My dad had a copy of this game. When my sister and I were young, for some reason, we got obsessed with it. All we would do was get in multiplayer and blow each other up. To the point where we'd rush home from school just to fire it up and play for hours. We even both took the cd and ripped off the music. So I just wanted to say thank you 7th Level for some great childhood memories, this game will always have a special place in my heart.
A year late but I want to say that it was the same story for my family. My dad would play and he would only pilot the HAWC while my brother and i would press 1-4 to fire off all the ammunition. Also same thing about ripping the music! Hearing the 'Passenger' track come on was always a delight.
@@Peter_Morris I'm well aware of Metal Warriors and Shogo, you're correct. My point still stands that Titanfall is derivitive, but it set out to do what those games did and it did it better.
Yeah I remember thinking the same thing when I first saw it. I recently played through Titanfall 2 again and although it’s extremely competent, it seems like it still has s lit of potential that could be unlocked.
Yeah I remember thinking the same thing when I first saw it. I recently played through Titanfall 2 again and although it’s extremely competent, it seems like it still has a lot of potential that could be unlocked.
LGR, you might not believe this, but I still have a copy of this game (loose, it came with our old win95 Packard Bell PC), and whats more, I STILL PLAY IT. I still find it fun, especially since, unlike the more modern mech games, this 1 actually has tanks and hover vehicles that are almost at a level with the mechs. I also like that you can shoot off individual parts, such as gun barrels, and how you can change your IFF to match the enemy's, infiltrate their base, and then blow the crap out of it. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR REVIEWING THIS FORGOTTEN CLASSIC!!!!!
It's a game I play through once every few years. Some of the levels on hard difficult actually give you a run for your money. Citadel is damn near impossible.
That's when I first played it when I got my Packard bell pc, 233 mhz with an Intel processor with mmx technology. Crazy game for crazy times, one I will never forget. Ironically at my game store dominion storm over gift 3 appeared for $3 complete, it supports 1024p which is insane for that time
I got our copy of G-Nome along with our Packard Bell PC as well, alongside Howie Mandel's Playhouse and other games in 1997 when I was 13. I still recall how one could do a cheat to listen to voice work outtakes/gags, like a Pee Wee Herman and Scottish impersonation.
Nostalgia is the major factor at play of course. I remember it fondly as well. But does it hold a candle to modern games? Of course not, even if it did have some amazing pioneering concepts.
THIS was my childhood. As a 10year old I spend a lot of times playing this. Mind you I am born in Sweden and didn't not even understand half of what I was supposed to do. Still thought the game was fantastic!
Man, I played the crap out of this at my friend's place when I was a kid! Never knew what the plot was though. I always thought that getting out of the mech was super bad though, cause I always got stepped on. Have you tried to exit the boundary of a level? It'll blow you up with an ion cannon!
I know this is an old comment but I played this as a kid and I also couldn't figure out what the plot was. I usually just ran around ejecting people then stomping on them.
Oh my god, thank you so much for going through this. I was wondering when you were going to cover it, this is one of those games that I played when I was so young that I have nothing but nostalgic memories floating in my head about it. Like, I was too young to fully comprehend the actual game mechanics, so I would just run around and hit buttons. But, that opening is so iconic to me, I was instantly awash it nostalgic emotions as soon as I heard it. Anyway, sorry for rambling, love the channel been a subscriber for a long, long time. Keep reviewing these old forgotten gems!
My dad got a free copy of this when he bought the family computer back when I was around 4-5 years old. I could never make it past the first few levels, but I loved the game regardless. Was definitely surprised to see it pop up on my TH-cam feed! Awesome review as usual LGR
Thank you! I asked for this last year on your Facebook page on the grounds that it came with my family's first Pc as a pack in and I have never met anyone else who played it and yet it is still one of my favorite games. Thanks, so good to see this reviewed by someone. Pure Nostalgic bliss.
Back in 1999 a friend of my mother was visiting us and saw me in front of my PC with a free Magazine version of G-Nome on the desk. She then described her absolute hatred of the game because her husband played "this shit" like a maniac for weeks until she finally broke the CD in half. I was intrigued and installed it immediately. His dedication to this game astounded me, uninstalled it a couple of hours later. Dunno know why I'm writing this....
As a kid i could not grasp the controls of this game but i loved looking at the mechs and hearing the computer lady announce the names of everything and telling you that you were gonna get annihilated by the ion cannon
If someone modded this to include customization of your HAWC, and possibly extra missions, I could very well see this being a blast. Even as it stands, I want to pick up a copy and give it a shot.
