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G-Nome: The Forgotten 90s Mech Game

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Grand Theft HAWC? Pretty much! This is a retrospective on the 1997 mech simulation game from 7th Level. Wander alien landscapes, boost mechs, and enjoy the chunky software-rendered 3D graphics.
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@00CrazyVampireCow00
@00CrazyVampireCow00 7 жыл бұрын
My dad had a copy of this game. When my sister and I were young, for some reason, we got obsessed with it. All we would do was get in multiplayer and blow each other up. To the point where we'd rush home from school just to fire it up and play for hours. We even both took the cd and ripped off the music. So I just wanted to say thank you 7th Level for some great childhood memories, this game will always have a special place in my heart.
@rocclimbing8123
@rocclimbing8123 5 жыл бұрын
A year late but I want to say that it was the same story for my family. My dad would play and he would only pilot the HAWC while my brother and i would press 1-4 to fire off all the ammunition. Also same thing about ripping the music! Hearing the 'Passenger' track come on was always a delight.
@dubuyajay9964
@dubuyajay9964 5 жыл бұрын
Scroll up, a son of one of the former employees commented on this vid.
@BlueBoxRevan
@BlueBoxRevan 4 жыл бұрын
Wow! Your experience with this game was way cooler than mine!
@AKidNamedAlan
@AKidNamedAlan 3 жыл бұрын
Literally same experience
@paulchavez3039
@paulchavez3039 2 жыл бұрын
Are we long lost siblings because my dad also had a copy of this and me and my sister would play it uhhhhh
@ENCHANTMEN_
@ENCHANTMEN_ 5 жыл бұрын
*steals your mech* you've been G-NOMED
@Maxgamer-fd7hv
@Maxgamer-fd7hv 5 жыл бұрын
yes
@SuperLlama42
@SuperLlama42 5 жыл бұрын
It's G-not a G-nelf It's G-not a G-noblin It's a G-NOME!
@enterusername3364
@enterusername3364 5 жыл бұрын
Could you hecking g-not
@Nostalgicinquisitor
@Nostalgicinquisitor 4 жыл бұрын
Just try war robots dude it's much better also battle of titans
@ShadowHunter120
@ShadowHunter120 4 жыл бұрын
I thought I was free of your corny humor...
@EposVox
@EposVox 7 жыл бұрын
Titanfall ripped off G-Nome confirmed.
@spyrelle3970
@spyrelle3970 5 жыл бұрын
There's no shame in taking something if you do it better.
@Peter_Morris
@Peter_Morris 5 жыл бұрын
You guys are forgetting Metal Warriors on the SNES, and probably something before that. And Titanfall is more like Shogo than this.
@spyrelle3970
@spyrelle3970 5 жыл бұрын
@@Peter_Morris I'm well aware of Metal Warriors and Shogo, you're correct. My point still stands that Titanfall is derivitive, but it set out to do what those games did and it did it better.
@Peter_Morris
@Peter_Morris 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I remember thinking the same thing when I first saw it. I recently played through Titanfall 2 again and although it’s extremely competent, it seems like it still has s lit of potential that could be unlocked.
@Peter_Morris
@Peter_Morris 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I remember thinking the same thing when I first saw it. I recently played through Titanfall 2 again and although it’s extremely competent, it seems like it still has a lot of potential that could be unlocked.
@ElleWhiteTV
@ElleWhiteTV 7 жыл бұрын
I loved all the built in lore/tech history when I was younger.
@wayzerz2799
@wayzerz2799 3 жыл бұрын
Same, honestly I guess I still kinda love it
@jojothejanitor2134
@jojothejanitor2134 3 жыл бұрын
*not me as a little kid spending hours just browsing the menus*
@GrahamNificent
@GrahamNificent 2 жыл бұрын
@@jojothejanitor2134 literally me
@GunUDwnAt2nd
@GunUDwnAt2nd 5 ай бұрын
"Anti-armor pulse plasma meson cannon" "Grayson Corporation 7mm long-range shield killer"
@AIkill33
@AIkill33 7 жыл бұрын
LGR, you might not believe this, but I still have a copy of this game (loose, it came with our old win95 Packard Bell PC), and whats more, I STILL PLAY IT. I still find it fun, especially since, unlike the more modern mech games, this 1 actually has tanks and hover vehicles that are almost at a level with the mechs. I also like that you can shoot off individual parts, such as gun barrels, and how you can change your IFF to match the enemy's, infiltrate their base, and then blow the crap out of it. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR REVIEWING THIS FORGOTTEN CLASSIC!!!!!
