The 1995 CD-ROM Upgrade Experience: Creative Discovery CD Kit
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- 2X CD-ROM! Sound Blaster 16! Speakers! Tons of software! This time on LGR we're revisiting the mid 1990s to unbox and install a Creative Sound Blaster Discovery CD bundle - new old stock! I drooled over these as a kid but owning one was never anything more than a dream. Until now, 26 years later!
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"Then I have a drink or two and go on eBay, aaaaand, that's the basis of my channel."
That cracked me up!
I would be lying if I hadn't been drinking while watching LGR and purchased things from ebay that he was reviewing.
Late night sleep deprived eBay is a hell of a drug...
@@rwdplz1 Been there, done that lol...
Somebody at Ebay is sending him a case of something, they know his weakness.
@@sdewey4152 Oh LORDS!
You can always tell someone is a collector by how they open a package.
Unless they're collecting for the sake of collecting, in which case it's more a matter of how they _don't_ open the package
@@Brok3nC4rrot yeah but those types of collectors are just hoping to get money in the end or are just weird
@@alfulton5946 Tbh I'm one of the weirdos, but it's because I'm a bit of a preservationist. I still love tp use my old electronics when the stuff isn't pristine tho lol.
@@Brok3nC4rrot ikr lol
@@dooplon5083 the best way to preserve old machines is to use them.
This is some Toy Story-esk saga for computers. Parts locked in a garage until finally freed from storage only to then be sent to the perfect person to utilize it's potential and finally shared with the masses. Kudos sir.
Not gonna lie. I would totally rock "birds" on a t-shirt.
Hey Bosh 🌈
Bird-Up!!
yes, someone has to make it happen
with a picture of dragonball z's android 16, i hope. BERDS.
hey b0sh 👋
I had this exact bundle as a kid! I played the everloving crap out of wing and strike commander. To hear clear human voices out of computer speakers for the first time was mindblowing!
Wing Commander is a way of life
Same here! Was the kit on my first PC.
Well it was bad for me as i was born in 2000. I did grew up with a floppy and dvd drive, ide cables were charming. Owned a pentium 2 which got upgraded to pentium 3 and finally to a pentium e2140 dual core. Ran that sucker pentium for 15 years where the motherboard finally died which was a gigabyte 945gcmxs2f4 and now that boy is a memorial in my keychain. Ran literally every windows on it ranging from windows 95 and even the SE editions to windows 10 and it had 1gb ddr2 ram on it and ran like a charm.
had a similar one but it came with theme park
Not a Creative fanboy, but I actually almost never had anything else than Creative SoundBlasters and Speakers/Surround Sets over the past 20+ years. Good stuff.
First sound card we had growing up was the SB 16. I still find myself humming MIDIs decades later 😂
Ours was the sound blaster vibra 16, I remember all the midis! :)
For me it was .MODs and .MIDIs. The .MODs were a hand-me-down from the Amiga era. God, those were awesome sound tracks.
@@telengardforever7783 the first MOD I listened to was the AXEL_F theme, I was amazed how the computer could play a whole song with WAV quality while being slightly larger than a MIDI file!
"Nooooooo you're opening them and ruining it!"
Who cares lol. Clint gives these items the spotlight they deserve and they truly become a museum piece of some sort. Better to see it all function now and document it before it rots away.
Agreed
man i just missed this era. i grew up with windows 95 and DOS was still around in school like an angry revenant. still brings back some major nostalgia!
These videos are so nostalgic. I remember walking through the local computer store and every game I wanted was on CD-ROM. It took a year of my family saving up to get a 2x kit almost exactly like this one, around $300. Rebel Assault was amazing.
I think we got the same one for Christmas! 2X with Rebel Assault and.. Lemmings.. and some other things. Indycar?
At one point I had rebel assault, rebel assault 2, star wars dark forces, and star wars chess. It was fun times. Especially, when I could copy those games and give them to my friends and cousins.
Man, this bundle would've been the DREAM as a kid. I'm still jealous of anyone who had one over 25 years later.
Same here, i was disapointed when my parents decided to buy an IBM computer with no multimedia capability...
@@georgesiv2082 They made sure it was a "homeworks" computer
@@georgesiv2082 I feel bad for you. Having a computer and no multimedia capabilities must been a downer. My dad helped me buy a Packard bell legend computer in January of 1995.
