I remember this one being really creepy back in the day with the snow and emptiness feeling. The cereal box one was only cool till the plane part. Never could seem to beat it as a kid.
Atlantis was one of my favorite movies. I got this game demo in a cereal box. My CD had some type of glitch because I could not for the life of me get past the beginning mountain area. It was laughably unplayable as a child.
As a Icelandic kid, that intro blew my mind back in the day. So weird to hear Icelandic spoken in a game, and that scene not being in the final cut of the movie made it even weirder.
These Atlantis games really have a horror vibe to them. The ps1 game scared me so bad as a kid, I don't think I ever finished it. This one would have so gotten me too! Great video!
Also, did anyone read the digital manual in the files of this? They had this extensive made up ( at least I think it was made up) document talking about the real Shepard’s Journal’s history and where it was rumoured to be hidden. Even Leonardo Da Vinci got ahold of it, presumably to decipher it. Neat stuff to get you invested in the movie’s world!
I think it's safe to assume that Trial by Fire was likely based on early drafts for the movie. While the Heart of Atlantis is still the main MacGuffin in the game, it's presented differently than in the movie. In the movie, the Crystal is presented as a living entity that reacts to things in different ways, even choosing a host to use to protect itself when Rourke tries to take it. In the game, it doesn't react at all to being stolen, and Kida remains separate from it. Maybe the filmmakers hadn't fully developed the concept of the Crystal being "alive" at this point? Despite this, the story plays out much the same as in the movie: Milo leads the expedition team to Atlantis, is betrayed by the team, and eventually joins with the Atlanteans to get the Crystal back before saving the city from a volcanic eruption.
I definitely had the cereal box one, and remember walking around the empty frozen landscape shooting fireballs until I found one of the zombie viking guys or whatever and it killed me.
Oh my gosh!! Thank you for this video! I used to play the multiplayer version with my siblings growing up and couldn't find it for the life of me. So much nostalgia.
@@PhilOfGlimmer The PS1 version holds up really well as an adventure platformer. I remember it having elements that borrowed from Tomb Raider (such as the rotating items menu, compass) and had competent puzzles. The ability to change characters keeps the gameplay fresh and exciting. I highly recommend it.
I got this from a cheerios box, I remember playing online CTF, the pings must have been 2000+ ms for everyone connected as I remember it taking several seconds for the players on the enemy team to have their position updated in game.
My copy of search for the journal either was faulty or I had a crap computer as a kid lol. The frame rate was so bad, I could hear the enemies growling but could not see them cause I would turn and my view wouldn't catch up, so they would kill me out in the snow, it was so scary to hear the growl but no enemy, and then suddenly I was dead 😂
thank you for showing these! We got "Search for the journal" by exchanging points from cereal boxes while Eat & Earn were a thing. But the game was broken! Nice to see a glimpse into what it was.
@@PhilOfGlimmer not exactly. There were keys you could use to communicate with other players. However, as far as the TDM goes, I mostly had to wonder around until other players joined. It was fun when you got enough players, but if you didn't, then it just felt like you wasted your time if you already knew what all the weapons and power ups do.
I admit the game isn't one of the best, actually it is quite far from it. A bit enjoyable but not totally. I remember playing the Search for the Journal chapter, it had music also, but now it's not there anymore. I think Disney would do better if they released the game only as a prequel to the film, the second chapter is too much out of the original.
Shame to see these games didn't do very well... I honestly think Atlantis is Disney's best and could have REALLY been a great franchise, if they hadn't slept on it. The other issue it seemed like, at the time, was that critics didn't like this movie due to not being a musical stereotypical Disney film... But that's kinda why I like it so much. Now I wish that the idea of an FPS set in the Atlantis movie universe would have ended up better than this, cause I could see the concept being redone much better with actual guns even, the movie itself had plenty of firearms and clear death... Sooooo it could have felt very much in-line with the film itself, except Milo using a gun wouldn't work as well, if anything though, most others could have some unique weapon ideas in general. Vinnie could have had explosive launchers like RPGs or just throwing around Dynamite sticks for example, and Kita could have been armed with some atlantian spear that can shoot an energy blast(if not just a traditional bow and arrow). I dunno, I just wish it could have gone better to have more attempts at games under the franchise. I do know that there is one more PC game that I vaguely remember existing that I believe was just a bunch of mini games focused around each of the team members and their roles in the adventure. It just could have gone beyond these games and the straight to DVD movie, that was originally going to be a TV series called Team Atlantis and it could have had a crossover episode with Gargoyles even, sadly the only 3 that were animated got stitched together into an awkward "sequel" called Milo's Return, there was however even gonna be an actual second movie with a pseudo terminator Helga Sinclair coming back as the main villain of the film. All of those concepts being said, I still wish it could have gone better back then for the franchise, it really deserved to have been more successful than its initial criticisms against it had pushed. Then again, Disney seems to destroy their franchises that has cult followings so fast, I imagine Tron is one you'd be aware of with the Derez comments, and I'd imagine most know about Treasure Planet far more as well. By the way, I decided to subscribe, hope to see your channel grow man!
