@@meatsim65 Lowering the bitrate won't add new sounds... it won't make dry Ss hiss. I assume she's doing something before editing to cause that, and I'm suspicious that her vocal performance is part of the secret.
We're women of similar vintage and your recent videos have really captured what was so fun and wild about early computing. Focusing on the experiences and devs creating old software, rather than the all-too common fixation on specs, rarity, and collecting/overconsumption of retro tech is so refreshing. I can't wait for more!!
Yay!! Thank you so much! I know a lot of people love digging into specs, and while I try to touch on them a bit, I also know there are so many amazing, well-established creators already making super thorough tech videos. I honestly held off on starting this whole thing for years-like, over a decade-because I kept thinking it was “too late.” Eventually, I just forced myself to dive in and focus more on the fun and the experience. Anyway, I’m rambling, but the main point is: your comment means so much to me! Thank you again!
I think your channel is as good a find for me as that CD-ROM for you. About a month ago, a coworker said to me he'd bought an old film scanner and had no way of hooking it up to his computer. Talking to him about it I said "what you need is a Firewire card. I don't know who'd install one in a PC in 2024, or where you'd find one these days, but that's going to be the way". Like an hour later, your "installing a firewire card in 2024" video popped up in my recommendations. With a silent thank-you to the capricious eavesdropping deities of the algorithm, I linked him to the video, thought to myself "might watch that later", without adding it to my Watch Later, and then promptly forgot the video even existed. Today, I see you reviewing an obscure edutainment CD, so you've got a new subscriber, here!
Thank you so much! The capricious eavesdropping algorithm deities often frighten me with their uncanny ability to provide videos about subjects I’ve only just been thinking of… 👀
This definitely feels like something a school or library would have set up in their computer lab, especially for things like Earth Day (or "Earth Week" back in my elementary school days). I love this sort of weird/obscure edutainment software.
So glad that the TH-cam algorithm brought me this brilliant and entertaining content. I hope this is a sign that many many many more will be/are enjoying your content too.
"Would that wood could talk" is like an old-timey way of saying "If only wood could talk". "Would that" is basically introducing a wish or wistful hypothetical.
My mind just went to that bit in Hail Caesar!. With the actor on a movie set, struggling to say his line "Would that it were so simple" Frustrating his director/writer to insanity.
A lot of games in the early PC/Mac era have fallen through the cracks but Macromedia Director games from the multimedia CD era really hit that liminal existence of "high effort(for what it is) but quickly forgotten" hard
We totally thought about that while filming, but then just left it 😂 In the behind the scenes footage, I say something like “uh oh, I think the sun should be coming from the other direction” and then we both agree that it’ll just be another silly thing about it 😆
Thank you! I’m shooting for every other week for now while I get the hang of it. I have a whole list of “fun” topics! If you ever have any suggestions, let me know! 😄
These videos are so good! Please keep making them. I've been watching TH-cam from the beginning and the fun 90's PC throwback animated segments you make between scenes are amazing and something I haven't seen done so well before! Really nice editing and such a fun relaxing vibe all your own. You have your own voice and I hope your stick to your intuitions because you making great stuff! Your audience will definitely find you!
Been following your tiktok account for a while and only now just realized that you had a youtube channel! Your editing skills are top notch and the tech you talk about is really interesting. I think your channel is gonna get really big, im rooting for you!
Wow thank you so much! I’m trying to have fun with this and not get too caught up in analytics and all that (other than listening to feedback from viewers of course). I really appreciate this! Thank you!
Please continue this quest for interactive CD wonder! For the trees, indeed! It was very noble of you to attempt to use Director 5. I sincerely believe you have everything it takes to make 90s era multimedia, don't let Director dissuade you ⭐
as a 90s girly who was into captain planet and ecological science at the time, this would have been something i spent hours on! I'm also very impressed by how you made your sequences actually look 90s authentic, some people just use filters and it never looks right. just subbed!
this also reminds me of a personal lost pc game of mine called "animal planet"... yes, it was by discovery and called "animal planet" before the channel on tv existed! so it's extremely hard to find any info on it and there are NO videos of gameplay online. i want to buy it to relive my childhood but i don't think it would run on a modern machine. you basically went around the world looking at pre-rendered nature scapes and clicking on 2D animated animals to bring up info pages about them. the fun thing was trying to find "hidden" animals and go down rabbit holes seeking animals you weren't able to find visually within the nature-ramas, you had to click around on their "related species" tabs and delve deeper and deeper... it was a wonderful game.
