The RyRy Show Or Randy Savage! I've just learned PS4 will not be getting Fallout 4 or Skyrim Remastered mod support. So, I won't even have limited access to mods.
the rules of minesweeper? Really? Well, the number in the square is the number of mines in the 8 squares around it, and your job is to find all the bombs on the map using those numbers without blowing any of them up. That's about it.
There is a much easier version: hexmines, in wich each cell is an hexagon instead of an square. This gives only 6 possible bombs around instead of eight.
Yeah, I still don't understand why people find the rules of Minesweeper difficult to grasp. There's literally one single rule, as outlined above. Some versions of Minesweeper may add features like question marks or automate part of the process (such as auto-opening safe guesses), but those are the rules. A number tells you how many mines are in the squares immediately surrounding it. Open all non-mine squares to win.
You would be surprised how many people never knew that. I had a friend who liked to play it as a meditative exercise without knowing the rules or thinking about it in high school. She had been playing for 2 years when I taught her.
What's funny is that I play Minesweeper on my second monitor while watching/listening to TH-cam videos (and yes, I was playing it when he mentioned the game).
Mine Sweeper's rules are pretty simple. You click on a square and if it shows a number, that's how many mines there are around it. Click on a mine and you loose. The aim is to click on every non mind square using logic and probability to determine where the mines are.
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I don't know if this first point is true for older versions, but the first rule you'll find is that the first click you make is never a mine. The second rule is that, if you click a square with no adjacent mines, adjacent including the 8 spaces around it, it will then uncover the 4 spaces around it, which will then each uncover the 3 remaining spaces around them if they're not adjacent to mines, and so forth. Lastly, if an uncovered space is adjacent to one or more mines, it will display a number representing how many mines it's adjacent to. From there it's mostly logic and pattern recognition, though there will be situations where you'll probably have to guess.
Yes. Nobody, and I *mean* nobody, ever called it the Zee X Spectrum. Nonetheless, well done to Crash Course for at least including it (too much to hope for a BBC B, Electron or Amiga mention).
to be fair they did mention the commodore 64 which was the precursor to the commodore Amiga series, they can't name everything lol well I guess they could but it'd be hours long
Being British I often use the American 'Zee' for things like 'Dragonball Z' because 'Dragonball Zed' just sounds really weird, after all the 'Zee' is more part of the title itself than a reading of 'Z'. I guess you guys don't so something similar when talking about British things (okay, Dragonball isn't American, but you know what i mean)?
I gravitated towards PC because it had it's own screen, and back in the day if I wanted to play my console I had to fight for time on the TV. Also, demo's and Shareware was a thing back then, witch was way cheaper than having to buy a full priced game. So, this was nice and all, but it feels like a pretty token effort. I particularly thought that Myst wasn't the necessarily the best example of the adventure game genre.
Justen1980 At this stage, I'm over the idea of proprietary hard ware. I want to play the games I want to play and I don't want to have to buy several high priced peaces of hardware to play them. So I stuck with PC, it gives you the most bang for your buck.
Disthron I miss my Total War and Red Orchestra series but the games I'm into are more or less available on my xbone. I used to spend more time makin custom maps for Half Life than actually playin games... I kinda long to re-enter the modding hobby...
Yeah, there have been far more polished examples of adventure games since Myst, but in many respects it set a new bar and is still recognizable, which is probably why it was chosen. Personally, I prefer PC gaming thanks to modding (you've not played an Elder Scrolls game until you've seen some of the amazing mods for it, holy cow) and the genre of games available. I really enjoy strategy games (not just RTS, but RTT and grand strategy), flight simulators (proper ones, not arcade stuff like Ace Combat), plus the mouse+keyboard is just better for FPS games. Heck, thanks to Steam, PC is finally getting a nice selection of fighters and platformers, genres that PCs usually don't have much in the way of. The fact the XBox controllers work on PC with little to no driver downloads makes it even easier to enjoy genres like fighters. It's just really annoying when devs/publishers release very poor ports, like what WB games has been doing. The previous Batman games ran fine, so WTH is with Knight, WB?
Neopets, Kongregate and Newgrounds, sure. Back in the late '00s and early '10s, there were a lot of competitors and flash gaming was much more lucrative. Eg. Armor Games and NotDoppler, which in those days were well-designed hubs of very high quality completely free flash games, and have since devolved into steaming piles of Pay to Win Javascript trash, obnoxious ads and cheap knock-off games that look like their art was made and directed by a 7 year old. Not to mention schools becoming more tech-savvy and starting to block these sites properly so kids can't use 'em. The Golden Age of Flash gaming is over, sadly. Of course this is just my experience, I don't know how well it's surviving in the "hide it from your boss while you're in the office" market, but it has a big competitor in Mobile Games. Even Nitrome, objectively one of the more high quality flash game development studios, has been trying to move to mobile.
I was just thinking "was this part written ten years ago?" Same with not mentioning all the modern successors to Myst when they were talking about its influence.
Yeah well both sites are still around and still doing stuff. I actually go to Newgrounds every now and then, unless there is a a better site containing a bunch of free games and new content.
I recall it being said that Sim City (and Sim Ant, and many of the others) weren't considered by their makers to be *games* (which have a concept of winning), but rather as toys (which you could, in turn, use to play games you built around them).
This is nice and all, but I can't help feeling like giving PC games a separate episode means they think they're free to ignore PCs in all other videos.
Yes! Finally! The lack of coverage on PC gaming was the only thing that was bothering me about this series. This is now one of my favorite series ever!
Paul Rhodes Yeah the floppy drive was slow so it got nicknamed the Hippo drive. Still as an upgrade from the tapes it was much faster. My Mom tried to buy me the Basic tutorial software so I could learn Basic the lady handed her a box that said single floppy disc. She tried to explain to the clerk that it was the wrong thing but the clerk insisted it was right so I got a floppy disc drive for the price of a tutorial program. It was roughly the size of a loaf of bread and had 1 floppy disk with it.
Dune 2 was one of my first proper favorite computer games. There was also Commander Keen, Sink Sub, Scorched Earth, that game with the submarine that you control to explore and collect stuff, upgrade your torpedoes, avoid and/or kill dangerous critters, try not to run out of air, and often use a mini robo-sub to get into places the main sub can't. There were plenty of other games on the computer back then too. (Command and Conquer, and some educational games.) I think that "Crash Course" is a great name for these videos, as they tend to be pretty condensed, and lack details, but *try* to stick to essential concepts. Sometimes, I feel that these videos are too short.
