Surprised Scorched Earth didn’t come up as inspiration because it had to be. For yoi young ones Scorched Earth was a MS-Dos shareware artillery shooter that someone managed to get installed on every high school computer lab in the world in the early 90s. Or it felt that way. What made it stand out against other artillery shooters was the fact you had a budget to buy better weapons and items. I feel like the variety of weapons in SE had to include the guy who made Worms.
Worms Armageddon was the first game I ever played online, absolutely incredible, and friendly! It's where I first learned what 'lol' stood for. I wore an onion on my belt, which was the fashion at the time.
My first experience with a Worms type game was in 1991. It was a DOS game called Scorched Earth. Instead of worms is was little, wise cracking tanks. I'm pretty sure that the original WORMS was based on Scorched Earth. The people who made WORMS definitely were fans of it. I have no doubt. They're essentially the same games. I really believe that Scorched Earth was the genesis of the Worms series.
@@ScottSavageKC7WDG Scorched Earth was one of the FIRST games I ever played when I got my first IBM Clone PC. I downloaded it off of a friend's dial-up BBS. And you know what? Running it on DOSbox... it still damn well holds up today. It's such a timeless great game.
@@BlackburnBigdragon I got it from a buddy who copied doom and doom 2 to floppy for me the full versions using pkzip. I think he copied duke 3D for me too. On my 486 dx2.
i weirdly skipped that at the time, but of course I hit it hard when I went back several years later... Saying that WWP isn't a million miles away and I played that loads upon release on the DC
😊 yeah, playing worms with my best buddy on the weekend. Out of bed, inhaling mum's wonderful breakfast and than hopping on the couch. Good old 90s childhood memories 😊
Worms Blast was my introduction into the series. A completely different game from the rest of the franchise. I think it was one of those games that came with our computer or printer that we bought, that was a thing back in the day, you'd get random games with buying hardware (also got freaking Morrowind this way). I was completely hooked on Worms Blast. I was young, my English was terrible and I sucked at it. I loved seeing my brother being much better at the game, we enjoyed the multiplayer. Now this is before the internet became a household thing. I knew I like worms. I had some money. I went to a toystore game section and saw Worms. So I bought it. That's how I got into the rest of the series. I've had a lot of fun with the series over the years. Great video!
My first memory of Worms is actually getting the Sega Saturn version of Worms as a gift from my aunt... who didn't realize I had a Nintendo 64 not a Saturn. I always remembered its box and then when I finally got a chance to play it, I played Worms 2 with a friend on their computer. I was hooked - and more annoyed than before that I couldn't play the copy I was gifted. Love those destructive little annelids.
even thought I have the most nostalgia for the original It was WORMS 2 and it's sequels (armageddon WWP) that I remember playing the most in multiplayer
Loved the MS-DOS version, which was I think, the first (and only?) boxed PC game I ever bought! At the time I characterized it as mix between Lemmings, Cannon Fodder and GORILLAS.BAS which came with Q-Basic in DOS.
Oh man, nostalgia time. I loved Worms Armageddon and Worms World Party on the PC in the early 00s. A lot of online play centered around the idea of Roping, using infinite charges of the Ninja Rope to fling themselves across more open, pre-made maps at high speed and around tight corners. Jesus some people were ridiculously skilled at it. I don't think much footage of those days exists now. Video recording software like Fraps was not really used much (Terrible PCs and limited hard drive space in those days lol). It had such a huge community though and everyone was great. I haven't thought of those days in such a long time.
I have some very found memories of playing Worms on my Xbox when I was a kid. My younger brother and I played it on the couch together all the time. We had so many serious, on the edge of your seat matches against each other. The simplicity makes it soooo freakin' great! Loved this video Slope, can't wait to see what else you've got under your sleeve. Also, I love hearing my shout out. Hahaha makes me feel like I'm a part of something great! Which, in a way, I guess I am! Keep it up, Slope, you're the best!
It's still great, it was only a few months back when me and my mates (not gamers really anymore) spent the whole night drinking beer and playing WMD... it's still such a solid series... After that I knew I had to make this video
I remember getting worms as one of my first ever games as a bairn. My parents bought me a playstation when I was 5 which must've been a huge purchase for them as we really didnt have much at the time and with it I had Croc, Spyro and Worms. I'll always remember spending weekends with my Dad playing "you and me against the computer" together on Worms, complaining to each other about how the AI was far too accurate with grenades. He still says "Oi, Nutter!" And "You'll regret that!" In a little worms voice nearly 30 years on. Great video, it was nice to learn the history behind the game that gave me some of my favourite childhood memories.
That's a great memory bud, i love reading the comments and reading stuff like this | It makes all those late night editing away all worth it :) Thanks for watching my vid mate
I love the 3D games to pieces and can't believe the slander. Hiding in actual buildings that get blown apart piece by piece, sneakily setting a mine behind a corner, creating your own weapon or landing a perfect trickshot through narrow gaps with your remote-controlled rocket is just amazing and unique to these games.
was hoping you mention liero, that other worms-like spinoff where instead of turn base it was real time movement for everyone. though I could be mistaken if it was really a spin off inspired from worms or on its own genre itself.
Did the quality dip a little when Slopes talked about Worms 3D? It's like he was using a different mic and that brief pause going into Worms 3D. Still a great video.
I had to remove a background song from this section from that soundtrack due to al license issue hence why the video was 1 day late. Apologies for that
"Changing the tanks to Lemmings." I KNEW it! I always described Worms as "imagine Lemmings, except instead of them walking continously, you control them individually, and there's teams of them, and they all have weapons and they're trying to blow themselves up!" And then before someone says "that sounds nothing like Lemmings," show them what the game looks like.
Unpopular opinion but I utterly adored worms 3D. There was something so sombre and melancholy about it. More than a couple maps resemble militarily settings with tanks and blimps and turrets. This combined with how big some of the maps are, and it really does feel like you've been dropped into the middle of a warzone where the majority of the armies have been wiped out and it's up to these last remninats to carry on. It's not a happy game. The music is low and dreading. The worms expressions are always either terrified or depressed. That combined with the rising waters whenever the timer runs out, it feels oddly apocalyptic. Like these little creature's are facing the literal end of the world, and yet they're still fighting for a cause we're never even made aware of.
