks) And for uploading them to archive org too! I see you uploaded this video very recently and I'm currently on an Independence Day phase so I started looking up all the different media that came out around it and the sequel, and I enjoyed this video a lot. Shame the toy jet plane doesn't fit the action figures, a big one would have ruled. And it would have been great if all the games were shooters or something like flying avoiding obstacles, instead of being mostly puzzles or those 2 "information" ones.
Had disk 2 and 3. What I thought was cool about it was that it really felt that you were in some alien construct because there were NO instructions on how to do anything. It was 90s PC- and there was like 3 genres - kill everything, objectives, and endlessly explore. The endless exploration came naturally as a computer seemed to have limitless abilities, and even some years later you were still finding new things: wave editor, hyperterminal, midis, Fury3, screen savers... Anyway, I had limitless time and hungry to explore, so I'd pop in the disk and give it a go. The sounds of the game were memorable. I always thought for whatever reason that the disks kind of connected to form a larger game? For whatever reason i had trouble believing they were truly standalone, but that may be an impression from conventional games being multiple disks, like Doom or whatnot. I had the science officer- the colour on it was just absolutely unreal, and i liked the translucent guy inside. Never had a toy so detailed, but, wasn't much you could do with it, and it was really cumbersome in the toy box. Didnt work well in the backpack, toybox, or road trip. I was always afraid that because the tentacles were coat hanger wire that if I bent them too much theyd snap, or the plastic outside would crack.
Thank you for doing this! I had the F-18 fighter toy as a kid (was so awesome) but didn't have a computer at the time to see what was on the disk. I always wondered what was on it. It's funny, I always thought that it was some part of a large game that you needed all the disks for.
Ive spent years thinking this game I played was a fever dream lol, thank you lol I guess I was lucky I only had disk 10 remember it being quite fun at the time after the movie released.
Wow! You just took me down a MAJOR memory lane trip when I was a kid. I had all those Alien and Predator toys, a good collection of their godzilla toys, Jurassic Park toys and of course the ID4 toys. And yes I remember the little games with them. I played them.
Props to you for tracking these down, and then ripping them so that they are properly archived. I remembered seeing the floppies in the toy box, but my parents wouldn't let me buy toys from ID4. Now I know what was on them!
I really considered making this video a lot shorter and just focusing on the games. But honestly the saga of tracking year things down over four years is a story that deserved to be told
I'm glad you enjoyed it! It all paid off in the end, but this is absolutely the biggest commitment I've ever made to the channel. It's already given me bigger ideas 💀
I remember playing a few of these back in the day. My parents had to help me figure out what to do and even then these things were insanely difficult to complete. Growing up in the 90s was awesome
6:40 I'm so glad this and the intro dance got put in 😂 it shouldn't be a surprise but this video definitely received editing worthy of a 4 years in the making type video, this was so visually clean. Looking forward to any more videos that come out as always!
Thank you so much!! I figured as this had taken so long, why not go all-out on the editing? I want to say the next video will be simpler but I can't promise that!
Never got to play my disc, but yeah i remember the leader in my toy box . Toys used tp be great. Sad when they could start replacing decorations of today and cheaper
Do you think there might be a clause to stop them having proper Independence Day "game games" on the disk due to Acclaim having the rights to produce an official game on the PS1, Saturn and PC?
@@MattyStoked Tell a lie Fox Interactive released it, so Fox themselves had the rights. So they probably didn't want any competition with their own product. Also, Radical Entertainment developed it, not the greatest repertoire.
i have no idea why i had the nostalgia bug to look this up, but this is exactly what i was looking for.... I had the Will Smith one and was a little disappointed, expecting more from the game. Great marketing technique though, and the action figure was why i got it, the disc was a bonus =)
You're right! The toys were pretty decent, and the discs were a great gimmick to get people talking. That was probably the plan, anyway 😅 I'm very interested to hear about the Carnage Disc in your home movies!
