The Computer Chronicles - Greatest Games (1996)

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  • @volo870
    @volo870 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Ah! 1996 - one of the best years for PC gaming! Equally good as 1993 and almost as fascinating as 1998.

    • @ericwood3709
      @ericwood3709 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like this year, when I can fully emulate a PC of that era in software and play those old games on a Mac that draws less than 40 watts and won't be hopelessly obsolete in three years.

    • @volo870
      @volo870 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ericwood3709 I'll uncover a secret - many of the computers of the day were also 50-100 watts. 150 Watt PSU was deemed completely sufficient, and CPUs dissipated so little power - they often had no fans.

    • @ericwood3709
      @ericwood3709 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@volo870 This is true. Seems like it was around 50-66 MHz that a 486 or Pentium needed a fan on it.

    • @volo870
      @volo870 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ericwood3709 I have a couple of Compaq LTE laptops:
      -LTE 5000 with Pentium 75 and
      -LTE 5300 with Pentium 133.
      They both don't have a CPU fan, only a small side mounted dust guzzler. 75 MHz model doesn't ever turn the fan on. 133 - rarely and sporadically.

    • @fongmansze7480
      @fongmansze7480 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thanks for 3DFX voodoo card.

  • @BigJasonMc
    @BigJasonMc ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ive been pretty down lately. This series is that little ray of hope I needed. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

    • @speedbird737
      @speedbird737 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      hope you're doing better now

  • @LA-84-FM
    @LA-84-FM 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Stewart is 85 and still kicking. Love these videos man!

  • @WeFightTheCorruption
    @WeFightTheCorruption ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I remember playing Quakeworld online and the original Quake Arena for hours on end, tying up the phone lines from 10pm to 3am lol. Those were the days when everything was moving fast and getting magical.

  • @MasterKoala777
    @MasterKoala777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    On the year this episode was broadcast (1996), I was able to buy my first PC, a Cyrix MediaGX 133 Mhz with 16MB EDO Ram and 1.2 GB hard drive. It was slow even for its time, but what a wonderful experience it was having my own PC with speakers and CD-ROM drive :)
    I tried running Tomb Raider (shown in this video) and it was 3-5 FPS. Later, I bought a Rendition Verite 1000 (Creative Labs 3D Blaster PCI) graphics card, and marveled at the fluidity of the game. It ran much better than the 10-15 fps shown here.

    • @raccoon681
      @raccoon681 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cyrix is why I had there 300 cpu it was getting it's ass kicked by other brands with lower specs.

    • @raccoon681
      @raccoon681 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was told by a buddy of mine when i first got it that I basically have a Pentium 166. It struggled with mp3's @@zeffster2

    • @FlyboyHelosim
      @FlyboyHelosim ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zeffster2 *Cyrix

  • @TheCyberDruid
    @TheCyberDruid ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Playing Quake with keyboard only. Mind blown.

    • @MadsterV
      @MadsterV ปีที่แล้ว

      the day I read about WASD with mouselook I ditched my keypad layout and never looked back. Innovation happens in unexpected places.

  • @jkhammar1
    @jkhammar1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It's crazy looking back and seeing the guys responsible for some of my fav games all time in 1996. The Bioware team went on to do Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gare, Baldur's Gare 2, Kotor, Mass Effect and Dragon Age Origins etc!

    • @gamingtonight1526
      @gamingtonight1526 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And then Jade Empire. and Mass Effect Andromeda...... The cRPGs ended with Dragon Age Origins.

    • @AdamsOlympia
      @AdamsOlympia ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The only company capable of following in their footsteps = Larian. Baldur's Gate 3, best RPG of all time. Much thanks to Bioware for laying the groundwork.

    • @jeffyp2483
      @jeffyp2483 ปีที่แล้ว

      MDK was a wacky adventure.

    • @glitch200
      @glitch200 ปีที่แล้ว

      And then they got assimilated by EA and ran every single one of their franchises into the dirt in the name of social justice.

  • @MrGencyExit64
    @MrGencyExit64 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The children in this video are almost 40 years old now :)

  • @hopefulkoala01435
    @hopefulkoala01435 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The world would be a better place if The Computer Chronicles were still running, fact! Lol.

  • @rubyvolt
    @rubyvolt ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I actually have most of the ProOne software that sponsored this episode. I actually binge watched this show during the first lockdown in 2020. Been using computers since a DEC PDP-11 in 1978.

