DOS Longplay: Hocus Pocus - Time Tripping
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Here's a fun little game called "Hocus Pocus" on the DOS. It's a sidescroller-platform game where you take control of a wizard named Hocus and go from level to level collecting items and shooting enemies with lightning bolts from your fingertips. The goal in each level is to collect the number of crystal balls indicated at the bottom of the screen - you can't advance to the next level until you do so. Once you collect the last one, you'll be taken to the next stage automatically - you don't have to find any exit like in other games. Standing in your way are various enemies and hazards such as spikes, lava and different monsters. These get harder and harder to kill as the game progresses and some of them even fire back at you. Your life meter is displayed at the bottom, next to the crystal counter. When it drops to 0% you die, but you get infinite lives so you can try a level as many times as you want without getting a "game over". You can restore you health by collecting green potion bottles, but you can't have more than 100%. One good thing is that Hocus won't pick up any more potion once your health is maxed out, so you can go back and collect a bottle later if you take damage. There are also white bottles which let you fire a continuous stream of lightning bolts without having releasing the fire key. Yellow potions make you jump higher for a brief moment. These usually show up next to a treasure room that you wouldn't be able to reach normally, so you have to act fast and jump as soon as you grab the potion, as the effect is limited. Finally there's the grey potion which gives you three fireballs as a weapon. These pass through multiple enemies at once, instead of stopping at each one like the regular lightning bolts do. The biggest challenge the game poses is not the hazards or enemies, but the labyrinth layout: the levels don't have a linear path - they don't go from left to right or top to bottom. There are forks in the road everywhere, so you really have to pay attention and try to memorize where you've already been, otherwise you'll get lost. To make matters worse, you also have to find silver and gold keys to unlock certain walls and also flip switches to cause platforms or walls to appear or disappear. Using the keys is straightforward - just grab the key and bring it to the corresponding color lock and it will activate. The switches can be a lot more annoying, as you'll often find a set of them which only activates when they're all set in the correct combination and there's no clue as to what this is - you just have to flip them all until you get it right. This may not be so hard to figure out when there are only 2 switches, but when there's like 5 of them, it can take quite a long time ! The game is surprisingly addicting for its age and what makes it even better is the save feature - yes, unlike most DOS games it actually has a save feature, which lets you pick up exactly where you left off if you decide to quit the game. This means you don't have to worry about beating it in one sitting or write down passwords. The controls are also customizable, which is pretty unique for a DOS game, since most of them just had fixed key mappings. One thing I'm not too keen on is the way you fall off platforms: when you walk off the edge of a platform, Hocus just drops in a straight line, like a rock - there's no inertia going on. It's like he's being pulled down by a magnet. It makes the controls feel stiff while trying to maneuver left or right while falling - it's hard to explain, but compare it to Jazz Jackrabbit for instance and you'll immediately notice the difference. Bottom line, this is a great game - DAMN GOOD ! No matter how picky I try to be, I just can't find any major flaws. It seems to be a fairly overlooked title in the DOS library however, because not many people seem to remember it, which is a shame because this game should be at the top of the DOS games list, along with Jazz Jackrabbit - funnily enough, they both came out the same year, 1994. Definitely try this one out ! - เกม
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My dad made this game. This is awesome thank for playing it hope you liked it.
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HOLY CRAP I am thrilled to see all the replies, however he didn't make the game all by himself. He did the coding and technical stuff. So I should have said they he helped develop the game. He also helped code Clyde's Adventure!
No way r u serious? I played this like 15 years ego
It was my favorite game your dad is my hero
Thanks! :D
This game was so fucking awesome, tell your dad cheers from Australia.
I will!
Vine x willy ajja
😢 pobre Guili como los molestaban con esto 😂
x2
Jajaja sí igual 😂😂😂
Back then I used to wonder what was beyond those hills and inside those dark forests in the background. What if you could jump out the window into the wilderness? The artwork was so vibrant and seductive I couldn't help expanding and populating the universe in my imagination.
same here bro :D
same here.
Same. I used to draw and wonder about the other episodes, cause i only had the first one... the good old days of shareware kkk
same here
💯💯💯
One of my very first games. Brings back a lot of memories. Good times :)
Same here. Used to wake up at 6am to play it.
solo vine a ver que juego se referia willyrex xd
Jajaja igual
Yo tambien xD
Good god man, I remember playing this as a kid. Good stuff.
the background and music of the scene at 09:15 kept haunting me at night for a long time
Thank you so much for sharing this.. I played this as a child! As in like when I was 5 years old.. I still remember it too, floppy disk on a win 95! Haha MSDos
There’s a blast from the past. Loved this game as a kid!
I randomly said "hocus pocus I'll have to focus" today and then this game came in my mind all of a sudden. Used to play it a lot. Time is running so fast. The feeling is weird.
Oh, don't I remember this game. Saw this at the computer training center when I started learning windows (98, I think) as a teen. A black and white version, the monks at the end of the first level scared me. Then years later, when I got my first computer, this was one of the games I installed and also played the rest of the episodes. Much later, I discovered the magic of dosbox and was amazed to hear the in game music (before that, only the tinny cheap in built speaker sound was what I could hear). Now am planning to install it once again to relive some memories.
This comment does not make sense. First you say you don't remember the game, then you say you do
One of my favourite games in my childhood, love it
That is really cool! Kudos to your dad! This was my favourite published Apogee-game! I think me and my friends played this around christmas -95, so almost exactly 26 years ago on the day today!
Now there's a blast from the past! I only ever had the demo of this game and played it so many times as a kid. Remember it looking a lot better though!
Same 😂
If I remember correctly, the demo version stopped after something like 10 or 15 minutes right?
