WOW! You are indeed the only source I have found covering these minigames. my brother got the commander for their birthday and we couldn’t wait to go with our mom to work so we could try the floppy disc on her computer. We spent ALL DAY trying to figure out the mechanisms of the minigame and I think finally we got to Earth just to get blown up 😂. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
I received one of these for my birthday in 1996, but could never get it to work on my computer. For 16 years I’ve wondered what the game was. Thank you!
I don't even remember which ones I actually had as a kid, but you are an absolute legend for sharing all of these, I've had disks 9, 10 and 11, from lord-knows-where. But to have all 11, finally in one place... Time to launch DOSBox or PC98 and play these bad boys.
@@MattyStoked I was about 7 or 8 and saw William Wallace hanging there and asked my mom "how is he going to escape from that?". She answered me "he doesn't".
Those mini play sets were my favorite kind of toys as a kid! There’s something about miniature toys that makes them so much more fun to play with. I’m gonna need more on screen dancing Matty content. Love this!
So far, the most feedback has been on the dance moves. Well, the public wants what the public wants. I also LOVE small toys. My favourite toylines are the ones in miniature. Trendmasters made some pretty good ones for Godzilla, too.
I keep coming back to this video because I find this game content very interesting. I wasn't even born yet when the initial movie came out but I am a huge fan! The alien action figures look amazing but I wish they had more articulation. It will probably never happen but I hope one day we'll get a proper Independence Day game where we can play as the humans and as the aliens. With today's graphics there will be no doubt this game will look incredible. Imagine what these large alien ships will look like in full HD 😱
Thank you so much for returning. This was so much effort to put together, I'm so pleased it interested you! I really liked Independence Day when it came out. I wasn't very old, but it had everything I could have wanted in a film. You're right, it's a shame these toys weren't more articulated or they could be some of the coolest toys ever. But then again, metallic paint and glitter and bendy bits are all still really cool 🤩
I WASN'T CRAZY. I just had the Mad Max one and my best friend had the bomber training disk. Always wondered what the other games would be about, so thank you for this. In my tiny youth-brain, the disks equated to "a new game, for our PC, and it comes with the toy???" And the experiences were over sooner than the time it took to install them. 😂
This was incredible! I remember seeing these toys about and at a friend's house, but YUP...no recollection of those floppy discs whatsoever! Anyway, what a joyful watch that was. The summer of ID4 was glorious. I was 10.
I had a few of these when the movie came out. Once in a while I'd check online to see if anyone else remembered them, but it seemed they'd all been forgotten. Until you came along!!
My mother worked for K-Mart and was the reason I was able to get my hands on so many iconic toy lines in my childhood. The Independence Day toys hold a special place in my heart because they were so different from a lot of other toys, and they were the only ones I'd ever gotten that came with computer games. I had nooooo idea what I was doing with the games, but I still loved the idea that these super cool toys came bundled with computer games. Glad to know all these years later that it was because they didn't come with instructions. I always thought it was just me not knowing enough about computer games at the time 😂
I remember having the Science Officer toy but could never play what was on the disk since I didn't have a PC back then. Crazy finally getting to see what's actually on that disk all those years ago.
I had this game. But we were so poor we didn't have a computer. So I literally could only play it when I went to school. I got caught playing it and had to serve detention lol
Do you think there might be a clause to stop them having proper Independence Day "game games" on the disk due to Acclaim having the rights to produce an official game on the PS1, Saturn and PC?
@@MattyStoked Tell a lie Fox Interactive released it, so Fox themselves had the rights. So they probably didn't want any competition with their own product. Also, Radical Entertainment developed it, not the greatest repertoire.
Ive spent years thinking this game I played was a fever dream lol, thank you lol I guess I was lucky I only had disk 10 remember it being quite fun at the time after the movie released.
I went to toys R us in Peterborough and my family didn't allow me to buy these toys as we didn't have a computer 😭. Core memory unlocked and I am so glad you have covered these!!! The packaging was so awesome and I wanted these soooooo bad haha. Thank you for taking the effort to do this!!! You are a legend
@@MattyStoked I love the end of your video when you ask does anyone want to buy some figures 😂. But honestly I was racking my brain as I thought they were Alien figures before you made this. Honestly if it wasn't for people like you, this stuff would be lost in time. Thank you for this! 🙏🏻
Thank you for doing this! I had the F-18 fighter toy as a kid (was so awesome) but didn't have a computer at the time to see what was on the disk. I always wondered what was on it. It's funny, I always thought that it was some part of a large game that you needed all the disks for.
Thanks a ton for making this video!!! (that's three exclamation marks) And for uploading them to archive org too! I see you uploaded this video very recently and I'm currently on an Independence Day phase so I started looking up all the different media that came out around it and the sequel, and I enjoyed this video a lot. Shame the toy jet plane doesn't fit the action figures, a big one would have ruled. And it would have been great if all the games were shooters or something like flying avoiding obstacles, instead of being mostly puzzles or those 2 "information" ones.
Props to you for tracking these down, and then ripping them so that they are properly archived. I remembered seeing the floppies in the toy box, but my parents wouldn't let me buy toys from ID4. Now I know what was on them!
i have no idea why i had the nostalgia bug to look this up, but this is exactly what i was looking for.... I had the Will Smith one and was a little disappointed, expecting more from the game. Great marketing technique though, and the action figure was why i got it, the disc was a bonus =)
You're right! The toys were pretty decent, and the discs were a great gimmick to get people talking. That was probably the plan, anyway 😅 I'm very interested to hear about the Carnage Disc in your home movies!
Who remembers the toys from Independence Day? Do you also remember the floppy disks which came with them?! If you want to skip straight to the disks, I start talking about them at 07:28.
Truly appreciate this...I had two of these (as you predicted one might have), and nostalgia sent me looking for more details about them tonight.... what a wonderful video! Thanks for doing this!