This is insane. I cant remember which alien I had but the closest to the game was the warrior one. I just remember not being able to figure the game out as a kid. I was very young lol. Thank you for uploading this as i kid i wanted all the games!!
You're welcome, I'm glad you're liking the video :D If you had the Warrior game, then you must have had the glittery guy. There was also a red "Heavy Weapons" toy which looked absolutely wicked. It never came out here in the UK though, which made me sad.
Hhaha this really took me bad. You didn't mention that for most of these games, the sound was absolutely hiddious! scremaing through your head like some hellish daemon, although for 1.4 meg what was anyone expecting. They had some good ones in there as well :) I'll go find your Mars attacks disks now I never had those as a kid and only one of the large toys. BTW my Supreme Commander is sat beside me and everyone comments on it when they come into my office. They don't know what it is,they just know they've seen it somewhere before. Personally, I think it stil holds up as a really good toy today and the hard non-articulated plastic means it stands up as well as it ever did. Alien attacker is still one of the only representations of that fighter you can buy and not to inaccurate either. Shame the sounds were not from the film.
I had one of those floppies when I was a kid and could never get it to run on anything. I have no idea how I got the disk as I also don't remember having the toy either. Thanks for finally revealing the mystery!!!
Lovely trip down memory lane, on the subject of ID4 games at the time the brochureware site for the film had several early (flash maybe) games you could play including one where you piloted the F14.
These were made in Macromedia, the software which would become Flash (I believe). It's possible that these were on the website. Or maybe ones which didn't make it onto a toy were added to the website. Great insight, thanks!
@@joeclarkey you can usually use the wayback machine to find pages, but it doesn't support flash. So I wouldn't expect it to support Macromedia either. But if you managed to download the whole thing, with the Macromedia files too, you could get that working. Good luck, and please let me know how you get on!
Cracking vid mate. I'd forgotten how ended up subbing to your channel till you mentioned the spawn cdrom and I instantly knew I was in for a treat. Looking forward to the Mars attacks vid
I'm glad you're hear because of the Spawn video and I'm glad you're sticking around. There's more shenanigans on the way. Some sooner, some later. Thanks for sticking with me.
Nice videos, man. Subbed! And damn, these games. I never played these and back then probably wouldn't have either, but looking at them now, especially the first one in this video... they look pretty eerie. There's just something about them that's kinda unsettling. The high-res, yet very grainy graphics, the alien UI, etc. Pretty cool.
I've still got the floppy disc for the giant alien I had. The figure had a motion sensor where they face would open and close when you walked passed it.
@@MattyStoked It's down my parents house with half a technodrome and the old ghostbusters car which is missing all the doors. Wish I could tell childhood me not to dismantle everything and keep it in the box lol
@@Bubear666 absolutely not! The best toys are the ones which have been played with. Those toys have signs they were loved and that's what they're for ☺️
Oh no...oh no not that game! I still remember it, Disk 3 it was, never figured out what I needed to do back in the day, always ended with an almost instant game over. Good times.
I remember i had the Simon game disk and i remember getting frustrated with it selling it or something. But yeah i remember buying these figures I also had the mini alien ship as well. I regret selling most of my figures in the 2000s but i had to get financially stable somehow lol...
@@MattyStoked didnt have that many tho and the games were indeed confusing with no instructions and a lot of trial and error 😅 but it was so awesome that my toys came with floppy disk games!
Did… did a bunch of floppy disk games really just add to the lore of Independence Day? 😂 Who knew those aliens were out there abducting and experimenting on birds before launching their invasion!! 🐦
I got a few of the toys with the mission disks. The alien attacker one (#8) is….. to be fair I’d rather trash the disk than keep it, but im keeping it because of the value so im stuck with it. But the one where you destroy F-18s and blow up the city below (#10) has to be the BEST mission disk game out of all 11. I do have the Los Angeles playset and New York playset and they are really good toys.
I had two of these as a kid, one from a alien figure and one from the Will Smith's character's figure, I don't remember anything about the games but I did like the alien figure a lot and I still think the bio suit design is pretty great looking.
