How Fury 3 Sold Windows 95 as a Gaming Platform | Terminal Reality's Old PC Space Shooter Review

Fury 3 PC game review. Microsoft's Fury 3 is PC abandonware now but in 1995, Fury3 was probably the most significant PC game on the planet.
Microsoft were planning for Windows 95 to be this shiny all-singing gaming platform. PC games for Windows were to be developed to a set of standards called DirectX. All Microsoft needed was some killer apps to package in with Windows 95.
This is the story of how Microsoft's Fury3 sold Windows 95 as a gaming platform.
Fury 3 is an arcade-style space shooter. These were big news in the early 90s. TIE Fighter, Descent, Wing Commander had all been mega popular on DOS so of course Microsoft's Fury 3 would be the perfect genre for a Windows 95 launch game.
The evil Bions have annexed nine planets which you’ll need to liberate. Each planet has its own unique look and also its own unique enemy types. Your spaceship has seven different weapons in Fury 3.
If Microsoft were going to sell Windows 95 as a good gaming platform, Fury 3 needed to work without any mucking about. Terminal Reality’s job wasn’t just making a good game, Fury 3 had to sell the Windows experience.
PC Zone specifically mentioned in their 1995 preview of Fury3 about how the game just worked out of the box. It can't be overstated how important Fury 3 was for selling Windows 95. If people wanted to play 3D games they could go get an inexpensive Playstation and just fire it up with no worries. If Microsoft could just make the Windows PC a bit more friendly then they'd be on to something.
Microsoft’s Fury 3 launched to retail in August 1995 in the USA alongside Windows 95. A bundled demo was included with Windows 95, Fury 3 being essentially a launch title for Windows 95. As well as being given away with new PCs, Fury 3 was also bundled with Microsoft Sidewinder joysticks.
Fury 3 was released here in the UK around Christmas ‘95 but I can’t find reviews in the mags until early 1996. The few reviews I have dug up praised Windows 95! With the focus squarely on launching and selling Windows 95, Microsoft did no favours to Terminal Reality. The bottom line is Microsoft's Fury 3 is a good game. I love old PC space shooters and whenever I think of this genre I always think of Fury 3.
Fury 3 paved the way for Windows 95 and Windows games. The idea of buying a game that was guaranteed to work really can’t be understated in terms of market confidence.
Fury 3 doesn’t exactly contain a ton of content. If you’ve played the classic old PC space shooters and want something more, it would be hard to recommend Microsoft's Fury3 on the basis of its content alone. But as a legacy game. The game which sold Windows 95 as a gaming platform. Fury 3 is a must-play.
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"Premonition", "Waves", "Sandstorm" and "Mission Briefing" by Kyle Richards all appear on the Fury 3 OST. All music is from my own CD-ROM copy of the game.

[@thisnamehaschangedthanksto8185]

*THIS!!!* This game IS EXACTLY the game I was trying to remember but couldn't. OMG this is such a *funtastic* game I used to play in my childhood!!! Thank you for such a wonderful review! Greetings from a guy who used to play Fury3 in his sister's Compaq Clone back in 1997, in Venezuela.

[@MattyStoked]

Hello Venezuela, all the way from sunny England! I'm so glad you found the video. How did you find it if you didn't know the name?

[@thisnamehaschangedthanksto8185]

@@MattyStoked I had a slight glimpse of what the name would be, and by searching for old games, I happened to stumble into your vid.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@MattyStoked Though it was 8 planets, rather, not 9. And no ice world.

[@NateLarsonTheNetNinja]

@@thisnamehaschangedthanksto8185 I couldn't remember the name either. I found it by searching for windows 95 game demo CD

[@RaptorShadow]

Fury3 is a game that brought my family together. Grandad got the demo with the PC he bought after retiring in '97 and this was the first PC game me and my brother played. He got Hellbender at some point after... and then found a retail copy of Fury3. I played it, my brother played it. My mum (who does not do videogames) even gave it a shot. Dad spent a mad weekend finishing the whole game... and the game congratulated ME because he'd loaded up my savegame! I have some super strong memories attached to this game. Doesn't hurt that its fun as heck and has a banging soundtrack.

[@MattyStoked]

That is such a beautiful story. More and more, I'm enjoying sharing unique stories about the way our old family computers brought us together. I think it's becoming a core focus of why I do these videos.

[@Weaponized_Poutine]

Hellbender was my jam, IIRC we got fury3 with either our sidewinder or Voodoo 2 but loved it just as much. I remember my friends and I trying to see who could finish the levels the fastest.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@MattyStoked Having played the shiz out of this game, I may even finally play Hellbender (if I can install it)

[@benpowell5682]

@@Weaponized_Poutine Hellbender was sick, loved the soundtrack :)

[@aerodyneproductions]

I used to play the first level of Fury3 over and over and over again. There was something so cathartic about the feeling of flying over the cloud line! What if you also had a joystick!? Fuggetaboutit.