I remember playing a few of these back in the day. My parents had to help me figure out what to do and even then these things were insanely difficult to complete. Growing up in the 90s was awesome
I really considered making this video a lot shorter and just focusing on the games. But honestly the saga of tracking year things down over four years is a story that deserved to be told
Had disk 2 and 3. What I thought was cool about it was that it really felt that you were in some alien construct because there were NO instructions on how to do anything. It was 90s PC- and there was like 3 genres - kill everything, objectives, and endlessly explore. The endless exploration came naturally as a computer seemed to have limitless abilities, and even some years later you were still finding new things: wave editor, hyperterminal, midis, Fury3, screen savers... Anyway, I had limitless time and hungry to explore, so I'd pop in the disk and give it a go. The sounds of the game were memorable. I always thought for whatever reason that the disks kind of connected to form a larger game? For whatever reason i had trouble believing they were truly standalone, but that may be an impression from conventional games being multiple disks, like Doom or whatnot. I had the science officer- the colour on it was just absolutely unreal, and i liked the translucent guy inside. Never had a toy so detailed, but, wasn't much you could do with it, and it was really cumbersome in the toy box. Didnt work well in the backpack, toybox, or road trip. I was always afraid that because the tentacles were coat hanger wire that if I bent them too much theyd snap, or the plastic outside would crack.
I love this. thank you for posting this. so much nostalgia 🖤 I only had the disk when my dad got me the Alien Attacker. I was obsessed with ID4 when it came out
The good vibes in this video are unmatchable. The music, the editing, the dreamy b-roll, you pulling shapes in the living room... It's impossible to watch this without grinning. I have no real attachment to ID4 but I LOVE Mars Attacks so I can't wait for that vid. Great stuff!
Thank you so much. Your b-roll is inspirational. You saying anything positive about mine is a blessing. The vibes are strong with this one and I'm glad it's felt! x
I'm glad you enjoyed it! It all paid off in the end, but this is absolutely the biggest commitment I've ever made to the channel. It's already given me bigger ideas 💀
Always wondered what was on the other discs. I remember playing one of the discs as a kid but couldn’t remember anything about it. I watched ID4 recently for the first time in years and thought about the cool alien toy I had as a kid. I remember loving the little rubber alien more than the biomechanical suit thing. I tortured that poor alien, I remember burning it at some point and it had this little metal wire skeleton inside the rubber.
Wow! You just took me down a MAJOR memory lane trip when I was a kid. I had all those Alien and Predator toys, a good collection of their godzilla toys, Jurassic Park toys and of course the ID4 toys. And yes I remember the little games with them. I played them.
I had the science officer and the Shocktrooper back then, and played the games for about 30 minutes before get bored with them, and started to play only with the awesome figures, LOL!
6:40 I'm so glad this and the intro dance got put in 😂 it shouldn't be a surprise but this video definitely received editing worthy of a 4 years in the making type video, this was so visually clean. Looking forward to any more videos that come out as always!
Thank you so much!! I figured as this had taken so long, why not go all-out on the editing? I want to say the next video will be simpler but I can't promise that!
Always wondered what was on the other disks I never got as a kid. I played a bunch of these but missed at least 4 I can remember. Pretty cool to see. Wish I had the toys still….
Never got to play my disc, but yeah i remember the leader in my toy box . Toys used tp be great. Sad when they could start replacing decorations of today and cheaper
I have the president and the blue alien that are still on my hands, but couldn't run the disks on that time... so just for nostalgia and curiosity I search about them and found this gem of video... thanks for the info
Nice videos, man. Subbed! And damn, these games. I never played these and back then probably wouldn't have either, but looking at them now, especially the first one in this video... they look pretty eerie. There's just something about them that's kinda unsettling. The high-res, yet very grainy graphics, the alien UI, etc. Pretty cool.
Hhaha this really took me bad. You didn't mention that for most of these games, the sound was absolutely hiddious! scremaing through your head like some hellish daemon, although for 1.4 meg what was anyone expecting. They had some good ones in there as well :) I'll go find your Mars attacks disks now I never had those as a kid and only one of the large toys. BTW my Supreme Commander is sat beside me and everyone comments on it when they come into my office. They don't know what it is,they just know they've seen it somewhere before. Personally, I think it stil holds up as a really good toy today and the hard non-articulated plastic means it stands up as well as it ever did. Alien attacker is still one of the only representations of that fighter you can buy and not to inaccurate either. Shame the sounds were not from the film.
I had most of these toys and played the game discs at a neighbors house. Most of my human character figures broke immediately. Guess I was unlucky or just dumb lol. In years since I have found a few of these discs at yard sales and flea markets, but most the loose discs have been overwritten and poor resolution adult photos or hentai from 1999 on them instead. You are correct that the only way to get the games is to find mint unopened toys. Well until some kind gentleman archived them for us.
I found this video because my local pawn shop, nearly new, recently got in a HUGE load of star wars toys from the 90s, and among the imperial stuff, podracers and jawas, they had a myriad of other things like judge dredd, spider man, and, independence day, almost the whole collection. now, I'd heard of the film, but until 2 days ago, I had NO idea that the aliens in it were this awesome, because all the scenes that everyone quotes are from the air fights. heck, looking up the film, I'm, still, not interested but to watch the whole thing JUST for the autopsy scene? }{@\\ yeah I'd watch it! anyway, when I noticed the disk in the science officers box, I realized "I can't play this, I don't have a floppy drive." so, I searched it up, and I am STOKED to find this! thank you for the showcase, and for the archive. you're a pretty cool dood.
Cracking vid mate. I'd forgotten how ended up subbing to your channel till you mentioned the spawn cdrom and I instantly knew I was in for a treat. Looking forward to the Mars attacks vid
I'm glad you're hear because of the Spawn video and I'm glad you're sticking around. There's more shenanigans on the way. Some sooner, some later. Thanks for sticking with me.