It was a beast of a computer, I remember the specs which were average at the time.
Pentium 75 mhz
8MB ram
850MB hard drive
2x CD ROM
56k modem
It was amazing playing megarace, mad dog 2 the lost gold, NBA Jam TE, super street fighter 2, and wing commander 3 and X Wing on that thing.
I had these parts in one form or another, in one system or another - 2x went into a 386, the speakers I recently sold, and I'm sure I had one of those cards (may even have one still somewhere in one of my PCs).
This bundle is so cool! I'm not sure if it was even sold here (Finland), never seen any ads or anything and back in the day I was reading even advertisements very carefully from every computer mag I got... dreaming how I would spend all my money if I had any. Quite many people had a slightly different bundle here with less stuff, at least SB16, speakers, CD-ROM drive, Syndicate, and some adventure game I cannot remember now, plus all sorts of SW. Though not me, sadly. Much later my parents got a different much smaller pack with integrated SB16 + 28.8k modem, speakers, microphone and some basic Creative SW but not games. Playing with that sound editing SW propelled me on towards a career in DSP engineering although I didn't realize it back then...
Oh man so much of this software brings back so many memories. I can't tell you _how many times_ I had a book report due that day when I was in grade school in the early 90's and basically copying/pasting whatever the CD-ROM encyclopedia had on it lol.
Clint: "I got away with a few minor cuts."
Ah, the retro PC gods have claimed another blood sacrifice.
Seriously. 20y ago, the sign I was working on some PC really was having some minor cut on my hands somewhere. I've never actually felt when the cut occured, but it was ALWAYS there.
@@fonkbadonk2957 I still get minor cuts while repairing or cleaning computers and I never learn my lesson...
That case was the worst. I had the generic version with a 486 MB and a Cyrix X-86 cpu. I bought it used in 1999, and it had Windows 95, and an AD Lib card. I took out the AD Lib and put in a Sound-Blaster 16 and a CD ROM drive. I upgraded to me because the HD died after a few months.
Oh man the memories. That moment when you left the "PC Speaker" team to join the SoundBlaster one. EVERYTHING had to make a noise. Maximize, minimize... everything. Nice video!
@Green Mamba Games Wow, that's even worse than the typewriter sounds (including the *screet* *cling* when you press enter :D) someone had their keyboard sound - all. the. time. Well, in Windows anyway.
Moving from PC Speaker to a dedicated sound card was mind blowing back then. My first card was an Orchid Sound Producer Pro (an SB Pro 2 clone), I distinctly remember loading Prince of Persia 2 and the crystal clear narration made my heart skip a beat. The only upgrade that had nearly the same effect was moving to dedicated hardware rendering. Every upgrade since has been incremental, nothing like the leaps and bounds back then. The featured Creative Kit here has so much value, getting this back in the day must have been colossal.
Next step is personal atomic clock for competitive gamers.
@@mikakorhonen5715 Why? We already have one that we can access through the internet..
@@taiwanluthiersWith atomic clock you can sync gaming PCs individually, or with one clock all local tournament PCs. After that game can time stamp all gaming actions and when server gets information from players it can arrange everything in right order. Server knows exactly right order and network latency has less effect.
I was getting into music production (using Sound Tracker, Impulse Tracker, etc) in my late teens, and scored that exact sound card from a friend. It was so amazing, it is what ultimately got me into audio production and later in 2000 I used it to begin my online live DJing thing. I owe a lot of my early adulthood joy to the SB16 card. I still have it stored in a box somewhere.
Is it viable to use a retro PC as a MIDI DAW in this present day?
@@valdotorg Nice thought! I'm definitely not going to try, but I am down to watch (or listen to or read about) anyone who does.
"I always love looking through these, cause I always get ideas, and then I have a drink or two and go on eBay, and... that's the basis of my channel." I'm glad you do what you do! *raises glass*
Your video bring me back 20 years before, and I'm french, I bought this audio card kit in a store called "Surcouf" and it doesn't exist in our days... So just I love to see and thanks so much for this nostalgic moment.
"And here is the CD-ROM just hanging out already in its own little tray. Nice"
When are we getting MRE Pizza on LGR Foods?
