LEGO Island: The First Lego Game on PC

[@curtishammond6031]

As a kid this world felt massive and so full of life. Crazy playing it as an adult and seeing how small it really was.

[@rebelknightrider4473]

I was looking for this comment!

[@CHOZAHYAHU]

I had this for my for Xmas one year.

[@GamingHistorian]

I played Lego Island religiously as a kid. Thank you for bringing back so many memories!

[@LGR]

You bet :)

[@TheMetalmicah57]

Holy Lego's! To think this brought two of my favorite KZbin personalities together!

[@Malus1531]

I know! I keep discovering games on KZbin I totally forgot about. Sometimes I don't remember the title, but after I see a bit of the game I realize how familiar it is. Nostalgia.

[@zambachoo]

How hard was it to catch the brickster when you were a kid? I remember we’d give up and someone else would try for like an hour. We were really young. I had Lego island 2 as well, but we never had this much fun.

[@litonewo3080]

“ARE YOU READY TO LEAVE LEGO ISLAND? IF YOU SELECT THE G R E E N B R I C K YOU’LL GO. IF YOU SELECT THE R E D B R I C K YOU STAY. GREEN GO, RED STAY” -a certain red suit infomaniac

[@Candy-sm5yl]

Gringo, redsgay

[@2x4redlegobrick]

so how do i leave

[@NintenGunner]

Lego 2x4RedBrick Why, you click your green brother, red brick.

[@spartanforce7]

Click the B R O W N B R I C K S .

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

According to lost audio files, it was going to have a manual save system. But they scraped that and made it automatically save every time you leave Lego Island.

[@MrDoctorColossus]

"You can move a mountain, if you do it brick by brick" Actually, it occurs to me that the Lego universe is the only place where that line is *not* a mixed metaphor haha

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

best song in the game.

[@seanvich3857]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 I don’t know, the police theme enlightened my love of jazz. I owe it a lot.

[@101Volts]

The whole soundtrack is pretty varied and decent to listen to, I'd say. I want to learn the Classical Guitar Parts to the Park song.

[@xaoi_ling]

you can be a but hole and drive a big as truck

[@ishmaboy]

This game legitimately gave me night terrors as a kid. I vividly remember having brutally violent hellish dreams where the Brickster would murder me and everyone I loved. Care to guess which ending I got?

[@elliotw4606]

Sorry Im late saying so, but holy shit! I go nightmares from this game too! Not as violent but still freaky! The Brickster got scary af sometimes and I still wouldn't be surprised if I got more if I played this again 0.0

[@elliotw4606]

@Sastré uuuuh... thanks? i kinda have other people crushing on me at this time dude.... sorry. They kinda have priority. :/ What does me being attractive to ya have to do with a comment I made about lego island 2 months ago? Explanation por favor.

[@heatadvisory]

Muhahaha!

[@alext2046]

anakin skyfucker lol 😂 he’s got other people on his mind quit hitting on him. Oh my god tho you’re right. Cute as a little button. Takes me back

[@BillehBobJoe]

....Thanks for articulating something i have not felt in nearly two decades....

[@LordEvilmancer]

Failing to stop the Brickster has haunted me for decades

[@DeadManSinging1]

He rules over Lego Island to this day because you failed to stop him

[@racer927]

I legit remember running up to my room and hiding under the blanket when I was a child and since then, I *refused* to play the delivery mission as Pepper.

[@kendallanderson6511]

I had legit nightmares from him getting loose as a little kid

[@cayk9444]

I still remember the excitement of finding that secret little cave thing. I felt like I won the lottery.

[@labrynianrebel]

That door is up there with the truck in Pokemon Blue/Red and Stop 'N Swop in Banjo Kazooie as mysteries that rack my brain to this very day.

[@squidninja1716]

I tried for so long to find a way through that door

[@Howlingd0g]

"Arrrrr! Go away! I needs me beauty sleep!" For me one of my favourite discoveries was the cupboard that released a monkey every time you clicked on it.

[@fitari]

It was already revealed what's behind the door. You can find it on KZbin.

[@hypernova3527]

Then imagine how I felt when I found a glitched wall in that mountain that allowed me to "dive" under the map... ...and how dissapointing it was to find that behind that door was nothing (i genuinelly imagined there would be some kind of boss fight with the brickster on his secret base)

[@unicorninvader8783]

*WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO INSERT THE CD!*

[@aliensmokingablunt]

oop ye have to insert de seedee into de coputa

[@101Volts]

You mean "WhooOOPS!"

