The Ultimate Shareware Games Collection LongView | MS-DOS

I never got around to doing a Part 2, so this is Part 1 of 1. That's just the level of professionalism I've come to expect from me.
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[@billybollockhead5628]

@RoseTintendSpectrum - not sure when you did it, but thank you for putting videos into folders to make them easier to find. Makes it easier going thru you back catalogue watching vids i missed first time around, while not being creepy and definitely not sitting here naked, honest.

[@arostwocents]

Were there Epic pinball games? Remember those on floppy and enjoyed those a lot. Decent table designs and physics including some crazy space ones. DOS games definitely had their own style like all old systems and its a shame emulation is not more plug and play as would love to go on a sesh as with other systems

[@judgeprime3730]

Just for the record i am just like Malvineous, very cool and muscular 😂

[@samuel.palacios]

you made me laugh, I wish I had more friends who gets me on the DOS nostalgia

[@jonnykhatru]

I adored Xargon as a kid for its bizarre and mysterious atmosphere!

[@s.l.r.9407]

Loved the commentary in this video, it was a lot of fun!

[@arostwocents]

Was shareware floppy disc games the last time shops sold 1.99 games? One Must Fall & Traffic Department 2192 were my favourite shareware on 386 from Poundstretcher. OMF only lacked fighters so was incredible. TD story was the length of a very large book with tens of thousands of words so the first third you got via shareware took many many nights of play to get through. Gameplay is samey in TD but once into the story its amazing. OMF is the most underrated fighting game of all time. The fighting engine fits the giant robots battling perfectly and the presentation is AMAZING with tv reports on your fights, damage to repair, upgrades, colour customisation etc. Amazing game. Went back to the full version years later on Xperia Play and its still amazing fun. Would love to bother to remember how to work dosbox lol.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Jill of the Jungle and the woman with the dead eyes and impressive bust from Ancients I. I'm in! I say "SO" a lot but then take it out in editing, because it helps me not stumble and stutter :)

[@residentgrey]

Say what you mean to say how you need to say it! If you say it, that is YOUR STYLE. RUN WITH IT!

[@LeafyNebula]

And I was searching shareware games because I want to relive nostalgic vibes I got from the past. Life was so much more valuable in substance back then versus now. The games felt magical. I learned a lot of new words playing rpg games back then.

[@conradtrout]

You've got to crank up the CPU cycles in DOSBox to make Blake Stone run at its proper framerate.

[@random007nadir]

Yes, that was weird. I played it on a 386 and it was smooth and aiming was easy.

[@bhijdasasdjhasdbjkdasbjkfasbjk]

argoooooooo checkerssssssssss holy shit i remember that lol ; def remember some of those apogee games too. was always sad i only had the first episode of monster bash, played it over and over. great vid, what a rush of nostalgia!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I think you may be the only person in existence to remember that Checkers game, hahaha

[@bhijdasasdjhasdbjkdasbjkfasbjk]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum the settings UI unlocked a core memory ; I musta been younger than 10 because I remember always losing and trying to mess with the settings so i could win hahah!

[@andersdenkend]

Aw man, those memories. I had some good times with these games back then. Even the mediocre ones. "Jill of the Jungle" I will forever remember because it was this game I played first when we finally got our SoundBlaster16 and oh boy, did it not disappoint.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

The difference was pretty massive!

[@fattomandeibu]

Remember getting all the shareware on Amiga Format cover CDs back in the day. You'd go through like 100 pieces of absolute shite before finding a proper gem like Scorched Earth or Deluxe Galaga AGA. Was always great to find a good one, especially since Amiga commercial releases were really drying up at this point.

[@meshugeah]

IMO this was best era in gaming, still play majority of these under dosbox. Awesome original games with vibrant colorful graphics and great gameplay, instead of contemporary stupid products with good graphics but poor unispired gameplay and a TON of bugs even a year after release. P.S.: Kudos to indie developers and their skills - number of independent titles looks and plays like AAA production 15 - 20 years ago - great looking very original titles with cool gameplay.

[@residentgrey]

You need to branch out. It is a video game golden age.

[@riatsila144]

I guess different strokes for different folks, but I always remembered Brix fondly.

