MS-DOS Games in 1995

[@bestthingsinceslicedrice]

I dont know why but 1995 still feels like it was just 5 years ago for me

[@MikkoAPenttila]

Same

[@HexenStar]

I'll second that!

[@marcusfranconium3392]

same here

[@gurgy3]

I wish it were so. Star Trek was good XFiles TGIF Saturday morning cartoons Video stores 😢

[@marcusfranconium3392]

@@gurgy3 Ah the 80s i would say would be prime childrens television , cartoons , action series like dukes of hazard , A-team, airwolf , knight rider. mcgyver. Transformers , masters of the universe. etc etc. Even 2 cartoons about computer games. One atari based and one nintendo based. Great times,

[@Vihtori_Lettunen]

90's truly was the golden age of gaming. So many great titles and studios lost to the youth today. Makes me feel really old. :D

[@Vihtori_Lettunen]

...and also 95 was the year when Finland won their first ice hockey world championship. 1995, Never forget! :D

[@BilltheFifth]

Agreed. The 90s were so cool growing up in. I loved browing the shelves of Comp USA and Egghead.

[@rooneye]

@@BilltheFifth In the 90's I HATED the 90's. In the 2000's I HATED the 2000's in the 2010's I hated the 2010's. 2020's now and I hate this too, but now I LOVE THE 90's and 2000's! Lol 10 years on and I'll love 2010's. 20 years on I'll love now too. The PAST is what's better. NOT the decade!

[@BilltheFifth]

@@rooneye Beutifully said... I couldn't have phrased it better. We don't appreciate the decade we're living in until we're looking back at it. However, the 2020s are going to suck no matter who looks back. Haha

[@Artemeos]

90’s was the golden age in all pop cultural segments - music, movie and gaming.

[@Bedsize]

Good times to be a gamer, when you bought a game, you got the whole game in the box, without buying the rest in pieces over the next year. And the games actually worked on day 1. You got beta access for free, some beta testers even got paid to test the games for bugs. Game innovation was a thing, you didn't have to play the same game mechanics for a decade, because game developers back then was proud of their work and made an effort to evolve from game to game. Good times..

[@FictionCautious]

+B.E. Nielsen ...then it became a billion dollar industry and everything turned into crap.

[@Bedsize]

Li Qin Yep! sadly.

[@Bedsize]

Thats right, forgot about that. but all these setting was normaly printed in the first pages of the manual to the game. and most games typically used the same settings.

[@halfniak]

B.E. Nielsen exactly. No renting software.

[@deckofcards87]

I feel the same way about films and music. By the 2000s our world became so corporatized that you could see the decay of originality and general quality in entertainment media. "Don't take creative risks" as the new business model took form... Keep it safe, keep it formulaic or dumbed down for the sake of profitable returns. Obviously there are a few exceptions, luckily.

[@wcmatthysen]

Crazy how many of these games I actually played. Brings back some good memories.

[@SkitzoFPV]

They still hold up well too. I'd still play the crap out of these

[@schlomoshekelstein908]

@@SkitzoFPV games had soul back then. i still play the shit out of GLADIATOR

[@SDK2584]

Totally! I played a bunch of these, even the obscure ones... had no idea they all came out at pretty much the same time :D It was really a time when game developers could innovate and try different things.

[@LGR]

Excellent work, dude!

[@dosnostalgic]

+Lazy Game Reviews Why, thank you, good sir.

[@Marksider]

+Lazy Game Reviews Every time I watch these videos, I think about all the great gaming I've missed out on. In 95, all I had was Myst and shareware copies of Duke Nukem and Robomaze II.

[@StillTheVoid]

+Lazy Game Reviews must've been sad living your old room, huh? :/

[@davidnavarro4821]

DOS Nostalgia I remember a MS-DOS game (or Win95) that was like a first-person railshooter where you took control of a train where you had to maneuver to avoid other trains and at the same time shoot ships attacking you. There was a smiley who served as a companion aboard the train in your HUD screen. Cut scenes were in live-action and the mechanic you were playing was some random bearded guy. Any information on the game's title is welcome.