I'm so happy I found this video. I talked to a friend at work about this being one of my favorites when I was a kid. Then I saw your big box video and saw your mech warrior collection and hoped I'd see G-Nome. Low and behold it was there, and you've done a separate video on it!
Same! I've been looking for other people that know about this game. I couldn't play it well as a kid but I was good enough to beat some levels and learn a little bit.
Ejecting from your mech to battle along side it in first person view? Damn! This was waaaay ahead of Titanfall ! Or SHOGO if you're feeling retro. Also, no wonder they added jetpacks to Titanfall, it would be boring as heck to walk around without your mech!
It was in MWLL actually way before Titanfall. But yeah - G-NOME came out earlier anyway. Still there were Front Mission: Gun Hazard and Metal Warriors even before it.
You could eject from your mech to do battle in first person view. However, the "HAWC" would stop dead and there was no way to fire the guns from it remotely. Then I had those Darken troops steal my HAWC on occasion. I was only fourteen or fifteen at the time I last played it.
@@SentTwoKill The PC I got that came with this game I believe was a Packard Bell Multimedia m415 with 166 mhz and 24 megs of ram and MMX TECHNOLOGY. Got it at Computer City which later became CompUSA. It made this annoying scratching/grinding sound sometimes that I assumed was a hallmark of Packard Bell PCs.
Lazy Game Reviews, I'm so glad you made this video. This was my first PC game. My parents got it for free with their first computer in the windows 95 era and my father gave it to me because he was not into games and could not understand it. I played it on my Windows 98 Compaq I got for free at a yard sale at the age of 9, and to this day I still have my disc copy. It never had a jewel case or a large box as it came with a package deal sadly but I hope to find them. What's even more interesting about this game is that it functions differently on every computer I install it on from glitches to freezes to just the intro video not working but the game running just fine. This game was what started my Mech (or HAWC) obsession and I can't keep my hands off of anything that has to do with them now. Even funnier, I have never made it past the third mission. My game would give me the infiltration code for the convoy and I could never make it work. I just replayed the first and second missions over and over. The amount of people that even know this game exists are few and far between. But here you come again with a video about something that even someone like me can relate a large chunk of his childhood to. I could rattle off plenty of stories about that old 98 Compaq, the computer I had before that which my neighbor had given me that had a single color screen in amber and I still can't figure out what brand it was, or even my modular IBM ThinkPad 775 that I miss dearly. I had that one at age 11 and I played tank simulators on it. Had to search for months on Ebay to find a modular cd drive for it. I'm only 22 now but this old tech is exciting. My next project is going to be a dual Pentium III Windows 98 machine on an old server board. To think that processor came out when I was somewhere around 5. Also thank you for your videos about your old 486 DOS custom build with the wood look. That was one of a kind these days.
I remember G-NOME, in fact I still have it. I never managed to come far because it is a hard game in my book. But what a cool concept, and the mechs are really cool and different! The feature to run around as infantry and highjacking mechs and stuff, I thought it was really cool at the time, I remember playing the demo (!!) for hours. Pre-internet days, you were dark yet full of fun. :D
I got this game back in 97 when i purchased a Packard Bell Pentium 166MMX computer. Played the hell out of it, got many, many hours of entertainment out of it. I was actually fondly remembering this game last week. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, keep these coming!
Holy ..... seeing the thumbnail of this game got me way too excited to watch your review haha. I remember playing this game when it came packaged with the Compaq Presario pc back in '98, must have spent days in front of that monitor playing this. Best summer an 11 year old me couldve had! 10/10
This game came with a computer we bought when I was 10 years old. I played it a LOT and fell in love with so many of the mechs. These days, I don't really do big robots at all, so it was such an odd feeling seeing this all again. Cool video.
I think it's a missed opportunity, instead of G-Nome they should have called it Gnome, imagine those little dudes having mech combat. That wouldn't have blended into the background of the genre.
Clint, what a great review! I overslept and woke up with various body aches this saturday morning and then saw your video... all aches disappeared and I felt I was back in the 90s! Now only if LGRfoods came my way...
Hey Clint, did you ever thought of doing a Deus review (not Deus Ex, just plain Deus). It was a Windows 95 FPS with a reaaaaaaaly complex health system, where you could damage and even lose body parts. You could say it was the ancestor to all these early access survival games. I think it was the sequel to Robinson's Requiem.
You should check out Metal Fatigue, Submarine Titans and BattleZone 2. All three are underrated 90s games that blew my mind as a kid. Metal Fatigue is a strategy game with mechs and unique mech and map mechanics. Submarine Titans is basically underwater Star Craft, it has a decent campaign and unique mechanics that separates it from SC. BattleZone 2 is an FPS/Strategy game, where you can construct bases, build armies and control them from a single unit's cockpit or from above with a classical strategy camera view (there is a remastered version btw).
