LGR - Arctic Adventure - DOS PC Game Review

[@cpnnpr]

First video with the classic intro music!

[@RaposaCadela]

Oh!!

[@faultelectronica]

cpnnpr Do you know where the intro music comes from?

[@paulmorphy6187]

@@faultelectronica it appears to be based on 'I'm the packman' by 'The packman' from 1982 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6aspoKsZdp1a6s

[@zaugitude]

PG Thanks! Have been sifting through LGR videos in search of just this information.

[@nartin9]

I found it again the first one now I can skip the earlier videos this is were the good videos start 🤣

[@pervertedmind]

You have no idea how happy I am. I was six playing this game at school. When it went away, all I could remember was the weapons and the layout and the purple blue background with artic in the name. I finally found this! I'm so drunken stoned and happy d(:

[@AQWBlaZer91]

Here we go the first time we hear that LGR theme tune. It's classic for the channel and I do miss it.

[@pcfverbeek]

I really cool to see how nothing has changed on your channel beyond your vid and audio quality. Keep up the great work dude!

[@scooperfield]

:D

[@Blazer1988]

Love the ending

[@DanielMReck]

Fond memories of playing this on a Compaq luggable back in the day. And last week in Dosbox. Probably should see if that Compaq still boots.

[@SuperLlama42]

Would've been funny if the game ends with you waking up and realizing you cleared out all the tombs and got the treasure in your sleep.

[@TananBaboo]

This brings back some memories. I couldn't remember the name of this game until I saw this video. Thanks!

[@raydeen2k]

Well, at least they told you up front that it was a dream. Waiting until the end would have been so Dallas.

[@unbridledenthusiasm]

I love the attention you pay to these early PC sidescrollers. PT and AA are pretty primitive even compared to some of their contemporaries, but they were enjoyable games. There's something cool about containing an entire level in one screen.

[@UberMan5000]

Apparently Nevada Smith dreams in CGA. That's kinda weird; I wonder if his subconscious ever upgraded to Tandy.

[@Matrilwood]

It's funny because I seriously dream in 16-bit early Final Fantasy style graphics, not even joking.

[@erilaz7449]

Matrilwood same

[@meaninglez100]

Wow. 8 years ago. You've grown so much.

[@TschimmiCash]

How about now?

[@gtamasterplayer383]

I love how you had the attitude of the Angry Video Game Nerd, without the swearing.

[@jtx5]

Coming into this I thought it was Antarctic Adventure with the penguin. still a great review

[@MrRetroNerd]

the first use of vaccine for you on LGR, this is legendary

[@Pillowcase]

i don't know why - because it looks painful - but I do remember playing this as a kid. I must have had a shareware disk of it from somewhere.

[@scenepunk09]

omg I loved this game as I kid I didn't think anyone else remembered it. I'd play it again if I had it

[@RaposaCadela]

Just download it and play it with DOS BOX!

[@JacobGforce]

Thank you for helping me remember this game! Loved it as a kid.

[@shorty1k]

Thanks for doing these 2 games! Two of my favorites on my crappy old computer that I long since forgot about. You should do Blake Stone next, that game was so awesome.

[@B0OM3R98]

man, your theme song is so good... I watched the beginning of this video like 10 times just to listen to the song lol.

[@logorex]

Hahaha, this man is absolute class. I applaud you, LGR, for becoming my new favourite reviewer on KZbin.

[@Fusiontron]

This game is much better than Pharaoh's Tomb. I mean not in terms of the hit detection obviously but in terms of the level design. I remember many hours spent dying on this one level because i couldn't make one jump and fell down a pit collecting many diamonds before I died. I actually went back and downloaded the freeware; it turns out you now get 4x the levels!

[@ITweeaboo]

I think that the Penguin in that game is supposed to be Opus.

[@crabmastaflash]

I like how in this classic intro there's a whole slew of controllers laid out for him to choose from but of those controllers, only 4 of those controllers' consoles have gotten game reviews

[@anthonybradley1555]

im suprised this game wasnt delayed at all with broussard saying the game will come out "When Its Done..."

[@MattMcIrvin]

It was written by Torbjorn.

[@RarefoilB]

I'm now convinced this game and Pharaoh's Tomb are the inspiration for 1001 Spikes.