[@Christopher-N]

@@Marksider: Same boat here. It was rare for us to be able to buy a boxed game in stores. Our entire purchase list back then would be _Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe Edition_ 3.5", _SimCity 2000_ 3.5", and _Command & Conquer: Worldwide Warfare_ (CD-ROM, obviously). We were lucky enough to have some games as multimedia pack-ins, or shareware games installed by someone else (until a file became corrupted, rendering the game unplayable).

[@timeslongpast]

Yay! I have Warcraft 2 and I still play it with my friends to this day.

[@ianhunter433]

Brastin3 I still play Warcraft 2 to this day as well!

[@jensrobot]

Good lads :D I play starcraft to this day, its not as old but hey still fun

[@spearPYN]

I prefer the original Warcraft from 1994 and I still play it on 14" CRT monitor.

[@sinephase]

zug zug

[@hardcoreholman303]

Work Work Work

[@tonymontana822]

The Dig is a masterpiece.It deserves a movie,everytime i play it i get completely into the story.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

It is the movie

[@karinefonte516]

@@josepablolunasanchez1283 It's too long for a movie, maybe a series?

[@icysaracen3054]

It was Steven Spielberg first directed game I think

[@zerpblerd5966]

I find it to be a bit cumbersome (the story), and while I love it, I don't hold it nearly as high as Full Throttle, Gabriel Knight 2, or The Longest Journey still excellent though - the puzzles also are a bit tired, the tunnel transports namely

[@JoeyJojoJrJr]

It's so good and so underrated. Maybe my favorite adventure game of all time.

[@Rakiarmas]

Even though I never was a big PC gamer, I do love to watch these old classic DOS games. There's just such a charm in these old games, that I find to be missing these days. Something that we need to hold on & never let go for the sake of future generation. Thank you for making this video. :)

[@Dkcode]

1995. Age of the multimedia PC

[@rodneyws1977]

CRTs really made these graphics look better.

[@astrahcat1212]

Adventure games were SO good, when you were a kid, there were so many amazing worlds you'd get swept into with all of the incredible paintings as backgrounds. It was INSANELY magical, and it wasn't all dark corporate bullshit like today. All made by underground small teams of artists.

[@matternicuss]

It was corporate in the 90s too, but because gaming was still relatively niche, they could get away with a lot more experimentation. There were fewer standards, so developers were still figuring out how to do things. Then they had to relearn everything again once 3D accelerated cards became the norm. But like you said, the small team sizes helped ensure that each game felt like it had its own identity. Nowadays, many AAA titles suffer from having “too many cooks in the kitchen”, and it’s obvious many features and mechanics are there to satisfy a checklist made by a bunch of suits.

[@astrahcat1212]

@@matternicuss As far as I can see, while on the programming side it seemed like they were still learning how to do things, on the artistic side we've devolved quite a bit into more generic less colorful, colder, darker things...I know this is the consumers fault not just the studios fault... Programmers were also much more talented back then, though, from what I've studied... It's that too many cooks in the kitchen thing that's the main problem, I do wish they would split into smaller teams and compromise/get more creative with graphics quality so that they could make more games faster. another problem is that when games are made for kids and teenagers they are often warmer and brighter, while marketing to 'adult gamers' things have a tendency to be darker I think.

[@matternicuss]

@@astrahcat1212 During the 360/ps3 era many games had “darker” art styles, but more specifically a lot of them used a desaturated color palette. I think many studios were trying to imitate the look of Hollywood films, but they were also going for “gritty realism”. As a result many games from this era did not age well at all, visually at least, and just look ugly and unappealing. Thankfully, the last generation of AAA games have started to embrace a full color palette once again. Games like Witcher 3, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Cyberpunk do a good job of balancing “realism” with a unique art style imo.

[@jakubpytko5551]

"90"s is the best era for Games. So many incredible tittles. :}

[@JoeyJojoJrJr]

Phantasmagoria had the best tittles.

[@Evoluutiomies]

I am a child of eighties and I find this such a loveable documentary. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@mashrien]

18:56 Command and Conquer, one of the best games of the year. And the decade.. And in my top-10 of best games *ever made*.

