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[@badgmodmovies3775]

despite all of the confusion they had in this, the pure joy of just seeing people expiriance this era of gaming (even if the games they played wasnt the best of its time by any means) is just fun to watch. would be interesting for them to revisit this with some more higher-end games of the time. see how it runs half life, quake 3, unreal, the first 2 fallout games, i can go on and on. i know they probably wont do that as they are busy with more modern builds, but its a nice thought

[@OutsideDuhBox]

Confusion. That's the word..

[@misterthegeoff9767]

without a sound card and a graphics card from the time I think they are stuck playing older dos games mostly.

[@readycheddar]

I can almost guarantee that machine cannot play anything requiring 3d acceleration. Not very well, at least.

[@theGURUman]

yeah, I was wondering why they were playing mostly built-in and DOS games. back when I was rocking Win98, it was all about Doom, Quake, Tomb Raider, Deathtrap Dungeon, Half Life, Unreal,... but I quess their onboard GPU is 2D only.

[@ThePuuFa]

@@readycheddar On the contrary, VIA chipsets actually had pretty good 3D acceleration for late 90's games and excellent 2D for dos so it's not a bad choice for something like this. The real problem with this system is the sound card though.

[@Treg]

Buys a windows 98 pc and plays games on it that are 20 years before its time.

[@simonartsrecords]

I was thinking the same thing

[@rayanMB32]

Not a NASCAR fan by any means but I can’t let that slide. “Dale Earnhardt” when he’s holding a Jeff Gordon car/mouse 😂😂

[@nicholasswain5430]

😆

[@Booth73]

Bro I literally came to say the EXACT same thing. Damn calling dale, Jeff gordan is a damn disgrace to dale.

[@jforce321]

I had to come here and say in place of my uncle he hated Jeff Gordon with a passion lol

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@jforce321 I never understood why Jeff Gordon got so much hate.

[@justina1909]

@SeeJayPlayGames cause he was a young, liberal, california kid who came into a sport full of old southern "good Ole boys" and proceded to wipe the floor with all of them. His entrance into the sport also coincided (and probably helped) Nascars entrance into the cultural mainstream (for a time being America's 2nd largest sport behind the NFL). So long-time fans had a perfect scapegoat to blame for any changes with the sport they didn't like.

[@GavinSwick]

As someone who is turning 37 in 2 weeks, I feel personally attacked by this video. This must be how Boomers feel, but I don't have a fat 401k or a house that has quadrupled in value to wipe my tears away with.

[@2048Megabytes.]

Happy 37th birthday

[@emperorarasaka]

Hope your 37 is going great 🎉

[@KaitenKenbu]

Ha too true. They didnt even try to play all the killer 90s games. No starcraft, no mechwarrior 2, no system shock.

[@guysmiley4830]

@@KaitenKenbu Quake 2, Unreal Tournament, Morrowind!

[@gibbysg8143]

As a 32 year old, I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry

[@Ranimetion]

Quake III - 1997!!! Duke Nukem - 1995! Unreal Tournament -1998! although, i dont think the via chip with igp can handle those games... nice video guys

[@RuruFIN]

Quake III - 1999 Duke Nukem 3D - 1996 Unreal Tournament - 1999 FTFY

[@Ranimetion]

@@RuruFIN My bad, it's been a while I played those games ;)

[@RuruFIN]

@@Ranimetion no worries buddy :)

[@Lurch-Bot]

Time to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of gum.

[@HuarachesPlaysTv]

hey man the clear plastic is the classic 90s aesthetic i think its super nice

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

To me those types of plastic cases were more early 2000s than 90s. The 90s still had the cream box that sat under the monitor.

[@Hallow334]

You need to install Team Fortress Classic and Half-Life.

[@mindmending]

When they emptied the box I was like where’s the pc😂 but it was in jacks hand 😂 heavy duty

[@bco1981]

The Street Rod II "2nd letter in line 3 on page 10" That's old school DRM, you would look in the game manual and type in the letter.

