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@gertpacu3926

6 ай бұрын

how could you not include BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

@@gertpacu3926That one almost made it to this top 10.

There was just something about those early Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games. It was like having a new world at your fingertips. Looking at the box and screenshots was like holding your favorite book.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Amazing description! Loved it! Thanks!

@knightpercivale2292

5 ай бұрын

Yeah...modern games look good also....but something is missing. I dont feel that magic anymore, when I was playing DOS games in my childhood days.

Stunts, Monkey Island and Prince of Persia! Three completely different masterpieces that still bear fruit today. Stunts, its track editor and overall action-based racing (as contrast to a serious simulaiton like F1GP or Indy 500) surely served as inspiration for the TrackMania games. Monkey Island, alongside its various peers, helped outline the core pillars of point and click games (I'm thinking of a dev team called Wadjet Eye, and also the David Cage more cinematic stuff). And Prince of Persia would eventually be transformed into stuff like Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed and Uncharted. It's awesome to see how today's games have deep roots! Thanks for the upload!

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

Loved reading your amazing comment :) You nailed it :) Grande abraço!

5 ай бұрын

@@itsaPIXELthing Abraço, irmão!

Kings Quest V was the first VGA 256 colour game I played. Mind was blown. A few months later I got a soundcard :) Wing Commander nearly made me fail high school exams :) I remember it was quite tricky getting the expanded/extended memory setting right in MSDOS for Wing Commander, otherwise you wouldn't see all the graphics.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Oh, man! Thank you so much for sharing your memories! Amazing! Cheers!

Prince of Persia, Railroad Tycoon, Wing Commander, Monkey Island. Can´t go wrong with 1990. Never played Golden Axe on the PC.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

You sould! It's amazing :) Cheers, David!

i miss this era of Pc gaming. PCs were far more exotic and there was a learning curve to using them. if you wanted to play dos games, you needed to be able to mess around with config files depending on memory requirements of games, know the IRQs of your soundcard and alls sorts of other things you don't have to worry about nowadays.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Those were the days ;) thanks for stopping by and for leavIng your much appreciated comment! Cheers!

1990 was a year revolucionary from DOS games! Nice Video!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Indeed! It was :)

02:52 Prince of Persia👍 04:54 Oh, Railroad Tycoon! 😍😍😍

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I grew up with MS-DOS, and somehow for quite some time I was more aware of Epic Mega Games' knock off of Puzznic: Brix, than Puzznic itself. Probably because Epic Mega Games was part of my childhood back in the MS-DOS era, but not really going beyond that, especially these days.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Much love for Epic Mega Games :)

@Cyberbrickmaster1986

6 ай бұрын

@@itsaPIXELthing I consider Epic Mega Games and Epic Games two separate entities in regards to their video games. I did however owned Fire FIght for Windows 95, which was published by both Epic and EA Games, but never knew which one was the official rights holder.

Excellent job as always!!!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!

Yeah… Golden Axe, Prince of Persia, Super Off Road and 4ds driving… good times 😊

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Indeed ;) thanks for watching!

The game I played the most of DOS and yet never reached stage 2 was Prince of Persia, I played that so much as a kid, died countless times, but it was so much fun! OutRun was also another game I loved on DOS. Now, I didn't know Golden Axe was on DOS though it doesn't look like it has the backstory just as the Genesis version whereas the TurboGrafx16 version does and it's pretty cool. By the way, have you played Gravel? I'm thinking about buying it to play on PS4 since it's on discount and looks a lot of fun, plus it's an arcade racer than a simulator so that's certainly a plus for me. Great video and take care. Hope you're doing better.

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

I love Gravel! Bought it at launch for PC and last year for PS4, in a budget with all DLCs ;) Give it a go! You can watch my review from back when the game was originally released, 5 years ago: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pohhlcpweLq4lpc.htmlsi=_ejx1WWb7M9tzNci

Great video! A few games I didn't know but Wing Commander and Iron Man are so awesome.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

So many great games and it's starting to get difficult to choose just 10 games per year! :) Cheers, Phil! Thanks for watching and for leavIng your comment! Have a great 2024!

Amazing fun fact regarding Golden Axe!! I was not aware!! Great video and I spent so many coins in arcade regarding this game. Awesome video!!!

@itsaPIXELthing

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks! Appreciate it!

The graphical upgrade from 1989 to 1990 are astonishing. Between The Duel and 4D Sports lay lightyears!

