Watching this all the way through today was better than 10000 hours of therapy. I got this game in 1995 and played it with an old school joystick. I’m 40 now… wow the nostalgia is unreal. It was SO HARD, I worked my ass off to beat Band Land, my hands would get so sweaty 🤣 I haven’t played any video games since then but searched Rayman to show someone who has never heard of it and found your video. Amazing! Loved reading everyone’s comments. Life was so different back then but it was an awesome time to be a tween. We were lucky. Thank you so much for posting this, I’ve been sitting here in childlike bliss for hours. I haven’t felt this much joy in a long time. Thank you!!! 🥰
I was OBSESSED with this game as a 12 year old. Loved the design and music so much, played it constantly while my sisters watched but could never get past Band Land. Bought it again 25 years later, played as hard as I could... couldn't get past Band Land (the part of Bongo Hills where it turns dark and the eyes start zapping you. got right to last few platforms before end of level, couldn't get past it). The only way I can see the ending is watching this video. Thanks
One of the hardest and.. best designed platforming games EVER! A bona fide timeless classic. Well played, my friend! Appreciate the struggle. Cheers ;)
I have so many fond memories of playing the DOS port of this game when I was 11 years old (I'm now 37) and got this game from Media Play (how I miss that store... 😢) with my allowance I had saved up (about $30 to say the least). Even when I stopped playing the DOS version of Rayman after getting Windows XP computers and a Windows 7 computer (prior to getting my first Mac in 2013 as an early birthday gift from my father since he was usually not home for my birthday), I would listen to the music on the Redbook CD and bask in the memories. My TH-cam name is a play on the phrase "dead man walking" (which is what a prison warden says when an inmate on death row is on his/her way to their execution) and this WONDERFUL Ubisoft character. I understand that years ago, Michel Ancel had left the gaming industry...so who knows what could be in store for our limbless friend...
That music level had me fucked in all sort of ways when I was young, and our PS1 save cards stopped working so we kept having to blow in to them, like the old Sega games yet we kept losing our progress
Me too!!! When Rayman put his hand on the mosquito’s shoulder 😭😭 then he was flying so fast Rayman had to hold on to his eyelids 🤣 man I LOVED this game.
Loved this game as. A kid just got this game and ps¹ for my birthday today so awesome. Harder than I remember and I'm a pretty experienced for a gamer. It's so nostalgic ah to be 12 yo girl Again. Where did the time go xxxx
I'm 32 I remember this Soo much I sucked at it Soo bad but now I got it damn this game still is fun I like it better then the Nintendo 64 one. Lol I didn't have memory card for like a month after I got this I had to start over all time . Ugh I hated it lol . This shit gets hard lol. I feel like I'm 6 yrs old again. Thanks for this. This is better then any mobile game around.
I played this game on the ps3 growing up (thank rayman origins for introducing me to rayman at all) and I trudged my way through this hard ass game due to extreme stubbornness until the very end where the whole “collect all electoons” bomb dropped. Kid me’s patience already ran out so I just looked up a password to get to mr. Dark’s dare, good times
I miss this cute game so much ❤ i love it i played this many times after school😂 now im 40 and we have the new rayman i play it with my kid on the nintendo switch we have so much fun😂❤
This game would have been so much better if 1) lives were easier to get 2) levels were shorter 3) get rid of the stupid continue system 4) remove the recoil after getting hit by an enemy 5) instead of finding the power ups you unlock them so you always have the long punch and 5 health slots This is one of those games that isn't challenging its flawed. It's a shame because the visuals and sound design are top notch. The fact that this is a port that came years after the original shows they had no excuse to leave these problems in the game.
@WPacManW it's not my opinion this is a very popular opinion. I could due without all of them if they just didn't have the crap save system. It ruins the game.
When they ask you on a job interview if you're flexible, able to handle pressure and unforeseen circumstances, and you say you've completed Rayman; Hired! Jeez, my blood pressure is spiking from just watching this. XD
Say you did well!! You are so fantastic!! You were so sensational!!! You are colossal!!!!!! How about "Rayman 2: The Great Escape" for the PS1 next up?
This reminds me of the side scrolling action of the Mega Man X series & SpongeBob SuperSponge games. This also looks like a lot of SNES & a few N64 games. There were a lot of side scrollers (along with 3D) on the Saturn. There may or may not have been side scrollers on the Dreamcast. Some modern consoles have some side scrollers (Metroid Dread on Switch, for example). A lot of early CD games (Turbo Grapghx, Sega CD and Neo Geo CD) have side scrollers. Genesis does too.