[@MattyStoked]

Still is. I played the demo a lot, loved the game and somehow convinced my parents to get it for me. It's still a really chill experience. Not as deep as others, but loads of fun.

[@strangerealsensei7075]

I absolutely ADORED this game! One of the first PC games I ever played and it’s what pretty much got me into flying games. The soundtrack has never left my mind either, Kyle Richards made such a memorable piece of melodic win. Thank you for making this. You’ve done the game justice.

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks mate! I loved this game too. I meant everything I said in the video, I spend a silly amount of time thinking about this game. When I started researching the game the video became something far different than I had planned. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@MattyStoked]

Remember Microsoft's Fury 3? It came with Windows 95, helped to sell the PC as a legit gaming platform and then faded away. Let me know if you remember this one!

[@Akgis32]

yes along Monster Truck Madness! but MTM is newerish You mention this game could alt/tab and run perfectly in a Window even today some games dont play well with alt/tab or in a window mode, requiring exclusive full screen to run properly or at a proper frame pace

[@MattyStoked]

Yes indeed with Monster Truck Madness! MTM was '96 but was still a killer app for Windows 95. The whole Madness series was a big deal. That's a really good point about modern games not playing well with Alt+Tab. I wish I'd thought of that when writing the script. 😁

[@ssaini5028]

You remember Microsoft's Deadly Tide?

[@PGHammer21A]

I not only remember it, I have a copy of it; a legit copy, at that. (I even was found playing it at a Windows 95 launch event in Washington, DC - and interviewed by what later became WUSA-TV while turning Bions into confetti.) The game itself was Terminal Velocity for Windows - almost literally. (You could even swap the DOS bits into the Windows game and play IT in Windows.) My favorite level was the middle planet - New Kroy - the city planet. Basically New York on steroids. Another slick trick is that Fury3 also worked on *Windows NT* - (Not exactly commonplace.)

[@hitkid2456]

Yes, this was my first PC game (I did have Whiplash at about the same time but could never get it to run). But man I loved the soundtrack, and how whenever you finished with a planet often it would explode. Messing with the broken codes was a lot of fun too.

[@LoveXKnife]

Crazy that this game was not received well. I think it holds up great.

[@MattyStoked]

It's so much fun! I love that this video is still finding an audience this long after I made it.

[@Viper2k3sr]

One of the first games I remember playing on PC next to Gex and Oregon Trail and Sim City. All 4 hold a special nostalgic place in my heart.

[@MattyStoked]

That's so awesome to hear! I'm going to stream Oregon Trail soon, check out the social panel to see that come up :-D

[@FOIL_FRESH]

to me, fury3 is the shooting version of that easter egg game hidden in ms excel

[@rafaferreirasantos]

Thank you for bringing my childhood back. Here in Brazil there were magazines with games cd-rom. I played this a lot.

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks so much for commenting. I love this game and I'm so happy to be able to share that with people from all over the world. Greetings from the UK to Brazil!

[@luizaszavarize]

50 best games da cd expert né?

[@GruberTD]

Loved this game! i played it over and over.. Game and the music made souch an atmosfere i totaly drowned in it

[@MattyStoked]

I'm totally with you. Hellbender is coming!

[@the27thMONKEY]

Played the trial version over and over again when I was young. This game slaps me in the face hard for the nostalgia of it. Picked up the full version years ago but never got round to playing it completely through to the end, this video has made me want to complete the game!

[@MattyStoked]

What a lovely thing to say. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Like you I played the hell out of the demo back in the day. It's well worth playing. Sure it might not be *amazing*, but it's loads of fun!

[@enterthehacks]

Fury -- the final planet -- is an absolute monstrocity of mayhem. Plus it looks like the Death Star with an outer shield and a sky. And you blow it up in the end. 10/10

[@Eleven17Studios]

There's something so 90s about a first in a series being called Fury 3. Didn't play this as a kid but watching this reminded me of playing old flight simulators with my hand-me-down blackhawk joystick in like 2001, so thanks for that nostalgia trip

[@MattyStoked]

It has a sequel called Hellbender. No reference at all to any Fury. One thing I wrote in my script but kept out of the VO was that my first time playing this was with the super budget Quickshot joystick that came with that PC. Great times.

[@RaptorShadow]

@@MattyStoked i.postimg.cc/Z5b3b8QB/Quickshot-QS201.jpg It wasn't this one was it?!

