What Was GAMES WORKSHOP Like in 1994 ? || The ULTIMATE Nostalgia Trip

[@BenMarriott]

Man, hard to believe a man summarising a 27-year-old brochure turned into one of the best produced and entertaining pieces of hobby content I can remember.

[@MSPaints]

Still trying to get my head around it myself, hahaha. Thank you!

[@andrewchesler2029]

TP music...nice man ! Coffee is ready, get the donuts.

[@NecromediaNetwork]

The old PS1 music you keep whipping out in these videos is sending me

[@Pengi_SMILES]

1994, that my peak era too. Just before I discovered girls and going out and left it all behind me (for a bit anyway) Space Marine/Titan Legions, Man O War, 4th edition Fantasy and 2nd edition 40k. Loved em all. Bright colours and a sense of fun.

[@MSPaints]

One of those things that always pulls you back in. Usually when you too old to go out-out, and there's a girl at home, and you got disposable income. Speaking from my experience of course!

[@chestersleezer8821]

@@MSPaints Yup and I was 37 back in 1994 and was three years from retiring from the US Army though still did not have enough disposable income back then due to wife and two daughters. Today I am totally retired and well really do not need any of the over priced new miniatures from GW and quite frankly there are better miniature companies out there today. But I was smart enough to get most of my miniatures back during 1994 to 2000. But I do missed 40K Epic.

[@HighVoltageKits]

Man. This brought tears to my eye. GW was my life till the age of 16. I had a space wolves army, dwarves but my biggest love was my orc blood bowl team. My school friend Dave P went on to join the Evy Metal team with Mike McVey et al. Thanks for the memories. I remember lots from that booklet.

[@Mattw1987]

I remember this stuff when I was younger so colourful! I do miss the old stuff hence why I bought a mob for gorkamorka recently as I used to love them when I was 11 and now I am 34!

[@TimcPlays]

I was 9 in 1994 and literally 100% of the things you've said in this vid are exactly how I felt way back then!

[@MSPaints]

Gimme some more stuff you were into - i wanna do a clone check. They get loose now and again!

[@minimalbard6498]

Oh my word! Sudden realisation. It’s so true now I can finally afford the warhammer models I wanted in 1994 that’s exactly what im doing!

[@MSPaints]

Sorry. I'm so so sorry. I'm readin the comments and seeing so many bad financial decisions being made already, haha.

[@domoarigatomrrobot-oh6647]

Haha, meee too. Adult me is making up for poor kid me. I got Blood Bowl second edition for Christmas, and holy shit I cherished that game. My friends followed suit, and the next thing you know, we're having tournaments in my buddy's basement. Kept us outta shit until we could start hitting the clubs!

[@Serpsor]

I'd love to see you do a series making 90's terrain pieces from the old GW 'how to make wargaming terrain' book

[@MSPaints]

**taps nose** ooooh... oh you been peeking at the books on my night stand. Way ahead of you. And you shall have your moment!

[@maxbrandt6]

@@MSPaints I bet you're stocked up on toothpicks and Styrofoam balls and blocks, don't forget the school glue and playground sand!! Why spend 300 quid on the GW terrain when simple items yield the best results! 😊

[@maxbrandt6]

@Wojti 2000 Someone on the Oldhammer Facebook page figured out how to make that Elven watch tower and obelisk from back in the day, the tower involves a certain type of shampoo bottle.

[@harlek1149]

I really regret throwing out my old copies of White Dwarf from back in the day. I remember in one they had an article on the legendary Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka and his mob of Orks, who got psychic powers as a result of a lucky roll on a character creation table. The rest is history. Really enjoyed the nostalgia trip, thank you.

[@christinagrimwade8702]

You should do a video on the music they used to play in GW in the mid 90s. That definitely influenced my music tastes.

[@maxbrandt6]

What was Games Workshop like in 1994? A much, much nicer and more welcoming company, they valued their customers and the fans of the games....have times certainly changed!

[@salva4777]

How so? Seriously asking since I'm a newbie in the hobby

[@beardwierd2783]

@@salva4777 GW cared about their customers not their stockholders.

