So cool to see this. I remember seeing sega genesis games on there, particularly the sonic genesis games. This was my first exposure to them, so I played the crap outta the demos. Kinda crazy that they were licensed to be played on PC, when there wasn't an official port of those games to PC for more than a decade later.
I loved every bit of RealArcade. Found it in 2004 and played lot of the shareware games which the service offered along my "main games" on my PC and consoles like Halo PC, Halo 2, Half Life 2, Diablo 2, Ninja Gaiden, Tales of Symphonia, Neverwinter Nights, Sacred, Runescape 2 and Runescape Classic. Great times, great times.
@@DomtheDevilsRival Thanks for the reply :) i was 14 in 2004, growing up with games like these was a blast. And i found Realarcade tremendously innovative for its time.
@@gianlucachiaravalle3685 Being a small channel currently, I always have time to reply to everyone. I was only a mere 6 year old demon slayer in 04. Makes me wish I was a bit older during those days sometimes. Regardless, I have all the same fondness for RealArcade as anybody else!
@@gianlucachiaravalle3685 No, but they sound like stuff I would've played back then. Feeding Frenzy 1 & 2, Insaniquarium, Chainz, Super Collapse, Zuma, Avalanche, and Snowball Run are some examples of what I fondly remember.
I remember Real Arcade. My parents were convinced that all CD Roms were full of viruses so RealArcade was a compromise 😊 I loved figuring out how to get around the free trial limits
Wow what a nostalgia trip! As I kid, I remember cheesing the demos via never closing the games. Most games I played wouldn’t boot me out after the hour has surpassed, so I would purposely keep the game open for DAYS just to play as long as I wanted for free 😎
every now and then i’ll remember another game i played as a kid on real arcade, and i’ll spend days on end trying to remember what it was. sometimes i succeed, sometimes not. i eventually found two i was looking for, the mortimer becket games and tropix 1 & 2, but some of the games i can’t recall are so generic i might never find them, like a match 4 colosseum game or some harvest moon ripoff
This was trip down memory lane. I remember playing RollerCoaster Tycoon before this came out. When my brother and I broke the disc, I couldn't play it anymore. My cousin showed me RealArcade and I was amazed RollerCoaster Tycoon was on here. I remember downloading the free trial for it and playing it as long as I could before the trial expired.
I've been doing a lot of research lately on a lot of these old PC games, a great resource to find old stuff is the software of the internet archive website.
@@DomtheDevilsRival Thanks I’ll check it out. Also, do you remember the games Demoliton Derby & Figure 8 Race, Hamsterball, and SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey? Those were a couple other games I bought on here.
@@holden5010 I do remember Hamsterball and I loved Obstacle Odyssey! I actually found a couple of versions of Obstacle Odyssey that run on Windows 10/11. One of which I recently uploaded to my page on the internet archive. archive.org/details/obstacleodyssey-setup-primarygames926 There is also another one that works from this Nick Arcade Archive. archive.org/details/nick-arcade-mega-folder
A song from a football game I only know from real arcade randomly plays in my head whenever i listen to the guitar solo in coldplays paradise. No idea what the game was
I actually had this service when it closed all my games went to game house, and big fish, iremember this software, back then it was like the only game service out there
I love how the initial screen share looks like you divided by zero lol I definitely remember Real Arcade but I don't think I ever bought the paid subscription. I also didn't realize Steam existed as far back as the early 2000's, I had only started using it around 2015.
@@DomtheDevilsRival I probably just didn't consider it but I thought it was something new, at least as of 2010. I love the recurring joke that it was invented because Gabe Newell dropped an install disc on the ground and couldn't pick it up from his computer chair lol
The reason why it still works on Windows 10 is because of how Windows itself was built. Think of Windows like an onion with layers of old legacy code. Windows 10 is nothing more than Windows NT with newer better stuff added over old legacy stuff; if you know where to look in Windows 10 you can actually find old icons from Windows 95 in it, Hell you probably could even find stuff from MS DOS on it (oh wait you can lamo).
@@DomtheDevilsRival it is a game where you switch a sisscorss picture with in the middle of 2 rocks then the 2 rock pictures squish on it. Same goes goesnfor the rock, and the paper too. also there are other types in this game.