  • @Mirrodin82
    @Mirrodin82 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What an awesome show. I'm so glad that I discovered this channel 😊

  • @jamesedwards5702
    @jamesedwards5702 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow, that takes me back! I remember Quake on my 486/66DX. Then I remember it on my old Voodoo 2 card!! It was like a whole new world. I thought graphics couldn't get any better... I was wrong! LOL

    • @zeffster2
      @zeffster2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the 66mhz dx was glorious. it ran doom 2 like a dream and I believe this is the point when competitive fps was born - the 4 player deathmatch

    • @si4632
      @si4632 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah awesome I stuck a voodoo two in a amd k5 to play total air war🤣

  • @RobertKliethermes
    @RobertKliethermes ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Never heard of 'Shattered Steel', looks like a fun game. I would have loved to have played that game back in 1996.

  • @alzeNL
    @alzeNL ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So cool seeing MacTCP in the opening again after all these years ! I used to work for Demon Internet 1997/98 and amongst Amiga and Windows support I was there doing MacTCP ! Happy days - apart from when people tried to dial up whilst still on the phone - was always the Turnpike users that done that...

  • @dammerunq
    @dammerunq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    10:02 "Pretty clean smooth looking animation" :) ... God I love my childhood.

    • @mattizzle81
      @mattizzle81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Damn, so smooth.

    • @elcarmi
      @elcarmi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kids these days will never know the struggle

  • @jeffyp2483
    @jeffyp2483 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    playing quake w/o a mouse. takes me back

    • @SpacePoodle
      @SpacePoodle 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ha! I didn't use the mouse until Half-Life. I bet I'm not the only one.

  • @kamelassaf7493
    @kamelassaf7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That would be cool to have a Time Machine, so you and your friends can go back to the 90's and live it again.

  • @ronsmith4325
    @ronsmith4325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    CNET Gamecenter, BattleNet and TEN, Wow... talk about a nostalgia trip!
    I had to chuckle at that segment with Quake on the laptop... That thing was an absolute beast for the day and reminded me of my struggles trying to make Quake II run on an old Thinkpad back around the same time... I was a network admin at one of the old World Cyber Games tournaments and needed something to pass the time so I wasn't spending hours a day just sitting and twiddling my thumbs - this was way back in 2004 and Quake II was way out of date at this point, but I did get it to work well enough to be playable. Good ol' software rendering at 640x480, complete with ghosting from the TFT LCD display, LOL. I don't remember what CPU the laptop used, but if I had to guess I would say it was likely a Pentium 200MMX with maybe 1MB of VRAM at best. We are so lucky with what we have today in comparison.

  • @10vid5
    @10vid5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    It's crazy how Tomb Raider ran at ~8FPS while Quake at 30 FPS, in the same era.

    • @hewh0wearspants
      @hewh0wearspants ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah, John Carmack really was a game engine sorcerer. Even the latest id-Tech engine runs ungodly smooth compared to its peers

    • @izusspecman
      @izusspecman ปีที่แล้ว

      I think, that they demoed tomb rader (and also Shattered Steel) on a quite crappy PC in their studio, There is a few freezes even in Neverhood and Diablo sound a bit scratchy. While gaming cafe has pretty fast machines.

    • @Phenom98
      @Phenom98 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quake has very few polygons. Every room is quite boxy

    • @chaoticsystem2211
      @chaoticsystem2211 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      they could have used a real graphics card there. i think 3dfx was released around that time...

  • @ashers9680
    @ashers9680 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember getting Shattered Steel on sale at, of all places, a hardware store. They had a big rack of 5 dollar Big Box PC games. This was probably 1999 or 2000 that I got it. Put a lot of hours into that game.

  • @KokoRicky
    @KokoRicky ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I really miss how this culture was around before computing/gaming became as corporatized as it is today. Obviously it was plenty corporate back then, but software developers had so much freedom in terms of what they wanted to design, and computer/Internet culture wasn't so ubiquitous and toxic.

    • @jussikankinen9409
      @jussikankinen9409 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nerds played not normals

    • @mserlin
      @mserlin ปีที่แล้ว

      I do find that several vr titles in the last couple of years have had a very similar vibe and some small teams with innovative ideas producing them

    • @roahnosh
      @roahnosh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah developers talking about their game passionately and not just coped inside their studios. There is passion and creativity. This is why I respect indie companies like larian studios and mihoyo.

