Raptor: Call of the Shadows (PC DOS) 60FPS longplay

Recording from 2011. 60FPS updated for YT.
Played on Elite (max) difficulty, lots of room for improvement, but I tried not to be cheap and stack up lots of shields. Genre specialists won't find this one a decent challenge, unless playing for maximum money remaining at the end. Still one of the best shooters for PC.
"The 2010 edition includes improved graphics and native support for higher resolutions (640x400, 960x600 and 1280x800). Standard graphics are also available" [MobyGames]. This video is from the original DOS release.
Bravo Sector
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Wave 1: 02:42
Wave 2: 06:58
Wave 3: 11:32
Wave 4: 15:24
Wave 5: 19:22
Wave 6: 23:08
Wave 7: 27:00
Wave 8: 30:48
Wave 9: 34:50
Tango Sector
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Wave 1: 39:19
Wave 2: 43:07
Wave 3: 47:20
Wave 4: 51:02
Wave 5: 54:48
Wave 6: 58:51
Wave 7: 1:02:37
Wave 8: 1:06:30
Wave 9: 1:10:30
Outer Regions
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Wave 1: 1:15:04
Wave 2: 1:18:50
Wave 3: 1:22:34
Wave 4: 1:26:26
Wave 5: 1:30:18
Wave 6: 1:34:03
Wave 7: 1:37:53
Wave 8: 1:41:56
Wave 9: 1:46:00

[@ParadigmOne-ky2rv]

soundtrack is legendary

[@tenacious645]

Bobby Prince is legendary

[@MarkMeadows90]

My dad and I loved playing this game when I was a kid back in the mid 90s. Was such a fun game. My dad mostly played it. Watched him upgrading weapons and such. He never had the chance to fully complete the game though.

[@georgemargaris]

Remember playing that many years ago. Was the final proof that you can have a decent shoot'em'up on a DOS machine.

[@einokeino303]

Surprisingly, there weren't many decent DOS shooters after this one either, but not because of any technical reasons. I guess lots of people were getting bored of the genre at the time, while consoles and Amiga had plenty of options to choose from.

[@MegaUnwetter]

@@einokeino303 ich will jetzt mal wieder einen guten shoot'em'up shooter spielen aber es kommt da in der richtung nichts gutes mehr call of the shadows war und bleibt wohl einzigartig

[@spearPYN]

@@einokeino303 exactly my feelings. I remember exactly I was bored of arcade games around 91-92. Already preferred games like Civilization, Dune, Monkey Island or Red Baron..I guess more serious in nature. When I switched to PC gaming from Amiga 500 in late 92 I do not remember playing any arcade games on DOS. In 94 I played Warcraft, Doom, X-Com and System Shock!

[@juniorcena1806]

@@einokeino303 play sonic wings

[@jordandeboer166]

​@@MegaUnwetterThere's an alternative game that you wouldn't consider on the face as a shoot em up called EV Nova. This is arguably better than Raptor or Tyrian. Once you get to end game and start dominating planets it becomes a shoot em up with similar graphics except you have more options with ships and fleets etc.

[@Odqvist89]

Ahh. Love the look of this game. The visuals are amazing. A proper shooter.

[@davids8aff]

I remember this! I had lots of fun with this as a kid.

[@khakiwolf4146]

Loved this game as a kid. Was a short grind to the Auto-Track Minigun and then hold down the fire button to win.

[@garyk2629]

I remember buying this back in the day in the bargain bin at a game shop when I was on vacation in Vegas. Awesome game.

[@FreddyAMR90]

19:15 that weapon!!! It was so satisfying have that weapon in your stock!!! 😍 You were feeling so powerful!!

[@jamesmiller113]

Yeah, great, but then the player here has to nearly die from having to shoot point blank to hit any moving targets hard enough. Twin Laser all the way 👍

[@AlexElectric9001]

Man this reminds me of Saturday morning in the early to mid 90s! Really brings me back :D

[@MrRottation]

Right in the childhood. Friend got it from a cereal box along with other games and we played until the keyboard broke.

[@kiirothedriver8714]

Best decision ever.

