LGR - Wolfenstein 3D - DOS PC Game Review

[@SuperCrabbycrab]

Back in 1994, this was the very first game I played as a small girl age 6. I got so hooked on gaming I'm now an artist working on video games. Thank you ID and IBM for making my childhood awesome, and thank you LGR for bringing back the nostalgic joy.

[@FnRenner]

That's pretty cool. It's 2022 now. What have you been working on? Anything an internet rado would recognize?

[@camotech1314]

What else do you play now ? Do you stream too?

[@rnwilliams44]

This post may be years old, but I respect you. I as well played wolfenstein 3d as a 6 year old in 1995 and I vividly remember E1M9. My moms computer back then didn't have the Soundblaster card on it. So when I first heard Hans Grosse PC sound clip and killed me, I was so petrified, I stopped playing the game until 1998 when my mom got a better computer. That sound alone was singlehandedly the scariest thing I've ever heard as a kid.

[@nathansyupp1137]

Sooo, 8 years later I just have to know how things went!

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

I was born like just a week after this game was released, so it really couldn't end up being my first, but I've always been very fond of it. Seeing the secret bonus levels in Doom 2, and hearing about this mythical other first person shooter by the same guys who made Doom 2 and Quake 2, two games I thought were badass, made me really drawn to try it at an early age. I think I got to finally try it at maybe age 7 or 8. I really liked it. The gameplay is simpler overall, but it's really fast paced, and it has a cartoony and colorful charm distinct from the comparatively much more gritty and dark Doom and Quake games. I loved the arcade trappings with score and score items, making it feel like a lot of the console games I'd be playing (often emulating) at the time, gathering that ill gotten treasure items and seeing the score counter go up, _up,_ *_up,_* was just really pleasing, and that was together with getting into gunfights all the time. As much as I loved Doom's and Quake's comparatively darker and more realistic aesthetics (I was already a huge fan of Diablo before I got to even try those), and their much more visceral and graphical violence, Wolfenstein 3D's almost charicature-like cartoon characters and bright and colorful graphics, and by then already pretty retro arcade trappings, contrasting with the gushing bright red blood, guns, and ultimately pretty serious Nazi German WW2 setting, together all made it really appealing for how it was different from not just iD's other shooters, but any other first person shooter I knew at the time.

[@terminaldeity]

Fun fact, BJ Blazkowicz of Wolfenstein is the grandfather of Billy Blaze, better known as Commander Keen. This is canon.

[@shyguymollgaming9987]

no, BJ is the father of Keen, and Keen is the father of Doomguy

[@terminaldeity]

Sorry, but you're wrong. Keen's father is named Arthur in the canon. Arthur is the son of BJ. Doomguy is a descendant of the Blazkowicz clan, but it is not known how distant. Wherever you got your information, it's wrong. Look it up yourself if you don't believe me. Everything I've said is canon.

[@witherblaze]

Not related to doom guy, despite looking almost exactly the same.

[@HardDiskDog]

+terminaldeity Where does the Quake guy fall in?

[@terminaldeity]

Not sure. Maybe nowhere. There's never been any official information about where the ranger from Quake fits into the id mythos, at least to my knowledge.

[@Dosgamert_2]

Thank you for using my HD Wolfenstein game footage! I loved this video (and Wolfenstein - The New Order too) Thank you for refering to my channel as you said you would! Bart.

[@Dosgamert]

This is my new channel by the way. It's stuffed with even more gameplay footage of even higher quality! =)

[@dstarr3]

The Wolfenstein font looks like everything is spelled out with bacon.

[@massproducedeva_]

Baconstein. Mmmh,bacon.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

ikr

[@Macc_]

Baconstein sounds like a terrible alcoholic beverage..

[@andrewhaxley9467]

indeed it does!

[@lewisirwin5363]

I dunno, I'd take it over Skittlebrau.

[@Ronny1031]

Games like this, doom and quake make me wistful and misty eyed for the days games were easy to just pick up and play without being bogged down by cutscenes and obnoxious tutorial prompts. Wolf 3d to this very day is a game I can play over and over again without growing bored of it. Really, this, Doom, Duke 3d and Quake are all games that I can, have and continue to play time and time again and enjoy every bit as much as I did back when I was a kid in the 90s, and still find secrets I didn't know existed. Great review, sir!

[@prehistoricwatergun0136]

suck those tears in because it's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum

[@itzspencerr1403]

But hey, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon made some fun out of annoying tutorials. XD

[@viewtifuljoe4412]

+Ronny Webster (Ronny1031) GOG.com is the place to go to keep the best years of gaming alive and well.

[@SeekerLancer]

+Viewtiful Joe If GOG ever gets the rights to the MechWarrior franchise then my library there will be complete.