@rocclimbing8123
@rocclimbing8123 5 жыл бұрын
It's a game I play through once every few years. Some of the levels on hard difficult actually give you a run for your money. Citadel is damn near impossible.
@delrachdubal
@delrachdubal 5 жыл бұрын
That's when I first played it when I got my Packard bell pc, 233 mhz with an Intel processor with mmx technology. Crazy game for crazy times, one I will never forget. Ironically at my game store dominion storm over gift 3 appeared for $3 complete, it supports 1024p which is insane for that time
@AstanaxKnight
@AstanaxKnight 4 жыл бұрын
I got our copy of G-Nome along with our Packard Bell PC as well, alongside Howie Mandel's Playhouse and other games in 1997 when I was 13. I still recall how one could do a cheat to listen to voice work outtakes/gags, like a Pee Wee Herman and Scottish impersonation.
@diegotlamantli
@diegotlamantli 2 жыл бұрын
I got it with a packard bell too! It came along with Encarta 98, Howie's Fun House and G-Nome
@CoreyDWillis
@CoreyDWillis Жыл бұрын
Same, but it was my grandparent's Packard Bell PC. That's probably how most people found this game. 🤣
@TheExaminedLifeofGaming
@TheExaminedLifeofGaming 7 жыл бұрын
This is basically my favorite game of all time. Not kidding.
@nobita3378
@nobita3378 6 жыл бұрын
My childhood game,of course on my list favorite
@KLUSTERIZER
@KLUSTERIZER 5 жыл бұрын
Nostalgia is the major factor at play of course. I remember it fondly as well. But does it hold a candle to modern games? Of course not, even if it did have some amazing pioneering concepts.
@Alexanderzzzzon
@Alexanderzzzzon 5 жыл бұрын
THIS was my childhood. As a 10year old I spend a lot of times playing this. Mind you I am born in Sweden and didn't not even understand half of what I was supposed to do. Still thought the game was fantastic!
@RSProduxx
@RSProduxx 5 жыл бұрын
well, i played it alot...but nothing beats Earth Siege... except for Mech Warrior itself... :)
@AmericanBadger87
@AmericanBadger87 3 жыл бұрын
This and freelancer
@av_79
@av_79 2 жыл бұрын
With the game called "G-Nome" I was expecting miniature, gnome sized robots battling each other.
@paranoiasavedthecat
@paranoiasavedthecat 7 жыл бұрын
I... I have a copy of G-nome. That feeling with Clint doesn't know you and never will.
@BlueBoxRevan
@BlueBoxRevan 4 жыл бұрын
I have a copy but not the disc. No music ☹️ just gameplay
@jabelsjabels
@jabelsjabels 7 жыл бұрын
Man, I played the crap out of this at my friend's place when I was a kid! Never knew what the plot was though. I always thought that getting out of the mech was super bad though, cause I always got stepped on. Have you tried to exit the boundary of a level? It'll blow you up with an ion cannon!
@rbrtkayser
@rbrtkayser 4 жыл бұрын
I know this is an old comment but I played this as a kid and I also couldn't figure out what the plot was. I usually just ran around ejecting people then stomping on them.
@janchlupacek
@janchlupacek 4 жыл бұрын
And wished you a nice day 😂
@jojothejanitor2134
@jojothejanitor2134 3 жыл бұрын
"Ion Cannon ready. Have a nice day. :3" *BOOM!"
@W0lfenstrike
@W0lfenstrike 7 жыл бұрын
Ejecting from your mech to battle along side it in first person view? Damn! This was waaaay ahead of Titanfall ! Or SHOGO if you're feeling retro. Also, no wonder they added jetpacks to Titanfall, it would be boring as heck to walk around without your mech!
@drugon
@drugon 5 жыл бұрын
It was in MWLL actually way before Titanfall. But yeah - G-NOME came out earlier anyway. Still there were Front Mission: Gun Hazard and Metal Warriors even before it.
