the kidnapper at 2:43 and the main protagonist look surprisingly similar... The plot thickens!
@error41593 жыл бұрын
Lol, it's got to be the same guy.
@CitizenKanevideos9 жыл бұрын
LGR as Super Crime Fighter Lucas McCabe was the best possible casting they could've done. You really knocked it out of the park on this one, Clint!
@AdamAus858 жыл бұрын
Oh man, that president's daughter...
@TheCivildecay5 жыл бұрын
she is really 90's hot!
@mikebenham38664 жыл бұрын
I'm sure she gets "kidnapped" every Friday
@AdamAus854 жыл бұрын
@Suffer No Fools resident white knight?
@hi_tech_reptiles4 жыл бұрын
The video of her was the highest quality animation/video in the game lol. Everytime she moved it was like suddenly the game had a 720p video decoder on floppy lol
@cappantwan29789 жыл бұрын
Copy protection? Who would want to copy 8 floppy disks?
@shauntothemaxx56399 жыл бұрын
Capp Antwan Young teenagers desperate for digitized President's Daughter boob....
@JellobiafraM9 жыл бұрын
+Capp Antwan Back then? Lots of people. Gotta remember this was pre-internet and most of us only had a few games to play. We would have gladly copied a bad Narc clone.
@cappantwan29789 жыл бұрын
Shaun totheMaxx I suddenly had flashbacks to the last season of Dexter. "Daughterboobs." JellobiafraM I understand one or two, but eight!? That must've taken hours.
@rhodesy761uk9 жыл бұрын
+Capp Antwan copy protection you had to have the manual and you had to find a certain word page paragraph ect:)
@cappantwan29789 жыл бұрын
Paul Rhodes Yes, I know what Copy Protection is. It's there to keep people that got a copy of the game from playing since they wouldn't have the manual.
@ryanamberger9 жыл бұрын
You and I, good sir, remember teletubbies much differently.
@thecodingethan9 жыл бұрын
Ryan Amberger yeah, it also covered internet piracy.
@HunterRodrigez7 жыл бұрын
yeah he didnt even mentioned the satanic cultists, lovecraftian Horrors and human trafficking
@neojeets9 жыл бұрын
Damn, the President's daughter is smokin!
@metrohunter-qy4fz4 жыл бұрын
I see he equipped her with ballistics
@MrDuneedon9 жыл бұрын
That Pink Floyd sample is from a song called "One Slip," by the way. Funny hearing it sampled here, but hey...nice usage. :-)
@Bigngreen9 жыл бұрын
That girl who plays the presidents daughter, is smoking hot.
@supermasterPIK6 жыл бұрын
smoking pot ??
@munnypantz9 жыл бұрын
I love your videos on "not Narc"....You should do a video on Narc!
@FatalKitsune9 жыл бұрын
Probably would've played flawlessly with the Demon Destroyer Gunn.
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
FatalKitsune Ha.
@azraelle62326 жыл бұрын
I used to work for one of the guys that played a kidnapper in the cutscenes (I think he was also one of the programmers)... he bragged about how the actress gave him permission to "just grab her" for the video. You can imagine how that went.
@DimT6704 жыл бұрын
He sounds like an asshole tbh
@tokega9 жыл бұрын
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS CLINT!!! Me and my good friend Lars used to play this SO much!! We even made a cardboard "computer" and painted a scene from this game when my uncles computer, which had Crime Wave, broke! YASSSSSSSSSSS!
@terenceskill95268 жыл бұрын
This was one of the first games I got to play on my first PC (386 DX 40) and it looked AWESOME back in 1991 - in my memories it played way more fluent than this ... and Geez, we all loved the girl, I showed her to my friends like I would have shown my first Playboy Mag, with a soft-spoken voice and a conspirative smile on my face^^
@slimjim77M9 жыл бұрын
I had this game back in the day. I don't remember it being as slow as seen here, but my memory probably just isn't serving me correctly. Thanks for taking me back to the childhood once again, LGR!