[@beardwierd2783]

@@salva4777 p.s welcome to the community my man 👊

[@Grissbane]

@@salva4777 They're actively trying to kill off their fanbase now. New copyright outright says unless you work for them you're not allowed to make animations

[@caedes5728]

That is funny, because I worked for them back then and all the regular customers used to say the same thing about how great GW ‘used’ to be. How times have stayed exactly the same! 🙄😂

[@ubermoose5694]

2nd edition 40k is absolutely my favorite era. Its where I first found out about the hobby and where my love for it first started. I happened to wander into a comic shop when they had an Outrider (miss those days) doing a demo and dreamed of Eldar dreadnoughts for weeks after that. Then I talked my local comic shop into carrying GW products when the owner happened to show me a catalog he was sent. I traded my entire Magic: the Gathering collection to the shop for the 40k 2nd edition box and some terminators and never looked back. I quit the hobby right before 4th edition and picked it up again at the end of 7th. I still have all my old minis and started getting my 7 year old daughter into painting minis. She loves it and names the 2nd edition monopose grots she paints.

[@the_musing_kravist]

What a great video. I remember the year so well: I went to Golden Demon and saw table after table of those Imperator Titans. To meet Andy Chambers, Jervis Johnson and John Blanche in person blew my head off. There were so many unreleased models; it was a time before the Internet, when you could see something at these events and be the only one amongst your mates to know about it for 6-8 months. I won 2nd place in the Young Bloods category and got a heap of unreleased undead stuff. I couldn’t believe it. Your video brought me right back to the happiest, most innocent time of my life. 👍🙏

[@MSPaints]

Hey man! Glad it hit the right chords for you, and thank you for sharing your experience. Those games days sound amazing!

[@bjornefellhanded9708]

Old school. About once a year I go to my collection of about 150 white dwarfs and sit and read all the articles. Warm and fuzzy times.

[@CrucialHerm4n]

On Titans: "everyone thinks they're gangster til the church start walking" That line is solid gold hahaha

[@MSPaints]

Hahaha

[@theteacher7136]

That “Deadly Premonition” whistling song gets me every time. Love it!

[@MSPaints]

Swery65 should copyright it on here. He’s be able to fund a third game.

[@theteacher7136]

@@MSPaints That would be amazing…Zack! Love the Channel by the way. As a color blind hobby dude, I appreciate the embrace the limitation approach!

[@patmac7139]

I lost it at “John Blanche just sat there like Theoden, King”. Awesome vid, dude! Subbed

[@MSPaints]

Haha, had that joke banked for a while now.

[@danielo9141]

@@MSPaints it's not based on experience is it? I met him at the open day and it felt a bit like that 👀

[@MSPaints]

@@danielo9141 only based on what folks who’ve met him have said haha

[@gabe9346]

1994 was the first time I walked into a GW store and this was the exact flyer that got me enthralled in the hobby. I don't think 10 y/o me would have been interested in this current era and feel.

[@BillMakingStuff]

Enjoyed this nostalgia trip!

[@bazc9097]

So glad I found your channel, I'm 43 and have muscular dystrophy, don't have much feeling left in my feet and fingers and my muscles and disappearing by the day. I used to play 40k every weekend when I was at school, then started painting again when I was in my late 20's (just for display) and now it's been about 11 years since I painted or built anything, however I just got the new Dominion box and even managed to get a copy of Indomitus. Got some brushes and some Army Painter paints and I'm going to give it a go again. Just like you, I want to enjoy my hobby while I still can.

[@MSPaints]

Thank you for sharing, bud! Really happy to hear you're going to have another run at the hobby. I'm going to be doing more focus on disabled starter tricks down the line - so let me know (when they happen!) if you find them useful. Much love!

[@kenmcvittie3584]

All the best with it🙂

[@bazc9097]

Thanks man, I'll keep watching for inspiration👍

[@bazc9097]

Thanks Ken, 👍

[@davidhouston4810]

I would like to see more of this period, back when I used to have Fun playing it.