Man I love this soundtrack. I still have very dark memories surrounding this game. My parents were going through a divorce and one of my last memories was of my dad buying us a pc. I'd play anything we can get our hands on like jungle Jill, some game about a robot man and a spaceship, Bad Toys 3d🧸 🔫, commander keen, etc. Those games let me cope, often I'd wet my 🛌 from the crazy nightmares
well sorry to hear that
Damn, played this back in school. Was the best game!
aaaahhhh to be 6 years old again
Loved this game as a kid.
Remember playing this when I was a kid. Fun game :)
Thanks for posting OP. I was worried it might not even have a video.
I used to believe the mage helping you was also the bad guy
i remember having to configure the Sound Blaster settings each time in DOS, wow the music from those sound card was honey to the ears in those era
Alas, the very definition of a pinata boss, just sits there and takes it
Toda mi infancia jugué a este juego con papá, en mi Windows 98 fue el primer juego y lo di vuelta. Nostalgia y felicidad.
How Good! I played this for days on end as a kid. Could never remember the name of it.
I remember playing this game way back,ah the memories.
This, commander Keen, alley cat, bats and captain comic my childhood faves
Apogee made the best games in the 1990s - they were all so simple but oh so addictive!!
This is from 1994 and it’s so amazing.
I remember how beautiful this game was.
Man I loved this when I was younger
This is the first ever computer game I played, and my goodness, this brings back good old memories. ;__;
00:48 the keys just pop up out of nowhere. HAX!!!
The music in "Time Tripping" was better than in any of the other episodes.
Pero madre mia Willy ¿Que haces aqui compañero?
One the first games I played on my first pc
It was very good
Old memories
I used to think this was relevant to the film Hocus Pocus but I understand it’s completely different
So did I when I was a kid!!
@@patrickrobinsob1464 having thought that, both this game and movie have a few things in common; the same title and a teenage boy as the protagonist
Even the menu was mesmerizing
OMG, My childhood... :O
This game is classic. It Made childhood good. Funny story, somehow as a kid I messed up a computer so badly that every time you turned it on, it would automatically play this game and there was no way to escape it back to Dos or (windows 3.1 maybe?) . Literally when you’d try to exit it would reboot the computer and go back to the game. Still don’t know how I managed that, my dad was mad and had to take it to his friend to fix it. That machine was cursed haha
We had the exact same issue except we just accepted our fate and played Hocus Pocus non-stop. It was like a virus or something.
What does that yellow bolt do at the start of the level? You already have shooting power so what else could it do?
You missed the apogee fanfare at the beginning. That is criminal.
I used to play this in black an white!!
*Amazing*
good times :D i loved this game :D
Ive played this game on my uncle's PC when I was a kid..
Nostalgia.
I got this game free with a '95 windows pc (or at least my parents) but we could only play this mode though.
And I can't remember having any music in it, well, other music than you have. Also, the Mad monks seemed to have a different sound to them and finishing a level as well.
nice playthrough!
Nothing like Hocus Pocus and a Gravis PC GamePad! You could almost pretend your PC could hold up against a SNES or Amiga!
Was it posible to change weapons voluntarily?
With the critic eye of today, it reminds me of a bad copy Legend of Hero Tonma with Autofire mixed to some labyrinth frustration and a weird camera shifting giving me motion sickness.
I used to play this as teenager on my 486 DX4 100Mhz PC. It wasn't that bad, nostalgia plays a role but it was nothing memorable neither new. Design inconsistencies and nonsense were really common in 90's games (the ice stage, really?). Also, the random color palette of the blocks and that kind of Yeeehooo do really bother me.
Found it on one of those CD compilations full of shareware and small full games.
The original Harry Potter.
童年回憶!
好懷念~~
Is this still available somehow
Does anyone remember a side scrolling dos shooter platformer game, it had these futuristic visuals and a boss fight with some big skeleton or skull? I can’t remember the name or find it…
Bio Menace
Я играл в эту игру в детстве сейчас мне 29)
How to play it in modern machines. I had dosbox once in windows7
its on steam
QUE JUEGO HIZO WILLYREX???
Can someone help me? I am searching for a old pc game i played as a Kid in the early 2000s (it shurly is older) but i can't remember much. All i rember is a Game with the same beautyfull backrounds as this game here, also junp and run, the charakter has green hair (i think), is human, has a club as weapon like a prehistoric man and there was a endboss who looked like a giant floating Terminator head (not all metal if metal at all. Maybe the head had sunglasses)
The first level started in green nature and the last level was a futuristic basement out of steel with the floating head as an endboss. And i think you could collect diamonds. But everything is so vague.
The game i search is not "Jazz Rabbit" or "Prehistoric"
It sounds a tiny bit like Prehistorik 2, though the character doesn't have green hair th-cam.com/video/xufPyXnBopk/w-d-xo.html
@@DanielsGameVault
Unfortunately its not what i played but thank you for your reply. I think the game was not very known. Thats why i find nothing on the internet about it. But i am pretty sure the charakter had green hair. I found some games with green haired character but always with guns. I will keep searching. Again thanks :)
@@jonathanlange1339 Please tell me its name if you do find it eventually
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I will. I hope I will because it means that I found it :D
If you find it please do the same.
@@jonathanlange1339 I will of course inform you if I find out anything. But really I have no clue about what game could it be lol, you just got me interested with your description on it. I began to think about prehistorik too until you mentioned a futuristic scenery.
Тоже игра нравилась.
:)
Se non hai giocato a sto gioco non sei nessuno
LA MIA INFANZIA
When you find the key you the man 😂 Played back in 96. This one and Prince of Persia. Cheers to developers. 🫡