    • @mindsofeuropa2955
      @mindsofeuropa2955 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jussikankinen9409 They were far more normal than today's gamers.

    • @mindsofeuropa2955
      @mindsofeuropa2955 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like how games had such a variety of different formats and styles. Today, most AAA games are walk around and shoot copies of each other. They look pretty, but there's little originality in them.

  • @syproful
    @syproful ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Quake was wizardry. The amount of history in this one episode…. Just look at the performance compared to other games.

    • @KokoRicky
      @KokoRicky ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I noticed that and was a bit surprised that 1996 computers had such a smooth framerate. It was incredibly well-optimized.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KokoRicky Used the FPU which wasn't common until then for this type of game. And only because the Pentium line had such a powerful FPU. Cyrix users who bought the kool-aide from them were left mad as its FPU was pathetic and couldn't come close to the framerates.

    • @Konacrusher
      @Konacrusher 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For me Descent was revolutionary, not Quake.

  • @Caplax40
    @Caplax40 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:52 CH Flightstick Pro! I still have mine from back in the day. One was also used as a prop in the first X-Men movie.

  • @daehawk9585
    @daehawk9585 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hearing that Diablo music takes me back. Also I really miss old Bioware. All we have is Bioware in name only because we are EA.

  • @m9078jk3
    @m9078jk3 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I saw the specs of that Falcon Northwest Mach V PC online at an archived PC Mag May 14,1996. page 366. It used a STB Powergraph 64 Video card 2mb EDO DRAM S3 Virge the infamous 3D decelerator !

  • @RationalAxis
    @RationalAxis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh man, so many hours spent on the Neverhood.

  • @spdzodzo
    @spdzodzo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    looking back this was probably the year of best games of all times, quake and diablo are classics with cult followings, same for tombraider

    • @theforsaken127
      @theforsaken127 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol, and to think, I still play Quake 1 to this day, its been installed on my PC since it came out, I just kept moving the install dir from build to build.

  • @Reason4Termination
    @Reason4Termination 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    oh man.. that looks like an early Diablo build.. haha.. I can still remember the dying guy in front of the church being different: "Please... listen to me.. the arch bishop Lazarus.."

  • @Amalekites
    @Amalekites 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    14:50 That didn't look like an espresso. 😆

  • @Kai0nTheMoon
    @Kai0nTheMoon ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't remember 1996 looking and feeling like 1986. I guess because of my age at the time, going from childhood to teenager, it made the distance between those years feel longer. 1986 feels like a long time ago, but 1996 feels like yesterday.

    • @PhilipKerry
      @PhilipKerry ปีที่แล้ว

      I was 40 years old in 1996 :)

    • @TheRedOGRE
      @TheRedOGRE ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@PhilipKerryI was 6. Got my first pc around this time and also ps1 for Christmas. Actually had the original tomb raider. Good times.

    • @PhilipKerry
      @PhilipKerry ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheRedOGRE I did the same , got the PS1 with Tomb Raider because of the Worldwide hype that was surrounding the game at the time :)

    • @TheRedOGRE
      @TheRedOGRE ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PhilipKerry mine came with crash bandicoot. But I had tons of good games. Eventually my dad's friend mod chipped it and burnt us tons of games. Good time for gaming.

    • @PhilipKerry
      @PhilipKerry ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheRedOGRE I still own mine along with PS2/3/4 , I mainly play the GranTurismo games on them nowadays :)

  • @Zombytes
    @Zombytes 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What ever happened to educational games? I had a blast playing those when I was a kid, and they taught me how to use a computer, and some other logical stuff. Something I feel we need now more than ever.. Someone should bring back cool educational games

  • @XStreet1985
    @XStreet1985 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 11 when shattered steel came out. I was eyeballing this game for a long time, asked my parents to buy it. But that never came to pass 😭

  • @4thewinir344
    @4thewinir344 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like how a minor blurb story in the ‘news’ part of the broadcast was Apple buys Next and Steve Jobs comes back to Apple. In other news lol…Little did they friggin know the massive chain of events that was about to happen starting with that acquisition. Not to mention, Apple’s lowest stock price at $12/share. What a time to be alive!

  • @oldtwinsna8347
    @oldtwinsna8347 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    amazing how these games can now run in hundreds of frames per second even on integrated graphics with the cheapest of setups.