Probably not many on Dreamcast. 2D games became quite unpopular after fully 3D games started becoming popular in 1996, so there would be plenty of side-scrollers in the early days of N64, Saturn and PS1, but not so many later on (except on handhelds). They've regained some popularity since though. Rayman released in 1995.
Technically the NTSC version of Rayman is the most hardest due to 60 Hz making the game faster. I play Rayman on PAL (50Hz), and hell... your gameplay look so fast to my eyes. Rayman seems to be originally planned to be played at 50Hz because of somes animations not matching with the sound on NTSC versions. All thoses speed problems were such a mess... Good thing there's no more problems like that nowadays.
rayman could possibly be better than sonic if they didnºt try so hard to pull the rabbit arcade games and advertise them so extensively. i think these 2d platformers were just fine as for 3d levels again itºs not as good as mario, rayman lacks cool movements and it shows.... i like the game still.
Opening To Rayman 1996 VHS Release: Friday September 8, 1995 VHS Release: Tuesday August 6, 1996 FBI Warning “Super Mario 64” October 4, 1996 “Crash Bandicoot” Coming This Fall “Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble” Coming This November to Videocassette Feature Presentation PlayStation Home Video Format Screen PlayStation
Hello! I am stuck at the beginning of the Blue Mountain level (at 1:21:14 ) my grappling fist isn't working! As I jump and press square to hit the grappling, my fist just hits the ring and nothing happens. Maybe someone had this problem before? I am playing on a PS one. / Note: I have already checked elsewhere but no one seems to have the same problem.
@@RareTradition9901 I just downloaded Rayman and played for the first time since the year it came out, basically, and I was so confused at the very start why I couldn't hang or punch. I kept thinking that the download was flawed, so I had to look it up on google. I don't know how I managed to forget something like that when everything else is so memorable! XD
This game is not just hard, it's unfair, really really unfair, this game was never properly tested. I managed to beat it, and dang, it is so rage-inducing, in the last parts, even the infinite lives cheat code won't help you.
![Evolution of Rayman Games [1995-2023]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1bslzvD4Xkk/mqdefault.jpg)
Dang man I’m 30 years old but I remember being just a boy failing over and over and over haha such good memories, thanks for your time and effort!
I'm 30 now in 2023
Same man 31 in 2024 and this video is bringing me straight back to my childhood
Childhood all day I'm 34
I'm 30 and I remember all of the sounds just like it was yesterday. Very nostalgic.
Watching this all the way through today was better than 10000 hours of therapy. I got this game in 1995 and played it with an old school joystick. I’m 40 now… wow the nostalgia is unreal. It was SO HARD, I worked my ass off to beat Band Land, my hands would get so sweaty 🤣
I haven’t played any video games since then but searched Rayman to show someone who has never heard of it and found your video. Amazing!
Loved reading everyone’s comments. Life was so different back then but it was an awesome time to be a tween. We were lucky.
Thank you so much for posting this, I’ve been sitting here in childlike bliss for hours. I haven’t felt this much joy in a long time. Thank you!!! 🥰
I was OBSESSED with this game as a 12 year old. Loved the design and music so much, played it constantly while my sisters watched but could never get past Band Land. Bought it again 25 years later, played as hard as I could... couldn't get past Band Land (the part of Bongo Hills where it turns dark and the eyes start zapping you. got right to last few platforms before end of level, couldn't get past it). The only way I can see the ending is watching this video. Thanks
I am fucking old as shit now, but this game, the opening sounds, the graphics, the characters, all make me feel like a child again.
Thank you so much.
Rest in peace Rayman.
When I was a kid the first time I punched one of the fish I couldn't stop laughing. I spent like 20 mins punching the fish and laughing my ass off 😆
omg now i can remember when that teeth fell off like a sitcom. lol
I stayed doing that too. 😆😆😆
One of the hardest and.. best designed platforming games EVER! A bona fide timeless classic.
Well played, my friend! Appreciate the struggle. Cheers ;)
I have so many fond memories of playing the DOS port of this game when I was 11 years old (I'm now 37) and got this game from Media Play (how I miss that store... 😢) with my allowance I had saved up (about $30 to say the least). Even when I stopped playing the DOS version of Rayman after getting Windows XP computers and a Windows 7 computer (prior to getting my first Mac in 2013 as an early birthday gift from my father since he was usually not home for my birthday), I would listen to the music on the Redbook CD and bask in the memories. My TH-cam name is a play on the phrase "dead man walking" (which is what a prison warden says when an inmate on death row is on his/her way to their execution) and this WONDERFUL Ubisoft character. I understand that years ago, Michel Ancel had left the gaming industry...so who knows what could be in store for our limbless friend...