It's been the best part of 30 years but the chip tune version of the theme screaming out of my old Yellow housebrick DMG Gameboy still regularly sticks in my head
I have to say I absolutely loved the Open Warfare games on the DS. One of them had this cool campaign where you'd go through history, which I loved. Also, the gameplay was just top-notch, and for some time, we used to play it during school lessons - turn-based gameplay just is perfect for that: do your move, hand the DS to your neighbour, don't get caught!
I absolutely loved my Amiga with Lombard rac rally, speedball, pga tour golf, Monkey island, Lemmings and jimmy white snooker I could go on and on. It was great how you could just rip copy's of games from your mates collection 😂 great channel and videos Brough back loads of memories of my childhood
What a fantastic and in depth video ! I cannot believe the interest this game still had after all these years. I was part of the team for Worms 1 & 2 and the first wave of expansion packs. This video brings back such amazing memories. Every time 'Worms' comes up in conversation people always have such incredible reactions - "..That was the first game that I really loved and played forever.." is something I hear a lot from gamers now well into their 40's ! I'm honored to have been a part of such rich history. Thank-you for making this documentary !
As a veteran of the series (buying the first game on a whim back then), hearing the words "30th anniversary" gave me a small existential crisis. Thanks for that. Oh, and for this excellent video of course. ;)
Worms 1 was the beginning of my PC gaming life. Still had NES and SNES but strategy is my bread and butter so I was hooked. The best couch multiplayer PC game of the 90s
God I love worms. World Armageddon on Dreamcast was my first worms game when I was like 6 or 7. And then I got Worms World party on the PS1 and that became my new favorite worms game of all time. I am really disappointed that there hasn't been a good traditional worms game in a long time and they keep trying all these new gimmicks when I just want a really nice good 2D spray-based or hand drawn worms game. Personally I think from a nostalgic standpoint I think worms world party is the best game, but from a gameplay and or competitive standpoint I think Worms 2 Armageddon is the best game It just has the tightest physics and a solid art style and sound track. I still play worms 2 Armageddon on my iPad since it was ported from the 360
@@SlopesAdventures personally I cannot stand WMD. I don’t like the new gimmicks and I think the art style is really ugly. I think Worms2 Armageddon on the 360 arcade was the last good worms game
very unfortunate that you didn't go into detail about the online gameplay of worms armageddon/world party with the rope races etc where people where very skilled.
It should've been mentioned that Armageddon was not only being played well into the later years, but it got an official update in 2020, a whole 4 years after WMD released Also wait did they actually say the style of WMD was inspired by TUFF Puppy of all things? Wild if so.
They did indeed say that. I think it was Martyn Brown that did a talk at a university where he said that was the inspiration. | Appreciate you commenting mate :)
Worms was the best. Friend of mine nearly died in a motorbike accident so their dining room was converted into his bedroom and we were all 18 or so, we'd go round and hang out on a Friday or Saturday night get drunk on Alcopops and play Worms on his cobbled together 386. Best part was when your move went wrong and you blew up everything including yourself. Also you could add custom sound files, we had Beavis and Butthead and The Young Ones speech files, getting blown off the screen to Burritooooooo. Unlocking "cheats" so your bungee cords meant you could do 360 loops around blobs of landscape. You haven't lived until you play 4 player worms on a 14" CRT at 4am whilst incredibly drunk on Hooch and 2 dogs
That intro segment for Worms 2.... Oh man my sister and I watched it in full EVERY time we booted it up. Also I remember being so so excited for Worms 3D and it honestly lived up to my expectations! But so very true... 2D was where it's at 😁 Excellent doco, new subscriber here 😁
Worms 2 has to be the most fun I've had with a game. My friends and I would create custom sounds for the worms that we quote to this day! Worms WMD has to be a close second, brilliant modern take on the formula.
This was fascinating. I'm 49 y.o. and in the US. I remember the very very early DOS or PASCAL game where you launched bombs at a certain angle and energy... and then decades later I played a demo of some WORMS game on the PS3. I never played against anyone else and only played the demo. This was already long after my major online gaming days of Unreal Tournament from 1999 to 2003, so I didn't ever really think I'd play local multiplayer or online multiplayer on this game, so I never bought it. But I still liked that demo. Now I wonder which one it was. I think to some extent the Starcraft 2 trilogy (single player) scratched the itch that I had from playing that demo... but not completely. Regardless of my personal relative lack of playing this game, this was an incredible documentary!
@@SlopesAdventures it was a demo of worms for PC. The production company came to our school in the week and screen tested several kids for the main part but in the end used an actor and we were just the extras. It was a fun day from what I remember!
Wow, had no idea they released so much...Worms! They basically nailed it pretty much first time and then nailed the art of marketing from then on. Great video and a ton of work! ps this could have been a very different story if that demo entry had (I assume legally) denied Team 17 the rights back. They were super lucky!
This series was fun, I played the original at one of my Uncle’s house back in 2017 because he had the original game for the original PlayStation and after I played it, I was obsessed with the series, I decided to play the original again on a emulator website along with ports of the original, Worms Armageddon and Worms World Party. I also got Worms Collection for Xbox 360 which includes three of the Xbox Live Arcade titles plus DLC for Worms 2: Armageddon and then I got Worms 3D for the Original Xbox, lastly I got Worms Rumble for Nintendo Switch. It’s fun but I'll always enjoy the Artillery Tactics style genre titles. Also I never played the console version of Worms World Party.
I used to love playing Worms United (Original & Reinforcements in one) back in the day. Armageddon and World Party were also fun, but I sort of lost interest when I tried the demo of 3D. The new entries look very tempting though.
Worms Armageddon would be the best if it had the Worms World Party level editor. I like the art style more in Worms Armageddon it was more well polished, compared to Worms World Party. But I still like both games for one reason or another. Worms Armageddon had the best gameplay whilst Worms World Party had a nice level editor to create custom levels with, which created hours of fun gameplay.