When are we gonna get a LGR/Steve crossover? Not sure how it would work, but I'd totally watch it!
@@selfinflictedlife Something along the lines of a never opened box of '90s cereal with a CD-ROM inside.
I don't remember which one, but there is a review where he pulls out an accessories packet and goes through it like Steve
Edit: looked it up, it's the NewQ Gold Equalizer review.
@@selfinflictedlife Steve from Minecraft?
@Green Mamba Games While fair, Clint HAS a cigarette lighter PC accessory. You can light the 80 year old cigs with a 23 year old bad idea from Thermaltake
My teenage mind was blown away when I finally heard actual sound effects and MIDI music from Doom, Dark Forces, and Tie Fighter. Good times.
I remember those speakers distinctly, I was too young at the time to realize how much effort my dad had to go through to get stuff like that working properly. Those DOS games were fun, but finicky!
Got the notification while watching the death of emachines video.. a lil depressed now but i’m here for it!
I remember seeing these bundles in magazines and being so amazed. I didn't even have a CD drive at that point. What a time it was!
And here we are again with no CD/DVD drive in (most of) the computers! Isn't that odd? 😉
CD-ROMS were so expensive back then that when my REVEAL kit CD-ROM started to die and couldn't spin the disc, I had to open up the drive and spin the disc manually till the engine kicked in. That hack kept it alive for another 2 years till prices came down (and I got my first job at McDonald's).
Okay I absolutely ADORE that appointment reminder software that pops up and talks to you!! The fact the character is animated to look like it's actually saying the words you typed, the fact it SAYS OUT LOUD what the appointment is for and for how long is ace (and hilarious)!! I could honestly do with software EXACTLY like this today!! :D
Man all the sights and sounds of 90s computing tech makes me feel really nostalgic for that time period. I know computers have gotten a LOT faster and more reliable, but for me they've gotten a LOT less fun!! We don't get amazing bundles of tech and software like this any more, or hilarious sounds and experimental software. Nor do we get the wacky experiments done with the technology itself OR its design - everything just looks like the same old black or white box nowadays.... boo!!
oh my, the massive wave of nostalgia when you started playing Canyon.... The first expansion card I ever bought was a Creative Sound Blaster. This brings me way back, and I'm so surprised how unique a sound it makes that it triggered those memories.
This is incredible. I had something similar but it was a 4X CD-ROM drive, SB16 and came with the same games minus the Encyclopedia, Education software and Productivity software. Still have the original CD for the games as well as the manuals, of course have collected the big box versions along the way... ah good times :)
Thit was my first Multimedia kit!, I remember that you didn't need to put power on the speakers to make them sound loud!
Yes indeed! If they're connected to the amplified "speaker out" port on the sound card, they still pump out sound unpowered.
@@LGR Amazing find man! so many memories!
@@LGR What?! I never knew this, we had a 3rd-party power adapter for ours that also doubled as my old Casio SA-10 keyboard's power supply. Was a pain switching out 😂 I'm so jealous you got one of these kits though, I had the 4x kit, would give my right hand for one (or something less painful).
I "modified" (wrapped wire around the battery terminals) mine to run off of the 5v from the PC power supply :D
Yes, when they are switched off they are passive speakers - when they are turned on they are active and requires an external power source. They are, by the way, also the only powered speakers i have seen with a ‘’Treble boost’’ switch. Several Creative soundcards of the time had separate ‘’Speaker out’’ and ‘’Line out’’ connectors with the speaker one being amplified in the sound card. I have no idea of the output power, but it can’t have been much. The big downside when running the speakers passive was that you had to use the volume control in Windows to adjust the volume which in turn meant minimizing or switching away from the game you were playing - and in many cases you were greeted with a black screen when you switched back to the game, and had to restart it to get it working again.
This takes me back... I got a sound card/cdrom (quad speed!) bundle kit by Reveal to upgrade my 386. The bundle came with SimCity 2000 and Strike Commander among other games! It was one heck of a learning experience figuring out how to get everything to work and run. Turns out all the software that came with the kit was indirectly educational!
I remember when my friend got his "custom" Gateway computer built (I think it was around '98), and he had them put in the cream of the crop Sound Blaster Gold in the build complete with the front-panel addition. Many hours were spent playing games like Quake II and Tribes on his computer lol.