I'm 33. What is a DOS port? Lol. I'm not a computer programmer or anything.
Art style hides how brutal it's platforming can get.
Yes this game is very hard. You HAVE to break ALL the cages in order to access the final level.
That music level had me fucked in all sort of ways when I was young, and our PS1 save cards stopped working so we kept having to blow in to them, like the old Sega games yet we kept losing our progress
I always liked when the mosquito became the homie. Wish he would have stayed around through the game. ❤️❤️❤️
Happy birthday 🎂
Piece out
Me too!!! When Rayman put his hand on the mosquito’s shoulder 😭😭 then he was flying so fast Rayman had to hold on to his eyelids 🤣 man I LOVED this game.
i remember all day configuring the Bios on Windows 98 to make the soundtrack work when playing Rayman..
I think I completed this game once, and never dared touch it again XD. Good job on getting 100% on it!
Loved this game as. A kid just got this game and ps¹ for my birthday today so awesome. Harder than I remember and I'm a pretty experienced for a gamer. It's so nostalgic ah to be 12 yo girl Again. Where did the time go xxxx
I remember being super sick with the flu in middle school and spending my sicks days play this. Good times.
Happy birthday 🎂
I'm 32 I remember this Soo much I sucked at it Soo bad but now I got it damn this game still is fun I like it better then the Nintendo 64 one. Lol I didn't have memory card for like a month after I got this I had to start over all time . Ugh I hated it lol . This shit gets hard lol. I feel like I'm 6 yrs old again. Thanks for this. This is better then any mobile game around.
19:40 oh god I forgot about the rising water level. That gave me so much anxiety as a kid.
Esse jogo é bem elaborado e só uma pessoa sagaz consegue vencer. Joguei muito na infância e digo que é muito difícil, só que muito apaixonante. 👏
Eu joguei muito fiz 100% em 1999
I played this game on the ps3 growing up (thank rayman origins for introducing me to rayman at all) and I trudged my way through this hard ass game due to extreme stubbornness until the very end where the whole “collect all electoons” bomb dropped. Kid me’s patience already ran out so I just looked up a password to get to mr. Dark’s dare, good times
I miss this cute game so much ❤ i love it i played this many times after school😂 now im 40 and we have the new rayman i play it with my kid on the nintendo switch we have so much fun😂❤
You can't watch this and tell me the devs at Ubi Soft weren't on HEAVY medication at the time. o-o
6:14 that makes me laugh every time I enjoy playing Rayman it's a great game
@@GameKai51 I can see you're a fan of The Walking Dead like me I've only just started watching season 11
@@GameKai51 mine too Fear The Walking Dead season 8 will be it's final season
@@GameKai51 I have heard there doing other follow ups to The Walking Dead
This game would have been so much better if
1) lives were easier to get
2) levels were shorter
3) get rid of the stupid continue system
4) remove the recoil after getting hit by an enemy
5) instead of finding the power ups you unlock them so you always have the long punch and 5 health slots
This is one of those games that isn't challenging its flawed. It's a shame because the visuals and sound design are top notch. The fact that this is a port that came years after the original shows they had no excuse to leave these problems in the game.
im curious to know your opinions on the souls series of games lol
get good bro lol.
@WPacManW it's not my opinion this is a very popular opinion. I could due without all of them if they just didn't have the crap save system. It ruins the game.
When they ask you on a job interview if you're flexible, able to handle pressure and unforeseen circumstances, and you say you've completed Rayman; Hired!
Jeez, my blood pressure is spiking from just watching this. XD
Man I haven’t thought about Rayman in years I beat the original in one summer how hard could it be now
Bro i remember play rayman 1 and i forgot about it years later im glad i found ittt
Say you did well!! You are so fantastic!! You were so sensational!!! You are colossal!!!!!!
How about "Rayman 2: The Great Escape" for the PS1 next up?
This game feels like a fever dream
I played this as kid and loved it, but was hard asf.. think i was stuck on the last boss
This reminds me of the side scrolling action of the Mega Man X series & SpongeBob SuperSponge games. This also looks like a lot of SNES & a few N64 games. There were a lot of side scrollers (along with 3D) on the Saturn. There may or may not have been side scrollers on the Dreamcast. Some modern consoles have some side scrollers (Metroid Dread on Switch, for example). A lot of early CD games (Turbo Grapghx, Sega CD and Neo Geo CD) have side scrollers. Genesis does too.
Probably not many on Dreamcast. 2D games became quite unpopular after fully 3D games started becoming popular in 1996, so there would be plenty of side-scrollers in the early days of N64, Saturn and PS1, but not so many later on (except on handhelds). They've regained some popularity since though. Rayman released in 1995.