@MongooseTacticool
@MongooseTacticool 5 жыл бұрын
God, Shogo! Thank you. That's the game that's been bugging my brain for ages but I didn't know the name of. Very enjoyable multiplayer.
@Painang89
@Painang89 5 жыл бұрын
How about Shogo
@AstanaxKnight
@AstanaxKnight 4 жыл бұрын
You could eject from your mech to do battle in first person view. However, the "HAWC" would stop dead and there was no way to fire the guns from it remotely. Then I had those Darken troops steal my HAWC on occasion. I was only fourteen or fifteen at the time I last played it.
@markvincentlim6235
@markvincentlim6235 6 жыл бұрын
2:48 "Darkin, darkin, darkin, darkin, younion, younion, younion, younion, murc, murc, murc, murc, skorp, skorp, skorp, skorp..." "Developers, developers, developers, developers..."
@devandra7977
@devandra7977 Жыл бұрын
Well don't do that!
@huhabab
@huhabab 7 жыл бұрын
Back in 1999 a friend of my mother was visiting us and saw me in front of my PC with a free Magazine version of G-Nome on the desk. She then described her absolute hatred of the game because her husband played "this shit" like a maniac for weeks until she finally broke the CD in half. I was intrigued and installed it immediately. His dedication to this game astounded me, uninstalled it a couple of hours later. Dunno know why I'm writing this....
@andrewoverhere8525
@andrewoverhere8525 5 жыл бұрын
"Uninstalled it a couple of hours later"
@sentimentalmariner590
@sentimentalmariner590 3 жыл бұрын
What a horrible human being your mother's friend was. Destroying something that brought her husband joy just because she did not like it.
@edwardbell8771
@edwardbell8771 7 жыл бұрын
Intense monochrome flashback "Screams out of sleep"
@Eluxor
@Eluxor 7 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD. I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS GAME FOR YEARS. I had the demo in a very old ass CD back in 2004 and I had very fond memories of it! THANKS.
@TheRealLazerBlazer22
@TheRealLazerBlazer22 6 жыл бұрын
If someone modded this to include customization of your HAWC, and possibly extra missions, I could very well see this being a blast. Even as it stands, I want to pick up a copy and give it a shot.
@alejandrofierro1961
@alejandrofierro1961 7 жыл бұрын
My dad got a free copy of this when he bought the family computer back when I was around 4-5 years old. I could never make it past the first few levels, but I loved the game regardless. Was definitely surprised to see it pop up on my KZbin feed! Awesome review as usual LGR
@snarkotron1035
@snarkotron1035 7 жыл бұрын
I got this game from free with a new PC in '97 in a software bundle along with Encarta, etc... I played the crap out of this game.
@danielfranks676
@danielfranks676 5 жыл бұрын
...me too, but I beat the game many times with failure and success...but I lost the copy, but not Encarta 97.
@DanielFlores-fo1ee
@DanielFlores-fo1ee 3 жыл бұрын
Same here, my same experiences exactly. This was the first 3d game i had ever played and my brother sister andi were mesmerized
@Cheap_Cola
@Cheap_Cola 2 жыл бұрын
Same! I've been looking for other people that know about this game. I couldn't play it well as a kid but I was good enough to beat some levels and learn a little bit.
@WraxTV
@WraxTV 7 жыл бұрын
My first PC came with a loose copy, so this was, technically, the first PC game I ever owned. Better than Solitaire any day of the week.
@SentTwoKill
@SentTwoKill 4 жыл бұрын
Do you remember what pc? That's how I got my hands on this game also
@magicaljones
@magicaljones 2 жыл бұрын
@@SentTwoKill The PC I got that came with this game I believe was a Packard Bell Multimedia m415 with 166 mhz and 24 megs of ram and MMX TECHNOLOGY. Got it at Computer City which later became CompUSA. It made this annoying scratching/grinding sound sometimes that I assumed was a hallmark of Packard Bell PCs.
@Volgrus
@Volgrus 7 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, thank you so much for going through this. I was wondering when you were going to cover it, this is one of those games that I played when I was so young that I have nothing but nostalgic memories floating in my head about it. Like, I was too young to fully comprehend the actual game mechanics, so I would just run around and hit buttons. But, that opening is so iconic to me, I was instantly awash it nostalgic emotions as soon as I heard it. Anyway, sorry for rambling, love the channel been a subscriber for a long, long time. Keep reviewing these old forgotten gems!