I love everything about this game. I still have the original disc for this from back when my brother and I used to play it on our old Windows 95 computer. To this very day we still frequently stick it in a CD player to listen to the soundtrack. We used to bend our arms into stiff right angles and tromp around pretending to be HAWCs. I'll never forget how haunting it felt to play.
DonnieDisasters Same. RIP to the mission where you had to go into the building to win because I walked around wondering wtf to do. Then I destroyed it and failed
It's awesome to see you review this game. I have a lot of nostalgia for it, used to play it online over dial up with a friend. Glad you mentioned the goofy music when you're a passenger.
This was the first mech game that I had as a kid... I absolutely HATED when you went out of bounds the orbital ion cannon would be called in on you, even if you got stuck or something... Needless to say, I cheated a lot to even see the ending.
*and when the autoeject clipps the camera into the terrain so you watch yourself hopelessly run in circles as a enemy HAWK spots you and misses every shot*
"Warning. Approaching Orbital Defense Kill Zone". "Warning. ENTERING Orbital Defense Kill Zone". "Ion Cannon ready! Have a nice day". Mission Failed (unless you eject seconds before the Ion Cannon kills your HAWC, then you have seconds to run back to the mission zone as the warning message plays again if you're outside without a HAWC before the IC hits YOU as well.)
Duo Maxwell Yoooo those messages scared me as a kid. And I barely cheated on any level except that stupid one where you have to steal the Scorp tank to see the minefield and there’s two rocket towers making it almost impossible
Something you might find interesting about G-Nome, it came bundled with Packard bell computers. As kids, my brother & I all got various models the same year. Each one came with a copy of this game, so I'm happy you finally made a video about it.
No idea why my dad even had this game since he was using his pc for work only. Someone must have given it to him but I was the only one ever playing it. And I loved it even though I had no idea what was going on since I was 6 or maybe 8 years old and could hardly read while there were some difficult or even english terms used (I'm german). Also the controls made zero sense to me; all I knew so far was Tetris and Super Mario Land 2 after all so this game was way to complex. I didn't even realize there was a way to save your game (saving games was nothing I knew about at that point). So I just kept to "begin with the beginning" ;) Just walking around as a -robot- though was enough to amaze me. I really wish I could play it again and fully experience the game :(
Great stuff! I've never even heard of this one... You should do a video on Total Annihilation or Heavy Gear. Keep up the good work! Do you ever take a week off?
This game was bundled with my family's first PC, a Packard Bell 233mhz with MMX, note the MMX sticker on this box. I think 7th Level might have had a deal there to have OEM PCs carry the game. I remember it sucking but it would be the reason I'd go on to play all kinds of mech games.
It wouldn't be terribly hard to approximate that look with modern tools. Just use super low res textures with "nearest neighbor" filtering, chunky models, and then a vertex shader that rounds all the vertex positions to approximate the chunkiness/shakiness of the old-school fint point/integer math, and a hard edged 1-bit alpha on all your explosion/laser blast images that get pasted awkwardly on top of the scene with no nice blending. It was all really hard to do on a 486, but nowadays the technology is a lot more accessible if you only want it to run on a modern machine and you don't have to pull your hair out optimising it to hell and gone.
AAAHHHHH this game came with one of the computers we got when I was a kid! seeing and hearing that intro and the lab stuff took me waaaay back. brilliant!
Ever since I caught a glimpse of this game on your shelf, I hoped you'd review it. I still own it to this day, and love it! Thanks for giving it a look! :D Also, that bit where you quickly ran through the Labs is pretty much what I did as a kid too lol
This game came with our Packward Bell pc back in 1997. And I spent many many many hours playing. I still remember the weird elevator music in the transport ship in the (second?) Level. And the feeling you'd get when you see a giant enemy walker in the distance thru the scope lense. That Australian accent. My God this whole video just keep plucking nostalgia strings. I love it.
This was quite literally my first PC game growing up, and as such it'll always have a special place in my heart. Thanks for doing the review, this game blew my mind in 95 lol. Also, that Ctrl + 8 + 6, one of my favorite aspects of the game.
