LGR - System Requirements Stickers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2013
- A relaxed, nostalgic look back at PC system requirements labels and stickers from games past. Covering stuff from Sierra, Epic Megagames, EA, Maxis, Accolade, Epyx, Bethesda, and more.
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I remember my father used to play PC games and be all about PCs when I was a child in the 1990s and I would watch and be amazed. He died in 2000...watching these videos about 1990s computers feels like...making a bit of a connection to him again.
There's a similar connection with my sister who passed in '98 that I try to recapture when making these nostalgic videos, so I hope that they continue to bring you many happy memories.
Facade That's good. Not the death the fact that you can make a connection with him. He is in a better place and probably watching over you.
Guess my kids will feel the same when I go. Those were the days. I still have my classic computers. Never play on them but I remember the joys of having them working. Voodoo cards and GEneral Midi sound cards. The ensoniqs were super easy to set up. No drivers to hog you RAM :-)
Stop you're gonna make me cry
I am late since I joined and subbed to the channel a year ago. I know the feeling, my dad is slowly dying and he gave me all his old pc crap that still works. I was crying looking at it all seven year old me trying to help my Dad solve Space Quest or Kings Quest. It hurts, I hope you are doing well. And LGR I hope you keep doing this series as I binge watch it.
I still remember how I bought my first PC game with my own money. It was C&C:RA with all the addons included. The store clerk asked me if my PC's hardware was good enough to run it (the first and only time this happened) and I said "Yes, because I have a Pentium 2!" and smiled at him proudly.
This made my day. Thank you.
Late 90s system requirements look like nutritional information put on food products.
Since when are food products nutricional... what are you thinking!?!
RickyRicardo80
is that not a thing in america? You know, the little white labels with black text that says how much salt, sugar, fat is in the thing?
It is a thing here but the stickers are not on apples
Dalmation935
yeah they're usually not on fruit that's sold seperately. But they are on bags of oranges.
I thought that too.
It's funny that, nowadays, we blow right past those system requirements on the lowest-end walmart PC, but because of things like 64-bit Windows versions, we can't even get them to run on our now elite magical hardware of the future.
I had issues with DOSBox trying to play my CD copy of Duke Nukem 3D on one of my PCs, but that was a few years ago. I don't think I ever got it to work properly.
one thing that kept me away from PC-gaming for two decades:
-PC is complete overkill ocmpared to the systhem requirements
-still doesn't work
i can't even run games from the 2000's on my pc.
and i can'T even get them to work with virtual box or stuff like that either.
DOSBox requires some setting up but DN3D works entirely fine on it once you do. EDuke32 is still the better solution though.
That is why you of course have a retro computer as well, right?
This is why I pay GOG to do the DosBox dirty work for me :)
I like it how "Land of the Unicorn" has an *upper* age limit... Makes me want to play it out of pure rebellion...
I remember being really young when I got into PC gaming and never really worrying about the system requirements until I got Battlefield Vietnam and realized I couldn't play it in its choppy state. Luckily, some bored employee at circuit city ended up walking me through my RAM problem. Shouts out to that dude wherever he's at!
Red and gold make a good combination. I can see why you like the sticker, man.
Iron Man and new C-3PO agree.
+Lazy Game Reviews Boy George will tell you to throw some green in there too ...do not do it!
so does the gryffindore house
yenee94 Kate
Lose the "e" on the the end there, sweetie. Gryffindor doesn't have one.
My high school colours were "Cherry and Gold". Basically just a slightly darker red.
I really like how calming this video is. I wasn't old enough to play these games or know much about them when I was growing up, but there's something really relaxing and interesting about listening to you talk about stickers. That time when you reviewed a chair that I wouldn't buy even if I had the money, it was still pleasant just listening to you.
Would you ever consider doing an intentional ASMR video? Indulge in those little tech sounds of fans whirring, disks spinning, the soft tapping of a keyboard, plus with that smooth voice narrating after it, oh man. It would make my day. :D
I have really considered it, as I'm quite into ASMR videos myself.
