LGR - Enjoying Retro Computer Game Catalogs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- A relaxed, nostalgic look back at game publisher catalogs of the 1980s and '90s. Covering ads from GT Interactive, Electronic Arts, Viacom New Media, Sierra Online, and Infocom!
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I'm not sure if the timing was intentional but I love how while the rest of TH-cam is going crazy over games coming out in the future as E3 chugs along we have LGR here going through old game catalogs.
I think that it was unintentional.
On a side note, E3 excites me nowadays or actually years as much as a pile of dirt.
Almostfull777 if you want single player games the only place to get them is the past
I liked the touch and smell of ink of those glossy 90's catalogues printed on thick ass paper like there is no eco-tomorrow.
Only LGR could make me want to watch a video about old computer game catalogs, and make me stop everything I am doing... and enjoy it.
laowhy86 weird, I just came to this video after the advchina upload from today
small world. Hope you enjoyed!
laowhy86
always! you guys do great work, both together and on your own channels. thanks for sticking through all the shit you guys get. cool to see you like lgr too
cheers man, that's awesome
No way do you watch LGR, that's freaking awesome.
Ooo, Old Catalogs. I love looking through these and seeing the products I can no longer buy.
*ebay
Lol
you can get most of them from gog or steam still!
For at or above the original retail price.
@sirp0p0 Still worth it, games get better with age. :)
Remember the THICK "Computer Shopper" that came out monthly in the 1990s? When I would smell that tome, I would instantly need some privacy!
I LOVE these. I also find it interesting that these old catalogs frequently paired the original/previous games to sell with sequels. You don't see that anymore, it's all about the newest.
00:50 my whole life in a nutshell
"oh I did x not too long ago"
*checks*
*"it's been five years."*
This reminds me of sitting around my room and reading gameinformers and Christmas catalogues with a couple friends, talking about the games, being like "I know someone who has that, it drives me crazy, I want it too."
21:55 Holy carp I did definitely NOT read "Solid Gold Titles" right the first time...
Awesome video though! I do love to look at old product catalogues and magazines like that every once in a while. Gives me a feel of how things were when I was a wee lad! XD
I love that a channel like this exists. You're the man, man. keep it up
The Phantom 2040 game for SNES is a rather solid semi-open action/adventure-ish game, with multiple story branches and endings which was rather unique for a console game at the time. That Aeon Flux game ended up getting cancelled and later turned into Pax Corpus, there was another Aeon Flux game that got announced around 97/98 that had a few screencaps released but was completely canned. Unfortunately, the only Aeon Flux game to get a release was the one based on the crummy 2005 movie.
Your videos are so soothing to watch! Thank you Clint
When I hear:
"Greetings, and welcome to an LGR thing"
Ohhh... It gives me goosebumps, I love it!
Speaking of goosebumps LGR should cover one of the Goosebumps computer games like 1996's Escape from HorrorLand.
Johnny Castaway had to be the greatest screensavers ever made. As a kid I used to watch it play out like I was watching a cartoon (just waiting to see something different happen). It was really cool.
Seeing Betrayal at Krondor made me happy beyond belief, so many happy memories.
seriously... the most relaxing channel... Man this thing makes me wish I could flip through my old gamepro magazines.
This was so pleasing and calming to watch and reminisce. Thank you LGR
I really love the Outpost box at 1:13... Thank you for a great video, LGR!
Welcome to an LGR thing...
Great video, and talk about bring back so many memories. I was dying laughing when you were reading the description about cds, and you say cd's while waving your hands at 18:43
A 4K view of Clint's hands? Heck yeah. Catalogs are pretty neat as well.
Peter Chung who made Aeon Flux also made Phantom 2040. That based on The Phantom. One of the first comic Super heroes in the 30's even before Batman and Superman
Phantom 2040 was awesome!
Woah I really need to see it now.
I love looking at old catalogs because just like you Clint I grew up drooling over them and all their wonders
I, for one, enjoy the trip back in time. Please keep it up! Thanks for another awesome video!
I've been watching your videos for years now and just realized I wasn't subscribed :o
Best content on TH-cam, by far.
omg that dubya dubya dubya dot caaaahmmm
Really enjoying these videoes.
And your voice is just perfect for these videoes, it has a relaxing effect on me without sounding boring
As a relative collector of things (certain comics and magazines mainly), I enjoyed this a whole lot! Also your voice is very relaxing. ;-)
Brilliant and thoroughly enjoyable watching. Thanks LGR.
I hope you get to 1 mill before the end of the year would be great, keep it up clint always great content
I loved this, as I have all of your other catalogue episodes (including the Y2K Best Buy, and the early 90s RadioShack).
I used to thumb through the computer and video games sections of department store catalogues in the mid to late 90s... this REALLY hits me in the nostalgia.
