Army Men (1998) - The Birth of My PC Gaming Experience

[@radiationman5271]

That 3DO opening just had my inner 3 year old ascend.

[@DeadGothicRed]

God damn this game and the ENTIRE ARMY MEN series is a huge part of my childhood. I swear I will own all them again. Especially Air Attack.

[@fabuloso9818]

Honestly growing up I always knew I wanted to be a soldier and this just cemented what I thought war would look like one day.

[@RingworldTyrant]

Call of Duty couldn't do it, but Army Men could... To be honest, the carnage of Army Men was probably a more realistic presentation of the random indiscriminate shelling and flying bullets of industrialized warfare than other games.

[@kidmanwalters4236]

BROTHER I've been commenting about these games on KZbin and insta and EVERYWHERE trying to find a community or people who still talk about and want another one of these games . This is amazing . My whole childhood . Sarges war was a beautiful game but I wanted it to continue. Please give me good news

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

My first experience was Army Men: Air Attack followed by Air Attack 2. Funny enough, I joined the Army and went Aviation... Life is... weird.

[@Nihilixx]

I almost considered air force after a very old apache flight simulator game

[@jcarter4414]

@@Nihilixx Gunship?

[@Nihilixx]

@@jcarter4414 I've been scratching my head at it forever, but I found what it was recently. Team Apache

[@Malus131]

I'm in my late 20s, and playing this and Army Men 2 is such a trip down memory lane it's untrue. I also loved the Sarge's Heroes games on PS1 and, perhaps controversially, when I was a kid Army Men Air Attack was one of my favourites. Remember playing it split screen with my dad and getting attacked by bumble bees lmao.

[@AJadedLizard]

I remember my father having a copy of 3D and _Air Attack_ for his PlayStation as a kid; I played them a bit, but I remember _Sarge's War_ being the one I played the most as a kid. Was it good? No, but it was still brutal in a way I wasn't expecting. I think it would've aged a lot better had it committed to TPS tropes better than it ended up doing; a lot of the locales were fun to fight through, its combat is just quite clunky.

[@HailinRain]

My dad got me this game for Christmas and I was hooked. I still have the paper cutout that fits over the F keys and use it to this day when I play.

[@junker154]

Hilarious video. Absolutely nailed the humor. Also, the part where you joined the battle on the first map speaks so much to me. I remember spending tons of hours just joining that frontline.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Army Men 1998, Red Baron 2 1997, Z 1996, Simcity 2000, Simcopter 1996. My early PC gaming days were great. lol

[@TIEBrute]

Congratulations Sarge. You're an Army Men channel now

[@basty1man]

yo Air attack and World War were my jam back in the day, that 3DO intro always hits.

[@davidhelmer9124]

Love these games. Use to play with my older brother

[@FrazzyNZ]

I would sit in the battle until enemy would stop spawning. I worshipped this game

[@orion920]

Good video, got a lot of nostalgia watching this. Your self-reflection was basically how I felt playing Amry Men as a kid. Took me just as long to beat it. I remember that bank robbery arc was a particular pain. Hope you cover Army Men 2.

[@hammer1349]

Takes me back to the days of Army Men: Major Malfunction and Army Men: Sarge's War

[@TheManfromMars100]

I did the exact same thing with that endless battle in the first level. When I played with my plastic army men as a kid, that's the kind of battle that was going on in my imagination.

[@crob763]

Great video! This game was a huge part of my childhood and I’ve yet to beat it to this day😂 Your video has convinced me to do that! I really miss all these old Army Men games. My Favorite was Land Sea and Air!

[@alexhaselden4623]

I loved this game so much. I used to join that battle all the time too. The mission that always gave me trouble was the one where the tans chase you through the valley.

[@ConeFlower-gx2qk]

Jesus this hit so hard. My uncle gave me his giant stack of these games on pc as a kid. Me and him were super close in age

[@jasziegl8983]

In that first mission in the desert, there is a big endless battle going on behind the map. After I finished the campaign, I would shimmy my way over there and join the big battle and see how long I could survive the battle (not long), and how far back I could push the tans back for the glory of green. Great game.

[@notagooglesimp8722]

Dude the start of my ARMY MEN gaming was Sarges Heroes 2 on 64. Every weekend as a kind I'd play it end to end. I wish I had had the PC pack of army men.