I never finished this game. My brother had it on the ps1 and we had no memory card so we had to start over every time we played
3:25:20 I can *feel* the frustration
Yes. That was painful.
YEAH!
The definitive version of Rayman 1995 Sony PlayStation/PS1
great game
Technically the NTSC version of Rayman is the most hardest due to 60 Hz making the game faster.
I play Rayman on PAL (50Hz), and hell... your gameplay look so fast to my eyes.
Rayman seems to be originally planned to be played at 50Hz because of somes animations not matching with the sound on NTSC versions.
All thoses speed problems were such a mess...
Good thing there's no more problems like that nowadays.
rayman could possibly be better than sonic if they didnºt try so hard to pull the rabbit arcade games and advertise them so extensively. i think these 2d platformers were just fine as for 3d levels again itºs not as good as mario, rayman lacks cool movements and it shows.... i like the game still.
45:00 fuck band land I never got passed those levels 😤
I feel like this game had to have influenced the cuphead developers
im getting the european version of this game along with the european version of parappa 1 and parappa 2 as well
Rayman god
No its Rayman Gold
Supposedly this game wasn’t play tested before being released, so beating it requires cheesing any exploit possible lol
No,git gud.
eat at joe's literally sounds like cute easy but the truth is.....rayman was the greatest fraud in my childhood
You have to have a really high IQ to complete this game it's super difficult
@@GameKai51 Why not a really high IQ ? try letting someone with a high salary job play this game they might not be able to complete it
@@Darkscenes-jp4geI agree. I bet all but the top minds in the world would struggle to beat Rayman.
@@billymanziel5666 Someone with a Phd might be able to complete this game but even for them it would be very hard too
@@Darkscenes-jp4ge I'm picturing someone like Neil Tyson or Michio Kaku being able to beat this game fairly easily once they get the hang of it.
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland If Albert Einstein was still alive when this game released this game would've been very easy for him
do you have to get every magician perfect to 100% the game? like having 100% on your save file
You mean the minigame? That only gives you lifes,to 100% it,you need to break every cage.
3:25:22 the frustration level 😅
Opening To Rayman 1996 VHS
Release: Friday September 8, 1995
VHS Release: Tuesday August 6, 1996
FBI Warning
“Super Mario 64”
October 4, 1996
“Crash Bandicoot”
Coming This Fall
“Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble”
Coming This November to Videocassette
Feature Presentation
PlayStation Home Video
Format Screen
PlayStation
Well you do Crash Team Racing 101% And Crash Nitro Kart 101% Longplay if you can?
@@GameKai51 Then You get Crash Nitro Kart PS2 101% with Team Bandicoot and Cortex if you can?
Can I use this video for a sort of documentary video im making
The game ways to hard to complete 💀
Thanks in advance
@@GameKai51 thanks man will do
Some game I was 3 when played on 1996
I was 12 when you were 3
@@MOMONEYAKAMaurice Really 1996
Hello! I am stuck at the beginning of the Blue Mountain level (at 1:21:14 ) my grappling fist isn't working! As I jump and press square to hit the grappling, my fist just hits the ring and nothing happens. Maybe someone had this problem before?
I am playing on a PS one. / Note: I have already checked elsewhere but no one seems to have the same problem.
Oh I had the same problem as a kid I think you didn’t beat Moskito to get the grappling power try beating Moskito’s nest again
@@RareTradition9901 I just downloaded Rayman and played for the first time since the year it came out, basically, and I was so confused at the very start why I couldn't hang or punch. I kept thinking that the download was flawed, so I had to look it up on google. I don't know how I managed to forget something like that when everything else is so memorable! XD
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland You’re welcome
This game is not just hard, it's unfair, really really unfair, this game was never properly tested.
I managed to beat it, and dang, it is so rage-inducing, in the last parts, even the infinite lives cheat code won't help you.
Continue?
@@GameKai51 is Rayman 2
Thats big mama
Este juego es el infierno, no un infierno. EL INFIERNO.
I remember suffer and pain!
hi👍🏻
1:08:57
Cómo se cuelga Rayman , en mi juego no se puede hacer
Porque todavia no tienes la abilidad, amigo mio.
No buddy is purfect this game is no buddy
Yt rayman ps1 hj❤❤❤❤👍
1996
I’ve always thought rayman was a knock off of Sonic
lol wtf? They are completely different Sonic is collecting rings and chaos emeralds Rayman is collecting lums and breaking cages
@@Darkscenes-jp4geand also sonic is to be fast and rayman is for adventure
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