Sega PC Games: An LGR Retrospective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2017
- Taking a relaxed look back at a selection of my Sega PC game collection! They released dozens of great titles on DOS and Windows 9x back in the day and I felt inspired by Sonic Mania to revisit them.
● Titles talked about in the episode:
00:44 Zaxxon
02:05 After Burner
03:48 Daytona USA Deluxe
06:16 Virtua Fighter
08:43 Virtua Squad
10:26 Panzer Dragoon
11:48 Bug!
13:13 House of the Dead
15:20 Sonic & Garfield Pack
15:45 Baku Baku Animal
16:50 Garfield in TV Land
18:34 Sonic & Knuckles
20:21 Sonic R
22:59 Sonic CD
24:01 Crazy Taxi
● LGR links:
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● Music used in order of appearance:
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Genesis OST, Not That Serious 3 by Nocturnal Spirits
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I remember finding out that the sound effects for R were loose wave files. I replaced "go" with a fart sound..."Ready, set, braaap"
But what about the actual music files? Could you replace the R music with, say, Sonic Adventure music? Or music from any Sonic game thereafter really since many of them had lyrics
You gotta make a video of this.
That's how also the sound effects were set up for Warcraft 2. I made the characters sound like Simpsons characters. Knights were Milhouse
Ah, the joyful days before developers started stuffing important game data into encrypted containers.
@@EpicEmberOriginal On that topic, I remember discovering that the music in Sonic Adventure 1's original PC port was just WMA files. I made a bunch of music swaps as a result. Some of them were fitting like replacing Emerald Coast's theme with Palmtree Panic's theme from the JP/PAL version of Sonic CD, others not so much like replacing Gamma's theme with Iron Man by Black Sabbath... (Get it, 'cause he's made of metal?... I was a dumb teenager...)
The fact that an official "Sonic and Garfield" pack exists completes my life. Thank you.
Imagine how many other packs are out there that we don't know about. Pacman and Snoopy?
Where's the looney tunes and mega man pack?
it also goes for 300$ disc only, 500-700$ in the box. Clint is quite literally sitting in a gold mine. Crazy that 10 years ago you could find bigbox pc games for 1$.
I'm sure you've probably mentioned this on twitter or the like but, in current-year retrospect, Sonic and Knuckles Collection is even MORE fascinating with the context that some of the pc-ified soundtrack is taken from early prototype builds of the original game, before all the guest-musician shenanigins took place.
When you realise that the standalone Sonic R box had a Y2K compliant badge on it.
Ah yes, a racing game that needs to count it's own time. I guess it makes sense for time trial date codes, but really...
Some interesting facts:
-Some copies of Sonic R PC didn't have music on the disc to manufacturing forgetting to add it.
-Sonic & Knuckles Collection can be modded to add the original Genesis music.
-Ecco the Dolphin has a mod that fixes all the bugs and adds the Sega CD music.
Anyone remember the Sonic Screensaver that comes with Sonic & Knuckles Collection?
Holy shit you still alive
TheWax70 yeah, the one that only works on Windows 3.x?
Also, how do I get the original music for S&K Collection (if it's a soundfont, I would not be surprised.)
To add the genesis music look up Sonic & Knuckles Collection SMPS Player.
♫ Everybody's Super Sonic racing, try to keep your feet right on the ground ♫
Even better when played on weird toy instruments by a woman in a Sonic hat: th-cam.com/video/tf5k6ndcNPY/w-d-xo.html
*"SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T"*
*Porting games to PC* .
Nintendo did do that once tho
Super Mario Bros got a PC port
Let me introduce you to Mario's Game Gallery and Mario Teaches Typing
they make sure that everyone who wants to play mario game to be forced to buy their hardware.. they get the money from it.. on PC they would have to adjust their price and we all know about the free roms running around on the web. However they can't stop emulators
Yeah, but who ego man has big jump
LIVIN' IN THE CITY, YOU KNOW YOU'VE GOT TO SURVIIIIVE. YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP THAT DREAM ALIIIIVE
Sonic R on PC ruled.
I never played that one,I have played 3D blast.