[@viewtifuljoe4412]

Christopher Blair Very cool, the more games that are available the better.

[@VinylicPumaGaming]

Great to see a review of an FPS classic! :)

[@keiyakins]

People always look at me weird when I shout "MEIN LEIBEN" in a fit of giggles when I get killed in games. That clip of broken german is just so seared into my brain though!

[@VRSVLVS]

*Mein Leben

[@TheRealAuxide]

Both wolf3D and RtCW are great. I once did the speach from the doctor in the first level, and my dad looked at me, "what?"

[@Traitorman.Con.14th.Sec3]

When I win in a multiplayer I usually shout “YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO US”

[@petesgarage4670]

you have to scream " scheisse !!!! "

[@Louie_The_Dago]

Mein lavin i thought it was

[@HunterRodrigez]

as a german myself i can confirm that you are indeed, pronouncing the game title correctly

[@ShaneStrife]

I have no idea where the "steen" pronunciation even came from.

[@HunterRodrigez]

Shane from people who didn't speak German and never heard the title out loud

[@ShaneStrife]

Castle Wolfenstein being Jewish. I don't know what to think about that.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

your german! wow thats awesome, i love germany and you guys are awesome! love your food too and think you are the best ever friend! btw nice comment

[@BDM276]

I'm a bit late to the conversation but it's not really Jewish names. They are Jews with German names because they escaped europe during ww2. That's why a lot of jews in the US have names that end with "stein".

[@Teabone3]

Played this in 1992 in our classroom library... installed by the staff... why did they let us play this so young? lol

[@iHawke]

The Ban Man >implying they aren't

[@epicboomshine6595]

Well, my preschool had Duke 3D. Without the parental code activated.

[@xortab]

1993 12th grade honors English class (installed by a friend with permission) in my case.

[@robbobbrah8953]

They were better times man.

[@KoolRanch]

Educational

[@FyberOptic]

Anyone who has an interest in the history of these old Id games would probably enjoy the book "Masters of Doom" from David Kushner. It really gets into the details of John Carmack and John Romero's past, from growing up, to their earliest work pre-Id, all the way up through the Quake era. It's one of my favorite books about game developers, along with "The Making of Prince of Persia" from Jordan Mechner himself.

[@Danbotology]

Me and my dad used to play this together when I was very young. He would go around doing the killing and exploring (ie playing the game) and he would hand the controls over to me to pick up all the treasure when he found a secret room :) I bought the pixel-perfect port of Wolf 3D on Xbox Live several years back and played through and finished it myself finally. Wonderful game.

[@FazzRetro]

even though I don't talk to my dad anymore, I still have fond memories of him on a kitchen chair sup of tea on one side and an astray and a burning smoke one the other and him playing video games...mainly NES but I know he would have loved this game cause he played Doom on PS1 alot.

[@mindcrome]

Great channel man. I remember the first time I saw this game. My aunt had just got a IBM 386 Model 70. My cousin told me I had to check out this awesome game they got with their new computer, Wolfenstein. Being solely a console gamer at that point, It really floored me. Wolfenstein and Leisure Suit Larry really changed my idea of what computer games can be

[@andrewhaxley9467]

the same experience when i introduced myself to this game at a young age when i had the shareware version! and what a fun game indeed i finished the demo episode for! definitily a great game! never heard of lsl but i did see videos for it as well on yt! what a great idea:)

[@IMCR8Z]

6:39 Technically speaking, Wolfenstein 3D is literally a corridor shooter.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

thats because wolf3d is the first game to have actual corriders surrond you as you go from place to place looking for treasure and gold! and then doom and quake had it too but thats another story! plus wolf3d still is better then the rest!

[@afistfulofpimples1745]

Bullshit

[@vladyslavponomarchuk2692]

Hi postal 2 shotgun

[@Tioisdik]

That word didn't even exist in 1992. They used it many years later. It's an awfull word, for a great shooter, because many people don't think corridor shooters give you much freedom. Funny thing is: in many cases Wolfenstein 3D offers more freedom, as a 'corridor shooter', then shooters made decades later (which are not considered to be corridor shooters). They should have called it a 'maze' shooter tbh. You were able to get lost in it, very quickly.

[@shaitet]

I wouldn't describe it as a corridor shooter since Wolf3D allows you more freedom than that, but playing it with a stealth mindset on I Am Death Incarnate will let you live longer for sure.

[@WhiteMageMentality]

There's something about the opaque, limited colors, low ceilings, mazelike design and ruthless enemies that made this game nightmare fuel for me as a child. I had nightmares of pixelated skeletons and nazis for years. ...I mean, in retrospect it totally suits the plot but still.

[@darkprinc979]

Don't know how many people know this, but in Wolf 3d when your health drops really low (I think below 5%), BJ will drink blood out of puddles you can find on the floor.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

wow thats strange and never noticed him doing it at all!