Did this have sonic games you could play? I tried skimming through the video but this feels extremely familiar/might be what I've been trying to find all these years... Nvm. It lists gutterball on the wiki. This is the fucking thing.
5:33 I think they only gave you one game download per month.
Yes thank you I was mis remembering a bit, still though not a bad deal for back in the day.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers RealArcade. It introduced me to RollerCoaster Tycoon. The 1-hour trial was annoying, but I enjoyed it!
You'd be surprised by how many there are that remember this service. I'm happy to see it!
RCT is available on ios
You can easily bypass it
So cool to see this. I remember seeing sega genesis games on there, particularly the sonic genesis games. This was my first exposure to them, so I played the crap outta the demos. Kinda crazy that they were licensed to be played on PC, when there wasn't an official port of those games to PC for more than a decade later.
I loved every bit of RealArcade. Found it in 2004 and played lot of the shareware games which the service offered along my "main games" on my PC and consoles like Halo PC, Halo 2, Half Life 2, Diablo 2, Ninja Gaiden, Tales of Symphonia, Neverwinter Nights, Sacred, Runescape 2 and Runescape Classic. Great times, great times.
That's incredible! Those are absolute units to grow up on I'll say that.
@@DomtheDevilsRival Thanks for the reply :) i was 14 in 2004, growing up with games like these was a blast. And i found Realarcade tremendously innovative for its time.
@@gianlucachiaravalle3685 Being a small channel currently, I always have time to reply to everyone. I was only a mere 6 year old demon slayer in 04. Makes me wish I was a bit older during those days sometimes. Regardless, I have all the same fondness for RealArcade as anybody else!
@@DomtheDevilsRival do you remember magic ball Deluxe and marble blast gold from RealArcade? Very good and relaxing games :)
@@gianlucachiaravalle3685 No, but they sound like stuff I would've played back then. Feeding Frenzy 1 & 2, Insaniquarium, Chainz, Super Collapse, Zuma, Avalanche, and Snowball Run are some examples of what I fondly remember.
I remember Real Arcade. My parents were convinced that all CD Roms were full of viruses so RealArcade was a compromise 😊 I loved figuring out how to get around the free trial limits
Lmao. I mean at least it gave your parents a reason to purchase real arcade.
Wow what a nostalgia trip! As I kid, I remember cheesing the demos via never closing the games. Most games I played wouldn’t boot me out after the hour has surpassed, so I would purposely keep the game open for DAYS just to play as long as I wanted for free 😎
Lmaooo I wish I would've known that as a kid but we had GamePass so it worked out well. Glad to hit you with the nostalgic feels.
every now and then i’ll remember another game i played as a kid on real arcade, and i’ll spend days on end trying to remember what it was. sometimes i succeed, sometimes not. i eventually found two i was looking for, the mortimer becket games and tropix 1 & 2, but some of the games i can’t recall are so generic i might never find them, like a match 4 colosseum game or some harvest moon ripoff
RealArcade had so many games so it's not easy to be able to find or remember a lot of them but they were the best!
This was trip down memory lane. I remember playing RollerCoaster Tycoon before this came out. When my brother and I broke the disc, I couldn't play it anymore. My cousin showed me RealArcade and I was amazed RollerCoaster Tycoon was on here. I remember downloading the free trial for it and playing it as long as I could before the trial expired.
I've been doing a lot of research lately on a lot of these old PC games, a great resource to find old stuff is the software of the internet archive website.
@@DomtheDevilsRival Thanks I’ll check it out. Also, do you remember the games Demoliton Derby & Figure 8 Race, Hamsterball, and SpongeBob Obstacle Odyssey? Those were a couple other games I bought on here.
@@holden5010 I do remember Hamsterball and I loved Obstacle Odyssey! I actually found a couple of versions of Obstacle Odyssey that run on Windows 10/11. One of which I recently uploaded to my page on the internet archive. archive.org/details/obstacleodyssey-setup-primarygames926 There is also another one that works from this Nick Arcade Archive. archive.org/details/nick-arcade-mega-folder
@@DomtheDevilsRival Thanks, I'll check it out!