[@HugeSuccessGuild]

Suggestion. Do a part 2 and review the comments for all the great games that were not covered. Also not using a CRT monitor for this video is a war crime. Anyways glad to see folks interested in some older gaming history. :)

[@prentissberry7691]

feel like you missed an opportunity to play duke nukem and command and conquer games but that did look like a fun blast from the past

[@GeoG13]

Watching the struggle at Lose Your Marbles was worth the watch. Loved this game when i was a kid and would play with my sis.

[@ToastyBros]

0/10 we definitely lost our marbles

[@geekshed1674]

Being 42 and still gaming on a pentium 200 with a voodoo1 with windows 98, i really enjoyed this video. I noticed 2 games they had in there, street rod and street rod 2, that were more in the dos era than win98. You should probably try some quake or some era accurate ones, not games from the 80's that ran in my 486

[@ScottGrammer]

VIA was mainly a chipset maker in the late '90's, but they did make some x86 CPU's, like the "Joshua" CPU. And that "9-pin" port was a serial port. USB before there was USB. And speaking of USB, Win98 did not natively support USB, that came with an update later on, and that was only USB 1.1. The motherboard likely does not support USB devices - they only work in Windows. And yes, PS2 ports are not hot-swappable. I'm just a bit older than you guys - 60 - so I remember all this.

[@willdavis2716]

Iirc, win95 was the one that didn't natively support usb until an update. Win98 had usb baked in from the get go...of course not well. Anyone remember the bsod as ol billy was demonstrating how easy it was to connect a usb scanner? Good times.

[@donaldsing9898]

Retired pc tech (age 70 years)can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to tell end users to power cycle after reconnecting KB/Mouse/Monitor😂😂😂

[@johnhudson7055]

Actually via was only a chipset maker until they acquired cyrix.

[@ThePuuFa]

The motherboard most likely does support USB keyboard and mouse like most did back then but for some weird reason it was usually disabled in the default bios settings. So if you only had a USB keyboard you had to borrow a PS2 keyboard just to enable the bios setting to be able to use your own keyboard outside of windows. Fun times😂

[@cpljimmyneutron]

USB came out in 1997, there was a custom Windows 95 USB edition released that added USB support, Windows 98 came with USB native, and it upgraded the partition to 32bit. Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) added USB 1.1 Support. The reason they are confused with the pins here is that USB 1, 1.1, and 2 were all the same exact physical interface. But it may be a surprise, most modern pc's cannot negotiate USB 1 on the internal headers, but USB 1 devices usually work on the rear usb ports.

[@wrlrdqueek]

VIA makes a lot of embedded/industrial boards. They're low power, but the performance is, middling, though good enough for their application. VIA got the X86 license through Cyrix, which was the third chipmaker back in the 90's.

[@louism771]

Maybe 15 years ago I got an old thin client from Wyse (which now is part of Dell) from the recycling center and it was very similar to this system. It had a VIA CPU and a pico PSU too and unlike most thin clients it had a very small IDE HDD. The CPU was passively cooled though. Happy to see some of these things survived and get upcycled to retro gaming machines. You may be able to pair it with old PCI graphics cards too. Depends whether the custom case and ease of setup are worth 300 bucks to you though

[@brewergamer]

Oh man these games brought back the nostalgia lol. I'm 32 so I was 8-10 years old when these games were out.. I did play alot of them. In that game Stunts you can actually make your own race tracks, I remember making insane impossible tracks filled with obstacles and having my friends try them.

[@Eeveewashere]

Toasty Bros, thanks for this. I have a Windows 98 SE Compaq Presario desktop. I hope yours has Windows 98 Second Edition on it.

[@kenfichtner9800]

Ha ha I was thinking to myself 'I bet they think PS2 is plug n play'.

[@BladeCrew]

I remember Dig Dug. I also played age of empires 1 and 2, buggy(1998), hamster ball(2004), etc. I loved playing this game as a kid in the 2004-2009(I was born 1999). I even remembered playing need for speed 2 on the old celeron pc.

[@cpljimmyneutron]

Remember that all the old Star Wars games were made for Windows 98, but also Roller Coaster Tycoon.