The suit design is fantastic, agreed! Super iconic. And the clappy head action on the toy is brilliant. I bet you got your alien to eat Will Smith's head with that. I know I did!
Awesome video, my dude. Loved it. I don't remember these action figures from bitd. Unfortunately, I kinda lost interest in action figures back in 1991. I was only 10 at the time, but that's when my love of sneakers took over. I think the last action figures I had was some of the terminator 2 line. Regrettably, I ended up giving all my stuff to my cousin's or my mum gave them to the church jumble sale. I lost all my he-man, mask, centurions, dino-riders and star wars toys. Gutted! Lol. These independence day figures look really cool. Amazing designs, but it's a shame the materials used a sub par. I think it's great that you managed to find them all, even if it did take you four years, lol. I actually found some Trainers last year after searching 30 year's for them. How's that for dedication. 😂 Yeah, that Independence Day movie blew my mind as a youth. I remember going to the cinema to see one Saturday morning with my old school buddies. I can't believe it took them so long to make that sequel. Do you know if they made any action figures for said sequel?🙌
Love for the high effort comment! I have heard the "my mum gave away my toys" story so many times, and it never stops hurting. Think of it this way though: some kid somewhere got a ton of great toys, so imagine the good vibes you put out into the world! Loved the film. And I actually enjoyed Resurgence. I really wish Emmerich had managed to round out his trilogy. I think there were planned toys, but the line got cancelled before the film even came out :(
@@MattyStoked I remember once as a kid in the 80s. I was playing in the hedges at the side of my old house and I seen a big black bin liner that was full of something. The inquisitive child in me made me go and look inside the bag. Mate, it was full of star wars figure. It had an at-at, scout walker and millennium falcon inside too. I'd never been more excited in my life, lol. Seems like I only had them two minutes before my mum gave them away. Yeah, I actually liked the Independence Day sequel. I know many didn't, but I enjoyed it. It's definitely something I'd watch again.🙌
The only things close to toys were Funko Pops for the original and Resurgence: Steven Hiller, David Levinson, and an Alien for the original and an older David, Jake Morrison, and the Alien Queen for Resurgence.
As a PC game collector, specifically big box games from the 1970s - 2004 ish , i have all the mission disk games but cant remember playing them at all. I'm sure they were very bad.
Not content with being the foremost expert on the Independence day toy line, you just had to go and tease a mars attack sequel! It's too early for this much excitement
Thanks a lot for resolving one of the biggest mystery of my childhood 🤣 I still got my spaceship but the alien and the other parts are missing (only 1missile left...i guess i really loved playing with this toy!) I will look after the floppy disk, maybe in a old case somewhere ^^
I don't even remember which ones I actually had as a kid, but you are an absolute legend for sharing all of these, I've had disks 9, 10 and 11, from lord-knows-where. But to have all 11, finally in one place... Time to launch DOSBox or PC98 and play these bad boys.
Always wondered what was on the other discs. I remember playing one of the discs as a kid but couldn’t remember anything about it. I watched ID4 recently for the first time in years and thought about the cool alien toy I had as a kid. I remember loving the little rubber alien more than the biomechanical suit thing. I tortured that poor alien, I remember burning it at some point and it had this little metal wire skeleton inside the rubber.
I had most of these toys and played the game discs at a neighbors house. Most of my human character figures broke immediately. Guess I was unlucky or just dumb lol. In years since I have found a few of these discs at yard sales and flea markets, but most the loose discs have been overwritten and poor resolution adult photos or hentai from 1999 on them instead. You are correct that the only way to get the games is to find mint unopened toys. Well until some kind gentleman archived them for us.
