LGR - Crime Wave - DOS PC Game Review

[@TheLastLineLive]

the kidnapper at 2:43 and the main protagonist look surprisingly similar... The plot thickens!

[@error4159]

Lol, it's got to be the same guy.

[@CitizenKanevideos]

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!

[@AdamAus85]

Oh man, that president's daughter...

[@TheCivildecay]

she is really 90's hot!

[@mikebenham3866]

I'm sure she gets "kidnapped" every Friday

[@AdamAus85]

@Suffer No Fools resident white knight?

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

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

[@cappantwan2978]

Copy protection? Who would want to copy 8 floppy disks?

[@shauntothemaxx5639]

Capp Antwan Young teenagers desperate for digitized President's Daughter boob....

[@JellobiafraM]

+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.

[@cappantwan2978]

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.

[@rhodesy761uk]

+Capp Antwan copy protection you had to have the manual and you had to find a certain word page paragraph ect:)

[@cappantwan2978]

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.

[@ryanamberger]

You and I, good sir, remember teletubbies much differently.

[@thecodingethan]

Ryan Amberger yeah, it also covered internet piracy.

[@HunterRodrigez]

yeah he didnt even mentioned the satanic cultists, lovecraftian Horrors and human trafficking

[@neojeets]

Damn, the President's daughter is smokin!

[@metrohunter-qy4fz]

I see he equipped her with ballistics

[@MrDuneedon]

That Pink Floyd sample is from a song called "One Slip," by the way. Funny hearing it sampled here, but hey...nice usage. :-)

[@Bigngreen]

That girl who plays the presidents daughter, is smoking hot.

[@supermasterPIK]

smoking pot ??

[@munnypantz]

I love your videos on "not Narc"....You should do a video on Narc!

[@FatalKitsune]

Probably would've played flawlessly with the Demon Destroyer Gunn.

[@LGR]

FatalKitsune Ha.

[@azraelle6232]

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.

[@DimT670]

He sounds like an asshole tbh

[@tokega]

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!

[@terenceskill9526]

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^^

[@slimjim77M]

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!

[@therush757]

That impression was more Duke Nukem than Kung Fury.

[@raymonddevries6261]

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!

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?

[@mrbitbot]

Hey LGR, I just wanna let you know, you're awesome, keep doing what you're doing. You're the best.

[@LGR]

Thank you :)

[@DarkKnightTrinity]

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.

[@Powerhouse1]

mrbitbot Hey I was going to say that lol.

[@thom2002]

LGR, have you done a video on Turbo Buttons yet? Surely such a thing would be fantastic!

[@LGR]

thom2002 Was actually thinking about doing one soon!

[@fountaincap]

Hope you cover the Tex Murphy games someday!

[@TheRetroRaven]

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).

[@DarthTella]

I find something oddly appealing about music in early 90's computer games. Those MIDI's are glorious. I know I'm strange.

[@rharms_]

Niki Groeger not strange at all , ANYTHING from the 80s+90s is the best, and especially videogame music

[@GamezCreaTiV]

If you're watching this kind of reviews, you're not strange.

[@supermasterPIK]

Some poor guys like me only enjoyed PC SPEAKER Sounds... the good ol´days.

[@TravestyBrimstone]

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]

the trick was jumping while shooting those rockets

[@markvincentlim6235]

0:44 Sci-fi Bono, screaming crazy guy, a height-challenged ninja kicking at a trucker in his pajamas. It's just too perfect!

[@dosnostalgic]

Retaliator music

[@LGR]

DOS Nostalgia Aw yeah, Adlib goodness.

[@richkawaiipikachu]

DOS Nostalgia When I heard it at the end my first thought was actually Deus Ex Human Revolution redone on the Mega Drive.

[@michaeluy114]

i played this game to see the actress in the cutscenes

[@anothergol]

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.

[@TheCardsharp]

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!

[@takingiteasy17]

This really hit me in my childhood, thanks for making this video!

[@WhatsOnMyShelf]

5:28 Ah, the turbo button - a relic of the early 90s....

[@TheGameGrinder]

If I saw that box, I totally would have bought the game. Game-play though.. ugh. But dat presidents' daughter. Excellent review!

[@markvincentlim6235]

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.

[@Supersaiyan79]

Ah... Crime Wave and Britney. Britney was the only reason I played the game. :D

[@ADMTrevor]

That cover art is probably the most beautiful thing I have ever seen...

[@realrealqbok]

...and that despite the fact that president's daughter is neither topless nor in bikini on it!

[@travistjmacmccollum]

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.

[@TheOnlyToblin]

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-xn2ww]

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.

[@mtjoy747]

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

[@SportMegane]

Even back in the day I was wondering: why does noboby see that the main player figure is MICHAEL JACKSON ??

[@JBOpie13]

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.

[@pftyea]

Isn't the turbo button for slow things down to 8088 speed for compatibility?

[@LGR]

Svviftie Yes. Hence why it won't help, it was a joke ;)

[@TottallyMinecraftOfficial]

Lazy Game Reviews It definitely won't help if it slows down the processor lol

[@dakota3841]

yea thats why he said it wouldnt help

[@bikutoso]

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.