[@jjjacer]

Also for those DOS games, i believe you just need to hit Alt-Enter to exit fullscreen and then you can close the window normally

[@brocksamson5786]

I spent my teens on one of these, bro, cant remember half of high school, but i can remember everything about command and conquer red alert 😂

[@misterthegeoff9767]

I'm 45 years old and not cringing one bit. PC gaming was not easy back in the MS-DOS era which is why PC gaming took so long to take off, especially in Europe where the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST ruled the roost. Fair play for giving it a shot, this would be like me going back and getting an Altair 8800.

[@97BuckeyeGuy]

You young pups. I remember going to a midnight opening of Incredible Universe (now gone) when I was in college to buy the brand-new Windows 95! The place was packed and all you heard playing was the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" playing in the background. I remember buying a copy of Windows 95, the Plus software and an additional 4MB of RAM to get me to a total of 8MB. Buying all that got me a free Microsoft Windows 95 remote control Indy Car. What a great night.

[@norbydroid3430]

I think this is absolutely awesome. I am a huge fan ofWindows 98. I would absolutely buy one if they made it affordable. I am not a fan of modern computers and operating systems and prefer to spend my time on an older computer like that. One thing about Windows 98 is even after support was done users has made updates and stuff for 98 to make it even better. To get the USB working for instance would be done with NativUSB drivers which gives 98 usb support comparable to XP. I am glad to see 98 systems can still be found even if a bit too pricy. Loved the dupont car. On a system I use daily in freedos I use ps/2 port for keyboard and mouse. Great video. Thank you.

[@common_c3nts]

You can play that exact same Sim City 2000 on Win 11. Works perfectly since some guy made a patch to get it to work on x64 systems.

[@YounusRizwan1]

I like Toasty Bros because they review every tech products I can imagine in a very unique way (btw the device im using rn is a dell optiplex from toasty bros website shout out to them)

[@ToastyBros]

Thanks for the support!

[@itsdeonlol]

This is cool to see retro PC's being brought back to lifeagain!

[@Lando00100]

I'm in my 30s and i cringed.😂

[@USArmyVet91]

Awesome content as always guys. I LOVE the way the seller mixed and matched the old school parts with more modern add ons. Next time you want to be "surprised" perhaps ask for a PLEASANT Surprise? 😆

[@RetroPcCupboard]

Oh dear. None of those games were classic Win98 games. We had much better games than these back then. Was fun to watch you experience this PC but nothing about it was authentic. Nobody had a Win98 gaming PC with a Via CPU.

[@nickinderrieden7630]

I played the absolute hell out of Street Rod when I was little. 43 now. Dad was IT I've had a PC in the house since 1986. I even put it and a couple other games: Death Track 2000 (I think), and Retaliator, on 3.5 floppies and play them in certain computers in HS in the late 90s. Wasn't cutting edge at all but I was playing computer games while at High School, it was fun.

[@nickinderrieden7630]

Street Rod: For anyone interested... You start with $1,200 and you use the Newspaper to buy used cars, and car parts. Once you have a car you can race other drivers for cash or their car, referred to as "pink slips", or "racing for pinks". This game has a 1950's theme. As you win money you upgrade and even tune your car. You have a garage where you can have 3 cars IIRC, and you buy and sell your cars as you make money and win other driver's cars. Never played the sequel, but I'm sure they added assets: cars, parts, drivers, tracks, ways to tune the car, that was pretty much it for the original. These old games are what modern games turned into. Many of the ideas are 30, 40, 50 years old because they're practical and realistic. Glad you guys, as computer guys, get to look at what the rest of us were doing at that time. Also gotta get some AAA games from the time to test that dvd and apu. There were definitely some good ones.

[@jqwright28]

Win 98 was so good. I remember getting in trouble at school for installing and playing games like Hot Rod and Doom 95. Yea, once upon a time PCs in school were like the wild west until us 80s kids ruined it for everyone, lol.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

We had Doom demo installed in every pc in the pclab in Highschool. It was only like 1 level iirc, but man, we played the shit out of it LOL. That was my first experience with fps. Then we also had Wolfenstain 3d. The funny thing is... that wasn't students installing it... and it was in every pc... At the time noone had any idea of how to even copy that or anything.