I have genuinely waited 6+ years for this. Every once in awhile someone mentions ID4 and I instantly remember playing the signal disk that came with Jeff Golblums figure and I try to find the games online or at the very least THIS video. I could only afford 2 so I never got to behold the other 9! This was awesome and I appreciate your hard work. I FINALLY FUCKING GOT TO SEE THESE! lol Would it be too much trouble to upload the files online so I can relive my 8 year old gaming excitement?
Evan, thank you so much! I'm so glad this video is working and that people who remember these games are finding them again :D Check the video description! The files are all uploaded to archive. I ripped my own personal floppy disks so you can play them yourself!
This is insane. I cant remember which alien I had but the closest to the game was the warrior one. I just remember not being able to figure the game out as a kid. I was very young lol. Thank you for uploading this as i kid i wanted all the games!!
You're welcome, I'm glad you're liking the video :D If you had the Warrior game, then you must have had the glittery guy. There was also a red "Heavy Weapons" toy which looked absolutely wicked. It never came out here in the UK though, which made me sad.
Lovely trip down memory lane, on the subject of ID4 games at the time the brochureware site for the film had several early (flash maybe) games you could play including one where you piloted the F14.
These were made in Macromedia, the software which would become Flash (I believe). It's possible that these were on the website. Or maybe ones which didn't make it onto a toy were added to the website. Great insight, thanks!
@@joeclarkey you can usually use the wayback machine to find pages, but it doesn't support flash. So I wouldn't expect it to support Macromedia either. But if you managed to download the whole thing, with the Macromedia files too, you could get that working. Good luck, and please let me know how you get on!
The specs for the Alien Attacker in mission disk 08 are canon to me. Mach 6.2 and phase-disruptors. Roland and Dean should have tapped this technical lore for the second movie. You're looking for the crappy combat flight game made by Fox Interactive and Radical Entertainment. Good luck cracking the 32-bit win encryption to get an emulator to make that thing run. But I do know where you can get a working copy of the game.
Thank you for making this! I don't know what got me thinking about it, but I had disk 4 and I never figured out how to play it. And now I know! I don't know what happened to that disk.
Thank you for finding this video and dropping a comment. This was loads of fun to make and it's been great hearing from others who owned these disks and never played them 😅
I had one of those floppies when I was a kid and could never get it to run on anything. I have no idea how I got the disk as I also don't remember having the toy either. Thanks for finally revealing the mystery!!!
Oh no...oh no not that game! I still remember it, Disk 3 it was, never figured out what I needed to do back in the day, always ended with an almost instant game over. Good times.
I remember i had the Simon game disk and i remember getting frustrated with it selling it or something. But yeah i remember buying these figures I also had the mini alien ship as well. I regret selling most of my figures in the 2000s but i had to get financially stable somehow lol...
I've still got the floppy disc for the giant alien I had. The figure had a motion sensor where they face would open and close when you walked passed it.
@@MattyStoked It's down my parents house with half a technodrome and the old ghostbusters car which is missing all the doors. Wish I could tell childhood me not to dismantle everything and keep it in the box lol
@@Bubear666 absolutely not! The best toys are the ones which have been played with. Those toys have signs they were loved and that's what they're for ☺️
Awesome video, my dude. Loved it. I don't remember these action figures from bitd. Unfortunately, I kinda lost interest in action figures back in 1991. I was only 10 at the time, but that's when my love of sneakers took over. I think the last action figures I had was some of the terminator 2 line. Regrettably, I ended up giving all my stuff to my cousin's or my mum gave them to the church jumble sale. I lost all my he-man, mask, centurions, dino-riders and star wars toys. Gutted! Lol. These independence day figures look really cool. Amazing designs, but it's a shame the materials used a sub par. I think it's great that you managed to find them all, even if it did take you four years, lol. I actually found some Trainers last year after searching 30 year's for them. How's that for dedication. 😂 Yeah, that Independence Day movie blew my mind as a youth. I remember going to the cinema to see one Saturday morning with my old school buddies. I can't believe it took them so long to make that sequel. Do you know if they made any action figures for said sequel?🙌
Love for the high effort comment! I have heard the "my mum gave away my toys" story so many times, and it never stops hurting. Think of it this way though: some kid somewhere got a ton of great toys, so imagine the good vibes you put out into the world! Loved the film. And I actually enjoyed Resurgence. I really wish Emmerich had managed to round out his trilogy. I think there were planned toys, but the line got cancelled before the film even came out :(
@@MattyStoked I remember once as a kid in the 80s. I was playing in the hedges at the side of my old house and I seen a big black bin liner that was full of something. The inquisitive child in me made me go and look inside the bag. Mate, it was full of star wars figure. It had an at-at, scout walker and millennium falcon inside too. I'd never been more excited in my life, lol. Seems like I only had them two minutes before my mum gave them away. Yeah, I actually liked the Independence Day sequel. I know many didn't, but I enjoyed it. It's definitely something I'd watch again.🙌
The only things close to toys were Funko Pops for the original and Resurgence: Steven Hiller, David Levinson, and an Alien for the original and an older David, Jake Morrison, and the Alien Queen for Resurgence.
@@MattyStoked didnt have that many tho and the games were indeed confusing with no instructions and a lot of trial and error 😅 but it was so awesome that my toys came with floppy disk games!
Did… did a bunch of floppy disk games really just add to the lore of Independence Day? 😂 Who knew those aliens were out there abducting and experimenting on birds before launching their invasion!! 🐦
I got a few of the toys with the mission disks. The alien attacker one (#8) is….. to be fair I’d rather trash the disk than keep it, but im keeping it because of the value so im stuck with it. But the one where you destroy F-18s and blow up the city below (#10) has to be the BEST mission disk game out of all 11. I do have the Los Angeles playset and New York playset and they are really good toys.
I had two of these as a kid, one from a alien figure and one from the Will Smith's character's figure, I don't remember anything about the games but I did like the alien figure a lot and I still think the bio suit design is pretty great looking.
The suit design is fantastic, agreed! Super iconic. And the clappy head action on the toy is brilliant. I bet you got your alien to eat Will Smith's head with that. I know I did!