[@evanphillips5061]

I was 5, this was my life, they were simpler times. No shit, I tried to look up gameplay for this like a month ago. Please post the whole play through

[@flyingninja1234]

We must unite to face the Tan menace!!!

[@norharafie5739]

Army Men series actually predicted lot of our geopolitical problems on this day. It is eerie to the point.

[@RingworldTyrant]

How, exactly? The games are based off of World War II propaganda reels to the point of hyperbolic parody, and the plot (from the manuals) is that the Green and Tan have been fighting annhilationist wars against each other for ages. Seriously, find a PDF of this game's manual and read the short story about Sarge and some Green Troopers. Their attitudes toward the Tans are like the most shellshocked US Marine fighting the Japanese in the Pacific War, they totally hate them and completely throw morality out the window. And it's wrapped up in a confidence of their position that would be incomprehensible to almost any individual today. I love the Army Men games, but how is that setup predictive exactly of anything happening in our modern world? Even current conflicts don't compare as the complexity of why they happened never enters the picture here in Army Men.

[@andrewstevens1316]

Holy smokes this is a nostalgia trip. Thanks for posting this and for the entertainment. Subscribed in hopes that you cover more.

[@ironwolf2173]

For me it was the first C&C, this, and original rainbow six when I was 4. 29 years later I'm still gaming

[@jonathonlemke928]

This game brings back memories of simpler times

[@mpetcavage]

Loved this and the second game. Played the heck out of them. Thanks for the nostalgia hit with this video!

[@DatTurboBrick]

You know, it's not very often that KZbin gives me a good recommendation, but this one was perfect. Glad I came across your channel 👌🏼

[@Nihilixx]

That means a lot thanks!

[@505th_oldboy]

Didn't like that in the sequels Sarge turned into a body builder, kinda liked is "average joe" appearance in the original. Fantastic game!

[@joeyanderson2612]

Never played this but the FPS army men games were dope af.

[@30cal23]

i remember playing sarges war on gamecube and having soo much fun

[@anul6801]

This was the first computer game I played aswell. PC Gamer demo disc if I remember correctly! My first real love

[@mattrehu8154]

Oh man, I remember this.... I played at a friend's one time and tried finding it and never did. Happy to stumble upon this

[@AussieBattleCat]

Wow, this was the first game I never played when I was like 3 from my brothers computer. I have vauge memories of it, but when the 3do Kicked in and the intro, it all came flashing back. Cheers for the little nostalgia trip :)

[@jebbroham1776]

The was the first game I ever played on PC, and I was hooked the minute I saw that first cutscene.

[@Soboba.Fett69]

In 98/99 I'd watch re-runs of M.A.S.H. with my dad, I'd get to play the PlayStation & somehow put MASH & Army Men Air Attack together lol. Didn't know where Korea was back then but loved the cold war stuff.

[@Chevelle602]

Loved this game so much

[@Odysseusnobody]

Zombie army men before zombies where cool

[@Samuel034]

Oh I remember loving the shit out of this game. Talk about a blast from the past. Well done, you got me to remember how old I am.

[@codybailey855]

Man! I loved this game!

[@kidmanwalters4236]

98 was my birthyear too , these games were literally calling me to life lmao

[@america8706]

I don't think this was on the N64 but every other Army Men on the 64 I played the hell out of. On an average day it was Golden Eye, Pokemon Stadium, or Army Men. Even all these years later there is a sliver of pain I feel when I think about the Army Men series being put on indefinite hiatus, yeah sure there have been cameos in games like Rising Storm Vietnam, and I think some RTS games. But the things I'd do to get my hands on a brand new Sarge's heroes😭

[@firebat2120]

I love Army Men serie. At 0:30, that is Kuwait. I grew up there!

[@KaptifLaDistillerie]

From me playing with plastic toys, to Army Men releasing, to playing Call To Arms : Gates of Hell in 2024, i'll always feel like a kid when playing these games

[@jrobbins707]

Damn bro! This army men video is blowing up!!! ❤❤❤

[@timstone7033]

I remember being stuck on the bank robbery in the desert for so long that I set up a mock battle of it irl with wooden blocks and my army men to come up with a plan. Never had enough tanks to represent all those damn tanks tanks though 😢

[@Nihilixx]

The bank almost broke me lol. I used to set up lincoln logs and draw a map so I could rebuild the same scenario myself.