@@harkeofficial if you were able to make a video of it i would cry. i am also willing to donate money to you to make a video about it even if it's short and quick. (no pressure though!) there's just no info about it online. the cd roms are not too expensive but i really have no idea how to run it!
@@mistydayremainsofthejudgment It's already on it's way from eBay! 😄 This looks like a game I would have LOVED as a kid (and what most of the games I played were like haha) No donation necessary, but thank you for the offer- I am excited to add this one to the line-up!
2:46 the industry way to say this is "sixty-eight oh fourty". i would often hear people add "em" to the front too because the full product name is M68040 (M for Motorola). Sometimes old timers would call the "oh-fourty". I worked a bit with this microprocessor and it was ubiquitous for a very, VERY long time in some industries. I saw regular references to it in code i worked with well into the 2010's lol. There is a mountain of history with the 68040 and you will find it in a some old military tech that is still used today
@@JRiesen Same. I'm a relative spring chicken at 36 (and lived in the IBM PC world as a child), but all of the Mac, Amiga, and Atari content on TH-cam quickly got me saying the 68k processor names properly.
This was awesome! I also grew up in the 90s and I'm nostalgic of those simpler times. I love your Macromedia animation. It reminds me of a Mario RPG trailer I made when I was young, in Powerpoint, haha. Well, yours is better of course. Cool stuff.
Cool tech-scapade! The rotoscoped footage of your husband turned out really great. It perfectly matches the look of those old FMV games like Phantasmogoria😁
Keep making these! I’m not sure how I stumbled upon your channel but it’s a nostalgia blast. When I was a kid we would go to a book store at a local mall and my dad would buy random cd-roms(floppy disks at first) and give them to me to test out with zero supervision. 25+ years later and I’m still in IT. Also love your music.
this era of games was one i had to miss out on with us growing up in poverty, i'm glad some people are able to show me what i missed out on. Also have a sub
I applaud you trying to learn Macromedia Director. This is pretty much the entirety of WIn95 game software (because DOS was for GAMES, not MULTIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT!) Pretty much anything at the time was using it more or less.
I'm so happy your channel showed up in my feed! I'm super excited for more content like this. Something about the FMV style, editing, and nostalgic subject of your videos tickles my brain in a good way. I've sent my friends a couple of your other videos to get them watching, too! Can't wait for your next techscapade!
I started college in Alabama in 2002, and my college roommate's dad was a professor of forestry at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Georgia in the late '90s. Given we were both DOS/CD-ROM sort of people, I'm a little surprised that he didn't have this game.
The colloquial way to say it is a Sixty-Eight-Oh-Forty (there was also the Sixty Eight Thousand, the Sixty Eight Oh Twenty and the Sixty Eight Oh Thirty). Thanks for making this. I’ve been getting major nostalgia for that era of Multimedia CD-ROM software lately. So much so that I just bought a Macintosh Performa 6300CD to bring back those school library vibes.
A little pedantic: There were also a 010 and 060. The 050 was a project but never released and a 070 was produced by Philips but not officially part of Motorola's setup.
I came here after watching your storybook weaver video and your presentation is so unique and fun and exactly the type of hyper specific content I love, great job!
Some of my favourite 90s tech memories were attached to thrift store CD discoveries, like old demo discs of strange shareware products, and a mint-condition copy of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective for MS-DOS. Thank you for this forest journey, Steward.
Thanks for watching and sharing your feedback! I totally get where you’re coming from. My goal with this channel is to give viewers a mix of history, vibe, and unique details about the game rather than a full gameplay showcase. I aim to keep things balanced with background and analysis while still showing a good feel of what the game offers (there’s actually more gameplay shown later on from about 10:10-11:50). Hope you enjoyed the rest of the journey through The Forest Adventure! Appreciate you taking the time to comment!