[@MattyStoked]

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[@Yora21]

I think I have not played this game in 25 years. But just seeing the gameplay with no sound, I can hear everything. :D

[@aceshighdueceslow]

I absolutely remember the trial version for this game, because that's what was bundled with my grandparent's new Win95 computer at the time. It also had Hellbender, which I have fonder memories of because it had Gillian Anderson talking to you

[@MattyStoked]

Yes! Same here except it was my parents PC. Gillian Anderson got a lot of voice work in the 90s. Bless her.

[@CaptainMcKayRandom]

I loved seeing the Sidewinder joystick showed briefly in here. That was the joystick I used back in the day, I remember having great times with the Star Wars games back then. I believe I only ever had a demo for Fury3, I want to say it was the gas planet level. Maybe that was bundled with the joystick? Or maybe I never made it far into the game? I can’t recall anymore. The music has never left my head, and I always thought the gold razor blade ball weapons were awesome. I’m glad to hear the rest of the game was worth exploring too. Great video here, thanks for the throwback!

[@MattyStoked]

Thank you for the kind comment, and thanks for subscribing! The Sidewinder was the absolute gangster joystick back in the day. The all-black, stealth aesthetic was just too cool.

[@hardwolf5]

I remember playing this game as a 5-6 maybe 7 year old back in late 90s. So great memories. I'm glad I could experience that PC gaming history myself!

[@Mugiwara2k]

Randomly found this video, and immediately got hit with nostalgia. This game had a demo packed in with my first computer, an AST, back in 1996. Never got to play the full game, but I must have played the demo hundreds of times. Such fond memories from that time period. Thanks for bringing them back!

[@mischakarth6363]

Thank you for that review. It was so thrilling back then to play this fast-paced game, and the soundtrack is still adorable.

[@MattyStoked]

I love this game and I'm so glad this video is still getting views from fans! Next month I hope to have a review on the game's sequel, Hellbender. If you fancy that, come on by in a few weeks :-)

[@ShinraXSoldier]

What a nostalgia trip. Just found the name of this game by total accident. Haven't played this game in almost 20 years.

[@MattyStoked]

That's so awesome! How did you find the name of the game? I hate it when you can remember a game but not the title!

[@ShinraXSoldier]

@@MattyStoked I was watching a video by UtterSpartan about the people who worked on Doom95, and a screenshot from Fury3 flashed on the screen for a second. I couldn't believe it. This game is literally one I've thought about often over the years, but could never remember the name since I was so young.

[@MattyStoked]

That's really great to know. There's not a lot of content our there about these early Windows games. I'd like to talk about some of the other games I own that don't get enough of the spotlight.

[@micahromani6307]

All I had was a fragment of a memory from this game I played as a child. I can't believe I found it, so much nostalgia!

[@MattyStoked]

I am so pleased that you found my video searching for this game. I also have so much nostalgia around it. Thanks for commenting ☺️

[@tommyrockstar100]

Oh man ive just remembered this game after hearing some music and i couldnt for the life of me remember the name of it and searched all over the net and found this and this brought back so many memories from when i was a kid using my sisters windows 95 PC Thanks for uploading this

[@MattyStoked]

Oh that's amazing! I'm so happy to have been part of that. Glad to help mate 😊 Also glad you enjoyed the little trip down memory lane, that's what I love about these old games.

[@ryanm7263]

That old Sidewinder joystick was so heavy that it could be used to defend your home against burglary

[@BButcher-hg4nr]

I could never forget the name of this game. My brother and I were obsessed with it as a kid, even used to take the game disc and throw it into our CD player to listen to the soundtrack. They dont make em like they used to. This game is pure nostalgia goodness, and that soundtrack still slaps. Also want to thank you for the amount of effort you put into this video. 5 years later and only 21k views? Thats a travisty, this was very well made and narrated.

[@MattyStoked]

Thank you so much. I put a fair amount of work into this one, but I suppose it's a pretty niche subject and not many people are looking for it? When people do, like yourself, they're always super nice. And frankly, I'm happy and grateful for it to be that way :)

[@helmsgaming84]

I still have these songs stuck in my head almost 30 years later.

[@Nathdood]

This was my first video game. So nostaglic. PC gaming with a joystick at age 6 in 1996 when my dad got this game!

[@MattyStoked]

This was one of my first PC games and I love sharing my nostalgia with people!

[@computergamingyesterday]

Very happy to see this video. I'm doing some background research on a later game from Terminal Reality, Monster Truck Madness.

[@MattyStoked]

Ahh yeah the Madness series was amazing. I was planning to do a full coverage of the Microsoft Home software library. One day!

