I have such good memories about this game! Wish we could have a mobile version

Played for the last 20 years. I’ve played since I was 7 years old. The game is what made me love gaming. My entire family played ! Blades of Unity-Guinevere ;Midgard!!!

This dude looks like a character in an mmo.

You referring to Sim City as a retro franchise makes me feel sick to my stomach, I literally had SC4 for my birthday when it came out back in 2003.

I loved The Realm so much. My first MMO. Still play once in a while for a nostalgia blast and a simple experience.

You forgot Legends of Kesmai

You're so annoying

Perhaps nothing can top the original, but Shards of Dalaya captures so much of the feeling of the early years.

You should play Shards of Dalaya for a version of EQ that has the friendliest players and an original story. Best private server around. Tell them Tarma sent you ❤

I got my online Nickname thanks to this game. ... guess which 'Mech was my favorite.

SimCity has so much details and character for each single buildings. Cities Skylines is just hundreds of gray buildings.

I do think Mechcommander was a bit of an evolution of 'Battletech: Crescent Hawks Revenge' (released in 1990). The Crescent Hawk games were made by Westwood Studios so there is definitely RTS pedigree in there.

This was the gane that got me into pc gaming! I played the demo first and had to beg my parents to get the full game for me.

My favorit person I ran into was a black guy with an afro that was pure white. His name was Q-Tip. Second person who made me laugh was someone named "Sir Comfrance". Good memories. Still remember raiding another server with everyone running around named "Sam" and spouting "I am Sam.", "Sam I am!".

Amazing game. Well done on the video.

Man, I appreciate this video so much. Long may it stay as a record of the one of the best MMOs ever made. I was there in 1999, I was about 27 years old. The main characters I remember were Aragael (Wood Elf Warrior) and Trazia (Dark Elf Cleric), which I think were on the Erollisi Marr server at the time, in a really nice guild (mostly casual) called House Hydra. I met such lovely people there and in other servers before that. Sometimes I think about my amazing time there and all those adventures, like after watching this video, and I'm overcome with sadness and deep nostalgia. It's a moment in time that I've chased for a long time since, in many other MMOs following EQ, but never ever found again..There was something very special about EQ (and Meridian 59 which I played just before it), I think it was partly the wonderful graphics for the time, the sense of adventure and intriguing, magical world and the harsh/difficultly which required you really team up and make friends. On top of that, the excruciating time it took to get good gear and level up meant spending long hours with the same familiar faces, day after day..long chats with each other during med breaks etc, which forced you to socialise. I don't remember what my actual real life was like at the time, I guess it was nothing special, because EQ was everything to me back then. It's all I could think/dream about and I couldn't wait to log on every day. To this day, I sometimes wish that I could live in that world forever!

I'll be on the Bristlebane server waiting, come join us.

1:09 min where can we get this book? Any pdf online? 24:19 min where did you get this image. Is there any source which we can read how to do model for BG2?

15:40 min Is this a mod? The character models look extremely "clean".

I did not expect this quality of content , love 80s 90s tech and games

Hearing the theme song brings back memories

Great video! It shocks me this only has 10k views, also I totally forgot about spawn, lol no wonder why we were able to have lan parties with just Diablo 1 and sc1 haha

Anyone know what the game at 7:19 is called? It's off-genre but I remember playing something like it and I completely forgot the title.

I fuckin loved this game

Roughly 98 til like 2003 was the golden age of PC games for me, there are so many from that era that I still play on my beefy 4070ti rig

Man, I wish there was a good Monster Jam game. For as popular as monster trucks are, monster truck fans have been shafted with quick cash grabs and nothing else. Monster truck madness 2 is still the best we've got as an official game, and it's 26 years old. Other wise it's just beamng, which is fun but not the same as a full game.

This was really interesting. I didn't know any of this. I can't wait to check out the emulator at the end so I can revisit some old Windows 95 games.

As somebody who never comments on anything, I just wanna say this. God, man. Your channel is so vastly underrated. It's a shame. I hope you get the attention you deserve. I'm here for the ride. Goodluck.

I only had the demo but I remember playing it on Win 98 cuz I would download all the demos I could find

Hey now. Greatest game ever. Miss you DT. The Feared forever!

11:15 new luclin models? gross

Has the History of RTS #2 which covers Dune2 been made? Can’t find it

14:57 Dune 2 🙌

Game is alive and well best PVP in any MMO server is ‘Doctide’

Great game

Dune 2 called and said..

Story is garbage the camera controls are bad and the gameplay is a spam fest. Its the worst homeworld game. Huge letdown.

City Skylines is not better then SimCity 4: Rush Hour, just the modern view. I played both games, but I plays SimCity 4 now, and I don't play Skylines... today. Just too many physics and inbalance in Skylines... Some mechanics is no annoying...

I tried to play it a month or so ago and couldn't understand what the f was going on. I like Ultima online though

I love EQ so much. Played for 5 years, addictively.

This is just depressing. By the sounds of it; Westwood studios got it so right the first few times around that there was practically no room for any evolution apart from splintering the genre into several (which is what happened in the end) the genre came, it went 3D, and then it was all over for the most part...

16:58 For blood and for Sanguinius!

I was obsessed with this game when it came out! So happy to have found your video about it.

It's funny that Dune 2 was totally unrelated to Cryo's Dune game, both released the same year, because Dune also was a realtime strategy game, or at least partly. More primitive for sure, but also a pretty good game.

Rts died because it devolved into who can click hotkeys the fastest lol Who gets to their broken win condition build the fastest.

I have a story of my deepest addiction experience with EverQuest. I had been keeping my eye on trying to camp this off hand wisdom book, and finally found a stretch of time to do it, the week where I got my wisdom teeth out. I’ll make the story shorter, but I spent 40 hours straight killing the same creature every 15 minutes and even talked my friend into coming online and watch the spawn so I could get much needed sleep without missing out on the possibility of the wisdom book dropping. When the book finally dropped, the sense of accomplishment at the time was a badge of honor, but the more I tell the story decades later, the more I realize the game was an insane addiction for me masquerading as a video game.

Everquest’s biggest weakness and its most unique feature, was how hopelessly useless it was to have more than one of certain class in your 80 man raid group. My first character was a Druid- excellent solo character but I found out later that they were abysmal for raiding, and the top guilds on my server had no room for me. I still remember my friend who had leveled with his Cleric, getting the invite to one of the top guilds, and I was iced out based upon my class selection months earlier. All that being said, it’s still such an important game and one of my favorites in my gaming history.

I second reviewing Cataclysm. I didn't know both games were from Northern Cascadia, but gi en I live nearby now that makes me happy.

As a player of asherons call, who joined daoc for a few weeks but never got past 20, because I was a adhd kid, I really enjoyed faoc, it was hard and very linear in progression, which is why I probably left, because asherons call required being in a monarchy of people who helped me in locations all over the map, while daoc was more based around your proximity and harder to travel around. Great game, wish I got to experience end game.

I want to add something really important, especially about Mechcommander2 : the fact that as you use a higher difficulty, you had to adapt your strategy every time for every level. On elite mode I can guarantee you that you had to think out great strategies and often had to split up your forces or use a fast mech as a decoy to draw away the fire. I finished all levels of play and the elite level was only there because as a beta tester I kept complaining the game was too easy. I swear I got rewarded.