@matthewgiven3396
@matthewgiven3396 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I asked for this last year on your Facebook page on the grounds that it came with my family's first Pc as a pack in and I have never met anyone else who played it and yet it is still one of my favorite games. Thanks, so good to see this reviewed by someone. Pure Nostalgic bliss.
@Schmidt54
@Schmidt54 7 жыл бұрын
I remember G-NOME, in fact I still have it. I never managed to come far because it is a hard game in my book. But what a cool concept, and the mechs are really cool and different! The feature to run around as infantry and highjacking mechs and stuff, I thought it was really cool at the time, I remember playing the demo (!!) for hours. Pre-internet days, you were dark yet full of fun. :D
@childofcascadia
@childofcascadia 4 жыл бұрын
I rewatch this occasionally just for the amazing alliteration. This episode is LGR writing at its best.
@paulofferman8538
@paulofferman8538 7 жыл бұрын
I got this game back in 97 when i purchased a Packard Bell Pentium 166MMX computer. Played the hell out of it, got many, many hours of entertainment out of it. I was actually fondly remembering this game last week. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, keep these coming!
@torry2
@torry2 Жыл бұрын
As a kid i could not grasp the controls of this game but i loved looking at the mechs and hearing the computer lady announce the names of everything and telling you that you were gonna get annihilated by the ion cannon
@CR-wh2co
@CR-wh2co 7 жыл бұрын
Ive been trying to remember the name of this game for years! Thank you!
@Bebopopotamus
@Bebopopotamus 5 жыл бұрын
Man, I spend hours and days on this game. I loved it when I was a kid.
@TorchicNidoran1994
@TorchicNidoran1994 5 ай бұрын
This game was what got me into mechs. It deserves a remaster and I want to find people who still play it on-line
@jld208
@jld208 7 жыл бұрын
I have fond memories of playing this when I'd visit my aunt. It came bundled with her Packard Bell and I've still got the disc around here somewhere.
@guycrew728
@guycrew728 7 жыл бұрын
Lol. remember that youtube to mp3 converter website whose default link was to that 'song:' Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
@salokin3087
@salokin3087 7 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I love me some mech action, especially ones with terrible Aussie accents! Mechwarrior when?
@emmarossignol4445
@emmarossignol4445 6 жыл бұрын
Shit man trying to get Mercs to run is still like that.
@idunno402
@idunno402 5 жыл бұрын
Maybe you should cover it? MW5 Mercenaries comes out in September so hopefully you get some traction then?
@vovapsix
@vovapsix 5 жыл бұрын
You should check out Metal Fatigue, Submarine Titans and BattleZone 2. All three are underrated 90s games that blew my mind as a kid. Metal Fatigue is a strategy game with mechs and unique mech and map mechanics. Submarine Titans is basically underwater Star Craft, it has a decent campaign and unique mechanics that separates it from SC. BattleZone 2 is an FPS/Strategy game, where you can construct bases, build armies and control them from a single unit's cockpit or from above with a classical strategy camera view (there is a remastered version btw).
@snoopii2507
@snoopii2507 7 жыл бұрын
MONTY PYTHON CD GAMES??????? I think I know what your next review should be
@pixelflow
@pixelflow 7 жыл бұрын
those pre-rendered huds and menu are the bees knees.
@AerialBadgerRelease
@AerialBadgerRelease 7 жыл бұрын
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! .......yeah!
@camshaftgaming7059
@camshaftgaming7059 7 жыл бұрын
Lazy Game Reviews, I'm so glad you made this video. This was my first PC game. My parents got it for free with their first computer in the windows 95 era and my father gave it to me because he was not into games and could not understand it. I played it on my Windows 98 Compaq I got for free at a yard sale at the age of 9, and to this day I still have my disc copy. It never had a jewel case or a large box as it came with a package deal sadly but I hope to find them. What's even more interesting about this game is that it functions differently on every computer I install it on from glitches to freezes to just the intro video not working but the game running just fine. This game was what started my Mech (or HAWC) obsession and I can't keep my hands off of anything that has to do with them now. Even funnier, I have never made it past the third mission. My game would give me the infiltration code for the convoy and I could never make it work. I just replayed the first and second missions over and over. The amount of people that even know this game exists are few and far between. But here you come again with a video about something that even someone like me can relate a large chunk of his childhood to. I could rattle off plenty of stories about that old 98 Compaq, the computer I had before that which my neighbor had given me that had a single color screen in amber and I still can't figure out what brand it was, or even my modular IBM ThinkPad 775 that I miss dearly. I had that one at age 11 and I played tank simulators on it. Had to search for months on Ebay to find a modular cd drive for it. I'm only 22 now but this old tech is exciting. My next project is going to be a dual Pentium III Windows 98 machine on an old server board. To think that processor came out when I was somewhere around 5. Also thank you for your videos about your old 486 DOS custom build with the wood look. That was one of a kind these days.