I heard someone say Sonic
Cybershell sonic 3s on steam
get out of here you fur[friend]
"My sonic sense is tingling" - Cybershell 2017
Cybershell Ayyyyyyyy
yay cybershell
I'm not a PC gamer but I have enjoyed every video I've watched on this channel, very calming and informative, not any yelling and acting unhinged or low quality poorly acted dramatic skits.
Sonic & Garfield is a crossover I wish happened mostly for the sheer ludicrousness
Seeing the original House of the Dead, knowing that they became a freaking Typing Tutor style game later, is hilarious lol
Thank god that copy of Sonic R at 20:40 is Y2K ready
Thomas Burnette wouldn't want to be playing that game in the year 1900.
I wouldn't want my time records to go crazy LOL
Was happy seeing that good old check mark....
Thomas Burnette hahahaha!
Jesus Christ Y2K is almost 20 years old now.
LGR
And knuckles!
Also plays on 2DS
Valhallan Axe beat me to it
And knuckles
fighting against a knu-
I'll stop that
knuck knuck it's knockles
"Fryin And Buyin Baby!"
"The insect with an attitude!"..Man, that is soooo 90's, lol
"We need more friggin' Offspring!" Well said.
Crazy Taxi isn't the same without the Ya ya ya ya ya!
i have crazy taxi, but for the ps2 and that version has the original soundtrack
Nah. I like the pc soundtrack more.
The Offspring was a HUGE part of my teenage years, skateboarding and listening to Smash and Ixnay On The Hombre. Shame they went the way they did, that really aggressive and upbeat punk was their forte.
I wonder if it was some sort of licensing issue. Why else would they replace them
You missed the most important feature of Sonic R. It's Y2K approved!
I loved Sonic R too. No need to feel bad about it lol.
Man, i absolutley love your channel. Thanks for helping me get through this crazy quarantine!
Seeing console games on the pc blew my mind as a kid, I had Final Fantasy VII for the pc, and I could never get over how excited I was when I got it.
I would have loved to have some of these games, as a poor kid, that couldn't get the consoles.
I used to play Sonic R on the pc all the time back in 2003 when I got my old compac pc. I loved it such an underrated game. The soundtrack was pretty good and when I beat the game after several times I just listened to the redbook audio on my cd player. I also had Sonic CD when I was a kid and it was amazing
Fun fact about the Panzer Dragoon port: the PC version's source code is the only surviving version. When the third entry in the series, Orta, was released, it had an emulated PC version built in as a bonus.
It wasn't emulated. The original Xbox was based largely on PC hardware and used a stripped down Win32 kernal and DirectX 8 so they just set up an environment that provided for all the OS calls the PC version used.
I'm still listening to the Sonic R soundtrack on a semi-regular basis.
Can you feel the sunshine? Does it brighten up your day?
@@kidwolf0015 It totally does and I could use it today! Thanks for the reminder. :)
The game might be kind of meh but the soundtrack gives me only good vibes. It really takes me back to the 90s, which is weird because it sounds like music that could have easily come out of the 80s, well the late 80s anyway.
Richard Jacques ftw
Gotta take my feet right off the ground
Dude, I remember when I used to play Virtua Cop on my PC when I was a Kid. Good Memories. Awesome video dude!!
*Everybody's super Sonic racing!*
Chromasus *Try to keep your feet right on the ground!* Sonic R PC was my very first Sonic game back in the day. My first 2D Sonic platformer was Sonic Advance 3 and my first 3D Sonic platformer was Sonic Adventure 2.
@@lionocyborg6030 uh... my dad has a sega genisis! it still works after he got it in the late '80s or '90s and he still has it!
Hey man, great video. I love your channel! I'm 9 years in remission from AML Leukemia and I usually start my day by watching a gaming channel like yours or MetalJesusRocks. Thanks for being so friendly; my 2 year old even stops playing around to watch video game footage that you include. I guess I just want to say thanks for having such a positive energy, family friendly gaming channel.
Nothing lazy about your reviews. They're very thorough and well researched!
I always got time for an LGR thing. Keep the awesomeness coming!!!
Clint, I'm glad to see you finally cover what is objectively the best game in your collection!
Well, back to yell-singing: EVERYBODY'S SUPER SONIC RACING
my favorite PC port of an old-school Sonic game was the Christian Whitehead version of Sonic CD made in the Retro engine, which I kind of wish you mentioned when you talked about Sonic CD for the PC.