I looked through all of the mission discs, I vaguely remember having one but I'm not sure it was from these. I seem to remember a hidden object game where you were trying to find things in a crashed alien fighter. Any info on that?
@@MattyStoked yeah I watched the whole video. I could just be remembering it wrong, I don't know. I remember it like I said above. Funnily enough I played this on my mom's work laptop, which only had a monochromatic display. The graphics looked fine enough, but I remember them taking a while to load.
As a PC game collector, specifically big box games from the 1970s - 2004 ish , i have all the mission disk games but cant remember playing them at all. I'm sure they were very bad.
there was another one im not seeing here, it was like a space invaders game, it was on a floppy disc, and you just plug it in and it was independence day the movie video game where you shoot stuff as an alien from the floppy disc, no install required..
@@MattyStoked i may have been. it was the 90s when i played it when i worked in a real estate office as a secretary.. i would plug it in and pew pew for awhile, then the phone would ring and i would hang it up haha jk
Not content with being the foremost expert on the Independence day toy line, you just had to go and tease a mars attack sequel! It's too early for this much excitement
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WOW! You are indeed the only source I have found covering these minigames.
my brother got the commander for their birthday and we couldn’t wait to go with our mom to work so we could try the floppy disc on her computer.
We spent ALL DAY trying to figure out the mechanisms of the minigame and I think finally we got to Earth just to get blown up 😂.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
Haha, that's amazing! Just the comment I needed to see this afternoon. Glad to have helped, and I'm pleased you enjoyed the video :D
Once you're at earth, Send four destroyers only. Any more than four and you risk having the mothership left defenseless.
I received one of these for my birthday in 1996, but could never get it to work on my computer. For 16 years I’ve wondered what the game was.
Thank you!
I don't even remember which ones I actually had as a kid, but you are an absolute legend for sharing all of these,
I've had disks 9, 10 and 11, from lord-knows-where.
But to have all 11, finally in one place...
Time to launch DOSBox or PC98 and play these bad boys.
Hell yeah! I used PC-em but I think PC98 or 86Box would be even better!
Man the 90s were really a great time. I also grew up watching those "kid-unfriendly" movies like Robocop and I absolutely loved them.
Same! My mum sat me in front of Alien and had me reading Stephen King wayyyy too early and I loved it.
@@MattyStoked I was about 7 or 8 and saw William Wallace hanging there and asked my mom "how is he going to escape from that?". She answered me "he doesn't".
yep
been a kid on 90's was the best
Bravo on a comprehensive super-niche video on this weird bit of nostalgia from my childhood!
Thank you so much :D Glad you enjoyed it!
This is pure nostalgia... Idk why but i only remember the will smith disk, where you're cutting wires and reading to posted notes...
Those mini play sets were my favorite kind of toys as a kid! There’s something about miniature toys that makes them so much more fun to play with. I’m gonna need more on screen dancing Matty content. Love this!
So far, the most feedback has been on the dance moves. Well, the public wants what the public wants.
I also LOVE small toys. My favourite toylines are the ones in miniature. Trendmasters made some pretty good ones for Godzilla, too.
I keep coming back to this video because I find this game content very interesting. I wasn't even born yet when the initial movie came out but I am a huge fan!
The alien action figures look amazing but I wish they had more articulation.
It will probably never happen but I hope one day we'll get a proper Independence Day game where we can play as the humans and as the aliens. With today's graphics there will be no doubt this game will look incredible. Imagine what these large alien ships will look like in full HD 😱
Thank you so much for returning. This was so much effort to put together, I'm so pleased it interested you!
I really liked Independence Day when it came out. I wasn't very old, but it had everything I could have wanted in a film. You're right, it's a shame these toys weren't more articulated or they could be some of the coolest toys ever. But then again, metallic paint and glitter and bendy bits are all still really cool 🤩
I WASN'T CRAZY. I just had the Mad Max one and my best friend had the bomber training disk. Always wondered what the other games would be about, so thank you for this. In my tiny youth-brain, the disks equated to "a new game, for our PC, and it comes with the toy???" And the experiences were over sooner than the time it took to install them. 😂
I can confirm that at least two of these took longer to install from the floppy than they took to play 😆
17:00 I knew it! I swore this game existed when I was little, but I could not find it. Thank you for sharing these!
And now you can rest easy! You're welcome mate, thanks for the comment 😁
This was incredible! I remember seeing these toys about and at a friend's house, but YUP...no recollection of those floppy discs whatsoever! Anyway, what a joyful watch that was. The summer of ID4 was glorious. I was 10.
Haha! Those floppies were already in the bin, no doubt 😄 What a summer that was. Hello and pleased to see you here!
I had a few of these when the movie came out. Once in a while I'd check online to see if anyone else remembered them, but it seemed they'd all been forgotten. Until you came along!!
Now THAT makes me really happy. Happy to be the weird corner of the internet that remembers weird old software that's fallen into obscurity.
My mother worked for K-Mart and was the reason I was able to get my hands on so many iconic toy lines in my childhood. The Independence Day toys hold a special place in my heart because they were so different from a lot of other toys, and they were the only ones I'd ever gotten that came with computer games. I had nooooo idea what I was doing with the games, but I still loved the idea that these super cool toys came bundled with computer games. Glad to know all these years later that it was because they didn't come with instructions. I always thought it was just me not knowing enough about computer games at the time 😂
It definitely wasn't your fault!
I remember having the Science Officer toy but could never play what was on the disk since I didn't have a PC back then. Crazy finally getting to see what's actually on that disk all those years ago.
So far the best thing about making this video is getting comments like yours! I'm so thankful for them, thank you :D
I had this game. But we were so poor we didn't have a computer. So I literally could only play it when I went to school. I got caught playing it and had to serve detention lol
Haha that's getting pinned! I love sharing these funny little stories with each other, thank you for yours 🥰
From now on, I refuse to watch any other youtube videos if they don't have a rave break within the first five minutes of the episode. Brilliant!