When I first got hold of a copy of Worms, I took 3 "sick" days off school to play it. It absolutely hooked me (and many others). Worms 2 was decent, but the pinnacle for me and my friends was Armageddon. I always keep it installed and now play it with my kids. Pure distilled fun.
I loved that you could make the worms speak different languages. The Polish ones were legendary! Jusz po tobie 😈. Also the Monty python reference with the holy handgrenade ❤
This video serves as a curious analogy of the reason Andy left the company… I love this video, but by the end I realized I lost interest in the actual game after 1/3 into the video… he was 100% right on his reasons to want the series to end - or only evolve if there’s a valid reason.
I missed the first part, but seeing the ping pong intro immediately sent me back to my childhood. Worms II was one of THE games to me and my friends back then. And the series still is one of the best party games up with Mario Kart.
Thanks for giving this OG team and this series the respect it deserves. I am glad Team 17 is doing stuff like Dredge now, I cant say how happy it made me to see their name on that game.
Great video, but I find it strange you didn't mention "Worms Plus" at all..!! Whatsup with that?? Also "Worms Blast" is NOTHING like Bubble Bobble... Did you get your notes mixed up or something..?? Weird..
@@SlopesAdventures Hm you might be correct about that! I still think its worthy of a mention atleast.. Anyway awesome video - thanks for the blast from the past!!
No mention of Worms: Battle Islands (Wii)? It was supposed to be a WiiWare game so they tried to crunch it down to 40MB. Unfortunately they couldn't get the game to fit. They didn't revert it back to the original version, instead they released what seems to be the latest build of the heavily compressed canceled WiiWare version. It's probably the smallest game (file size) ever released on a Wii disc.
Although Armageddon was the pinnacle for many, I think it's actually side-by-side with Worms 2 because W2 on PC allowed you to precisely customise each weapon - something you couldn't do in Armageddon which just had the 5 stars, I believe. Armageddon of course added the 1-player challenges. Both amazing games.
I always saw Team 17 as the worms publisher's because boy they pumped out the games, though tbh it kept them in business as there are not many companies from that era still around
It started with scorched earth! Scorched earth was SO AWESOME back when it first came out ... I loved playing two player games against my brother and uncle. Had tons of fun with it and the original duke nukem side scroller... Then Wolfenstein came out. Ultra awesome.. then doom ... Mind blowing... Then myst... Myst was somehow super scary to me as a kid even though you couldn't be attacked or die lol
Too bad Worms Revolution or Clan Wars or Battlegrounds was never on a platform I owned. And that they dropped the water in WMD. Now we get an Armageddon remaster instead...
Great video - picked up WMD whilst awaiting the official Board Game and found your vid! As a fellow vet of the first game, i agree 💯 that WMD is now the best version and captures the earliest games perfectly.
Oh my, it's been so long now I forgot about Worms. Worms Armaggedon to be exact. I spent sooo many hours on this game and never did beat it. Each level was progressively more difficult, making it a great game for thinkers. Might have to hit up Ebay and buy a PS1 just for this masterpiece =)
NOBODY MOVE! Am I the only one seeing that the combination of the guy from Alien Breed and the cars from Miami Chase basically equals the very first GTA? That was a top down game that basically allowed the guy from Alien Breed to enter and deive the cars from Miami Chase, but with a criminal story added onto it. I never saw that before
Played the shareware version on PC until Worms 2 came out. I later went back to buy the full Worms United version of Worms 1. The first one holds a special place in my childhood. Overall, Worms 2 is my favorite because of the customizability. Worms Armageddon is great, but felt like a slight downgrade from 2. I did miss World Party though. Lots of good games in the series for me otherwise.
I started with the 1st game. One friend and I would dig around the maps to make bases before we would start playing against each other. Another friend and I would just play normally. Armageddon I only ever played a demo and rented until I brought a PS1 copy a few years ago. With World Party a group of us would play on my friends computer. When I played 3D I only played it with my sister. We found it really hard to play. When Worms 4 Mayhem came out we found it easier to play and when I went back to 3D I wondered why I had so much trouble playing it. These days my sister and I occasionally play any one of the games available on PS consoles. In fact this weekend my sister and I are going to play Worms 4 Mayhem. These days I own every physical mainline Worms game that released on PS consoles. I don't own any of the spinoffs. My least favourite one is Battlegrounds. I love the graphics and the water physics but I don't like the worm classes. W.M.D. would be the one I play the most these days.
Isn't there a real-time Worms game that came out relatively recently (within a couple years)? Several players, one worm each, you run around complex maps, last survivor wins. Maybe you talked about it when I went for a smoke break or something. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
I'm really wanting to know what bookings you lost your mum.... 😮 I ended up in debt to my mum for £1000 for hooking up the Dreamcast to the internet playing Phantasy Star Online.... She hated me.😊
I freakin love WORMS ! ❤Still remember playing first one with my friends on Amiga 500 and later versions on consoles and PC. While you mentioned that you played RTS games back then, now I can't wait for history of command & conquer games 💪😅
I defo need to do an RTS history... i dont think i have done any yet... C&C, Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires and Total Annihilation are 100% my jams | thanks for watching btw
I had an interview with a gaming company some 20-ish years ago, and I got into a debate with one person on 2D vs 3D. I said I liked 2D and thought it still had a place while the other guy said 2D is dead, everything is 3D now. I mentioned a game I liked as a kid, Jumpman, had a stage where jumping caused explosions from your feet that obliterated pixels that I said would be difficult in 3D. They said nonsense, you make the game in 3D including modeling all of the pixels in 3D and then present the game in a 2D view. I still disagree with that. And it sounds like Worms went through a similar philosophical debate. :/
Completely by chance, the only Worms games I own are Armageddon, Revolution and WMD *Worms Must Die). I didn't know until this video that they are all the best ones. Revolution is the one I played most.