[@SheathEntertainment]

I played this game in the early 2000’s because many computers from the 90’s era were still leftover. Unfortunately it ran super slow with huge laggy frame drop on the computer we had, so I never got to advance beyond the first Terran level. Luckily about 16 years later, I got to finish it on my laptop on a ISO rip. Finally I got to bring down the Bion Empire and put an end to the IP-Bion Wars.

[@PotatoFi]

My parents weren't into letting us have game consoles at all... but we did have the demo version of this game. It wasn't until a few years later that I found a full copy somewhere. While all of my friends were playing Starfox 64 and Goldeneye, I played this. Also, as a "non-gamer" (games take practice, and I didn't grow up with lots of console practice), this game was easy enough for me to tackle and complete.

[@MattyStoked]

That's cool mate, thanks for the story. It's nice to meet new people with different gaming backgrounds.

[@redscotsam]

I was really hoping you were going to keep saying Fury to the third power for the entire review 😂 great job with the video as always.

[@MattyStoked]

Haha could you imagine how annoying that would get? Not just for the listener but for me to keep saying it! Thanks for commenting mate, I'm glad you liked the video. Did you know the game before clicking?

[@redscotsam]

@@MattyStoked Honestly? This is one I didn't know of until I clicked on it but I always find it fun to listen to videos talking about anything early windows or PC related, when you think of the kind of things coming out in 1995 a textured 3D game to me isn't one of them so it was a nice surprise :L.

[@MattyStoked]

That's really interesting. I was thinking that the only people who would be interested in this video would be people who'd played the game. I'm glad to be wrong!

[@MattyStoked]

There's Super Sam. Cheers for being part of our stream tonight mate. Kept it flowing, prompted the jokes. Ta pal.

[@redscotsam]

@@MattyStoked Know I've already replied on Twitter but just saying I would absolutely love to do that with you guys again, was such a positive experience, even if it turned into an exposé into Dr Doaks craving for large bossoms 😂

[@MrEightThreeOne]

I'm a big PC game collector and I ran across this the other day, I had heard things about it here and there prior and thought it looked really cool for such an early Windows 95 game. I'm glad to see someone else who agrees with me on that! I'll definitely try playing this all the way through at some point! Minor correction though, this game actually doesn't run on DirectX, it runs on WinG. It's compatible with Windows 3.1 so by default it doesn't use DirectX. Should also mention Direct3D wasn't a thing until DirectX2. You may be interested in knowing the first game to ever use DirectX though was the Windows 95 port of Doom.

[@MattyStoked]

Yeah I can't remember if I claimed this ran in D3D or not. The point I was making was how MS used Fury 3 to sell Windows and tangentially promote DirectX, even if the two subjects are unrelated. Good info though mate.

[@kemikamiku375]

I remembered where the developer game made their Windows 95 launch titles

[@Doubleyou115]

My God, never thought I'd see this game again! I also got this game on sampler disc with my first pc. Thanks for creating this.

[@MattyStoked]

Next month I should have a video on this game's sequel. So stay tuned if you fancy that! :-D

[@guitarunt]

Thanks for doing this video. This game and Mega Race were 2 awesome games that came out of nowhere to me and my family with windows 95. Man, i loved this game growing up. I still have the CD too. I tried getting it to work on my laptop but it wouldnt go. However, i inherited an old computer from my aunt and i got it to work on there. I love the first world song. I have it on a playlist and jam it often.

[@MattyStoked]

This is one of those games which would probably work really well in PC-em or 86Box. Look into emulating PCs on newer hardware. I've got a video on it, go check it out!

[@ManfredDudesonVonGuy]

My dad and I used to play this together. Looking back it must have been infuriating as I was 5 at the time and he had played it years ago. Some of my favorite early memories.

[@MattyStoked]

I'm sure your dad would not have been infuriated. What a lovely memory to have with your father.

[@Yora21]

I got into computer games playing X-Wing and shortly after Tie Fighter at my friend's house. When we got our own computer, I really just wanted to play those two at home. But we got also got Fury 3, also as some kind of bundle. I couldn't really get into it at first, struggling with the first boss. But I remember even then, when I had only three or four other games, installing and starting a game in Widows seemed amazing. But I think even in 1997, this game seemed really obscure. I've never seen anyone mentioning its existence anywhere ever, except when I went specifically looking for it. And even then there was almost nothing on the internet. I came back to this one some years later and did completely it two or three times. I thought it was actually really quite good.

[@MattyStoked]

This game is definitely obscure, and I has no reason to be! It's a really important PC game. And a really good one, too!