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Do you think there might be a clause to stop them having proper Independence Day "game games" on the disk due to Acclaim having the rights to produce an official game on the PS1, Saturn and PC?
That's a good point. Do you think Acclaim would have had exclusive platform rights?
@@MattyStoked Tell a lie Fox Interactive released it, so Fox themselves had the rights. So they probably didn't want any competition with their own product.
Also, Radical Entertainment developed it, not the greatest repertoire.
Ive spent years thinking this game I played was a fever dream lol, thank you lol I guess I was lucky I only had disk 10 remember it being quite fun at the time after the movie released.
Hey and now you can download it and play it yourself! Thanks for the comment, mate :D
I went to toys R us in Peterborough and my family didn't allow me to buy these toys as we didn't have a computer 😭. Core memory unlocked and I am so glad you have covered these!!! The packaging was so awesome and I wanted these soooooo bad haha. Thank you for taking the effort to do this!!! You are a legend
Haha yes mate! I love getting these kinds of comments. This took absoluteyl ages to put together, so this sort of feedback is pure joy to me.
@@MattyStoked I love the end of your video when you ask does anyone want to buy some figures 😂. But honestly I was racking my brain as I thought they were Alien figures before you made this. Honestly if it wasn't for people like you, this stuff would be lost in time. Thank you for this! 🙏🏻
@@NoPunk1982 That's an incredibly generous comment, thank you so much.
Thank you for doing this! I had the F-18 fighter toy as a kid (was so awesome) but didn't have a computer at the time to see what was on the disk. I always wondered what was on it. It's funny, I always thought that it was some part of a large game that you needed all the disks for.
I have no memory of this toy line, but I'm here because I have disk 4 in my computer drawer!
Not entirely sure why, but the X-Files joke had me dyin laughing.
Thanks a ton for making this video!!! (that's three exclamation marks) And for uploading them to archive org too! I see you uploaded this video very recently and I'm currently on an Independence Day phase so I started looking up all the different media that came out around it and the sequel, and I enjoyed this video a lot. Shame the toy jet plane doesn't fit the action figures, a big one would have ruled. And it would have been great if all the games were shooters or something like flying avoiding obstacles, instead of being mostly puzzles or those 2 "information" ones.
Props to you for tracking these down, and then ripping them so that they are properly archived. I remembered seeing the floppies in the toy box, but my parents wouldn't let me buy toys from ID4. Now I know what was on them!
And now you can download them and play!
i have no idea why i had the nostalgia bug to look this up, but this is exactly what i was looking for....
I had the Will Smith one and was a little disappointed, expecting more from the game.
Great marketing technique though, and the action figure was why i got it, the disc was a bonus =)
And i will add - i used that blue disc in many home made videos as a kid 😁made for an awesome prop
You're right! The toys were pretty decent, and the discs were a great gimmick to get people talking. That was probably the plan, anyway 😅 I'm very interested to hear about the Carnage Disc in your home movies!
Who remembers the toys from Independence Day? Do you also remember the floppy disks which came with them?! If you want to skip straight to the disks, I start talking about them at 07:28.
Truly appreciate this...I had two of these (as you predicted one might have), and nostalgia sent me looking for more details about them tonight.... what a wonderful video! Thanks for doing this!
Oh that's so awesome. The response I've got from this video has been amazing. I'm so glad you found me and this video. And I hope you enjoyed it!
16:53 thank you for that! X-files theme made me smile
Haha, I'm glad when a stupid joke I think of in the edit actually bears fruit :D
@@MattyStoked it’s the little things :D
I remember playing a few of these back in the day. My parents had to help me figure out what to do and even then these things were insanely difficult to complete.
Growing up in the 90s was awesome
HAHA yes! Absolutely it was. Everything was difficult and there were no tutorials. Nostalgia is a powerful drug 😂
HAHA yes! Absolutely it was. Everything was difficult and there were no tutorials. Nostalgia is a powerful drug 😂
Love this! Not only is it a complete look at these games, but really love hearing about you hunting down a full set
I really considered making this video a lot shorter and just focusing on the games. But honestly the saga of tracking year things down over four years is a story that deserved to be told
Had disk 2 and 3. What I thought was cool about it was that it really felt that you were in some alien construct because there were NO instructions on how to do anything. It was 90s PC- and there was like 3 genres - kill everything, objectives, and endlessly explore. The endless exploration came naturally as a computer seemed to have limitless abilities, and even some years later you were still finding new things: wave editor, hyperterminal, midis, Fury3, screen savers... Anyway, I had limitless time and hungry to explore, so I'd pop in the disk and give it a go. The sounds of the game were memorable. I always thought for whatever reason that the disks kind of connected to form a larger game? For whatever reason i had trouble believing they were truly standalone, but that may be an impression from conventional games being multiple disks, like Doom or whatnot.
I had the science officer- the colour on it was just absolutely unreal, and i liked the translucent guy inside. Never had a toy so detailed, but, wasn't much you could do with it, and it was really cumbersome in the toy box. Didnt work well in the backpack, toybox, or road trip. I was always afraid that because the tentacles were coat hanger wire that if I bent them too much theyd snap, or the plastic outside would crack.
I have videos on screensavers AND Fury3. You found the right channel if you're into that!
I love this. thank you for posting this. so much nostalgia 🖤
I only had the disk when my dad got me the Alien Attacker. I was obsessed with ID4 when it came out
Thank you for commenting! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Did you play the game, or did you (like so many others) use the floppy disk as a coaster? :D
@@MattyStoked 😂 nah I “played” it. it was that Attacker specifications disk. I always wondered what happened to it
The good vibes in this video are unmatchable. The music, the editing, the dreamy b-roll, you pulling shapes in the living room... It's impossible to watch this without grinning. I have no real attachment to ID4 but I LOVE Mars Attacks so I can't wait for that vid. Great stuff!
Thank you so much. Your b-roll is inspirational. You saying anything positive about mine is a blessing. The vibes are strong with this one and I'm glad it's felt! x
I've got one of those on Christmas, it was the Alien scientist and I remember the game and the pigeon thing... lol
Yes mate!