[@HardDiskDog]

+Andrew Haxley All of your comments are obnoxious to some degree.

[@BDM276]

I know right? Does he have to respond to each and every comment on here? Most of the times he's completely missing the point or the joke and ranting on about irrelevant stuff. This dude needs a job or a hobby.

[@MinekEzQM]

I heard the same with the skeletons in the cages. I never ever managed to see any of these. Probably a different version number.

[@nathanbarnes6869]

I think in Spear of Destiny you can eat the dogs food as well

[@joshuakaeble7810]

This is my favorite video game of all time. I remember staying after school to play this, and taking a late bus home. Every once in awhile, I'll download it, and play again.

[@kevincheng81]

I like in The New Order, you can enter a nightmare, where you play the first level of Wolf 3D, with the new game's shooting engines. Really interesting.

[@Terenin]

Kevin Cheng That was indeed a nice homage to the grandfather of the FPS genre.

[@stevekovoc3939]

Terenin Yeah, I find that quite humorous and awesome at the same time. I like that the company that made A New Order cared at all about the original game.

[@MinekEzQM]

Including the secret level? (Just like in Doom II where you played Wolf 3D with DOOM engine and at the end of the secret level you met Commander Keen)

[@bigemugamer]

Watched a couple of your videos and i like your style, the way you go on without pausing, poke fun, point out silly things in such a nonchalant manner, I'm a big retro gamer myself (hence my name) doing lots of emulation gameplay on my xperia play, PC hyperspin collection and old pc games from GOG games, i played the orig Wolfenstine game a bit but not a lot unfortunately yet always remembered it, happy to have found your channel =)

[@matthewweng8483]

always liked "The Nocturnal Mission" joke. sophomoric yet still amusing.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

still amuses me to this day!

[@olzhas1one755]

M Blair Weng can you explain the joke please?

[@olzhas1one755]

Cake Digital oh (lenny face)

[@mickstark4447]

your a lilly livered skunklicker

[@deusexaethera]

@@olzhas1one755: Google "nocturnal emission".

[@js200gb]

You always make awesome and informative videos. Keep it up!

[@Thread212]

This dude is a legend..

[@R33Racer]

Haha I was watching your Compaq Contura video this morning only to see you upload this hours later. Glad you finally reviewed this 'elephant in the room' game. ^^

[@JaddenSinn]

1993 retail release got you the full game in a box, with a full manual, hint book with behind the scenes info and a shareware copy of another game. Today I'm shocked if games even include game manuals.... *sigh*

[@LGR]

I know, right? You have to pay twice the price for a limited/collector's edition nowadays to get anything extra, and even then it *still* doesn't come with a proper manual!

[@niallreid7664]

Lazy Game Reviews Some developers in contrast have gone mental with the sizes of manuals. For example, the manual I have for a game called "Dominions 4" that's sitting in my room right now is 400 pages long. I had to order it separately mind you but still. Awesome game, btw.

[@6StimuL84]

I used to love Microproses Games for that, they always included huge manuals loaded with information and learning on the Games subject, Red Storm Rising, AH64A Apache, M1 Tank Platoon and many, many others...The good old days...EA was a good company back then also, not just a bunch of money grubbing suits....

[@Pellaeon159]

To be fair, this game can be played through in a few hours for 50 or so bucks, was developed by a few people in a few months for a few thousand dollars... Now when you buy GTA5 for that money today, developed by hundreds, for several years, costing millions of dollars... you may not get a 400 page manual, but you get a game that has 1000x more content than Wolf... I mean... Manuals are nice and all, but... I dont think we have the right to complain for the price.

[@misterx420]

In 2024, you don't get anything & don't own any games you pay for. R.I.P. video games.

[@bryantadair1430]

Hey man I just found your Chanel and I fucking love it. Your sense of humor and taste in games is right up my alley! Keep up the good content

[@GugureSux]

Besides having tons of official content to play, people might be surprised to hear that Wolf3D has a very active modding community as well. I was very much into modding and playing people's mods still back in mid-00s, and judging from the few random visits to the old sites that still exist, people are still pushing out new mods and TCs today. Some of them truly push the boundaries of this ancient engine, similar to what DooM's sourceports do.

[@KingJerbear]

I have such good memories of playing this on my first Packard Bell PC back in the day. Looking back, I was probably a bit young to see such content... but this game, Doom, and Blakestone really started my love for video games. Good times.

[@cmmmmmmmw]

This game completely blew my mind when it was released. It was a huge leap ahead in graphics and gameplay from what else was available at the time. Underappreciated soundtrack, too.

[@Lukeno52]

Those early 3D games are incredibly impressive for their time!