@therush7577 жыл бұрын
That impression was more Duke Nukem than Kung Fury.
@raymonddevries62617 жыл бұрын
This game brings back so many memories! I remember playing it at a friends house on his huge IBM pc. His dad worked at IBM so he was one of the few to own such a beast of a pc. I remember to be amazed of the movie-alike short scenes. Nowadays that would be no more than an animated gif. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
9 жыл бұрын
Why is this so freaking good? Because it's friday and I have pizza and beer. And beer. Did I mention I love you Lazy Game Reviews/Clint?
@mrbitbot9 жыл бұрын
Hey LGR, I just wanna let you know, you're awesome, keep doing what you're doing. You're the best.
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@DarkKnightTrinity9 жыл бұрын
Lazy Game Reviews What makes you more awesome is you take time to reply to as many comments as you can. You are epic. And I don't use that word lightly.
@Powerhouse19 жыл бұрын
mrbitbot Hey I was going to say that lol.
@thom20029 жыл бұрын
LGR, have you done a video on Turbo Buttons yet? Surely such a thing would be fantastic!
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
thom2002 Was actually thinking about doing one soon!
@fountaincap8 жыл бұрын
Hope you cover the Tex Murphy games someday!
@TheRetroRaven9 жыл бұрын
Loved the music in the end. Retaliator! I could listen to this theme for hours on my SB16 when i was a kid. Played that game over and over again, and even against my dad through null-modem (serial com port).
@DarthTella9 жыл бұрын
I find something oddly appealing about music in early 90's computer games. Those MIDI's are glorious. I know I'm strange.
@rharms_9 жыл бұрын
Niki Groeger not strange at all , ANYTHING from the 80s+90s is the best, and especially videogame music
@GamezCreaTiV6 жыл бұрын
If you're watching this kind of reviews, you're not strange.
@supermasterPIK6 жыл бұрын
Some poor guys like me only enjoyed PC SPEAKER Sounds... the good ol´days.
@TravestyBrimstone9 жыл бұрын
I remember playing Crime Wave a lot when I was a kid, I loved this game back then. I managed to get to the final boss multible times but never would manage to finish the game. Great to finally see the ending. :)
@sungerbob1786 Жыл бұрын
the trick was jumping while shooting those rockets
@markvincentlim62356 жыл бұрын
0:44 Sci-fi Bono, screaming crazy guy, a height-challenged ninja kicking at a trucker in his pajamas. It's just too perfect!
@dosnostalgic9 жыл бұрын
Retaliator music
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
DOS Nostalgia Aw yeah, Adlib goodness.
@richkawaiipikachu9 жыл бұрын
DOS Nostalgia When I heard it at the end my first thought was actually Deus Ex Human Revolution redone on the Mega Drive.
@michaeluy1148 жыл бұрын
i played this game to see the actress in the cutscenes
@anothergol9 жыл бұрын
Quite possible that the culprit was the graphic card. At those times, scrolling was normally done by screen origin offsets, and here it's copying nearly fullscreen to VRAM (probably the reason for the thick edge), that was awfully slow until several years later.
@TheCardsharp5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about this game recently (I don't really know why) but didn't know the name. I just remember the gameplay, and how often I played it as a kid on my Gateway 2000 machine. I never thought I'd be able to find anyone else who knows about this game. This brings back very vague memories, but mainly the memory of me being a kid and playing this on my family's very first computer. Thank you for reviewing this! I saw a few of your videos prior to watching this, and was seriously debating of leaving a comment on one video asking you if you know this game. All I knew to describe about it was that you were a guy in white overalls with red boots going around town shooting people either because you were the bad or good guy. Body parts of those whom you shot would fly up in the air. This is all I remembered from about it; I don't even recall the beginning scenes or the objective. I'm so glad I looked through your videos. You, sir, earned a sub!