@itsaPIXELthing

3 ай бұрын

Right? These days we don't see that kind of evolution from one generation to another.

13:12 I played the arcade version with the 3 steering wheels at EightyTwo in Downtown Los Angeles. It's so much fun. I used to play this game a lot on MS-DOS as a kid and was delighted to find it in the barcade.

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

You lucky guy! :) That must have been awesome! Thanks for sharing!

awesome upload! your videos bring me much joy, thankyou itsaPIXELthing! much love and good health to you, friend.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Appreciate the support! Thank you so much!

I think it's worth it to reflect about a detail regarding point and click adventures that is not often talked about. Of course, the Lucas style derived from that of Sierra games, but with buttons instead of a parser, but it's good to remember that even those old Sierra games, like King's Quest, were, at their core, a graphical version of the old text adventures, like The Hobbit, for the ZX Spectrum, Zork, or the Dinamic / AD published games that were released in Spain, as well as similar titles by Brit and American publishers. The advancement in processing capability allowed not only for a screen to be drawn, but for direct control of the character on screen. Whilst I never could get into text adventures, I loved point and click ones.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Talked about Sierra, Lucasfilm/LucasArts and Dinamic Software in dedicated history videos. Feel free to watch them, ir you haven't already ;)

Boa lista! Além desses no meu 386 st também joguei Cisco Heat e Commander Keen. Great video and waiting for the 1991 list 🎉

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Bons tempos e grandes jogos! Bastantes mesmo! E, daqui para a frente, começa a ficar mais complicado de escolher apenas 10! :) grande abraço! Cheers!

Enjoyed your video as always! Very good mood. 😎👍👏✌️

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it! Take care! Cheers!

Those are wonderful innocent days. Thx for the video

@itsaPIXELthing

Ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

I remember having a (obviously pirated) version of Kings Quest 5 WITH Vga graphics, but without all the cd voices.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

What a game ;)

Super Off Road and Golden Axe look pretty nice for 1990. Cool info on the sound effects in Golden Axe. My first DOS system was in 1991 so I'm looking forward to the rest of the decade!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

1991 coming up ;) thanks for the support! Cheers!

Great review, I played almost all the games on the list! I was especially impressed by 4D Sport Driving (thanks to you I found out what it was called). We played it on a friend's computer. It looked impressive then!! (This was before Voodoo 3DFx). It was amazing that you can build the track yourself and then drive along it from the cockpit and from the external camera! p.s. Prince of Persia changed my ideas about games (after all the Arkanoid games, and Pac-Man - there was amazing character animation here!), You also mentioned motorcycle racing in the previous review, and I also played a similar game on Formula 1 cars - Grand Prix Circuit - I must have completed the championship dozens of times!! Nostalgia))))

@itsaPIXELthing

3 ай бұрын

Oh, man! Grand Prix Circuit was amazing! :) Indeed! Thanks for pointing that one out! :)

Thanks for the post 😊😊😊

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Hope you liked it! Cheers!

@RetroEvilHunk341

6 ай бұрын

@@itsaPIXELthing Love old PC games 😁😁

Some good memories. I remember KQ5 and Monkey Island. Wing Commander. Even remember trying to play Ultima VII. Unfortunately, I had a "special" version they lacked the manual and had no idea what to do... and the desire to screw around as it was one of the first games i remember being able to do that stuff.

@itsaPIXELthing

4 ай бұрын

Ahh! The memories! :) Thanks for sharing those moments! :)

So many memories. Dad and I both loved Railroad Tycoon deluxe. We used to complete by starting games at the same time and seeing who could retire with the head of state future the fastest. (For the US it was President I honestly don't recall if the title changed for other countries.) I remember dad buying Railroad Tycoon II the first time we saw it but neither of us liked that game. And I've beaten every PC Wing Commander game and the spinoffs plus the SNES port of the original game and its expansions the GBA port of Prophecy and the PS1 ports of III and IV. I played Golden Axe at my cousins and Ivan at my favorite pizza place. I played Prince of Persia on a friend's PC and owned the SNES version. And I've beaten every King's Quest and the Monkey Island games

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Amazing! Thanks for sharing your memories! Appreciate it! Cheers!

I did not realize Stunts was released as 4D sports driving in europe. I'm from Belgium and we knew the game as Stunts. I still play it sometimes

@itsaPIXELthing

4 ай бұрын

What a game! I created a ton of crazy tracks for it! Sadly, those are long gone :( Cheers! Thanks for watching 🙂

Maravilloso vídeo. Escalofríos de nostalgia a puñados. Gracias!!!!!