+Lazy Game Reviews Oh man, that would be sweeeeeet.
+Lazy Game Reviews it would put me to sleep. So calming!!! Is this your natural voice if you're out and about? Always wondered.
That Daggerfall box looks beautiful.
I do like the Unreal Tournament's "Linux version included, not supported" :D
I only have a 99% IBM-compatible PC.
Must be a Tandy 2000.
You mean a Windows 10 computer?
Linux is IBM compatible (IBM works with Linux)!
Then you can run 80% of games.
You're that kind of guy who makes videos that I love to watch while I eat a meal, learn something, and laugh a bit at the quirky humor.
Definitely one of my favorite TH-camrs.
Hello.
lol hi Cry
One of my favorite things to do when i was about 12-15 years old, was look at the system requirements on all of the software boxes in best buy or any store that sold software. The late 90s amd early 2000s was the golden age of sys req
He's got such a great voice, I could listen to him talking about pretty much anything
Watching this and just thinking about how far computers have come, it's just nuts.
I think one of the things that really helped get rid of the system requirement madness was Windows itself. In the days of DOS, the idea of the "PC standard" was pretty vague. Drivers and compatibility were all over the place with things. When Windows released, it HAD to run on any compatible. In order to do this, it HAD to support all the graphics types and sound types. This modularized it into the way we programmers do it today via WinAPI, DX/OGL libraries, and assorted sound libraries. If it works with Windows, you just need the right drivers and programming for it usually just includes using WinAPI and DX/OGL. No longer do we actually need to address and access the GPU and sound cards directly (thank goodness).
Singular8ty so wait, by accessing the cards directly, was it kind of like writing your own driver software?
I should be asleep, yet here I am watching a video about stickers.
Love this kind of videos. I still remember the frustration i had when i saw a really cool game i couldn't run on the shelf of a store mocking me.
I can totally relate to this obsession about mundane objects.While my parents refused to fork out the money for a pc back in the day :(
I was obsessed over NES black box art the ones with the pixals on the box.After years of atari 2600 I loved the fact that the sprites actually looked like something lol.
Now that im all grown up I spend too much on pc's.Even bought an old 486 to play all them cool games that mocked me as a kid....Emulators for me just is not the same.
While I missed the epic goodness of 90's pc gaming.A few times a week I take a time trip back pretending its state of the art.Amazingly it works as the games are still SOLID! and the 2d graphics holds up better than early 3d games.
Thanks for all the retro stuff LGR!
Ah , once again LGR is the only youtuber who can make a nearly 20 minute video about system requirements stickers so smooth , interesting and relaxing
Advanced basic... eheheh. Still makes me chuckle.
Only Mr. Basinger could make a 20 minute feature about flipping box labels and yet keep me completely enthralled throughout !
Yeah, I remember all these old requirements when they came out. Remembering my first "new" store bought "Packard Bell 486 SX 25 mhz with Panasonic printer" from Best Buy (late 1992) and 4 megabytes of ram. Windows 3.1 and dos 5.0 and direct x 1. I upgraded that system for years with 486DX 50 mhz then 100 mhz cpu and then a cyrix 133 mhz. Ram upgraded to max at 20 megabytes with ram double software installed for even more space. Sound blaster (original then awe 32 version later on) Print shop deluxe taking an hour and a half thinking and about the same amount of time printing it making banners for work. 4x cd rom drive also. One of my all time windows direct x games was "Chrystal Calliburn" (pinball game I still love and still own today) The good Ole' days of computers and gaming :) Thanks for sharing these cool memories :)
I like these videos covering odd video game subjects.
Would like to see a demo CD video.
I didn't pay much attention to system requirements for a long time because every DOS game I had installed on my 486 would run without a hitch. But then I bought MechWarrior 4 and tried to play it on the family Pentium 2 machine, and couldn't see anything because It didn't have a decent graphics card. Fortunately, one trip to Staples and one Rage Fury Pro later, I was dazzled by the hyper-realistic visuals and mind blowing 800x600 resolution streaming from my CRT monitor.
tristikov Staples actually used to have decent graphics cards? I work there and the best we have is not much better than integrated on a relatively new PC.
woooooooa thanks for the nostalgi trip.