How the heck could you not mention Roberta Williams and Kings Quest from Sierra which by all accounts had a much greater impact on driving hardware sales of Sound Card/Videocard upgrades and optical drives then Myst. But must admit cool to see Andre on this... didn't know he joined
The first game I got on CD-ROM was King's Quest 6. And thanks to the recent humble bundle sale, I just bought a huge collection of Sierra games on Steam for $20. The King's Quest games alone would make a good crash course in video game history on the PC.
right myst was way later and is just a linear puzzle once solved there is no replay about it and you are forced to do things in order or do not advance i find it a poor game design beautiful to be sure but as a satisfying game nope.
rules of minesweeper: don't click on a mine, use the flags to keep track of where you think mines are, and it is a logic puzzle like sudoku where you have to make inferences about what is valid to put in a cell from the information you already have about adjacency
I have to say. Even if you ignore most of the other stuff. One big thing the PC also has over consoles are emulators. Like playing GBA games, DS games, PS2 games, SNES games, etc. on a PC.
buhaha still remember how to play Wolfenstein now. I also played "Oregon Trail" and "Where in the World/Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?" Loved those games but the puzzles were tough!
Almost anything could play Pong at 4K 60fps. The new PlayStation might be able to play at those resolutions and framerates, but the detail settings will be horrible.
The rules of mine sweeper is simple. The number you get when you turn over a tile indicates how many mines are in proximity to that tile. So if there is a 1 then there is 1 mine around that tile. You have use deductive reasoning (and sometimes a bit of luck) to figure out where the mines are based on this proximity detection system.
Yes they mentioned MYST! Childhood game right there. (We didn't own consoles and my Dad made us take the Mario emulators off the computer after my brother and I wore out the arrow keys).
I find it hard that either can influence the other in that short period of a time. Unless the devs of myst saw 7th guest and started developing, I think they just were developed coincidentally at the same time
some will argue that is was in fact Mask Eternity from the Kings Quest series that killed the Adventure genre (which is kinda funny given that Kings Quest also gave birth to it).
The point is that Myst is in no way the origin of the genre or even terribly influential in it. It was widely regarded by adventure game enthusiasts at the time as gimmicky and shallow, and to have it placed as an exemplar is simply baffling.
In Mine Sweeper, the numbers tell you how many mines are adjacent to that square, so you have to use them to try to figure out where each mine it and you can plant a flag where you think they are. If you correctly find them all, you win.
I actually grew up on the BBC Micro and the original Elite, the system and game that were instrumental to PC gaming basically surviving the games crash.
Only trying to be helpful and make sure the person understands. What if the person - or anyone who read the comment - is not a native English speaker and does not know terms like this. Just providing knowledge to others who do not get it.
My favorite PC games are _Spore_ and _The Sims_ franchise, specifically _The Sims 3_. I wish they would make a sequel for _Spore_! It needs it, desperately. I find myself fantasizing about _The Sims 5_ too. It'll be nice when this happens. Great video. Keep up the good work.
The PC has more exclusives than every console in history combined. I think we can manage. Also, Halo 1 and 2 are on PC and so are all of the Resident Evils, so that was factually incorrect.
+d1asian You can't play Mario, Sonic, Zelda, Pokémon or the majority of Mega Man games, and those are just games off the top of my head, the list goes on for quite a while.
My parents never bought me "entertainment", just a PC, so I managed to obtain my own games, today I'm grateful about that knowledge during my childhood, not having that "fear" to PC that console users usually have, in addition, I've played the most awesome games with mods and recently I've noticed that I'm from a Master Race! Can't be better! :)
I'm not sure why this is a point of contention. In America the letter Z is zee. The computer uses the letter "Z" not the word or sound "zed." So an American should have the right to make whatever sound that symbol means for him/her. And for the most part, America's differences in spelling stem from a hatred for a nation that oppressed and went to war with them. I don't think you can blame the US for that. Especially modern citizens who didn't have a say in the matter. Do you call the PC mod/game "Day Z," Day zee or day zed? What about the famous book "World War Z" Day Z was designed by a New Zealander, and yet American gamers call it Day Zee. World War Z was written by an American, but in other countries literary figures, teachers and speakers call it World War Zed.
+FilledCircle as a Brit, I know that we say zee when referring to American things eg jay z and world war z, because that's what they're called. It's an acceptable mistake to make, calling it the zee ex, as is jay zed. Sometimes pronunciation doesn't matter, such as the pronunciation of zebra, but it bugs many Brits to see that consideration not being taken into account, as we do to American spelling and pronunciation, eg we write Pearl Harbor, even though we normally spell that word with a U. I think that's the reason for the controversy
minesweepers pretty simple once you know the trick, the numbers represent the amount of bombs located near the square the goal is to locate all of the mines safely without clicking them
It's nice that they made an episode, but it feels a bit cheap. It's just one episode and consoles got several of them. Not everything was even covered in this one episode, like the biggest and most influential companies, the PC RPG genre and a few more.
It's really funny how Bethesda releases their games in there state because they know the PC gamers will fix it. Bethesda gets away on this point too easily... I do agree with Lord Woffingshire that all of Bethesda's games should be more optimized in general lol. It's a shame that on the PC, we have the luxury of fixing up these games.
Give me one good reason pc gaming is actually better than consoles aside from Better Graphics Better Audio Better Gaming Experience Better/Faster Patch/Update Support Better Online Gameplay Higher Frame Rate Higher Resolutions MODS Backwards Compatibility More Exclusives More Games More Mature Community More Precise Controls More Options/Customization For controls/Visuals/Monitors/Software/Everything MORE FREEDOM! Steam Sales Cheaper (Both Initial Cost For Budget Builds And Obviously In The long Run Compared to Consoles) Cheaper Games Cheaper Upgrades More Customizability Better Indie Games Multitasking Easier To Navigate Internet Broader Software Support A Quiet Gaming Experience Burnig DVD/Blurays Larger Choice And Cheaper Peripherals Emulators Tweaking Overclocking Water Cooling Faster Loading Time Free Online Gameplay A Choice In Hardware Brands Longer Lasting Warranty Upgradeable More Free To Play Games... Bet you can't Fuckin pc peasants
i think its fine to play wherever you want. you can have a ps4 and a pc like i do. i use the ps4 for exclusives like the last of us and a pc for everything else. as for somethings that pc has that consoles dont have: •modding- but it seems that xbox has it now but only with fallout. •emulators which you can play ps2, ps1, gamecube, gameboy, android emulation, n64, ds 3ds soon. • multiple monitors from one graphics card. •lots more underated exclusives games •different platforms, dont like steam? go to gog. •mouse and keyboard or controller choice. although you can bypass this with a xim4 on console which costs 140 or so but some consider this cheating. dont really know. •used to be 1440p and 4k gaming but thay looks like it might change altought i doubt the psr pro will play that good at 4k. and you know even though i didnt finish reading your comment until later which made me realize you actually were praising pc, i will still post this so others can see why pc is great for gaming but that people should play where the want.
yeah like i said i didnt read your full comment until i had written all that just posted it for others to see. lol high end pc are expensive but people need to understand its worth it.