Geez this was super entertaining. I'm so happy I found this channel. I love the irony of 90s era sound and graphics for your narration segments meaning a higher level of production than something from a modern camera. Also, would play your version of the game :)
We were taught Macromedia Director in my high school computer class in the mid-late 90s, and we were given an open challenge for our end of year major project to make _something creative_ with it. Could have been an animation, an interactive website, a game, anything. I decided to make an interactive multi-media presentation about my favourite band at the time, The Smashing Pumpkins. I had downloaded tons of their music videos, and I thought I could make a UI to watch them, and also show pictures and information about the band and their music. The main "creative" part I came up with was the animated introduction, which basically had a bunch of pictures popping onto the screen in time with the beat of the intro of one of their songs. In the end I ran out of time working on it at school, so I installed a demo of Director on my home computer, which was much more powerful than the ones at school, and I got the timing to perfectly match the beat of the music. But when I ran it at school, the timing was way off because the machines were way under-powered for such animations. I did get marked down for the timing being off, even though it wasn't my fault, but I still got a good mark though, since it was technically animated and interactive. In hindsight, I should've scaled the images to the screen resolution before importing them, so Director didn't have to scale them on the fly, and I should've scripted them to appear at an exact time rather than depending on the timeline running at a specific framerate which didn't necessarily match the music. That said, it was a fun project, but I'm not that kind of creative, so it was mostly because it was about my favourite band.
This video came into my recommended and I ended up binge watching the channel. You're so freaking rad 😃 I'm so surprised you don't have a gazillion subs and views.
You are really taking me back, 80s baby here, first pc Gateway 2000, first intel pentium processor and an internet dial up speed of 33K, I remember these games and saving my allowance to buy them. You never knew what you were going to get haha
This may sound bad, but I miss the old interactive CD-ROM software. Watching this really brings back memories from when I was little. I was fascinated by FMV sequences in games.
3:48 awww man, I'd completely forgotten about a) installing Quicktime being a thing you had to do on a Windows 95 machine and b) that film strip progress bar! YES! Your channel is a real gem, cheers :)
I remember installing Quicktime, and then still not having the right version, and then having multiple versions, and probably deleting the wrong one... and so on and so on. Ahhhh, good times :) Thank you!
holy cow. this video was incredible! Excellent pacing and super interesting. Also, your version of what you'd make at 9:30 is exactly how the "Wrath of the Gods" 90's game works, which was almost certainly built on Macromedia Director, based on experience and what i'm reading online. (I played that game a ton...very hard and puzzling, especially if you don't know the stories behind the characters in the game.)
Your channel is a hidden gem! As a '90 baby I was slightly too young to have grown up with this type of game, but I did spend a lot of time on Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Word Rescue, Putt Putt, etc. so this was charmingly nostalgic
Amazing Edit... The throw back 90s pc game style show.....but medieval time period is something i would love to see "shorts" of. Like a 90s PC time machine.
Maaaaan, the old school low res bitcrushed "host" bits are poking my nostalgia glands. That's amazing. I definitely played games that looked and sounded just like that a bunch!
As an elder millennial in Canada this absolutely broghy back the nostalgia of the computer games we had in school. Also greatly out together video. I love the vibe
7:55 "would that wood could talk" is kind of old-fashioned phrasing, essentially meaning "if only wood could talk". Obviously they phrased it that way for the rhyming.
This continues to be possibly my favourite channel here on youtube. You just manage to hit so many of the right notes, and so eerily well. Please keep doing what you're doing!
This is an interesting concept, checking out games and interactive educational media most people will probably never investigate. I wish there’d been more information available about the company that produced the CD. I feel like people like hearing about older digital media companies, especially the ones that are defunct. I’ve kind of wanted someone to start doing a more software oriented concept along the lines of LGR’s weird tech series. This perfectly pulled that off. I personally feel it’d be interesting to do outdated or otherwise “weird” software that goes beyond games and interactive media, but that might just be a personal wheelhouse nobody else exists within. The presentation of all your stuff is awesome.
Half way through the vid- just want to say I just watched your last few vids over the last week and was stoked to see that you uploaded today. I watch- actually listen to lots of video essays while working, drawing, and sometimes playing games. Political, game, and what the Brutal Moose and Pushing up Roses people are. I really hope you keep making vids like this, awesome work.
Even though I cleaned out a lot of my old CD-ROMs over the past couple of years, there are still four boxes left. I remeber a few of those well meant educationional "games". Some were actually pretty well made and kind of able to keep me motivated. This fits right in with memories of a few other things. I remember the first phonebook and satellite Image CDs, like having all your countries phonebooks on a CD, easily searchable. Or beeing able to take a look at the world from above. No comparison to what several "Maps" services provide today, but it seemed pretty crazy back in the day.
During the gameplay all I could think about was "You can tell it's an Aspen because of the way it is. How neat is that?"... like a true steward of the forest.