I'mm 80's kid. 90's teen, so I remeber all that specification readings, and all the savings every yer or so to get the newest voodoo graphic card and the soundblaster clones.... oh man.
No wonder the Amiga was so popular back in the day.All you had to worry about really was ram.
+Solo Gals Plus the Amiga was a lot cheaper than PCs back in the day.
***** "but the ability to just put something in the original Xbox and play it was amazing to me."
That's something I might have got back in the 8 bit days when computer games came on tape and took at least ten minutes to load and the other choice was the NES or the Master System (though some computers used cartridges too) not that it mattered in the UK.
+'Murrican Oil no!
That was mostly true but certain A1000 games couldn't run on anything other than Kickstart 1.1. There were later compatibility issues between OCS and ECS machines and still later ones with AGA.
Not to mention that at least up until really VGA took off PC games looked and handled like 8-bit games.
Only LGR could keep me hooked for almost 20 minutes talking about stickers on boxes at its most basic level.
All power to you LGR.
i like that you did this. i also find it interesting. i also find it amazing how much the quality of your videos improved from the start to this point (2013) what a diff . great job!
Ah nostalgia! I have always had that issue of never having the best graphics (or amount of RAM for that matter) to play games and I often remember looking at games back in the late 90s until the mid 00s and hoping my lower end system would run the game, which sadly often wasn't the case and I couldn't play many of the popular games everyone I knew that played PC games, had.
I always looked at the Recommended System Requirements, rather than the Minimum System Requirements as I knew I wouldn't be satisfied with playing the game on minimum. It was the best or nothing for me and sadly it was often nothing, although I did still have several games I couldn't run using the best quality settings.
The best PC I had for years was a Packard Bell PC my parents bought for me back in 1999. It had 17 inch giant CRT which took up most of the desk, a Pentium III 733Mhz CPU, 64MB DDR RAM (eventually upgraded to 384MB), 15GB HDD (eventually upgraded to 30GB) and 128MB Geforce FX 5200 PCI graphics (Sadly my motherboard didn't have an AGP graphics expansion slot so I was stuck with slower PCI graphics)
I remember trying to play games like Star Trek Elite Fore II on that PC,but they would lag so badly it was impossible to play them and for a few years I was limited to a 15GB HDD, so I couldn't have many games installed at any one time. My monitor was also limited to a resolution of 1280x1024 which often wasn't high enough to play many games well either.
I had the PC until 2007 when I finally had enough of my own money to really start building a much better PC and I was glad I upgraded. I couldn't play many games and as for video editing, forget about it, but that was about to change.
Now I got a much better PC with 32GB RAM, several 1TB HDDs, 240GB SSD, MSi Nvidia Geforce 750 Ti Graphics, Intel Quad Core i7 3.1Ghz etc... much better for playing a lot of games, although I do still look at the graphics requirements for games since, although I do have a decent graphics card, there have been much better ones made since and some games may not run the best on it.
I still remember the days, I remember seeing a game that required 2 Gigs in free space and I was like, "Wow!...This is the biggest Game ever!..." Haha, Now you have games like GTA 5 that is 65 Gigs in size!
So True. Back then I thought a game of 25 MB (yes 25 MB) was a lot. These days you will need a one TB or greater drive just so you can have space for 'em. By the way, I will cringe when the first Terrabyte game comes out.
What about windows system grade that was a thing for a little bit
Try 200+ GB now :)))
There's also the Australian Edition, with yet more differing box art :)
Oh my god... That SimCity 2000 BGM nostalgia... Literally chills down my spine, thanks for that Clint :D
Excellent video, and a tidal wave of nostalgia. I still remember when SimCopter came out, but my father's computer didn't meet the minimum CPU requirements of 90MHz (ours was a 75MHz CPU). He still bought it for me and tweaked the computer enough to get it to run. Despite it running at under 15 FPS, I played the CRAP out of it.