[@q306005]

Great video as always Clint, but I felt there was a distinct lack of Strong Bad references, obscure 90's dance music, and parrots in wigs...

[@q306005]

Wow! I legit have no idea what I was talking about here. I don't even remember writing this 5 years ago.

[@hernancoronel]

At 3:36 “Obviously, I listened”. LOL! Thank you for the video LGR!

[@SNARC15]

Ugh. That dreaded SNES version. I remember how when iD Software saw what Nintendo did to Wolfenstein, and vowed never to work for Nintendo again...until they released DOOM on the SNES. I even had a letter I wrote criticizing iD for DOOM on the SNES published in an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, earning it's Letter of the Month. However, I never got my controllers they promised me.

[@Sc0pee]

The SNES version of Doom was pretty good actually, especially for a SNES release!

[@wooterz]

They hated it so much, they gave the source code to a christian game company so they could make an unlicensed game about Noah shooting the hell out of goats. No joke.

[@EuryBartleby]

Sc0pee It looked worse than the PC version, of course, but I'm still impressed they could port it to an SNES. Simply making the game *playable* must have been quite the technical challenge,

[@RaiDeoul]

***** That's not true. Yes, 'Super Noah's Arc 3D' does exist, produced by Wisdom Tree for DOS and SNES, but iD never gave them the engine. They happen to had a license of the engine from the times when the company was Color Dreams, at that time they were developing a game with the wolf3d engine called 'Hellraiser'. The game was never released so they reused their license on the new company.

[@SonicTheJackrabbit]

SNES Doom was not developed by id, but Sculptured Software, the same people who made that mediocre Mortal Kombat 1 SNES port.

[@slimjim77M]

Top notch review, as always, LGR! Man, I miss the old days of PC gaming.

[@clouds5]

One of the first games I ever played.

[@afistfulofpimples1745]

Rubbish

[@VonDutchNL]

@@afistfulofpimples1745 Nope

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

so i guess everyone know you can play the first level of wolfenstein 3D in W:the new order like an eastern egg, right?

[@LGR]

If not, you do now! Wolfenstein: The New Order - Wolfenstein 3D Easter Egg

[@retrovideogamejunkie]

AFnord . can we start nerd rage about to HAVE to pick up bullets/helth packs in the new wolfenstein? XD

[@koalabrownie]

VideoGame Polak No Wolfenstein New Order. You're behind by about 10 games if you're referring to the top down one with the bloody SS and Saurekraut (spl?) in crates.

[@scripss]

***** So kids are developing the games?

[@AzureProxy]

What about the western egg?

[@DeriDraws]

"Thankfully killing is constantly satisfying" -LGR, 2014

[@mdavis7298]

This is one of my favorite videos from you. Thank you very much for this video.

[@LGR]

You are quite welcome, glad you enjoyed :)

[@bchristian85]

The level design is either something you like or you don't. The mazey, exploration-focused design is one of the reasons I loved Wolfenstein as a kid. In fact I wish more modern shooters would use this formula.

[@robertwarf3316]

Amen to the level design feeling like a maze. Gets old quick! Love this channel

Wolfenstein 3D was ported to everything including later Wolfenstein games.

[@shaka7302]

And Doom

[@ericsaldana8236]

And tetris 2016

[@tiger12506]

I think you never really fall out of love with your first video game., and Wolfenstein 3D is that for me. It was fun going through all the levels, remembering being afraid of certain areas as a kid, and where the secrets are after ~20 years. My uncle painstakingly pushed every wall, and mapped out the entire first episode before they came out with the box set that included the hint manual.

[@gaiuscaligula2229]

Wolfesntein 3d always had a scary aspect in it for me. When you hear a door open and you're not sure where and the only thing you know is that you didn't open it. Even worse when it happens as you're approaching a door and you get shot in the face instantly.

[@ArtemusWolfwood]

This game holds a special place in my heart as I used to watch my stepdad play it all the time as a kid. And also for being one in a long line of early-'90s ultraviolent games that traumatized my squishy little seven-year-old brain. But hey, whatcha gonna do.

[@ShdwHg]

Speaking of awesome ports, there's a homebrew version of _Wolfenstein 3D_ being developed for stock Genesis hardware, and it is _shockingly_ smooth. Plus, more faithful than the SNES version (not just because no censorship, but it's also using the DOS version's actual maps, not the cut down versions seen in things like the Jaguar version). Downsides being that it kinda requires a lower-quality video signal for color-blending (else you'll see vertical lines everywhere, which is kinda ugly), and that (I _believe_) it only covers the shareware episode right now, but hey, it's something. Wolfenstein 3D GEN/MD (Newer versions run a tad smoother than this, but videos featuring it linked directly to the ROM, which is, well, y'know, a legal gray area.)

