@Highretrogamelord89 I'm quite happy to see your nostalgic happiness! Always nice to aid in memory restoration. Hehe, a DOS puzzle game where you have to collect stuff and open doors with keys... I can only think of about a couple hundred of those! Although Chip's Challenge immediately comes to mind, personally.
Before internet gaming, a hard to master but fun to play game like this was fun to play. Never beat it, but fun to pick up now and then and give it a go for a couple days.
So I came into DOS gaming late. Kid with a NES and Genesis and some such until a PC in time for Half Life. But, after Half LIfe opened the door to PC Gaming and also its history, I later came across Skyroads. It came into my life maybe a little too late, but, I've a history with Skyroads of which I'm proud. Fun stuff, and a window to not just a simpler, but a better (?) time.
@Gl3nnman You did indeed see Tekwar, which is the subject of a future review. I felt it appropriate to sneak in there due to the Shatneresque intro to the review.
This was 1 of the total 2 games developed in my home country, Estonia. Ironic that we are one of the most advanced E-countries out there yet no videogames to show.
And yet myself, from Canada, home to some of the most prestigious game devs (Bioware's original office is right in my residing city of Edmonton, Alberta), has a nice warm soft spot for this game, coming from my childhood, and I'm not sure if anything like it exists. (except maybe super monkey ball, but that game series is just a tad different.) That's a good enough pedigree for me, since it came from a much smaller country. I Thank you and Blue Moon!
Holy crap did this trigger a long lost memory inside my brain, I played that at friends house and was totally blown away at how smooth the graphics were.
@sl2mmer Yup, apparently they're based right in Tallinn. I also read that the composer of the music in SkyRoads now makes music for Estonian State TV. Pretty cool, I thought.
holy balls LGR, all of my childhood games are on your channel, like Moto Racer, Re-Volt, and The Sims (2000), SkiFree, and now this game, ahhh... thanks to you now I can remember those good ol' days
Bloody hell, I remember playing this game way back on my first (or maybe second PC) and loving it, but haven't been able to recall what it's called since then. Thanks LGR, I can finally track it back down now.
@JMJ363 Well, I suppose that's the danger of showing anything at all as "background" in any of my videos: people tend to make requests for everything! That's cool, I like to gauge interests. I do hope to review the Sonic & Garfield Pack, as well as the other games shown in that section. Stay tuned this coming year, lots of cool stuff is incoming!
During my elementary school computer class in 90s Poland, we could play this game after we finished our assignment for the day. Loved this game, partly we were just happy to be playing video games in school!
One thing that irks me to no end about reviewers these days (not just in a gaming sense) is that they tell you what TO think, rather than how THEY think. Haven't seen LGR tell me what to think once since I started watching him, and I appreciate that.
Sometimes for other reviewers, it seems unintentional, or by habit. A lot of people like to use "you" in a lot of sentences. Consider this made-up conversation: A: "How do you play this game?" B: "Well, you press the arrow keys to move and space to jump." They were basically saying "you" pointlessly. It would make more sense, in terms of answering A's question, for B to say "I press the arrow keys...". Anyway, I've noticed a bunch of reviewers using "you" in their statements. For example, "You feel sympathy for these characters", "You know what the story's going to be"...Doug Walker does that all the time. I'm pretty sure it's mostly by habit, or something, but it can unintentionally make the reviewer seem arrogant in his knowing of what others would think about whatever's being reviewed. I don't know if this is really relevant to your point, but I just wanted to say it...
I think it comes from a false sense of objectivity despite that reviews are inherently subjective. In order to appear more impersonal and therefore more "objective" rather than say how they felt, they instead give a broad statement on what the hypothetical audience may feel. Which completely falls flat since it is after all still just their own subjective view just with words like "I" removed.
The music alone makes both of these games worth the trouble. They're basically impossible if you don't have godlike hand/eye coordination, but the music keeps bringing you back to levels you knew you were crap at.
@SovietWookie1 Yes: get an MS-DOS computer! :) These are 20+ year old DOS games, and won't work on modern Windows. You'll need to install an emulator like DOSBox to play these on a new Windows/Mac/Linux PC.
I had this on windows 3.1 back in the day and I played it non stop when I was about 7 and I credit it with the fact that to this day the games I excel at the most are high speed twitch racing games like F-Zero and Episode 1 Racer.
I played Skyroads as a kid. 5 minutes in I realized that I owned Stunts so I went back to that. LGR needs to do a Stunts review, best car game on MS-DOS bar none.
