Games to Remember - Monster Bash (No Commentary)

I am currently in the middle of replaying all the games from my childhood. I played many games growing up, but the ones that stood out to me the most will be featured here.
This game is Monster Bash. Originally called Graveyard, during development, this side scrolling platform game was developed and published by Apogee Software in 1993.
The player controls Johnny Dash, whose pet dog Tex was just dognapped by the game's main villain, Count Chuck. During a fearsome storm a friendly monster under his bed tells Johnny that many other pets have been taken as well, and that Count Chuck took them to his Underworld to transform them all into evil monsters. The 'bed monster' empowers Johnny with a bottomless pocket of rocks with which to arm his slingshot. Through a secret temporary portal in his closet that operates as a passageway, Johnny enters the Underworld, in order to defeat the Count's army and save the pets.

[@9frasi]

It takes me 25 years to see again this game, thanks for the Memories 😂😂😂

[@iggsta3o5]

Apogee, 3dRealms, Sierrasoft, Microprose. Man i miss the days

[@whitak3r]

I played more hero quest and leisure suit Larry that I had any reason to when I was prob 6 or so haha.

[@cischsr2794]

Where id software

[@christianMswanson]

omg this took me back! holy crap.. i remember it being really hard for me.. i think i was like 5 or 6 maybe XD

[@66javi66]

me too! hahaha

[@saralibeausejour]

me three! i was 5 hehe

[@PetteriWar]

same dude. I never finished when my parents gave away the pc.

[@zacharyrozell7421]

Same!

[@Kaput0103]

I used to play this game alot as a child, and Commander Keen as well! Thanks for the upload :)

[@angesoie]

thank you for posting this. memory unlocked

[@Phlebas]

This is probably my favourite platformer of all time. Catchy music, varied game mechanics, challenging puzzles, entertaining level design. And oh, how I hated that cave level.

[@9NP0]

Haha, I really hated that sawmill level!

[@BruceCampbell0886]

Monster Bash, Biomenace, Halloween Harry, Blake Stone. So many good DOS games.

[@WarioWareProductions]

This game used to freak me out

[@sirbattlecat]

Even as a 7 year old I loved zombies and stuff, and especially this game. Watched Friday The 13th alone too. Couldn't understand why my cousins wouldn't play Mortal Kombat with me...

[@naoruaikidokai1742]

Yeah. O had heartbumps with the nemesis announce from count chuck

[@derp8575]

Games were so much fun during the Apogee and id Software era. Before microtransactions and pay-to-win. When replay value and content were important to software executives.

[@BlueShoeMagoo]

I just Googled “Windows PC game with a kid in pajamas and a slingshot” and this was the first result! Couldn’t remember the name of this game, but remembered the hours I’d play as a kid.

[@allcc2124]

thats me at 44:06 through 44:35 being curious and testing stuff lol. thought i was the only one that does things like this. lol

[@SquibsVids]

Not a problem. These games are a bit harder than I remember them being, not sure why that is. I enjoyed these games to no end when I was younger.

[@guillermoaguirre9009]

tenia años de estar buscando este juego mas de 16 años para ser exacto, por fiiiiiiinnnnnnn

[@rickjelier6353]

20 years ago I played this and never got past the first level, I was 3 years old. I finally know how to beat it!

[@ignacioernesto]

its feels really weird watching this, unlocking really old memories from +25 years ago when i was a child, i remember lots of the details of each level despite i played it when i was 5yo, its was really creepy

[@AtlasBlizzard]

That dragon at the end looks amazing, especially for DOS! 🐲

[@LY203Productions]

In the latest version of the game, the dragon is at the start of the level.

[@patrickriarchy6054]

This hit me right in the nostalgia.

[@raraszek]

This was among my favourite MS-Dos games! Along with Fire & Ice :D I can't believe it's been three decades since I heard this music

[@hrrawr]

That flying broomstick elevator with bat wings is the best thing I have seen in a while. (42:50)

[@derseemann6319]

One of my first games 1992. I was 6-7 years old. Nice to see it again, I forgot that game....

[@piyushkandpal7155]

FOUND ITTTTT YOOOOO i was literally searching slingshot in graveyard game😂😂😂😂

[@Nicomanism]

0:17 my mom got pissed the moment she saw blood coming down the screen and loading the start screen .

[@Emanoval]

Back then I couldn't read properly so I thought the Strong looking one was easy difficulty..... now I see why I never couldn't beat this damn game.

[@Scarab1233]

These graphics were much, much better in my memory... but I still remember playing it.

[@HALO3286]

Brings back memories... I had this game on a old windows 95 computer. Loved playing it as a kid. Is there a free download of the full game anywhere? I would love to play It again.

[@Demonhornz]

Did you ever find this out?

[@georgettecosenza3701]

Me too if you get any answers please let me know. Thanks.

[@061Hitachi]

you can buy on GOG.com

[@danlawson7665]

Also available on steam...I'd imagine you found it after 5 years though

[@mariic2]

Check GOG.

[@Dani-nk8ky]

Omg remember elf mountain?! This and that game are ingrained in my memories

[@marina_helena]

Um dos primeiros jogos que joguei em minha vida! Muito bom rever! 😍😍😍

[@daniellemoore7922]

Holy sht. I remember this. I used to love this game.