[@lowkeyobsessedngl]

playing this again after so many years shocked the hell out of me. i didn't think it was going to be that difficult! managed to power through in a bout 4 days. amazing game that still holds up to this day, even in a tiny dosbox window.

[@MegaUnwetter]

why tiny dosbox window? you can make fullscreen by alt+enter

[@lowkeyobsessedngl]

@@MegaUnwetter honestly i dont even remember why, maybe i was playing it at work at the time? xD

[@mikehikes710]

Radical music

[@demonofelru3214]

Autotrack mini-gun. Fond memories.

[@Chewbacca55]

i bought it on gog a couple of month ago. good old nostalgia

[@culturegeekgaming2390]

nice playthrough ! I am trying elite mode, i'm in bravo sector wave 4 so far It's a really fun and epic challenge, as i try to destroy most ennemies and building (but cost too much health to do that)

[@remedyoftheroot]

Omg I was always in love with the night missions, that theme still slaps hard 💛

[@MisterRON]

Ayyy I remember this, it was awesome! Loved it as a kid.

[@_Odanert_]

I love this game. I remember the cheat pressing backspace....

[@planetX15]

There was God Mode on this game too.

[@marcel1463]

This game looks really cool and i just realized that i have this game but never played it before. I might give it now a try since it looks so much fun like an old arcade shooter.

[@Scum8ag]

I love how the ground explosions leave small flares and embers after blowing up. Such nice attention to detail.

[@oliverbutler4988]

I love this game, so much!

[@wacatule]

the best game friend , game play today, i liked this game , 50 yeard old

[@harmacist6623]

My first time playing this is probably back when I'm just 5 years old. I remember I can't even pass the first stage.

[@TheZarutox]

This game came up wit mb romppu 99 =D good times.

[@nico.jovisst]

I remember playing the shareware and thinking this was the most graphically impressive game I'd ever seen. Gettin' old.

[@Dosgamert]

Nicely done man!

[@ScottHost]

Hey what are you doing in this part of town?

[@elkejohanna8611]

My God, so young I was when I heard this sound the last time, yet I'm 38 and I was searching this song for si long without remembering the games name. I was thinking that the song didn't sound that crappy old computer-nintendo with this "tu tu tu tu" 😆. As a kid, I heard this sound "HD"... but now I can tell that the ears of an adult are far beyond expectations. The rhythm si fantastic but really crappy "tu tu tu" sound 😱😖. I'm in love no more.

[@jimmyboy630]

I can't wait for the remaster coming soon!

[@ScottHost]

Still working on it

[@t.m.8556]

Good old Time...miss it so much!!!!

[@KarelTheKaiser]

15:15 at this moment you can have the thor minigun. tecnically at sector 3 with a TAS on elite, but it's pretty hard RTA. WR is sub 1h30'

[@alexanderwsm6296]

Have beaten Raptor recently on Elite in a similar way. Though I don't think I could pull that off in one go, without save/load. Also, I used megabombs on regular basis. Why do you have them just sitting in inventory?

[@abdzire_94]

2002 to 2007 Memories with this game in India that was gifted by Cousin Brother

[@AnthemofGrimm]

Scott Host is making a remaster. He has a patreon and a discord.

[@ScottHost]

Yikes its been 2 years

[@AnthemofGrimm]

@@ScottHost Two awesome years.

[@ScottHost]

@@AnthemofGrimm When I started on this, I thought straight port 3 months max. then enhanced mode came in, then REMIXED and I remember saying this is taking longer than I thought, and I think it was you who said I thought it would take longer

[@bendonovan9244]

5:52 Princess Peach: This is fun!

[@Hmongboi228]

Played the shareware version of this when I was young. Glad to see the whole series being beaten cuz I was a kid at the time and didn't have money to buy the 3 floppy disk expansion. You have to admit though, those are some DUMB PILOTS flying for that evil organization!!

[@hobbified]

I'm not really good at shmups and I never really liked the idea of bullet hell, so to me this was always just a fun game. Getting paid for taking out ground targets was an interesting twist.

[@Christopher-N]

(6:30) Sort of looks like an alternate timeline version of Jean-Luc Picard.

[@AlienZ..]