Does anyone else remember how PC 'speakers used to lie about their power rating, and those lies got more ridiculous as the 90's wore on? I think I bought a pair of "300 watt" speakers in 98.
Oh man. The memories. After begging my parents we actually got one of these back in 1994! Annnnnd... sadly the CD drive died a few months later. I remember being on hold for ever on a long distance call ($$$) to tech support. Oh the fun times. Still, it was a great kit!
Yes, 1994 was the year! My drive broke after a couple of years (2-3), too.
Same here as you guys. We got the 2x version of this kit and I remember the CD-ROM breaking also. We were so careful with it. Just died. I can't recall if we got it replaced via warranty or another drive ... :(
Yea my first PC was a Gateway 2000 486 dx/2 66. It came with the soundblaster kit. CD Rom kinda died after a couple of years, the harddrive died also (replaced under warranty), and I remember staying up nights trying to fix problems because of the stupid IRQ stuff that always seems to conflict for whatever reason. Then one day I flashed the BIOS for no reason and bricked the whole PC (because I had no idea what BIOS flash was like). Got the whole motherboard replaced under warranty as well. That's in addition to all the general protection faults and illegal operations (windows 95) that kept happening too. I discovered one reason for all these reliability issue is they used power supplies that couldn't deliver the juice.
Thing is, I never have this kind of failure today... they must have either used lower quality component or manufacturing was not as efficient as today.
Yeah even Clint got to deal with that the first time around with the Creative CD Kit, his was dead on arrival and broke as soon as he installed it lol. Glad the one he showed here was in better shape but it sucks that the quality control just wasn't there for Creative drives back in the day.
That "Birds" composition is like an early "graphic design is my passion" meme
It’s better put together than a lot of modern memes.
_"Multimedia software"_
Even these simple words are nostalgic
So mid-90's =D
it cracks me up that you went to the trouble to create a desktop background for the PC based on the subject of the video.
That’s one chunky bundle! Lots of goodies to be used and discovered. Never had one of those, unfortunately (or fortunately, since my first PC had multimedia capabilities installed from the factory) but the feeling of seeing stuff like this, really takes me back
"Not the end of the world, but it's an additional extraneous step and I took it personally!" Bro I love Clint's dry-ass sense of humor. 🤣🤣🤣
Brought back a lot of memories! Love the content, humor, and enthusiasm! Looking forward to more videos, take care!
Man, this brings back memories...I remember setting this up as a kid.
Yeah, I had the same experience with the REVEAL kit in 1994. My family was too poor to get the SoundBlaster kit... And honestly, the REVEAL kit wasn't that bad.
LGR's office belongs in a 90s Tech Museum!
Aw ya. This is the content I subbed for. Thanks LGR!
I can STILL remember buying this brand new at our Best Buy. This was like being a kid again. Thank you so much, Clint!!
Something about these old software bundles are still exciting to me.
Having grown up on Mannheim Steamroller, this card sounds like Christmas, much as I'm sure it felt like it to Clint.
@@patrickglaser1560 I 'MEMBER!
For me, it’s just not the Christmas season without Mannheim Steamroller.
The editing on these is so good lol
11:20 Holy shit, that funky plug brought up a memory I haven't had in over 20 years. I had these same speakers at some point and didn't even realize it until the plug, but yep. Those speakers are definitely familiar now.
Always envied the Soundblaster guys. I had to live with Adlib Gold.
My first "real PC" was a 233Mhz Pentium II IBM system, and at the time I was also getting big into Linux (this was around 1996). I can't even tell you how disappointed I was finding out about all the onboard garbage chipsets or the fact I couldn't get online with it under Linux because it had a "WinModem" in it which I had no idea what that even was at the time. Slowly but surely I started learning more and more about the hardware side of things and SoundBlaster was always the go-to, especially during my escapades dumpster diving for spare computer parts lol.
@@livefreeprintgunsHah.. winmodem.. :) I had a 286 and I don't know how I got my Adlib Gold (think my Dad bought it for me), but I remember being smug about how awesome it was... until my friend brought his 386 tower over with Soundblaster. I feel like a jerk for chucking the Adlib now because they've become so collectible, but the SB just smoked it all around.
"Delightful annoyance with this system", I admire your outlook on incompatible (but compatible) hardware!