Wow, years ago I got a mini cd with some games on it, no idea what it was exactly, but it had skyroads on it. Wow I forgot that game, it’s so much fun!
@Shiqna1 It does have some similarities to Yoomp!, as do many other retro games (Bounder also comes to mind, which is even more similar to Yoomp! I think). The whole bouncing/following a path into the vanishing point genre I guess, hehe. Yoomp! is one of the biggest reasons I pull out my Atari 8-bit machines from time to time, simply a superb game all-around.
*screams* OH! MY! GOODNESS! I forget about this, till you brought it back... Believe me, the more I saw about this, the bigger my eyes became! I think I have this on a CD (I can't find) along with other classics, like Xargon and a DOS puzzle game where you have to open certain rooms with a key and collect stuff (maybe you know the name?) May I hug you for bringing back memories? ^^
soo thanks this brings good memorys im gonna download it right now :) i love what your doing new games are cool but old games brings back good memories:D
Sometimes a good game takes time to master. One great thing about the skyroads games were when you'd beat a level your first try with nothing but reflexes and skill ;)
ah, Skyroads, it was a must during school hours back in the day, i still have the 3,5 disc i used in school. never played the christmas edition though, just the first.
Wow, love the graphics, background and music. This game truely looks evil, you'd have to put in a lot of work to master it. Seems the perfect game for a challenge :o)
My preferred Christmas game is the Doom 2 wad/partial conversion Head 2 Head Christmas 2 or some name like that. Instead of Doom Marine you are Santa Claus. Every level has Christmas music and all the power ups are changed into Christmasy things, and there is some background graphics changes like snow and the like. Plus the levels are chock full of enemies causing glorious zones of mayhem. Even worked with Doomsday Project mods. And dying = Santa saying "Oww my face!" Great stuff!
Sky Roads!! Oh man I used to own a copy of the game back in the day. Cool game, filled with the required amount of adrenaline inducing substance to make the hairs on your back to twirl around copiously on their own, and capable of gestating an unhelty amount of selfinduced addiction to make random green goblins appear before your eyes. I used to pump this mother with my old George Thorogood record in the background. Tottal blast.
Damn, I spent ages on that game back in the days, just because I couldnt finish it. I played it together with my neighbour turn by turn, which made it quite an exciting competition.
It's a trial and error game. You memorize the jumps and the number of bounces to let the ship make. It's a very challenging game, but I think it isn't as daunting as you might be making it sound. The way to play it is to repeat the same track over and over, figuring out the tact for each next section and making it a bit further each time, until you have it down and beat the track. Games back then were designed with that mentality in mind. It wasn't until mid-2000s or something that games started being designed with the mindset that players should beat each level and challenge on their first try and not have to repeat parts many times over.
I played a shareware version at school, when cd-rom was all the rage. We had a "special" student who wasn't good at anything, but when you placed him in front of this game it was like it was meant to be ^_^
![[TAS] DOS SkyRoads by Ilari in 15:53.27](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mMaod42lo00/mqdefault.jpg)
My biggest take away from this in 2016 was 'Holy crap was that really what Google used to look like?! How could I have forgotten?'
@Highretrogamelord89 I'm quite happy to see your nostalgic happiness! Always nice to aid in memory restoration.
Hehe, a DOS puzzle game where you have to collect stuff and open doors with keys... I can only think of about a couple hundred of those! Although Chip's Challenge immediately comes to mind, personally.
Love your videos. Keep the good work man.
Before internet gaming, a hard to master but fun to play game like this was fun to play. Never beat it, but fun to pick up now and then and give it a go for a couple days.
Great Shatner impression at the beginning.
I remember playing this in 1998. This filled me with nostalgia. I was 4 years old back then.
So I came into DOS gaming late. Kid with a NES and Genesis and some such until a PC in time for Half Life. But, after Half LIfe opened the door to PC Gaming and also its history, I later came across Skyroads. It came into my life maybe a little too late, but, I've a history with Skyroads of which I'm proud. Fun stuff, and a window to not just a simpler, but a better (?) time.
_This LGR video is a national treasure, and should be archived for future generations to see._ 📺😆🤘
@Gl3nnman You did indeed see Tekwar, which is the subject of a future review. I felt it appropriate to sneak in there due to the Shatneresque intro to the review.
This was 1 of the total 2 games developed in my home country, Estonia. Ironic that we are one of the most advanced E-countries out there yet no videogames to show.