[@Outside998]

Wow, amazing that I can even watch the video ^^ The music you used in the beginning is forbidden in my country. KZbin already locked some vids for using it ^^ It's the "Horst Wessel Lied" (Horst Wessel song) by the way, also known as "Die Fahne hoch" (The flag high).

[@timg2727]

9:57 - "a well timed BJ attack" - LOL, please tell me this was intentional.

[@FunkyPertwee]

Great review. I grew up with this game and love it to this day. Wolf3D rocks!

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

RTCW was a pinnacle of Wolf, it's steady decline from then on. And now that I recall, I've finished the original Wolfenstein 3d on PSP.

[@LGR]

I actually had at least as much fun with Wolf 2009 than I did with RTCW, if not more so. It's a freaking blast once you get past the slow intro.

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

Lazy Game Reviews 2009 was a good game, most definitely. Especially since it stayed true to predecessors, and kept the Nazi Occult at it's core, unlike some more recent Wolfensteins hon hon. But it kinda felt all over the place, it wasn't as tight and oldschool as RCTW. Soundtrack wasn't as memorable as well, I can hum all the pieces from RTCW from memory to this day.

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

***** There was no open world really, just one bigger hub level.

[@mickstark4447]

I AGREE the zombies in that game gave me nightmares for years as a 10yr old playing it

[@kingfreedom2262]

love your vids man!!!!

[@joethemanager1]

Can you do a video tour of your game room?

[@LGR]

It's in no state to do a tour of, and beyond that, it's simply too large to show in one video and I'm not fond of splitting things up into parts. But hopefully once I get a better setup I'll do a video!

[@NowBearInMind]

+joe411 Your icon is so appropriate for your comment.

[@sagesmith1076]

I,have great respect for Lgr because his game room is so big he can't cover it all in one video

[@Homemade-Blurb]

Clint, so young in retro world 🤓 AS YOUNG AS WOLFENSTEIN

[@MeryillaUK]

This was the first game I ever played, I used to watch my dad play this and eventually decided to have a go myself. I had to stop playing after seeing mecha Hitler however as it scared me lifeless and I had nightmares about the thing! I wonder what my mother thought when her 4 year old son told her about Hitler appearing in his nightmares.

[@daviddragoon82]

Great video and nostalgia trip LGR. Hope you cover my favorite of the series Return to Castle Wolfenstein as well.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Is it me, or... is AWESOME old MIDI music in games not only a lost art... but also I just sometimes wish I could hear a lot more of it in MODERN games, ironically?

[@CabezasDePescado]

Is not, and the music in the Mac port is incredible and panic

[@ReluctantWarrior]

This is the game that got me into the FPS genre, honestly. I started with the GBA port but later played the DOS version and loved it.

[@gabesyt4863]

You'd think he'd have reviewed this much sooner than he did.

[@stefanpoirier6810]

Wolfenstein 3D....what can I say? The first FPS I ever encountered in my life and what a thrilling classic it is. I remember first playing this as the shareware v1.1 (I think) by which the demos shown were of Episode 1's floors (4,5,7, & 8) and that the "Read This" section didn't contain Spear of Destiny yet as well as for some weird reason having played with PC speaker noises in the first place. Oh well I didn't care about setting up a game then, rather just being anxious to play the game. I remember especially never knowing you could run by holding shift key or strafing in this game. I even remember just rapidly choosing (duh) Episode 1 of the shareware version and immediately choosing "Bring em' on" and getting my friggin ass handed to the boss Hans Grosse. Funny and brother and I originally thought there were two bosses in Floor 9. Overall, I love this game and am glad to this day that my brother and I discovered it on a '350 dos games' cd. Gaaaawd I miss Windows 95. Lol

[@stefanpoirier6810]

Funny my brother*

[@SeekerLancer]

I got the retail release at KB Toys back in the day (and still have it), having played the Shareware version to death. I paged through that hint manual so many times the cover fell off. I was always amused that the swastikas were censored on the back of the box. Maybe it hasn't aged wonderfully, but I still have fun mowing through Nazis once in a while and New Order has managed to proudly preserve its name.

[@2010Zanoza2]

Great review, it is one of the greatest FPS ever created. Wolf 3d, Heretic, Doom 2, Duke 3d, Blood, Half Life 1, No One Lives Forever, Unreal 1, Unreal Tournament 1, Crysis - they all are in top 10.

[@DragonNexus]

"The creators say it's wolfenSTINE so that's what I'm going with." You'd be correct. It's based on German and when you have words with "ei" or "ie" in them, you ignore the first letter and pronounce the second letter as the letter. So Stein you ignore the e, pronounce the I as "eye" and carry on. Or for vier, the number 4, you ignore the i, pronounce the e as "ee" and carry on. V is an F sound, so it's essentially "feer". Bugs me when people say "einsteen" or "wolfensteen."