[@tomvu1470]

One of the unfortunately many game studios (Westwood) that were acquired & crushed by the evil empire (EA).

[@gcosate2]

Yes, i cried when I watched flight unlimited and descent (my first game ever!) footage, so many memories... Family... Xmas... Yeah early and mid 90's was awesome period in my life...

[@gcosate2]

@Ryan Crump i still have the CDs, and one from magazines with brand new levels.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

We had everything back in the day. I hope today's post-Millennial generation can experience what it was like to be 4 in 1994 with your own gaming PC. I'd give anything to share my memories and experiences of the DOS days with today's kids. :)

[@SSDDssed]

they probably just say "ok boomer" they don't have much respect

[@TheGameCollector]

I was on the 38th place on the official Descent ladder list back in the days. Nickname was Overflow. We played through Kali95. 1 vs. 1, first to get 10 frags. Challenged people on the ladder list. I remember I challenged one guy who called himself "Satan". He was on 3th place and I lost 3-10. Miss those days. Multiplayer map was Minerva. Best map ever! Cya in the mines! 😊

[@slytub]

The Game Collector hello.. from Satan.

[@JonOfRiverFalls]

@The Game Collector Ah, I miss Case's Ladder. That was a lot of fun. I remember playing Satan (under a nym) and he drubbed me, too. I don't think you and I ever played unless it was in a public game... I don't recall you, anyway. But to namedrop a few that I remember (after nearly 30 years, Yikes.): Diablo, R2D296, Neitzl, BigBadBear, Manson, Tankie2, Beezer, Lioness, RedLion, Daz, Thief, Tyranny, Lobber, Warmaster, et. al. Great days, great people, great memories. Cheers~~

[@TheGameCollector]

@@slytub Is it really you? Sorry for the late reply! 😄 Where in the world do you live? How old where you at the time? How did you get so good? I think you used a special joystick if I remember correctly?

[@jhvghjgjkhlihli]

90's was such a great time

[@rossedwardmiller]

Full throttle - the first video game I ever owned. How sad that pretty much no other game I’ve ever played has been as cool or funny.

[@will8054]

All these studios that are no longer here today, makes me so thankful for all their hard work to bring us these amazing classics.

[@RandomlyDrumming]

1995-2000. was the best period for me. Sooo many classics released during this period - Tex Murphy series, Crusader series, System Shock 2, Curse of Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight series, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Broken Sword, The Neverhood, Nova Logic games (Comanche, Armored Fist, F22...), MotorHead, Moto Racer, Descent series......... Man, those days I consider the "golden age of PC gaming". :)

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

It was a glorious era for scifi games.

[@joshv5376]

1995, friend showed me his new pc and I was hooked. wc1, doom, heretic. it was preloaded dos. not sure if all comps got the same or not, anyway. my dad got us a comp a year later and well, I was addicted. just turned 30 and this nostalgia makes me happy. thinking back on it, I rode my bike over just to take turns on the pc. this was b4 online gaming or cds even. our tech has grown so fast.

[@oldnait]

Warcraft 2, MK3, Descent, NFS, C&C, MW2, Magic Carpet 2, HoMM! Legendary Year!!! Foundation for everything.

[@BlockABoots]

Command & Conquer is all you need

[@jaypeesan1877]

I live on settlers, hi octane and need for speed man those were the defining games for my childhood..love this nostalgia trip...many of these games presented I would play in later years...

[@RanFuRe]

I just love these long ass compilations that you do. The downside is however, that after each one of these videos my "Need to get" list grows larger...

[@Radii_DC]

Back when games were actually good... I remember those times fondly.

[@leonkernan]

Wow, I'm just realising how many of these I actually played. Descent, Warcraft 2, way to many hours of Command & Conquer on our school LAN.

[@TommyLikeTom]

Fuuuck such a good era. I actually played that disc-world game recently. quality. Lost Eden and Noahs Ark are hilarious

[@tamphex]

Man I had hours & hours of fun playing Settlers on my Amiga across a LAN to my housemates Amiga.

