Space Hulk (1993) intro HQ

[@Eisenbison]

"The fallen shall be forever remembered as the Emperor's finest."

[@inzyniertv9305]

Fallen?... REPENT!

[@Elkanthar]

To the left! Overwatch!!! So much memories...

[@LordByte]

Just hearing that intro's "The Dark Angel Chapter" quote makes me shiver :) Amazing intro!

[@nowhere474]

Even SANGUINIUS CRINGES at HERETICAL ERROR.

[@Elkanthar]

„Deathwing Company!“

[@bluespaceman7937]

I still remember that. It was quite memorable and scary even back then.

[@ASaveFromDave]

this intro... this intro is still the most unsettling and terrifying intro/cutscene in any game I've ever played and/or watched. from the expertly used detail of brief yet overly detailed movement, to the excellent usage of shadow and the manipulation of where your attention should be, only to surprise you with a genestealer that came out of seemingly nowhere. it's amazing. I can't stress at how GODLY the shadowing is for A PIXELATED GAME, the extreme detail of everything from the floor, armor, genestealers, faces, lighting, and much more. I could make a whole essay about just this 1 minute and 42 second scene. IT IS THAT GODLY and has still yet to be matched by any other game in my opinion. i remember playing this when i was extremely little, and this was the only game to give me uneasiness, fear, despair, and pure shock. too bad i never could beat this game.

[@disregardthat]

Yeah, this game is above Dark Souls hard

[@jean-philippegirard3331]

I may have spent more time watching the intro, than playing the game itself ... It was like a very very (too) short movie, with basically everything I loved lol. Difficulty was too high in my opinion, especialy with guns «glitches». As if the xenos swarm weren't hard enough to contain, you'd have to deal with deficient weaponry. Not mentioning the so called «super heavy» terminator armours, spliting open in one hit lol

[@theironpill9296]

You're entirely on point with your analysis. I can say personally i've never ever played this game but watching the short cinematic i'm blown away by a feeling which is hard to describe... A sense of being inside the game world and accompanying these marines on their brave yet doomed mission into the darkness of the terrifying space hulk. It's just incomparable to what any modern video game does for me.

[@quirinaled2752]

I remember only realising a few levels in that you got those rank indications (feathers I think?) If your squad member survived. Cue playing game obsessively for months to clear it with no deaths. The number of times it was weapon jam and then Aaaah! I lost track of. Great game:)

[@casedistorted]

I would watch this intro cutscene like 10 times before starting the game every time I loaded this game up. It was one of the coolest things I had ever seen as a kid.

[@DL-cs2cj]

This 1993 game still has better bolter sound effects than 90% of the 40K games out today

[@fordgt402]

Even the intro music is badass!

[@soylentgreenb]

This is the amiga version kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4GvaqqmfLaAftk (things like this is why PCs were considered a joke back then)

[@gluonpa6878]

nice electro/indus neo-goth

[@pforson]

@@soylentgreenb PCs were not considered a joke in 93, what nonsense. VGA graphics and soundblaster music was standard by then. I had an Amiga 500 in the late 80s and loved it, but by 92/93 PCs were just better and the A1200 was sadly too little too late.

[@soylentgreenb]

@@pforson 1992-1993 is right at the beginning when PC was starting to be taken seriously. Go back 2 years and PC had choppy scrolling CGA cyan and magenta horror or EGA with internal speaker audio; it was a boring business machine that was 4 times as expensive and much less capable than an amiga. The big four were Ultima underworld, Ultima VII, Wolfenstein 3D and especially Doom that got PC taken seriously as a gaming machine. I don't think you remember 1992 so well. There existed 486DX2-66's but they were extraordinarily expensive and only became affordable after the pentium had already been launched. There existed special purpose MIDI hardware (predecessor actually) like the MT32, but it was not seriously entertained for gaming audio. There existed OPL2 adlib cards, but almost nothing used them and what used them used them poorly. There existed tandy PC clones with sort of NES level sound well back in the 80's that barely anyone knew existed. The machines in the $1000 or so price range were 286's (yes, still in the early 90's) and AM 386DX40's well into 1992-1993. The AM 386DX40 is a very important CPU; it's the first cheap, mainstream CPU on PC that sold by the millions that was fast enough in software to do what the amiga could do in hardware.