4 years is a real commitment for a video, props for that! GG great video
I'm glad you enjoyed it! It all paid off in the end, but this is absolutely the biggest commitment I've ever made to the channel. It's already given me bigger ideas 💀
Always wondered what was on the other discs. I remember playing one of the discs as a kid but couldn’t remember anything about it.
I watched ID4 recently for the first time in years and thought about the cool alien toy I had as a kid. I remember loving the little rubber alien more than the biomechanical suit thing.
I tortured that poor alien, I remember burning it at some point and it had this little metal wire skeleton inside the rubber.
I think I remember my dog chewing up the little rubber alien at some point.
I actually had one of these (disk 7) as a kid! I really like it too! Haha Thanks for making this. Couldn’t find anything on them.
Glad I could help! I love covering weird old bits that are at risk of being forgotten.
Wow! You just took me down a MAJOR memory lane trip when I was a kid. I had all those Alien and Predator toys, a good collection of their godzilla toys, Jurassic Park toys and of course the ID4 toys. And yes I remember the little games with them. I played them.
Hell yeah, that's awesome! Great toys, I still have a couple of Predators myself :D
@StokedTube the late 90s was the apex of action figures I feel like.
I had the science officer and the Shocktrooper back then, and played the games for about 30 minutes before get bored with them, and started to play only with the awesome figures, LOL!
You and everyone else haha! Thanks for commenting, mate :)
6:40 I'm so glad this and the intro dance got put in 😂 it shouldn't be a surprise but this video definitely received editing worthy of a 4 years in the making type video, this was so visually clean. Looking forward to any more videos that come out as always!
Thank you so much!! I figured as this had taken so long, why not go all-out on the editing? I want to say the next video will be simpler but I can't promise that!
@@MattyStoked did trendmasters acthully make speciex figurs but k ow mcfakrene toys CID few
Always wondered what was on the other disks I never got as a kid. I played a bunch of these but missed at least 4 I can remember. Pretty cool to see. Wish I had the toys still….
Thanks for making a video on these!! I've hard a hard time finding any info on the discs over the years.....
Glad to help! Hopefully more people will find this one over time. That would be nice :D
Never got to play my disc, but yeah i remember the leader in my toy box . Toys used tp be great. Sad when they could start replacing decorations of today and cheaper
Toys today are still really good! But we don't get as many film tie-in toylines, which I do miss.
I love this toy line. I found the big one here in Argentina and it still works.
Hell yeah!
I.. I wasn't going to click like but... That disco dance scene. Yes. More. I'm now here for that in every episode.
You know this isn't a very big channel. ANY request represents a sizeable chunk of my viewer base 😂
I had one as a kid, I had the Alien and 4th game disk
Holy crap i had one of those disk! I got the toy for Christmas and would attempt to play it but had no idea what was going on
Haha that's great. How did you find me? Also what you did you get? 😊
Man I finally got to see what were in those floppy disks.
I hope you weren't disappointed after all these years! 🤭
Dem dance moves! Also, orange handled scissors = best scissors!
BEST SCISSORS
I have the president and the blue alien that are still on my hands, but couldn't run the disks on that time... so just for nostalgia and curiosity I search about them and found this gem of video... thanks for the info
That's awesome! I'm so glad you found me! And now you can download the floppy images and play them on your PC today 😆
Nice videos, man. Subbed!
And damn, these games. I never played these and back then probably wouldn't have either, but looking at them now, especially the first one in this video... they look pretty eerie. There's just something about them that's kinda unsettling. The high-res, yet very grainy graphics, the alien UI, etc. Pretty cool.
Thank you for the sub and thanks for all your comments across my videos. That really is just about the best thing you can do to help a channel out!
Hhaha this really took me bad. You didn't mention that for most of these games, the sound was absolutely hiddious! scremaing through your head like some hellish daemon, although for 1.4 meg what was anyone expecting. They had some good ones in there as well :) I'll go find your Mars attacks disks now I never had those as a kid and only one of the large toys. BTW my Supreme Commander is sat beside me and everyone comments on it when they come into my office. They don't know what it is,they just know they've seen it somewhere before. Personally, I think it stil holds up as a really good toy today and the hard non-articulated plastic means it stands up as well as it ever did. Alien attacker is still one of the only representations of that fighter you can buy and not to inaccurate either. Shame the sounds were not from the film.
I had most of these toys and played the game discs at a neighbors house. Most of my human character figures broke immediately. Guess I was unlucky or just dumb lol. In years since I have found a few of these discs at yard sales and flea markets, but most the loose discs have been overwritten and poor resolution adult photos or hentai from 1999 on them instead. You are correct that the only way to get the games is to find mint unopened toys. Well until some kind gentleman archived them for us.
I found this video because my local pawn shop, nearly new, recently got in a HUGE load of star wars toys from the 90s, and among the imperial stuff, podracers and jawas, they had a myriad of other things like judge dredd, spider man, and, independence day, almost the whole collection. now, I'd heard of the film, but until 2 days ago, I had NO idea that the aliens in it were this awesome, because all the scenes that everyone quotes are from the air fights. heck, looking up the film, I'm, still, not interested but to watch the whole thing JUST for the autopsy scene? }{@\\ yeah I'd watch it!
anyway, when I noticed the disk in the science officers box, I realized "I can't play this, I don't have a floppy drive." so, I searched it up, and I am STOKED to find this! thank you for the showcase, and for the archive. you're a pretty cool dood.
Cracking vid mate. I'd forgotten how ended up subbing to your channel till you mentioned the spawn cdrom and I instantly knew I was in for a treat.
Looking forward to the Mars attacks vid
I'm glad you're hear because of the Spawn video and I'm glad you're sticking around. There's more shenanigans on the way. Some sooner, some later. Thanks for sticking with me.
I have genuinely waited 6+ years for this. Every once in awhile someone mentions ID4 and I instantly remember playing the signal disk that came with Jeff Golblums figure and I try to find the games online or at the very least THIS video.