[@Mr.guy24]

I WANT MY CD DRIVE BACK

[@MB32904]

@@DZac up your a-

[@dickcheney6]

And whatever you do, don't drop it! You mean like that other game? Whatever happened to it? We dropped it. Well, don't drop it!

[@squidlump]

This game traumatized me when I was like 3 when I accidentally let the brickster out, I never wore stripes again

[@MattDoesSound]

It was terrifying stuff. I remember running to my mum freaking out - THE BRICKSTER'S LOOSE!!!! :(

[@Zeeye]

The crying villagers did it for me.

[@leom_4838]

IT'S ALL MINE mine?

[@pokepat4433]

Cmon it ain't that terrifying

[@nebulaartzz]

Pat: CS You don't know how traumatizing it is for 90's kids

[@HughesEnterprises]

My family could only afford one computer game for the Windows 98 Packard Bell we had. This was it. I played this for hours until the computer overheated and died. Restart, and repeat. Then I got Civ III and played that for hours until the computer overheated and died. This was a common theme. Being the first computer we had and just dial up Internet only for email, we assumed everyone’s computer overheated and died after a few hours. Nope, just a crap computer.

[@fran5678can]

@@smpmuzpid loadin... ded X4

[@notoriousbig3k]

the fuck u were so poor?

[@jimmybgood982]

now realize that it costed your family over 3000 usd to get that giant thing in the house

[@sharptakes1662]

This video is the smoothest I ever saw the game run. It would crawl on our childhood PC and I’d still play it at like five frames a second lol

[@MrShoebox21]

Fun Fact: The kid who voices Pepper in this game also voiced Andy in the Toy Story series.

[@robonaught]

Yeah there's a couple of well known actors in this game, John Moris as Pepper, the late June Foray as Mama who we mainly remember as Granny off Looney Tunes and Brickster is David Lander AKA Smartass weasel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

[@rogeliolopez2190]

@@robonaught sadly mama brickoliny acctuall died 2 years ago.

[@rogeliolopez2190]

Kinda like how ringo starr from the beatles acctually was the narator for the UK version of thomas the tank engine.

[@zander7854]

*WHAT!?*

[@flying_Night_slasher]

Do you know who voice's pepper in 2 I looked everywhere but to no avail.

[@DaveVoyles]

6:20 "The sign says 'no pizaz', nothing about pizzas, how was I supposed to know?"

[@Nighthawk20000]

Fun fact, on every character other than the kid, it says no Pizza. The kid has dyslexia so it's spelled wrong when you play as his character

[@exone7372]

Nighthawk seriously?????????

[@judahosborne8868]

@@Nighthawk20000 awww that makes me love Pepper so much more.

[@frederickdietz3148]

@@Nighthawk20000 kill it with fire!

[@101Volts]

@@exone7372 No kidding. The Brickster sometimes mocks Pepper when you walk up to the prison as Pepper; "Hi, Pepper! Or should I say, "Paper?" ("WHEE WHEEOO" sound effect.) Ha ha ha ha, that's what I heard; you can't spell or read to well. Hey, read this: PBFFFFFFFFFFFFT!"

[@Fazeof1p]

Ah, another classic game that I liked when I was a kid. The best part hands down about Lego Island was when you tried to play this game without the CD in the drive.... WHOOOOooooooOOOOPS YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER *cuts to desktop*

[@neyoid]

Audio plx

[@Cr4z3d]

@@neyoid kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ63d2Nubddleqs

[@filipmac1545]

look at those classic lego minifigures

[@JollyJuiice]

ikr? It makes me so happy

[@Herbert2892]

Your profile pic makes me think that AOL has finally created an AI to write generic coments on the internet lol

[@Chuked]

Filip Mac even the pizza turns me on

[@Thedarkassassin88]

Old Lego minifigures with the minimal details are better than the current ones we have nowadays. Change my mind.

[@Chuked]

BigStoucheMcGee I agree the old ones from 1990-2012 period were much better, but LEGO decided to make LEGO sets much more expensive and minfigures much more detailed

[@sptony2718]

After all those years, I'm still left with one question... WHAT'S BEHIND THE DOOR!?

[@bruhchamp16593]

Arr, press “print screen” on your keyboard to take a screenshot. Now leave me alone.