@silentrock599
@silentrock599 Жыл бұрын
Man, I remember playing the hell out of this when I was a little kid. Good times.
@MattNadareski
@MattNadareski 7 жыл бұрын
This was the first mech game that I had as a kid... I absolutely HATED when you went out of bounds the orbital ion cannon would be called in on you, even if you got stuck or something... Needless to say, I cheated a lot to even see the ending.
@sofemon3821
@sofemon3821 6 жыл бұрын
*and when the autoeject clipps the camera into the terrain so you watch yourself hopelessly run in circles as a enemy HAWK spots you and misses every shot*
@duomaxwell6523
@duomaxwell6523 6 жыл бұрын
"Warning. Approaching Orbital Defense Kill Zone". "Warning. ENTERING Orbital Defense Kill Zone". "Ion Cannon ready! Have a nice day". Mission Failed (unless you eject seconds before the Ion Cannon kills your HAWC, then you have seconds to run back to the mission zone as the warning message plays again if you're outside without a HAWC before the IC hits YOU as well.)
@ProtossExecutor100
@ProtossExecutor100 6 жыл бұрын
Duo Maxwell Yoooo those messages scared me as a kid. And I barely cheated on any level except that stupid one where you have to steal the Scorp tank to see the minefield and there’s two rocket towers making it almost impossible
@DonnieDisasters
@DonnieDisasters 7 жыл бұрын
I had this game. And back in time I didnt understand how to play because I was 10 and I didn't know english
@ProtossExecutor100
@ProtossExecutor100 6 жыл бұрын
DonnieDisasters Same. RIP to the mission where you had to go into the building to win because I walked around wondering wtf to do. Then I destroyed it and failed
@Alexanderzzzzon
@Alexanderzzzzon 5 жыл бұрын
Same here my man. In fact I just wrote the same thing in another comment xD
@JStar1337
@JStar1337 5 жыл бұрын
I remember, there was an Easteregg in the Training Mission. The Instructor was yelling at you like in Full Metal Jacket.
@DG-er1wt
@DG-er1wt Жыл бұрын
This game came with a computer we bought when I was 10 years old. I played it a LOT and fell in love with so many of the mechs. These days, I don't really do big robots at all, so it was such an odd feeling seeing this all again. Cool video.
@MobyTheDuck
@MobyTheDuck 7 жыл бұрын
Hey Clint, did you ever thought of doing a Deus review (not Deus Ex, just plain Deus). It was a Windows 95 FPS with a reaaaaaaaly complex health system, where you could damage and even lose body parts. You could say it was the ancestor to all these early access survival games. I think it was the sequel to Robinson's Requiem.
@maxblazek
@maxblazek 7 жыл бұрын
LOVED 7th Level games as a kid. Had a few of them.
@maxw27
@maxw27 7 жыл бұрын
Something you might find interesting about G-Nome, it came bundled with Packard bell computers. As kids, my brother & I all got various models the same year. Each one came with a copy of this game, so I'm happy you finally made a video about it.
@Rebelsk8s
@Rebelsk8s Жыл бұрын
No idea why my dad even had this game since he was using his pc for work only. Someone must have given it to him but I was the only one ever playing it. And I loved it even though I had no idea what was going on since I was 6 or maybe 8 years old and could hardly read while there were some difficult or even english terms used (I'm german). Also the controls made zero sense to me; all I knew so far was Tetris and Super Mario Land 2 after all so this game was way to complex. I didn't even realize there was a way to save your game (saving games was nothing I knew about at that point). So I just kept to "begin with the beginning" ;) Just walking around as a -robot- though was enough to amaze me. I really wish I could play it again and fully experience the game :(
@Tramwithacam
@Tramwithacam 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for solving a mystery I've had since I was like 9. My friend had this game and I could not for the life of me remember the name!