@takingiteasy177 жыл бұрын
This really hit me in my childhood, thanks for making this video!
@WhatsOnMyShelf9 жыл бұрын
5:28 Ah, the turbo button - a relic of the early 90s....
@TheGameGrinder9 жыл бұрын
If I saw that box, I totally would have bought the game. Game-play though.. ugh. But dat presidents' daughter. Excellent review!
@markvincentlim62356 жыл бұрын
0:52 Lift up this glorious cover to reveal the contents of the box, including a quick rundown of the game's characters and the promised octuple floppy disk set. Ahh... More floppies are good floppies.
@Supersaiyan799 жыл бұрын
Ah... Crime Wave and Britney. Britney was the only reason I played the game. :D
@ADMTrevor9 жыл бұрын
That cover art is probably the most beautiful thing I have ever seen...
@realrealqbok3 жыл бұрын
...and that despite the fact that president's daughter is neither topless nor in bikini on it!
@travistjmacmccollum9 жыл бұрын
This was six kinds of beautiful. It may be slow as molasses compared to today's games, but there's a certain charm to this kind of game that's pretty undeniable...though now I really want to rewatch Kung Fury again.
@TheOnlyToblin8 жыл бұрын
Hnnh! That F29 Retaliator soundtrack at the end of. Such a flawed gem but by god, that menu music. I still find myself humming it from time to time.
@BlackDragon-xn2ww9 жыл бұрын
Fond memories of old dos games a time when getting it running was half the fun factor and going wow it works ! I use to tinker with settings like this to see all the games glory ega,vga,svga and many more video settings and sound setting were a challenge in these older titles it seemed but I liked that cause you had to do more then pop it in.
@mtjoy7472 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when "copy protection" was "what is word n on page x, of the manual you should always have?" LOL - copy the manual, problem solved - pre-internet "product key" copyright protection
@SportMegane9 жыл бұрын
Even back in the day I was wondering: why does noboby see that the main player figure is MICHAEL JACKSON ??
@JBOpie133 жыл бұрын
0:46 'Screaming Guy' is likely Doug Vandegrift AKA Rook Garner from the Access Software Tex Murphy games. He may have also designed the box art as well.
@pftyea9 жыл бұрын
Isn't the turbo button for slow things down to 8088 speed for compatibility?
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
Svviftie Yes. Hence why it won't help, it was a joke ;)
@TottallyMinecraftOfficial9 жыл бұрын
Lazy Game Reviews It definitely won't help if it slows down the processor lol
@dakota38418 жыл бұрын
yea thats why he said it wouldnt help
@bikutoso9 жыл бұрын
8 disks that's nothing, Office 4.2 and its 22 3.5 disks is something else. Installed it once, and will probably will never install it manually again.
@pretzelthedude9 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this on store shelves back in the day. So right on it not aging gracefully. I have seen many games in your collection video that about brought me to tears with the memories I had. Sadder still that I no longer have them to play. I'd love to jump into a game of Temple Of Apshai Trilogy again among others. I absolutely adored "Stunts" :-) Ever played the quirky fun of "Car Builder"?
@todesziege4 жыл бұрын
I remember thinking it was terrible even way back in the 90's, and even if I'd played it when it was brand new I doubt it would have impressed. There were plenty of games available then that didn't play this clumsily.
@DarkKnightTrinity9 жыл бұрын
I've been on a binge going back and watching all of your previous videos after discovering you this summer. So far I've managed about 250 or so, but you keep coming out with more and ruining my plans with more awesome videos lol.
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
DarkKnightTrinity Two come out weekly, so as long as you watch more than that per week you'll catch up!
@Bluehawk20089 жыл бұрын
Are you a bad enough dude to save the President..'s daughter?
@brilliantgeorge9 жыл бұрын
@01:29 I can't believe the manual actually suggests that you should tamper with the inside of your PC with a custom-made cable to enhance the sound!