My first experience playing worms was the DS version back in the early 2000s. Me and my friends used to play it in class once we finished all our work ( most the time) . We thought it was the coolest thing that we could play multiplayer games in handheld wirelessly. People will say what they will about the DS version and the environment is kind of wonky and hard to walk through but it's still fun to play with your friends.
I played worms on the N64 we rented it from Blockbuster me and my brother would play Next console was an Xbox play Halo and some racing games My older brother moved out and I bought a 360 I played Halo 3 call of duty 3 fallout 3 And then bought worms and then didn't buy another game on the system because I spent all my time playing worms I played it for years without knowing about the online capabilities those were good too
The woman woth purple hair didnt seem to be mentioned again other than she managed a shop that was later purchased? So she had nothing to do with worms other than managing a shop that was later bought by people who later published worms?
Roping dominated online play in the 90s, not as a race but as a way to get the most out of your 10s, 15s or 30s rounds (60s was for pussies like me), by triggering all the mines, picking up packages and use the momentum when jumping off it to bump an enemy worm into another enemy worm and then kill 2 for the price of one with maximum damage from a precision attack using your last rope in the last second of the round.
I am glad you mentioned Hogs of War. Hell of a hidden gem that game. Though Worms 3d sucked badly... Hogs Of War was far better suited and feeling. 2D Worms was where it was at.
”We are worms, we’re the best, we have come to win the war. We will stand, we’ll never run, we will stay until it’s done. Though our friends may die, and our world is blown apart, we will fight for what is right till the end.” (Official lyrics to the original title music)
Man I've started loving the series ever since I played the original PC version of Worms Armageddon as a kid later on played World Party with its All Weapons and Tools unlocked and started dropping Concrete Donkeys on everyone not to mention the Banana Bomb Air Strikes and the one and only Monty Python reference: The Holy Hand Grenade
I loved and played Armageddon on the Playstation and Worldparty on the PC so much. Then when I saw Worms Forts for pc in a store by pure chance I decided to buy it... but it turned out the PC of my parents was too weak to even play it; that was so sad back then, and I still never got to play it ahhh
Not sure which worms game it was that I played, but I think it was a demo off the Xbox arcade in the late 2k's. It was fun and had heard of worms before that which is why I gave it a check. I do remember playing a stickman game a ton that thinking about it now was likely highly inspired by worms lol. I used to play the hell of that game.
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2002 worms rumble?
@@mancuniangamecat8288 I gave it a mention at the end
I always thought W.M.D. stands for wreck, maul, destroy.
@@redknight4805 The marketing team changed it with every promo.
you missed the two worms games on wii
Space oddity/battle islands
Surprised Scorched Earth didn’t come up as inspiration because it had to be. For yoi young ones Scorched Earth was a MS-Dos shareware artillery shooter that someone managed to get installed on every high school computer lab in the world in the early 90s. Or it felt that way. What made it stand out against other artillery shooters was the fact you had a budget to buy better weapons and items. I feel like the variety of weapons in SE had to include the guy who made Worms.
I showed off footage for it as I realised when I got to the editing that I must had skipped over that name on the script lol
I played this as well, great game
Scorched earth was an evolution of gorillas.bas though. Also that MIRV amirite
Scorched Tanks was the Amiga version, written in AMOS.
Scorched Tanks was fantastic, still one of my favourite games of all time
Worms Armageddon was the first game I ever played online, absolutely incredible, and friendly! It's where I first learned what 'lol' stood for. I wore an onion on my belt, which was the fashion at the time.
My first game i ever played was Cannon Fodder!
Was it a green onion or a white onion?
My first experience with a Worms type game was in 1991. It was a DOS game called Scorched Earth. Instead of worms is was little, wise cracking tanks. I'm pretty sure that the original WORMS was based on Scorched Earth. The people who made WORMS definitely were fans of it. I have no doubt. They're essentially the same games. I really believe that Scorched Earth was the genesis of the Worms series.
Played many hour of that on multiplayer over modem. ❤
@@ScottSavageKC7WDG Scorched Earth was one of the FIRST games I ever played when I got my first IBM Clone PC. I downloaded it off of a friend's dial-up BBS. And you know what? Running it on DOSbox... it still damn well holds up today. It's such a timeless great game.
@@BlackburnBigdragon I got it from a buddy who copied doom and doom 2 to floppy for me the full versions using pkzip. I think he copied duke 3D for me too. On my 486 dx2.
Came here to say the same.
I loved Scorched Earth. It's still worth playing today.
Worms: Armageddon was the big one for me as a kid. Used to play it all the time and got all my friends into it!
Same that game was fantastic 🎉
i weirdly skipped that at the time, but of course I hit it hard when I went back several years later... Saying that WWP isn't a million miles away and I played that loads upon release on the DC
😊 yeah, playing worms with my best buddy on the weekend. Out of bed, inhaling mum's wonderful breakfast and than hopping on the couch. Good old 90s childhood memories 😊
Worms Blast was my introduction into the series. A completely different game from the rest of the franchise. I think it was one of those games that came with our computer or printer that we bought, that was a thing back in the day, you'd get random games with buying hardware (also got freaking Morrowind this way). I was completely hooked on Worms Blast. I was young, my English was terrible and I sucked at it. I loved seeing my brother being much better at the game, we enjoyed the multiplayer.
Now this is before the internet became a household thing. I knew I like worms. I had some money. I went to a toystore game section and saw Worms. So I bought it. That's how I got into the rest of the series.
I've had a lot of fun with the series over the years. Great video!
Yeah, that surprised me when replaying for this video. it was so much better than I remember / expected
My first memory of Worms is actually getting the Sega Saturn version of Worms as a gift from my aunt... who didn't realize I had a Nintendo 64 not a Saturn. I always remembered its box and then when I finally got a chance to play it, I played Worms 2 with a friend on their computer. I was hooked - and more annoyed than before that I couldn't play the copy I was gifted. Love those destructive little annelids.
even thought I have the most nostalgia for the original It was WORMS 2 and it's sequels (armageddon WWP) that I remember playing the most in multiplayer
Loved the MS-DOS version, which was I think, the first (and only?) boxed PC game I ever bought! At the time I characterized it as mix between Lemmings, Cannon Fodder and GORILLAS.BAS which came with Q-Basic in DOS.