[@Curlyheart]

Duke nukem is behind it

[@Wally17.]

Nothing.

[@cheesebusiness]

I got through the textures ones. There is nothing behind.

[@Monqy]

I've heard that the door was supposed to lead you to Lego Racers, but that would take too much space on the CD so they had to scrap it.

[@MinoTheShow]

As much as I have loved this channel for years this is probably the first game you've covered (barring Doom and Space Cadet Pinball) that I actually have any nostalgia for, given that I was born in the Win98 era.. thanks for all your great work Clint

[@LGR]

Thank you, I'm happy to bring on some nostalgia and am glad you're still enjoying after all this time :)

[@virtuaracer794]

You had to be probably less than 10 years old to enjoy this game. The memories with my brother are much better than the game itself.

[@roxassora2706]

Little did he know that there was a grown Swedish man making smash remixes out of their songs.

[@phoenixvance6642]

Tons of memories with my sibling over lego island, rock raiders, racers, creator, etc. In the eyes of a child, these are all masterpieces and its always warming to look back at the memories of enjoying the time spent playing them.

[@josephjoe4180]

Me and my twin brother spent hours playing this game. It felt like our first exposure to an open world game. Magical.

[@CEO100able]

This game is great. Can you please review Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge and Lego Island Xtreme Stunts?

[@lieffian]

He did both already

[@cal-scot]

@@lieffian I don’t think that’s correct

[@lieffian]

@@cal-scot I’m pretty sure he did

[@cal-scot]

@@lieffian might wanna double check

[@lieffian]

@@cal-scot huh, guess it was someone else then that I watched that did all three, my bad

[@WombatLoveAffair]

This game blew my mind as a kid. The idea of freely roaming around an open world was groundbreaking to many of us.

[@LazerLord10]

I had this game, but something was wrong. That intro screen with the crazy guy just had a light blue flashing screen in the background. I kinda want to find it again, but I think I lost the game :(

[@MidnightThunderYT]

I think that is what happens when you run the game in hardware mode on an unsupported graphics chip / card. You could fix it by running the game in software mode.

[@IgnemFeram01]

I remember when I first played this I lost to the Brickster. I cried so hard! I'd never lost anything before.

[@JayTohab]

Losing to the Brickster is definitely the worst way to lose for the first time. Frightening as anything.

[@IgnemFeram01]

Tohab Especially as a 3 year old.

[@NylePudding]

Yeah I can remember being convinced Lego Island would always remain under the Brickster's dictatorship regime ever after. Fortunately that wasn't the case.

[@awkwardsilence4427]

I definitely lost the first time (probably more) against the Brickster. While I don't remember how exactly I reacted to it, even now just watching the footage of that final part in the helicopter feels me with a tinge of dread and panic to not screw up...

[@ruraljapandreamland]

Hearing the Lego people crying because of my failure destroyed my elementary soul. No matter how hard I tried I could never beat it and I was convinced I had doomed the residents of Lego Island for all eternity.

[@jimv8957]

I remember this game being buggy and cryptic as hell. This was the OG dark souls.

[@deathwatch962]

Ikr! this was so brutal shit.

[@101Volts]

It probably depended on the computer. I was running it on Virtual PC on a G3 iMac around 2000, and it kept crashing on me. In-between the lag, that is - some parts kept playing like a broken record. I once got the musical intro to Pepper's intro video for about a minute straight before it finally crashed and exited the game.

[@newhillroad]

I always had a weird feeling playing this as a kid, I didn't know why or what it was. Now that I'm older I realize the feeling was depression

[@angmordagnithil7127]

Oh my gosh... I played this game for what had to be hundreds of hours as a kid. My nostalgia levels just shot up and all of those stupid radio songs are now stuck in my head. I also got red bricks (1st place) on every activity with every character, and I did it with the massively over-responsive controls which never occurred to me at the time might not be the way it was supposed to be. What have I done with my life...

[@davidlundmark9359]

😂

[@ThomasFan3751]

Interestingly, some copies of the game included an Infomaniac minifigure.

[@PeruvianPotato]

The Infomaniac figure is so damn expensive on eBay

[@Evan64m]

Steffano Poggioli There was one included with LEGO Xtreme stunts that is way cheaper that you probably saw

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

yeah i had that minifigure

[@Andrew-tz5eo]

Anyone else get Lego Magazine as a kid?