I don't know why but I could not (figure out how to) shoot at all in the Search for the Journal game when I played it as a kid so I just tried to speedrun, i.e. stealth cheese through the game as fast as possible, all while pressing the Help key a lot to hear the last dialogue from the characters from the movie and the lovely Mrs. Packard who said something like 'Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, I'll patch you through' to relieve some of the pressure/anxiety I felt due to the Keepers... aah the memories :)
@@PhilOfGlimmer Nah. Not really. I preferred Battle at Procyon anyway. Like, I was so obsessed with that game when I was seven that my parents had to hide it from me. Bought it on steam once I got to college.
Another cereal box gem. I always wanted the full game as a kid. The scene with the Vikings freaked me out, and I loved the steampunk expedition vibes and the concept of playing a prequel. Glad I never did get it, as playing the events of the movie would be a lot less exciting to 11 year old me.
The trial by fire one is the only one I played of these 2 PC versions. I honestly could never finish it because it was so difficult. Good job on powering your way to the end!
I had (one of?) these games as a kid - I had the demo one with the plane and the snow BUT it also had the capture the flag levels from the main game (which I did not own, so that's confusing) and as a kid I could never figure out what to do on them because apparently, there were supposed to be multiplayer - so even back in the day I guess no one but me was on it.
Ah yes, I remember playing Search for the Journal long ago. I had 2 copies, one from a cereal box and another included in a VHS copy of The Emperor’s New Groove. As someone else pointed out, this game was hella scary as the presentation and dark atmosphere made me too scared to play through the first few years I had it. One of the biggest fuck ups though was the key mapping on this game. When you first boot it up, you can’t move. I spent a year unable to play the game because I was a dumb kid who didn’t know what he was doing. Eventually, I figured out that the controls weren’t properly mapped to the keyboard. In fact, I noticed that you seemed to have ran into the same problem, as in 1:46 you’re binding the keys correctly. Why doesn’t the game automatically map the keys correctly from the get-go? They underestimated the fact that not a lot of kids or parents at the time might’ve been smart enough to figure it out, considering this era of PC gaming was still new. Anywho, when I could finally play it, I got stuck at the plane section cuz it controlled like ass. I didn’t have the patience to finish it. It’s cool to see all these years later how much more of the game there was in Trials by Fire; I probably would’ve been gushing at the graphics and screaming from the monsters as a kid. Good times!
I remember this one being really creepy back in the day with the snow and emptiness feeling. The cereal box one was only cool till the plane part. Never could seem to beat it as a kid.
Atlantis was one of my favorite movies. I got this game demo in a cereal box. My CD had some type of glitch because I could not for the life of me get past the beginning mountain area. It was laughably unplayable as a child.
As a Icelandic kid, that intro blew my mind back in the day. So weird to hear Icelandic spoken in a game, and that scene not being in the final cut of the movie made it even weirder.
These Atlantis games really have a horror vibe to them. The ps1 game scared me so bad as a kid, I don't think I ever finished it. This one would have so gotten me too!
Great video!
I just wanna point out that "Atlantis The Lost Empire" turns 20 this year.
That Demo game was rough as a kid. I think the monsters weren't rendering for me, cause I just kept taking damage from unseen sources.
Also, did anyone read the digital manual in the files of this? They had this extensive made up ( at least I think it was made up) document talking about the real Shepard’s Journal’s history and where it was rumoured to be hidden. Even Leonardo Da Vinci got ahold of it, presumably to decipher it. Neat stuff to get you invested in the movie’s world!
I think it's safe to assume that Trial by Fire was likely based on early drafts for the movie.
While the Heart of Atlantis is still the main MacGuffin in the game, it's presented differently than in the movie.
In the movie, the Crystal is presented as a living entity that reacts to things in different ways, even choosing a host to use to protect itself when Rourke tries to take it. In the game, it doesn't react at all to being stolen, and Kida remains separate from it. Maybe the filmmakers hadn't fully developed the concept of the Crystal being "alive" at this point?