This was a really cool video! I think I remember seeing software like this (not this one in particular, sadly) at local science museums as part of interactive exhibits for kids. I remember a dinosaur one where you had to look around in a prehistoric forest and find certain dinos, avoiding the meat-eaters and things like that, it was really cool at the time but also scary haha
That whole installing Quicktime thing at the start pretty much nailed it. I remember having Windows 3.11, and had just gotten a CD-ROM drive.. I'd bought a computer magazine that came with a CD-ROM that contained Quicktime, and a bunch of video files to show off what Quicktime could do, and the one that I remember the most was that old video of a news story where they blow up a whale that washed up on a beach! That's the first video I'd ever seen on a computer! That CD-ROM also had the Hock-a-loogie Beavis and Butthead game where you had to spit on stuff from the roof of the school! 🤣🤣
This was fun to see you explore! This definitely feels like a school curriculum, done over the course of a year or something, maybe they had multiple different save files set for different lessons or something!
Another masterpiece of a video! Loving this series so far! Really looking forward for more videos about obscure PC educational games from the 90s for sure lmao
This took me back, I'm in the middle of a move, and I discovered the old end of year project I made for my Multimedia course I did back in 2002, I'm pretty sure we used that same version of Director!
Upload that to the internet archive! Seems delightfully retro!
Good idea! I’ll do that this weekend!
Mac Repository would be nice too!
Unfortunately idk if the Internet Archive will exist soon given the copious amounts of DMCA strikes and the fact it got ddosed
@@ACT8113 That was the Russians who attacked the archive. It's back up. It's missing some stuff, but it's back up.
@ It will be a dark, dark day if the Internet Archive goes down for good 🥲
Production quality on these videos is off the charts. 13.2k subscribers is criminally low and something I suspect will explode very quickly very soon.
Thank you so much! I’m having a lot of fun so far, and I’m so happy enjoyed it!!
You're nailing the voice acting AND audio engineering of that CD-ROM style. Really impressive, this is a favourite new channel for me!
I honestly don't even understand how she gets her Ss sounding so hissy.
It's probably just converting to a low sample rate and bit depth @@SeekerGoldstone
@@meatsim65 Lowering the bitrate won't add new sounds... it won't make dry Ss hiss. I assume she's doing something before editing to cause that, and I'm suspicious that her vocal performance is part of the secret.
Yep, the moment she went into that retro-style tutorial intro, I knew I'd found a new gem of a channel.
Me too!) 😄 first i thought it is capture of the programme itself 😂
With quality like this, your channel is gonna become huge in the retro-stalgia computer space, just wait!
CS188 is right when he's right!
Holy shit I didn't expect to see one of my favorite YTP creators in the comments
We're women of similar vintage and your recent videos have really captured what was so fun and wild about early computing. Focusing on the experiences and devs creating old software, rather than the all-too common fixation on specs, rarity, and collecting/overconsumption of retro tech is so refreshing. I can't wait for more!!
Yay!! Thank you so much! I know a lot of people love digging into specs, and while I try to touch on them a bit, I also know there are so many amazing, well-established creators already making super thorough tech videos. I honestly held off on starting this whole thing for years-like, over a decade-because I kept thinking it was “too late.” Eventually, I just forced myself to dive in and focus more on the fun and the experience. Anyway, I’m rambling, but the main point is: your comment means so much to me! Thank you again!
I think your channel is as good a find for me as that CD-ROM for you. About a month ago, a coworker said to me he'd bought an old film scanner and had no way of hooking it up to his computer. Talking to him about it I said "what you need is a Firewire card. I don't know who'd install one in a PC in 2024, or where you'd find one these days, but that's going to be the way". Like an hour later, your "installing a firewire card in 2024" video popped up in my recommendations. With a silent thank-you to the capricious eavesdropping deities of the algorithm, I linked him to the video, thought to myself "might watch that later", without adding it to my Watch Later, and then promptly forgot the video even existed.
Today, I see you reviewing an obscure edutainment CD, so you've got a new subscriber, here!
Thank you so much! The capricious eavesdropping algorithm deities often frighten me with their uncanny ability to provide videos about subjects I’ve only just been thinking of… 👀
I will never take the FMV-style intros and segues you do for granted. It's so accurate it throws me off every time
This definitely feels like something a school or library would have set up in their computer lab, especially for things like Earth Day (or "Earth Week" back in my elementary school days). I love this sort of weird/obscure edutainment software.
I miss playing the games at the library, back when I didn’t even have a computer at home 🥲
So glad that the TH-cam algorithm brought me this brilliant and entertaining content. I hope this is a sign that many many many more will be/are enjoying your content too.
Welcome aboard! Thank you so much!