[@JoeHunkk]

Hell yea, remember that 2 page section of creations! I remember being in awe from those crazy detailed creations. There was always that one kid that made a basic design that made it in too.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Heck yes!

[@robloxnoob8111]

Dros it's still around (and im 10)

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

I remember LEGO Mania Magazine. It came free with a subscription to the LEGO Club. I also remember LEGO Brickmaster, where they gave out free LEGO building sets (mostly small LEGO sets in polybags) with their LEGO Brickmaster Magazine subscriptions.

[@8bitfireball70]

Yeah, and I got the Lego Catalog, too. I remember seeing those incredible spaceships for the hardcore builders that sold for over $1000... I also had an account on lego.com which was like an early MySpace for kids.

[@bassvillain]

Let's see how many people I can give shivers with one music track: Hospital.

[@TheTrustyHole]

that shit slaps

[@zafranorbian757]

Please take a look at Lego Rock Raiders. It is the best lego game ever!

[@sonygod5418]

Oh yeah i remember man that was a survive game and intens for a lego game

[@zafranorbian757]

Well it was an Exploration RTS game, but yes it had survival elements with limited Oxigen and a few enemys here and there.

[@sonygod5418]

Zafran Orbian wow i only remember building stuff and trying to fight back from the monsters :P wish they Made a new game about that and not movie series.

[@zafranorbian757]

Sony God I agree.

[@mrkalius1926]

Agree'd.

[@TacoStacks]

My favorite game of all time

[@zmeier01]

I remember getting this game for christmas one year but my shit box of a PC couldn't run it. So many tears...

[@emanatingf]

@Q A I wish I had that shit box of a PC cause it would be more likely to run this game properly than any PC you can possibly get your hands on or build today.

[@Wally17.]

It ran terribly and was so laggy on my PC. It wasn't until I went to my friend's house and played it did I get to experience how it was supposed to run. The difference was night and day,

[@Brainshaker95]

You should play Lego Island 2 someday, it's actually a game

[@empiretotalwar3]

Brainshaker95 it's great

[@SmaMan]

Just not on GBC. It sucks. I remember having the choice between that and Pokemon Crystal back in the day. Boy oh boy did I choose wrong.

[@mickeymouse12678]

Brainshaker95 It's definitely a more full fledged game, but you don't get to build anything. I loved the game though. Hated that it seemed to take 7 years to load every scene or level. That spinning CD/pizza was the bane of my existence.

[@berni8k]

Yes you have to give Lego Island 2 a try. I remember quite liking it. You travel to all sorts of places, doing a pretty decent verity of mini games along the way. Lego Racers still beats it tho, its THE lego game in my eyes.

[@Zuon94]

I think a better choice would be Lego Island Xtreme Stunts. Lego Island 2 was fun when I was a kid, but looking back now, it's definitely not a very good game from a gamer's perspective.

[@wererat2000]

Please, oh please, for the love of god, tell me you're doing Lego Island 2 and Lego Island extreme stunts!

[@LGR]

At some point, hopefully!

[@_pixelatedsilver2a412]

For future reference, LI2 has entirely terrible loading times, caused by a programming mistake. There is a fan patch out there that vastly improves it, but without it you'll be waiting a pretty long time.

[@ireallydontcarewhatthisis]

Here's that patch, BTW: www.rockraidersunited.com/topic/7381-li2-mod-manager/

[@CptFreemanC17]

"Hopped up on something strong and proooooobably illegal." I laughed harder than i should. Well done XD

[@MikeVice]

4 y/o me was always scared by the brickster, my sister said he could break free and chase you....

[@nyodesu]

3:31 Never knew Octan was an actual company in the LEGO universe. I thought they just made that up for The LEGO Movie. 🤔

[@vidcas1711]

This is why I was surprised there no mentions at all of Lego Island in the movies.

[@PeruvianPotato]

@@vidcas1711 Loss of IP?

[@brwi1]

I kinda remember there being Octan branding on race car LEGO sets back in he day

[@pravda9646]

@@brwi1 my family could never afford to buy me LEGOs but I got a gift once of an Octan tanker and I loved it. Had like a thousand pieces

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

plenty of sets had that company. tanker trucks gas stations race cars..

[@markmckeown87]

I remember playing this! I also had the Lego Racers too!

[@starpencil]

Lego racers was awesome, the music is still stuck in my head to this day

[@markmckeown87]

hah going to have to look it up i cant remember

[@Yusuke_Denton]

You look like The Gaming Historian.