[@mattius3]

I had this ! Loved flicking through it back in the day.

[@MrGatonegroish]

I've just discovered this channel and I'm not sure if I'll watch it religiously, but any man who mixes Warhammer with Twin Peaks' soundtrack deserves fame and recognition.

[@gavinduplessis6385]

I still have 1 of the first citadel catalogues. Much the same as the brochure... but with more models ... thanks for the trip down memory lane

[@betterrobots]

'Everyone gangsta' til the church starts walking' killed me. fantastic writing.

[@schroecat1]

I still have that brochure on the shelf behind me right this moment! Great video!

[@ssxe7776]

Wicked vid man. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@cjspartacus]

1992 to 1996 were my GW years so this was a nice wee trip down memory lane. Thanks

[@MSPaints]

No problemo! Thank you for watching.

[@brokenheroics8223]

This is when I started 40K. The memories are still awesome, especially seeing that brochure. I remember going to Games Day a few times back than.

[@onomatopoeia7505]

Holy shit. Final Fantasy music, Policenauts music, you're killing it.

[@MSPaints]

I harvested everything from the ffshrine forums before they shut down haha. Be rude not to use all this amazing musix

[@onomatopoeia7505]

@@MSPaints Hear hear!

[@aBeardOfBees]

@@MSPaints Was that Shadow of the Beast 2 in there??

[@jamesbusby7604]

That was amazing trip down memory lane!

[@Jonas_Fox]

Thank you for this tiny cup of sunshine 😊

[@Timbucktoo32]

Titan Legions is what got me into the hobby back in 1994

[@mikewalf]

Great video mate. Proper nostalgiaura thanks 😆 I remember having that same brochure, it was the exact time my brother and I got into GW.

[@busktildawn]

This is pretty much exactly when I wandered into GW Swansea as a doe-eyed eight year old and left with a similar brochure and a box of 10 plastic Space Ork Goffs. I would stare longingly at the pictures of Arbaal the Undefeated and Dire Avenger Exarch, while spilling Ork Flesh Wash on my grandparents' spare room carpet. Simpler times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

[@primalbiomechanics-willmon6166]

That was the most nostalgic 15 minutes of me life, cheers Dave

[@MSPaints]

You’re welcome!

[@Wrath_of_the_Angel]

1994 was the year I was introduced to warhammer 40k, such a great game to play, I then grew up got a job and sold my armies, I just bought a 3d resin printer, I'm going to have some fun traveling down memory lane to my childhood hobby. great video.

[@DeanFWilson]

Wonderful video. Brings back a lot of memories on so many fronts :)

[@0sumgame541]

This was part of my youth that I thoroughly enjoyed. GW was a different beast back then.

[@oldhammered]

Superb production, especially the audio quality. Well done.

[@amyfeely4963]

This is the book that got me into the hobby as a teen! So cool to see it again! I wish I still had my copy!

[@ncherguy1]

Thanks for the nostalgia trip. I grew up in the US, discovered the hobby in middle school (88?) in the back wall of a fancy toy store. My friends and I played Saturday nights and didn’t understand the rules but had lots of fun. In 94 I visited my first GW shop and it was I. Glasgow, while on a trip to Scotland. Felt like I entered heaven. I still have the receipt to this day. Left the hobby a year later for girls and booze! Covid and some life stresses caused me to return to the hobby 2 years ago. Evening miniature painting sesh calms my nerves. The game has changed quite a bit. Unsure if I like it but the miniatures are far better than they use to.

[@matthewdougherty1159]

i remember the first time i was exposed to the hobby was helping my dad clean some collage dorm rooms back in the late 80s/90s and found 2 to 3 boxes of white dwarf magazines with a highlighted part on how to make warbands with die tables and a long story of a champion of Nurgal was hooked but we were poor so i had to make my army out of play-do or dig up clay in the yard to make my warbands

[@robingardner435]

Thanks for this vid. Brought a smile to my face. Ah the good old days.

[@MSPaints]

The best of tiiiimes!