I could only afford 2 so I never got to behold the other 9!
This was awesome and I appreciate your hard work. I FINALLY FUCKING GOT TO SEE THESE! lol
Would it be too much trouble to upload the files online so I can relive my 8 year old gaming excitement?
Evan, thank you so much! I'm so glad this video is working and that people who remember these games are finding them again :D
Check the video description! The files are all uploaded to archive. I ripped my own personal floppy disks so you can play them yourself!
This is insane. I cant remember which alien I had but the closest to the game was the warrior one. I just remember not being able to figure the game out as a kid. I was very young lol. Thank you for uploading this as i kid i wanted all the games!!
You're welcome, I'm glad you're liking the video :D If you had the Warrior game, then you must have had the glittery guy. There was also a red "Heavy Weapons" toy which looked absolutely wicked. It never came out here in the UK though, which made me sad.
So many toys shown my brother and I had.
Been waiting for this video for so many years! Thank you man!
No problem! Glad you found it and enjoyed it :D
Lovely trip down memory lane, on the subject of ID4 games at the time the brochureware site for the film had several early (flash maybe) games you could play including one where you piloted the F14.
These were made in Macromedia, the software which would become Flash (I believe). It's possible that these were on the website. Or maybe ones which didn't make it onto a toy were added to the website. Great insight, thanks!
@@MattyStoked no probs, I'd love to try find them again. Time to do some digging.
@@joeclarkey you can usually use the wayback machine to find pages, but it doesn't support flash. So I wouldn't expect it to support Macromedia either. But if you managed to download the whole thing, with the Macromedia files too, you could get that working. Good luck, and please let me know how you get on!
Thank you very much for this...i had this floppy that came with the ShockTrooper alien...didn't understand shit but i liked it...
Hell yeah!
The specs for the Alien Attacker in mission disk 08 are canon to me. Mach 6.2 and phase-disruptors. Roland and Dean should have tapped this technical lore for the second movie. You're looking for the crappy combat flight game made by Fox Interactive and Radical Entertainment. Good luck cracking the 32-bit win encryption to get an emulator to make that thing run. But I do know where you can get a working copy of the game.
I had the alien drone action figure. The toy was awesome. Never got the flopper disk to work
they should of re-released all 11 missions on a CD-ROM with a collectors edition multi-figure pack of the action figures
Trendmasters were pretty smart about releasing multipacks, too. That's a great idea!
Thank you for making this! I don't know what got me thinking about it, but I had disk 4 and I never figured out how to play it. And now I know! I don't know what happened to that disk.
Thank you for finding this video and dropping a comment. This was loads of fun to make and it's been great hearing from others who owned these disks and never played them 😅
@@MattyStoked I got the game to load but I couldn't figure out the objective of the game.
1:34 - that Jabba the Hutt toy lmao 😂
man, this is making me want to look up all my childhood toys... this is dangerous
@@HPRshredder Nostalgia is a hell of a drug!
@@MattyStoked I spent probably an hour of last evening watching retro toy reviews
@@HPRshredder oh boy, I sure hope I didn't awaken something within you 😅
I remember trying to get this floppy to run as a kid . I was able to install it but never was able to run it , this has been a blast
Oh, that's awesome! I'm so glad you got a kick out of this. Maybe a little catharsis after all these years 😆
I had one of those floppies when I was a kid and could never get it to run on anything.
I have no idea how I got the disk as I also don't remember having the toy either.
Thanks for finally revealing the mystery!!!
I'm sorry to hear your disk didn't work! But hopefully you got the resolution you were looking for here 😃
Oh no...oh no not that game!
I still remember it, Disk 3 it was, never figured out what I needed to do back in the day, always ended with an almost instant game over. Good times.
There's no instructions anywhere. I had to figure these all out with no guidance! Some of them are a nightmare 😆
I remember i had the Simon game disk and i remember getting frustrated with it selling it or something. But yeah i remember buying these figures I also had the mini alien ship as well. I regret selling most of my figures in the 2000s but i had to get financially stable somehow lol...
Aww, I feel that. We've all had that moment where we need to be a little more adult that we'd like!
this is the first time that i saw the content of the game floppy disk cuz when i was kid ide never play it cuz my computer did run it, lol
Haha damn. Well I'm glad you finally got to see what was on those disks :D
Hey mate, good to see you making vids again! XoX
I had some of these. I completely forgot about them.
I'm glad to have helped to fire that little neuron in your brain which has lain dormant all this time 😁
I've still got the floppy disc for the giant alien I had. The figure had a motion sensor where they face would open and close when you walked passed it.
And then two minutes after this comment you show it off lol
@@Bubear666 Haha yeah it's a horribly loud toy. Even after all these years if sitting in that box alone!
@@MattyStoked It's down my parents house with half a technodrome and the old ghostbusters car which is missing all the doors. Wish I could tell childhood me not to dismantle everything and keep it in the box lol
@@Bubear666 absolutely not! The best toys are the ones which have been played with. Those toys have signs they were loved and that's what they're for ☺️
Miss those games and they way the disks looked
Yeah absolutely love these crystal translucent disks. I'm fully obsessed with translucent plastic. It's so 90s and I love it.
This was great!
Thank you 😎
I had the david desk, my computer teacher freaked out on me, she thought I was trying to hack a computer. 🤦♂️
Hahaha, hack the planet!
Awesome video, my dude. Loved it.
I don't remember these action figures from bitd. Unfortunately, I kinda lost interest in action figures back in 1991. I was only 10 at the time, but that's when my love of sneakers took over. I think the last action figures I had was some of the terminator 2 line.
Regrettably, I ended up giving all my stuff to my cousin's or my mum gave them to the church jumble sale. I lost all my he-man, mask, centurions, dino-riders and star wars toys. Gutted! Lol.
These independence day figures look really cool. Amazing designs, but it's a shame the materials used a sub par.
I think it's great that you managed to find them all, even if it did take you four years, lol.