[@jishammenon]

Ha! I was smiling through out the video. Can this get any more nostalgic?! 8:29 I remember being glued to my seat to pin that Guardian... I miss it so soooooo much! (It lead to my spondilitis, though :/)

[@matthew55793]

I remember the first time I played this. I was 4, I had watched my older brother fly low to the ground hugging the terrain and I wanted to do that, so I ended up repeatedly crashing into the ground until I died.

[@txcrix9236]

This was a fun little nostalgia trip. I got the game when it was bundled with the Sidewinder Force-feedback joystick. I didn't have to exit to the dos prompt to load the game wow!! My best memories were on New Kroy. The music was amazing and it went so well the dark, murky city design. Then I would use the super turbo cheat and turbo between the buildings non stop and see how close I could get to the buildings without hitting them. Unfortunately I think a lot of people that would have enjoyed Fury3 were too busy playing games like X-wing and Descent to notice the Fury 3 release.

[@MattyStoked]

Loved this whole comment. The emergent gameplay we would all come up with is such a fun thing to hear about! And you're right. Honestly, I don't think anybody would have heard of Fury3 were it not packaged with so many other things. It's the Tetris of Windows 95!

[@AnyUserNo2]

This review really impressed me. Subscribed!

[@MattyStoked]

Thanks! I am actually working on the review for the sequel to this game. So with any luck your subscription will be rewarded fairly soon 🙏

[@Jaeger_89]

Both this game and Deadly Tide deserve a remake. With the original soundtracks however...

[@MattyStoked]

Deadly Tide is mega nostalgia feels for me. I'd love to see remakes of these two.

[@Tizniz]

God I loved this game. Got my Pentium II in December of 1997, I was 8. This was the first game I played on PC, then Doom. Such a great game.

[@MattyStoked]

Hell yeah! That's what I like to hear :D

[@adammatis5527]

When i think of "old pc games" as a catagory, its Fury 3, Duke Nukem, and Raptor. I can still see the big tower pc in my parents kitchen on the roller desk.

[@MattyStoked]

Roller desks are so nostalgic! My parent's one was in the dining room!

[@SophiaXiaoyuAralaCran]

This game is a legend. I still have the disfunct disc and of course it's scratched up and all but the OST still works, and well... it's far too old for these PCs now to work, but someone shown me a ROM version with DosBox so I'm still good. One thing about this game to also admit is legendary is the soundtrack, which even over years I won't soon forget, both original and disc-arranged few tracks entirely.

[@MrErnieDevlin]

My Primary School had this, Monster Truck Madness and Zoombinis installed on almost all the PCs in the classrooms. It definitely made rainy day lunchtimes an awesome time.

[@MattyStoked]

That's amazing! Monster Truck Madness is another Microsoft banger! My school had Word Rescue installed and that was about it. :-/

[@MrErnieDevlin]

@@MattyStoked Thanks for this awesome retrospective/review. I bought this on Steam almost immediately afterwards. ^_^

[@MattyStoked]

@@MrErnieDevlin It's on Steam?!

[@MrErnieDevlin]

@@MattyStoked Sorry I made a mistake. I always thought Terminal Velocity and Fury 3 were the same game. You learn something new every day. Even if it's almost 26 years late.

[@sprintonwater]

Great video mate!

[@MattyStoked]

Cheers James! 👍

[@protocetid]

Some of the features you claim here were not possible to do until Fury 3 came with Windows 95 had already been done on Amiga IIRC.

[@MattyStoked]

There were in Windows 3 too. But Windows 3 was sketchy as heck and used to crash when doing anything difficult.

[@bencheshire]

Ive been trying to figure out what game this was for years. Loved it and it was free with my computer

[@LucyFerr_2661]

Fury3 was one of the first games i ever played :0 . the game has a killer sountrack and gameplay imo, one of my favorites of all time :) i so would like for them to bring this game back lol

[@MattyStoked]

Yeah same, this game is a straight banger.

[@MarioCalzadaMusic]

It's there any game like this one? I mean, something that I can play on mac? I really want to play fury 3D on my mac but... I think I can't

[@MattyStoked]

Check out Terminal Velocity, Fury3, Hellbender, Descent, Forsaken and AquaNox

[@Akgis32]

Thumbs up another great old games channel :) subbed, kept it coming If you taking Suggestions for later reviews Lands of Lore 1 Little Big Adventure 1 and 2 Theme Park BioForge

[@MattyStoked]

Would you accept Theme Hospital??

[@Akgis32]

@@MattyStoked ofc!, but I wanted to mention more "obscure games" Theme Hospital is more well known I guess

[@MattyStoked]

Bioforge and LBA are actually two of my favourite DOS games. I'll definitely talk about Adeline and LBA in the future.