@jl86_
@jl86_ 7 жыл бұрын
Everyone make their own chant! LGR LGR LGR LGR!
@schadenfreudebuddha
@schadenfreudebuddha 7 жыл бұрын
what do we want? a time machine! when do we want it? well, it doesn't really matter...
@starstrudel8417
@starstrudel8417 2 жыл бұрын
I love everything about this game. I still have the original disc for this from back when my brother and I used to play it on our old Windows 95 computer. To this very day we still frequently stick it in a CD player to listen to the soundtrack. We used to bend our arms into stiff right angles and tromp around pretending to be HAWCs. I'll never forget how haunting it felt to play.
@sacamentobob
@sacamentobob 7 жыл бұрын
Clint, what a great review! I overslept and woke up with various body aches this saturday morning and then saw your video... all aches disappeared and I felt I was back in the 90s! Now only if LGRfoods came my way...
@DonkeyKong64InstructionBooklet
@DonkeyKong64InstructionBooklet 6 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite games from when I was a kid!
@RaVirrTheTrader
@RaVirrTheTrader 7 жыл бұрын
Ahh....NOW it's a good Friday... :)
@AlphaXray
@AlphaXray 6 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy I found this video. I talked to a friend at work about this being one of my favorites when I was a kid. Then I saw your big box video and saw your mech warrior collection and hoped I'd see G-Nome. Low and behold it was there, and you've done a separate video on it!
@irrlicht321
@irrlicht321 7 жыл бұрын
My childhood! This is the video I've waited two years for. I still love it. Mechjacking is the best.
@seothis640
@seothis640 7 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! I've never even heard of this one... You should do a video on Total Annihilation or Heavy Gear. Keep up the good work! Do you ever take a week off?
@LGR
@LGR 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And nah, not really.
@DodgeWatt
@DodgeWatt 7 жыл бұрын
Get a life LGR XD
@phoenixwolf3493
@phoenixwolf3493 7 жыл бұрын
He has a life. It's called "I make videos about really old, interesting, sometimes forgotten stuff". Duh! XD
@sleeves2604
@sleeves2604 7 жыл бұрын
It's his job, he would have less of a good life if he didn't do it.
@Aaronlcyrus
@Aaronlcyrus 7 жыл бұрын
total annihilation kingdoms was the bomb.
@KairuHakubi
@KairuHakubi 7 жыл бұрын
I would love to get into making blocky-ass retro games.
@Lost_n_Found_1
@Lost_n_Found_1 7 жыл бұрын
Kairu Hakubi As would I.
@onometre
@onometre 7 жыл бұрын
then get to it. learn a programming language, and go from there. a journey begins with a single step.
@schadenfreudebuddha
@schadenfreudebuddha 7 жыл бұрын
get a job developing for Nintendo 3ds. oh, snap!
@guaposneeze
@guaposneeze 7 жыл бұрын
It wouldn't be terribly hard to approximate that look with modern tools. Just use super low res textures with "nearest neighbor" filtering, chunky models, and then a vertex shader that rounds all the vertex positions to approximate the chunkiness/shakiness of the old-school fint point/integer math, and a hard edged 1-bit alpha on all your explosion/laser blast images that get pasted awkwardly on top of the scene with no nice blending. It was all really hard to do on a 486, but nowadays the technology is a lot more accessible if you only want it to run on a modern machine and you don't have to pull your hair out optimising it to hell and gone.
@umageddon
@umageddon 7 жыл бұрын
Sounds ORIGINAL
@Marandal
@Marandal Жыл бұрын
Played this ALL the time after school as a kid and loved it. Thanks for coveing it LGR!
@whowhatwherehowwhy
@whowhatwherehowwhy 4 жыл бұрын
Holy ..... seeing the thumbnail of this game got me way too excited to watch your review haha. I remember playing this game when it came packaged with the Compaq Presario pc back in '98, must have spent days in front of that monitor playing this. Best summer an 11 year old me couldve had! 10/10
@raphacooper
@raphacooper 7 жыл бұрын
Man, I loved this game....oh the memories
@DarknessViper99
@DarknessViper99 7 жыл бұрын
That G-Nome is a goddamn Deathclaw.