Also, there were some games in here I hadn't heard of, and I'm going to see if I can find any for a good price on eBay. So this is a double win for me!
Yay! Talking hands video! Love these old catalogs too, spend many days in the late 80's and 90's dreaming and thinking "if I only had some money?!?"
I love these! They kinda remind me of... well, today. Watching E3 and all the feelings it brings me makes me think about how we reacted to things in the past. What were we excited for? Did it deliver? Did it blow expectation out of the water? Did it fail miserably? What was it like when you played a game you thought "looked dumb" in the magazine that somehow became an amazing game that you love?
If nothing else, it's an interesting history lesson on gaming hype culture.
I find it funny that "Balls of Steel" is above Duke Nuken
KOSMOS1701A Right? They should be underneath him!
Noel Goetowski Heehhehhee 😄😄😄
That was a good one 👌👍
Makes me wish I kept all the Gamepros I had from the 90's. But they were too heavy when we moved. Thank you for these kinds of videos. Love the nostalgia.
Privateer 2: The Darkening was an absolute classic!
It had Clive Owen as the main protagonist and a very interesting story. Great shoot-em up space battles and lots of upgrades and cool spacey stuff to mess about with.
I love space sims like that and Privateer really checked all the boxes for me after I lost Elite when I accidentally destroyed my NES cartridge version of it.
After that it was Tachyon: The Fringe and eventually, Colony Wars.
Ooshgaar it’s a classic and my favourite game of all time.
Computer catalogs were so fun, I remember Egghead that was giving out catalogs from Sierra and Brøderbund, it was cool to search for upcoming games via catalogs before the internet.
I honestly didn't even pay attention to your videos, but hearing your voice makes me feel good. It's... soothing?
Please make more of these. They're so dang nostalgic.
The Aeon Flux one was actually cancelled and ended up being a game unrelated to the series but carried a lot of assets from the original version. Larry Bundy made a video about it a while back.
Five Famous Games That Were Almost Licenses, the video's called.
"In the style of Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stephen King" In what way though because their styles were each very unique and different compared to each other outside of (sometimes) being horror.
0:52 "... I thought not terribly long ago but it turns out it's been five years" I know that feel, bro.
as a graphic designer i love to go trough my old game magazines and catalogs. great vid!
What a trip down memory lane - I remember eagerly awaiting product lists from Sierra, et al.
I wish the gap of 4 or 5 years were smaller, i really enjoy these videos since it reminds me back in my childhood when my mother got some random catalog and I didn't stop to "read" them for weeks.
I love old catologs , I kept many from growing up along with old store ones.
I have the consulting detective board game, though not a board game an rpg game. Made me smile when you mentioned it.
Thanks Clint from another wonderful episode. *thumps up*
TH-cam would be much poorer without you in my books.
I really liked this video i'd appreciate more of this. Thanks!
Sweet, thanks for sharing this reading goodness! A few years ago, I got bored & while surfing the net, I stumbled across images of scanned old Sears & Montgomery Wards Christmas Catalogs! I saved and printed out many of these, to create an awesome book of sorts, with images of many different catalogs’ “electronics “ sections!:). I plan to feature this in a video of my own, provided I can actually locate it in these endless boxes!?
When I was younger I loved looking through older product catalogues, especially mid 90's Lego brochures. I'm sure flipping through older software catalogues has the same feeling!
Awesome channel ! very informative about older and/or odd hardware/software.. thanks!
LGR I love your videos
Videos like this make the perfect background noise for when I'm working.
"High-Performance GT" So, that catalog is going to race at Le Mans?
Wow, what a nostalgia trip... I was working at a Computer City when Unreal came out, and I remember putting all the GT Interactive software and other stuff out on the shelves. I bought Unreal and installed it on one of the demo computers on the show floor, and we were all blown away by the visuals. Good times.
It blew my mind that the GT in GT interactive stood for GoodTimes. As in the animated mockbuster factory GoodTimes. Watch Phelous' GoodTimes Beauty and the Beast review and keep in mind that that schlock was being put out at the same time GT interactive was publishing quality titles.
As a graphic designer I love seeing packaging from older software and products before the 2000s ^^ It's interesting to see what looked 'trendy' and 'hip' for consumers lol!
The perfect getaway from all the E3 coverage. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Video idea: Ask us to find our favorite article in a pre-00's gaming magazine or similar, record a video where we quickly go over it, describing it in English and pointing out why it got us so excited. Then upload them and link them to you and you could, if you found it to be a good idea, put the best together to form a 30 minute video of nostalgic memories. I'd love to watch that. Loved watching this too obviously, which made me curious about people's favs in general. I have a bunch of magazines laying around and I have some really particular places that I'm pretty sure some of you guys would appreciate seeing.
Thank you LGR, very cool!