[@MattyStoked]

Also, thanks for the love! Glad you're liking the content. We've been doing this for a while so go check out some of our past uploads 😊 Great to have you on board buddy.

[@MattyStoked]

FYI LBA is coming soon ;-)

[@legendp2011]

I had forgotten the name of this game, than youtube recommended it to me, loved this game when I was kid, (along with Riven, and age of empires 1)

[@MattyStoked]

That's great! I'm genuinely glad that KZbin seems to be working for me for once 😅 I also loved both Myst and AoE!

[@EarJuice]

I think we got it with our PC. It was great.

[@Alvargon]

Oh god thx, I was finding this game for years ^^

[@MattyStoked]

Yes, awesome! I have another video on this game's sequel coming up this year, too!

[@NateLarsonTheNetNinja]

I played the demo of this game to death as a kid. My child's imagination remembered the graphics being better, but I just found a copy and sat playing for over an hour loving every minute of it. Especially the simple but awesome soundtrack! Most of this is probably nostalgia, but I don't care. I'm glad I rediscovered this, and now I can play the full version that I didn't have as a kid! 😀

[@phaeton01]

i walked into the IT room shortly after starting year 7, saw it on a monitor and was like "hold on, fuck off a minute . . what is that?"

[@MattyStoked]

Such a good game, and for 1995 it's a total banger.

[@AnthonyAdrianAcker]

I still pop the cd in and blast that soundtrack. Goddamn it was bomb.

[@yonatanmakara6856]

Fury 3 i used to play alot. The a game called B-Hunter

[@jimjamz.]

Fury3 was bundled with your Pentium II PC in '95!? If it was bundled with a P2 machine, you were robbed mate. Chances, are, if you got your PC in '95, it would have been an early Pentium 1 (75 or 90MHz). I got my first PC in Christmas '96 (P1 120MHz), and the Win95 CD Sampler was already bundled with the demo for Hellbender (Fury3 sequel). As others have pointed out, Fury3 used WinG/Win32s libraries, Hellbender was the first game in the series to get native DirectX support, and was capable of Direct3D hardware acceleration. Love the period correct TV clips and the Emmerdale outro.

[@MattyStoked]

I wasn't robbed, I was like 12 years old or something. It's my parents who were robbed! In fairness I only have foggy memories to go on. I didn't write all the details down in my FiloFax so we're having to go on what I think I remember 😅

[@yungbluce9892]

Man, do you know how to solve issue with old game running on GPD Win 2 half screen?

[@MattyStoked]

I'm no expert on the GPD Win but this is apparently a Direct3D issue. There are wrappers and dlls which fix the half screen issue but also running your games in windowed mode will sometimes work.

[@yungbluce9892]

@@MattyStoked Thanks for your reply, I will check it ou

[@Weaponized_Poutine]

I remember the early days of Windows 95 (for me) was filled with Fury3, HellBender, Mechwarrior 2, and deadly tide. I mean there was also Winamp, but come on MP3's just took up too much hard drive at that time.

[@MattyStoked]

Hellbender and Deadly Tide are both coming to the channel. it wouldn't be right to leave them out.

[@travisfahs6519]

No mention of the sequel, Hellbender?

[@MattyStoked]

I'm pretty sure I did mention the sequel, but I checked the video and turns out I didn't. It was written in the script, most likely I cut it out in the edit to keep the game focused on the points I was trying to make. Hellbender was a great game too, you can see it at 1:17 on the CD Sampler footage I captured.

[@data1155]

I still have my copy. It runs excellent and fast on Linux with Wine.

[@MattyStoked]

It's crazy optimised. I bet it would run on a calculator!

[@thescatologistcopromancer3936]

I think I got this game at Building 19, this weird low-price warehouse kind of store. They'd always have piles of random PC games that just didn't work sometimes

[@MattyStoked]

You can always get a game working. It really depends on how much time you want to sink into the task!

[@thescatologistcopromancer3936]

@@MattyStoked oh I know that now, but I was a kid with a terrible old computer

[@lilbirdmuse8938]

I remember playing the hell out of this game. I really enjoyed the "egypt zone". I don't think I ever did all the planets back then. lol

[@MattyStoked]

Yeah Egypt planet is great. I love these old early Windows games.

[@TheOldest]

Damn, and the man mentioned POD, take me back to my teenage years.

[@MattyStoked]

Fury3 and POD are two of the most crucial games in my PC gaming life. Absolute bangers, both. Cheers for commenting!

[@TheOldest]

POD had gorgeous ground textures when it released, absolutely blew my mind at the time. Fury 3 had that combination of awe from it's intro cinematic and fun factor to the gameplay. That being said didn't get into the sequel Hellbender as much, new ship wasn't as attractive as the original but at least you could still select it.