It's always great to see a new video from you. I don't care what the video is about, because whatever it is, you're always making it entertaining. And it does help that I'm very much into the old-school PC gmaing stuff. Also, your voice is something that I would entitle as "The Morgan Freeman of retro PC gaming". That all said, I do hope that you would take a look at ADOM at some point. Because I would guess that about half of your computers could run the newest free version of the game xD
Randomly decided to give your channel your look and saw the N64 joystick video which referenced this. Glad to see you giving this game some publicity! I'm also surprised you managed to get such a well preserved copy. I was worried you had only gotten a jewel case with the insert. Me and another TH-camr (TheMarioKartJBox who did a walkthrough) managed to play this game online through some 3rd party software in the first half of 2012. There's also a small community of people who play Dominion but I'm not sure how active they remain.
My dad had a copy of this game. When my sister and I were young, for some reason, we got obsessed with it. All we would do was get in multiplayer and blow each other up. To the point where we'd rush home from school just to fire it up and play for hours. We even both took the cd and ripped off the music. So I just wanted to say thank you 7th Level for some great childhood memories, this game will always have a special place in my heart.
A year late but I want to say that it was the same story for my family. My dad would play and he would only pilot the HAWC while my brother and i would press 1-4 to fire off all the ammunition. Also same thing about ripping the music! Hearing the 'Passenger' track come on was always a delight.
Scroll up, a son of one of the former employees commented on this vid.
Wow! Your experience with this game was way cooler than mine!
Literally same experience
Are we long lost siblings because my dad also had a copy of this and me and my sister would play it uhhhhh
*steals your mech*
you've been G-NOMED
yes
It's G-not a G-nelf
It's G-not a G-noblin
It's a G-NOME!
Could you hecking g-not
Just try war robots dude it's much better also battle of titans
I thought I was free of your corny humor...
Titanfall ripped off G-Nome confirmed.
There's no shame in taking something if you do it better.
You guys are forgetting Metal Warriors on the SNES, and probably something before that.
And Titanfall is more like Shogo than this.
@@Peter_Morris I'm well aware of Metal Warriors and Shogo, you're correct.
My point still stands that Titanfall is derivitive, but it set out to do what those games did and it did it better.
Yeah I remember thinking the same thing when I first saw it. I recently played through Titanfall 2 again and although it’s extremely competent, it seems like it still has s lit of potential that could be unlocked.
Yeah I remember thinking the same thing when I first saw it. I recently played through Titanfall 2 again and although it’s extremely competent, it seems like it still has a lot of potential that could be unlocked.
I loved all the built in lore/tech history when I was younger.
Same, honestly I guess I still kinda love it
*not me as a little kid spending hours just browsing the menus*
@@jojothejanitor2134 literally me
"Anti-armor pulse plasma meson cannon"
"Grayson Corporation 7mm long-range shield killer"
@@GunUDwnAt2ndFlechette cannon was what always stuck with me in 4th grade lol
LGR, you might not believe this, but I still have a copy of this game (loose, it came with our old win95 Packard Bell PC), and whats more, I STILL PLAY IT. I still find it fun, especially since, unlike the more modern mech games, this 1 actually has tanks and hover vehicles that are almost at a level with the mechs. I also like that you can shoot off individual parts, such as gun barrels, and how you can change your IFF to match the enemy's, infiltrate their base, and then blow the crap out of it.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR REVIEWING THIS FORGOTTEN CLASSIC!!!!!
It's a game I play through once every few years. Some of the levels on hard difficult actually give you a run for your money. Citadel is damn near impossible.
That's when I first played it when I got my Packard bell pc, 233 mhz with an Intel processor with mmx technology. Crazy game for crazy times, one I will never forget. Ironically at my game store dominion storm over gift 3 appeared for $3 complete, it supports 1024p which is insane for that time
I got our copy of G-Nome along with our Packard Bell PC as well, alongside Howie Mandel's Playhouse and other games in 1997 when I was 13. I still recall how one could do a cheat to listen to voice work outtakes/gags, like a Pee Wee Herman and Scottish impersonation.
I got it with a packard bell too! It came along with Encarta 98, Howie's Fun House and G-Nome
Same, but it was my grandparent's Packard Bell PC. That's probably how most people found this game. 🤣
This is basically my favorite game of all time.
Not kidding.
My childhood game,of course on my list favorite
Nostalgia is the major factor at play of course. I remember it fondly as well. But does it hold a candle to modern games? Of course not, even if it did have some amazing pioneering concepts.
THIS was my childhood. As a 10year old I spend a lot of times playing this.
Mind you I am born in Sweden and didn't not even understand half of what I was supposed to do. Still thought the game was fantastic!
well, i played it alot...but nothing beats Earth Siege... except for Mech Warrior itself... :)
This and freelancer
Man, I played the crap out of this at my friend's place when I was a kid! Never knew what the plot was though. I always thought that getting out of the mech was super bad though, cause I always got stepped on. Have you tried to exit the boundary of a level? It'll blow you up with an ion cannon!