Minesweeper has simple rules. The numbers simply tell you how many mines are in total between the adjacent slots. You want to open all the slots that do not have mines in them.
Ugh, this video is like, "let's get this out of the way". Honestly, every single topic mentioned required at least a video to properly explain it, but they rushed everything. Is Crash Course afraid of actually talking about PC and its possibilities?
As the title says, it's a *crash course*, not an extensive one. It's supposed to be brief and provide a bird's eye view of the topic. It gives you the basics so that you can look further into it elsewhere if you want to.
elentilion I understand that, but several episodes were spent on console gaming and its origins. And PC gaming gets only one episode? Even when it's just as important or even more important. That's my complain.
There's probably too much to say, and honestly as a console gamer it sounded like he buttered it up to be the clear winner in gaming platforms. Don't worry, he did it justice.
Nah, it should have been broken up into 3 videos, each covering one Epoch. The 80's, the 90's, and the 2000s, then a final one wrapping things up with VR and Steam. 4 vids to the consoles few dozen is fair, and tbh, it'dve covered the big rivalries. The IBM PCs vs the C64 in the 80s, the rise of FPS and RTS, along with the fight between Nvidia and 3DFX in the 90s, MMOs and MOBAs in the 2000s, and the AMD/Intel debacle and how it impacted the industry ( it did, believe it or not ), and then wrap up with Steam and how it's massively changed things and what VR is about to do to everyone's eyeballs ( and wallets ). More importantly, emphasized how Consoles do get hand-me-down hardware and how that impacts the decisions made making games in the modern age, how that changes what developers focus on and the way they implement things. It won't happen, that's too much to ask, not even from a depth point of view but from an understanding point of view. God I wish TekSyndicate hadn't imploded...they could have done this way better.
For a while they were also a lot easier to develop for because there was only one architecture per brand and Windows was Windows. Consoles are also better at innovating input devices. If something ships with the console (like the wii's control wands) game developers can design for it and know people have the devices unless the whole console flops. The vicious cycle of lack of applications support preventing people from buying hardware that prevents people from writing support for that hardware is easier to break in consoles. But, yeah, any "computer" without a full keyboard is kind of crippled for non-gaming applications and requires really tortuous UI for some game genres.
I grew up playing both consoles and PC, but I definitely played PC games a lot more growing up thanks to the C&C series, Starcraft, and Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. Nowadays, I play consoles a lot more, but I still enjoy PC games a lot.
Taco Moustachios yes u are. these "peasants" u speak of. are the console players. console players dont act like this to pc gamers. its scary how pc gamers always seems frustrated...even tho u always ride the better specs.
I posted this elsewhere... but I might as well put it here too: It boils down to one question for me: why would I spend excessive money to buy an inferior system that allows only one input method while not allowing (without a hack) any other media or development? Personally, there is no drawback for PC... you have adaptability and personalization as well as power... all for less of a price tag. That said, the people shouting "PC MASTER RACE!" are idiots that want a voice just to hear themselves. Consoles... especially Nintendo... try to do interesting things, and I respect that. But PC will always be where game changing developments are born and will die.
Technically yes, but the traditional division amongst video games (implicitly computer-generated video) is into console games and computer games (implicitly personal computer). Meanwhile the abbreviation "PC", while technically just standing for "personal computer" has connotations beyond just that, especially for those of us from the era when games like Myst were "PC games" (meaning "Windows PC") only secondarily.
There should be an episode about full conversion mods.So many groundbreaking games started as FCMods. Team fortress and dota to name a few. And fall from heaven 2 - my favorite.
The rules of minesweeper are simple. You start by left clicking any square. That square will either show a number, or it will be empty and it will open up a larger area with numbers around its perimeter. If a square has a number in it, then there are that many mines around it. Through deductive reasoning, you must determine where the mines are located. You can mark a square with a flag by right clicking if you believe there is a mine there. The game is won by correctly flagging all of the mines or by clearing all other squares. Best of luck to you, and happy minesweeping.
A missed opportunity on modding would be that it helped to popularize the MOBA genre. DOTA started out as a mod for Warcraft 3 and was based on another mod from Starcraft.
I would have liked to see it mentioned in this episode (as I think this episode would have been most appropriate for it) the fact that a turning point occurred where games became software instead of hardware (Google Woz and Breakout) :)
Minesweeper is easy. The number tells you how many mines are next to the square. use that information over several squares and you can deduce the location of a mine. If a square already has the right number of mines bordering it you can safely reveal all the non-mined squares bordering the fully saturated square. Repeat until t he board is fully clear.
The number in the box is how many bombs is adjacent to the number. An square with 8 in it is surrounded by bombs while a number with a 2 in it has two around each it, like one to the top left and one to the top right.
I feel like this episode could have been a two parter. It glosses over a lot of PC Gaming and feels rushed. Still love this series though, I just want more :-P
Minesweeper is a computer version of Russian roulette. Each player get their own turn to select a tile on the screen to click,. If the tile contains a mine,, the game ends and the player that clicked the tile is shamed by all the others. If they successfully click on a right tile, one or many numbered tiles will appear, indicating the numbers mines adjacent to itself, this will give a hint to the next player increasing their odds of clicking on a good tile up to 100%. Right clicking will pose a flag to indicate that one believes to contain a mine. This is often used to confuse other players by using their trust against them, making them click on a tile that contains a mine. Dependent on the version of minesweeper, double clicking on a tile with a number of flagged adjacent tiles equal to the number on the itself will result in opening all the tiles nearby that are not flagged. This method is used so that the player can in a single move, remove multiple tiles with guaranteed safeness in a single turn. On older versions of Minesweeper, it is possible to click on a mine as the first click, which is no longer possible in newer versions. If all the non-mine tiles are cleared , the player to clear the last tile is declared the winner. Note, Minesweeper is a highly graphical game, and for that reason, it is recommended to have at least a GPU as powerful as the GTX-1080 to achieve a frame rate of 120 fps, which is highly recommended by expert players. Playing Minesweeper at 30fps is like Playing CS:Go on 10 fps, it can be done, just NOT RECOMMENDED.