[@jqwright28]

@@josejuanandrade4439 I remember a friend that, looking back, had major hacker vibes, giving us all sharware discs and floppies, even some pirated games but I didn't know that at the time. That's what got me into pc gaming. Then I got my first pc and realized I had use to ms-dos for most of what I wanted to play. Had to read the manual because schools only taught us win 3.xx. It was worth it though.

[@glanguish9390]

I remember taking sound bites from CDs and using them as PC shut down..... Rob Zombie shouting I can never die!! Lol. I can't do that with Win11

[@RobertFixit]

For those that do not recall the Plus! package was an add on for Windows 98. It would add more screensavers, desktop themes, and additional games. It had it’s own CD and packaging. If I recall you could buy them as a package deal later on.

[@-S.T.P.]

my kid is your age, 26 (27 in sept.). he first touched a pc when he was 1, and got his first when he was 3, an old 98 box he played sim city, and his arthur games on. by the time he was 5-6, he had an xp box playing the need for speed series, then unreal, quake, and half-life...

[@MusicHavenSG]

My PC use goes all the way back to DOS 3.11 that I grew up as a kid, then a 6 YO me was playing Red Alert 1. Kept complaining of it being slow until my Dad got a new Blaster PC System from Creative with a 64MB RAM, a 400MHz Pentium II, 10GB Hard Drive and a Radeon 7000 GPU with 64MB RAM. Quite funny that my VRAM had the same amount of RAM as my system RAM back then! Blasted Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo II, Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 and somehow able to chug along CnC Generals quite adequately after upgrading to 384MB RAM, 40GB HDD, and a GeForce 2 MX400 despite needing a CPU with double the clock speed (800) that I had!

[@VarietyGamerChannel]

Today my graphics card has more ram than my system.

[@chrispappas3750]

In the BIOS is where you enable legacy USB support, the mouse will work.

[@jordanmntungwa3311]

If you were British your channel would be called ‘The Brother’s Toasty’

[@PhonkMachine220YT]

Shoots me some nostalgia! I started out with Win98 but all I used were buggy and glitchy mess.

[@rolvs]

I feel old when i see this video. This games was my childhood!

[@2528drevas]

I have all the parts for a Windows 98 PC that I used to build my first one in 1998, except for the case. I already have an XP one I built last year and am going to build the Windows 98 one sometime in June. I built my first PC in 1998 just to play "Half Life."

[@Dean341]

Just seeing windows 98 in the title brought back painful memories of the page that will float from 1 envelope to the other when downloading or copying

[@mattblatchley2061]

I always saw those old VIA ITX boards decades ago and wanted to build something with one, but never did!!! COOL!!!

[@mortonfamily8609]

Add a Riva 128 card or a Voodoo Graphics. I built my first computer at around 14 years old and when was able to buy a graphics Accelerator around 97-98 was a game changer. That GLQuake was amazing.

[@artmedinajr]

oh my gosh!!! Does it have fuses and other resistors on the board? Wow old school man!!! nice one

[@michaeldemers2716]

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is a must.

[@skylerparker8871]

Definitely Jeff Gordon, not Dale Earnhardt. 😂

[@cueball981]

I remember only having Apple IIe computers in school. You guys are so frick'n young! Kids!! Lol!

[@cpljimmyneutron]

So PS2 is not hot-swap, but it has a huge advantage over USB... a USB keyboard can only use 10 keys at once, if you press more than that (or can type really fast) it will just drop keys. Higher end keyboards will actually install as 2 or even 4 keyboards (seriously check your device manager) to overcome this 10 key limit, raising it to 20 or 40 keys... but a PS2 keyboard can use all 101 keys simultaneously. Which was actually necessary for some old programs like MechWarrior 3.