Hello everyone here who remember the game which is look like this one too , that first level there a lot of meteor stones fly through us? If you know please tell me i can't find it.

[@jakubpytko5551]

Incredible game.

[@oppeer3868]

very good

[@MrX-ok3jq]

So once you've played through all Waves on hardest difficulty you are basically done aren't you? It just lets you keep playing ad infinitum, the difficulty only ramps up so far?

[@KurisuKun]

Man this game was the shit for little me

[@nemtudom5074]

Jesus I wish i was this good

[@GIMIJAH]

the furthers i got as a child was till 24:00 .... pretty decent for a 8 year old xD

[@ClemensLode]

You need to constantly switch weapons for more firepower.

[@geekmagestik]

Found it rather easy to finish though, but good times of course

[@82christos]

I can only find the first episode for this game. Anyone know where i can get episodes 2 and 3

[@huyked]

Look on Steam. There's a 2015 version, and the original version.

[@neypaz8054]

So this game did exist... it wasn't something from my imagination!

[@TimClauson]

You can only carry 5 megabombs at a time.

[@hyhhy]

awesome game

[@bradhedgehog12]

I use to have a demo of this now I have the full game.

[@fireball3115]

If you dont use megabombs, SELL them.

[@mikahautamaki6698]

Fuking good game !!!

[@Rubbe87]

bougth it on steam but cant get it on fullscren completly

[@tonystarkdies3650]

Get the 1994 version that uses Dosbox

[@radspencer8187]

Damn fine game. Still prefer Tyrian though.

[@vmah0111]

my first bullet hell game.

[@Microbex]

Ah, parallaxing shadows! Cleaver. Game still looks good, uh?

[@Emintzsche]

Ahh :3

[@kkidd4769]

This game used to keep me out of trouble back in the days. Nice shoot em up game. I get sick of games like CoD where there are scared campers and no run and gun game. Leave that to the old school players.

[@mir3877]

Twin lasers make life easy

[@ymjh60709]

1:41:28 That was too close!

[@Vestu]

This, Xenon 2 and Tyrian

[@citizenpunx]

The farthest I ever made it was like level 3 as a 90s bro

[@plushbatfan]

1:50:56 Game Over scene

[@bendonovan9244]

4:34 Was that a house?

[@ScottHost]

you mean the fishing boat?

[@Raptor501st]

Stacking shields isn't cheap...you know what is though? Doing hit and run missions to get early laz0rs :P

[@TaldeJR]

shareware em CD-ROM de revista. Bons tempos.

[@futuretrunks5795]

I prefer to play this game with God mode activated!

[@shadoom]

the game is only 30fps why "60fps" in the title?

[@einokeino303]

I re-uploaded bunch of my old videos in better quality when 60FPS and longer than 15min videos became available in YT. Marked those videos with 60FPS tag to differentiate from old videos. I understand it might be somewhat confusing, when video (title) FPS doesn't correlate with actual FPS.

[@CarlosAnimax]

Ufff. ❤️

[@Bartnick81]

not 60 fps...

[@einokeino303]

You are technically correct considering in game footage. The original capture is about 70 fps with at least every third frame duplicated. That would be around 46,666... fps at best and frame rate drops at times below that. Anyways, the point of the title & description is for YT definition purposes. What I'm getting at is that the frame rate is not restricted to 30fps as it has been before and would be the maximum 60fps allowed by YT if the game would constantly run at that frame rate. Only menu screens in this game are updated for every frame.

[@Thesavagesouls]

The 2015 window version doesn't even run at 60FPS, what a scam.

[@ScottHost]

I made original Raptor and yes the 2015 version sucks.. I have a new Raptor classic for windows in Beta now and making a new Raptor REMIXED that will be 60fps

[@MatijaErceg]

not 60fps unfortunately

[@tdadarksoul]

Remake of this game :(

[@JamesEmirzianWaldementer]

Scott Host is going to remastered version of Raptor, It’s coming about new consoles ported very soon

[@魏子翔-x9c]

This DOS game is super easy.

[@kiirothedriver8714]

I turned the likes into a "180." Lol 😂

[@barleyriceboy]

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