[@davidnavratil5349]

Fade to Black at 27:57 was a game I remembered playing as a child but couldn't remember the name. Tried looking for it unsuccessfuly few times. Now I found it after over two decades. I will give it a try.

[@trzy]

This was an incredible year in gaming! We bought a 166 MHz Pentium in '96 and I remember trying many of these games over the subsequent 2-3 years.

[@AlexeyLys]

Some of these games have better graphics than minecraft.

[@mstela3142]

Most of them have it

[@MoritzVieli]

I love, how you not only show a 2 second snipped from each game like all the other videos on yt, so you have enough time to really grasp the atmosphere! 👍

[@AaronCross760]

warcraft 2.. starcraft 1, diablo 2, battlefield 2, subspace, command and conquer red alert.. some of my jams back in the day.

[@VVc0w]

Great video, man, I can't believe 95 was 20 years ago. I can't believe it's been 20 years since I got my PS1 for Christmas!

[@stripedhyenuh]

When I played Abuse when it came out the music never worked on my computer, so for years I just assumed the game had no music. That said, try playing it without music if you haven't, it makes the tension and panic in the game ten times worse and it's amazing.

[@ryanc5572]

Hexen, anvil of dawn, witchaven, cybermage. The games of my childhood

[@tonyhugill7704]

As usual, this compilation was nicely put together. Warcraft II, C&C, Destruction Derby, The Dig, Space Quest 6, Star Wars: Dark Forces... All in the same year! We were so spoiled. I knew it back then. Today's kids are lucky to get one of these types of games to come along every five years.

[@Christopher-N]

I like how this video gives viewers a better feel for each game shown, rather than a fleeting glimpse; very much appreciated. I saw several games I played later than their release, and several games I haven't played but would like to. :)

[@reep6022]

1995 was my junior year in high school. there was nothing like getting a group together for a lan party.

[@theamericanjoeshow]

Thanks for all the hard work making this video. Brought back many fond memories of a simpler time. Back when I had to be home when the street lights turned on or when I could hear my dad whistle haha 😄 me and my brother were lucky enough to have a gaming PC and were even luckier when the games actually worked right haha.

[@ProfessorPesca]

I played Screamer to death. My 12 year old mind was blown by the reflection graphics on the car Windows, and how they would change when you went into a tunnel.

[@ProfessorPesca]

@@Megatron_Leader_of_Cybertron Ahh, Fatal Racing. The first 3D-accelerated game I ever played as it came in the box with my 3Dfx Voodoo 2 card. I was so excited! I don’t think Screamer was capable of 3Dfx but Screamer 2 definitely was. It didn’t seem as good though….. Happy memories

[@Dreijer94]

These games still look good to me. I was born in the 1990's and grew up with games from this era. Very nostalgic.

[@CopernicusNerdicus2020]

Dude - spent the morning watching this video. Brought back so many damn PC gaming memories. Oh the days of booting into DOS just to play my older games lol. Nothing quite like all those point and click games which were always my favorite. I just started filming a series based on the X-wing series which was my obsession back in the early 90s.

[@bkriss]

These are sooo nostalgic, really.. All the games I know and I played are here to see again.. Abuse, Terminal Velocity, Worms, C&C, Hi- Octane, And the bests: Warcraft II and Crusader

[@Lets_Go_Brandon2024]

Loved playing Command & Conquer on MS-DOS. Learned a bit of "programming, going into the command files and changing the parameters in the game, such as unit cost, hit points and even their weaponry and build times haha

[@RexyRonin]

So glad I found this channel! I enjoy the intros you give it, which sets me up for a nostalgic mood! Thanks for the memories and compilations!

[@GrinningAries]

There was something so special growing up as a PC gamer. Consoles had lots of great games but generally everyone knew about most of the must-haves. PC games felt mysterious, you never knew when you'd find a gem, sometimes developed and published in some dude's basement. And shareware compliations would be a great opportunity to have a chance to find some really cool stuff.

[@martenstenberg1335]

can't believe all these awesome games came the same year. replayed Phantasmagoria yesterday. not really as good as I remembered it to be. Man, they shot a lot of adrienne sitting on different beds and sofas. cut scenes goes on forever with her just looking at stuff but still, that nice feeling was still there. good work putting this together.