"Would that wood could talk" is like an old-timey way of saying "If only wood could talk". "Would that" is basically introducing a wish or wistful hypothetical.
After learning about trees for hours on end, my brain was having trouble computing 😂
@@harkeofficial Understandable. Trees have enough roots and branches without bringing linguistics into it.
My mind just went to that bit in Hail Caesar!. With the actor on a movie set, struggling to say his line "Would that it were so simple" Frustrating his director/writer to insanity.
Yeah it's like starting a sentence with "But for" meaning "If it wasn't for". Example "But for the guard rail I would have fallen"
@@jmalmsten Came here to say this! Such a good bit.
A lot of games in the early PC/Mac era have fallen through the cracks but Macromedia Director games from the multimedia CD era really hit that liminal existence of "high effort(for what it is) but quickly forgotten" hard
I don’t know how the algorithm took me to your doorstep but I’m so glad it has.
Thank you!!
Your retro editing and presenting style is very unique and super polished. Keep it up please.
The light coming from the wrong direction on the green screen wizard insert was *chefs kiss* perfect execution. Or a very happy accident.
We totally thought about that while filming, but then just left it 😂 In the behind the scenes footage, I say something like “uh oh, I think the sun should be coming from the other direction” and then we both agree that it’ll just be another silly thing about it 😆
the vibes are off the charts. I will watch approximately 796 episodes in this style if you feel like doing more idk
Thank you! I’m shooting for every other week for now while I get the hang of it. I have a whole list of “fun” topics! If you ever have any suggestions, let me know! 😄
These videos are so good! Please keep making them. I've been watching TH-cam from the beginning and the fun 90's PC throwback animated segments you make between scenes are amazing and something I haven't seen done so well before! Really nice editing and such a fun relaxing vibe all your own. You have your own voice and I hope your stick to your intuitions because you making great stuff! Your audience will definitely find you!
Thank you so much 😊
Yep, was in my recommendations this morning. Easy sub right here.
Been following your tiktok account for a while and only now just realized that you had a youtube channel!
Your editing skills are top notch and the tech you talk about is really interesting.
I think your channel is gonna get really big, im rooting for you!
Wow thank you so much! I’m trying to have fun with this and not get too caught up in analytics and all that (other than listening to feedback from viewers of course). I really appreciate this! Thank you!
Please continue this quest for interactive CD wonder! For the trees, indeed!
It was very noble of you to attempt to use Director 5. I sincerely believe you have everything it takes to make 90s era multimedia, don't let Director dissuade you ⭐
Thank you! I was quite tempted to (try to) make a little mini game, but then I realized no one would probably be able to play it anyway 🥲
as a 90s girly who was into captain planet and ecological science at the time, this would have been something i spent hours on! I'm also very impressed by how you made your sequences actually look 90s authentic, some people just use filters and it never looks right. just subbed!
Thank you so much! I basically only played learning games as a kid, and the nature-based games were definitely my favorite!
Glad YT recommended this vid, awesome stuff!
this also reminds me of a personal lost pc game of mine called "animal planet"... yes, it was by discovery and called "animal planet" before the channel on tv existed! so it's extremely hard to find any info on it and there are NO videos of gameplay online. i want to buy it to relive my childhood but i don't think it would run on a modern machine. you basically went around the world looking at pre-rendered nature scapes and clicking on 2D animated animals to bring up info pages about them. the fun thing was trying to find "hidden" animals and go down rabbit holes seeking animals you weren't able to find visually within the nature-ramas, you had to click around on their "related species" tabs and delve deeper and deeper... it was a wonderful game.
Oooo I love hidden treasures like that! I’ll add that one to my list to look out for 👀
@@harkeofficial if you were able to make a video of it i would cry. i am also willing to donate money to you to make a video about it even if it's short and quick. (no pressure though!) there's just no info about it online. the cd roms are not too expensive but i really have no idea how to run it!
@@mistydayremainsofthejudgment It's already on it's way from eBay! 😄 This looks like a game I would have LOVED as a kid (and what most of the games I played were like haha) No donation necessary, but thank you for the offer- I am excited to add this one to the line-up!
@@harkeofficial i am so so excited! you will def love it!!
Retro gaming, old software, then add the Hamvention shirt.... priceless!