Style points for gorillas.bas. there was also nibbles.bas with that. Good times.
@@rnts08 yes! I spent far too much time playing both of them! Snake game never got better that one
Oh man, nostalgia time. I loved Worms Armageddon and Worms World Party on the PC in the early 00s. A lot of online play centered around the idea of Roping, using infinite charges of the Ninja Rope to fling themselves across more open, pre-made maps at high speed and around tight corners. Jesus some people were ridiculously skilled at it. I don't think much footage of those days exists now. Video recording software like Fraps was not really used much (Terrible PCs and limited hard drive space in those days lol). It had such a huge community though and everyone was great. I haven't thought of those days in such a long time.
so happy i grabbed those nostalgia strings for you :) Yep, those entries are the ones I played the most in multiplayer
I have some very found memories of playing Worms on my Xbox when I was a kid. My younger brother and I played it on the couch together all the time. We had so many serious, on the edge of your seat matches against each other. The simplicity makes it soooo freakin' great! Loved this video Slope, can't wait to see what else you've got under your sleeve. Also, I love hearing my shout out. Hahaha makes me feel like I'm a part of something great! Which, in a way, I guess I am! Keep it up, Slope, you're the best!
It's still great, it was only a few months back when me and my mates (not gamers really anymore) spent the whole night drinking beer and playing WMD... it's still such a solid series... After that I knew I had to make this video
I remember getting worms as one of my first ever games as a bairn. My parents bought me a playstation when I was 5 which must've been a huge purchase for them as we really didnt have much at the time and with it I had Croc, Spyro and Worms. I'll always remember spending weekends with my Dad playing "you and me against the computer" together on Worms, complaining to each other about how the AI was far too accurate with grenades. He still says "Oi, Nutter!" And "You'll regret that!" In a little worms voice nearly 30 years on.
Great video, it was nice to learn the history behind the game that gave me some of my favourite childhood memories.
That's a great memory bud, i love reading the comments and reading stuff like this | It makes all those late night editing away all worth it :) Thanks for watching my vid mate
I love the 3D games to pieces and can't believe the slander. Hiding in actual buildings that get blown apart piece by piece, sneakily setting a mine behind a corner, creating your own weapon or landing a perfect trickshot through narrow gaps with your remote-controlled rocket is just amazing and unique to these games.
Dang, that tune at the end of the video really hit my nostalgia button.
I knew from the beginning I had to add that in :)
And we shall thank Bjørn Lynne for that (and other) masterpiece.
So serendipitous. I was play Blasphemous yesterday and I wondered "How did Team 17 get there name?"
Thanks Slope!
appreciate it mate. that game is fire btw :) | cheers for watching :D
My grandma bought me worms for my 6 birthday and it's lived rent free in head for the next 25 years
was hoping you mention liero, that other worms-like spinoff where instead of turn base it was real time movement for everyone. though I could be mistaken if it was really a spin off inspired from worms or on its own genre itself.
I had to keep it to the original series due to the sheer length of the whole thing. Appreciate you watching bud
Did the quality dip a little when Slopes talked about Worms 3D? It's like he was using a different mic and that brief pause going into Worms 3D. Still a great video.
I had to remove a background song from this section from that soundtrack due to al license issue hence why the video was 1 day late. Apologies for that
@@SlopesAdventures No need for apologies, it just seemed like a weird bit of editing.
When I was a kid, we played:
Worms
Armageddon
World Party
3D
All on Playstation platforms.
Oops! Forgotton Forts Under Siege.
Armageddon is one of my earliest experiences of online gaming, those rope rooms were something else.
"Changing the tanks to Lemmings."
I KNEW it! I always described Worms as "imagine Lemmings, except instead of them walking continously, you control them individually, and there's teams of them, and they all have weapons and they're trying to blow themselves up!" And then before someone says "that sounds nothing like Lemmings," show them what the game looks like.
Agree. Always thought Worms had a very Lemmings feel.
Unpopular opinion but I utterly adored worms 3D. There was something so sombre and melancholy about it. More than a couple maps resemble militarily settings with tanks and blimps and turrets. This combined with how big some of the maps are, and it really does feel like you've been dropped into the middle of a warzone where the majority of the armies have been wiped out and it's up to these last remninats to carry on. It's not a happy game. The music is low and dreading. The worms expressions are always either terrified or depressed. That combined with the rising waters whenever the timer runs out, it feels oddly apocalyptic. Like these little creature's are facing the literal end of the world, and yet they're still fighting for a cause we're never even made aware of.
Did you ever play hogs of war? I would advice it if you liked worms 3D
@@KK-wt1te I didn't. I wanted to but could never get my hands on a copy back in the day.
TBH, my favorite has _always_ been the original game 🥰
It's the one I have the most nostalgia for, for sure
It's been the best part of 30 years but the chip tune version of the theme screaming out of my old Yellow housebrick DMG Gameboy still regularly sticks in my head
its soooooooo iconic
I have to say I absolutely loved the Open Warfare games on the DS. One of them had this cool campaign where you'd go through history, which I loved. Also, the gameplay was just top-notch, and for some time, we used to play it during school lessons - turn-based gameplay just is perfect for that: do your move, hand the DS to your neighbour, don't get caught!
I absolutely loved my Amiga with Lombard rac rally, speedball, pga tour golf, Monkey island, Lemmings and jimmy white snooker I could go on and on. It was great how you could just rip copy's of games from your mates collection 😂 great channel and videos Brough back loads of memories of my childhood
What a fantastic and in depth video ! I cannot believe the interest this game still had after all these years. I was part of the team for Worms 1 & 2 and the first wave of expansion packs. This video brings back such amazing memories. Every time 'Worms' comes up in conversation people always have such incredible reactions - "..That was the first game that I really loved and played forever.." is something I hear a lot from gamers now well into their 40's ! I'm honored to have been a part of such rich history. Thank-you for making this documentary !