[@MattyStoked]

@@TheOldest I've been working on a Hellbender retrospective and one thing I noticed is that it's suddenly WAY harder than Fury3?

[@lgd1974]

I wish they'd create a new Fury3 for 2020 PC gamers. :(

[@MattyStoked]

Your best bet from a bigger company might be Squadrons, but there's tons of fantastic indies out there to find.

[@supparmanpawar4203]

Fury planet must be awesome

[@keathmueller7969]

Loved this game.

[@Lachlant1984]

It's too bad Microsoft don't sell their classic PC games on websites like GOG (which I love), or Steam. My father bought a Windows 95 PC just after Windows 95 came out, but I don't remember this game being included with it. Playing this game on a Windows 10 PC would be quite fun.

[@MattyStoked]

I couldn't agree more. Microsoft had some great PC exclusives in this era and they're going to be lost to time unfortunately. There are decent abandonware sites which host the files, or you could tracks down a copy on eBay or the like. You should okay this, it's good fun!

[@Lachlant1984]

@@MattyStoked I don't feel comfortable downloading software from abandonware websites because you just don't know whether the software is still protected by copyright or not, I don't like illegally pirating computer software or other media, I like to know that I'm using legitimate products. If Microsoft were to sell their classic PC games on GOG, Steam or even their own digital shopfront, then a lot of people would be happy. I do own Terminal Velocity, I bought it on GOG years ago, but I've not really tried to play it much. How many other early Windows 95 games work on Windows 10 to the best of your knowledge?

[@FaithFalkner]

Welcome home, Councilor

[@GruberTD]

i used to love playing this just after i smoked a roach... i really sunk into it and i did play it with sidewinder joy

[@MattyStoked]

Getting blazed and playing PC games since '95 baybeee

[@wossman]

Fun Fact: I recently noticed that Fury3 also runs on Windows 3.1 with the Win32s 32-bit extensions installed. Neat! So in as much as it was meant to sell Windows 95, it doesn't actually require Windows 95. Who knew?! 🙂

[@Ryrynz2000]

Know of and played Terminal Velocity.. Never once heard of Fury3 until now lol.

[@MattyStoked]

That's great man, I'm glad to have helped! Fury3 even has its own sequel, Hellbender, which I'm hoping to get around to soon. Thanks for commenting mate!

[@chillinoutmaxin4630]

Same here, I had no idea it was essentially the Windows version of TV, and I grew up as a 90s kid (born 1990) with a gamer family playing primarily a balanced mix of Windows and DOS games. I guess back then the games we played, especially as a kid, were those we just happened to come across rather than today where we can essentially access news and info of every game in existence and choose accordingly. I like the old way better ;)

[@chegadesuade]

Does anyone know the name of the space game that came on many Windows 95 computers which was black and white and you enter random coordinates to tell your ship where to go, and sometimes you have random battles with other ships. Nothing like this game, much simpler with Atari type graphics, I've searched for it for years and can't find any info.

[@rmeddy]

Yeah this is one of those game I memoryholed, there is another game I played a lot that was a 3d battle arena game with cars

[@gilcarvalho2525]

I Liked the video, I Have the Fury 3 game for PC and I liked it and the music too. Thank you. :-)

[@MattyStoked]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for your comment :-)

[@kingkong-gm8is]

i playing this demo games years 1995 on Acer PC proc intel 75Mhz.

[@MattyStoked]

Incredible!

[@dingusdangus1790]

Don't think I didn't catch the soul reaver in your scrolling background.

[@MattyStoked]

OMG having people call these things out validates my effort so much. Thank you for this! My favourite game ever, I'm always dropping references to it :-D

[@GraveUypo]

i missed this game entirely. not terminal velocity though. i played the hell out of that

[@MattyStoked]

It is basically more of the same but I'd still recommend giving it a go :)

[@hitkid2456]

@@MattyStoked Hellbender was like the sequel to this, right? I never played that though.

[@gusbus12345678]

I’ve trying to find the name of this game for years. Me and my brother used to play it with my Dad on the joystick. Good memories

[@MattyStoked]

Hell yeah man! A big part of this channel seems to be reuniting people with forgotten PC games of their childhood. And I'm glad to provide the public service!

[@nealsabel7105]

Dude, please set me up with an ARMIGA, please. Thanks. Nice channel.

[@meshugeah]

Still play TV and Fury3 on my retro pc and mobile

[@Hardworkpays209]

This was my first computer game I ever played lol I was 5

[@MattyStoked]

Amazing! Hope you liked the video :-)

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@MattyStoked Any tips for installing Hellbender on XP, also?