This is awesome, keep this going please! I LOVE Creative's hard and soft bundles. I had a few of them and was always like opening a Christmas present, as you called it!
woow. we had one of these with the quad speed drive. still an SB16 card. still have the card, stereo speakers and quad speed cd-rom too. really great stuff back in the day. still works too! quality.
"....aaaaand then I have a drink or 2 and go on eBay.... basis of my channel"... LOL as I was sipping a drink of my own that made me spit it out laughing... I'm the same way, brother, believe me. Haha.
Please make sure to not drink too much. Alcohol is a hard drug. 🌈
Nothing makes Friday better than a new LGR vid.. Keep up sir!
thank you with all my heart. Way back in 1994 I got a Creative multimedia kit to upgrade my 486dx2 66 with 8 MB of RAM. This video took me back to the days when my passion for this fantastic hardware was born. The arrival of multimedia is a revolution to transform the PC from a work tool to home entertainment. How many hours spent with my favorite bundled title, the Bullfrog Syndicate masterpiece 🤩
Man what a wave of nostalgia seeing that Peter Pan game. Some time in the 90s playing it in our computer lab .Only ever get so far and then move on to something else.
wow.. now that I saw this one, I remember my friend's father bought a kit like this for his computer and we used to play some simple games in his pc, and sometime later he acquired this kit and we didn't had the idea back then that this kit were full of games. The box was right next to the pc, so one day we messed around with the stuff on the box and we found that it was full of great games.. Full throttle, Dark Forces.. I remember this as the one of the first days that I started liking to play games in PC and this was the first step to build my childhood and make who I am today.. Passionate by old retro games, new ones too, and also a proud software engineer, and a similar creative kit was one of the pillars of what defines who I am.. So many good memories.. :D thanks for bringing back this happy memories of my life.. you are the greatest Clint! Awesome video..
My grandma bought me this at a PC expo when i was a kid. it was amazing!!!
Woooow simply amazing! That is a piece of gold! In 1999 when my father bought me my first PC it bundled the discovery Kit 40xCDRom drive + SB 128PCI +cambridge Soundworks speakers(2 satellite and sunwoofer)...they were great! And they are still working today...😁. Thank you Dad for that gift that last forever 😁.
Ha this was a fun trip down memory lane. We bought this exact package back in 1994 or so to upgrade our 33 mhz 486 (or maybe it was a 386). I remember much of this kit like it was yesterday. Thanks for posting!
I'm listening to this video through my Creative Gigaworks T40 speakers. It's been nearly three decades and Creative still makes the best PC speakers. 😁
I have for years had Creative speakers that cost about 30 € attached to my TV. It looks laughable but the sound quality is so good I haven't felt the need to upgrade.
Thanks, LGR this brings back so many fond and great memories! btw 35:59 is a bouncing breakout cd mini-game, while you wait for loading.
As always, very good content, Clint. I had a Soundblaster 32 and this felt very very nostalgic. Always appreciate your excitement for these items, makes me feel comfortable knowing others feel the same.
That fm test took me back to my grandma's house thanks for that bit of forgotten nostalgia
Oh man so many memories... , I remember back in the day when my dad was so happy because of the purchase of that box , I was 7 and it was my first approach to a hardware/software setup ever, and to learning the meaning of the "multimedia" thing; we installed it on a Compaq Deskpro XE 560, we lived in Bogotá and in the 90's PC parts were very rare to find, we didn't have big stores to buy so it was kinda a big deal for us.
I have to admit watching this makes my Friday evening perfect.
Thank you Clint!
Your videos are always a sheer joy to watch and revisit for your pure enthusiasm, positivity, and smooth voice.
A local store here ran a special for these kits for the first 30 customers on a particular Saturday morning. It was like half price. My friend and I literally camped out in front of the store for the whole night and we got our magic boxes.
This video is a total mindf*ck.
This kit kept me busy for months and months and months. Years. It turned my computer from a bleeping blooping doorstop into basically an early version of what we have today.
My bedroom was basically a bunch of football posters, a football, a bed, a desk, and this computer. With those exact speakers and that exact cd-rom drive and sound card. Such good quality stuff compared to today's cheap nonsense. I wish I never threw them out. I missed this so much, I'm deep into a PCem 486DX-33 build with all this software installed. I eventually scored a DX2-66. The memories are amazing.