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm sure hundreds isn't nearly enough. Absolutely has to be in the thousands, we are talking about a quarter century of technological progress. It may be that the fps may be limited by something else however. We may not get 15k fps just because the computer is 15k times faster.

    • @a9udn9u
      @a9udn9u 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean? They can run on my watch, in an emulator.

  • @Hurt009
    @Hurt009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love how they are playing Quake with keyboard only :-)

    • @Amalekites
      @Amalekites 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The only way to do it! 😁

  • @DanielPerez-hy6qi
    @DanielPerez-hy6qi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    what a great computer show, they dont make them like these anymore..

    • @Ligioseete
      @Ligioseete ปีที่แล้ว

      @DanielPerez-hy6qi I stopped scrolling when I saw your comment. Can you please elaborate on what you mean by "they don't make them like these anymore"? I was thinking the same but then realized that channels like gamespot and the likes do showcase newest games, game reviews, and brief showcases/user stories. I'm very curious as to what you mean exactly, as I myself just started my own YT channel on all things gaming industry. If I could, with the right team, I'd love to revive "The Computer Chronicles" format and bring back the good old days of reporting, explaining, and educating.

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “Wana be a women?”

  • @realdubai
    @realdubai ปีที่แล้ว +4

    IM from Ukraine. In 1996 I have 486DX2-66....and Video card Trident 1mb ISA

  • @kh7955
    @kh7955 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I still remember playing halo online when it was nearly impossible so to speak. Lag was def an issue. Played a ton of Diablo but never online

  • @JC-XL
    @JC-XL ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What an episode - first Diablo demoed and then Steve Jobs return to apple mentioned.

  • @wallacelang1374
    @wallacelang1374 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have both Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II for my Pentium MMX Windows 95 PC and it is fun to play Lara Croft searching for valuable hidden treasures.

  • @Erikcleric
    @Erikcleric ปีที่แล้ว

    That guy gave himself a proper screen to play Quake on for sure!
    Hooking up his tv to the computer?

  • @AgnostosGnostos
    @AgnostosGnostos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    At 22:00 the return of Jobs to Apple.

    • @JC-XL
      @JC-XL ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, and only 5 years later the iPod hit the market and changed the music industry forever, then another 6 years later the iPhone changed mobile phones as well.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    22:31 Cyber Promotions - featuring Sanford (“Spamford”) Wallace, the spam king! Yes folks, spam was still a new thing, then. And this guy was not only a pioneer, he pioneered it big. Even after repeated court verdicts and penalties and injunctions against him, he kept popping up again and again, under different names and locations, bombarding the world’s hapless email users with unwanted crap. Seems he just couldn’t give up the spam habit.

  • @andersdenkend
    @andersdenkend 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ah, good times... when every 3D looking game was called a Doom clone...

    • @MondySpartan
      @MondySpartan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I must say Quake killed the DOOM clone term.

  • @yw1971
    @yw1971 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    22:22 - Very part-time... The best part time in history.

  • @AdhamMGhaly
    @AdhamMGhaly 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Neverhood ❤️❤️❤️❤️
    One of the greatest and strangest games ever created.

  • @igano111
    @igano111 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn, even the guy that worked on the game calls her Laura Croft.

  • @Life_Is_A...
    @Life_Is_A... 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    18:36 It sounds like the voice actor IS the presenter.

  • @shaddy7787
    @shaddy7787 ปีที่แล้ว

    Windows 98 and PC's from the later 90's really helped to improve performance

  • @pantyukovk
    @pantyukovk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Stewart Cheifet born September 24!

  • @rayaspo4893
    @rayaspo4893 ปีที่แล้ว

    Woah espresso has changed over the years

  • @AlexSimesky
    @AlexSimesky ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Guy at 15:15 looks like he's about to send Ripley on another shady mission.

  • @tommyeastwood4393
    @tommyeastwood4393 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:50 smooth animation, aint it? 😂

  • @chevyrupleix
    @chevyrupleix 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back then it was all doom-type, now it's all souls-like.

  • @kh7955
    @kh7955 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Legit nerds...that also actualized the games we always wanted.

  • @theforsaken127
    @theforsaken127 ปีที่แล้ว

    damn, that fps in Tomb Raider....