Despite this, the story plays out much the same as in the movie: Milo leads the expedition team to Atlantis, is betrayed by the team, and eventually joins with the Atlanteans to get the Crystal back before saving the city from a volcanic eruption.
I definitely had the cereal box one, and remember walking around the empty frozen landscape shooting fireballs until I found one of the zombie viking guys or whatever and it killed me.
Oh my gosh!! Thank you for this video! I used to play the multiplayer version with my siblings growing up and couldn't find it for the life of me. So much nostalgia.
I've played the ps1 atlantis game about 18 or 17 years ago on my cousin's ps1. It was really good, I think... but it could be the nostalgia talking
Ah I've never played the PS1 game but it does look better than this one for sure!
@@PhilOfGlimmer The PS1 version holds up really well as an adventure platformer. I remember it having elements that borrowed from Tomb Raider (such as the rotating items menu, compass) and had competent puzzles. The ability to change characters keeps the gameplay fresh and exciting. I highly recommend it.
@@PhilOfGlimmer You should definitely play it! I still play it sometimes, and it still holds up. Also the soundtrack is marvellous.
Rourke at caves: Now it's time for us to take that crystal and leave!
Me: Rourke! What have you done!? You've created a Time Paradox!
The Viking intro was supposed to be the original opening to the movie but they went with Atlantis’s sinking instead
Yeah I remember reading that, kinda cool!
I was so freaked out by the Keepers when I was a kid that I couldn't play the game. I don't remember anything about the movie either.
I got this from a cheerios box, I remember playing online CTF, the pings must have been 2000+ ms for everyone connected as I remember it taking several seconds for the players on the enemy team to have their position updated in game.
My copy of search for the journal either was faulty or I had a crap computer as a kid lol. The frame rate was so bad, I could hear the enemies growling but could not see them cause I would turn and my view wouldn't catch up, so they would kill me out in the snow, it was so scary to hear the growl but no enemy, and then suddenly I was dead 😂
thank you for showing these! We got "Search for the journal" by exchanging points from cereal boxes while Eat & Earn were a thing. But the game was broken! Nice to see a glimpse into what it was.
I used to play Trial By Fire and sometimes I played the Multiplayer. Even when it was more active it was hard to get in a team death match.
How was the multiplayer? Fun?
@@PhilOfGlimmer not exactly. There were keys you could use to communicate with other players. However, as far as the TDM goes, I mostly had to wonder around until other players joined. It was fun when you got enough players, but if you didn't, then it just felt like you wasted your time if you already knew what all the weapons and power ups do.
I also got the cereal box demo. It ran so bad on my computer. I don't think I got out of the snow
I’ve always been curious about the pc games since they’re FPS and uses Monolith’s Lithtec engine.
I played this game when I was little and never even reached that airplane baha
I don't think I got much further when I was young actually 😬😬😬
What makes this sad was that this was on the same engine as one of the greatest FPS games ever made (No One Lives Forever)
Omg no way!I haven't played it but I've heard a lot about it
@@PhilOfGlimmer It is totally worth playing it is also hilarious as well
I did not even know this game existed.
I admit the game isn't one of the best, actually it is quite far from it. A bit enjoyable but not totally.
I remember playing the Search for the Journal chapter, it had music also, but now it's not there anymore.
I think Disney would do better if they released the game only as a prequel to the film, the second chapter is too much out of the original.
Shame to see these games didn't do very well... I honestly think Atlantis is Disney's best and could have REALLY been a great franchise, if they hadn't slept on it. The other issue it seemed like, at the time, was that critics didn't like this movie due to not being a musical stereotypical Disney film... But that's kinda why I like it so much.
Now I wish that the idea of an FPS set in the Atlantis movie universe would have ended up better than this, cause I could see the concept being redone much better with actual guns even, the movie itself had plenty of firearms and clear death... Sooooo it could have felt very much in-line with the film itself, except Milo using a gun wouldn't work as well, if anything though, most others could have some unique weapon ideas in general. Vinnie could have had explosive launchers like RPGs or just throwing around Dynamite sticks for example, and Kita could have been armed with some atlantian spear that can shoot an energy blast(if not just a traditional bow and arrow).