[@ThisAlias]

Well... It's actually should have been called "WolfenSHtein"

[@thecorrective4246]

@@Firguy_the_Foot_Fetishist which is tho most wrong way to to it ;)

[@DomeCandyGames]

Best summary of Wolfenstein 3D I've ever witnessed. Well done!

[@GarryChenYT]

Why you buy the xbox one version ? I thought you got a beast PC

[@JSteel1645]

Mick Stark I am sorry Garry but I do not know how to top that insult.

[@buziaku]

Ps. As a Pole I'm totally amazed how (properly!) you've spelled Blaskowicz name ! With "cz" spelled like "tsch"". :)) Way to go!

[@rebelScience]

LGR, you should make a video on your thoughts about John Carmack leaving id, and this lawsuit where id & Zenimax are taking Oculus and John to the court. And how do you feel about id after there is only 1 original guy left - Kevin Cloud.

[@skolrookie2583]

The sound in this game blew my mind when I heard it for the first time on my sound blaster. Epic.

[@weirdproq]

I used to play this as a kid. Good time. "Hot Dog!"

[@andersdenkend]

This game! Oh the memories, oh the feels. Imho, it deserves even a bit more credit, than you are willing to give it. It's still really playable (especially compared to other FPS from before and after that time) and holy shit these sond effects. Quite awesome.

[@CoTeCiOtm]

I really like the SNES derivatives a lot more than the original DOS version mainly because of the extra weapons, overhead map, better sound design and simpler level design, the 3DO and Mac versions being the best. It really feels like they overdid the mazes in the original and even though they simplified the maps to make the game work better on the SNES, I think they were far easier to navigate and far less frustrating to explore. The Jaguar version was particularly interesting, if almost feels like it is Wolf3D running on Doom.

[@Stardustchild01]

Wolfenstein 3D was my very first FPS game I have played in my life (albeit it being the shareware version). I still remember this game fondly. Also Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold was an another early FPS based on the same engine with some improvements.

[@Rockmans1989]

It really pisses me off when most youtubers declare: "Wolfenstein 3D hasn't aged well" It's the fucking grandfather of the PFS genre for god's sake! This game is unique and fantastic on it's own right, I can agree it can be a bit repetitive if you play more than 1 or 2 episodes at once, but c'mon, that's far from "hasn't aged well". Nowedays we just need to use ECWolf and we're ready to go: high resolutions, widescreen support, customizable controls and an automap funtion, also it's even easier to use cheats. There's really no need to use Dosbox, but for the people who wants to, there's the mod "BetterWolf3D" that adds horizontal strafe, a crosshair and a minimap on the player's hud. But even at it's original gameplay mechanics, Wolfenstain 3D keeps playing well nowedays, cause it's easy to pick it up and play... and that's something we often we cannot say for many later games. And for the people complaining for getting lost... the complete retail game included the fucking guide with all the level's map. In my opinion the term "hasn't aged well" has been errouniously used with Wolfenstein 3D.

[@cattycats4]

I agree and check out brutalwolfenstien mod , its amazing. Even now the original wolfenstien plays really fast and smooth and the game is well balanced and not too complex, it may look like it doesnt age well but when you play it again you realise quite quickly that its still as or more fun than any fps game including original DooM

[@Ryan-hv3kn]

"IT HAS AGED FINE GUYS JUST USE THESE SOURCE PORTS THAT ADD AND FIX SEVERAL THINGS!" Good lord.

[@DeadPixel1105]

I still play through Wolf3D once in a while. About once a year or so, on average. I use the EWolf source port. It's fantastic. I DO feel extremely drained and downright bored after a few levels, I have to admit, and I'll need to take a break for a while before getting back to it, but I still have a lot of fun playing. It's definitely not terrible, or so archaic and antiquated that it's practically unplayable for modern gamers (like many 80s and early 90s games). A lot of good times to be had in Wolf3D. Honestly, the retro, 'arcade'y elements - such as a lives count, score, brutal difficulty, etc make finishing a map or an episode feel extremely rewarding. If you play the game the way it was intended - and DO NOT 'save scum' - it dramatically raises the tension of the game. Don't save your game at all (unless you're quitting out of the game altogether), and don't reload any saved games if you die. Allow yourself to start the map over again - from scratch, with nothing but a pistol. Scrambling around looking for a machine gun or gatling gun, with only 8 shots in your pistol, and frantically running from enemies until you find more firepower or ammo is SO intense. And when a certain level is kicking your ass, it feels so ridiculously rewarding and satisfying when you finally fight your way through it and get to the exit. Don't underestimate this classic game. Give a try if you haven't. Give it some time to let it grow on you. It WILL grow on you. I hated it at first. Being so used to modern FPS games, and so used to classic Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, etc, I was EXTREMELY unimpressed with Wolf3d at first. I thought it was so uninteresting, shallow, and boring. But it grew on me more and more, and now I downright love it. I have a thoroughly good time playing it. I emphasize again though, if you are going to 'save scum' through this game, it WILL ruin the tension and fun of the game. Play it how it was intended.