[@chloeprice8]

to bring some light to what the pc is and why it looks different to a regular motherboard. this is an embeded pc. the cpu is a soldered bga x86 chip by Via(no support for anything x64) and you would find these in industrial uses like in big photocopiers running a print server. or in industrial factory machines(production line machines) or even ad displays in like McDonalds drive-throughs would have one of these enclosed in each display. in most cases they would not run windows. but a unix/linux kernel. which is why the seller is 3d printing cases for them. they were not in pc cases, they would be enclosed in the machine and have no human interaction with it nor have a keyboard/mouse attached to it. depending on its use it would ether just have power. ethernet for remote access and a monitor. or would have no display conection and would only have power. ethernet and rs-232(serial) to the machine it would run. and thats all they did. they would run 24/7 for years. so the seller has found all of those from old scrapped machinery and instead of having them scrapped as ewaste he is making them into retro game pc's

[@chippybear-l2l]

😂 I remember our giant windows 95 family computer, we had dual speakers, a mic, and 10 floppy drive games. I think my dad said they paid $2k for it all 😂😂😂 Skifree went hard

[@JeffreyJohnsonC]

Put a voodoo 3dfx in that pci slot. Think I still have one of those.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

that would be ideal. Unfortunately I think the case is too small. It looks like it would only take a half-height card.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

on second thought, you might be able to wedge one in there with a 90 degree PCI riser. Maybe.

[@bryans8656]

My first "gaming" PC was a Win98 box and the game I enjoyed playing the most was Tomb Raider III.

[@henryca03]

Honestly, that VIA Mini ITX board is more specced out than the Hot Wheels/Barbie PCs.

[@Ultimatebubs]

That VIA board was a low power embedded board for industrial purposes. It would have been popular around 2003.

[@konstantinlozev2272]

My first PC I had at home was a Windows 95 machine that quickly got upgraded to Windows 98

[@xBruceLee88x]

Old thin clients in a new box. Kinda want one but not for $300. Throw in a PCI radeon 9100/9200 or fx5200 for a boost in 98 era games.

[@HarenunHoppus]

Played a lot of cnc Red alert back during that time. I was probably ten and sucked at it but had fun

[@iNubpwn3r]

Ah man, I was born in 82, this hits me right in the feels. VIA is chipsets manufacturer that support CPUs from Intel, AMD. Via is not a CPU. I was waiting for DXDiag and see if this beast can handle basic DirectX 3D acceleration....

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

VIA is not a CPU? WRONG, grasshopper, VIA did make a CPU back in the day for Super Socket 7 (the most universal PC platform ever, could take chips from Intel, AMD, Cyrix, and VIA) called the C3. That's what this is. It's 1GHz but runs more like a 300MHz Intel because its IPC sucks. But that's okay for what you want to do with Windows and DOS. In fact it can even be downclocked and you can disable speculative instruction and/or instruction and data caches to get the speed down good and low to run old games like Wing Commander without being too fast, if you use a utility called SETMUL from DOS. But these guys wouldn't know anything about that because it's ancient lore. They just did this video on a subject they knew nothing about without doing any research and ended up looking like idiots. But I guess that's their brand. When I want REAL retro content I go to Phil's Computer Lab.

[@iNubpwn3r]

@@SeeJayPlayGames Yes, it looks like they did, but those were not very common around my country, mainly just VIA motherboards from era of Intel Pentium MMX 233 for Socket 7. But it looks like they did manufacture integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory.

[@michaeltechroom]

Definitely different of looking back

[@livingretro79]

did seem like an open pci slot, should upgrade the gpu on it and play some duke nukem. would love to see some retro builds.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

it's just sitting there begging for a 3Dfx card, but I'm afraid it might need a riser cable in order to wedge one in because the case is too short.

[@livingretro79]

@@SeeJayPlayGames the seller has a case expander for this exact reason, i shot a message to find out.

[@cpljimmyneutron]

Everyone knows, the only true way to experience Windows 98 is with the 38 disc Floppy installation set... that... was insane and I do not miss it.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

yeah, if you were a luzer and didn't have a CD-ROM drive. My PC had one in 1994.

[@pc-sound-legacy]

Win9x No1 solution for everything: Restart No2: Reinstall No3: Goto No1

[@BelLavoroAutoSpa]

bros really dropped a dracula flow reference. legends.