ChrisTheFox Yep, the best 2D Sonic game before Mania made playable on the PC in HD and wide-screen. Perfection.
Plus it includes the far superior Japanese soundtrack
ChrisTheFox Yeah, the improved presentation, physics, and other cool stuff like the ability to play as tails kind of makes the original PC port obsolete.
Unfortunately the opening and ending themes in the Japanese soundtrack have been remade without vocals.
The first Sonic CD release was actually bundled with HP PCs in 1996, developed alongside the Sega CD release in an attempt to appeal to gamers in WIndows 95. (I know this stuff because this was my first PC game, and my first Sonic game.)
Sonic cd on Sega cd was released wayyy before 1996
It was certainly my first Sonic game also.
Sega CD release was released at least 1 year before the Windows 95 version.
Sonic CD was released in the US in November 1993.
So way before the PC release.
I love how in the age of the internet, where a Google search is a click away, people still put out completely false and egregious information on the internet with such confidence. Great job, Ronnie. You're killing it out here with being wrong
this was a very enjoyable watch, thank you LGR
There's this interview with one of the developers responsible for the port of Sonic CD, and on how his team managed to port the game to Windows before Windows gaming was mainstream and DirectX was a thing. It's a really fascinating read:
www.sonic-cult.org/dispart.php?catid=1&gameid=5&subid=2&artid=2
(Initial releases of Sonic CD for the PC didn't use DirectX, though the more common later releases do)
Edit (30/3/2020): The link to that interview works now for reasons I do not know. That is all.
I'm sorry to say this, but the Sonic Cult site is down for good as when I clicked on that link, it shows Sonic in a shocked state while the tab says "IT"S OVER". You might have to place another source for that interview.
best video ever for watching at 11pm
Agreed
Its 6:44 pm in my area
Looks like you came prepared for the Sanic exposure.
In Poland :-)
Keep balling! I pray you are living the dream for all of us. I know we all have ups and downs but thanks for sharing your ups with us.
The Sega PC version of Sonic R is now playable on Windows 10 thanks to the Sonic R Updater.
Does it run well? If so... then damn guess I don’t need the Gems Collection.
@@xaungabongsmak well of course it runs it is sonic after all. 🥁
@@xaungabongsmak runs pretty well actually
I just completed the game with all emeralds and medals last week and I didn't notice any bugs, glitches, or lag
Sonic R Updater!?
@@AmbientMess Yes, you can find it on GameBanana
That Sonic R soundtrack... loved that game on the Saturn. Played it countless hours as a kid. Thanks for this!
Oh man, what a trip. More please!
Awesome, Clint! Brought a lot of memories! Thanks!
Gold video Clint . im so glad , great collection
I miss walking into CompUSA and Office Depot and seeing these Sega releases. Miss that stuff!
*SEGAAAA* (whispers) PC.
Always hilarious from an italian point of view...."Sega" with the same accent means "saw" or "handjob"....seeeeeeeega
I would buy a Sega PC.
Wait, saw and handjob mean the same thing in Italian?
You know, repeated back and forth motion...
@ArenPlaysGames This sounds like the *EA Games* (whispers) Challenge Everything.
th-cam.com/video/0yT45Q85n-M/w-d-xo.html
Sonic R was also my first Sonic game on PC and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT, and OMG the soundtrack! Was listening to that all day.
Awesome video as always! Not going to lie, was a little bit disappointed that you didn't cover Virtua Tennis, Sega Bass Fishing and Typing of the Dead, but only because I worked on them.
Love this channel
Agreed, probably my favorite channel at this point.
Oh man, that ending monologue reminded me of old PC fans and how fucking loud they were. Kind of miss that, weirdly.
You can make a loud PC these days, NO PROBLEM!
Yeah... the pump of my water cooling is loud af...
Great vid! And after watching a few of your video's, we are certainly two peas from the same pod!
Man, you got an amazing collection, just beautifull
This is how my parents danced around getting me a saturn/Sega cd growing up
Same
They did you a favor! Dreamcast was much better anyway.
I have a demo disc of Win95/98 games that also include demos of Sonic and Knuckles and Comix Zone. Played them a lot as a kid.