  • @mctapoutos7426
    @mctapoutos7426 ปีที่แล้ว

    10:00" that's pretty smooth animation " 😂

  • @_zoinks2554
    @_zoinks2554 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this old stuff. I was too poor back then to be a PC gamer so I was stuck with the 8 and 16 bit consoles. Chefman is the real deal, however most of these devs are complete idiots.

  • @tylerwightman2315
    @tylerwightman2315 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those frame rates 💀💀💀
    And here in 2024 my somewhat lower midrange PC can run some of todays AAA titles at 150+FPS 🤣
    I do miss the 90s tho. Was such an exciting time!

  • @JBTmusicc
    @JBTmusicc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Diablo!!!!!!

  • @Amalekites
    @Amalekites 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:58 That pc could not handle Neverhood. Lagging as hell! 😂

  • @JeanCarlosArtist
    @JeanCarlosArtist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Original Tomb Raider, Original Quake, Original Diablo. 1996.

  • @sluggotg
    @sluggotg ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bioware?? GODs... thanks for the great games!

  • @denknugz87
    @denknugz87 ปีที่แล้ว

    im assuming hes referring to the same terry taylor who wrote many great wwf/wwe themes

  • @lastofusclips5291
    @lastofusclips5291 ปีที่แล้ว

    12:07 crazy that even this guy gets her name wrong (many people call her 'Laura' instead of 'Lara')

  • @AdamsOlympia
    @AdamsOlympia ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Blizzard rep should have came in with a high level sorc and thrown some lightning and teleport to really show off the game. Having a low level warrior swing without any skills = missed opportunity.

    • @PhenomRom
      @PhenomRom ปีที่แล้ว

      He was playing his main

  • @infinitecanadian
    @infinitecanadian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Neverhood was shown in 1995's episode about games. Mr. Cheifet even asked how much clay it took to make the game.

  • @mutalix
    @mutalix 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've played every Tomb Raider game ever, including the handheld versions, had no idea Lara Croft was a doctor.

    • @a9udn9u
      @a9udn9u 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      PhD doctor

    • @Michael_Hunt
      @Michael_Hunt ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think that was actually made canon, this was before the game was released.

  • @greenhowie
    @greenhowie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That guy has the patience of a saint. They all might be gaming legends but they're awkward and nerdy as hell.

    • @stanislavdaganov574
      @stanislavdaganov574 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not true in this case: these game presenters seem surprisingly disciplined and expressive.

  • @realdubai
    @realdubai ปีที่แล้ว

    I like 486DX4-120 MHZ this power of 1997 yar

  • @officemishler3364
    @officemishler3364 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    30 second news bump about the future of Apple and computing as we know it with the next acquisition story

  • @Caleb-fv5fp
    @Caleb-fv5fp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    “Wanna be a woman?”💀😂

    • @SSJfraz
      @SSJfraz ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Takes on a whole new meaning these days.

    • @Itemtotem
      @Itemtotem ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aged rather poorly

    • @SSJfraz
      @SSJfraz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Itemtotem Become a woman, you may age better.

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All I can think of is that Donald trump rally where he tells the weight lifting story of the man named Alice .

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 ปีที่แล้ว

    20:03 Soon as he said “Battlenet”, I thought “whatever happened to bnetd” ...

  • @EGOS42
    @EGOS42 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I feel bad for the devs demoing their games on apparently underpowered PCs in the studio. Those framerates are crazy bad.

  • @Revelator2025
    @Revelator2025 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love me some Diablo!

  • @MondySpartan
    @MondySpartan ปีที่แล้ว

    Apparently, MacOS already had dark mode of sorts in 1996. 20:44

  • @auralplex
    @auralplex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember using Netscape.

    • @Amalekites
      @Amalekites 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who didn't..

  • @Mauro0
    @Mauro0 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can zoom in Diablo 1 ?? !!!
    I had played 4 times and I had no idea you could that 😭 loool

  • @TechWizMaster
    @TechWizMaster 10 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    would have been great for him to have a computer fast enough to show tomb raider at more than 12 fps...LOL !!!

    • @antdude
      @antdude 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No kidding. Did this game even have 3D card support?

    • @lasersauceretroarchives6544
      @lasersauceretroarchives6544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      for a casual like you, back then games where played in software mode and frame rate like that was still acceptable especially for a game that uses 3D graphics like Tomb Raider.