[@SonataFanatica]

Great video!! :) You do know by now that there's a third game in the Nevada Smith series called "Monuments Of Mars", don't you? I'd love to see a review of that one, too! :)

[@grassulo]

You should do a review of "Monuments of Mars" the third game with this sort of style, and it is just as evil as the rest of them, I had all 3 of them on a 1.2MB pirated floppy as a kid and enjoyed them a lot, even though they are frustrating and almost sadistic in how often your character will get killed. Monuments of Mars was my favorite though, cool looking enemies and levels, and logic puzzles, one of the best CGA games in my opinion along with Mach 3 by Loriciels.

[@predcon1]

+grassulo Yeah, odd that he covered these two and not MoM. I guess Mars was just too much of a 'Re-skin' game to be worth reviewing.

[@grassulo]

it was a lot more fun, less evil, cooler looking and with a better puzzle element, It was the one of the three I enjoyed most as a kid, Pharoah's Tomb and Arctic Adventure were just too frustrating, Broussard got it right with Monuments of Mars.

[@3333sweetie]

How do you get this game on classicdosgames? I tried to plug in the version of the game that I wanted, and all it did was say artica: and then it stopped. What do I do?

[@NickEh30VSFanFNFMod]

I seriously need the bgm in intro

[@trekchu7103]

LGR Marathon, 07th January 2017.

[@Vegeta8300]

trekchu me too!

[@TheSykoRC]

LGR Marathon 8.4.2018

[@bosybert2999]

Shiiiiiit! 11/28/19 Boi!

[@CrackerBrand0000]

ah memories.. i played this on my crappy 8086 pc.. and on my dad's "awesome" Tandy 1400FD laptop.. which had four colors.. all purple.. anything that moved was a purple blur

[@jstroja]

This game was great - and quite hard to play as a child. I remember there was a level which you could replay over and over, and leave the level with a surplus of pick axes allowing you to crack all the ice blocks in the map screen. All you had to do was play that level as many times as the amount of ice blocks you needed broken. I guess they didn't think about that bit. Also, I think that was a snowball rolling toward you, not a stone. It's a magic snowball, because it doesn't require a gradient

[@pepetru]

Killing Barney just made my day lol

[@umbrellacorp.]

Nice Ending. 😎👍

[@BryonLape]

Cooler bluish, pinkish colors...white, cyan, and magenta.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

I love how you killed Barney at the end!

[@favouritegames4614]

i havent laughed like that for a looong time. thank you for this review.

[@jay270486]

How did these guys get around copyright? I reckon Nintendo would not be happy to know someone is ripping off their product.

[@shurdi3]

I miss that intro

[@kathrynradonich3982]

why is it in the early videos when he is on screen talking I get no audio? Is it just me?

[@Jane-pq7od]

Kathryn Radonich I'm wearing headphones and it only comes out of my left ear at them parts

[@kathrynradonich3982]

Has to be the right audio has been deleted or such. The earlier videos are recorded in mono

[@nicholassvitak8653]

were you playing this on a dreamcast? that's what I think was next to the computer

[@AwesomeRepix]

Arctic Adventure was not released for the Dreamcast, as far as I remember! :) What increases my doubts is purely the graphics.

[@nicholassvitak8653]

AwesomeRepix Yeah, but at 1:56 you can clearly see something that looks like a dreamcast. I'm not saying it was released for the dreamcast, but the PC seems to be a dreamcast

[@DracXBelmont]

I think that just has to do with the fact that the Dreamcast was probably just plugged into the TV and was sitting on his desk at the time.

[@jershinator13]

hahaha love the save the enzos shirt!

[@OwGash]

This, some racing game, commander keen 1, and monuments on mars were my first games^

[@jasonz7788]

Awesome thanks 👍

[@Singular8ty]

.............Gravedigging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In all seriousness about the video, from the way you've described these games (especially Pharaoh's Tomb) they seem like DOS versions of I Want To Be the Guy, just ridiculously evil....... EVIL! On a side note, I've also typed this 3 times because I keep accidentally hitting Esc. :(

[@MSFHMysticJoJo]

That's not Barney, it's Opus from Bloom County. I think O.o

[@CheffBryan]

"Arctic" Well, at least you don't have to worry about the Shoggoths...

[@subduedreader5627]

Instead you get the 1951 Thing.