Mmm, dig that midi Sonic soundtrack! I'm gonna have to look that up now. And yes, please do a Midway ports episode. I swear, your channel is getting me more and more interested in PC gaming.
Man hearing those Baku Baku sound effects and music is pure nostalgia for me. I wasn't a huge fan but my parents would always be playing it against each other on the Saturn. It was like the soundtrack to my early teens. Before they moved onto other similar puzzle games.
I remember owning quite a few of the Sega PC games back in the day.
Sega Rally 1 and 2.
Sonic Collection, CD, 3D Flickies Island (awesome version of this on PC) and R.
The House of the Dead.
Enemy Zero.
Daytona USA Deluxe.
Panzer Dragoon.
Good times. Sega really were still at their best during this era. I always wanted to get Bug and Ecco on PC but could never ever find a copy for sale in my local stores. I've since purchased both on Sega Saturn and Mega CD respectively.
3:00 I only owned the SMS version as a kid, and to this day I still see it as the best, the soundtrack was the thing that put it into a clear lead :D
You have no idea how happy I got seeing your Resident Evil collection as the intro screen.
What a trip down memory lane. I totally forgot that I had The House of the Dead for PC back in the day.
I didn't know they Virtua Cop, though.
I hope to see a Capcom PC Games Retrospective from you some day.
I see you have all the classic REs for the PC... I'm so jealous.
The Sega Smash Pack was my life for a while. It was great.
Hey lazerlord!
The PC version of Sonic R was my first Sonic game too! I don't care what anyone says the game may not be amazing but the soundtrack is dope. Also you should check out Nightmare Ned, it's a Disney Interactive game that I played during my childhood, its got an incredible unique art style and a good soundtrack too.
I had all these games back in the day!! Panzer Dragoon, Virtua Cop and Virtua Fighter with my Sega Edge 3D graphics card....ohhh the nostalgia! Loved these games!1
Hi, great episode ... would like to see everthing of SEGA PC releases! Love your channel, cheers
Let me get this straight... you reviewed House of the Dead PC, and House of the Dead 2 PC, but NOT Typing of the Dead? That's like making a pizza without any sauce.
Except Pizza without sauce could be good.
@@coreylineberry8557 yeah, i used to eat pizzas without sauce.
@Deenie Beenie With awesome mozzarella cheese.
@Deenie Beenie but oil is sauce, right?
In Italy we eat plain pizza without any sauce everyday! It's called "pizza bianca" (white pizza) and it's fucking good! It's the most common mid-morning snack, at least here in Rome.
Interesting seeing Y2K compliant logo on some of the boxes.
Yes I sure did I always enjoy your videos kinda like a nice cup of coffee quiet refreshing
CD Rom games were so awesome in the beginning. The video and sound was lightyears ahead of the 16 bit games I had. It got me into computers when I was young. Proficient in Windows 3.11
I had Daytona USA for the PC, but it wasn't that version, it was a straight port from the arcade, played it a lot on my Windows 98!
Was it this version? th-cam.com/video/S175gr4myRc/w-d-xo.html
Arcade port my ass! They ported the Sega Saturn version which has awful texture warping and clipping all over the place
I remember having so much fun on virtual cop 2, me and my bro would spent hours and hours trying to beat each other's best score.
Mini nostalgia-gasm when I saw the sonic and garfield pack. It was the first PC game I owned that wasnt my dads. Thanks for the nostalgia man :)
I'm a big fan as always in just about everything you do.
I'd love to see you cover SegaSoft some day, they had an interesting line up of PC titles during the 90's. Flesh Feast was one I always wished they would have made a sequel to.
I had the Sonic Action Pack that also included Sega Smash Pack 2, with Sonic 2, Comix Zone, etc. Never needed a genesis since I had this!
I first played Sonic CD on Windows 95 as I didn't own a Sega CD (MegaCD) until much more recently. Brought back some cool memories as well as playing Sonic on a keyboard frustration. Cool video!
Holy crap!!! Your "Crazzzzy Taxi, Hey Hey Hey!!!" Impression is SPOT ON!!
I found Virtua Fighter for the PC pretty nice ^^ unfortunately I did not have a propper gamepad back then.