[@pavelgl5926]

Heh, it's like "Action 52" but for PC. But better, cause of "Monster Bash"

[@teucer915]

My personal favorites back then, which may or may not hold up: Jetpack, Heartlite, God of Thunder. Which are two puzzle platformers and one puzzle RPG. I think the tech of that era just supported puzzles better than it supported other ways of being hard and good at the same time.

[@wonderboy76]

Great memories! I forgot all about Catacombs of the Abyss! I guess you have saved the biggies for Part 2!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

With the amount of games, there's probably going to be at least 3 parts - haha. There's some contenders in the next batch though: Duke Nukem turns up for a start... Oh... And more Skunny.

[@wonderboy76]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum I need to revisit DN - literally hours spent on that when I got my PC and couldn't afford a new Sierra game.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@wonderboy76 same! It's a shame so many early Windows titles wre just impossible to get working now, without having a second (old) PC around the house. Dosbox is a god send though.

[@shionkreth7536]

I have fond memories of Ancients 1 - was a fun little dungeon crawler, in my opinion, but yeah you could not wander around the city or it was virtually impossible to find your way back. lol

[@ValChronification]

Fucking hilarious. Came here for that Z-list rpg i remember it as a kid as not only did the title screen babe have a pair of knockers but also one of the character artworks you could choose.

[@ChrisBarrett1]

I still only had a 286 in 1999. I was still at school at the time and they'd finally got internet access, so I'd download any shareware I could find that would run on it in EGA (as that's all I had too) and copy it to 3.5" disk. So I'd play the likes of Catacomb Abyss (unbeknownst to me at the time by the creators of Doom), Hugo's House of Horrors and Commander Keen (yeah, I didn't know that was by the I'd bunch either) while everyone else was playing Carmageddon and Half-Life.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Very much the same as me but a couple years after!

[@residentgrey]

The thumbnail had me bugeyed! ROTA!

[@Den-nd6xn]

Those were the days...👍😄

[@coreymacgregor176]

Corncob 3d was a GREAT game.

[@icysaracen3054]

manage to get all the full versions of these games and upload them to my anbernic rg351p handheld retro console. I Play them on the train on the way to work.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Good shout! I keep forgetting the RG's can do DOS

[@arostwocents]

I can't remember the commands to use DOS :( /dir

[@p60091]

I liked Brix

[@taecentro6169]

Great games

[@MilesChristi333]

Walking into a store and tugging on my dads arm the game it's only $10!!! Cant we get it!!!- Shareware bargain baby sisters!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I think 90% of my game collection for a good long while was just shareware, haha

[@UniQueLyEviL]

22:41 LMAO

[@arostwocents]

Argo Checkers - the letters and the pieces dropping onto them on the title screen looks like a pair of boobies ❤😮🎉

[@vnaum]

If you love digging into shareware cds -- theres "Shovelware Diggers" with HUNDREDS of reviewed games: kzbin.info/aero/PLCIZNtotF3Xh0dfQjJx8XcP_73UGtjqN0

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Good shout out! Thanks

[@mattcorby]

Erm.. where's part II 🤔

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

That's a GOOD question. So, it was going to be made way back then, but this video massively under-performed on release and took ages to put together... So I never got round to it. Guess which video, out of all of em, seems to now continuously bring in viewers? This bloody video. So I will, eventually, get to part 2 because it seems to have been picked up by KZbin's mad algorithm.

[@arostwocents]

​@@RoseTintedSpectrumI think DOS is a much wider base than your normal 8 bit stuff so algorithm probably is suggesting it to people watching videos of other classic PC stuff?

[@LeafyNebula]

Similar story with first pc lol

[@riatsila144]

"Yeeeeaaah"

[@Famiklor]

Can You make some video about Freeware games and review them in one video?

[@ZacHawkins42]

Ancients 1: The title screen with huuuge... tracts of land

[@Infamousuk]

Was there ever a part 2? Or did scunny ruin it for everyone?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

This video will forever be a monument to my "well no-one watched this, so I'll move on" attitude, as I then watched it grow faster than most other videos over the years. The key is: never assume a videos initial performance is how it will fare overall, hahaha. So no, part 2 never happened.

[@retrobitstv]

My opinion differs slightly so please consider this to by my angry comment. Anyway...

[@chimpeh]

why you no more >.