[@Anoalekontrieger]

@@starpencil aaah fuck now it's back in my head

[@MrEightThreeOne]

I definitely like this game a lot, I don't think it has aged very well but it was pretty ambitious for its time and I admire its effort. There was a definite amount of work put into making it worthwhile which can be hard to appreciate but I remember playing it a ton just for a lot of the detail and effort that was put into it. But you are certainly right, the overarching game simply has too little to do and you can finish most of the major stuff in a short amount of time. Did enjoy this though, for sure! Also, thank you for clarifying the 10FPS thing...I was so sick of seeing reviewers completely clueless as to why the game was so "poorly programmed" when they were playing the game on hardware way past the game's original release date.

[@iggienator]

I didn't know what to do after giving the brickster the pizza. Obviously I lost and the ending scared the shit out of me!

[@johnhorne1839]

"There ain't no island. You're gonna get trolled."

[@AugustTheStag]

This game, especially the music, is just 100% pure my childhood. I love it so much.

[@synthraofficial5366]

*7:16* *LMAO* Clint your too funny! Love the video and your channel! Thanks for the quality entertainment and snarky commentary!

[@LGR]

Glad you're enjoying, and thanks for watching!

[@synthraofficial5366]

:)

[@blok--head7472]

"Look out! It's the mean, mean, Pizza Machine!" To be fair, the only "mean" thing a machine like that could've ever done is destroying your cholesterol.

[@TheGenericNerd]

I had a Lego chess game that was pretty cool. It always made me wonder why they never actually made a physical chess set made of Lego

[@kylejscheffler]

Dexter Riley they did. I still have mine somewhere. it's based off the old medieval sets. or was it Lego knights? I don't remember the actual set names, just building the sets, then a couple days later destroying them to build a giant robot or something.

[@kylejscheffler]

and now I want a Lunchables, and to watch cartoons before heading off to school.

[@TheGenericNerd]

Kyle Scheffler Sorry, I meant a classic Staunton design chess set, but made of Lego.

[@dralenvan]

Because making the Staunton design pieces in Lego would mean you had a plastic Staunton chess set. Who would be happy with that?

[@kylejscheffler]

I have a wonderful quadruple weighed plastic Stanton set that I've owned for nearly 10 years now

[@Guy430]

I loved this game. The game rewarded exploration by giving you short performances from the characters in specific areas. I felt like everybody on the island were my friends, I even liked the Brickster. The game has so many idiosyncrasies that there's just nothing like it.

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

1997: *”WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER”* 2023 version: *”WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN YOUR COMPUTER FROM 1997”*

[@AlecInstant]

I would eat dem pizaz

[@euricoelias4366]

SnitchesonHitlist

[@Tiger_Woods]

😂😍😋🤤

[@iSevenSimmer]

i grew up with the game Lego Loco.. anybody else?

[@AnxiousGary]

iSevenSimmer Yes!

[@Randomstuffs261]

FUCK YEAGH

[@Randomstuffs261]

***** Lego creator was pretty lame

[@Randomstuffs261]

***** It wasn't capable of much though. You'd place a building there and you could fly into it with a helicopter and nothing would happen.

[@mickeymouse12678]

Lego Loco was fantastic. I wonder if Clint would like it more than this.

[@MegaDieseldriver]

Will be supporting on Patreon soon! First KZbinr I feel I NEED to support. Such quality work, humor, fun and overall goodness. Thanks so much Clint

[@angryguineapig4323]

This was an awesome game when i was a little kid, going from mostly 2d games to a island where you could walk around and do many different things was really something special.

[@quickgamer19l92]

ive never actually played it nor did i really grow up with it, but watching youtube videos of it as a kid really holds a special place with me, its super nostalgic

[@birdiemcchicken1471]

I got distracted during the intro because I could see a reflection of Clint turning a crank to make the camera come down :p

[@WortWortWortHog]

now I can't un-see it lol

[@ratface071394]

Birdie McChicken I was busy looking at the red guy to the right who is staring at me seductively

[@Moonbeam143]

I had to watch it again, but yeah, I can see him!

[@Jokkepappaification]

Any plans to review Lego Island 2 at some point?

[@LGR]

I'd love to! Don't currently own a complete copy though.

[@Letroll1234]

Rappasi how did you comment a week ago?

[@DaapDaap22]

HAHAHA i am confused too about it ;P! same for Clint he replied a week ago :P !