[@supparmanpawar4203]

No one talk about the memorable soundtrack. 'The' soundtrack if you know what i mean

[@KillThad]

I like how this was considered a selling point for Windows 95 considering the game was actually built for Windows 3.1 and was only given 95 compatibility at the last moment.

[@michalzustak8846]

Was it? IIRC it runs on 64-bit Windows thus has to be a 32-bit, not 16-bit executable, thus 95 native.

[@KillThad]

@@michalzustak8846 Windows 3.1 received 32-bit application support later on (known as Win32s). Most later Windows 3.1 games used it in combination with WinG drivers (a precursor to DirectX).

[@DCeric]

I love this game I got it working on Windows 10

[@MattyStoked]

Yes!

[@DCeric]

I did a fix for this for Windows 8 and possibly 10. You have to edit the fury3.ini file.

[@forzafunzone8575]

im trying to figure out if this is the game demo i used to play or not i used to play a game kinda like this or this but idk

[@MattyStoked]

It could have been! A demo did come with practically every PC from 1995-1999!

[@andrewproulx1205]

I think this is the first video game I've ever played

[@MattyStoked]

It was definitely an early one for me! Aside from a pirated copy of Steve Davis Snooker on my dad's DOS IBM, this was probably the first PC game I properly played

[@tylrmayne8546]

My 6 year old self thought this was the coolest, most difficult game ever.

[@MattyStoked]

Hard same. I was a little older, but I thought this game was rad.

[@JP-xe3qo]

that is cause it was

[@RGV2300]

I was looking for this game for so long, i didn't remember the name of this game, because when i played i didn't know how to read.

[@glitchy000]

Anyone know how to install and get the F!Zone expansion working?

[@MiSambra]

Is it just me, or did the original look better in DOS?

[@MattyStoked]

To which bit are you referring? All footage in this video is recorded from the Windows 95 copy of Fury3, running on my retro PC.

[@juanpabloutreras9120]

This game does not use any of the DirectX API. It uses the older WinG.

[@helderfilho4724]

Thank you!

[@MattyStoked]

You're welcome!

[@zb10948]

I have different memories. From DOS 5 to 6 extended memory drivers came as default, sound card/CD installation was done via a normal installer program that would automatically modify config.sys/autoexec.bat. The games at large supported reading BLASTER environment variable which had all those nuts and bolts you talk about in it. The interrupt request for the device, DMA channel mapped to it, memory range and subtype of sound blaster card. Again, in later DOS age none of this needed to be mangled by user, installation utility sets it, the games detect it. The peripherals at hand supported ISA plug and play which means that you did not have to fix the IRQ/DMA/mem zone stuff on them via jumpers the BIOS could allocate those on the fly. Then came along the mixed 32bit era and a lot of DOS heavyhitters couldn't be ran just like that in Windows 95's DOS box, it needed to restart into DOS mode. Which made the whole thing more clunky experience than just running 3.11 on top of fully configured DOS 6.2 You need to understand the historical context. During DOS era serveral types of graphics interfaces, two types of audio interfaces and two types of I/O interfaces for CD roms were used. In that same era we went from no software configuration in 386 years (all jumpers, all manual config) to BIOS plug and play autodetection on Pentium. The level of knowledge needed to install something depends exactly on the platform. For the later year DOS boxes, coming with 5.0 to 6.2, the approach was to plug in the card and install the provided driver just like it was with Windows XP. The Windows 95 end user experience did not revolutionize anything. But it did allow developers to use available memory natively, which was not the case with DOS programming due to its evolutionary steps.

[@computergamingyesterday]

Thanks!

[@MattyStoked]

You're welcome, and thank you so much!

[@zecle]

i had this.

[@MattyStoked]

Awesome! Did you enjoy it?

[@zecle]

@@MattyStoked yep. i mean i had the same cd as yours. the trial version. i wish i had the whole game. it felt nice with my thrustmaster gamepad that had a scrolling wheel on the back so you could fly slower or faster...

[@Bige4u]

Funny..... looks to be the MS version of "Terminal Velocity" game.

[@MattyStoked]

That's exactly what it is :)

[@badfoody]

couldn't get past the first stage HAHHAHA

[@MattyStoked]

The sequel, Hellbender, is even harder!

[@mariorios8783]

I found it yay

[@MattyStoked]

:-D :-D How did you find it?

[@ajax700]

The drawing distance at 9:30... Not impressive!

[@MattyStoked]

Haha another comment from you misunderstanding the point of this video. Why did you delete your previous comment mate?

[@ajax700]

​@@MattyStoked I didn't delete any comment.

[@NoName-uk9wp]

@@ajax700 what did you say?