I hope to make it for 2025! I haven’t been since they switched to Xenia 🥲
Oh man just hearing Macromedia Director just unlocked a buried memory 🤣
Oh man, I was not expecting to see Macromedia Director at any point, again, ever. :) It took me ten minutes just to collect myself, that was cool! :D
2:46 the industry way to say this is "sixty-eight oh fourty". i would often hear people add "em" to the front too because the full product name is M68040 (M for Motorola). Sometimes old timers would call the "oh-fourty". I worked a bit with this microprocessor and it was ubiquitous for a very, VERY long time in some industries. I saw regular references to it in code i worked with well into the 2010's lol. There is a mountain of history with the 68040 and you will find it in a some old military tech that is still used today
This. "Six eighty forty" also works.
2:40 sixty-eight-oh-forty :)
Came to make sure an old head caught it ;)
@@JRiesen Same. I'm a relative spring chicken at 36 (and lived in the IBM PC world as a child), but all of the Mac, Amiga, and Atari content on TH-cam quickly got me saying the 68k processor names properly.
We called it sixty eight oh four oh.
The FMV style embellishments are a nice touch.
This was awesome! I also grew up in the 90s and I'm nostalgic of those simpler times. I love your Macromedia animation. It reminds me of a Mario RPG trailer I made when I was young, in Powerpoint, haha. Well, yours is better of course. Cool stuff.
Cool tech-scapade! The rotoscoped footage of your husband turned out really great. It perfectly matches the look of those old FMV games like Phantasmogoria😁
Thank you so much! We certainly had fun with it 😆
Keep making these! I’m not sure how I stumbled upon your channel but it’s a nostalgia blast. When I was a kid we would go to a book store at a local mall and my dad would buy random cd-roms(floppy disks at first) and give them to me to test out with zero supervision. 25+ years later and I’m still in IT. Also love your music.
Thank you so much!!
this era of games was one i had to miss out on with us growing up in poverty, i'm glad some people are able to show me what i missed out on. Also have a sub
You’re totally killing it with the content! So entertaining!
I applaud you trying to learn Macromedia Director. This is pretty much the entirety of WIn95 game software (because DOS was for GAMES, not MULTIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT!) Pretty much anything at the time was using it more or less.
I'm so happy your channel showed up in my feed! I'm super excited for more content like this. Something about the FMV style, editing, and nostalgic subject of your videos tickles my brain in a good way. I've sent my friends a couple of your other videos to get them watching, too! Can't wait for your next techscapade!
I started college in Alabama in 2002, and my college roommate's dad was a professor of forestry at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Georgia in the late '90s. Given we were both DOS/CD-ROM sort of people, I'm a little surprised that he didn't have this game.
The colloquial way to say it is a Sixty-Eight-Oh-Forty (there was also the Sixty Eight Thousand, the Sixty Eight Oh Twenty and the Sixty Eight Oh Thirty).
Thanks for making this. I’ve been getting major nostalgia for that era of Multimedia CD-ROM software lately. So much so that I just bought a Macintosh Performa 6300CD to bring back those school library vibes.
Or sixty-eight-oh-four-oh.
To go a long with that note, the Mac computer you were referring to was the 'Quad'ra rather than 'Quan'dra.
@@TheErador That's how I remember it, "Oh-Four-Oh."
A little pedantic: There were also a 010 and 060. The 050 was a project but never released and a 070 was produced by Philips but not officially part of Motorola's setup.
@@Rob_III from what I just looked up evens were releases, odds were fixups. So, that explains some of that.
I came here after watching your storybook weaver video and your presentation is so unique and fun and exactly the type of hyper specific content I love, great job!
Some of my favourite 90s tech memories were attached to thrift store CD discoveries, like old demo discs of strange shareware products, and a mint-condition copy of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective for MS-DOS. Thank you for this forest journey, Steward.
"a CD ROM? Why not a scroll or something?"
"Cuz scrolls kill trees!"
😱 what a missed opportunity!!!
For some reason the video of your hubby reminded me of the game The 7th Guest. Loved that game....
Ooooo I never played that one, it looks fun!!
@@harkeofficial its a classic. Up there with Myst.
"Finally we can bring this game into the light!" *shows game for 2 minutes and 38 seconds*
Thanks for watching and sharing your feedback! I totally get where you’re coming from. My goal with this channel is to give viewers a mix of history, vibe, and unique details about the game rather than a full gameplay showcase. I aim to keep things balanced with background and analysis while still showing a good feel of what the game offers (there’s actually more gameplay shown later on from about 10:10-11:50). Hope you enjoyed the rest of the journey through The Forest Adventure! Appreciate you taking the time to comment!
Geez this was super entertaining. I'm so happy I found this channel. I love the irony of 90s era sound and graphics for your narration segments meaning a higher level of production than something from a modern camera.