Thanks again for yet another great video!
Diggin' the SC4 music in the background.
SC3 at the start too
"Tandy VGA only" means on Tandy computers, it didn't support EGA displays, only VGA displays.
Simcity 4 music hell yeah
Found this channel less than a week ago. Best channel on TH-cam. Very professional and entertaining, nostalgic... It's absolutely amazing. My fave channel on the tube.
theres something I found so intriguing about your videos. Its like a friend telling me about something he's interested in. I dig them lol keep it up man
This was actually really interesting - I remember when PC games had all the compatibility stuff on them. Showing my age now I expect :)
You can talk about stickers and still make it interesting.
I don't know why but I love this style of more informative than comedic review, for niche interests like DOS games and the like. Another good channel is the Oddity Archive which covers more old television stuff. Do you watch them?
A man that can talk about stickers for 19 minutes deserves all of the subscribes he can get.
This brings sooo much memories! That and anything talking about XP makes me nostalgic.
Holy shiiiiiit, motocross madness really brings the memories back. I remember spending the better part of a day downloading the demo of this game on our 56k modem, and it completely blew my mind.
Love the cataloging and nostalgia in his videos, top stuff!
i lived by "the grid" in my early gaming years to know what i could run. keep up the good work LGR!!
It wasn't just the requirements, in a time without internet help, configuring the sound cards and memory was quite hard in DOS games. I can't remember how I learned to free "conventional memory" or set the IRQ
You have a great way of turning a seemingly boring topic and turning it interesting, funny how something so small can capture the history of something so well.
This is a good video, but what really sells it is the Neil Sedaka gif. That needs to be a meme.
I started off in computing at about 8 years old with the good old VIC20, great for building electronics projects and using the VIC to control them, I bought a switchable RAM expansion for it because I needed it to play a few of the games I had... Then it was the C64 and onto an Amiga and a CD32... Then in the early to mid 90s I moved from Amiga to a PC... Chased the system requirements, constantly upgrading and building new PCs... Eventually I bought a laptop for serious stuff and an Xbox then a PS3 for games... Gaming on a PC just became a slog, constantly shelling out for faster this and more of that... I miss my VIC20 and my CD32... Getting quite nostalgic today.
Ah yeah, I meant to mention that! I even had a game box out that had a sticker half coming off to show this. Oh well, thanks for bringing it up here.
I was actually just talking to someone about maybe covering some classic game installers, and it's not a bad idea. Will keep it in mind!
"It's going to run to some degree "
I admire your optimism. :)
Nice. I don't know if this theme was ever revisited, but I remember... it was either Falcon 3 or 4. Came in a binder, initially. And had three sets of requirements... I don't remember what they were called, but it was something like "minimum," "playable" and "incredible." I appreciated that at the time.
Amazing. I didn't realize how much computer history was/is wrapped up in these seemingly insignificant stickers.
You, good sir, are awesome.
I also read the reardments for the games when I used to have a cd rom reader and a floppy disc drive
18:00 memories. I used to love that game when I was a little kid. It came with our old computer.
Great video.
I love these obscure videos, keep em up LGR!
You were a gamer before I was even born! I find that rather amazing!
That was a nice trip down memory lane.
Love your voice, so calm and Duke'y!
I had no idea, that video about stickers can be this entertaining!
Man I can relate to the nostalgia of those days when going into those PC specific stores and just going through all the different boxes. It
Thanks for this great video. Brought up some memories...
Amazing! you managed to get a rich story from something so simple as a requirement label or a sticker.
Nostalgia man.
All that nostalgia, brought some real memories back. Top notch.
I remember when you would find a VGA game and get all tingly with excitement because the graphics were going to be great. Then SVGA came out and you would drop to your knees and worship at the potential graphical awesomeness right up to the point where you realized your PC couldn't run it.