    • @yellowblanka6058
      @yellowblanka6058 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@antdude This was 1996, 3D cards were still in their inception and software support was spotty at best. I'm old enough to have used computers during that time, and I remember a smooth 30 FPS was a tagline for 3D accelerators. The footage shown was how your average machine ran 3D titles.

    • @antdude
      @antdude 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I remember buying my first video card: Diamond Monster 3D (3Dfx's Voodoo 1).

    • @m9078jk3
      @m9078jk3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@antdude Yes Tomb Raider looked best with a PowerVR Videologic Apocalypse 3Dx (PCX2) card and could even run at an amazing high 1024 by 768 Pixel resolution.
      No other card could do that.
      However that card was available in April 1997
      Also it could run at a 640 by 480 resolution with a 3Dfx Voodoo1 3D accelerator card too (available late 1996).
      Some other 2D/3D cards supported it as well but usually in a even lower resolution

  • @TuckerMcCannon
    @TuckerMcCannon ปีที่แล้ว

    14:52 that does not look like espresso! LOL! :)

  • @incumbentvinyl9291
    @incumbentvinyl9291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    19:20 - They couldn't find a proper computer to run that game on? Perhaps it has something to do with the version, because it looks slightly different than the finalized product.
    Looked it up, the year is wrong in the title of this video. This aired on the 10th of November 1995 and the game came out on the 3rd of January 1997.
    You're welcome.

    • @AgoraphobicLocust
      @AgoraphobicLocust 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aired or was shot on?

    • @incumbentvinyl9291
      @incumbentvinyl9291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AgoraphobicLocust Read the sentence again, there is no reason I should repeat myself when I was clear in the first place.

    • @AgoraphobicLocust
      @AgoraphobicLocust 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@incumbentvinyl9291 please don’t eat my bum at all.

  • @Alianger
    @Alianger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    18:45 Oh man that beta voice acting

  • @alexanderbjork6451
    @alexanderbjork6451 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting to hear the completely different dialog for the Butcher quest in the beta compared to the final version of Diablo.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    23:35 cgi-bin in the URL ... those were the days ...

  •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Huge news at the end! Apple buying Next, I wonder if it will be a good decision.

  • @AllahDoesNotExist
    @AllahDoesNotExist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    12:08 LAURA Croft??

  • @earthwolf82
    @earthwolf82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Schaefer's Hammer

  • @buzzfunk
    @buzzfunk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is TR running under 10fps? Omg. So slow. This was before even the first Voodoo Fx came out. Pretty crazy. When you look at a game like CP2077 today on a 4090.

  • @bakhtiar6977
    @bakhtiar6977 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That eye max schaefer...the true dark side of game..long live blizzard north

  • @jeffyp2483
    @jeffyp2483 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i can easily see Stewart Cheifet describing fortnite as 'like doom, but a bit cartoony'😆

  • @bunchamp85
    @bunchamp85 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    computerliments to the cheiffet
    gameboy

  • @Driver_93
    @Driver_93 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool, I need to fix my Falcon Northwest Mach V, But one thing, Didn't this actually air in January of 1997, I'll give it to you for it being in january, but wasn't it in 1997?

  • @GSi16vrs
    @GSi16vrs ปีที่แล้ว

    Man.... give em a 3dfx

  • @RajeshKumar-kz6576urmotherhsoj
    @RajeshKumar-kz6576urmotherhsoj 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    oldest computer games.....

  • @fminns
    @fminns 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice syrup

  • @masterofx32
    @masterofx32 ปีที่แล้ว

    12:30 „This isn‘t motion capture“ as if motio capture was anything bad. They probably should have done that 😉

  • @lockedine
    @lockedine ปีที่แล้ว

    What is a frame rate?

  • @stanislavdaganov574
    @stanislavdaganov574 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep, these are good, well picked games. Unlike the previous year's ones. Selection, selection, selection...

  • @sluggotg
    @sluggotg ปีที่แล้ว

    Falcon Northwest! They made the Absolute Best Gaming Computers out there, (OR what ever task you had for them!). When they came out this early I pronounced them.... DEAD. I was wrong these guys survived forever.. They provide the best of the best without judgement!!! (Ya.. .kinda sappy). For me.. I was wrong.. I thought that at their price.. (they are very, very expensive), ... they would fail. But a Rube like me was wrong and they kicked butt. If you have the Dough?

  • @Boro87
    @Boro87 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bet they cant translate that guys hair physics and look into a 2023 game.