The rules of Minesweeper: Click all the spaces that you know aren't mines, until you reach the last four where there's no way to tell which ones are right.
I never knew how to play Minesweeper until I saw an episode of Numb3rs where Charlie Epps explained the rules: "You've got to clear the mines without blowing any up. Each time you clear a square, a numerical value is revealed. That number tells you exactly how many squares containing mines are directly adjacent to that square. This allows you to predict where the next mine will be located and then the more boxes revealed the more accurately one can predict the location of the mines." Afterwards, I quickly became an expert player.
OK, I have to take issue with your talk about Adventure games. No mention of Sierra or LucasArts? And Myst DID have goals for the player, which they would discover very shortly after starting the game: "Bring me blue ed pages." As the game progressed and the player got more information about WTF was up with Myst Island, the goals shifted - but they were there. (Also, Myst came out AFTER The 7th Guest, although only by a few months.)
The number in each box represents the amount of mines within the adjacent 8 squares. Clicking on a box without a number under it reveals all other un numbered boxes around it. That's pretty much it
I have been waiting to see a PC video made on this series but am very disappointed that there was no mention on Sierra games that I grew up playing? The "quest" games as i remember them playing when I was a kid. Kings Quest! Police Quest! Space Quest (my favorite!) maybe you will do an entire video on this genre? PLEASE!?!
When you click on the minefield, you will first expose free space. The numbers on the sides show how many bombs are adjacent to the square that the specific number is on. This includes those on the edges and those in the corners. Using math (as well as a healthy dose of guesswork) you figure out where the mines are and right-click on them. If you know a space is safe, left click on it. Keep following these rules until you've either landed on a mine or exposed all of them.
Why did the console peasant cross the road ? To render the buildings on the other side.
BOOM!
Yeah, I'm a peasant, but that was funny.
The RyRy Show WOO! Not a peasant!
The RyRy Show Expand the Game [Put hyper sexy outfits on all female NPC's AND player characters]
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The RyRy Show Or Randy Savage!
I've just learned PS4 will not be getting Fallout 4 or Skyrim Remastered mod support. So, I won't even have limited access to mods.
No mods on PS4 because balance must be upheld. Long live PC master race.
the rules of minesweeper? Really? Well, the number in the square is the number of mines in the 8 squares around it, and your job is to find all the bombs on the map using those numbers without blowing any of them up. That's about it.
He was joking probably
There is a much easier version: hexmines, in wich each cell is an hexagon instead of an square. This gives only 6 possible bombs around instead of eight.
Yeah, I still don't understand why people find the rules of Minesweeper difficult to grasp. There's literally one single rule, as outlined above. Some versions of Minesweeper may add features like question marks or automate part of the process (such as auto-opening safe guesses), but those are the rules. A number tells you how many mines are in the squares immediately surrounding it. Open all non-mine squares to win.
You would be surprised how many people never knew that. I had a friend who liked to play it as a meditative exercise without knowing the rules or thinking about it in high school. She had been playing for 2 years when I taught her.
What's funny is that I play Minesweeper on my second monitor while watching/listening to TH-cam videos (and yes, I was playing it when he mentioned the game).
That's right you didn't forget Minesweeper
Minesweeper's the bomb
much pun
Things really clicked there, you were surrounded by h8, but you really cleaned up. Way to defuse the situation.
Praise to the Glorious PC master race
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Masters of the world!
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What race ? PC are so far ahead that consoles can only compete against each other.
that's a good point, mr
PC master race. All shall bow to our allmighty power!
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Macs are beeter than PC. macs are more powerful and beeter well built.
I downvoted all your videos just because of spam :3
+Zane Reis they didn't tell you how to spell on the mac? LUL
Beware Console Peasants!
Mine Sweeper's rules are pretty simple. You click on a square and if it shows a number, that's how many mines there are around it. Click on a mine and you loose. The aim is to click on every non mind square using logic and probability to determine where the mines are.
I hope he was kidding. Either way Minesweeper is a great game and I hope this post gets pushed to the top purely so the game will get a spotlight.
Anyone know a safe site to download it?
Scott Cummings minesweeper? it comes on most operating systems by default. Just look up "mines" under your search and the program should come up.
I like trains.
Train hits me.
+C0deH0wler ouch.. Better look out for that.
then youll love Trainwiz, the guy who made that Thomas the Train mod.
Hello!
Not today.
We're all gonna die...
Why won't you let me die?
THROW THE CHEEEESSSEEEEEEEE!
Why wait?!
Bye, Briann...
AAA THE PAIN! IT'S UNBEARABLE! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS! I HAVE A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN! (daddee!) TELL MY WIFE I LOVE HER! AAAAAAA *splat*
BUY ME MORE JEWLERY
Hi babe yes I am real man you want to go skateboards?
I love it!
I CAN DREAM, HAROLD!
I don't know if this first point is true for older versions, but the first rule you'll find is that the first click you make is never a mine. The second rule is that, if you click a square with no adjacent mines, adjacent including the 8 spaces around it, it will then uncover the 4 spaces around it, which will then each uncover the 3 remaining spaces around them if they're not adjacent to mines, and so forth. Lastly, if an uncovered space is adjacent to one or more mines, it will display a number representing how many mines it's adjacent to. From there it's mostly logic and pattern recognition, though there will be situations where you'll probably have to guess.
Hey so, as it's British how about calling it the Zed x Spectrum rather than the Zee x spectrum..... 🙄
Yes. Nobody, and I *mean* nobody, ever called it the Zee X Spectrum.
Nonetheless, well done to Crash Course for at least including it (too much to hope for a BBC B, Electron or Amiga mention).
Yeah. No Amiga? That's sad. :)
to be fair they did mention the commodore 64 which was the precursor to the commodore Amiga series, they can't name everything lol well I guess they could but it'd be hours long
That bugged me too.
Being British I often use the American 'Zee' for things like 'Dragonball Z' because 'Dragonball Zed' just sounds really weird, after all the 'Zee' is more part of the title itself than a reading of 'Z'. I guess you guys don't so something similar when talking about British things (okay, Dragonball isn't American, but you know what i mean)?