And yet myself, from Canada, home to some of the most prestigious game devs (Bioware's original office is right in my residing city of Edmonton, Alberta), has a nice warm soft spot for this game, coming from my childhood, and I'm not sure if anything like it exists. (except maybe super monkey ball, but that game series is just a tad different.)
That's a good enough pedigree for me, since it came from a much smaller country.
I Thank you and Blue Moon!
relo999 TrailBlazers? Hmmm.
There's also Tasty Static.
I want to visit Estonia so bad, I've heard they pay for master's in cyber security
Being "advanced" isn't always good. Estonia's e-voting system is horrendous, as any significant e-voting system is.
Thank you Estonian for making this Turkish guy's childhood a little bit more special with this game.
Holy crap did this trigger a long lost memory inside my brain, I played that at friends house and was totally blown away at how smooth the graphics were.
I just love games, good and bad... and I love reviewing them so it comes with the territory!
@sl2mmer Yup, apparently they're based right in Tallinn. I also read that the composer of the music in SkyRoads now makes music for Estonian State TV. Pretty cool, I thought.
Awesome review man, you always get straight to the point without the corny skits and overly-done acting. A true reviewer man.
@TheSeamus802 Pants-crapping is such a timeless bonding activity. My condolences for the pants though...
@mocthezuma Hehe, already did that one actually, during the 2009 Christmas season. Great games.
holy balls LGR, all of my childhood games are on your channel, like Moto Racer, Re-Volt, and The Sims (2000), SkiFree, and now this game, ahhh... thanks to you now I can remember those good ol' days
Six years and still going strong man!
Bloody hell, I remember playing this game way back on my first (or maybe second PC) and loving it, but haven't been able to recall what it's called since then. Thanks LGR, I can finally track it back down now.
@JMJ363 Well, I suppose that's the danger of showing anything at all as "background" in any of my videos: people tend to make requests for everything! That's cool, I like to gauge interests. I do hope to review the Sonic & Garfield Pack, as well as the other games shown in that section. Stay tuned this coming year, lots of cool stuff is incoming!
During my elementary school computer class in 90s Poland, we could play this game after we finished our assignment for the day. Loved this game, partly we were just happy to be playing video games in school!
I love Skyroads, I first played it but around 95 or so on a 2 CD set know as "The Encyclopedia of Games 1,000s of games:
One thing that irks me to no end about reviewers these days (not just in a gaming sense) is that they tell you what TO think, rather than how THEY think. Haven't seen LGR tell me what to think once since I started watching him, and I appreciate that.
Sometimes for other reviewers, it seems unintentional, or by habit. A lot of people like to use "you" in a lot of sentences. Consider this made-up conversation:
A: "How do you play this game?"
B: "Well, you press the arrow keys to move and space to jump."
They were basically saying "you" pointlessly. It would make more sense, in terms of answering A's question, for B to say "I press the arrow keys...".
Anyway, I've noticed a bunch of reviewers using "you" in their statements. For example, "You feel sympathy for these characters", "You know what the story's going to be"...Doug Walker does that all the time. I'm pretty sure it's mostly by habit, or something, but it can unintentionally make the reviewer seem arrogant in his knowing of what others would think about whatever's being reviewed.
I don't know if this is really relevant to your point, but I just wanted to say it...
I think it comes from a false sense of objectivity despite that reviews are inherently subjective. In order to appear more impersonal and therefore more "objective" rather than say how they felt, they instead give a broad statement on what the hypothetical audience may feel. Which completely falls flat since it is after all still just their own subjective view just with words like "I" removed.
sky roads has an immense nostalgia factor for me
@Rockythefishman Christmas Lemmings is a great one, I reviewed it last year.
Watching this after playing it the other day. Ten years on, still a great vid!
What could be better than Lazy Game Reviews? CHRISTMAS LAZY GAMES REVIEWS YAY!!!!!
man, you do cover most of our cult classics XD thanks for bringing back fond memories
The music alone makes both of these games worth the trouble. They're basically impossible if you don't have godlike hand/eye coordination, but the music keeps bringing you back to levels you knew you were crap at.
@Schmidt54 Indeed you can! There's a link in the video description with that info and the site to grab it from. Love it when good games go freeware.
Man, I always look forward to your reviews. I played this one...I don't plan on playing it again, haha. I love a challenge, but man!
Did I just see Tekwar at 0:34 ? I love that game !