As a veteran of the series (buying the first game on a whim back then), hearing the words "30th anniversary" gave me a small existential crisis. Thanks for that.
Oh, and for this excellent video of course. ;)
Worms 1 was the beginning of my PC gaming life. Still had NES and SNES but strategy is my bread and butter so I was hooked. The best couch multiplayer PC game of the 90s
God I love worms. World Armageddon on Dreamcast was my first worms game when I was like 6 or 7. And then I got Worms World party on the PS1 and that became my new favorite worms game of all time.
I am really disappointed that there hasn't been a good traditional worms game in a long time and they keep trying all these new gimmicks when I just want a really nice good 2D spray-based or hand drawn worms game.
Personally I think from a nostalgic standpoint I think worms world party is the best game, but from a gameplay and or competitive standpoint I think Worms 2 Armageddon is the best game
It just has the tightest physics and a solid art style and sound track. I still play worms 2 Armageddon on my iPad since it was ported from the 360
You should play WMD mate... in my opinion its probably the best... easily on par with WWP and Armageddon. thanks for watching my vid mate
@@SlopesAdventures personally I cannot stand WMD. I don’t like the new gimmicks and I think the art style is really ugly. I think Worms2 Armageddon on the 360 arcade was the last good worms game
very unfortunate that you didn't go into detail about the online gameplay of worms armageddon/world party with the rope races etc where people where very skilled.
I played hours of Lemmings. Loved it as a kid, though it was so cool with awesome graphics.
Ud gotta think “worms of mass destruction” for w.m.d.
And what about worms rumble?
Great video! Such a huge amount of work put into this, really appreciate it! Love the Worms series :)
honestly i enjoy worms in 3D more then 2D, had way more fun with that to be able to go in all directions
It should've been mentioned that Armageddon was not only being played well into the later years, but it got an official update in 2020, a whole 4 years after WMD released
Also wait did they actually say the style of WMD was inspired by TUFF Puppy of all things? Wild if so.
They did indeed say that. I think it was Martyn Brown that did a talk at a university where he said that was the inspiration. | Appreciate you commenting mate :)
Greetings from The Ultimate Site of Worms Armageddon's community!
Oh wow... hope you guys think i did it justice
Worms was the best. Friend of mine nearly died in a motorbike accident so their dining room was converted into his bedroom and we were all 18 or so, we'd go round and hang out on a Friday or Saturday night get drunk on Alcopops and play Worms on his cobbled together 386. Best part was when your move went wrong and you blew up everything including yourself.
Also you could add custom sound files, we had Beavis and Butthead and The Young Ones speech files, getting blown off the screen to Burritooooooo.
Unlocking "cheats" so your bungee cords meant you could do 360 loops around blobs of landscape.
You haven't lived until you play 4 player worms on a 14" CRT at 4am whilst incredibly drunk on Hooch and 2 dogs
That intro segment for Worms 2.... Oh man my sister and I watched it in full EVERY time we booted it up. Also I remember being so so excited for Worms 3D and it honestly lived up to my expectations! But so very true... 2D was where it's at 😁 Excellent doco, new subscriber here 😁
Thanks mate, thanks for the comment too. Hope you like the complete history series
Another exceptional vid by my man dj "red weed" slopeZzz
May the skies remain grey forever.
Playing Worms 2 over the LAN at college was an amazing gaming experience. Showing off our ninja rope skills was a roght of passage.
OH MY GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!! Thank you for making this, I feel like Worms doesn't get the hype it deserves haha.
you are more thank welcome, thanks for watching David
Great vid, as always!
But what happened to the audio between 31:54 and 33:36? :O
What happened to the sound at 32:00?
It sounds like you uploaded the unedited recording
Sadly I had to cut audio from this section due to a copyright thing.
@@SlopesAdventures Ah, damn copyright!
Worms Armageddon is probably my top 5 games ever played.
What's going on with the audio around the 30 minute mark
Worms 2 has to be the most fun I've had with a game. My friends and I would create custom sounds for the worms that we quote to this day!
Worms WMD has to be a close second, brilliant modern take on the formula.
the custom sound downloads were awesome :) I remember download the young ones :)
Ha! Mine was Evil Dead quotes
This was fascinating. I'm 49 y.o. and in the US. I remember the very very early DOS or PASCAL game where you launched bombs at a certain angle and energy... and then decades later I played a demo of some WORMS game on the PS3. I never played against anyone else and only played the demo. This was already long after my major online gaming days of Unreal Tournament from 1999 to 2003, so I didn't ever really think I'd play local multiplayer or online multiplayer on this game, so I never bought it. But I still liked that demo. Now I wonder which one it was.
I think to some extent the Starcraft 2 trilogy (single player) scratched the itch that I had from playing that demo... but not completely.
Regardless of my personal relative lack of playing this game, this was an incredible documentary!
I brought a PC to work and we had worms torneys.
I was one of the kids in the Worms advert here in the UK. We filmed on a Saturday and got "paid" a demo (choice of floppy or cd!) of the game...
HAHAHA That's incredible mate :) Remember what floppy you got? Would have been great to get you involved with the video
@@SlopesAdventures it was a demo of worms for PC. The production company came to our school in the week and screen tested several kids for the main part but in the end used an actor and we were just the extras. It was a fun day from what I remember!
@@neufena Great story mate. thanks for sharing
Wow, had no idea they released so much...Worms! They basically nailed it pretty much first time and then nailed the art of marketing from then on. Great video and a ton of work! ps this could have been a very different story if that demo entry had (I assume legally) denied Team 17 the rights back. They were super lucky!
yeah, besides the constant change up in artstyle the original concept was always nailed from day one | appreciate the comment buddy :)
I never heard anyone bring up that the Worms 1 Theme sounds like "Seasons in the Sun"
Your Mic sounds REALLY muffled when it cuts to Voice Over
Team 17 is pretty much only known for worms by the majority of gamers
Yeah I agree. I didn't even play worms until way later. I always knew team 17 for alien breed and body blows galactic
are you sponsored by cathedral city?