[@Jokkepappaification]

The video was private until now. It was posted in LGR's patreon page a week ago.

[@LGR]

+Letroll1234 Patreon supporters get to see videos early: www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews/posts

[@dabinalab9388]

I must've spent actual days playing this game as a kid. I haven't seen any clips from this game since then I had goosebumps the entire video and felt a little emotional having all these memories again

[@123Delljack]

I remember roleplaying in this game with my brother and going on pizza deliveries to random folk. It didn't progress the story and we didn't know how to, but it was fun 😂

[@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243]

I got this game through one of my Scholastic book order forms back around 2009/2010 and despite the case saying the game was compatible with XP, it never worked and ultimately blue screened our desktop

[@FoxrainFuture]

For 8 minutes I was ten years old again! Thanks for the flashback LGR =)

[@KingBat]

You should review all old Lego PC games. I played a lot of Lego Racers and Lego Rock Raiders in my childhood on Window Me.

[@JayTohab]

_ALL_ of the old Lego PC games! _ALL OF THEM!_

[@JayTohab]

IKR

[@Milsparro]

Rock Raiders was VERY hard - I so want to see a complete playthrough

[@youcancallmekamisama4548]

Bruh same !!

[@Diablokiller999]

A CD? A Manual? Things that show you that actually a minimum of dedication was put into the product? Relics from the past :(

[@CodeLife_12]

Well, this just isn't true. A lot of people making games are very dedicated. There are some very good games nowadays. Gameplay are graphic wise, games have never been as good as what they are today, and there are some very interested scenarios out there. A lot of passionate people work in the game industry.

[@michaelwautraets7126]

case in point: Stardew Valley, made by one dude.

[@nathanclark2424]

@@CodeLife_12 The manuals for most of the games sure aren't though.

[@voidling2632]

I dont even have a CD or DVD or Blue Ray Drive anymore. Time and technology moves forward. As a game design student and follow graphic designer I know how expensive a manual can be. (and noone would read it anymore, we have internet and pdf).

[@magnus00125]

Sometimes you get digital manuals from the publishers. At least on steam. Tbh I never read them but the product looks a bit more complete with it imo

[@YamiSpyroX]

This game was such a happy fun time when I was a kid. Now as an adult I view Lego Island as Lego's first and only horror game! It's the debug mode you unlock by typing in OGEL. The resulting weirdness/creepiness is clearly the inspiration for the end level of Lego Island 2.

[@acolytexiv]

I remember at the time, the fact that your vehicles would be where you parked them last when you came back to your save seemed mind blowing

[@SynthLizard8]

Am I the only one yearning and pleading for another Rock Raiders game? That game was soo underrated, all those cool vehicles, gathering energy crystals while fighting against air, monsters and lava...hmm, BTW LGR, please review it, PLEAAASE?

[@Ringtail]

The guy who owns DDI actually wanted to make a Rock Raiders sequel (minus the lego) within the last few years, but his plans ended up being yet another minecraft clone and he didn't take too kindly to criticisms of his ripoff ideas that were pretty much the same crap as the rest of his frankly awful company, so it's just kinda in limbo now if it's ever going to happen at all.

[@SynthLizard8]

***** What a god-damn-shame.

[@gabegillette9647]

Rock Raiders was great, probably the only good game Data Design made.

[@youmukonpaku3168]

Nope, there's lots of us who wish (generally knowing it's a silly wish, since the developers who actually made it went to shovelware and then under, and Lego abandoned the IP years ago) they'd make a sequel or at least a fixed rerelease or something.

[@binhdang6667]

+Jebediah Oldenheimer uio

[@LazerLord10]

Lego Racing 2 tho? Mastapiece!

[@Highretrogamelord]

This was my first (LEGO) game and still one of my all-time favourites!

[@victorvance2573]

I remember seeing my brother playing this a lot back then. This brick by brick song was a massive flashback!

[@mee_is_sus]

MattKC made a debugging tool for the game called Lego Island rebuilder, which allows you to unhook the turning from the frame rate, and replace the music with the higher quality versions from the studio tapes.

[@merhawanna9577]

nostalgia overload

[@21willyx21]

I just love watching these videos and drinking myself to sleep.