Hello LGR, i always watch your video and this is one of my favorite topic or discussion. I like these kind of discussion or everything about whats in/have at packaging. I hope you do more video like this for example, your favorite art cover packaging, weird and something like that. By the way nice vids here!
This was much more entertaining than a video about system requirements stickers has any right to be.
I got into PC gaming at the tail end of this stuff around the Unreal Tournament era. I had a lot to learn.
Seeing them boxes with Cyrix, MEGAbytes of RAM and disk space requirements bring lots of nostalgic tears to my eyes.
you sure do go deep in nostalgia games for a "lazy" game review!
Great video. I great up as a PC gamer in the 1990's too, it was a great time indeed!!
That grid like on NFS is what I remember the most. Mostly looking at processor, RAM, eventually video card; I didn't look at DirectX though it was on there, leading to my most recent compatibility problem - Freelancer back in 2004. (Not counting backwards compatibility problems of course.)
Love it! Please make it a series!
Those were much greater times back then... my first desktop pc was a Dell, Intel 166Mhz MMX, 32mb, S3 Trio64 2mb video card, 7gb hd, 4xcdrom drive and floppy's. Had a lot of great times with it!!
I have little similar thing with video games.
I love to read game manuals on freetimes. These manuals are very different from each others, that I love to study them & see how much the game makers really cared to help us players to learn to play their games.
Sometimes I check out the box of the games too for fun. The cover art & the back of the box really can tell much.
I feel like I'm such a nerd because of this, but I'm happy that I'm not the only gamer with weird ways to have little joy.
That's a great idea! I especially remember some of the elaborate ones like Command & Conquer where they had the fancy graphics even while just setting up your sound card!
dude. great stuff! thanks for uploading!
Ahh, man, big thumbs up for the Unreal Tournament music at the end!
LGR's the only TH-camr I know that can make a high-quality, 20 minute video on freaking system requirement stickers.
Thanks man. Keep up the excellent channel.
This guy and CGR are the only people who can make a 20-minute sticker videos interesting.
Considering I mentioned Treasure Mountain in my comment of your Reader Rabbit video, I was pleasantly surprised to see it in this one! My school computer class days remember that game fondly, along with its sibling, Treasure Mathstorm lol
I saw the video upload and got really happy that there is another video that's not about the tech in particular.
Love your videos. I mean, who would do something like requirements box stickers review but you ^_^ This was so awesome to watch, so nostalgyc, however it spells.. Time spend well.
Sorry for commenting on a very old video, but I just love this. I'd love to see you do a full video about the MT-32!
As soon as i saw super solvers treasure mountain something clicked and i remembered playing it as a small child, wow nostalgia.
Nostalgia's a hell of a drug, man.
Wow! you cover the really nerdy stuff ;-) And that is a compliment, sort of.
thank you for the nostalgia.
The most Annoying thing for me was 'Expanded Memory'
I remember getting a game 'Aces of the Pacific' At my Grandparents house on Christmas Eve. I just couldn't wait to get home, go to bed and play it before parents woke up for Christmas Morning.
I was only greeted with Disappointment when I got the 'Not Enough Expanded Memory" and I tried everything, from using a boot disk as it suggested and buying more memory chips, nothing worked. Even tech support couldn't help me out.
I don't know how but I did finally mage to get it to work, though It did something weird with the startup.
Red and gold is just plain visually appealing. Like silver and blue.
This channel is awesome!!!
Always loved that SC4 soundtrack
man i love your vids ^^
First time seeing Super Solvers/Seekers games referenced. I'm not the only collector!
Yeah, sounds like a fun thing actually, I'll keep it in mind.
I remember when I was a kid (early 90s), I was obcessed with reading the system requirement (it was back when my dad was teaching me how a computer worked). I'd spend hours in a store just reading them off the boxes (or reading them off gaming magazines).
Aww man, so jealous those great looking King's Quest and Leisure Suit Larry boxes. Really entertaining video about text on boxes