Reinventing 1970's Classic Games | 1-Bit Revival: The Residuals Of Null Game Review

Welcome to Steam Sequence, a series where I attempt to play and review as many Steam games in alphabetical order as possible to sort the Trash from the Treasure.
This means that I'm playing through all the terrible games so that you don't have to.
Please enjoy my suffering.
Reinventing 1970's Classic Games | 1-Bit Revival: The Residuals Of Null Game Review
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1-Bit Revival: The Residuals Of Null
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In case you're wondering, Steam organizes games starting with punctuation first, then numbers, and then the actual alphabet. It may be some time before I reach the letter "A" on my journey!
00:00 Preamble
00:11 Intro
00:24 The Review
07:51 The Verdict
09:51 Outro
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[@waspor8208]

The Asteroids inspired mode controls like Asteroids, I'm shocked.

[@Graeldon]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ShinoSarna]

5:45 I think Holly is meant to be a "jungle hero" type character, like Sheena or Tarzan (or Jill of the Jungle). That would definitely explain the leopard print bikini.

[@Adelie_in_Grey]

It took me a bit (pun intended), but I realized the colors, magenta and green, are one of the color pairs used on old Apple computers. So this game is technically 2 bit. cause it requires a bit to switch between Black-White mode and Green-Magenta mode. Still a very nice touch and still authentic to the time period it's trying to emulate.

[@lancesmith8298]

And also I haven’t heard the OST at all 3 minutes in, but assuming that it doesn’t sound like complete garbage, then we also run into a higher bit soundchip. It doesn’t even take too many to scale up drastically; compare the NES 8 bit to the Sega Genesis 16 bit, and understand we’re trying to work 8 magnitudes lower. Hell, anything that is more complicated than auditory Morse code isn’t happening with only one bit.

[@user-bu7vb5tg6b]

My dad is a software developer who's worked with computers and software since just before the 80s. I'll have to share this video with him because I'm quite curious how he'd react to this style of game. Great review as always!

[@Ashgar225]

That control scheme for the spaceship game does match Asteroids and Spacewar, so it fits with the theme. Even some more modern things like Nova Drift keep similar ideas.

[@Dragnfly_mynamewastaken]

I was just gonna let him know this so thanks for covering that. To me, it's all about how much the ship drifts and how quickly it turns. I've played versions of Asteroids where the ship turns way too fast, way too slow, or even never stops drifting in some direction.

[@TomaszRyszkowski]

also added to that the space your ship can drift through was limited making your ship just bounce of the walls all of the time. I can see how that would make the game borderline unplayabke with that control scheme

[@aglavraowl4932]

I recall some DOS version of Asteroids being of similar level of frustration. lots of intetia, which makes the ship difficult to control.

[@flibflob2785]

I refuse to accept that the female Larry is Holly. To me she is Mary.

[@Graeldon]

Molly, Dolly, Holly and Polly 😅 To go with Larry, Barry, Harry and Garry

[@metagameface9697]

@@Graeldon Perry pressing his nose against the windowpane, shedding a single tear as he watches them all having fun together

[@horrorsage1346]

I would have gone with carrie. But I like Holly, Molly, and dolly

[@PaxtheDreamer]

You know, this actually looks like the kind of game my Mom would really enjoy! Also yeah, don't blame you for not being a fan of the Asteroids control scheme. I'm aware it's a classic, and it controls that way for a REASON, but I've never been a fan myself.

[@isenokami7810]

The enemy damage system in the Harry game is interesting. I’ve played NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, and the on foot levels of that game use the same one-two hit system for taking down enemies. Granted, you use a ranged attack in those levels, but yeah, you really have to throw the second attack quick after the first or it won’t kill.

[@megabrother7145]

Crazy how Holly wasn't named Marry

[@Wyattporter]

The transition at 5:34 made me think my phone was falling off the stand it was on 😅

[@shinyagumon7015]

I don't think this game would be for me, but I really like the art style. So simple yet still clear and readable. Also I wonder if there's an ending cut scene if you beat the games.

[@feardatd7961]

Man, this really is a fun adventure. I wish I had the time and money to join you, I would start backwards from z. Such weird games you find.

[@SomeGuy712x]

Maybe we need separate people to tackle each letter of the alphabet. Of course, the more common letters like S and T will have way more games than the rarer letters like V and X, so it would be a bit imbalanced.

[@Manectrix2000]

Rather than an explorer, I’d say that Holly is a bodybuilder. This is definitely more of a novelty game imo. It’s pretty great that they kept a consistent style with the enemies and added great variations on classic games.

[@graphicsubset2911]

At this point, we should start tracking what letter this series is on after the '1', since it's gonna be a while before we move on to '2'.

[@Graeldon]

When I did the math, I think we'll be in the 1's section for roughly a year, and the 1's and 9's sections are the biggest from memory

[@graphicsubset2911]

@@Graeldon Damn

[@SomeGuy712x]

(2:25) Hey there, Larry, Barry, Holly, and Harry. How's it going? (5:11) Heh, there's those Polish colors again. (9:03) Mid-game on-demand music-switching FTW. This does indeed look pretty neat. I can dig the retro-style stuff for sure.

[@velvetbutterfly]

Playing in alphabetical order is an interesting choice. I wonder when you will reach "A"

[@Graeldon]

Approximately 13 more years!

[@noaht2005]

Are you being serious or exaggerating?

[@Graeldon]

@@noaht2005 100% serious.

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@noaht2005 I don't think he's exaggerating. If this series picks off you might see people try to make a bunch of small games just to make it take longer to reach the next letter

[@TheRealVenusian]

This was a fun one! Nice to see something made with some actual polish. Speaking of polish, the next game looks pretty professional...

[@GretgorPooper]

Yooo, another interestig one! Also aaaaaah muscle mommy *Homer Simpson drool*

[@aglavraowl4932]

I feel like to fit the "old-school" theme even more, they could add some book (pdf) with explanations of enemy types, full character stories and such. This game suddenly reminded me of the times when game covers were looking better then the games (like "what should you imagine when playing and looking at the lines and dots") and the books about games could be read like a short stories collection. (I don't know, if there were a similar type of books in the English-speaking space, but here in Russia, I still have a couple of "500 new games" books from 1990s. They contained hints, controls, stories - everything that wouldn't fit on a floppy disk or a cassette.)

[@E_MO_TION]

I'm doing my part!

[@Clownbelt-u2s]

I’m wondering if the wrong game’s rating is displayed here. The store page for 1 bit has 19 total reviews with mostly positive reviews while the one showed at the start has 23 recommendations and 46 low ratings.

[@Graeldon]

The "ratings" at the start are stats for the series so far; the number of games I've recommended vs not recommended =)

[@Clownbelt-u2s]

@@Graeldon Ahh makes sense now. Thanks for the clarification

[@zaptorzap]

That domino game reminded me a little of Wilmot's Warehouse. Any chance that's the other thing you were thinking of?

[@christinacarter2550]

Welcome💙 💙🌼

[@kiendra]

Respect to this guys pc 💀💀

[@sweetwheatsy]

Honestly, kinda surprised that the current score features 1/3 of all games reviewed being (mostly) recommendable. Expected less!

[@Dni..]

i will be posting 1 comment every video until youtube considers me a spam bot (if i remember to)

[@hassuassu]

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[@stalebread7116]

day 235 of waiting for Celeste

[@stalebread7116]

Day 237 of waiting for Celeste

[@stalebread7116]

Day 239 of waiting for Celeste

[@stalebread7116]

Day 236 of waiting for Celeste

[@stalebread7116]

Day 240 of waiting for Celeste