[@lukasjozef1774]

I remember almost all games from your video but specially The Dig, Full Throttle, Bioforge, Abuse, Destruction Derby, Wipeout, Warcraft II. Ahh the 90s I miss them so much.

[@AstroNerdBoy]

Hexen, Command & Conquer, Descent, Heroes of Might and Magic, Caesar 2, and Space Quest 6 were in my library. Don't know how I missed that TNG game.

[@AlyxxTheRat]

Mmmmm Dark Forces. Awesome shooter.

[@KennyGsca]

What a year, Was one of the 1st Kids in my School to have a Windows 95 PC, mum and Dad got me Photoshop, Encartre Encyclopedia, I also had Wolfenstein 3D but it wasn't until 97 I started playing Warcraft 2 tides of Darkness and 3D movie maker, oh and Tomb Raider and Quake. what a time to be Alive in gaming, it was THE BEST!

[@dicdec9538]

channel should be called... DOStalgia...

[@Vyylandra]

whoa. So many great games were launched in 1995.

[@mindgoesbodyfollows]

My nostalgic piece from 95 was the Riddle of master Lu, I remember the day my dad picked it up for me at a PC market back when computer parts were sold on tables in a local shopping centre

[@PicklerEntertainment]

How good was Rebel Assault II... Dark Forces... Hexen... Heroes of Might and Magic... and my personal favorite WarCraft II? The graphics on WarCraft II are still impressive all these years later. Blizzard please, please make an HD remake of this game!! Lot's of great games in 1995, there were even a couple that I had forgot about until I saw this video like Descent.

[@thehmc]

My god. Good 2d pixel art is just timeless and looks good forever.

[@HexenStar]

Absolutely! Just take a look at Valfaris and Slain. Forgettable plastic toys like "doom eternal" cannot even dream of aspiring to that level of creativity.

[@tossiv]

The voice acting and storytelling was so good back then.

[@thatkidfrankieC]

omfg thank you for being a channel, bringing back a flood of childhood memories.

[@jordanscherr6699]

I agree these where some brilliant games for their time. I still enjoy Wipeout and Hi-Octain to this day. That said, you can tell MS-DOS was being pushed well and truly to it's limits by this phase. DOS would begin playing catch-up from this point forward despite Window's rocky start.

[@Trollseeder]

Great video man. I'm surprised at the quality of the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat ports, they look like the arcade. 95 was really something for games and tech... I remember that era so well, so many of these pc games i've played and replayed using my imagination to create new challenges and scenarios in my head lol. Glorious.

[@polloalforno]

I would love to clean my mouse taking out that ball today

[@Pyhantaakka]

Damn, so many great games in a single year.

[@Thee.Mighty]

NFS when it came out, I thought there is not possible to make graphics better than that....

[@Maalarihakala]

original worms, so much memories :)

[@MadsterV]

I like the original better than any sequel

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

I remember 1995 so well! The hype, hoopla, and hysteria around Windows 95 was more powerful than anything that came before or since. I remember Hexen, too. It was so beautiful and so medieval.

[@zaknafein641]

Wow, you put a lot of work into this video, good job.

[@nextfoolmartyr]

The SWAT team neutralizing the old lady did it for me.

[@Nymeria108]

OMG THANK YOU! You helped me find the name of a game I played when I was a child

[@Hless421]

I can't believe how many of these games I actually played and forgot all about lol oh the memories.

[@arkan205]

-How 'bout we make a point and click adventure game about.. 1995 Dev: YES

[@ladiesman2048]

So many classics in this list, 1995 really was the best year for gaming.

[@segatendo4705]

Man I wish I lived through that era. It was still innocent.

[@tchrmart1n]

Thank you!!!Loooooved it!Отличная работа!

[@Yojimbo711]

Thank you for this, so much nostalgia - many games back then were extremely immersive - maybe rivaling today's games from that perspective.

[@HexenStar]

Not rivaling, - but leaving far, far behind.