I gravitated towards PC because it had it's own screen, and back in the day if I wanted to play my console I had to fight for time on the TV. Also, demo's and Shareware was a thing back then, witch was way cheaper than having to buy a full priced game.
So, this was nice and all, but it feels like a pretty token effort. I particularly thought that Myst wasn't the necessarily the best example of the adventure game genre.
Justen1980 At this stage, I'm over the idea of proprietary hard ware. I want to play the games I want to play and I don't want to have to buy several high priced peaces of hardware to play them. So I stuck with PC, it gives you the most bang for your buck.
Disthron I miss my Total War and Red Orchestra series but the games I'm into are more or less available on my xbone. I used to spend more time makin custom maps for Half Life than actually playin games... I kinda long to re-enter the modding hobby...
Yeah, there have been far more polished examples of adventure games since Myst, but in many respects it set a new bar and is still recognizable, which is probably why it was chosen.
Personally, I prefer PC gaming thanks to modding (you've not played an Elder Scrolls game until you've seen some of the amazing mods for it, holy cow) and the genre of games available. I really enjoy strategy games (not just RTS, but RTT and grand strategy), flight simulators (proper ones, not arcade stuff like Ace Combat), plus the mouse+keyboard is just better for FPS games.
Heck, thanks to Steam, PC is finally getting a nice selection of fighters and platformers, genres that PCs usually don't have much in the way of. The fact the XBox controllers work on PC with little to no driver downloads makes it even easier to enjoy genres like fighters. It's just really annoying when devs/publishers release very poor ports, like what WB games has been doing. The previous Batman games ran fine, so WTH is with Knight, WB?
Justen1980 Man, Total War just came out with a Warhammer game. It looks pretty epic. Can't wait till I have some time off so I can dig in.
Finally you talk about the master race? about time!!
Using Neopets and Newgrounds in 2016...
They're still popular. You're probably just not a kid anymore and can buy better games for yourself.
Neopets, Kongregate and Newgrounds, sure. Back in the late '00s and early '10s, there were a lot of competitors and flash gaming was much more lucrative. Eg. Armor Games and NotDoppler, which in those days were well-designed hubs of very high quality completely free flash games, and have since devolved into steaming piles of Pay to Win Javascript trash, obnoxious ads and cheap knock-off games that look like their art was made and directed by a 7 year old. Not to mention schools becoming more tech-savvy and starting to block these sites properly so kids can't use 'em. The Golden Age of Flash gaming is over, sadly. Of course this is just my experience, I don't know how well it's surviving in the "hide it from your boss while you're in the office" market, but it has a big competitor in Mobile Games. Even Nitrome, objectively one of the more high quality flash game development studios, has been trying to move to mobile.
I was just thinking "was this part written ten years ago?" Same with not mentioning all the modern successors to Myst when they were talking about its influence.
Yeah well both sites are still around and still doing stuff. I actually go to Newgrounds every now and then, unless there is a a better site containing a bunch of free games and new content.
Online browser gaming has long been overtaken by the Mobile gaming heresy.
Minesweeper: The numbers mean how many mines are around that particular square.
I recall it being said that Sim City (and Sim Ant, and many of the others) weren't considered by their makers to be *games* (which have a concept of winning), but rather as toys (which you could, in turn, use to play games you built around them).
This is nice and all, but I can't help feeling like giving PC games a separate episode means they think they're free to ignore PCs in all other videos.
They've been addressing PC games off and on in similar ways to the way they did consoles in this video
Yes! Finally! The lack of coverage on PC gaming was the only thing that was bothering me about this series. This is now one of my favorite series ever!
Minesweeper is like golf, the lower the numbers you get, the better.
I love this series so much! ❤
My Commodore 64 was really neato.
What kind of chip you got in there a Dorito?
i have one fully boxed want to buy it with games and boxed data cassete
Paul Rhodes
Do you have the hippo drive? :)
Gamesman01 never heard of a hippo drive ? new to me i know you can get a floppy drive
Paul Rhodes
Yeah the floppy drive was slow so it got nicknamed the Hippo drive. Still as an upgrade from the tapes it was much faster. My Mom tried to buy me the Basic tutorial software so I could learn Basic the lady handed her a box that said single floppy disc. She tried to explain to the clerk that it was the wrong thing but the clerk insisted it was right so I got a floppy disc drive for the price of a tutorial program. It was roughly the size of a loaf of bread and had 1 floppy disk with it.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this series but I love Andre and the material is very applicable. Many thanks, guys.
I feel like the only person in the world who genuinely knows how to play minesweeper! It's very simple once you learn it
It really isn't that hard to figure out either.
Isn't there instructions included? I swear I remember a help menu that explained it.
***** Pretty sure there was, bit hard to check since I don't have the original installed, it's really sad they took it out of the default files.
Teach meee.
Dune 2 was one of my first proper favorite computer games. There was also Commander Keen, Sink Sub, Scorched Earth, that game with the submarine that you control to explore and collect stuff, upgrade your torpedoes, avoid and/or kill dangerous critters, try not to run out of air, and often use a mini robo-sub to get into places the main sub can't. There were plenty of other games on the computer back then too. (Command and Conquer, and some educational games.)
I think that "Crash Course" is a great name for these videos, as they tend to be pretty condensed, and lack details, but *try* to stick to essential concepts. Sometimes, I feel that these videos are too short.
How the heck could you not mention Roberta Williams and Kings Quest from Sierra which by all accounts had a much greater impact on driving hardware sales of Sound Card/Videocard upgrades and optical drives then Myst.
But must admit cool to see Andre on this... didn't know he joined
The first game I got on CD-ROM was King's Quest 6. And thanks to the recent humble bundle sale, I just bought a huge collection of Sierra games on Steam for $20. The King's Quest games alone would make a good crash course in video game history on the PC.
right myst was way later and is just a linear puzzle once solved there is no replay about it and you are forced to do things in order or do not advance i find it a poor game design beautiful to be sure but as a satisfying game nope.
rules of minesweeper: don't click on a mine, use the flags to keep track of where you think mines are, and it is a logic puzzle like sudoku where you have to make inferences about what is valid to put in a cell from the information you already have about adjacency
/r/pcmasterrace
Yes.
+chbrules nobody likes spoilers
+chbrules well your a nobody
I have to say. Even if you ignore most of the other stuff. One big thing the PC also has over consoles are emulators. Like playing GBA games, DS games, PS2 games, SNES games, etc. on a PC.