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias! :)

Thanks for the video and the story about Golden Axe samples. Never heard about this before.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

It's always awesome to bring these small details :) thanks for watching! Cheers!

The correct title btw is Kings Quest V Absence makes the heart go yonder! Just noticed. Great vid! Just noticed now, when you said Rick Dangerous was huge on the A500 - that the dos version of RD2 that i played suffers ( in my opinion) still from the amiga control. God i lost many more lifes due to this control with space and directional key especially the A500 sickness ( or european dev thing) that they used up to jump. How atrocious😂.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the correction ;) appreciate it!

I used to try to make tracks in 4d sports driving that would cause the best crashes. If you positioned jumps right to hit barriers at the right spot you could send the cars flying all over the place.

@itsaPIXELthing

4 ай бұрын

Eh eh eh eh! So much fun, indeed! :) Thanks for watching and for leaving your comment and memories!

I had almost forgot there was an EGA version of kings quest 5

Great video✌

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks ;) Appreciate it! Cheers!

Good stuff! some classics right here! 🙃

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Oh, yeah :) thanks for watching!

Another nice video. I remember the stunts game..

@itsaPIXELthing

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for leaving your comment :) Cheers!

all major bangers, but rick dangerous must be played on an amiga ;)

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Indeed! :)

I played Super Off Road quite a lot in the arcades back in the day. The machine was very common around me, in Winnipeg, Canada. Nearly every arcade had it.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

You're a lucky guy! :) It must have been awesome to mess around with that arcade cabinet with those 3 steering wheels!

a tua voz ja esta normal, fico feliz de saber que estas melhor.como sempre excelente video.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Obrigado por todo o apoio 😉 grande abraço!

I ABSOLUTELY loved and adored 4d Sports Driving. I used to build so many circuits and play them with the, honestly, only car that was worth playing, the F1 car, because it had both the best top speed, acceleration and the tightest turn. As for 4d Sports Boxing, I really enjoyed it too, an I remember having a pirated copy in which someone had created a boxer named Catalino el Destroyer. I still remember that over 33 years ago. I have used that name as a d&d character name in the past too, yes.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Eh eh eh eh! Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

I played all oh these on Amiga. With monkey island I waited for my first PC. I remember the first games were xwing and day of the tentacle which made me jaleous of pc owners. Still I had to wait 3 years when I started to work and could afford my own one. 486dx2 maybe at 80mhz. Cyrix processor, green ceramic. Loved it!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Wow! What a machine! :) Thanks for sharing!

Dont know if its a dos game or not, but my favorite is heroes of might and magic 2. Played it all the time with a buddy of mine back in the day. Loved it!

@skillaxxx

6 ай бұрын

It was, a Windows version was released later, but the original HoMM 2 release was indeed a DOS game ! And I loved it too, still play HoMM 3 occasionally nowadays 🎉

@THEMARTIALARTSCHANNEL-bb4fx

6 ай бұрын

@@skillaxxx I play heroes of might and magic 2 once every halloween. Chose the evil side and plays as zombies and skeletons. And yes, I am very silly, I know. But its a happy memory for me with my old friend who I no longer know. The game is extremly good! The third one was great as well. The graphics and sounds in the second one has more charm for me though. Cant they make a "dos classic mini console" soon 😄

@skillaxxx

6 ай бұрын

@@THEMARTIALARTSCHANNEL-bb4fx There are 2 'modern' ways to play HoMM 2, even on your phone of tablet of you want. First, there is the free fheroes2, an open source remake of the HoMM2 engine that runs on multiple platforms with all kinds of modern features - handy improvements, but not touching the original gameplay, audio or graphics. There is also a 'remake' of HoMM 2 using the HoMM 3 game engine, called 'HoMM Succession Wars'. I can strongly recommend both free options for you ! For HoMM 3, make sure you use the Complete Edition with the free HD Mod, never the incomplete and incompatible and inferior HoMM 3 HD Remake release.

very nice video great work

@itsaPIXELthing

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your support! Appreciate it! Cheers!

I remember my first impression of monkey island. It was the pc cha version with that awful pc speaker. It was at a friend's house. At the time I didn't own a pc, but was mesmerized by this. I managed to properly play the game of course many many years later, as I didn't speak English at the time.... not to mention mastering the game lingo to actually appreciate the qualities of the game!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your memories and experience from back in the day! Cheers!