Except for the memory management memories lol
Thanks for this. Made my week.
This really brings back memories. During the summer of 93’ I upgraded my 486sx 25Mhz with a Sound Blaster 16 and a Colorado QIC80 tape drive. The first game I played after the SB16 installation was Dune II. I used the Sega Genesis speakers I got when I sent in five proof of purchases. They ended up sending me two pairs!
QIC80 ? These odd tapedrive on the floppycontroller? i have even an iomega floppytapedrive acceleration card, but dont know why anybody would buy this slow stuff back in the days.
@@superchiaki QIC80 was a popular standard. Even for a lot of business that weren’t tech centric (retail specificly). I ran a small warez, ANSI art and phreaking BBS when I was in high school using Renegade. I only had a 175MB hard drive and kept older zip files offline for request. I can still remember the sound of the tape drive activating when I was trying to go to sleep.
@@dauntae24 do you still own the tapes?
@@superchiaki I did but they were in my parents basement. I know my mother tossed the old PC itself (without even asking me if I wanted it 😩) so I doubt the tapes are still around.
@@dauntae24 OMGGG :(
Makes you kinda appreciate when we could go into a store and choose from these components in a store. I'm thinking increasingly gratitude for getting to experience that time.
Opening that nice box like you were still that 9-year-old kid. Absolutely lovely, I wish I had that spirit.
Bringing back memories. My Dad got an earlier Creative multimedia bundle... Definitely pre plug and play. I think it took him 3 or 4 long nights to troubleshoot the install and he was a computer engineer. I impatiently bugged the whole time to get into the new games and sweet CD encyclopedia. Do you realize how easy early 90s homework was with that power at your whim!
“I always love looking at these, I get ideas, have a drink or two and then get on ebay” lmao
I had this exact bundle as a kid as well, my mind was blown!
@LGR oh wow! That brings back memories... I was a 9-10 year old boy and i've seen a bundle like that at a local shop, took the next day my parents with me and all my savings and bought the kit to upgrade the family 386-dx40 desktop. I remember we had to get rid of the 5,25" floppy drive to install the 4x cdrom and then we installed the soundblaster with my uncle who was a pc technician at the time, to help update the autoexec.bat and install all the drivers. What a treat in the late 1994! Still have the wish myself to find a bundle like this nowadays to remake my old system. But i guess it's not gonna happen, since they are so hard to find! As it was the desktop pc case. It was the most beautiful case I have ever seen, with black transparent front, a big central power button and a sliding door on the left which hid the turbo, reset and keylock. While on the right side there was a hinged door hiding 2 5.25" bays.
I remember getting a CD-ROM and soundcard set with Monkey Island II back in the 90's. Brilliant upgrade. Thanks for the video!
I just stopped by to say I think this is the best I've ever heard "Canyon" sound.
Oh My God, I had this when I was a kid!!! I played the hell out of Wing Commander II from this
OMG. My father bought the exact same kit when I was a kid. This brings back so many memories.
Oh, wow. Memories. I didn't have this specific kit, but had a similar one that didn't have the extra software. I remember installing it in my 486/33, and not long after having to upgrade the RAM and Hard Drive!
For me, the documentation was the snack to hold you over till "dinner"; when you could actually get some time set aside to install whatever it was you'd just bought! It's a shame that stuff is almost always online these days.
The amount of stuff packed with a sound card is amazing. I would like to buy a speaker and soundcard pack this day with games and software included. I guess the cd rom push to market was happening so had to include a cd rom bay also.
I still get excited at the sight of the blue and yellow box!
That was very good sound in the 90s! I had a sound blaster in my second pc and it sounded great! I use Altec Lansing speakers set with a fine sub woofer. I'm still using them since 1999 and they are still great! No need to change a good thing. Now that's a good value!
damn, such beautiful memories, i had the kit with the awe 32 with a lot of titles like full throttle
No one:
Deep voice: I like the label.
Deeper voice: That's a good label.