I came on here expecting to see the first comment saying "PC master race". I was correct.
buhaha still remember how to play Wolfenstein now. I also played "Oregon Trail" and "Where in the World/Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?" Loved those games but the puzzles were tough!
3 views. Im early. Let me think of a joke.. 4k on consoles with 60 fps LUL
Almost anything could play Pong at 4K 60fps. The new PlayStation might be able to play at those resolutions and framerates, but the detail settings will be horrible.
>When the pixel game is too pixelly to play
The rules of mine sweeper is simple. The number you get when you turn over a tile indicates how many mines are in proximity to that tile. So if there is a 1 then there is 1 mine around that tile. You have use deductive reasoning (and sometimes a bit of luck) to figure out where the mines are based on this proximity detection system.
Now I'm curious about the crash course steam library.
Yes they mentioned MYST! Childhood game right there. (We didn't own consoles and my Dad made us take the Mario emulators off the computer after my brother and I wore out the arrow keys).
Quick note: the 7th Guest inspired Myst, not the other way around (they were released on April 1st, 1993 and September 24th, 1993 respectively).
I find it hard that either can influence the other in that short period of a time. Unless the devs of myst saw 7th guest and started developing, I think they just were developed coincidentally at the same time
Myst was borne out of a long tradition of HyperCard-based puzzle games
I can't get over that he mentions the game (myst) that essentially killed the genre (adventure games) as his prime example
some will argue that is was in fact Mask Eternity from the Kings Quest series that killed the Adventure genre (which is kinda funny given that Kings Quest also gave birth to it).
The point is that Myst is in no way the origin of the genre or even terribly influential in it. It was widely regarded by adventure game enthusiasts at the time as gimmicky and shallow, and to have it placed as an exemplar is simply baffling.
In Mine Sweeper, the numbers tell you how many mines are adjacent to that square, so you have to use them to try to figure out where each mine it and you can plant a flag where you think they are. If you correctly find them all, you win.
I wonder if anyone will see this amongst the PC master race spam...
the pc master race sees all.
I actually grew up on the BBC Micro and the original Elite, the system and game that were instrumental to PC gaming basically surviving the games crash.
This episode was a little to PC for me.
Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahah
I don't get it.
PC - Progressive Conservative
Just a nice little pun there lol.
jokes are like frogs, you can dissect them, but that kills them.
Only trying to be helpful and make sure the person understands. What if the person - or anyone who read the comment - is not a native English speaker and does not know terms like this. Just providing knowledge to others who do not get it.
Lol I'm just kidding. Thanks for helping
When someone says FPS and your brain is thinking "first-person shooter" and "frames per second" at the same time...
#PCMASTERRACE
So happy to hear the 7th guest mentioned a few times, my favorite game!
Thumbs up if you are watching this on PC!
Oh wow... 5:00 I had one of those Packard Bells! Oh the things I did to that computer... rebuild! rebuild! rebuild! :)
"Zed" X Spectrum: British computer, British Z :p
Isn't mispronouncing things supposed to be John's thing? ;)
I think it's spreading. An understandable mistake though
My favorite PC games are _Spore_ and _The Sims_ franchise, specifically _The Sims 3_. I wish they would make a sequel for _Spore_! It needs it, desperately. I find myself fantasizing about _The Sims 5_ too. It'll be nice when this happens.
Great video. Keep up the good work.
Only thing I gotta say... PC MASTER RACE!
love this series
PC Games vs. Console Games
The war of gaming has begun.
The PC has more exclusives than every console in history combined. I think we can manage. Also, Halo 1 and 2 are on PC and so are all of the Resident Evils, so that was factually incorrect.
+Karen Kujo hou can play all those games on pc.....
As someone who owns 6 different consoles, PCs are better and all consoles do is hold back game development.
+SwordofStorms Ooo, the first two Halo games are on PC, meanwhile consoles have had them for years. And how do PCs have more exclusives?
+d1asian You can't play Mario, Sonic, Zelda, Pokémon or the majority of Mega Man games, and those are just games off the top of my head, the list goes on for quite a while.
Anyone else disturbed by the upside-down CD at 7:50? :-P
PC Master Race!!!!1
My parents never bought me "entertainment", just a PC, so I managed to obtain my own games, today I'm grateful about that knowledge during my childhood, not having that "fear" to PC that console users usually have, in addition, I've played the most awesome games with mods and recently I've noticed that I'm from a Master Race! Can't be better! :)
It's zed X. Not zee ex. This is coming from an American as well; it's an English computer.
they did a good job covering it, which was far more important
and the one thing they failed from ZXspectrum covering is the pronunciation of it
+TheKHfan358over3d Yip, but all American channels NOT ran by huge organisations, will say Zed
No one here likes the word zed.
I like the word zed.
God I love this series so much.
(ZED)X spectrum its a british computers and the britsh (along with most the world) say ZED.
I'm not sure why this is a point of contention. In America the letter Z is zee. The computer uses the letter "Z" not the word or sound "zed." So an American should have the right to make whatever sound that symbol means for him/her. And for the most part, America's differences in spelling stem from a hatred for a nation that oppressed and went to war with them. I don't think you can blame the US for that. Especially modern citizens who didn't have a say in the matter.
Do you call the PC mod/game "Day Z," Day zee or day zed? What about the famous book "World War Z"
Day Z was designed by a New Zealander, and yet American gamers call it Day Zee. World War Z was written by an American, but in other countries literary figures, teachers and speakers call it World War Zed.
+FilledCircle as a Brit, I know that we say zee when referring to American things eg jay z and world war z, because that's what they're called. It's an acceptable mistake to make, calling it the zee ex, as is jay zed. Sometimes pronunciation doesn't matter, such as the pronunciation of zebra, but it bugs many Brits to see that consideration not being taken into account, as we do to American spelling and pronunciation, eg we write Pearl Harbor, even though we normally spell that word with a U. I think that's the reason for the controversy
Military say zed for Z its pretty universal unless you are talking about zebras lol sorry couldn't resist.
0:49 8:03 so much parent money!
Some of us actually did work even as little kids to earn our games :)
Gwydda
I meant in general, not just the equipment in the room :)
PC MASTER RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
WOOOOOOOOO!