[@GavinColbourne]

7:40 i'm surprised you didn't use the standard USB to PS2 adapter that was released soon after Win98

[@Buckhunter144]

I wonder if that’s a glow in the dark filament my printer uses some that color.

[@lukesnukem17w28]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@dim0n1]

you can NOT connect and disconnect ps/2 devices, while pc is on... 🤦‍♂ dos games needs to set up sound (setup.exe, setsound.exe), where you need to choose sound card, port, irq, dma, if there was sb compatible drivers with this probably ac codec (there seems like yes), no midi test, opl i heard, no 3d acceleration tests (opengl, d3d), no 3dmark, or in this case 2d mark? :D... its old office or kiosk pc, probably with via c3... no doom, no duke 2 or 3d, no quake 1, 2, 3, hl, no unreal, no lemmings, no VLAK (:D), no jill, no c&c & ra, no warcraft 2, no diablo 1, 2, no comanche, no descent, no xwinf, no f22, no many others games :D... time to open another beer :P

[@ZaCaptain1229]

This is incredibly cool

[@vicolin6126]

I'm surprised these guys who are around 30 were not more proficient with Windows 98. I mean, I'm 30, and I grew up with this OS. Ofc, maybe these guys didn't. Could not be arsed watching the whole video, because it felt like when Linus buys something old, only to mock it for the entire duration of the video. "Omg, this is so old, haha, funny, thins are more modern now, haha" - yes, very humorous.

[@jjjacer]

VIA bought the Cyrix CPU company which had made x86 compatible CPU's from the 486-Pentium II era with the last Cyrix MII CPU was on the Super Socket 7 platform although some of the chips were labeled IBM instead of Cyrix. The CPU's us a PR rating for speed, basically saying of you had a 120mhz PR150 Cyrix CPU it would be as fast as a 150mhz intel CPU VIA CPU's were used in a lot of low end 2000's machines, they were Socket 370 compatible (Pentium III and Celeron) or imbedded (soldered to the motherboard) and were known to be lower power consumers. They were also featured on some of the first mini-ITX motherboards (VIA C3 CPU) which VIA created the standard for. Only problem back then is almost all the boards suffered from the capacitor plague so it was common to have to solder new caps. Now onto windows 98, yep until windows installs the USB HID drivers (which it has) USB keyboard/mouse wont work, i believe if you set USB in BIOS to Legacy it allows USB Keyboard/Mice to work in DOS mode/Windows without drives?-its been a while. As far as the Windows maintenance program, it basically just setup scheduled tasks for i believe disk cleanup and disk defrag. Although i will say it always felt like windows 98 broke way to often, given i still have my 98 product key memorized after 23 years (i switched to windows 2000 pretty soon after)

[@FennecTECH]

Idk. This is bringing back the early 2000s with. Transparent plastic shell

[@rickmerritt8035]

I used to love that hot rod game.

[@Z2KRetroGaming]

So interesting to see how retro hardware isn't for everyone. If you don't have affection for the games of the era it just isn't going to be fun. This is a single-board computer that would have mostly been used for industrial purposes (looks like a VIA C3) - it's faster than a typical period-correct 98 machine and designed to run 98 for industrial equipment and the like long after 98 was commonly used. I don't know what the onboard graphics are but they probably aren't great for any 3D acceleration and you'll want to use a discrete GPU for anything that requires hardware 3D acceleration. This would be a great machine to run Doom, Duke 3D or Quake (not GLQuake) on. Also good for 2D games like adventure games, Civ 2 / Simcity 2k, and stuff like that. If you want to see what it was like to run Half-Life when it came out and you didn't have a 3D card...this will show you that too.

[@w0lfgm]

Play Return to Castle Wolfensein, Medal of Honor Warchest, Quake III Arena and use 3D mark for geting FPS and almost forgot Half Life, Age of Empires II

[@vizionfox]

when he said Dale Earnhardt for the Jeff Gordon car I cried inside

[@Z64bit]

On my stock Compaq Presario I could run up to Madden and NBA Live 2003 just to give a general idea of how modern you could go with normal PCs of the time

[@chrisa-wr2kw]

Not sure, but perhaps you have to use https in your url to view your site (at least what might be displayable in such an old browser).