[@LGR]

I do the same making them, cheers👍

[@KrisSamuel]

One of the greatest regrets of my childhood... At the age of 7, after my 11-year-old brother beat the Brickster in what seemed like the most intense battle ever, I stupidly forgot to save the file and opened up an earlier version of it. I never got to explore the island post-battle, and we never went back and beat it. I'm so sorry, Will.

[@NikitaRasputin]

Infomaniac didn't say "здравствуйте" That sad

[@xavierjackson1518]

Hey may wear red, but he's no commie

[@catriona_drummond]

@@xavierjackson1518 What's language got to do with communism?

[@tredI9100]

H E L L O

[@astroyeaster9464]

@@catriona_drummond Russia = Communism

[@dibberz-v1z]

@@catriona_drummond it's a joke about the soviet union

[@cstudios5247]

3:09 when you realize other suns are sunning our sun which is sunning other suns and could be sunning a black hole

[@loopymoomoo1]

"spastic garry's mod machinima" hahaha subbed

[@girrrrrrr2]

I loved ghost riding all the cars. Then I realized I couldnt get any cars.... So i had to walk everywhere.... And I learned about the race area the week before my brother broke the disk.

[@girrrrrrr2]

Actually I think it was the secret area not the racing area.

[@reedy3k]

The nostalgia is strong with this one. The first PC game I ever bought after fully exhausting all of the bundled software that came with my first Pentium II PC.

[@tsm688]

bundled stuff used to be awesome, at least sometimes, instead of the spyware trash we get now

[@MrDoctorColossus]

I remember loving this game so much as a kid--mostly just because I loved Legos haha, but beyond that I was actually pretty well taken with the illusion of the open world. I loved just doing the pizza deliveries and cruising around the island--very much the same sort of mild, lowkey pleasure that I've gotten later in life via driving for Uber, or driving 45 minutes to work each day for another job, or running cross country after school, or other such forms of simple, repetitive, menial activity. Doesn't speak very well to the gameplay haha, but as a literal child I enjoyed it. If there was one gripe I actually do remember it was the fact that you couldn't get that goddamned lego skateboard anywhere in real life! Haha, oh how I yearned for that Lego skateboard, or maybe not "yearned" but in any case I wanted it for my little lego worlds, but so far as I could discover by looking at toy store shelves and the straight up Lego Magazine my child self talked my folks into getting me a subscription for somehow, that skateboard was phantasmagorical, legendary--ungettable haha. I got over it. That said, to this day if someone shows me an actual physical Lego set with the skateboard in it, I think I might poop. Poop in ecstasy, mind you.

[@SpaceCadebt]

I was born in 2004 and played this on our old tower when I was 3/4. It was the first video game I ever played. Even before the plug-and-play mystery machine scooby doo games. I had little snippets of memories from the game, and some I didn't even know were from this game until I saw this video and it connected. I have wanted to play this game again for a while and now thanks for confirming it. This entire video was me going "oh I remember that!" or "wait, that's from Lego Island?". I know nobody asked but this game was what got me started and this video was more nostalgic to me than anything I've seen in a while. Thank you. I know you probably won't see this but thank you. So much.

[@theblode1337]

It is just absolutely friggin astounding how they had their style of humor nailed down so early. Loads of physical gags and character personalities in the lego movie feel like they were ripped from this game

[@carleymarie3802]

I loved that game when I was a kid!!

[@AstanaxKnight]

I remember wanting this game so much when I first saw it in the Lego catalog. After I finally bought it with chore money, a neighbor stole it from me.

[@TtEL]

Did you ever get it back?

[@AstanaxKnight]

@@TtEL I never did unfortunately. However, the later Lego games that tied into movie franchises were also a vast improvement over this, so in hindsight, it wasn't a big loss.

[@parkeryeager8622]

Whoops! You have to put the CD in the CD

[@JayziahRoyal]

Does anyone who played this game remember that little green alien guy that was in the game? It also had its own game but I can’t seem to find it anywhere online. It’s like they’re trying to remove its existence

[@kikiisabeast2575]

I loved this as a kid lol but my overactive imagination helped make this amazing for me.

[@TheSillyPotato]

"A game that charmed my pants off, and I'm not wearing pants" oh LGR 😏

[@khronscave]

Between that an "an infomaniac", it makes you wonder...

[@AbbeyB77]

7:18 is the exact look I had on my face as an 8 year old when I lost this game for the first time

[@Fr33dom35]

wow man...I really enjoyed this game back when it came out. I felt really warm watching this. Thanks for the video.