[@pretzelthedude]

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"?

[@todesziege]

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.

[@DarkKnightTrinity]

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.

[@LGR]

DarkKnightTrinity Two come out weekly, so as long as you watch more than that per week you'll catch up!

[@Bluehawk2008]

Are you a bad enough dude to save the President..'s daughter?

[@brilliantgeorge]

@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!

[@supermasterPIK]

Yes. Still in 1990 sound cards were expensive, just enjoy pc speaker.

[@ShabbirSiraj]

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.

[@Cur8or88]

This game blew my mind when it came out.

[@HamzaAnsari1425]

"More floppies are good floppies" - LGR 2015

[@mariancovei5435]

+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_news]

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?

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

8:35 The music from Retaliator, nice. :^)

[@JoeyJ0J0]

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

[@LGR]

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.

[@BeatleBabe]

Omg, the intro sounds like the menu screen of the Rent-A-Cop dvd XD

[@offperception]

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

[@megablueman]

This is the most early 90s game I've ever seen

[@randallkincaid-shatto5934]

i really dig your low brow toilet humor in your videos Clint. never change.

[@scrustle]

That game seems to be full of people who are baffled by their own thoughts. I hate unwarranted question marks.

[@toratio8547]

I love how it ripped off bits from games, music, etc, yet still has copy protection...

[@JoseDanielCampa]

That robot is very reminiscent of Octon from Defenders of the Earth.

[@MrRandomposter]

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!!

[@ghostbirdofprey]

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

[@TheD1ddler]

1:41 The code for the copy protection was "nutsack" ?! lol

[@jakesteven1980]

Do you have any games from Access Software?

[@MrJeeba]

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

[@Xeotroid]

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)?

[@MikePepe]

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!

[@gast128]

That's the sound of Retaliator there on the end.

[@Pjotter]

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.

[@gast128]

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_nishimaru]

FMV on Floppies, holy... Crap... It's possible...

[@williamhayden7711]

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.

[@KhazWolf]

8:35 That's the music from F29 Retaliator! Maybe review that one someday, it was a good game and deserves some attention

[@GigaBoost]

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.

[@Gooberslot]

I remember drooling over the ad for this game in computer magazines. Yet, I'm not really surprised that it sucks.

[@stezton]

That cover....that cover. Amazing.

[@rodneyws1977]

Something is wrong I think. I had this game and it ran fine on my 286-10 with the sound effects.

[@mlembrant]

oh lord, i remember this game.. my... childhood.. it's here, it's all back!

[@NihilQuest]

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.

[@lurkerrekrul]

***** 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.

[@killyshoot9161]

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!

[@giantsquidy3491]

I wish the box art was a t-shirt.

[@Blackadder75]

you can make t-shirts from any picture these days, just find a decent jpg of the box art and you are set,

[@CorneliusSneedley]

"nutsack" Hilarious. By the way, what Pink Floyd song are you thinking that funk bass thing resembles?

[@LGR]

Cornelius Sneed It's directly ripped from "One Slip"

[@CorneliusSneedley]

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.

[@CorneliusSneedley]

FearAbsentia Yes, you remember better than I did. :)

[@supermasterPIK]

1973 = 14 yr old ... oh... I got it.

[@error4159]

God, I remember the ad for this in CGW every month

[@johns8369]

I came here after seeing its ad in a vintage magazine I bought. Not disappointed!

[@mohhingman]

i love your voice over impersonations. So Good!

[@dubiousrigmarole5945]

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.

[@richardadams4928]

I had this, but never got around to playing it. Sat on a bookcase shelf for YEARS....

[@MrSpacelyy]

I was a bit young when I played this. I thought it was Michael Jackson with a gun...

[@9a3eedi]

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.

[@L1701]

I imagine the universe of this game is what the world of Kung Fury becomes once the 90s start.

[@Blackadder75]

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

[@ShabbirSiraj]

It played smoothly for me as well on a 33Mhz 386 at the time. LGR got the special slo-mo version, ha!

[@MARCOPLAYSDOSGAMES]

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

[@infinitygenealpa]

What is that platforming game in the upper left at the end preview screen?

[@DrForrester2001]

When crouched, the main character kinda looks like a really short fat guy.

[@courtship6978]

i love your vast knowlege of games and commentary you make great content very underrated youtuber. :)

[@RetroGamePlayers]

I've got the 3.5" 4 Disk version. Very observant Pink Floyd comparison!

[@SlasherMiniFilms]

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

[@IAmStefanNixdorf]

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.

[@Carambal81]

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.

[@mrsabidji]

Was that the theme music from F29 Retaliator, at the end? I loved that game. :)

[@LGR]

mrsabidji It was indeed! It's listed/linked in the video description as well.

[@mrsabidji]

It might very well be. Unfortunately, I cannot read. :(

[@mrsabidji]

Great video anyway, and thanks for taking the time to reply. :)

[@thegreatagitator4675]

Oh my, the boxart is glorious...in its own special way.

[@bstar777777]

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.

[@Blackadder75]

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)

[@Armis71]

Bought and played this game back in 1990. It was pretty fun and had great graphics then.

[@toolthoughts]

who was the actress?

[@TheHabitman]

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.