@brown_town18
@brown_town18 6 жыл бұрын
This game came with my family's first Compaq that ran Windows 95. I was about 8 years old, and all I remember is loving the mecha and being able to run around on foot. Never beat the first mission though. Thank you, I've been trying to find this game for almost 20 years!
@r-saint
@r-saint 7 жыл бұрын
One of the best mecha games from my childhood along with cultish StarSiege and MechWarrior 3.
@ZombieSexmachine
@ZombieSexmachine 5 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this, was fun for the time. Was playing this, mechwarrior and C&C
@lazerbladebrennerpurdy8314
@lazerbladebrennerpurdy8314 4 жыл бұрын
I’d have to say that my favorite thing about this game was the music.
@Lost_n_Found_1
@Lost_n_Found_1 7 жыл бұрын
I almost fell over at "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS" 😂😂😂
@benparker1822
@benparker1822 11 ай бұрын
This was a game that I got to try at a friend's house. I constantly failed the bridge mission because I'd always get sniped by the infantry when I exited the HAWC. Never got to play anymore past a couple hours. And, I could never recall the title! So finding a retrospective was impossible until stumbling across this vid.
@Slay1337pl
@Slay1337pl 7 жыл бұрын
2:20 "Quick, strong, inteligent and designed for combat" Deathclaws.
@audixas1
@audixas1 7 жыл бұрын
Oooh, this looks interesting!
@falzar3381
@falzar3381 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks LGR! I was looking for this old title for quite some time after I forgotten the name of the game.
@TheArtkaw
@TheArtkaw 7 жыл бұрын
MMX technology?! Sold! Ah... I remember getting so hyped up seeing texture-mapped graphics in mech games back in the day.
@loganjorgensen
@loganjorgensen 7 жыл бұрын
I think it's a missed opportunity, instead of G-Nome they should have called it Gnome, imagine those little dudes having mech combat. That wouldn't have blended into the background of the genre.
@flyingninja1234
@flyingninja1234 7 жыл бұрын
I didn't notice the dash after the G. I thought the game was called Gnome.☺
@RobbYarber
@RobbYarber 7 жыл бұрын
I remember getting a copy of Starsiege with our Gateway 2000 desktop. It was my introduction to Mech games and I fell in love with the genre.
@danielpeters1429
@danielpeters1429 5 ай бұрын
My family got this game with our very first HP computer back in the day. My dad and I used to play together, he would control the movement and I would fire the weapons. Such great memories! Trying to get my dad into Mech Warrior now (he’s in his 70’s). I’ll never forget the VO with the self destruct sequence. 😂 I wish they would have made a sequel!
@markvincentlim6235
@markvincentlim6235 6 жыл бұрын
2:48 "Darken, darken, darken, darken, union, union, union, union, merc, merc, merc, merc, scorp, scorp, scorp, scorp..." "Developers, developers, developers, developers..."
@StephanS
@StephanS 7 жыл бұрын
Now do a review of 7th Level Battle Beast
@tunainoil
@tunainoil 7 жыл бұрын
Ditto.
@MrPieman2
@MrPieman2 4 жыл бұрын
I've been binging your content for a while now. You have no idea how happy I am that you know this game exists.
@mikenonya3167
@mikenonya3167 2 жыл бұрын
This game came with our Packward Bell pc back in 1997. And I spent many many many hours playing. I still remember the weird elevator music in the transport ship in the (second?) Level. And the feeling you'd get when you see a giant enemy walker in the distance thru the scope lense. That Australian accent. My God this whole video just keep plucking nostalgia strings. I love it.
@Dorelaxen
@Dorelaxen 7 жыл бұрын
Should have been actual gnomes riding around in giant steam powered mechs.
@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R
@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R 7 жыл бұрын
Look out for the upcoming soon-to-be hit sequel, G-oblin!
@jeffmaesar
@jeffmaesar 5 жыл бұрын
G-Nome had something really neat : the IFF allowing to pretend to be an ennemy so you can literally sneak behind ennemy lines without even shooting yoour canon once.
@timsgta
@timsgta 3 жыл бұрын
I didn't forget it, still have my disc and manuals...it was tons of fun...