[@rafearcher7882]

I still listen to the Chill Wave Soundtrack whenever I build new Lego Sets. I'm a child again and everything is pure bliss ❤️

[@captainjurgh8142]

2:07 'With fewer accidental expletives.' *F U K*

[@debbiemcleod6661]

😂😂😂

[@ClexYoshi]

Well, you've finally done it. you've hit on a PC game I am actually incredibly nostalgic for... and that's kinda rare given I've always been a primarily console-centric individual. Which shouldn't be a surprise because this game sold like gangbusters from what I've been told. its my second PC gaming memory behind like... Sonic 3D Blast's PC port.

[@LinkedGlint]

If only GOG.com could bring back the old Lego games.

[@lofi-smofi8582]

I had this game when it first came out, I must have been around 6, and I loved it so much but never completed it. Thank you for making me smile

[@exzisd]

As a kid this game felt like Lego GTA but I never drew any connection between them until all these years later. I forgot about this game until stumbling on your video. My brothers and I used to play because we got it for free somehow and my room is the bedroom that had the family PC stuck in it. I loved the characters like Pepper and Brickster and messing around to build my own stuff. Thinking about it now this is probably my favorite Lego game. I never cared for later titles despite recognizing the charm and tech going into them. This is my Lego City Undercover or whatever that game they put out for Wii U and Switch was called. The voice acting alone was incredible to me. At this point I'd mostly just played Warcraft 2 and learned all these cheats along with some NES games. There were HUGE gaps in my gaming experience where we went from NES and didn't upgrade until N64 and then went from some DOS computer I can't even recall to Windows 95 and eventually 98 before forgetting about computers until I was gifted my first MacBook from my older brother who was working at Apple in 2007.

[@PersianYank]

The polygon graphics were too intense for some computers if I remember. Especially the characters.

[@philismenko]

Hey lgr, there is now a fix for the turning as well as a hq music

[@Hairycabbbage]

The racing course on this game was litty af

[@Journeyman107]

You nailed it on the personality aspect, Lego Island seems to have set a tone and sense of humor that've been mimicked in Lego games since

[@N3rdZon3]

This game shaped my childhood like none other (ok, maybee with trhe exception of Pokemon) I loved everything about it. The athmosphere, the music, the characters, the story and especially this LSD-like Racing game... I don't think that i would be into videogames as much as I am now without this and I still play it today once in a while

[@kykinson1173]

Lego Racer was the shit!

[@conrad5721]

I was just coming here to say that. Talk about creative, you could build your own car brick by brick!

[@DaddyPims]

That game had the best character and world I've ever played (this is coming from a kid who was probably the biggest lego obsessive in England circa '98). Looking back it probably did a lot of things wrong, but the sounds, music and especially the setting were so charming. I've been trying to get it to run to no avail, I'd love any tips if someone has them.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

But the menus were confusing (as a child :( )

[@-DeScruff]

Yeah, Lego Racers was awesome! But as CaveManta said, going back, its... a lot easier then I remember it being as a kid. Still love the game though.

[@nikoregenerator]

lego racer 2 was the best

[@KamiKitsuneVA]

Anyone else play this on Windows ME as a kid?

[@AmericaTheEnslaved]

damn, when me came out i was already a teen

[@CrowbarMenace]

Oh god, please don't remind me of ME...

[@spartansfan1026]

Right here! My family's first computer ran Windows ME.

[@AmericaTheEnslaved]

well i guess you guys don't know the horrors of installing windows 95

[@s10meb95]

Prussian_Kamikaze was either 95 or xp for me can't remember which was so young when I played it.

[@samuelmumby7982]

Rock Raiders > all other Lego games

[@starpencil]

OMFG yes! Also the original Lego chess that game was amazing.

[@JarJarBinks4ever]

Lego Racing > all other lego games

[@starpencil]

naa the best Lego game is star wars

[@gfrewqpoiu]

I made a Windows XP machine JUST for playing RR. It is soo awesome. there is also a mod that makes it more difficult I think.

[@iPoopWhereIWant]

LGR DO THIS

[@SaraS-jq1ln]

The brick by brick song gets stuck in my head every now and again lol that's what brought me here today

[@atarijaguarfan7893]

This wasn't the very first lego game Lego Fun to Build for the Sega Pico released in 1995 was the first but it was not released in the US or Europe but only in Japan

[@ToaKoran]

So it's technically the first LEGO game to reach the US rather than first in general.