[@alysmtech3683]

Dude. I still play Heros of Might and Magic 2 today. I haven't stopped playing HOMAM since the first one, but the second has a special place in my soul.

[@captainoblivious1]

Thanks a lot for making these videos, was looking for Vinyl Goddess from Mars for years.

[@PaddyMcMe]

Rayman really holds up even though it's more than 20 years old.

[@ParadoxialParodies]

I do have to say as I started to look up more dos games and play them with dos box I can say I am happy to be playing some old school games. Plus there were some games i didnt even know about that like the Star Wars Dark Forces game looks cool to play. :)

[@andreavila6610]

I was trying to remember the name of Fatal Racing for at least the past 6 months... and then, BAM! it was on the video! Thanks a lot!

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

It's so true that this was the twilight of MS-DOS. It had served the world so well, especially considering its humble origins and inherent limitations. These games show that it went out with style. I remember some of these games, but most of them I never saw.

[@Hironeden-bi5zs]

Video gaming has been going on for so long now. It's crazy to see so many 3D games in 95 and especially weird since I have gamed all of my life and NEVER heard of most of these games. What a fascinating element of human civilization.

[@dosnostalgic]

If you want to see some 3D games from the 80s, I've got an archived presentation I did here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHjRmIaXhsSUnrs

[@Moshugaani]

What an ecstatic list! While most of them are games that I haven't played, and many of them are really aged, I feel that most all of them are brimming with the pure joy of gaming - both of game making and playing! Games of this era have so many things in them that made me love video games in the first place! :3

[@Focus_883]

Great work!! I really like your videos, bring me such a nice memories. I just want to add a game from 95' that I used to play in my 486 DX2 66 Mhz. It was called Armored Fist, a tank simulator from Novalogic that was a blast at the time, the main thing I remember that blow my mind it was all the tarrain was self-generated in every level, huge envoirements, also had a map builder. Greetings!

[@dosnostalgic]

+Matias Albornoz Armored Fist actually came out in 1994, but I didn't include it in my 1994 video either.

[@agcouper]

Played like 70% of them. Still remember the song from Stonekeep.

[@astrowuff]

The golden era of gaming, so many good titles I still haven't played!

[@petritimonen9941]

Monia hyviä dos-pelejä osattu tehdä 90-luvulla ja on riittänyt pelattavaa meiken suosikkeja on first person 3D siltä ajalta edelleen ja 3D myös nykyisin. Joskus katsellu Ocean of game tarjontaa vastaan tullut pelejä jotka vaativat jopa 60-80Gt levytilaa aivan järjettömät tila-vaatimukset ei inspiroi niiden lataus ollenkaan.

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

Wow that Simon Sorcerer 2 looks incredible. Such beautiful art style and wacky humor. I must needs play it

[@maksudkundamov2273]

Блин, как в детство вернулся, снова 1995, мне 12 и я пришёл к маме на работу 😀

[@george911751]

Command & Conquer, Terminal Velocity, Warcraft II , Descent, were my favourite....

[@kidelloco]

Blast from the past.... thx for the remembrance and smiles 😃

[@RetroIslandGaming]

Yes! Another excellent year to remember. Thanks for putting this together. Sat down and watched this with my brother. I made a little list of games to download and check out. Not sure what was up with I.M. Meen... Pretty creepy stuff! Can't wait to play it!

[@dannyrubio1114]

the bc racers is amazing wow, i had no idea something like a caveman games was made into that, thanks!, subscribed

[@PSNEAKY]

YO i follow you on twitter, never saw your videos until now. hell yeah

[@Time_Developer]

37:56 - Descent (Parallax Software/Interplay Productions) *The best of the games of the period.*

[@charliecane3621]

This was my youth man geez. Would play games till my head ached.

[@yodweebs3396]

I remember primal rage in the arcades at movie theaters. Game was violent as hell for a young kid

[@rswindol]

Those Hexen sound effects are still burned into my brain. That was a really cool game, but I got stuck about halfway through. I think there were switches on one area that would open up something in another area, but it was always kind of vague. I'd pull a switch and not be able to tell what it did.