Now I only wish to see a video on the Strategy game genre, from Risk to Civilization to Crusader Kings.
it's pronounced ZED EX spectrum god damn it XD
minesweepers pretty simple once you know the trick, the numbers represent the amount of bombs located near the square the goal is to locate all of the mines safely without clicking them
It's nice that they made an episode, but it feels a bit cheap. It's just one episode and consoles got several of them. Not everything was even covered in this one episode, like the biggest and most influential companies, the PC RPG genre and a few more.
I did, it didn't work :(
4:57 - I had that exact same computer in the 90's. Got the Windows 95 install CD even by this day :D
Now if only Bethesda would properly optimize their games for pc!
Now if only Bethesda would properly optimize their games!
Now if only Bethesda would
Dont say that. I enjoy braking the games!
Robert Horker as long as all the bad guys i kill turn into dancing flaming skeletons im happy
It's really funny how Bethesda releases their games in there state because they know the PC gamers will fix it. Bethesda gets away on this point too easily... I do agree with Lord Woffingshire that all of Bethesda's games should be more optimized in general lol. It's a shame that on the PC, we have the luxury of fixing up these games.
Also had a Spectrum 48k!
Mag = Crash
Studio = Ultimate
Game = Ant Attack
Give me one good reason pc gaming is actually better than consoles aside from
Better Graphics
Better Audio
Better Gaming Experience
Better/Faster Patch/Update Support
Better Online Gameplay
Higher Frame Rate
Higher Resolutions
MODS
Backwards Compatibility
More Exclusives
More Games
More Mature Community
More Precise Controls
More Options/Customization For controls/Visuals/Monitors/Software/Everything
MORE FREEDOM!
Steam Sales
Cheaper (Both Initial Cost For Budget Builds And Obviously In The long Run Compared to Consoles)
Cheaper Games
Cheaper Upgrades
More Customizability
Better Indie Games
Multitasking
Easier To Navigate Internet
Broader Software Support
A Quiet Gaming Experience
Burnig DVD/Blurays
Larger Choice And Cheaper Peripherals
Emulators
Tweaking
Overclocking
Water Cooling
Faster Loading Time
Free Online Gameplay
A Choice In Hardware Brands
Longer Lasting Warranty
Upgradeable
More Free To Play Games...
Bet you can't
Fuckin pc peasants
Console-Exclusive games
i think its fine to play wherever you want. you can have a ps4 and a pc like i do. i use the ps4 for exclusives like the last of us and a pc for everything else.
as for somethings that pc has that consoles dont have:
•modding- but it seems that xbox has it now but only with fallout.
•emulators which you can play ps2, ps1, gamecube, gameboy, android emulation, n64, ds 3ds soon.
• multiple monitors from one graphics card.
•lots more underated exclusives games
•different platforms, dont like steam? go to gog.
•mouse and keyboard or controller choice. although you can bypass this with a xim4 on console which costs 140 or so but some consider this cheating. dont really know.
•used to be 1440p and 4k gaming but thay looks like it might change altought i doubt the psr pro will play that good at 4k.
and you know even though i didnt finish reading your comment until later which made me realize you actually were praising pc, i will still post this so others can see why pc is great for gaming but that people should play where the want.
Please don't take my comment to seriously :) I thought it was funny. I myself own a high end pc and a console... :D
yeah like i said i didnt read your full comment until i had written all that just posted it for others to see. lol high end pc are expensive but people need to understand its worth it.
Minesweeper has simple rules. The numbers simply tell you how many mines are in total between the adjacent slots. You want to open all the slots that do not have mines in them.
Ugh, this video is like, "let's get this out of the way".
Honestly, every single topic mentioned required at least a video to properly explain it, but they rushed everything. Is Crash Course afraid of actually talking about PC and its possibilities?
As the title says, it's a *crash course*, not an extensive one. It's supposed to be brief and provide a bird's eye view of the topic. It gives you the basics so that you can look further into it elsewhere if you want to.
elentilion I understand that, but several episodes were spent on console gaming and its origins. And PC gaming gets only one episode? Even when it's just as important or even more important. That's my complain.
There's probably too much to say, and honestly as a console gamer it sounded like he buttered it up to be the clear winner in gaming platforms. Don't worry, he did it justice.
Nah, it should have been broken up into 3 videos, each covering one Epoch. The 80's, the 90's, and the 2000s, then a final one wrapping things up with VR and Steam. 4 vids to the consoles few dozen is fair, and tbh, it'dve covered the big rivalries. The IBM PCs vs the C64 in the 80s, the rise of FPS and RTS, along with the fight between Nvidia and 3DFX in the 90s, MMOs and MOBAs in the 2000s, and the AMD/Intel debacle and how it impacted the industry ( it did, believe it or not ), and then wrap up with Steam and how it's massively changed things and what VR is about to do to everyone's eyeballs ( and wallets ). More importantly, emphasized how Consoles do get hand-me-down hardware and how that impacts the decisions made making games in the modern age, how that changes what developers focus on and the way they implement things.
It won't happen, that's too much to ask, not even from a depth point of view but from an understanding point of view.
God I wish TekSyndicate hadn't imploded...they could have done this way better.
For a while they were also a lot easier to develop for because there was only one architecture per brand and Windows was Windows. Consoles are also better at innovating input devices. If something ships with the console (like the wii's control wands) game developers can design for it and know people have the devices unless the whole console flops. The vicious cycle of lack of applications support preventing people from buying hardware that prevents people from writing support for that hardware is easier to break in consoles.
But, yeah, any "computer" without a full keyboard is kind of crippled for non-gaming applications and requires really tortuous UI for some game genres.
It took 20 episodes but finally! YES! I will take it but could have done a little more
Shooters are better on PC.
I grew up playing both consoles and PC, but I definitely played PC games a lot more growing up thanks to the C&C series, Starcraft, and Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. Nowadays, I play consoles a lot more, but I still enjoy PC games a lot.
why are pc gamers so obsessed to bully consoles?
We arn't. Ignore the peasants.
Taco Moustachios yes u are. these "peasants" u speak of. are the console players. console players dont act like this to pc gamers. its scary how pc gamers always seems frustrated...even tho u always ride the better specs.
+Aggbala Taco was obviously calling the annoying "better than you" PC gamers peasants...
I posted this elsewhere... but I might as well put it here too:
It boils down to one question for me: why would I spend excessive money to buy an inferior system that allows only one input method while not allowing (without a hack) any other media or development? Personally, there is no drawback for PC... you have adaptability and personalization as well as power... all for less of a price tag.