Also, would play your version of the game :)
We were taught Macromedia Director in my high school computer class in the mid-late 90s, and we were given an open challenge for our end of year major project to make _something creative_ with it. Could have been an animation, an interactive website, a game, anything. I decided to make an interactive multi-media presentation about my favourite band at the time, The Smashing Pumpkins. I had downloaded tons of their music videos, and I thought I could make a UI to watch them, and also show pictures and information about the band and their music.
The main "creative" part I came up with was the animated introduction, which basically had a bunch of pictures popping onto the screen in time with the beat of the intro of one of their songs. In the end I ran out of time working on it at school, so I installed a demo of Director on my home computer, which was much more powerful than the ones at school, and I got the timing to perfectly match the beat of the music. But when I ran it at school, the timing was way off because the machines were way under-powered for such animations. I did get marked down for the timing being off, even though it wasn't my fault, but I still got a good mark though, since it was technically animated and interactive.
In hindsight, I should've scaled the images to the screen resolution before importing them, so Director didn't have to scale them on the fly, and I should've scripted them to appear at an exact time rather than depending on the timeline running at a specific framerate which didn't necessarily match the music. That said, it was a fun project, but I'm not that kind of creative, so it was mostly because it was about my favourite band.
4:04 I had that same feeling when I found the goodies folder on the Windows95 upgrade CD.
I'm expecting your channel to explode in popularity in the very near future. I love the work you do!
Thank you!
That ending animation had Knightmare vibes to it. That old game show if anyone remembers in the UK
Totally something you'd find on your local library computer back then lol
This video came into my recommended and I ended up binge watching the channel. You're so freaking rad 😃
I'm so surprised you don't have a gazillion subs and views.
Thank you so much!!
Such a well made video
Instant subbed
the short film at the end was fantastic
You are really taking me back, 80s baby here, first pc Gateway 2000, first intel pentium processor and an internet dial up speed of 33K, I remember these games and saving my allowance to buy them. You never knew what you were going to get haha
I’m newly obsessed with this channel! Please keep doing more!
This may sound bad, but I miss the old interactive CD-ROM software. Watching this really brings back memories from when I was little. I was fascinated by FMV sequences in games.
3:48 awww man, I'd completely forgotten about a) installing Quicktime being a thing you had to do on a Windows 95 machine and b) that film strip progress bar! YES! Your channel is a real gem, cheers :)
I remember installing Quicktime, and then still not having the right version, and then having multiple versions, and probably deleting the wrong one... and so on and so on. Ahhhh, good times :) Thank you!
holy cow. this video was incredible! Excellent pacing and super interesting. Also, your version of what you'd make at 9:30 is exactly how the "Wrath of the Gods" 90's game works, which was almost certainly built on Macromedia Director, based on experience and what i'm reading online. (I played that game a ton...very hard and puzzling, especially if you don't know the stories behind the characters in the game.)
if you are having fun then i feel like the audience will always be having fun
These are beautiful (and make me want to go for a walk in the woods), thank you so much. :)
That makes me so happy 🥹🌲 Thank you!
If white stag comes out with a new video like this I called it here.
Your channel is a hidden gem! As a '90 baby I was slightly too young to have grown up with this type of game, but I did spend a lot of time on Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Word Rescue, Putt Putt, etc. so this was charmingly nostalgic
This channel is so much fun. I love these videos.
Amazing Edit... The throw back 90s pc game style show.....but medieval time period is something i would love to see "shorts" of. Like a 90s PC time machine.
i love weird, quirky software that doesn't exist elsewhere. It's fun to find odd stuff.
Maaaaan, the old school low res bitcrushed "host" bits are poking my nostalgia glands. That's amazing. I definitely played games that looked and sounded just like that a bunch!
As an elder millennial in Canada this absolutely broghy back the nostalgia of the computer games we had in school.
Also greatly out together video. I love the vibe
7:55 "would that wood could talk" is kind of old-fashioned phrasing, essentially meaning "if only wood could talk". Obviously they phrased it that way for the rhyming.
To answer the question of how to say 68040, that series of processors is usually pronounced like "sixty eight oh forty"
9:21 I am a programmer by profession and the first time I ever programmed something as a child was in Macromedia Director. How nostalgic!
This continues to be possibly my favourite channel here on youtube. You just manage to hit so many of the right notes, and so eerily well. Please keep doing what you're doing!