@@holden5010 😁
A song from a football game I only know from real arcade randomly plays in my head whenever i listen to the guitar solo in coldplays paradise. No idea what the game was
Don't know to be honest, but I'm sure it can be found somewhere.
I actually had this service when it closed all my games went to game house, and big fish, iremember this software, back then it was like the only game service out there
These services were very ahead of their time. Big Fish Games is still around to this say.
It kind of still works if you have this archive thing
I love how the initial screen share looks like you divided by zero lol
I definitely remember Real Arcade but I don't think I ever bought the paid subscription. I also didn't realize Steam existed as far back as the early 2000's, I had only started using it around 2015.
Lmao, divided by zero. I tell ya RealArcade was magical at the time, and it's crazy to think Steam at this moment, is now 20 years old.
@@DomtheDevilsRival I probably just didn't consider it but I thought it was something new, at least as of 2010. I love the recurring joke that it was invented because Gabe Newell dropped an install disc on the ground and couldn't pick it up from his computer chair lol
Awesome. It's nice to see another fan of Trivia Machine. I've been looking for a RealArcade print of that game for a while.
It's nice to see someone else remember that game, or anything RealArcade related!
Just curious - do you still have a copy of the game anywhere?
@@thebowlfosho4974 Unfortunately, I don't anymore. Though I'm sure I could find one somewhere one day.
@@DomtheDevilsRival great news, the RGS File of Trivia Machine is Found couple of days ago.
@@GageBrown That's awesome!
I first played the Ricochet brickbashing series on RealArcade, although it was called Rebound on it for some reason
Don't remember that but I'll have to look into it.
What's funny, I was exposed to Real Arcade back in Summer 2003. When I installed it from an MLB Post CD you'd get.
Summer 2003 must've been lit back then. I was only 5 I miss real arcade back in those days.
@@DomtheDevilsRival Other than not having cable for about a year in that time frame, it was perfectly lit lol.
@@aboundingvampirekiller2048 Times were simpler then.
YES LOOOOOL took my internet ages to download these games, most where probably a few MB that took like half a day
@God of Hyperdeath
This basically confirms that Windows is pretty much bloated af. Still proud to have become a Linux user.
My childhood!
i remember a my favorite game of all time on there was called "impact" if anyone knows were i can find it i would love to know.
Sounds cool, unfortunately I don't remember that one. I'm sure it's out in the wild somewhere.
There's a project out there of It's an archive of these games And if you download it I'll take you to real arcade
You should make a video of it
The reason why it still works on Windows 10 is because of how Windows itself was built. Think of Windows like an onion with layers of old legacy code. Windows 10 is nothing more than Windows NT with newer better stuff added over old legacy stuff; if you know where to look in Windows 10 you can actually find old icons from Windows 95 in it, Hell you probably could even find stuff from MS DOS on it (oh wait you can lamo).
Ah so that's why there are some old games that work flawlessly, I never knew that!
I can't run 16-bit applications on my Windows 10
I currently use Windows 7. I was browsing icons to choose for folders and there's icons dating back from Windows 95 (with its pixelated images).
Hello I used to actually go on this when I was younger actually I remember playing games
That's pretty dope! You grew up on some good stuff.
Do you want to play Trivia Machine?
So this is best question lol
I used to play it when I was younger, wouldn't mind playing it again.
Do you know the game Cycles Rock Paper, and scissors?
No what's that one?
@@DomtheDevilsRival it is a game where you switch a sisscorss picture with in the middle of 2 rocks then the 2 rock pictures squish on it. Same goes goesnfor the rock, and the paper too. also there are other types in this game.
@@naeliv6099 Sounds like a fun little game.
@@DomtheDevilsRival yeah I used to play it when I was 7-8 years old I loved it. You can review it it is on real arcade games if want to.
@@naeliv6099 I'll look into it. 😎
Did this have sonic games you could play? I tried skimming through the video but this feels extremely familiar/might be what I've been trying to find all these years...
Nvm. It lists gutterball on the wiki. This is the fucking thing.
At one point yes! RealArcade did actually a few Sonic games from the genesis. I've learned from doing a lot of research.