@supermasterPIK6 жыл бұрын
Yes. Still in 1990 sound cards were expensive, just enjoy pc speaker.
@ShabbirSiraj2 жыл бұрын
At that time, tinkering to get the best out of your PC was the norm. As a kid, removing a heavy metal PC case and installing a sound card made me feel like I was doing something extraordinary.
@Cur8or889 жыл бұрын
This game blew my mind when it came out.
@HamzaAnsari14258 жыл бұрын
"More floppies are good floppies" - LGR 2015
@mariancovei54358 жыл бұрын
+Da666ManIsBak "Who cares if they ripped over somebody else's work, you could hear it on a PC speaker so what it was worth the risk?" - LGR
@net_news9 жыл бұрын
I loved this game so much!! I played it just to hear the music and see the graphics... and that intro!! Just incredible, I didn't care too much about playability haha for me all Access games were simply amazing. Do you remember Amazon?
@KapiteinKrentebol9 жыл бұрын
8:35 The music from Retaliator, nice. :^)
@JoeyJ0J09 жыл бұрын
So it is an even cheesier version of NARC. Didn't think that was possible. I remember retsupurae riffed this game and it seemed to run a lot faster
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
Fraudulent Frequency You can probably emulate it faster now, but I was running this on what was top-of-the-line hardware from when the game was new in order to remain accurate.
@BeatleBabe7 жыл бұрын
Omg, the intro sounds like the menu screen of the Rent-A-Cop dvd XD
@offperception9 жыл бұрын
Dude! I got this game from a friend once and I could never get it to run. So cool to see it action now. Also, Retaliator music at the end
@megablueman3 жыл бұрын
This is the most early 90s game I've ever seen
@randallkincaid-shatto59349 жыл бұрын
i really dig your low brow toilet humor in your videos Clint. never change.
@scrustle9 жыл бұрын
That game seems to be full of people who are baffled by their own thoughts. I hate unwarranted question marks.
@toratio85474 жыл бұрын
I love how it ripped off bits from games, music, etc, yet still has copy protection...
@JoseDanielCampa9 жыл бұрын
That robot is very reminiscent of Octon from Defenders of the Earth.
@MrRandomposter9 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised those eight floppies installed after all this time. You should do an outtake video of you installing some of these games. I remember having only a EGA monitor and PC speaker. Messing around with the install settings as a kid. Trying endlessly to set it to different settings such as Tandy graphics just to see what happened. When I got ghostbusters and speech emitted out of the pc speaker. Amazing!!
@ghostbirdofprey9 жыл бұрын
I saw those Crusader No Regret and No Remorse boxes and lost some of my interest in this one. You can't fight my nostalgia LGR
@TheD1ddler9 жыл бұрын
1:41 The code for the copy protection was "nutsack" ?! lol
@jakesteven19809 жыл бұрын
Do you have any games from Access Software?
@MrJeeba4 жыл бұрын
Wow!!!! I was like 6 years old when I play this game. I didn't remember at all playing this until I saw this review and remeber it all. Wow
@Xeotroid9 жыл бұрын
Can someone who knows the inner workings of PC Speaker explain to me _HOW_ they did this? How did they turn the annoying bleeper into a player of actual sounds (that is, not generated like what SC-55 or Mega Drive's chip did but actual recorded music)?
@MikePepe5 жыл бұрын
It's basically a pulse width modulation (PWM) technique. I bought this game when it came out, and in 1990 the sound in Crime Wave was pretty amazing. I'm pretty sure we had a 12Mhz 286 at the time so it was even slower than shown here, but hey, it was almost NARC! at home!
@gast1289 жыл бұрын
That's the sound of Retaliator there on the end.
@Pjotter9 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I was hoping someone would notice cause it struck a familiar chord but I couldn't get my head around it. But yeah, f-29 retaliator. played that a lot as a kid, but it ran crap on my machine back then.