[@adamfox1669]

Really great trip down memory lane. Thanks man, really enjoy your channel

[@MSPaints]

Thanks Adam!

[@porcu12345]

Those old school pictures of armies fighting on thematic boards are what got me in to the game as a kid. I'd always look at them and want to do it myself. And of course, now I do!

[@MSPaints]

Stunning aren't they? Pretty sure most of us who saw them were instantly hooked.

[@involuntarilychad4048]

I remember buying that exact Games Workshop mag as a kid and that being the precise day when I discovered 40k.

[@adamduncombe594]

The videos are so well produced on this channel! Awesome hobby content. Brilliant. Plus Health and Safety frog is GOLD.

[@MSPaints]

Oh he knows it. He’s getting more merch than me!

[@chaosruma]

I've been a GW freak since its very start. This video was an absolute joy. Rock on man.

[@Leinsterman75]

Great review. Loads of artwork that was in White Dwarf issues around that time. I must dig them out of the attic and look at them again. Thanks for sharing

[@marcelluslongus1202]

The game Final Liberation had exactly that titan artwork as the cover art. I still listen to the soundtrack of it. It was a great game

[@MSPaints]

It’s on my shelf! Maybe I’ll play it on the channel some time!

[@walt_man]

Aaaahhhh weeeee-aaah something something Deus! The soundtrack, the Samsara project!

[@StormofSteelWargaming]

Enjoyed that, 1994 is a little after my involvement with GW, but I remember all those games and that brochure. Great bit of well presented nostalgia.

[@darthboothyreviews]

All the games in that leaflet were the editions I played when I got into the hobby! That edition of Blood Bowl especially! My grandparents got me them for xmas or birthdays!

[@cartouchator]

I very much enjoyed this video. The most nostalgia times for me were the early 2000's. Warhammer 40k third - fourth edition. Being old enough at the time that I could stick my army in my backpack and cycle 15 miles to the GW store to go play a game. Meeting up with friends to play dungeons and dragons or card games (Yu-Gi-Oh, magic, VTES), painting my models with bargain store acrylic paints because all my pocket money went into models. Covering all my bases with a sand gravel mix that came from exactly 2 meters off my front door and had questionable things mixed in it like bits of leaves or tiny dead bugs (?) , And just glue it on with pva glue. Digging rocks in the garden and washing them so I can use them as "terrain" on my table tennis table to try and replicate the experience I had in the store when I couldn't be bothered to cycle 15 miles that week end. The very odd times when most of the armies were now fantastic hyper detailed plastic kits, but with a lot of oddities left like metal zoanthropes or hive tyrants, huge metal carnifex that kept falling apart no matter how much glue you put on it. Back when one of your friends had enough pocket money to buy white dwarf every month and everytime he bought it the magazine would do the rounds with 3 - 10 friends reading it during lunch break at school. I really miss those times. A lot.

[@colinwiseman]

Killing it! I remember that brochure the first time round. I loved looking at WD and going to the catalogue, cutting it out and creating my own folder so I could plan armies, armies I never bought :D

[@MSPaints]

You’re still working on your first army aren’t you Colin? Haha.

[@edwarddeguzman3258]

I did that with the catalogs they have at hobby shops

[@sirhceht]

The yellow, blue and red. So good! I think it was this brochure or one much like it that got me hooked as a 12 year old. This is amazing, keep it up!

[@MSPaints]

Thank you bud! Will do!

[@andrewryan2149]

Love the nostalgia trip, im going to go paint!

[@LukeMay]

This was epic, thanks for the trip through time! Love the sense of humour and overall chill way of presenting it. Made me laugh, made me reminisce, would love to see more. #subbed

[@MSPaints]

Thank you bud! More will be coming. Based on the reception from everyone here, I should probably do more stuff like this haha

[@ginjasteve4435]

Loved this vid but got caught on a train of watching your videos so had to come back. I remember that! Used to sit looking at it dreaming, thanks for the nostalgia!

[@MSPaints]

Welcome aboard! All good dreams and happiness.