Can't wait until you get to 1993! That's the year the PC really took off! Still play the original Railroad Tycoon today! It helps I have the big box with huge manual and the tech tree cards!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Oh, man! That's awesome! Thanks for sharing! Cheers!

Huh, I didn't even know there was an EGA King's Quest 5 as early as 1990. As far as I was aware back then, the later VGA KQ5 was the only one, and I specifically remember not having the hardware to actually play it at the time.

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for leavIng your much appreciated comment!

I used to own a PC from 1993 and I hade games such as Prince of Persia times of darkness and challenge of the ancient empires on it on floppy disk. I came home from school when I was 12 in 2001 to find my dad hade chucked the lot away. In almost 23 years I still haven't found a replacement. How I miss my old PC. People are always telling me to move with the times, but I LOVE old games, the newest game I own is at least 15 years old. I just like retro games, music and films! I would love to get hold of an old working PC and monitor and a bunch of floppy games to go with it!!!!

@itsaPIXELthing

4 ай бұрын

Prices of old hard hardware are rising fast. I'm sure you'll find find someone (friend or family) that has one sitting in their garage ;)

@ronaldmcdonald8303

4 ай бұрын

@@itsaPIXELthing I've tried telling my dad this, but he just gets angry with me any time I mention it. That computer was my pride and joy. It would almost me like him giving away my pet rabbit that I adored. Believe me, I've asked around and looked in different 2nd hand shops, I just can't find one. He has a habit of chucking my things away. I'm no hoarder either, my room was lovely. But they sacked it, all my cool science books are in the bin, replaced with numerous Bibles!!!! I recently purchased a game off eBay called MAX 2, he threw away my first copy of that too. I no longer live at home and my stuff has come with me.

wow what a year!! My favorite!!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Awesome year, indeed!

Man Prince of Persia was something. I had c64 and "086" with Hercules graphics as computers to have access. Then my friend got IBM 386 with VGA graphics. Seeing PoP first time. It was something astounding to see and boy I was jealous. 😀 Some say Flashback is downright unbeatable game, but imo it was very doable and one of the only "platformers" I've completed without any cheating. But I still adore PoP and to me it's like 50x harder than Flashback. I think I've only gotten to something like level 5 in that before time ran out. Though it's completely possible that if I have had that PS2 at home I would've completed PoP back in the day. Good simple innocent times as kid... 🙂 Dude, cool trivia about PoP and I've never realized that Golden Axe voice thing. I't obvious now.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, Prince was so damn hard! :) Thank you so much for watching and for leaving your thoughts and memories! Cheers!

So many of these games are legendary for me... Had a Speccy from 85 to '90, with a couple of years in the middle of it without access to it bc mom said it was affecting my grades (it wasn't), then the CPC for a couple years, along with a IBM PS/1 in late '90... that was the time I first got to play proper good games with VGA graphics and it was amazing... Most of these games are what I upgraded to from playing really bad 8-bit games. Oh, the memories...

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your memories! :)

So many good stuff....i remember so well, prince of persia, railroad tycoon, golden axe(first version i played was on PC) and of course secret of monkey island....all pirated versions :-) Golden axe run very poorly on my 386 PC. still i enjoyed alot. thx for this as always.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Piracy was all around back in those days :) and we would buy low density 3.5 inch floppies and, with a drill, would transform those into high density! Eh eh eh eh!

KQ in EGA. Cool

One hell of a year for the people lucky enough to have a high spec pc . I was working in an independent computer shop at the time and remember being gobsmacked by games like wing commander and monkey island . I so wanted one but had to wait several years

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I know that feeling. I only got my own IBM PS/1 486 only by September of 1993, but was lucky enough to have access to several machines available at school, at the computer class, and, also, some friends whose parents could afford such luxury :)

didnt know that some sounds of golden axe, came from rambo and conan

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Now you know! :) Thanks for watching! :)

This year was fantastic for MS-DOS games, in this list I have two of the games that I most played in my Schneider 386, the 4DS and Super OffROad, que na altura era mais conhecido pelo pessaol na escola como Ironman.

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

Sim, a malta dizia "ironman" e também "super off road" :) Tinhas um Schneider 386? Era o Euro PC?