I keep coming back to this video because I find this game content very interesting. I wasn't even born yet when the initial movie came out but I am a huge fan! The alien action figures look amazing but I wish they had more articulation. It will probably never happen but I hope one day we'll get a proper Independence Day game where we can play as the humans and as the aliens. With today's graphics there will be no doubt this game will look incredible. Imagine what these large alien ships will look like in full HD 😱
Thank you so much for returning. This was so much effort to put together, I'm so pleased it interested you! I really liked Independence Day when it came out. I wasn't very old, but it had everything I could have wanted in a film. You're right, it's a shame these toys weren't more articulated or they could be some of the coolest toys ever. But then again, metallic paint and glitter and bendy bits are all still really cool 🤩
I have genuinely waited 6+ years for this. Every once in awhile someone mentions ID4 and I instantly remember playing the signal disk that came with Jeff Golblums figure and I try to find the games online or at the very least THIS video. I could only afford 2 so I never got to behold the other 9! This was awesome and I appreciate your hard work. I FINALLY FUCKING GOT TO SEE THESE! lol Would it be too much trouble to upload the files online so I can relive my 8 year old gaming excitement?
Evan, thank you so much! I'm so glad this video is working and that people who remember these games are finding them again :D Check the video description! The files are all uploaded to archive. I ripped my own personal floppy disks so you can play them yourself!
I found this video because my local pawn shop, nearly new, recently got in a HUGE load of star wars toys from the 90s, and among the imperial stuff, podracers and jawas, they had a myriad of other things like judge dredd, spider man, and, independence day, almost the whole collection. now, I'd heard of the film, but until 2 days ago, I had NO idea that the aliens in it were this awesome, because all the scenes that everyone quotes are from the air fights. heck, looking up the film, I'm, still, not interested but to watch the whole thing JUST for the autopsy scene? }{@\\ yeah I'd watch it! anyway, when I noticed the disk in the science officers box, I realized "I can't play this, I don't have a floppy drive." so, I searched it up, and I am STOKED to find this! thank you for the showcase, and for the archive. you're a pretty cool dood.
Always wondered what was on the other disks I never got as a kid. I played a bunch of these but missed at least 4 I can remember. Pretty cool to see. Wish I had the toys still….
I love this. thank you for posting this. so much nostalgia 🖤 I only had the disk when my dad got me the Alien Attacker. I was obsessed with ID4 when it came out
Truly appreciate this...I had two of these (as you predicted one might have), and nostalgia sent me looking for more details about them tonight.... what a wonderful video! Thanks for doing this!
I have the president and the blue alien that are still on my hands, but couldn't run the disks on that time... so just for nostalgia and curiosity I search about them and found this gem of video... thanks for the info
I looked through all of the mission discs, I vaguely remember having one but I'm not sure it was from these. I seem to remember a hidden object game where you were trying to find things in a crashed alien fighter. Any info on that?
@@MattyStoked yeah I watched the whole video. I could just be remembering it wrong, I don't know. I remember it like I said above. Funnily enough I played this on my mom's work laptop, which only had a monochromatic display. The graphics looked fine enough, but I remember them taking a while to load.
The good vibes in this video are unmatchable. The music, the editing, the dreamy b-roll, you pulling shapes in the living room... It's impossible to watch this without grinning. I have no real attachment to ID4 but I LOVE Mars Attacks so I can't wait for that vid. Great stuff!
Thank you so much. Your b-roll is inspirational. You saying anything positive about mine is a blessing. The vibes are strong with this one and I'm glad it's felt! x
there was another one im not seeing here, it was like a space invaders game, it was on a floppy disc, and you just plug it in and it was independence day the movie video game where you shoot stuff as an alien from the floppy disc, no install required..
@@MattyStoked i may have been. it was the 90s when i played it when i worked in a real estate office as a secretary.. i would plug it in and pew pew for awhile, then the phone would ring and i would hang it up haha jk
Thank you for making this! I don't know what got me thinking about it, but I had disk 4 and I never figured out how to play it. And now I know! I don't know what happened to that disk.
Thank you for finding this video and dropping a comment. This was loads of fun to make and it's been great hearing from others who owned these disks and never played them 😅