[@CharlieStalk]

Hey mate. I'm out in the garage painting zombie heads, skull tealight holders and making Death Star baubles... my job is pretty cool. And this video just hit the spot my nostalgia gland needed, so many great memories came flooding in back. Great stuff and a great video.

[@kookyrobot]

woah, nice video! such a good and natural narration, i am blown away by your style. i hope many follow you(r style).

[@MSPaints]

I hope they don’t! I want to be special, haha

[@sjhhej]

Oh the nostalgia! Love it mate. Brought back some great memories, when the GW hobby was...you know...fun.

[@jaga40k89]

Brilliant trip down memory lane. Subscribed.

[@MSPaints]

Cheers!

[@lpgibbo7463]

As a 16 year old aspiring fantasy/sci fi/comic book artist my modelling friend used to give me all his back issues of White Dwarf cos I loved the awesome artwork & copied it as practice. I was 22 by 1994 & the real world of hard labour, beer & females had come along so I never got anywhere near getting anything published but still scribble the odd thing (caricature top left) then time permits, good vid & brought back memories of more care free days 😊

[@MSPaints]

Looks like you do good work mate. Do you do any freelance or just for fun now? Cheers!

[@Wildseven88]

Great video and the Koudelka music was a incredible choice, havent heard it in years

[@k-dog495]

Starting during the lockdown last year (Australia) I began collecting the 2nd edition Space Wolves i couldnt afford when i was younger, now I've managed to get an all metal force worthy of Ragnar! Scored the 2nd ed boxed set too - Nostalgia is a powerful (sometimes expensive) thing!

[@MSPaints]

Thankfully current point values should keep the amount you have to carry to games pretty low. Imagine a metal horde army. No no no no.

[@holgerwikingsen713]

Nice. I still have my 2nd edition Space Wolves army. Have the codex and the boxed paint set. I bought it back in those times, got a really really great deal from a friend and further improved it by buying blisters. 2nd edition was the best, specially for the space wolves: They had a lot of unique/elite units, like way more than any other chapter, and I have them all. I'm only missing Bjorn the dreadnought. Where I was living, the space wolves terminator with cyclone and a captain whose helmet had a wolf head were the most valuable units, everyone wanted them but nobody had them, and I must have bought their first and last blisters in the whole country because they are nowhere to be seen. Great memories. Take care mate, keep that collection growing and those fangs sharp.

[@TheGrayfrog100]

I remember those days fondly. I even did the audition to become a GW Employee as well. I didn't get the gig, but I did win the audition game and got an Ork War Truck Model as a prize.

[@sebbychou]

regarding the "RPG slice", GW basically started out as the publisher for DnD in the UK and did famous content like the Fiend Folio IIRC

[@MSPaints]

Noted! Thank you!

[@uniteallaction]

Anybody with a CRT monitor in their videos deserves a sub.

[@MSPaints]

Ain't no other way to play on a classic Win 98 machine, haha.

[@silversscratchbuiltproduct6277]

Rouge Trader was my favorite and I still like to play it today

[@kennayres6132]

Just came across u'r video this gloomy but comfortable Sunday morning in Philly...love the vibe, keep doin what u do...luv the frog thing...great stuff. Got a new sub from across the pond.

[@MSPaints]

Thanks Kenn! Frog thing appreciates your kind words.

[@damienwatson9102]

liked and subbed.. you have a great use of descriptive words. realy enjoyed listening to you whilst painting. thank you

[@MSPaints]

Thank you! I actually took the time to script this one.

[@AndrewAB]

Ah that is peak GW for me. Felt really cool seeing some of those miniatures, transported me right back. Stick on Now 27 (the first NOW I owned and listened to religiously in 1994) for full immersive nostalgic experience.

[@MSPaints]

Haha. Full immersion mode activate!

[@shaneharper9975]

Loved it!!!! Thank you

[@patrickwilliams997]

I love how there is final fantasy 6 music in the background! Nice!!

[@MSPaints]

Aw ye, ff6, shadow hearts, policenauts. Japans greatest hits pretty much.