@jaxnean2663
@jaxnean2663 7 жыл бұрын
I'll call my mech: a Dedicated Operational Hardware
@TheMadmanAndre
@TheMadmanAndre 7 жыл бұрын
MERCMERCMERCMERC SCORPSCORPSCORPSCORP DEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERS Fucking Ded.
@-pancakes7205
@-pancakes7205 7 жыл бұрын
my sister loved this game back in the 90's. at some point we lost the game and i bought for her for Christmas, she had tears of nostalgia
@izamito
@izamito 7 жыл бұрын
I had this game but forgot the name. I stopped searching for it. Now onward to search for a copy. Thank you LGR!
@NdoesM
@NdoesM 5 жыл бұрын
I'm not a g-elf I'm not a g-noblen I'm a g-nome
@kazamthwizard54
@kazamthwizard54 5 жыл бұрын
It's not a G-ELF or a G-NOBLIN.
@HazingNight
@HazingNight 6 жыл бұрын
i had this game when it first came out... i was 4 at the time and somehow had the mental capacity to eject the other mech pilot and still it. there was always one mission i couldnt get past and a few others i would complete by mistake not knowing how i done it. idk why but this game and army men toys in space were my childhood favorites i wish i could play again. also that gamne with howie mandell you showed in the book was another i had and was thinking about looking up on youtube but i couldnt remember the name. i just remembered the name howie. and now that im older i know who he is and didnt realise he was a big part of my childhood. hell now that i think about it i feel old as hell since that was 20 years ago....... and im only 24. thanks for helping me relive my childhood
@vladojokic
@vladojokic Ай бұрын
That Balmer moment made me uncontrollably laugh out loud. Brilliant setup :D
@CoreyDWillis
@CoreyDWillis 7 жыл бұрын
I can't believe you didn't cover the weirdly sexual "Are you sure?" voiceclip from when you try to quit the game. Haha.
@Varlwyll
@Varlwyll 5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt that way lol
@diamondmcpro
@diamondmcpro 7 жыл бұрын
G-Nome is it for linux? Lol
@endersftd
@endersftd 6 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there
@SepSyn
@SepSyn 4 жыл бұрын
I got a loose copy of this game when my family got our first PC. Loved the game despite the janky control, lack of explanation of controls, and sub par graphics. What an experience for a very little me. You missed a golden opportunity to highlight the way the game kept you from wandering off. The voice that would come on you com and warn you that you'd die if you kept going before saying "have a nice day" and obliterating you with an orbital laser was a big part of the charm for me.
@Catman2030
@Catman2030 5 жыл бұрын
Damnit man you can't just taunt with that brief glimpse of Starsiege, show us the goods!
@702octopus
@702octopus 7 жыл бұрын
this is one of my favortie games from back then! I'm so glad u got around to reveiwing this
@JamesonWilde
@JamesonWilde 4 жыл бұрын
Dude. THANK YOU. I could not for the life of me remember the name of this game. Remember playing it a ton when I was a kid.
@kempet
@kempet 6 ай бұрын
I have a boxed copy of this. Never played it much, but I liked the reviews of it when it came out and picked it up many years later during my retro rush.
@ande4905
@ande4905 Ай бұрын
One of my favorite games in the 90s. Played it, finished it. I still have our original disc. As pointed out, my copy came bundled with a Windows 98 Packard Bell, if I remember correctly.
@medblackstar7204
@medblackstar7204 7 жыл бұрын
I used to play this game every time I'd go over to my grandparents house as a kid (it came bundled with their PC). Brings back some great memories! Apparently their computer came bundled with several of the 7th level games, because I remember the great math and reading adventures they had as well.
@jabobo99
@jabobo99 7 жыл бұрын
I remember a friend of mine having G-Nome and showing it to me at his place. It's a fun game at the time and even let me borrow it to install it on my PC. He and I would have matches via modem and they were a blast. Just seeing this video brings back memories.
@dakotadouglas6646
@dakotadouglas6646 3 жыл бұрын
IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS GAME FOREVER! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
@fredbyoutubing
@fredbyoutubing Жыл бұрын
Oh the nostalgia! I remember this game came free with my dad's first home computer and for what seemed like a long time, this and a f-22 simulator were the only games we had.
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