This brought me back to my elementary school days, we had old blue iMacs loaded with ancient software that was very much just this
This is an interesting concept, checking out games and interactive educational media most people will probably never investigate.
I wish there’d been more information available about the company that produced the CD. I feel like people like hearing about older digital media companies, especially the ones that are defunct.
I’ve kind of wanted someone to start doing a more software oriented concept along the lines of LGR’s weird tech series. This perfectly pulled that off.
I personally feel it’d be interesting to do outdated or otherwise “weird” software that goes beyond games and interactive media, but that might just be a personal wheelhouse nobody else exists within.
The presentation of all your stuff is awesome.
Absolutely love these old, obscure CD-ROM 'games'. so glad others understand my love as well lol. keep up the content!
i love that you honored this game! i hope the creators stumble upon your video one day!
I hope so too! Thank you! 😁
This is exactly the kind of game I had access to in the mid 90s. So much nostalgia.
Very entertaining video! You should put this game in the Internet Archive.
It will be up shortly! Going to do that tonight 😄
@@harkeofficial Thank you, that's great!
This is also my new fav channel! Love the music and love the videos and personality
Half way through the vid- just want to say I just watched your last few vids over the last week and was stoked to see that you uploaded today. I watch- actually listen to lots of video essays while working, drawing, and sometimes playing games. Political, game, and what the Brutal Moose and Pushing up Roses people are. I really hope you keep making vids like this, awesome work.
Thank you so much!
Even though I cleaned out a lot of my old CD-ROMs over the past couple of years, there are still four boxes left.
I remeber a few of those well meant educationional "games".
Some were actually pretty well made and kind of able to keep me motivated.
This fits right in with memories of a few other things.
I remember the first phonebook and satellite Image CDs, like having all your countries phonebooks on a CD, easily searchable.
Or beeing able to take a look at the world from above.
No comparison to what several "Maps" services provide today, but it seemed pretty crazy back in the day.
Another great episode! Looking forward to the next one!
Thank you so much!
I instantly can smell ARG from the thumbnail
For better or for worse, this one is 100% real!
I never played this, but it’s bringing up memories of finding the video files for all the advisors in Civilization 2 as well as playing BackPacker 3.
Discovered your channel last night and I'm hooked. Your videos are SO GOOD.
During the gameplay all I could think about was "You can tell it's an Aspen because of the way it is. How neat is that?"... like a true steward of the forest.
Yes, spoken like a TRUE steward of the forest 🫡
✨"forgotten for a reason" ✨
So happy when something as wholesome as this is recommended to me
this is the content i didnt know was missing from my life, praise be harke!
This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you for making this :')
awesome episode, also that tshirt is amazing. orange grey combo rocks
This was a really cool video! I think I remember seeing software like this (not this one in particular, sadly) at local science museums as part of interactive exhibits for kids. I remember a dinosaur one where you had to look around in a prehistoric forest and find certain dinos, avoiding the meat-eaters and things like that, it was really cool at the time but also scary haha
Sweet video! I feel like I don't need to go outside today now. Keep up the awesome work! Thanks!
Thank you!
This historical artifact should be in a museum.
Macromedia and multimedia are two words I forgot about. ❤
That whole installing Quicktime thing at the start pretty much nailed it. I remember having Windows 3.11, and had just gotten a CD-ROM drive.. I'd bought a computer magazine that came with a CD-ROM that contained Quicktime, and a bunch of video files to show off what Quicktime could do, and the one that I remember the most was that old video of a news story where they blow up a whale that washed up on a beach! That's the first video I'd ever seen on a computer! That CD-ROM also had the Hock-a-loogie Beavis and Butthead game where you had to spit on stuff from the roof of the school! 🤣🤣
This was fun to see you explore! This definitely feels like a school curriculum, done over the course of a year or something, maybe they had multiple different save files set for different lessons or something!
What a neat video, thanks for sharing this odd little game with us :) also love your editing it’s so cool
This channel is awesome- how come I stumbled across this by accident? Fantastic and subbed
Another masterpiece of a video! Loving this series so far! Really looking forward for more videos about obscure PC educational games from the 90s for sure lmao
Loved this! 🤩 I've always had a softspot for these old macromedia point and click games. They're all equally as clunky and delightfully 90s. MOAR PLS
this is some of may fav content rn don't stop haha.
Thank you so much!!
Great video! This was a really fun flashback to 90s edutainment.
This took me back, I'm in the middle of a move, and I discovered the old end of year project I made for my Multimedia course I did back in 2002, I'm pretty sure we used that same version of Director!