I actually found some Trainers last year after searching 30 year's for them. How's that for dedication. 😂
Yeah, that Independence Day movie blew my mind as a youth. I remember going to the cinema to see one Saturday morning with my old school buddies. I can't believe it took them so long to make that sequel.
Do you know if they made any action figures for said sequel?🙌
Love for the high effort comment! I have heard the "my mum gave away my toys" story so many times, and it never stops hurting. Think of it this way though: some kid somewhere got a ton of great toys, so imagine the good vibes you put out into the world!
Loved the film. And I actually enjoyed Resurgence. I really wish Emmerich had managed to round out his trilogy. I think there were planned toys, but the line got cancelled before the film even came out :(
@@MattyStoked I remember once as a kid in the 80s. I was playing in the hedges at the side of my old house and I seen a big black bin liner that was full of something. The inquisitive child in me made me go and look inside the bag.
Mate, it was full of star wars figure.
It had an at-at, scout walker and millennium falcon inside too.
I'd never been more excited in my life, lol.
Seems like I only had them two minutes before my mum gave them away.
Yeah, I actually liked the Independence Day sequel.
I know many didn't, but I enjoyed it. It's definitely something I'd watch again.🙌
The only things close to toys were Funko Pops for the original and Resurgence: Steven Hiller, David Levinson, and an Alien for the original and an older David, Jake Morrison, and the Alien Queen for Resurgence.
This is so cool! You have earned a sub!
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy your stay 🤘
I heard of them and still have mine 😁
Well done you ☺️
@@MattyStoked didnt have that many tho and the games were indeed confusing with no instructions and a lot of trial and error 😅 but it was so awesome that my toys came with floppy disk games!
Did… did a bunch of floppy disk games really just add to the lore of Independence Day? 😂 Who knew those aliens were out there abducting and experimenting on birds before launching their invasion!! 🐦
Oh my God I just had an idea for an Independence Day Expanded Universe video
I got a few of the toys with the mission disks. The alien attacker one (#8) is….. to be fair I’d rather trash the disk than keep it, but im keeping it because of the value so im stuck with it. But the one where you destroy F-18s and blow up the city below (#10) has to be the BEST mission disk game out of all 11. I do have the Los Angeles playset and New York playset and they are really good toys.
I had two of these as a kid, one from a alien figure and one from the Will Smith's character's figure, I don't remember anything about the games but I did like the alien figure a lot and I still think the bio suit design is pretty great looking.
The suit design is fantastic, agreed! Super iconic. And the clappy head action on the toy is brilliant. I bet you got your alien to eat Will Smith's head with that. I know I did!
@@MattyStoked Oh yeah, I used the clappy head action to eat other toys' heads, haha, good times.
I had the "science officer" alien aka the blue one. I STILL have the inner alien.
I also have the alien fighter ship with box. And disk
Yes! We love to see it!
I had discs 1 and 8. They’re long gone now. I do still have the space ship toy though.
Amazing! It's a really cool spaceship :D
i had at least one of these, but i thought i remembered that it came in a cereal box actually but i may be mistaking two memories for one!
but now that you get more into the video and you open the toys, i absolutely remember having the scientist toy and the little alien inside!
I was sure they came in cereal boxes too.
I'd love to have a floppy disk drop into my morning bowl of Cookie Crisp!
I looked through all of the mission discs, I vaguely remember having one but I'm not sure it was from these. I seem to remember a hidden object game where you were trying to find things in a crashed alien fighter. Any info on that?
Two or three of the ones in the video are *sort of* hidden object games set inside the alien fighter. You could be remembering one of them?
@@MattyStoked yeah I watched the whole video. I could just be remembering it wrong, I don't know. I remember it like I said above. Funnily enough I played this on my mom's work laptop, which only had a monochromatic display. The graphics looked fine enough, but I remember them taking a while to load.
As a PC game collector, specifically big box games from the 1970s - 2004 ish , i have all the mission disk games but cant remember playing them at all. I'm sure they were very bad.
The good news for you is you don't have to play them! You can just watch this! :D
nice :D
Thanks! 😄
Speaking of forgotten pc games there was a game based on the movie sneakers.
The hacking film with Robert Redford and Dan Akroyd? I love that film!
I had these but unfortunately….didn’t have a PC 😞
Oh no! Well I hope watching this was a good payoff :)
there was another one im not seeing here, it was like a space invaders game, it was on a floppy disc, and you just plug it in and it was independence day the movie video game where you shoot stuff as an alien from the floppy disc, no install required..
That's the first I'm hearing! The box states there's 11, and I got them all. Unless you're thinking of Disk 10, which is similar to Space Invaders.
@@MattyStoked i may have been. it was the 90s when i played it when i worked in a real estate office as a secretary.. i would plug it in and pew pew for awhile, then the phone would ring and i would hang it up haha jk
I saw that footage of disk 3 is corrupted. Is this how it looked when recording?
Corrupted?
@@MattyStoked I saw the footage was darkened with a strange filter to it.
@@NebLleb That's part of the game! It's dark because there's a light switch that I didn't find until after I'd finished playing the game 😅
Not content with being the foremost expert on the Independence day toy line, you just had to go and tease a mars attack sequel! It's too early for this much excitement
See you in four years
@@MattyStoked I'll keep my eyes peeled for those floppys
My older brother had the game, never played it tho cuz we didnt have a pc
What did you do with the disc? 🥲
@@MattyStoked man i dont even remember haha it was a long time ago, i was probably like 6 or 7 when he had the game, now im 34.
I never new about these. I only knew about that crappy air combat game
Yeah that game was on PC wasn't it? It has a really great aesthetic, so I really like that.
I think you could buy these at Burger King in USA, I think it was $3.99 with a meal or something, and you got a crappy ID4 toy!!
I'd love to get a floppy disk in a happy meal! That would be amazing 😍
This is pure nostalgia... Idk why but i only remember the will smith disk, where you're cutting wires and reading to posted notes...