Who doesn't like worms amazing game. I had to stop playing with my brother he whuld spend the whole time digging a hole and hiding in it lol
ahhhhhh mate i had a friend that plays like that hahaha, thanks for watching btw
I do remember playing Worms on the Wii💣🐛and can you look at the History of Megaman🤖
it will happen eventually :P | and yeah the wii entry was surprisingly fun
This series was fun, I played the original at one of my Uncle’s house back in 2017 because he had the original game for the original PlayStation and after I played it, I was obsessed with the series, I decided to play the original again on a emulator website along with ports of the original, Worms Armageddon and Worms World Party. I also got Worms Collection for Xbox 360 which includes three of the Xbox Live Arcade titles plus DLC for Worms 2: Armageddon and then I got Worms 3D for the Original Xbox, lastly I got Worms Rumble for Nintendo Switch. It’s fun but I'll always enjoy the Artillery Tactics style genre titles.
Also I never played the console version of Worms World Party.
I was the same Shantae (if that is your real name lol) WWP on the dreamcast kicked azz | thanks for watching btw
I used to love playing Worms United (Original & Reinforcements in one) back in the day. Armageddon and World Party were also fun, but I sort of lost interest when I tried the demo of 3D. The new entries look very tempting though.
Yeah WMD is well worth it
Worms Armageddon would be the best if it had the Worms World Party level editor. I like the art style more in Worms Armageddon it was more well polished, compared to Worms World Party. But I still like both games for one reason or another. Worms Armageddon had the best gameplay whilst Worms World Party had a nice level editor to create custom levels with, which created hours of fun gameplay.
As much as I don’t like ocean very much, I’m glad that they went around Sony’s back in terms of the “no 2D games on our 3D console” bit
When I first got hold of a copy of Worms, I took 3 "sick" days off school to play it. It absolutely hooked me (and many others). Worms 2 was decent, but the pinnacle for me and my friends was Armageddon. I always keep it installed and now play it with my kids. Pure distilled fun.
My very first worms game when I was a kid was worms 3-D. I played it on my GameCube. I absolutely loved it. 33:29
The days when you could say to your teacher that you had to stay at home because you had Worms,, and technically not be lying.. :D
haahaha i never risked that :) Thanks for watching my vid btw
Ngl Worms Space Oddity has the best ost ngl.
They are too fire.
ooooooo not sure i can agree with that, but it is a decent game, the motion controls work surprisingly well | cheers for watching btw
True, the Mechanopolis theme has more views then the game itself.
@@SlopesAdventuresI'm not a fan of their motion controls other than the shovel tool
@@SlopesAdventures 👍🏾
@@zennypiot8984 I find it decent
We used to get drunk and play Armageddon in the barracks back in the day when I was in the military.
WOW. That's awesome. thanks for watching the video mate
I loved that you could make the worms speak different languages. The Polish ones were legendary! Jusz po tobie 😈. Also the Monty python reference with the holy handgrenade ❤
Great video :) I’ve been on the bandwagon since worms 2
My fav worms-like game was Arcanists, made by Jagex, I spent so long playing that one
This video serves as a curious analogy of the reason Andy left the company… I love this video, but by the end I realized I lost interest in the actual game after 1/3 into the video… he was 100% right on his reasons to want the series to end - or only evolve if there’s a valid reason.
I missed the first part, but seeing the ping pong intro immediately sent me back to my childhood. Worms II was one of THE games to me and my friends back then. And the series still is one of the best party games up with Mario Kart.
Who is that sexy voice at 42:29
Thanks ever so much for the help on this one mate :)
@@SlopesAdventures anytime mate!
Thanks for giving this OG team and this series the respect it deserves. I am glad Team 17 is doing stuff like Dredge now, I cant say how happy it made me to see their name on that game.
Worms is one of the most under appreciated game franchises like… EVER!
It's the 35th (maybe 65th i forget lol) most popular franchise in the world... it's doing fine lol
Great video, but I find it strange you didn't mention "Worms Plus" at all..!! Whatsup with that?? Also "Worms Blast" is NOTHING like Bubble Bobble... Did you get your notes mixed up or something..?? Weird..
I may be wrong about this, but wasn't Worms + both WORMS and REINFORCEMENTS together? | appreciate the comment and watching my video mate
@@SlopesAdventures Hm you might be correct about that! I still think its worthy of a mention atleast.. Anyway awesome video - thanks for the blast from the past!!
@@skRapKlan More than welcome mate. really appreciate the input... it's what TH-cam is all about and why it superior to live tv :)
@@SlopesAdventures Right you are! Keep up the great work! Retro Rules The World!!
No mention of Worms: Battle Islands (Wii)?
It was supposed to be a WiiWare game so they tried to crunch it down to 40MB. Unfortunately they couldn't get the game to fit. They didn't revert it back to the original version, instead they released what seems to be the latest build of the heavily compressed canceled WiiWare version. It's probably the smallest game (file size) ever released on a Wii disc.
Can't beat a Worms session even in 2024.
Every ear is a worm year
Although Armageddon was the pinnacle for many, I think it's actually side-by-side with Worms 2 because W2 on PC allowed you to precisely customise each weapon - something you couldn't do in Armageddon which just had the 5 stars, I believe. Armageddon of course added the 1-player challenges. Both amazing games.
Saving watching this video to give it the time it deserves.
I always saw Team 17 as the worms publisher's because boy they pumped out the games, though tbh it kept them in business as there are not many companies from that era still around
It started with scorched earth! Scorched earth was SO AWESOME back when it first came out ... I loved playing two player games against my brother and uncle. Had tons of fun with it and the original duke nukem side scroller... Then Wolfenstein came out. Ultra awesome.. then doom ... Mind blowing... Then myst... Myst was somehow super scary to me as a kid even though you couldn't be attacked or die lol
Too bad Worms Revolution or Clan Wars or Battlegrounds was never on a platform I owned. And that they dropped the water in WMD. Now we get an Armageddon remaster instead...
