Jeff Grubb cobbles together a Personal Computer inside of his existing PC to fire up an old disc from THE Ultra Gameplayers with Mike and Dan. #demoderby #demodisc
Bill Donohue is a legend, used to read every issue of Game Players and PSM. He now runs a bimonthly print and digital magazine called Old School Gamer.
Yes! Been wanting PC demo discs. There's some wild shit tucked away in them thar hills. Edit: The Palace (or at least a fanmade version) still exists to this day! It was an avatar-based chat that ran for a stupidly long time, and it was amazing in its heyday. So many fond memories of building a collection of hundreds of shitty nu-metal and goth avatars. Nowadays it's mostly people with massive anime avatars sitting silently in a corner 24/7.
Genuinely fascinating video game archive stuff. Love when yall showcase these demos and magazines. Shout out to Descent, one of the very first video games I ever played on pc.
Hold on. Hold up. Wait a minute. Didn't Ultra Game Players become PSM? Or did PSM split off of them? What years did UGP come with demo discs? I remember in 1998, they didn't come with demos. P.S. it was Chris Slate, was the editor in chief of PSM (and I assume UGP right before the transition. P.P.S. it's great to see Bill Donohue!
As someone who grew up in Austin, it is both jarring to hear Dan bring up the tower shooting and also to hear anyone not know any details about it. Even decades later, it cast a hell of shadow over the city.
Great stream! This is definitely my era of nostalgic bullshit lol, especially if you can find any UK edition PC Gamer disks, would love to see some of those again. Keep it up guys :)
"What is the meaning of the name Sigourney? The name Sigourney is primarily a gender-neutral name of French origin that means The Conqueror. actress Sigourney Weaver (originally Susan) took the stage name Sigourney from a character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald." It really is a cool name. It's not too late to change one of the kids names, Grubb.
Okay, so we've had Daikatana, Hexxen and Grubb's finished Masters of Doom. How long before one of these Demo Derbies is a bunch of id games from their Gamers Edge discs?
I had an uncle working at Sega in the late 90s. He gave my cousin a Saturn with every game made for it for Christmas. I was only like 6 so I got the Sega Pico and all the games made for that. I ended up getting the Saturn later but my parents sold it.
Dan at around the 1h mark saying that when he saw Doom at his cousin's place thinking that it looked evil-bad, that he shouldn't play this... I didn't go to catholic school, but I was 11 years old and felt the same way back in 1993. It looked too realistic violent. It's like the devil seducing you with the biggest graphical leap to do something bad. ~3 years later, when I had my second PC brand new, my favorite game was Quake 1.
The Monty Python PC game had a keyboard replacement (?) soundboard thing that every key was a fart burp or one real nasty puke. 12 year olde loved it, also that game was weird as shit.
I own Enemy Zero, but it's not anything like Resident Evil. It's first person, and all the enemies are invisible. It looks like D because it's by Kenji Eno. It even stars the same digital actress from D, Laura Harris.
Just a heads up… Bill Donohue is the kind of person who stopped drinking Budweiser because of Dylan Mulvaney. Might want to steer clear of including him in too much content until digging into who he is now 👍
Where did he say this? Because there is the Bill Donohue of the Catholic League who is a different person, and he definitely would say stuff like that.