[@Drezzaye]

This game is awesome.

[@loganjohnson8356]

I played these on n64 I even still have the key chain that came with it from when I was a kid

[@stevenparent7886]

Looks cool, I was too poor for a PC when I was a kid.

[@danielhutchison7259]

We truly live in the worst generation of gaming when "triple A" games cant compare to this masterpiece.

[@TunekSunevi]

I really love Air Attack 2

[@honorless1719]

You had to play MYTH and MYTH 2 Soulblighter, so much chaotic fun. Then STARCRAFT, AvP and really a endless amount of games.

[@franthehonest-eyes4883]

"Sarge is dead!" 😂

[@KingAmish]

They need to bring this back with better graphics and still have split screen options

[@anul6801]

Great video

[@Gideon020]

You haven't grown up as a child until you hear the screams of tan being melted by a flamethrower.

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

I had this on the PlayStation it was great!

[@curlybillbrocius25]

Took me a year or two to beat back in the day! Got Army Men II for my birthday while out of state. The opening cutscene was in the manual as a short story. I recall reading it over and over on the long drive home.

[@Nihilixx]

Awesome! My father picked up the value pack 4 CD's deal from a Walmart on the way home from a camping trip for me 😂 I played the original when a friend brought it over.

[@curlybillbrocius25]

@@Nihilixxwhich ones were in it? I’d say I, II, World War, and Toys in Space were all solid (or maybe that’s nostalgia 😅)

[@Nihilixx]

@@curlybillbrocius25 Army men 1, 2, toys in space and air attack. Army men 1 and 2 were my favorites by far but they were all great. I spent my summer break playing them most of the time lol.

[@curlybillbrocius25]

@@NihilixxThe other 2 I’d recommend are World War (opening just like saving private Ryan) and air tactics. Same graphical style

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

I have a feeling that this was originally intended to be a World War 2 or Vietnam game, but since it would have been too graphic; they just made it plastic army men. I mean; with the exception of the coloring; the dead soldiers would have been gorier than Fallout's (then infamous) gore and death animations.

[@Nihilixx]

I read the Wikipedia for it and apparently they made the men plastic as to get around censorship issues. Due to Germanys strict censorship laws they wouldn't of been able to sell it there. Also yeah! thought Vietnam or cold war.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

The music is so from those 1960s epic war and Bible movies.

[@S1NG15]

This game was based af.

[@AfroMan187]

lmao I remember this game, and I remember the Green Army being utterly incompetent garbage. Sarge pretty much won the war all by himself,

[@LegacyOfBrutality85]

I never knew there was this. Only played the shooters.

[@anul6801]

For my Army Men died with the shooters. This 2 and Toys in Space were my life then it ended RTS was also kinda fun.

[@kingscrump]

3DO was my shit

[@Darthnader519]

The little glitch sound at the end of the music sometimes

[@Bassolator]

Fond memories....

[@5onic]

I would beg people to play the game online multiplayer

[@anul6801]

There is even more maps to play now thanks to the active modding community! kzbin.info/www/bejne/faWYmqOBna6FfLcsi=vA5et-19mNk5ExWa

[@davidhenson1316]

Why are the corpses in the alpine section the opposite direction they are usually?. Weird

[@rogermcbadlad2812]

I can’t get the first one to load the ground textures correctly on modern hardware.

[@5onic]

I played the living crap out of this game

[@shatterdreamz2325]

what was your name on mplayer?

[@Copper_Skull_Guy]

Why does the Green territory look like WW2 Germany at 0:29

[@SmaxyMiguel]

How can I play this game again?

[@jamesj5486]

Gog sells it

[@tauceti8341]

have your morrowind obssesed cousin to get a free emulator for you (me) lol fuck if i know what any of those words mean

[@Nihilixx]

It's also on Steam along with army men 2, and toys in space! The sad part though is that AI battles aren't available on steam.

[@HkSniper]

SARGE IS DEAD

[@thomaseriksen6885]

Would be better for environment if you carved the piece from wood instead of plastic

[@carabatzis25]

Sarge is dead lol 😂