I know this is an old comment but I played this as a kid and I also couldn't figure out what the plot was. I usually just ran around ejecting people then stomping on them.
And wished you a nice day 😂
"Ion Cannon ready. Have a nice day. :3" *BOOM!"
Oh my god, thank you so much for going through this. I was wondering when you were going to cover it, this is one of those games that I played when I was so young that I have nothing but nostalgic memories floating in my head about it. Like, I was too young to fully comprehend the actual game mechanics, so I would just run around and hit buttons. But, that opening is so iconic to me, I was instantly awash it nostalgic emotions as soon as I heard it.
Anyway, sorry for rambling, love the channel been a subscriber for a long, long time. Keep reviewing these old forgotten gems!
2:48 "Darkin, darkin, darkin, darkin, younion, younion, younion, younion, murc, murc, murc, murc, skorp, skorp, skorp, skorp..." "Developers, developers, developers, developers..."
Well don't do that!
My dad got a free copy of this when he bought the family computer back when I was around 4-5 years old. I could never make it past the first few levels, but I loved the game regardless. Was definitely surprised to see it pop up on my TH-cam feed! Awesome review as usual LGR
I... I have a copy of G-nome.
That feeling with Clint doesn't know you and never will.
I have a copy but not the disc. No music ☹️ just gameplay
Thank you! I asked for this last year on your Facebook page on the grounds that it came with my family's first Pc as a pack in and I have never met anyone else who played it and yet it is still one of my favorite games. Thanks, so good to see this reviewed by someone. Pure Nostalgic bliss.
Back in 1999 a friend of my mother was visiting us and saw me in front of my PC with a free Magazine version of G-Nome on the desk. She then described her absolute hatred of the game because her husband played "this shit" like a maniac for weeks until she finally broke the CD in half. I was intrigued and installed it immediately. His dedication to this game astounded me, uninstalled it a couple of hours later. Dunno know why I'm writing this....
"Uninstalled it a couple of hours later"
What a horrible human being your mother's friend was. Destroying something that brought her husband joy just because she did not like it.
As a kid i could not grasp the controls of this game but i loved looking at the mechs and hearing the computer lady announce the names of everything and telling you that you were gonna get annihilated by the ion cannon
Ive been trying to remember the name of this game for years! Thank you!
This game was what got me into mechs. It deserves a remaster and I want to find people who still play it on-line
If someone modded this to include customization of your HAWC, and possibly extra missions, I could very well see this being a blast.
Even as it stands, I want to pick up a copy and give it a shot.
I'm so happy I found this video. I talked to a friend at work about this being one of my favorites when I was a kid. Then I saw your big box video and saw your mech warrior collection and hoped I'd see G-Nome. Low and behold it was there, and you've done a separate video on it!
I got this game from free with a new PC in '97 in a software bundle along with Encarta, etc... I played the crap out of this game.
...me too, but I beat the game many times with failure and success...but I lost the copy, but not Encarta 97.
Same here, my same experiences exactly. This was the first 3d game i had ever played and my brother sister andi were mesmerized
Same! I've been looking for other people that know about this game. I couldn't play it well as a kid but I was good enough to beat some levels and learn a little bit.
Ejecting from your mech to battle along side it in first person view? Damn! This was waaaay ahead of Titanfall ! Or SHOGO if you're feeling retro. Also, no wonder they added jetpacks to Titanfall, it would be boring as heck to walk around without your mech!
It was in MWLL actually way before Titanfall. But yeah - G-NOME came out earlier anyway. Still there were Front Mission: Gun Hazard and Metal Warriors even before it.
God, Shogo! Thank you. That's the game that's been bugging my brain for ages but I didn't know the name of. Very enjoyable multiplayer.
How about Shogo
You could eject from your mech to do battle in first person view. However, the "HAWC" would stop dead and there was no way to fire the guns from it remotely. Then I had those Darken troops steal my HAWC on occasion. I was only fourteen or fifteen at the time I last played it.
My first PC came with a loose copy, so this was, technically, the first PC game I ever owned. Better than Solitaire any day of the week.
Do you remember what pc? That's how I got my hands on this game also
@@SentTwoKill The PC I got that came with this game I believe was a Packard Bell Multimedia m415 with 166 mhz and 24 megs of ram and MMX TECHNOLOGY. Got it at Computer City which later became CompUSA. It made this annoying scratching/grinding sound sometimes that I assumed was a hallmark of Packard Bell PCs.