Great video - picked up WMD whilst awaiting the official Board Game and found your vid!
As a fellow vet of the first game, i agree 💯 that WMD is now the best version and captures the earliest games perfectly.
I haven't played worms in yeeeeeeeears! But worms is right there with Golden eye for the N64 for best multiplayer game of all time!
Oh my, it's been so long now I forgot about Worms. Worms Armaggedon to be exact. I spent sooo many hours on this game and never did beat it. Each level was progressively more difficult, making it a great game for thinkers. Might have to hit up Ebay and buy a PS1 just for this masterpiece =)
NOBODY MOVE! Am I the only one seeing that the combination of the guy from Alien Breed and the cars from Miami Chase basically equals the very first GTA? That was a top down game that basically allowed the guy from Alien Breed to enter and deive the cars from Miami Chase, but with a criminal story added onto it. I never saw that before
Played the shareware version on PC until Worms 2 came out. I later went back to buy the full Worms United version of Worms 1. The first one holds a special place in my childhood. Overall, Worms 2 is my favorite because of the customizability. Worms Armageddon is great, but felt like a slight downgrade from 2. I did miss World Party though. Lots of good games in the series for me otherwise.
I started with the 1st game. One friend and I would dig around the maps to make bases before we would start playing against each other.
Another friend and I would just play normally.
Armageddon I only ever played a demo and rented until I brought a PS1 copy a few years ago.
With World Party a group of us would play on my friends computer.
When I played 3D I only played it with my sister. We found it really hard to play.
When Worms 4 Mayhem came out we found it easier to play and when I went back to 3D I wondered why I had so much trouble playing it.
These days my sister and I occasionally play any one of the games available on PS consoles.
In fact this weekend my sister and I are going to play Worms 4 Mayhem.
These days I own every physical mainline Worms game that released on PS consoles. I don't own any of the spinoffs.
My least favourite one is Battlegrounds. I love the graphics and the water physics but I don't like the worm classes.
W.M.D. would be the one I play the most these days.
Isn't there a real-time Worms game that came out relatively recently (within a couple years)?
Several players, one worm each, you run around complex maps, last survivor wins.
Maybe you talked about it when I went for a smoke break or something. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
I'm really wanting to know what bookings you lost your mum.... 😮
I ended up in debt to my mum for £1000 for hooking up the Dreamcast to the internet playing Phantasy Star Online.... She hated me.😊
I freakin love WORMS ! ❤Still remember playing first one with my friends on Amiga 500 and later versions on consoles and PC. While you mentioned that you played RTS games back then, now I can't wait for history of command & conquer games 💪😅
I defo need to do an RTS history... i dont think i have done any yet... C&C, Warcraft, Starcraft, Age of Empires and Total Annihilation are 100% my jams | thanks for watching btw
@@SlopesAdventures No problem dude, love the channel!
I had an interview with a gaming company some 20-ish years ago, and I got into a debate with one person on 2D vs 3D. I said I liked 2D and thought it still had a place while the other guy said 2D is dead, everything is 3D now. I mentioned a game I liked as a kid, Jumpman, had a stage where jumping caused explosions from your feet that obliterated pixels that I said would be difficult in 3D. They said nonsense, you make the game in 3D including modeling all of the pixels in 3D and then present the game in a 2D view. I still disagree with that. And it sounds like Worms went through a similar philosophical debate. :/
Completely by chance, the only Worms games I own are Armageddon, Revolution and WMD *Worms Must Die). I didn't know until this video that they are all the best ones. Revolution is the one I played most.
My first experience playing worms was the DS version back in the early 2000s. Me and my friends used to play it in class once we finished all our work ( most the time) . We thought it was the coolest thing that we could play multiplayer games in handheld wirelessly. People will say what they will about the DS version and the environment is kind of wonky and hard to walk through but it's still fun to play with your friends.
I played worms on the N64 we rented it from Blockbuster me and my brother would play
Next console was an Xbox play Halo and some racing games
My older brother moved out and I bought a 360 I played Halo 3 call of duty 3 fallout 3
And then bought worms and then didn't buy another game on the system because I spent all my time playing worms I played it for years without knowing about the online capabilities those were good too
The woman woth purple hair didnt seem to be mentioned again other than she managed a shop that was later purchased? So she had nothing to do with worms other than managing a shop that was later bought by people who later published worms?
Roping dominated online play in the 90s, not as a race but as a way to get the most out of your 10s, 15s or 30s rounds (60s was for pussies like me), by triggering all the mines, picking up packages and use the momentum when jumping off it to bump an enemy worm into another enemy worm and then kill 2 for the price of one with maximum damage from a precision attack using your last rope in the last second of the round.
I am glad you mentioned Hogs of War. Hell of a hidden gem that game. Though Worms 3d sucked badly... Hogs Of War was far better suited and feeling. 2D Worms was where it was at.
”We are worms, we’re the best, we have come to win the war. We will stand, we’ll never run, we will stay until it’s done. Though our friends may die, and our world is blown apart, we will fight for what is right till the end.”
(Official lyrics to the original title music)
Man I've started loving the series ever since I played the original PC version of Worms Armageddon as a kid later on played World Party with its All Weapons and Tools unlocked and started dropping Concrete Donkeys on everyone not to mention the Banana Bomb Air Strikes and the one and only Monty Python reference: The Holy Hand Grenade
I loved and played Armageddon on the Playstation and Worldparty on the PC so much. Then when I saw Worms Forts for pc in a store by pure chance I decided to buy it... but it turned out the PC of my parents was too weak to even play it; that was so sad back then, and I still never got to play it ahhh
What's wrong with your copy of Worms as seen at 13:15? UPDATE: Its not just that level, but the level after it is also glitched!
Not sure which worms game it was that I played, but I think it was a demo off the Xbox arcade in the late 2k's. It was fun and had heard of worms before that which is why I gave it a check. I do remember playing a stickman game a ton that thinking about it now was likely highly inspired by worms lol. I used to play the hell of that game.