@gast1289 жыл бұрын
LargoDono I think on slower computers you had an advantage that the game was actual slower. Retaliator is one of the greatest game ever. In the end you had to bomb a aircraft carrier and fight a spam of enemies. And ofc you could cheat by restoring your old progress when you failed a mission and died.
@kei_nishimaru8 жыл бұрын
FMV on Floppies, holy... Crap... It's possible...
@williamhayden77117 жыл бұрын
i seem to recall I really enjoyed this game back in the day. The sexual innuendo certainly didn't hurt either. Yeah the President's daughter was hotness. Those weren't rockets those were heat seeking moisture missiles. However seeing it now, yeah, I understand the review, but back then for me, this game was pretty good. Now I'm off to see if you did Crusader 1 and 2! Two very excellent games indeed. Cheers.
@KhazWolf7 жыл бұрын
8:35 That's the music from F29 Retaliator! Maybe review that one someday, it was a good game and deserves some attention
@GigaBoost9 жыл бұрын
Oh man that Riana Rouge. I hope you cover it! It's so gloriously awesomely bad and unsexy despite being a "porn" game. Is say it's tame enough for youtube these days.
@Gooberslot9 жыл бұрын
I remember drooling over the ad for this game in computer magazines. Yet, I'm not really surprised that it sucks.
@stezton9 жыл бұрын
That cover....that cover. Amazing.
@rodneyws19777 жыл бұрын
Something is wrong I think. I had this game and it ran fine on my 286-10 with the sound effects.
@mlembrant8 жыл бұрын
oh lord, i remember this game.. my... childhood.. it's here, it's all back!
@NihilQuest9 жыл бұрын
I remember drooling over this when I saw it in a magazine. I never knew it was on Amiga, to me it was one of those PC games I always wanted to play and it looked amazing for the time (at least on screenshots). I just checked Amiga version and it runs slightly better, the movies are black and white though.
@lurkerrekrul9 жыл бұрын
***** The Amiga version was a major disappointment to me. I saw the intro running in a store and it didn't look any different than countless FMV loops on the Amiga, but when the game came out, all the movies were B/W. To top it off, the game sucked.
@killyshoot91617 жыл бұрын
You got a great channel it's like my childhood all over again! I had this game copped it from software etc. back in he day I also love drug wars and crime patrol I gotta see if u did a review on those classics keep on bro I'm hooked!
@giantsquidy34919 жыл бұрын
I wish the box art was a t-shirt.
@Blackadder755 жыл бұрын
you can make t-shirts from any picture these days, just find a decent jpg of the box art and you are set,
@CorneliusSneedley9 жыл бұрын
"nutsack" Hilarious. By the way, what Pink Floyd song are you thinking that funk bass thing resembles?
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
Cornelius Sneed It's directly ripped from "One Slip"
@CorneliusSneedley9 жыл бұрын
Lazy Game Reviews Yes, you're right. I had forgotten about that one. I'm kind of embarrassed; there is not a lot of funk bass in Pink Floyd material, so I should have remembered. I was in the eighth grade when Dark Side of the Moon came out, and have been a fan ever since.
@CorneliusSneedley9 жыл бұрын
FearAbsentia Yes, you remember better than I did. :)
@supermasterPIK6 жыл бұрын
1973 = 14 yr old ... oh... I got it.
@error4159 Жыл бұрын
God, I remember the ad for this in CGW every month
@johns8369 Жыл бұрын
I came here after seeing its ad in a vintage magazine I bought. Not disappointed!
@mohhingman3 жыл бұрын
i love your voice over impersonations. So Good!
@dubiousrigmarole59459 жыл бұрын
When you said Crime Wave I immediately thought of this game! I didn't expect this game of the many sharing this name you'd be covering. I still have this game in my collection of old PC crap-factor games I keep around in case I need to torture myself with the games I actually thought were good when I was young. Good choice on subject matter, sir.