[@pforson]

soylentgreenb I remember 1992 pretty well actually, as it was the year we upgraded from our Amiga 500 to a 486sx25 pc. It came with a Soundblaster card and VGA graphics which were a definite step up from the Amiga (VGA was actually introduced in 1987 and by 90/91 was pretty standard). It was certainly more expensive than an Amiga, but still affordable (I think we paid about £900, but it also came with a monitor). I totally concur that in the late 80s the Amiga was way better but by 92 the PC had overtaken it. A few months later in Feb 93 X-Wing came out and the 3D graphics were so incredible I never looked back. I do find it somewhat odd that you decided to cite Space Hulk as an example of how the PC was apparently a „joke“ in 93 - the PC intro is fully animated and with full speech and clearly superior to the static still frame Amiga version (which music one prefers is purely subjective). Don‘t get me wrong, some games were better on the Amiga (Cannon Fodder for example), but Space Hulk was better on PC. (As an aside, I actually have an MT-32! If you visit my channel you‘ll see that I even uploaded some MT-32 videos! - although it was about 8 years ago.)

[@Haloister]

The Assault Cannon guy Carried their team

[@mcz1945]

well, actually no, look again. He gets 5 kills out of 13. All the other ones are from the bolter equipped squad including one melee kill.

[@phibbykaden]

Space Hulk and Star Wars: X-Wing were the first Windows-era DOS games I ever played (though to be fair, my older brother didn't think I was ready for them). I was blown away, and I don't mean with a Storm Bolter; everything was completely different from the Tandy 1000 we'd been using until then. I miss those days, though I don't miss the nightmares. I remember being stuck on a specific mission for more than 15 years before I finally beat it. It was a late-campaign mission where you had to retrieve a specific item; I explored most of that level and never found it. It wasn't until someone finally posted an online guide that I discovered that the item in question was surrounded by spawn points, where I normally didn't DARE to go. After I finally finished that, the remainder of the game was a cakewalk.

[@Haloister]

@roddy666mc Assault cannon guy: Don't worry guys i got this *gets killed* Captain: *kills genestealer* I did all the work

[@MechWarrior894]

More like “I HUNGER FOR BATTLE!”

[@solidbeard8324]

Not a good use of the minigun

[@themancunian777]

Classic Intro - sets the scene 👍

[@Les_Fleurs_duMal]

I like the style of this intro. Music fits good, you feel loneliness in the space hulk. For such a pixel-art from 1993 you have the expression of dirt, violence and lots of blood. Absolutely better than 40k-styles in modern games.

[@matthewbrookeart]

I love the pixel art for this

[@YakuzaDragon87]

I remember installing this game through a long process of 4 floppy disks lmao!!! Worth it every minute!!! "For the Emperor!!!"

[@naviamiga]

Great intro, amazingly at the time.

[@TheSYLOH]

This was the game that first introduced me to 40k. It blew my primary school age mind. I had no idea how to play it. Years later I would encounter 40k novels, and have never stopped reading them.

[@lahnaman9240]

This intro goes hard!

[@Stefanowskzi]

When the terminator captain fires TWO rounds I literally freak out

[@ijustreview]

0:15 Heh this banner is on the wall of your refit room in space hulk: deathwing

[@markuscayde8688]

That's the standard of the Deathwing Company of the Dark Angels.

[@ulriccaron9108]

I like the time when all the video game were on DOS!! :)

[@mistery8363]

This is Amiga tho

[@Cr4z3d]

​@@mistery8363It's not, this is the DOS version.

[@robertofulton]

I had this game when I was like 7/8 years old. But the computer we had didn’t have the specs for it (lol) always wanted to play it. Haha

[@tobiasreissenweber2152]

The music is still great. I didn't know it, but I actually remembered the tune.

[@VanTheMan3000]

Listen to the track without sound here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XVd2imgdOnjJY

[@finegamingconnoisseur]

The granddaddy of the modern Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition.

[@mcskeez123]

Played this game so long ago! Always loved this intro. DOS was the ish!

[@ngmajora6986]

Legit didn't notice you can totally see the Genestealer creeping in from the darkness on the side when the Terminator is focused on everything erupting from the wall

[@CrashHeadroom]

when warhammer was more punk / metal album cover... god I miss those days "EAT THIS!"

[@pieman2435]

DE DORK ANJEL CHAPTER!

[@disregardthat]

@Haloister That captain was just riding on his coat-tails too, what a bastard.

[@shahinaryan-taasheedaar4516]

1993.......15 years old... somehow got a copy.... kicked out of my chair by this masterpiece xD

[@Bashnikov8375]

0:30 - 1:14 Am I the only one who thinks the intro locations look like Quake 1 levels?

[@Jemand9]

I was too young for this game. But the intro looks great! ^^

[@saraamiciromero7914]

my childhood

[@MDonuT-of7px]

I'm no Dark Angel player myself, but this video makes me want to find a Tyranid player and set up a series of narrative games set on a Space Hulk.