That said, the people shouting "PC MASTER RACE!" are idiots that want a voice just to hear themselves. Consoles... especially Nintendo... try to do interesting things, and I respect that. But PC will always be where game changing developments are born and will die.
noah schaefferkoetter yeah but just cus a thing is obsolete, dosent mean it hasnt meaningful content?
Andre, my 7th grader's game design teacher looks a lot like you! I made sure to tell him about your channel.
"Computer game", not "PC game". "PC" carries connotations of Windows (even though it technically shouldn't).
I know right? It's so offensive to the vastly superior Mac
That hurt to type.
Êvery video-game is a computer-game. This episode concern itself with home-computers = PCs.
Technically yes, but the traditional division amongst video games (implicitly computer-generated video) is into console games and computer games (implicitly personal computer). Meanwhile the abbreviation "PC", while technically just standing for "personal computer" has connotations beyond just that, especially for those of us from the era when games like Myst were "PC games" (meaning "Windows PC") only secondarily.
+Toalewa9889 mac I think he was talking about Linux, Mac has games?
One of the very games mentioned in this video was a Mac-first title developed originally with Apple software (HyperCard).
So many League of Legends shots
--WARNING--
PC Gaming Nazis below...
Wow, you can tell just by one sentence that he have a neurodevelopmental disorder? No? You're just a douch?
Ok then!
Each box is an area which may contain one of the fixed number of mines. The number in a cleared box denotes the number of mines adjacent to the box.
Finally some stuff from my childhood
There should be an episode about full conversion mods.So many groundbreaking games started as FCMods. Team fortress and dota to name a few. And fall from heaven 2 - my favorite.
The rules of minesweeper are simple. You start by left clicking any square. That square will either show a number, or it will be empty and it will open up a larger area with numbers around its perimeter. If a square has a number in it, then there are that many mines around it. Through deductive reasoning, you must determine where the mines are located. You can mark a square with a flag by right clicking if you believe there is a mine there. The game is won by correctly flagging all of the mines or by clearing all other squares. Best of luck to you, and happy minesweeping.
These videos are awesome!
A missed opportunity on modding would be that it helped to popularize the MOBA genre. DOTA started out as a mod for Warcraft 3 and was based on another mod from Starcraft.
3 pascal-based titans have been known to only output minesweeper at 360p @ 24fps. It's amazing how the game had been playable all this while.
Marvel Heroes 2016 FTW! Love that game. Play it all the time!
I would have liked to see it mentioned in this episode (as I think this episode would have been most appropriate for it) the fact that a turning point occurred where games became software instead of hardware (Google Woz and Breakout) :)
I like this guy, would like to see more videos with him.
Minesweeper is easy. The number tells you how many mines are next to the square. use that information over several squares and you can deduce the location of a mine. If a square already has the right number of mines bordering it you can safely reveal all the non-mined squares bordering the fully saturated square. Repeat until t he board is fully clear.
The number in the box is how many bombs is adjacent to the number. An square with 8 in it is surrounded by bombs while a number with a 2 in it has two around each it, like one to the top left and one to the top right.
I will never forget clunky sound of Commodore's keyboard... magic
I feel like this episode could have been a two parter. It glosses over a lot of PC Gaming and feels rushed. Still love this series though, I just want more :-P
Minesweeper is a computer version of Russian roulette. Each player get their own turn to select a tile on the screen to click,. If the tile contains a mine,, the game ends and the player that clicked the tile is shamed by all the others. If they successfully click on a right tile, one or many numbered tiles will appear, indicating the numbers mines adjacent to itself, this will give a hint to the next player increasing their odds of clicking on a good tile up to 100%. Right clicking will pose a flag to indicate that one believes to contain a mine. This is often used to confuse other players by using their trust against them, making them click on a tile that contains a mine. Dependent on the version of minesweeper, double clicking on a tile with a number of flagged adjacent tiles equal to the number on the itself will result in opening all the tiles nearby that are not flagged. This method is used so that the player can in a single move, remove multiple tiles with guaranteed safeness in a single turn. On older versions of Minesweeper, it is possible to click on a mine as the first click, which is no longer possible in newer versions. If all the non-mine tiles are cleared , the player to clear the last tile is declared the winner. Note, Minesweeper is a highly graphical game, and for that reason, it is recommended to have at least a GPU as powerful as the GTX-1080 to achieve a frame rate of 120 fps, which is highly recommended by expert players. Playing Minesweeper at 30fps is like Playing CS:Go on 10 fps, it can be done, just NOT RECOMMENDED.
Yes !!!! Finally !!! thank you for doing PC gaming
The rules of Minesweeper:
Click all the spaces that you know aren't mines, until you reach the last four where there's no way to tell which ones are right.
They mentioned Neopets!!!! I'm screaming!!!!
I never knew how to play Minesweeper until I saw an episode of Numb3rs where Charlie Epps explained the rules: "You've got to clear the mines without blowing any up. Each time you clear a square, a numerical value is revealed. That number tells you exactly how many squares containing mines are directly adjacent to that square. This allows you to predict where the next mine will be located and then the more boxes revealed the more accurately one can predict the location of the mines." Afterwards, I quickly became an expert player.
neopets? is that still around? i remember playing that when i was like 12, 10 years ago
OK, I have to take issue with your talk about Adventure games. No mention of Sierra or LucasArts? And Myst DID have goals for the player, which they would discover very shortly after starting the game: "Bring me blue
ed pages." As the game progressed and the player got more information about WTF was up with Myst Island, the goals shifted - but they were there. (Also, Myst came out AFTER The 7th Guest, although only by a few months.)
The number in each box represents the amount of mines within the adjacent 8 squares. Clicking on a box without a number under it reveals all other un numbered boxes around it. That's pretty much it
All these oldschool console games are getting HD remakes, and here I am still waiting for HD remakes of the Commander Keen games.
4:20 Was the ZX mentioned during the London Olympics?
I have been waiting to see a PC video made on this series but am very disappointed that there was no mention on Sierra games that I grew up playing? The "quest" games as i remember them playing when I was a kid. Kings Quest! Police Quest! Space Quest (my favorite!) maybe you will do an entire video on this genre? PLEASE!?!
When you click on the minefield, you will first expose free space. The numbers on the sides show how many bombs are adjacent to the square that the specific number is on. This includes those on the edges and those in the corners. Using math (as well as a healthy dose of guesswork) you figure out where the mines are and right-click on them. If you know a space is safe, left click on it. Keep following these rules until you've either landed on a mine or exposed all of them.
Is this gonna be the last part? I love this series.