OH MY GOD. I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS GAME FOR YEARS. I had the demo in a very old ass CD back in 2004 and I had very fond memories of it! THANKS.
I rewatch this occasionally just for the amazing alliteration. This episode is LGR writing at its best.
Lazy Game Reviews, I'm so glad you made this video. This was my first PC game. My parents got it for free with their first computer in the windows 95 era and my father gave it to me because he was not into games and could not understand it. I played it on my Windows 98 Compaq I got for free at a yard sale at the age of 9, and to this day I still have my disc copy. It never had a jewel case or a large box as it came with a package deal sadly but I hope to find them. What's even more interesting about this game is that it functions differently on every computer I install it on from glitches to freezes to just the intro video not working but the game running just fine. This game was what started my Mech (or HAWC) obsession and I can't keep my hands off of anything that has to do with them now. Even funnier, I have never made it past the third mission. My game would give me the infiltration code for the convoy and I could never make it work. I just replayed the first and second missions over and over.
The amount of people that even know this game exists are few and far between. But here you come again with a video about something that even someone like me can relate a large chunk of his childhood to. I could rattle off plenty of stories about that old 98 Compaq, the computer I had before that which my neighbor had given me that had a single color screen in amber and I still can't figure out what brand it was, or even my modular IBM ThinkPad 775 that I miss dearly. I had that one at age 11 and I played tank simulators on it. Had to search for months on Ebay to find a modular cd drive for it. I'm only 22 now but this old tech is exciting. My next project is going to be a dual Pentium III Windows 98 machine on an old server board. To think that processor came out when I was somewhere around 5.
Also thank you for your videos about your old 486 DOS custom build with the wood look. That was one of a kind these days.
I remember G-NOME, in fact I still have it. I never managed to come far because it is a hard game in my book. But what a cool concept, and the mechs are really cool and different! The feature to run around as infantry and highjacking mechs and stuff, I thought it was really cool at the time, I remember playing the demo (!!) for hours. Pre-internet days, you were dark yet full of fun. :D
I got this game back in 97 when i purchased a Packard Bell Pentium 166MMX computer. Played the hell out of it, got many, many hours of entertainment out of it. I was actually fondly remembering this game last week. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, keep these coming!
LOVED 7th Level games as a kid. Had a few of them.
One of the best mecha games from my childhood along with cultish StarSiege and MechWarrior 3.
Intense monochrome flashback
"Screams out of sleep"
this is one of my favortie games from back then! I'm so glad u got around to reveiwing this
Man, I spend hours and days on this game. I loved it when I was a kid.
Holy ..... seeing the thumbnail of this game got me way too excited to watch your review haha. I remember playing this game when it came packaged with the Compaq Presario pc back in '98, must have spent days in front of that monitor playing this. Best summer an 11 year old me couldve had! 10/10
One of my favorite games from when I was a kid!
My childhood! This is the video I've waited two years for. I still love it. Mechjacking is the best.
Oh yeah, I love me some mech action, especially ones with terrible Aussie accents!
Mechwarrior when?
Shit man trying to get Mercs to run is still like that.
Maybe you should cover it? MW5 Mercenaries comes out in September so hopefully you get some traction then?
This game came with a computer we bought when I was 10 years old. I played it a LOT and fell in love with so many of the mechs. These days, I don't really do big robots at all, so it was such an odd feeling seeing this all again. Cool video.
Thank you for solving a mystery I've had since I was like 9. My friend had this game and I could not for the life of me remember the name!
I've been binging your content for a while now. You have no idea how happy I am that you know this game exists.
Lol. remember that youtube to mp3 converter website whose default link was to that 'song:' Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
I have fond memories of playing this when I'd visit my aunt. It came bundled with her Packard Bell and I've still got the disc around here somewhere.
I think it's a missed opportunity, instead of G-Nome they should have called it Gnome, imagine those little dudes having mech combat. That wouldn't have blended into the background of the genre.
Clint, what a great review! I overslept and woke up with various body aches this saturday morning and then saw your video... all aches disappeared and I felt I was back in the 90s! Now only if LGRfoods came my way...
Hey Clint, did you ever thought of doing a Deus review (not Deus Ex, just plain Deus).
It was a Windows 95 FPS with a reaaaaaaaly complex health system, where you could damage and even lose body parts.
You could say it was the ancestor to all these early access survival games. I think it was the sequel to Robinson's Requiem.
i miss this game. but that elevator music IT WON THE GAME OVER FOR ME! somebody needs to get that elevator music an post it on a video.
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
.......yeah!