Still have my first Sega PC purchase. I got one of those Sonic & Knuckles Collection discs back when Jack In The Box was running a promo on cheap Sega PC games.
That was an interesting one, as the downloadable demo version was basically the gateway to figuring out how to remove the disc check (It wasn't even hardcoded...You added a line in the ini file)...Boy how times have changed...
Awesome episode, i was familiar w/ a lot of these but had no idea about Panzer Dragoon and House of the Dead 1.
So much nostalgia. I had Sonic & Knuckles Collection, Sonic 3D Blast, and Sonic R on PC back when I was a kid.
Sonic R - I really liked it, too. Tbh it's not that great, as you said, but I still go back playing it from time to time.
OMG! A game I actually have!
Which?
LazerLord10 ???
I've been waiting for this one!
This was a good review as far as I could tell.
Oh I get it.. Tails is named Miles Prower.. Miles Per Hour.
FinalFrantasy Prower*
Thanks.
A friend tried to explain this to me in 1993. I got it...10 years later.
FinalFrantasy my eyes have been opened
Mind. BLOWN.
Ooh, I hear some *Jun Senoue* in that Daytona USA Deluxe music. :3
It is instantly the most Jun Senoue sounding track I've heard in my life.
I had no idea some of those existed. Thanks for the share.
Sega PC games - indeed quite a few of these I played on the PC. EGA / CGA / VGA gaming when it was the most modern way to play those games! Thanks for showing this. Altered Beast, I even played a version of Outrun on the PC. The 90's stuff is amazing as well. Played a ton of these.
I have played Sega's games on PC like: Golden Axe, Sega Touring Car Championship, Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Fighter 2, Manx TT SuperBike, Sonic 3D Blast (more like Saturn version, but includes the save option).
Clint is like DJ Khalid with these vids. "Anotha one!" Super bad ass.
When I was in kindergarten, my school’s extension program was pretty awesome and we had a computer game room with the whole Sonic Action Pack CD ROM and many other games and I used to play Sonic 3 and Knuckles from 3:00pm to 6:00pm a lot of the time. It was a lot of fun and I surely do miss playing those games by myself and with friends back then.
This has probably already been mentioned a hundred times in the comments, but the Steam Sonic CD isn't actually emulated; it started as a fan port by Taxman (the lead programmer/director for Sonic Mania) that was (in a rare moment of a company not being DMCA-happy) contacted by Sega for an official release.
I can't wait for the future when brick walls can shoot electricity bolts
19:53
Is THAT why the music sounds different whenever I try to look it up? I had this collection as a kid and whenever I try to look up the specific music from this collection, the result always sounds different. And not different like "it's slightly different because of a warped memory", but different like it sounds like a completely different remix. Is everyone just uploading the MIDI songs online while I always heard the FM Synthesizer?
Me and you have something in common with Sonic R. You even have the same version I had. Nostalgia Overload, bro 😄
Awesome video! Would love to see more videos on ports to PC!
We need a part 2!!
Did anyone else notice the box for Sonic R said it was Y2K ready? Funny, I don't remember that game ever having any real time clock-based events.
You're forgetting how panicked people were at the time that everything from their computers to the electrical grid would just straight-up quit working when Y2K hit because the average person knew jack squat about how computers worked. Probably a lot of people just slapped labels like that on their products in the hopes of getting people to distrust their competitors who didn't.
I suppose it's like how people buy foods that say gluten free despite the fact that many of the foods wouldn't have gluten in it anyways.
Nice video bro! Thank you!
Ive never played a Sonic game on the PC. Only on Genesis and PS3. Great informative video!
23:10 I do seem to recall a PC version of Tomcat Alley released in 1995 with the same Sega PC label shown in the other games in the video. Night Trap had a PC port too, but it was a bit different from the Sega CD version.
the recent Sonic CD "remake" on Steam is particularly excellent
... incidentally made by some of the same folks involved in Sonic Mania
and they stated its codebase started with the Win95 version of Sonic CD [or did it? Retro Engine]
considering how they reverse-engineered the engine to use it in Mania, I'm wondering if they started with CD then
I actually have TWO of the Sonic R tracks in my music rotation! I loved them so much...especially "Living In The City"!
How can anyone not love the Sonic R soundtrack? It's the most '90s thing there ever was, and it's glorious!