I dunno, I just wish it could have gone better to have more attempts at games under the franchise. I do know that there is one more PC game that I vaguely remember existing that I believe was just a bunch of mini games focused around each of the team members and their roles in the adventure. It just could have gone beyond these games and the straight to DVD movie, that was originally going to be a TV series called Team Atlantis and it could have had a crossover episode with Gargoyles even, sadly the only 3 that were animated got stitched together into an awkward "sequel" called Milo's Return, there was however even gonna be an actual second movie with a pseudo terminator Helga Sinclair coming back as the main villain of the film.
All of those concepts being said, I still wish it could have gone better back then for the franchise, it really deserved to have been more successful than its initial criticisms against it had pushed. Then again, Disney seems to destroy their franchises that has cult followings so fast, I imagine Tron is one you'd be aware of with the Derez comments, and I'd imagine most know about Treasure Planet far more as well.
By the way, I decided to subscribe, hope to see your channel grow man!
Disney didn't care about Atlantis. I loved this movie.
I don't know why but I could not (figure out how to) shoot at all in the Search for the Journal game when I played it as a kid so I just tried to speedrun, i.e. stealth cheese through the game as fast as possible, all while pressing the Help key a lot to hear the last dialogue from the characters from the movie and the lovely Mrs. Packard who said something like 'Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, I'll patch you through' to relieve some of the pressure/anxiety I felt due to the Keepers... aah the memories :)
I tried playing online back when this came out, and nobody was even on then.
That's so tragic 😥
@@PhilOfGlimmer Nah. Not really. I preferred Battle at Procyon anyway. Like, I was so obsessed with that game when I was seven that my parents had to hide it from me.
Bought it on steam once I got to college.
For the pod underwater, if you keep the cursor(crosshair) out of the way of obstacles, thats where your "hitbox" is
Another cereal box gem. I always wanted the full game as a kid. The scene with the Vikings freaked me out, and I loved the steampunk expedition vibes and the concept of playing a prequel. Glad I never did get it, as playing the events of the movie would be a lot less exciting to 11 year old me.
The ps1 game was one of my favorite games growing up
I'll have to try it out!
Your videos remind me of the ones Hippocrit used to make. Another great British nostalgic game reviewer.
I haven't heard of Hippocrit before but I'll be sure to check them out! And thanks 😁
you really need to check out the emperor's new groove game, it's a really good one IMO
The trial by fire one is the only one I played of these 2 PC versions. I honestly could never finish it because it was so difficult. Good job on powering your way to the end!
I had (one of?) these games as a kid - I had the demo one with the plane and the snow BUT it also had the capture the flag levels from the main game (which I did not own, so that's confusing) and as a kid I could never figure out what to do on them because apparently, there were supposed to be multiplayer - so even back in the day I guess no one but me was on it.
I appreciate the Toy Story 2 music in the intro considering I played both of these games in succession as a child.
Bruh I remember I had the disc for this game out of a cereal box playing on Xp media edition
With that plane if you hit the ceiling you'd destroy the props, which would lead you to crash
I remember playing the demo and getting so angry at how easy it was to "die" even though I kept playing it.
disney atlantis I love this movie it as the first movie I seen at the cinema when I was a kid
I feel like my memory of it was as an amazing game. I feel that was wrong lol
Thanks for covering these games. Did you run them on a VM? They don't seem to work well under Windows 10.
Just ran them on W10, I haven't played them since this video but I think they ran ok!
Was there a point and click Atlantis game?
Ah yes, I remember playing Search for the Journal long ago. I had 2 copies, one from a cereal box and another included in a VHS copy of The Emperor’s New Groove.
As someone else pointed out, this game was hella scary as the presentation and dark atmosphere made me too scared to play through the first few years I had it.
One of the biggest fuck ups though was the key mapping on this game. When you first boot it up, you can’t move. I spent a year unable to play the game because I was a dumb kid who didn’t know what he was doing. Eventually, I figured out that the controls weren’t properly mapped to the keyboard. In fact, I noticed that you seemed to have ran into the same problem, as in 1:46 you’re binding the keys correctly.
Why doesn’t the game automatically map the keys correctly from the get-go? They underestimated the fact that not a lot of kids or parents at the time might’ve been smart enough to figure it out, considering this era of PC gaming was still new.
Anywho, when I could finally play it, I got stuck at the plane section cuz it controlled like ass. I didn’t have the patience to finish it. It’s cool to see all these years later how much more of the game there was in Trials by Fire; I probably would’ve been gushing at the graphics and screaming from the monsters as a kid. Good times!
I loved the movie. I never played this game. I'm somehow glad I have missed out on this game.
I could never get past the leviathan level.