[@WiltrichsMiniatureArt]

Great video! Loved it. My 90's hobby were good times 😀

[@richburke25]

I loved this. 1994 was the year I discovered Games Workshop through Titan Legions 😂 I’m sure the box is still somewhere in storage. So much nostalgia, brilliant!

[@MSPaints]

Go dig that boi out and check it doesn’t need de-humidifying! Then play it to death!

[@DadPaintsMinis68]

You just seem to be a great dude to be around. I love what you do mate, keep it up.

[@MSPaints]

I'm told i am! I think i'm pretty grumpy!

[@mattjagger4360]

Loved this video. So many amazing memories. Fave era for me was rogue trader. Blew mi pea brain 2nd addition I could understand and play and paint. But rogue trader.... I'm 40 RTB01 marines stock piled, 2 dreadnoughts, 1 land raider! Jet bike...more still...waiting for the crimson fist treatment and a glass cabinet.

[@highlandphaeron]

Great nostalgic video, thanks from an old gamer. Signposted by Pickle and will def be watching out for more videos.

[@MSPaints]

Thank you bud! Tell Pickle I said hi!

[@Enjoyablenewt]

Brilliant video, brought back a lot of memories cheers

[@willreed5401]

Big love, that is the brochure that gave me my very first glimpse of Warhammer. Propper nostalgia vibes :)

[@grahamroden8897]

I’m gutted. I had all of those games at some point. They were the best miniatures in the 90’s.

[@MikeD-hn9hf]

Great work fella. Loved it

[@Esdain]

You legend! i remember this brochure all to well.... and the box of Terma's i spied! ALL THAT RED! Keep up the good work fellow MS warrior!

[@MSPaints]

Fellow MS Warriors unite! Thank you for watching!

[@bunkermaster4623]

Yes, this is the nice stuff. Remember now my first contact with the hobby in 1995, when I discover the 4th withe dwarf in Germany, with this cool miniature added. 🤤

[@MSPaints]

1995! ooooh! Necromunda, all the good stuff!

[@bunkermaster4623]

@@MSPaints this rolling eyes kid at 6:37 looks like Duncan 😅.

[@Tremadog102]

Man... That's the brochure that got my friends and I into the hobby. I still remember being thick and believing that Space Marine Terminators were just a unit designed to terminate space marines rather than just being another unit type available to space marines. I was pretty young at the time to be fair. Only one of my friends decided to pick the hobby back up again so those days spent sitting around a table all painting together are sadly behind us.

[@mrspeigel3593]

Much, much better than it is today, the people that made Warhammer Warhammer were still there

[@County-ej8vj]

Remember going to Games Day from the Stockport store. Would have been about 1994/95. We had an awful banner and broke down on the way there 😆 Great time however. Awesome memories. Thanks foe the video 👍

[@ironbomb6753]

"Fish tank plants" hilarious! I still eyeball plastic plants for terrain ideas! So great mate. 👍

[@chrisblack8205]

I remember staring at that brochure for fucking hours as a kid, wondering why I always had to play orks just because my mate got space marines first! Good times

[@TheMummymc76]

This was really amazing. I have this brochure too and I loved looking through it.

[@MSPaints]

Thanks! It’s such a neat little piece of happiness haha

[@chillywilly883]

Oh boy that catalog hits me in the memories

[@nealbarton7434]

Solid gold! Love the humour and those colours!

[@iantrigue6159]

i had that brochure, he absolutely nails this lol

[@seanmeadows129]

I remember playing Talisman back in the 80s it was a great fantasy board game which spawned a lot of expansion sets.

[@mwnciboo]

Talisman was the shit...My first WD was #144....

[@gavinjames1145]

Awesome video! Loved every second of it.

[@defiant7630]

Faaaark. I have that exact magazine. Just discovered a box full of 30 year old stuff.

[@ironxYT]

Just discovered your channel, loved this. Love your editing too, awesome production and your style is really likeable and approachable and still unique. Wish I had gotten into this stuff as a kid, but i was 4 in 1994 and I went onto become just a video game kid with the N64, PS2, etc. and am now just this year finally getting into WH 40k.