[@DJB0X3R]

Wondering in 2021: Running it on a Windows 10 laptop?

[@dominus9335]

The whole dream thing, couldn't have put it better myself. Just,

[@rociodonoso3560]

I just read an article where the writer of the code revisited this game and found a typo on the code wich made it unwinnable and had errors

[@chrislive1586]

mmee toooo.... it was a good Article but it was kinda fake news bait, kinda not. on an already-released and functioning game. "someone added a '0' which made the game unfunctional on the" TARdis2000 or whatever comp was around at the time.

[@purpleshaman]

What is it? The beginning reminds me of early Ministry. Good work on your reviews, btw. :)

[@johnkoenig346]

it's a good game looks like. trying to find it.

[@yollabolly7944]

What's the actual name of the series.

[@AlexeiVoronin]

This game overall isn't as evil as its predecessor - ammo is considerably more plentiful, you don't have to be stingy. No more lives, so you can die as many times as you wish... but on the other hand, there are more gameplay mechanics, including ice, which can make for harder puzzles.

[@deenstratos9075]

Best intro music

[@yenee94]

Going back to the very first video and watching them in order is so fun! Eventhough I know next to nothing about games or computers :D

[@epicpotatofiend]

It just occurred to me, you never got around to Monuments of Mars. ...

[@MattMcIrvin]

The first game wasn't for nothing. Top men are working on it. Top. Men.

[@Yungbeck]

Who's here post pandemic? Hi.

[@Munk451]

That ending xD!

[@EnglishLaw]

The character looks like Mr Spoon from Button Moon

[@yollabolly7944]

It could also be God Zilla and not Barney.

[@SchizoMelody]

I think"Barney" looks a lot more like Opus.

[@danilosupertramp]

Maybe he tried to sell this game to Nintendo, to release as a PC version of Mario, they refused it, then he changed the thematics but left the pipes as a provocation XD

[@BagOfMagicFood]

"Nevada Smith in Copyright Infringement"!

[@Havermeijer]

2019 02 29 Ive been watching things out of order and it's getting harder finding ones I haven't seen. This is probably one of the last episodes left ;_;

[@WheelcraftBicycles]

new intro music

[@SammyRenard]

What did you think of Monuments of Mars? (Also, currently playing Arctic Adventure on my Compaq Portable 286

[@henrikhyrup3995]

1991? It looks like something from 85 at best.

[@Miler97487]

Clearly gives a 1991 copyright despite the use of CGA. This and Monuments of Mars (which looks like it should have been made in 1983) were some of the last games to use CGA.

[@XmegaPresident]

This game seemed much more polished than pharoah's tomb.

[@littleampton2]

That game is not a dream, just the story ends with you going to sleep. I feel like the game would be more popular back in the day if it was EGA.

[@rociodonoso3560]

I just read an article where the creator found there was a typo on the code wich made it unwinnable

[@littleampton2]

@@rociodonoso3560 but I've beaten it

[@deadfishy666]

Italian plumber vikings!

[@jjc0064]

Love it how Clint is like "why do we say the name of the game I'm not doing that" YES! There are YT-ers I've unsubbed cos it's like they use the name of the thing they're reviewing to boost the word count and extend the video it's so annoying!!

[@seigeengine]

Lol, remember back in the days where being able to barely tell someone was human was good enough quality for videos?

[@LiteraryStoner]

Barney is dead! \0/ lol

[@StokeCityFC44]

im sorry vikings in the arctic....eurghhh

[@michaelmjd7012]

2009

[@DJB0X3R]

That’s not a Nazi Swastika!

[@FabioGnecco]

"this old game" lol

[@gta2201]

controllers i recognise NES PS3 Dreamcast Genesis XBOX360 Master System i think gamecube i wasn't a big nintendo fan after the 90s Atari 2600 oh and that gamepad compatible with jazz jackrabbit

[@sonsofblades]

Dude, a huge chunk of your audio is missing in this one.

[@namebrandmason]

I thought "Barney" kinda looks like Opus from Bloom County.

[@TheFusionWarrior]

mason s. It is!

[@AllMightySanta]

mason s. Wow Opus the Penguin........ I forgot all about Bloom County.

[@TempusFugit78]

Just about to comment that. Maybe Bill is in there, somewhere.

[@lookhowshegobbledthat]

OMG the memories