[@stevekramerf242]

Yeah, I still play W3D regularly in GZDoom with the Brutal Wolfenstein-mod. It still beats most of the newer games in terms of atmosphere and difficulty.

[@misterdrxwzee]

The original W3D music in the intro made me so happy, I literally got up and danced.

[@stevekramerf242]

It's the old german national anthem from the 3rd Reich, also known as "Horst Wessel-Lied". And today banned here in Germany.

[@MotownBatman]

Do You Have LEGEND OF KYRANDIA?

[@LGR]

Yep!

[@ironcito1101]

I remember that one. There was a part inside dark caves where you had to pick up glowing berries.

[@savagememes344]

Lazy Game Reviews are l

[@RadJordy]

Hey, hey, that unboxing of Wolf3d and DooM bundle was my first LGR video! Nice to see we've come full circle!

[@OuroborosChoked]

I never get first-person motion sickness... save for THIS game. I don't know what it is... perhaps it's the lack of differing textures, the lack of body motion when running, the sound effects, or all of it together... something about this game just nauseates me if I play it for more than a level or two.

[@melonfelon1574]

8:17 that smile on BJ's face. He is so happy

[@notimportant3686]

3:02 kurt russel?... that really looks more like patrick swazy to me

[@HunGerMovies]

just wanted to say that

[@alexsilva28]

Awesome review man. Subscribed

[@andrewhaxley9467]

me too! this guy is really informative with reviews like this plus new order was actually a good game back in its era, i still love the singleplayer and hold that dear to my heart. but wolf3d, rtcw, and the 2009 version had better gameplay but thats just me saying i like those better then the remake lmao:)

[@donskiver]

Kurt Russell? I always thought the box art looked more like Patrick Swayze.

[@kosztaz87]

And up until about 5 years ago I thought those two actors were the same (called Kurt Russel). I am not joking lol.

[@JAGO_Tech]

@@kosztaz87 I ALWAYS get them mixed up too 🤣

[@DYNANiK]

Thx for pronouncing this correctly!! - a German viewer xD

[@ImDemonAlchemist]

It's (St-eye-n). Ask anyone who knows German, that's how the word "stein" is pronounced.

[@tribemaster101]

DemonAlchemist it's actually more like sht-eye-n

[@JeanBaptisteEmanuelZorg]

exactly: sht-eye-n OR sht-ai-n

[@115Gaming-x9t]

Super great review!

[@SamEvansCOM]

Why doesn't he do a lazy game reviews for doom?

[@LGR]

I plan to do so before the new one comes out.

[@Kinosaurus]

+Sam Evans Because he's lazy? Are you questioning his approach towards reviews?

[@Duke4Net]

+Lazy Game Reviews get to it! You don't have much time left. ;). Also, I don't know why your videos don't get millions of views. They deserve to.

[@Retro80sMan1]

+Lazy Game Reviews Really! I can not wait!

[@lggravey1762]

+Lazy Game Reviews yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

[@LizardGenes]

You sound a little like Duke at times. These are interesting retrospectives. I like how you don't just review the game, but also show all the differing versions that were available throughout time.

[@Azeralas]

hold "M,L,I" at the same time :D

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

Just do it at the beginning. It wipes your score, but at the beginning you have no score.

[@Chiaros]

Man, this brings back memories. Though RTCW and Wolfenstein: ET memories. I'm too young to have played 3D. A review on one of the later games I mentioned would make me a very happy person, though. ET still has a strong and loving community behind it and is my favourite FPS to this day (and I've played pretty much any FPS that made it to the common market past 2000).

[@northwindkey]

40s: Killed Real Nazis 50s: Imagined Killing Nazis 60s: Imagined Killing Soviet Nazis 70s: Using New Technology to try to make a game about Killing Nazis 80s: Killing Nazis in weird vidoe games 90s: Killing Nazis in Wolfenstein

[@Horzuhammer]

+darkstar100x What the hell is a soviet nazi?

[@Horzuhammer]

Oh, that guy. I bet it was rough being him, probably not very well liked by his community. Even the Americans spent a whole decade dreaming of killing him.

[@Horzuhammer]

Phobos Anomaly I thought almost included in my last comment something among the lines of "Was he friends with the Jewish Nazi?" :D Well I guess some countries were somewhat Nazi-friendly, and were later added to the Soviet Union by force.. But from what I understand, as a people, no-one quite hated the Nazis as much as Russians. Quite understandably so, considering Russia's losses in the war.