[@Inklers]

Yes. EaseUs. Buy the product you'll use one time for a transfer because we want the money you didn't need to spend when you have so many other good alternatives to pick from that don't cost money.

[@Inklers]

Stop. There is no way he's two years younger than me. Beard man over there.

[@bigdiggle5036]

if I remember correctly, you had to have the mouse and keyboard plugged in on boot, you couldn't just remove them with out rebooting also. took them awhile to figure this out y'all aint even that young

[@Kr3os87]

dude, so much nostalgia lol.

[@wakcedout]

I would need this with windows xp on it if I wanted to play my older pc games. Maybe a couple would run on windows 98 and those might be my older command and conquer games if I can find them.

[@Brophyd78]

LGR for actual windows 98 gaming. Should’ve looked up games from that era to play on the machine.

[@unknown183]

When a PC case looks like a bar of soap.

[@JeremyLeePotocki]

The Via C7 Eden aka Cyrix C7 (I had a Socket 7 desktop version) was not a bad CPU per say... but the iGPU (a S3/VIA UniChrome) was buggy/slow in more advanced Win 98 3D games. There is a PCI slot on the board that could handle a PCI version of a Voodoo, TNT, or even a GeForce FX5200 so you can play 3D title in 640x480 (maybe 800x600) without it looking like a jittery crack addict with decent settings. You can put that board in a regular ITX case so you can actually put in a card. You bought $80 to $100 in actual hardware, and the rest is for the case that looks okay, but way overpriced while lacking better features. Interesting fact these were some of the first motherboards that use the ITX motherboard standards.

[@theundyinghadesx8355]

You completely failed not putting Heroes of Might and Magic in the video.

[@DecentlyMediocre]

I was ok with the whole not knowing much about windows 98....but when you said Dale Earnhardt as he brought out a Jeff Gordon car mouse is when I cringed more. Lol

[@fourtwentynick]

😂😂😂

[@PaulsComputerEmp]

Looks Neat, Some of the games, like Sim City 2000 and Civilization, are commercial titles. Including these games with the device might mean it’s not fully legit unless the seller has agreements with the copyright holders. If you’re considering buying it, you might want to ask for a version without any copyrighted games. The seller might not realize they're profiting from copyrighted software, and in the U.S., video game copyrights last for the creator’s lifetime plus 70 years.

[@konstantinlozev2272]

A Windows 98 game is not those BS games. Some were DOS games, actually. Others were just BS. It's Quake 1 and 2, Half Life, AOE1 and 2, NFS 2 and 3, etc.

[@EpicValleysStill]

I remember playing Ski Free on windows 95

[@reddemonk1]

Heroes was the best game of the era :D, palayed the hell out of that game, go play it!

[@cpljimmyneutron]

Microsoft Plus was an addon for Windows 98 SE.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

yeah mostly themes and stuff, nothing major

[@Cre8tive81]

Im guessing that case is a nicer case cuz its semi transparent.. The other cases are probably opaque.

[@owenjbrady]

these via boards were thin clients that came long after 98 but worked well with 98 because the sound card worked well in dos, they lack proper 3D support but work well for DOS and some 95 era software, I am 35 and this made me cringe thanks for sharing.

[@safn1949]

old fart here, Microsoft Combat Flight simulator, I ran it online on Windows 98, Pentium 133 . It will still work and is a lot of fun.

[@Jordansklar0698]

bro i thought you were 30 and your 1 year older than me lol im a 1998 baby lol i love windows 98 cus i was born june 19th it came out june 25th

[@BrandonLackey]

Loved me some Street Rod II

[@OlaftheGreat]

The only issue I can think of is the lack of a proper 3D graphics processor

[@nickdaniels5892]

Sup Bros.That appears to be an HP T series thin client. They're a great choice for Win98 gaming and plentiful.

[@VolkanKucukemre]

You could have playet A LOT more with that pc. I've played Diablo 1 on a Pentium 75 with 16 MB of ram! 1 Ghz is crazy. Starcraft 1 requires a 90 Mhz CPU!