OMG!!! I totally forgot the existence of Total Annihilation, I played this as much as C&C and AoE series back in the day, these two I kept playing to this day but Total Annihilation simply disappeared from my memory. Looking now at the screenshots it looks like a completely different game to what my kid's mind has seen. Thank you very much for this!!
18:05 Sierra Eco Quest is an amazing game with incredible visuals, great edutainment value and hilarious voice acting. I would highly recommend playing and reviewing it!
all my other subs suck this week. thanks for being consistent LGR, you're the man.
Still jealous of a friend who had the Kill-a-Ton collection, even though there's a game out there where Clint *_is_* Duke Nukem.
Holy balls, I remember playing Krondor so damn much. That whole open world feeling kept me glued to my seat for hours and hours. Got it again on gog months, maybe even a couple of years ago, and still haven't replayed it, though maybe I should. Damn what a good game.
Lots of nostalgia here... :)
By the way, Road Rash was also released on the PlayStation and the N64.
That series took a long time to die out, but other game series would pick up where Road Rash left off...
OH
Man, Incredible Toon Machine. For years I knew I had played in school at least one of the Incredible Machine games but none of them looked like the right art style. THAT was the one I played!
Video was worth it just for a jog of memories long past.
I had Director's Chair and hoped I'd see it as soon as you pulled out the Viacom catalog. Didn't disappoint.
I always enjoyed looking through those little catalogs.
The Aeon Flux game was retooled into Pax Corpus after developers lost the rights, it was going to be loosely based on "The Demiurge" episode, as seen in the leaked intro cutscene.
Grew up with Jane's simulations. I wish they were alive today
I love all of the games that were never finished in old catalogues like these :D
I love going to my local half priced books store and getting old game magazines from the xbox and ps2 era (cant really find anything older than that). Fun nostalgia times.
Eco Quest! Man, that brought back some good memories! Great stuff.
After listening to you and Metal Jesus talk about Sierra and their games, I realized after all of these years I have played a single game from Sierra. The Incredible Machine. Seriously, that's it.
Hey I’ve watched your videos for a long time but just recently used TH-cam signed in, i really love your videos keep doing what you do :)
i Love these old computer game catalogs. Sure is quite good for 80s and 90s nostalgia!
I'm early this time again... Very chill video and I like looking at these outdated products, love old tech and games!
Love these videos :)!!! Pls don’t take another five years to make another one :D ❤️
My favorite catalogs were the Lucasarts newspapers they bundled in some of their games.. there were interviews, behind the scenes look, hardware, software and a comic..
THIS WAS FUN AND INFOTAINMENT THANKS FOR THE VIDEO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MY FRIEND
Those were wonderful (and optimistic!), always interesting to see unreleased games and alt. art in them. Really miss getting random bits like that thrown in the box when you buy a new game.
This is the kind of thing that makes me wish I had a time machine! Take me back!!
I'd watch the hell out of a full Infocom retrospective. That company and it's games defined my early days of computers. Also, I've got a copy of Quarterstaff for the Mac. Not quite complete but mostly.
Wow, it really has been five years. Thanks, Clint!
I’m shocked that of all people YOU haven’t played Kilrathi Saga! Now you can basically just enjoy the gog versions but back then WOW was this a fantastic remaster. Still have my old box. : )
1:59 Damn, that's my childhood on a single shot! Except for NAM, I remember all of those games fondly, for being somehow special :)
Cool video. They look so bright for being so old. 1995 !!!
Genuinely use your videos as ASMR to get to sleep. Thanks dude :)
Saw this video was uploaded here in the morning local time of my country... But i HAD to save it for my lunchtime. Just to enjoy a meal and a LGR video is nice!
Betrayal at Krondor! You gotta finish it! An undeniable classic.
"Check out this '90's dude.' Everybody was just screaming and angry and like really hyped up on everything all the time in the 90s. That's just how it was."
I remember showing that exact CD hype ad to my father as a kid. As compelling as it was it still didn't convince him to buy a CD-ROM drive for our PC.
BUSY TOWNNNNNN! Man that brought a tear to my eye, I used to play and my mom would help me thru levels. "Put a bandage on it!"
Yay I was looking forward to another one of these
Privateer 2 was fukken awesome. The sound of cannonfire from the bigger freighters, the awesome planet animations and pictures, and the actors and weird and fun FMV clips.
Every time you mention Sierra I cross my fingers you'll cover my absolute favorite childhood video game, Torins Passage. Please cover this classic.
This was a double-barreled-shotgun-in-the-face of 90s nostalgia.
The name Viacom just evokes memories of "sky high" $100 stock prices, $1.30 gas, & $500 rent.
Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness... absolutely fantastic entry in that series, if a bit buggy. The music and atmosphere totally make it worth your while. Wholeheartedly recommended.