@richardadams49282 жыл бұрын
I had this, but never got around to playing it. Sat on a bookcase shelf for YEARS....
@MrSpacelyy4 жыл бұрын
I was a bit young when I played this. I thought it was Michael Jackson with a gun...
@9a3eedi8 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how everythign has a shadow in the game.. and realistic ones too (i.e. not just black "dots"). I wonder how the game would perform if you were to disable shadows.
@L17018 жыл бұрын
I imagine the universe of this game is what the world of Kung Fury becomes once the 90s start.
@Blackadder755 жыл бұрын
I played this in highschool, and it ran smooth. but we only had a 12 mhz 286, I don;t know why it runs so sluggish for LGR
@ShabbirSiraj2 жыл бұрын
It played smoothly for me as well on a 33Mhz 386 at the time. LGR got the special slo-mo version, ha!
@MARCOPLAYSDOSGAMES9 жыл бұрын
In 1989, Access Software came out with Mean Streets, one of the first Vga 256 games ever (by the moment I know that 688 Attack Sub was the very first one from march 1989) and with the great Real Sound speaker . Playing Crime Wave you can find "Mean Streets" advertisement on the walls . Here the picture : facebook.com/MarcoPlaysDosGames/photos/a.635275463177022.1073741831.622518124452756/895863490451550/?type=1&theater
@infinitygenealpa2 жыл бұрын
What is that platforming game in the upper left at the end preview screen?
@DrForrester20019 жыл бұрын
When crouched, the main character kinda looks like a really short fat guy.
@courtship69787 жыл бұрын
i love your vast knowlege of games and commentary you make great content very underrated youtuber. :)
@RetroGamePlayers9 жыл бұрын
I've got the 3.5" 4 Disk version. Very observant Pink Floyd comparison!
@SlasherMiniFilms9 жыл бұрын
Holy crap!! The minute the title screen "One Slip" bass line kicked in, I had a heart attack lol:) did the plot scroll have "Terminal Frost" in the background already? or did you add that haha
@IAmStefanNixdorf9 жыл бұрын
I'd like to express a wish on something i would looove to be covered by you! Prince Of Persia! Man, i love the series, i've played every game and that and any Lego games, i would play every day^^. It would be super interesting to hear your thoughts on the original game, maybe even the sequel. I love how the series progressed, but i suppose that the first and/or second installment in the series would most likely be potential review candidates for you.
@Carambal819 жыл бұрын
I remember this game from the Amiga and have fond memories of it. But I didn't remember the name! So thank you for reviewing this game and bringing it to my attention. By the way, I think that the game speed was much better on the Amiga.
@mrsabidji9 жыл бұрын
Was that the theme music from F29 Retaliator, at the end? I loved that game. :)
@LGR9 жыл бұрын
mrsabidji It was indeed! It's listed/linked in the video description as well.
@mrsabidji9 жыл бұрын
It might very well be. Unfortunately, I cannot read. :(
@mrsabidji9 жыл бұрын
Great video anyway, and thanks for taking the time to reply. :)
@thegreatagitator46759 жыл бұрын
Oh my, the boxart is glorious...in its own special way.
@bstar7777777 жыл бұрын
Great review. I got this game with my first computer. Needless to say, it was a weird experience for an 11 year old just getting into computer gaming. Not sure why, but I was totally sold on the real audio and 256 colors. Yeah, it was horrific.
@Blackadder752 жыл бұрын
256 colors was the best in the industry for a brief period of time. It was better than any console or the Amiga which usually were limited to 32 colors (even when they technically could do more, the game industry just didn't use that)
@Armis713 жыл бұрын
Bought and played this game back in 1990. It was pretty fun and had great graphics then.
@toolthoughts8 жыл бұрын
who was the actress?
@TheHabitman9 жыл бұрын
Try playing it on a PC with 3D acceleration, or a 100mhz cpu. That ending was epic. Dude never takes off his shades. Itagaki would be proud.