🤣🤣🤣
I had a non-creative one of these kits that came with the 7th guest among other games I can't even remember. I don't remember how much it was and I remember it took my dad the weekend to get the kit to actually work right in our particular system because of irq conflicts.. Those were fun times
I can remember getting it for Doom, when it came out! Shows my age….., but my system wasn’t smooth, until I purchased this! Where it truly payed off was buying a Roland MIDI synthesizer, something that DOOM supported, and sending the supporting cables adrift, to the Roland Synthesizer and WOW, did it play Great!!! Butter smooth and the sound was phenomenal!!! I still have the Roland connected to my computer today. In my opinion, Roland samples simply can’t compete to even the latest Sound Blaster Cards…..Ah, Memories😌
Had this exact box when we upgraded our 486. Although some of the software titles were slightly different here in Canada. That double speed drive was a game changer when I first played Star Wars: Rebel Assault and digging through the encyclopedias (Grolier ftw)! The SB installation disks included: The Creative CDROM install disk and separate disks for the SB drivers and extra software (no installation CD was included in this box).
Fact: I still have the same CT2290 SB16 and the included Creative branded 2X CDROM connected via the proprietary Matushita connector from this Discovery pack in a donor 486!
Creative had the best, most complete and colorful bundles. They made computing fun
One would say they were creative
I really appreciate your excitement opening these things that would have been amazing to have in the 90’s. It allows me to share the excitement which is really cool. Thank you for the excellent video!
My parents bought this for me back for Christmas in 1994. I stayed up all night trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the CD-ROM to work only to realize after several hours the IDE cable was backwards. I guess that was back before they put the little tab in the middle to keep you from making that mistake! I was so blown away at that Grolier encyclopedia and still remember the first video I watched on there which was the Hindenburg crash. I had just turned 15 years old when I got this and put it in my Packard Bell 486/SX 25. One of the problems i discovered with the PB is some of the internal components took up too many IRQ’s and I really struggled to get the sound card working correctly, but finally figured out how I could re-assign some IRQ’s for some of the other devices to free up the one’s I needed to get the SB card working. Sure was an exciting time!
Oh. My. God. I had a similar version to this this back in the day (I had the 4x CD-ROM version). I wish I could get my hands on one, they're ultra rare! Better keep it under lock and key, LGR 😂
Edit: I played Dune 2 on our new 486 system with the Creative 4x Discovery bundle installed, having previously played it only on our previous IBM PS/1 286 which was too slow to output sound for it through the audio card option we had. I was blown away by the SB16 and those speakers, and have been a Creative fan ever since (although admittedly not since the X-Fi range came out, a little pointless these days sadly).
I had a very similar Creative bundle for this. It was almost exactly the same except it had a AWE32 included instead of the SB16. Eagle Eye mysteries is genially a good game. For a kids adventure game it is reasonably complex, fun and interesting. I thought this game would be a perfect game for you to do a playthrough with PushingUpRoses.
Watching this is a lot like re-living the Christmas of 1994 when my mom bought a Creative CD/SoundBlaster/Speaker set for the family. I still have the box, and I was overjoyed to find the PC that both the CD and SoundBlaster 16 went into, in my mom's attic!
Brings back and unbelievable amount of memories like the first time sound ever came out of my PC! I was running a 386 SX 25, and remember when sound cards and cd ROMs were released, I think I had the same set you've unboxed!
I've never been this nostalgic when watching LGR. I had this full size sound blaster board and CD-ROM with the bundled software like Syndicate and the encyclopedia. Childhood memories ❤️
Man I'm having flashbacks of having to remove and replace those big square sockets on VFD control boards... The horror...
Wow, that Canyon MIDI track sure brought back the memories! I cannot recall that I had this bundled set, but I definately had the SoundBlaster 16 card installed with tiny little black SoundBlaster speakers. Great video, LGR. I'm glad you could finally experience your childhood fantasy!
LGR really takes me back to my childhood. I remember seeing this in my childhood in a store at Dubai and of course not being able to buy it. O was and still am a PC gamer and this things just fascinate me.
A little upset that I'm in my mid 30s and cracked up at the "...farts"
Ah, Creative... the OLDEST component of my "modern" PC is STILL the Creative sound system. (Creative I-Trigue 3300, circa 2002)
Wow, I remember when my parents bought this (including those speakers!) for our first 486 dx 2/66.
This. This is what makes your channel unique. Takes me right back to when my dad bought an AWE32 new in '95.