@VascoLopes79

5 ай бұрын

Sim, era o Euro PC, baseado num 386sx a 16Mhz. Comprado numa loja do antigo Euromarche em Gaia, que passou a ser o Carrefour. Tinha uns estonteantes 40Mbytes de hdd e 640kb de ram. O restante para perfazer o 1mbyte em vez de memória estendida tinha 384kbyte de memória expandida o que nem permitia instalar o Windows 3.0 😂😂😂

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

Que maravilha! :) Na época diverti-me bastante com um Euro PC II, na escola :) Adoro o design :)

I was still playing on MSX at the time, but i do know several of these

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing ;)

4D Sports was the most played game in my hoem for quite a while !

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

It's amazing! :)

Hey, I hope you're doing a bit better. Thanks for the video!

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thank you so much for your support! Cheers!

Boas Pixel. Esse Wing Commander fez me lembrar o que saiu mais tarde tarde na PS1, feito na era dos jogos em FMV. Super off Road não tenho bem a certeza se joguei na MD, ou se estou a fazer confusão com o Super Skidmarks 🤔 Haahaaa funfact bastante curioso do golden axe 😅 Nunca joguei Monkey Island, shame on me 😋 Grande abraço.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Ainda vais a tempo ;) podes sempre jogar o remaster do Monkey Island que saiu há uns anos ;) obrigado por assistires! Abraço!

00:36 Please tell me more about this arcade controller and what system you're using it on in this shot?

@itsaPIXELthing

21 күн бұрын

I built that controller and used it on my sort of home-made arcade ;) Check my build here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5qp18yPfM-_c8Y.html

@andystandys

21 күн бұрын

@@itsaPIXELthing Awesome, thank you.

Puzznic!! Obrigado man, joguei muito e não me lembrava dele.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Fico feliz por saber :) também houve uma versão tardia para a PS1. Também deves ter jogado o Plotting, também da Taito. Outro enorme vício 😜 abraço, Ivan! Obrigado pelo comentário!

@Gameverna

6 ай бұрын

@@itsaPIXELthing Esse não me lembro dele. Havia outro assim de puzzles que era o supaplex, também curtia muito na altura.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Sim, também joguei o supaplex ;) vê o seguinte video, que lancei há 5 anos, para ver se te recordas do Plotting: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qImX2ap8YJizqtI.htmlsi=lZZTZu64fOVnFzdC

o 4DS (ou stunts) era brutal! então fazer umas pistas malucas, era horas e horas :D monkey island é só épico :)

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Mesmo, horas e horas no 4DS! Ainda hoje ;) grande abraço!

1990, o meu ano 😊 Lembro me de jogar o off-road e adorar mas faz anos que não o jogo. Golden Axe, em miúdo, tentei jogar muitas vezes mas acabava sempre da mesma maneira... 😂

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Eh eh eh! Um excelente ano, e quando o PC gaming teve aquele Boost com versões VGA dos mais recentes jogos a surgirem a torto e a direito colocando a malta da Commodore em sentido ;)

Have you ever heard of them? I've heard that before, but why? Do I want to post this? No, but I feel like I should because it's happened before. I bet I'll come back tomorrow, check it out, and it won't exist anymore. But why? I don't know. It's weird, isn't it?

The best of the best

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Indeed :)

And of course, Monkey Island is one of the best ever!! I have the remastered GOG version and I'll play soon!!! Abraço

@itsaPIXELthing

3 ай бұрын

Do it! 😀 Have fun!

I played them all but specially Wing Commander to death.

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

So good! :)

Off Road 🥰🥰🥰

Como pode muito antes de existir o windows, ja existiam jogos com bons gráficos para época, muito antes de existir o Windows com exibição gráfica

@itsaPIXELthing

3 ай бұрын

É verdade 😀 uma era incrível!

I think master of magic and civilization are missing ;)

@itsaPIXELthing

5 ай бұрын

Master of Magic came out in 1994 and Civilization in 1991 ;)

I wonder why they show the crappier EGA graphics of kings quest V

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Because the version that came out in 1990 was the EGA version. VGA version of KQ V only came out in 1992. It was explained in the video ;)

Excelente, como sempre, mas sem querer soar mesquinho, caramba, continuas a dizer "in where". O "in" é desnecessário. Desculpa estar-me a focar numa insignificância destas mas não sei porquê, isso faz-me mesmo impressão...

@itsaPIXELthing

6 ай бұрын

Já está tão entranhado em mim ;) desculpa! Prometo que vou tentar abstrair-me e dizer corretamente. Burro velho, sabes como é ;)