[@northwindkey]

+darkstar100x 2014: Killing more Nazis in New Order.

[@vivalaboxxy57]

nice MoP profile pic

[@BabusGameRoom]

First played the 3DO version as a kid. Most people my age played Goldeneye on the N64 as their first FPS, but Wolfenstein was mine.

[@TheRealJochen]

Doom was mine. I played the bfg edition as a child

[@Mogar123456789]

Wtf it's supposed to be Wolfenstain #mandellaeffect

[@valletas]

You know only now i noticed that it isnt stain like frankestain I know beresteins bears also had this but now i know why its very easy to read it with an a instead of a e

[@fathyzin6470]

What i love this channel is about LGR always give information about PC games history that I didn't knew. Good information. LGR, i don't understand, why some old games such this and Duke Nukem 3D can select episode or location when you starting a game?

[@gogolplex74]

The correct German pronunciation is actually Wolfenschtein

[@LGR]

I was referring to correct German, I was referring to how the developers say and intend.

[@Rebel_Railroad_Productions]

I love this game. Still do 20+ years later. I was 6 when I first played this game, and it still manages to enthrall me to this day. Hell, I even did a review of it just to show how much I love Wolf-3D.

[@SniffHeinkel]

"Hans Grosse, Dr. Schabbs and Otto Giftmacher are no match for a well timed BJ attack." say what now?

[@macleunin]

Sniff Heinkel xD

[@Sealpie]

I had the played the PC DOS version a lot but I owned a Mac. When I saw this game on shelves for Macintosh, I bought it, and was soooo impressed by the quality of the graphics and sound, as well as the addition of more weapons, like the flamethrower and the rocket launcher. I had all the boss battles saved so I could jump right to them. It was great.

[@TheSharpmarksman]

it really aged poorly the maze like repetetion gets boring after an hour or so still, it's one old silver of a game shiny and nice, but far from perfect

[@JosephDCM]

I'm super stoked you broke out the copy of Spear of Destiny!

[@LGR]

Would've been silly not to !

[@MrTheil]

Personally, I think Wolf 3D is meant to be played on I Am Death Incarnate

[@andrewhaxley9467]

plus more enemies and more of a greater challenge indeed!

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

When i was a kid, my uncle had this game on his office pc, a 386 beast of a pc, he asked me if i did want to see the future of games, offcourse i said yes and he showed me this game, i was blown away, i played a lot of commander keen, but this was entirely new, years later, i think i was 12 or so, my dad brought home something he found at his work, a freakin' Panasonic 386 33mhz laptop with 4mb of ram, it ran windows 3.11, and yes, the first game i played on its 7 or 8 inch build in stn display was Wolfenstein 3d, it was blurry and ghosting like crazy, but i didn't care at all, i was playing wolf 3d, like you said, the grand daddy of the first person shooter!

[@franwex]

First episode was free; but the rest of the game was behind a paywall? Heh, I see this practice has always been going on; we simply took a brief break from it!

[@pratikn60]

You didn't have to pay 60$ for an incomplete game. The incomplete game was free and if you liked it you could pay for more content. The shit that game publishers pull off now is not even remotely similar to this.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

actually both Doom and Quake recived demo versions as well which they only featured the 1st episode...... i played both demos and saw no problem of getting all the full versions later on!!! most game developers thought this was a way to make money and get people to try to purchase the retail version also known as the full game to continue using it and yes i hate what they do now with demo software..... it just plainly gets boring that Bethesda did not think of what id software had imao!

[@MarioFanaticXV]

Back then, the demos were free and usually contained about a third of the game.

[@paulgraves1392]

Back then the game would be available for free in a sizeable chunk called an Episode. You were allowed to distribute it to friends free of charge, and if you liked it, you could buy the registered version. If you bought the shareware copy in stores, chances were that it only cost as much as the packaging. These days you buy a game that costs 60 dollars plus an extra 20 for the content that will be installed on your pc or console regardless. And its a bethesda game, the DLC content costs an extra 50.

[@andrewhaxley9467]

Aleksa Petrovic yup,

[@Evgenii_Fedorovskii]

Oh yes - with this game you will master the method of the "right hand" for the passage of mazes, and you will rub against all the walls with the right mouse button held down =))) I like Wolf3D. It is always stored on my flash drive for random play on any computer =) It was fun and interesting to watch one of your old videos. Hello from 2019!

[@rudolphantler6309]

*That guy* didn't ruin anything, he just made a half-assed attempt at fixing everything.

[@retr0life]

I remember there was a small cheat in Wolf 3D (DOS Version). After you are greeted with the introduction, a Demo game appears. If you hit Esc during the Demo gameplay and you enter the Main Menu, you can save the Demo progress and load from the point the computer has left the game (this trick doesn't work in Spear of Destiny).