[@uctrungnguyen8086]

The genestealer just killed a Terminator space marine with few hits?! I thought Terminator is as tough as tank!😭🙏

[@mediumtim2237]

They are, but that's like saying Space marines are invincible, everything in 40k is OP, and Gene stealers have Claws that can cut through Terminator Armour like butter. Remember, in 40k, everything is OP, nothing is weak

[@uctrungnguyen8086]

​@@mediumtim2237 but I wonder why they don't use Adamantium plating on Terminator (I know the frame was made of Adamantium) but aren't they are more durable and tougher than Ceramite and Plasteel? Or maybe they are too expensive, rare...or maybe heavy?🧐

[@clintonclay3158]

"We are the Emperor's Blade"

[@pqsnet]

Does anyone have the intro music in instrumental version? I really love it!

[@VanTheMan3000]

Listen to the track without sound here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XVd2imgdOnjJY

[@pqsnet]

@@VanTheMan3000 Many thanks! Im extremely touched you did it just for me.. At least i see it so, since it was uploaded 4 hours ago! P.s I also love the old version!🤗

[@petroniusarbiter9666]

Is there any way to extract the background music from the intro into a readable music file?

[@namesurname624]

I dont think so

[@VanTheMan3000]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5TPlKpom8loZtU

[@VanTheMan3000]

Oh, I got a cleaner rip here: Listen to the track without sound here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XVd2imgdOnjJY

[@johndonachie8272]

That auto gun sound 😮

[@theironpill9296]

Absolutely metal. They don't make 'em like they used to.

[@JeffMasonProject]

This got me hooked to the WH40k universe. Nothin' like it.

[@stefans.6858]

Let the purifying flames cleanse this area.

[@irkiIIer]

dude, its like blizzard saw this shit and ripped it off bad

[@yellowblanka6058]

And they were clearly inspired by Aliens that was inspired by....it goes on and on.

[@fordgt402]

And then Fallout ripoff their 40k Terminator armors

[@soylentgreenb]

It has long been suspected/rumoured that Warcraft was a warhammer 40k game that lost its license, so they converted it into Warcraft. Starcraft looks like aliens and starship troopers and to an extent this does too.

[@mcz1945]

@@soylentgreenb You got it wrong. Warcraft was supposed to be Warhammer FANTASY but never got the licence. Then STARCRAFT was supposed to be 40k but again didn't get the license.

[@eastindiaV]

In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future, there is only War.

[@christianguthrie7137]

terminator armor=cloth armor lol

[@MechWarrior894]

Rending claws are a bitch.

[@ilovepandas1246]

Just like on the table.

[@lt.branwulfram4794]

The only purpose Tactical Dreadnought armour has is to house heavier artillery, according to GW.

[@slayerpf22]

Nah man, the stealers' screams are bone chilling

[@garethjohnstone8662]

The marines sound like surfer bro's, lol.

[@Eckythump]

This opening, followed by D-Rok's "Get out of my way". Some good memories there - but boy was I terrible at this game.

[@disregardthat]

plot twist: I still am

[@LeoDGH1]

0:20 When you get up to go to the bathroom at 3am

[@TheAmazingToma2003]

Electronic Arts... he was just Anakin Skywalker But now.. he's Dark Vader who got corrupted by Palpatine as the guy who contamined with greed

[@TheAmazingToma2003]

@Expired Milk Well theres a story of how EA todays is ass

[@wiggy5209]

So iconic

[@kiesarisunny13]

I’d actually love an NES version of Space Hulk, the newer one

[@kamencj]

So do you have to Play the dark angel chapter in this game?

[@soylentgreenb]

I'd rather be playing this, but I'll be thinking of the amiga's intro music.

[@micohazakin8576]

Where can I find the intro’s music?

[@disregardthat]

I don't think the soundtrack was ever released, unfortunately.

[@micohazakin8576]

Gosh dang it the intro music was so badass

[@VanTheMan3000]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5TPlKpom8loZtU

[@VanTheMan3000]

Better version here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XVd2imgdOnjJY

[@stimpen12]

Yeah, it´s too bad they havent been able to do more and better games with the Warhemmer universe. Like blizzard who have taken so much from Warhammer in Warcraft and Starcraft have had such huge success. But the Warhammer games havent been that good. Atleast not the recent ones. The old Space hulk and shadow of the horned rat and dark omen were great games. But the newer RTS and FPS games/game is not that good compared to other games in their genre... would like to see more HQ warhammer games

[@mina7572]

Please someone make this into a graphic adventure point n click.

[@stimpen12]

Lol music is so much better in the Amiga version but there you dont have a moving intro, only still pictures

[@VanTheMan3000]

Listen to the track without sound here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XVd2imgdOnjJY

[@skrackensdal]

god i really wish there was a rip off this track

[@VanTheMan3000]

Listen to the track without sound here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5XVd2imgdOnjJY

[@fratkarayagmurlar2465]

first tyranids in the history.

[@skrackensdal]

I think both tyranids and genestealers were in the rogue trader rulebook

[@pinpingoin]

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