This is exactly why the idea of the game matters SO MUCH more than fancy graphics.

Ah, memories. You know, the most unrealistic thing in this game was not the fuzz. It was how good and reliable US public transit was in it.

@mollari2261

10 ай бұрын

It’s obvious fiction - all those trains, all those *express* trains

Funny, how the game came to mind, again, late January, February 2020...

I usually hum that tune when boarding public transport...

@TrueSonOfOdin

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. :-)

My mom worked for Scholastic, and she brought this game home for me along with an Apple IIe they were throwing out, I had many years of fun with it!

Much easier to grow the crystals if you pick a room with one exit/entrance and then play hockey goalie from the next room right in the door. Least that’s what I did when I played this game at like age 10 or so.

Loved this game. Helped me learn the cities, states, and state capitals :)

15:26 Ooh boy, he's in the thick of it now! Why am I anxiously watching a six-year-old longplay of a 30-year-old game with a knot in my stomach? 😨

@mollari2261

10 ай бұрын

I always got a knot in my 10YO stomach when I was get about to get off the train in a Fuzzed city!

I loved the game and for a weird reason the music. I must say, as a kid with poor English skills I didn't quite get the point of the game, but loved it still!

@danludvigsen1974

4 жыл бұрын

dont feel bad... i played alot of c64 in my young days and i didnt understand over 50% of what the games wanted me to do. example cauldron 1 and 2. weird game and hard to know what i had to do.

Coronavirus Thank you for sharing I used to play this game for hours on my commadore 128. .I love this game...the recent coronavirus reminded me of this game :)

@carstenscholz

4 жыл бұрын

Coronavirus made me search for that good old game, too. It teached me about exponential growth when I was a little kid. Played on Atari XL. Thanks for upload - stay healthy

God this brings back so many memories!

That main theme is really great. And so memorable! I played this game maybe 30 years ago for the last time and I still remembered it. It was nice to find this video, thanks!

@ride-time

Жыл бұрын

I was grooving out to the theme every time he got on a train. Took me back to being 10 years old.

@PatrickSilent

Жыл бұрын

@@ride-time Exactly! One of the most memorable video game themes ever.

Such a great game from the past, when ones standards were different:)

Playing this right now, because you know why.

@jonmar4683

4 жыл бұрын

That's right! NOSTALGIA!

@CandyHatsuneWolff

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonmar4683 Bamboozled again.

Lol all these years I thought the object of the game was to save all the fuzzed people, no wonder I could never beat it.

@ramblinman7153

4 жыл бұрын

Same

Wow i can remember as a little boy my uncle ran the computer room in the 80's at the library in Chicago (Westside) on Pulaski couple blocks off of Madison and man i would play this on the computer for hours and learned my cities and states too R.I.P Paul Jordan ( Uncle James)💯

I remember playing this game also. I love the futuristic high speed trains. You can find them in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC, New York and Boston. That is 12 cities total.

This was a great game

@mikarennfahrer3028

8 жыл бұрын

thats right

@andyappleton3353

5 жыл бұрын

I spent so many countless hours playing this. My favorite thing to do was liberate fuzzed cities with the help of fellow civilians. I'd always arm the civilians with chrystals so they could help me fight the fuzz. Even when doing so made it harder to actually pacify the town. And I prided myself in sneaking aboard every train without ever paying for my seat.

@JohnnyFaber

5 жыл бұрын

loved this game. Was one of the first games I got for the IBM 8086. monochrome graphics on that one though. green screen ftw!

Hahaha...this was my favorite game back in the day...

Also, Elma Sniddle expects her TV back. She's the one who put a crystal from outer space into it, creating the Fuzzbomb. Beeotch should be catching a federal charge, not getting back her TV.

Those scrambled enemies were freaky

The theme music, the sound of the express trains, and the changing train station scenery made this game worth it. The only flub: If Fuzzbodies travel by train, who do you not get infected while on the train? Was this game a COVID cautionary tale? 8:31 I never understood the City Info screen. “CITY, STATE | XX CRYSTALS” What does the # crystals mean? 14:40 Back then it was crystals, today it’s Rolex watches.

I remember this game too well :)

They're releasing an Agent USA: Covid Special Edition

It was my on of the best games on Atari in late 80'ties in Poland ;-) I learned US map with all the states and their capitals ;-)

The sound effect on this game always reminded me of that 80's hit from Ollie And Jerry - "There's No Stopping Us" :)

love this game! love the choo choo trains

This game looks so real now

GREAT game, incidentally teaching kids major cities and/or state capitals. Every time I get on the subway/T-bane over here in Norway (now), the station-to-station music/theme comes to mind. This fellow makes a mistake. He starts growing crystals in the line-of-sight of passengers in other rooms, who are then attracted. Also, in a small station, I would push passengers into other lobbies and/or onto trains and then start growing crystals off to the side in the corners ... of the platform or an interior room ... where they couldn't see them. Sometimes I had even the big stations vacant and completely filled with crystals, which might save me, if I ran into serious trouble and got zapped at a nearby station. Also, I fortified passengers with crystals and sent *them* into hotspots, then following them after they had weakened the fuzzies there. He plays conservatively, only taking the local trains if possible, rather than plunging into a big station filled with fuzz-bombed passengers. Fun to watch. I'm assuming he won? :-)

Built a good knowledge of US cities playing this, 5/5 for education :)

It's weird watching this during covid.

I leanrt a lot about USA geography from this game back in the days.

I always found it incredibly frustrating to try and grow crystals, with NPCs constantly trying to steal them. Until I realized if you get infected and lose control of your character, he does exactly the same thing. Steal crystals from NPC's to de-fuzz himself. That was a bit sobering.

that reminds me other places the future , the past old friends long gone. - yoda

one of the games that must be played by those interested in c64 and early gaming history.

That was on C64 too? I only know the Atari version.

@CandyHatsuneWolff

4 жыл бұрын

DOS too.

played this when we were 5. had no idea what was going on

Never knew how to play the game.

I was very little and 0 understanding of english, so I was clueless about the objective. But I love it travel on train and buy tickets :) Also love it to multiply the diamonds

Great educational game. Secretly training them kids brains with geography.

You could get on the old trains for free, if you get on in the very last moment.

@bytraper

2 жыл бұрын

I did this too because it was so annoying typing the city names!

2:25 diesel train when he gets on 2:39 steam train when he gets off. small oversight?

This reminds me of covid19 spreading.

@TrueSonOfOdin

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and I just mentioned the game on a forum here in Norway under an article about coronavirus. Of course, this can lead one to pursue a false "herd immunity" line of attack, immunizing passengers with crystals, before you send them into a hot zone so you can later follow.

the fuzz!

Ciekawa gra podróżnicza .

Great idea, but the objective was too difficult, making the game frustrating. I quit playing it in less time it takes to travel from Atlanta to Nashville.

Ooh, ooh! I know how to win this! Tell everyone the fuzzbomb is a hoax and that by April the fuzz will vanish like a miracle. Wait a minute, why am I all staticky? Welp, off to Walter Reed I go!

Trainspotters wet dream? lol

and Donald Trump was born.....!!

@jessragan6714

3 жыл бұрын

This aged amusingly well, in light of recent events.