[@hrrawr]

I want to know what the monsters want with all these cats and dogs.

[@Eshocksz]

Nostalgie!! Love from the Netherlands

[@flashhundred-yarddash6743]

Wow, never thought i'd see this Game again... It only took a Pandemic Outbreak for me to find it, lOl... & first level has the Rise of the Zombies, funny how that works, lOl... I kept looking up Side Scrollers with kids blowing bubblegum & shooting sling shots... Nothing ever came up, scept ghosts & goblins, & Kid & his blob or whatever Games... This brings back so many memories, awesome Game... I think I beat it if I remember right...

[@AvenueD417]

Awesome, I noticed the sound effects are different on this version. Still great to see after all these years

[@Davian_Thule]

this game was one of the hardest ones i ever played as child...

[@TheReturnOfJames]

this game was made 22 years ago. I feel old...

[@Joey007ist]

TheReturnOfJames *25. Yikes...

[@greatpower6063]

i never finished this game lol. xD i loved it but it was hard as balls.

[@flooodo]

@@greatpower6063 right ?? Not to mention i was like 5 when playing it

[@DJVHANproductions]

27 now

[@Vanislehunterman]

29?

[@themightythor1160]

Ugh these games. So good!

[@msgesus4518]

Yo, I have memories of playing this at a friends house. I would have been about 7 or 8. lol

[@baxterstockman2191]

This and Jazz Jack rabbit and Halloween Harry were my favorite platformers

[@Celeron525]

Thanks for the vids dude, these are games I grew up with as well! Now that your much older, do you find the game harder or easier? I always had trouble with this game lol

[@GetlemanNightmare]

oh.. childhood memories :D thanks

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

Take a look at the four feets under the eigth feets above at 17:04.

[@margaretlopez8351]

I remember playing this a little when I was like 4 lol. So crazy

[@hrrawr]

Some of the headstones are dated 1801 - 1923, implying this person lived to be 122 years old-- I guess the thing they were going for was that they had been alive longer than the amount of time since they had died... ...and in another 25-26 years they'll be about the same.

[@syll2k]

I dream alot about this witch in start Lol love this for ever legendary game

[@hrrawr]

From the way you're playing it, the health pickups seem really well placed.

[@Freddyfootlong]

I loved this game :) And the music is sooo good :D

[@recordingstudiotech]

My game would always freeze at 17:44. Never seen past that, awesome.

[@welme23]

I remember. It was fun

[@YaoA.R.]

Great game was very hard xD

[@MrGrey-zc2cy]

I remember this game being so damn hard. Just came from a video about how hard Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure was, I finished _that_ (well up until the point where you had to buy more) just fine. This? Naw.

[@andresmandujano5800]

boys and girls club had this one and I would always race to the computer room to play after school, simpler times

[@firestorm256]

Das war echt ein super spiel

[@ut3115]

I took me 5 years to finaly found that games,

[@HugolDovi]

unos de los mejores juego de pc.

[@PokeMonkey19]

this was 1 of the first games on pc my mom introduced me to damn floppy disks xD

[@Trohawkk]

Amazing ... you kids will never know

[@MissMaryanne1]

Rat on a stick (dad used to say it when he played this)

[@yannisbskt]

Great game

[@VicVegaTW]

I remember the first round and to a lesser extent the second round being easy then the 3rd being ridiculously hard, dying, and going back to the start to do level 1 & 2 again. Then the demo copy not having the other 2 levels and wishing I had it.

[@JStryker47]

Those difficulty pictures should be reversed. It should be the super weak kid with the least health and the super strong kid with the most health.

[@dingding12321]

how fed up he is with this game is palpable

[@DJ_BoomBear]

To think this game is getting a HD re release

[@RoughRiderElk]

I played this when I was 4 or 5

[@hrrawr]

Why is his flag on checkpoints a Pirate flag?

[@_ilynux]

He's a stereotypical little boy who has grand adventures with his imagination. All little boys at some point or another pretend to be pirates.

[@canlong9603]

I remember that I couldn't turn off the music and sfx :)

[@serious460]

best game ever :D

[@georgettecosenza3701]

I used to love this game and played it so much. Does anyone know if it is still available to play on the internet?

[@adammah1908]

You can play this on dos emulator

[@H0LDENSUX]

Man they don't make games like they use to.

[@RP-dy5mu]

Where are the microtransactions though?

[@RydiasRevenge]

Has anyone done a montage music-video of this game with the audio to the original "Monster Bash" oldies song? Now THAT I would pay to see if it was done very well with respect to copyrights and all of the RIAA and ESA of course.

[@Sn_SS95]

i was 4 this game scared the shxt out of me while my brother was playing this

[@bradp4788]

Loved it

[@agiftedrighterdotcom]

Can't make a game like this nowadays.Too much material to trigger.

[@jusesjimmybars]

back on 3.1 yepyep

[@markoglazersout611]

Classic! - Buy it here: www.gog.com/game/monster_bash

[@danielcooper5698]

Help... how can I play this? Which emulator?

[@freeidiot]

www.dosbox.com/