Played this ALL the time after school as a kid and loved it.
Thanks for coveing it LGR!
With the game called "G-Nome" I was expecting miniature, gnome sized robots battling each other.
My favorite game of 97, cool soundtrack.
Man, I loved this game....oh the memories
Thank you so much for posting this, I played this so much when I was younger. So many flashbacks! I remember thinking the VO was cool.
those pre-rendered huds and menu are the bees knees.
IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS GAME FOREVER! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Ahh....NOW it's a good Friday... :)
You should check out Metal Fatigue, Submarine Titans and BattleZone 2. All three are underrated 90s games that blew my mind as a kid. Metal Fatigue is a strategy game with mechs and unique mech and map mechanics. Submarine Titans is basically underwater Star Craft, it has a decent campaign and unique mechanics that separates it from SC. BattleZone 2 is an FPS/Strategy game, where you can construct bases, build armies and control them from a single unit's cockpit or from above with a classical strategy camera view (there is a remastered version btw).
I’d have to say that my favorite thing about this game was the music.
I love everything about this game. I still have the original disc for this from back when my brother and I used to play it on our old Windows 95 computer. To this very day we still frequently stick it in a CD player to listen to the soundtrack. We used to bend our arms into stiff right angles and tromp around pretending to be HAWCs. I'll never forget how haunting it felt to play.
I had this game. And back in time I didnt understand how to play because I was 10 and I didn't know english
DonnieDisasters Same. RIP to the mission where you had to go into the building to win because I walked around wondering wtf to do. Then I destroyed it and failed
Same here my man. In fact I just wrote the same thing in another comment xD
It's awesome to see you review this game. I have a lot of nostalgia for it, used to play it online over dial up with a friend. Glad you mentioned the goofy music when you're a passenger.
This was the first mech game that I had as a kid... I absolutely HATED when you went out of bounds the orbital ion cannon would be called in on you, even if you got stuck or something... Needless to say, I cheated a lot to even see the ending.
*and when the autoeject clipps the camera into the terrain so you watch yourself hopelessly run in circles as a enemy HAWK spots you and misses every shot*
"Warning. Approaching Orbital Defense Kill Zone".
"Warning. ENTERING Orbital Defense Kill Zone".
"Ion Cannon ready! Have a nice day".
Mission Failed (unless you eject seconds before the Ion Cannon kills your HAWC, then you have seconds to run back to the mission zone as the warning message plays again if you're outside without a HAWC before the IC hits YOU as well.)
Duo Maxwell Yoooo those messages scared me as a kid.
And I barely cheated on any level except that stupid one where you have to steal the Scorp tank to see the minefield and there’s two rocket towers making it almost impossible
Something you might find interesting about G-Nome, it came bundled with Packard bell computers. As kids, my brother & I all got various models the same year. Each one came with a copy of this game, so I'm happy you finally made a video about it.
MONTY PYTHON CD GAMES??????? I think I know what your next review should be
Thanks LGR! I was looking for this old title for quite some time after I forgotten the name of the game.
Everyone make their own chant! LGR LGR LGR LGR!
what do we want? a time machine! when do we want it? well, it doesn't really matter...
Ah, Gotta love the classic Lazy Game Reviews Style!, Keep it real Clint!
2:20 "Quick, strong, inteligent and designed for combat" Deathclaws.
Me, my dad, G_NOME, and a Joy-stick. 1999 was awesome
No idea why my dad even had this game since he was using his pc for work only. Someone must have given it to him but I was the only one ever playing it. And I loved it even though I had no idea what was going on since I was 6 or maybe 8 years old and could hardly read while there were some difficult or even english terms used (I'm german). Also the controls made zero sense to me; all I knew so far was Tetris and Super Mario Land 2 after all so this game was way to complex. I didn't even realize there was a way to save your game (saving games was nothing I knew about at that point). So I just kept to "begin with the beginning" ;) Just walking around as a -robot- though was enough to amaze me. I really wish I could play it again and fully experience the game :(
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO! wow... this game was incredible
That G-Nome is a goddamn Deathclaw.
Still have a copy of this game that came with the family’s 1997 packaged bell
Great stuff! I've never even heard of this one... You should do a video on Total Annihilation or Heavy Gear.
Keep up the good work! Do you ever take a week off?
Thank you! And nah, not really.
Get a life LGR XD
He has a life. It's called "I make videos about really old, interesting, sometimes forgotten stuff". Duh! XD
It's his job, he would have less of a good life if he didn't do it.
total annihilation kingdoms was the bomb.
This game was bundled with my family's first PC, a Packard Bell 233mhz with MMX, note the MMX sticker on this box. I think 7th Level might have had a deal there to have OEM PCs carry the game. I remember it sucking but it would be the reason I'd go on to play all kinds of mech games.
Oooh, this looks interesting!
Thank you!!! I have been trying to remember what game I played when I was very little and I finally found it!!! Nostalgia is strong with this one
I would love to get into making blocky-ass retro games.
Kairu Hakubi
As would I.
then get to it. learn a programming language, and go from there. a journey begins with a single step.
get a job developing for Nintendo 3ds. oh, snap!
It wouldn't be terribly hard to approximate that look with modern tools. Just use super low res textures with "nearest neighbor" filtering, chunky models, and then a vertex shader that rounds all the vertex positions to approximate the chunkiness/shakiness of the old-school fint point/integer math, and a hard edged 1-bit alpha on all your explosion/laser blast images that get pasted awkwardly on top of the scene with no nice blending. It was all really hard to do on a 486, but nowadays the technology is a lot more accessible if you only want it to run on a modern machine and you don't have to pull your hair out optimising it to hell and gone.
Sounds ORIGINAL
Wow ... I remember beating this game yeeeaaars ago as a Kid...what a nostalgia bomb
2:48 "Darken, darken, darken, darken, union, union, union, union, merc, merc, merc, merc, scorp, scorp, scorp, scorp..." "Developers, developers, developers, developers..."
I remember getting a copy of Starsiege with our Gateway 2000 desktop. It was my introduction to Mech games and I fell in love with the genre.
I didn't notice the dash after the G. I thought the game was called Gnome.☺
Love this game. I remember playing it as a kid. Great video man.
Now do a review of 7th Level Battle Beast
Ditto.
AAAHHHHH this game came with one of the computers we got when I was a kid! seeing and hearing that intro and the lab stuff took me waaaay back. brilliant!
Should have been actual gnomes riding around in giant steam powered mechs.
Ever since I caught a glimpse of this game on your shelf, I hoped you'd review it. I still own it to this day, and love it! Thanks for giving it a look! :D
Also, that bit where you quickly ran through the Labs is pretty much what I did as a kid too lol
I'll call my mech: a Dedicated Operational Hardware
This game came with our Packward Bell pc back in 1997. And I spent many many many hours playing. I still remember the weird elevator music in the transport ship in the (second?) Level. And the feeling you'd get when you see a giant enemy walker in the distance thru the scope lense. That Australian accent. My God this whole video just keep plucking nostalgia strings. I love it.
Look out for the upcoming soon-to-be hit sequel, G-oblin!
Man, I remember playing the hell out of this when I was a little kid. Good times.
I'm not a g-elf
I'm not a g-noblen
I'm a g-nome
This was quite literally my first PC game growing up, and as such it'll always have a special place in my heart. Thanks for doing the review, this game blew my mind in 95 lol. Also, that Ctrl + 8 + 6, one of my favorite aspects of the game.
MERCMERCMERCMERC
SCORPSCORPSCORPSCORP
DEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERS
Fucking Ded.
After seeing these things walk in the snow, I'm reminded of the opening to Final Fantasy 6... and began humming it along to your commentary.
It's not a G-ELF or a G-NOBLIN.
My only complaint about this game was the ending. You don't even get to have an epic boss battle with the thing you were after the entire time.
G-Nome is it for linux? Lol
I see what you did there
It's always great to see a new video from you. I don't care what the video is about, because whatever it is, you're always making it entertaining. And it does help that I'm very much into the old-school PC gmaing stuff. Also, your voice is something that I would entitle as "The Morgan Freeman of retro PC gaming".
That all said, I do hope that you would take a look at ADOM at some point. Because I would guess that about half of your computers could run the newest free version of the game xD
I can't believe you didn't cover the weirdly sexual "Are you sure?" voiceclip from when you try to quit the game. Haha.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who felt that way lol
Randomly decided to give your channel your look and saw the N64 joystick video which referenced this. Glad to see you giving this game some publicity! I'm also surprised you managed to get such a well preserved copy. I was worried you had only gotten a jewel case with the insert.
Me and another TH-camr (TheMarioKartJBox who did a walkthrough) managed to play this game online through some 3rd party software in the first half of 2012. There's also a small community of people who play Dominion but I'm not sure how active they remain.
Fusiontron HOW DO YOU DO THIS? (The software for multiplayer that is)
Got this game for free when my family bought a Packard Bell desktop. Loved it but didn't know how to really play it at all
I love this game! This and the rts sequel were fantastic. Thank you for showing this.
I never played Dominion. How was it?