Nice work on the intro by the way.
@vipor29 Yes, the Holiday Hare games. Probably my favorite Christmas games, I reviewed one of them last year during those Christmas episodes.
@1futileriver Hehe, that was kind of a hint! Check back soon for a review of just that :D
This game was amazing and not as hard as he made it seem. And I had lots of fun playing it ;)
@extralargetuna That it is!
@1990chrism I have plans to do so! At some point ;)
@SovietWookie1 Yes: get an MS-DOS computer! :)
These are 20+ year old DOS games, and won't work on modern Windows. You'll need to install an emulator like DOSBox to play these on a new Windows/Mac/Linux PC.
I had this on windows 3.1 back in the day and I played it non stop when I was about 7 and I credit it with the fact that to this day the games I excel at the most are high speed twitch racing games like F-Zero and Episode 1 Racer.
Yay first retro game I actually HAVE played!
I played Skyroads as a kid. 5 minutes in I realized that I owned Stunts so I went back to that. LGR needs to do a Stunts review, best car game on MS-DOS bar none.
I loooooved Skyroads.. Thanks for the flashback !
I will build a freaking gold temple all for you, after that freaking intro.
FREAKING EPIC D:
waiting more reviews :D
Wow, years ago I got a mini cd with some games on it, no idea what it was exactly, but it had skyroads on it. Wow I forgot that game, it’s so much fun!
This Was an AWESOME review, Keep 'em coming!
@Shiqna1 It does have some similarities to Yoomp!, as do many other retro games (Bounder also comes to mind, which is even more similar to Yoomp! I think). The whole bouncing/following a path into the vanishing point genre I guess, hehe. Yoomp! is one of the biggest reasons I pull out my Atari 8-bit machines from time to time, simply a superb game all-around.
That music sounds like really old trance music :) I love it
Maaan i really love your work! :D
Oh, man, this was great. Amazing review! =)
Watching old LGR for christmas month and holy crap I lost it at the intro of this one. So funny.
Loved this game when I was a kid!
Deeply frustrated by it as well... lol.
Thanks LGR dude, that brought back some memories.
I just noticed I am watching a video of you explaining to us how to play one of my fav DOS games which I started playing since I was 5 xD
Nice selection from the Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare soundtrack.
I rewinded start of the video 4 times before coming here to comment start of the video is so awesome :D
Hahaha, awesome review as always!
It used to play this game a lot in 2001.
I remember skyroads from the old shovelware disc's. So cool looking, and absolutely impossible.
*screams*
OH! MY! GOODNESS!
I forget about this, till you brought it back...
Believe me, the more I saw about this, the bigger my eyes became!
I think I have this on a CD (I can't find) along with other classics, like Xargon and a DOS puzzle game where you have to open certain rooms with a key and collect stuff (maybe you know the name?)
May I hug you for bringing back memories? ^^
soo thanks this brings good memorys im gonna download it right now :) i love what your doing new games are cool but old games brings back good memories:D
I love Skyroads, it's an excellent game,, but I know what you mean about the difficulty, especially in the christmas special. Great review.
YES! aaaw man i remember this now! thanks! man i have been wanting to remember the name! Skyroads is awesome!
Freaking Christmas Lazy Game Reviews! WOOOOOOO KICKASS
Great review as always! You da man!
Oh damn. I got this game on a pc gamer magazine demo cd. Loved the music!
I've played many Christmas themed games, and Sega Saturn's Christmas NiGHTS is by far one of my fav's
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Sometimes a good game takes time to master. One great thing about the skyroads games were when you'd beat a level your first try with nothing but reflexes and skill ;)
Lazy Christmas Reviews~Featuring Jump Cuts!
Hah, Still watching the Review, but i have to agree, i LOVE Christmas!
I've reviewed all three of those :)
Is that time of the year again
Epic intro bro!
I was not aware of the existence of Kosmonaut. Thank you good sir =)
Loved this game! soundtrack is amazing too!
Nice of them to release their soundtrack for free. It's so good.
I'm a DOS kid and had this game. It was awesome. They all were.
Good game. I loved it even though it was really difficult as a kid.
ah, Skyroads, it was a must during school hours back in the day, i still have the 3,5 disc i used in school.
never played the christmas edition though, just the first.
Wow, love the graphics, background and music. This game truely looks evil, you'd have to put in a lot of work to master it. Seems the perfect game for a challenge :o)
My preferred Christmas game is the Doom 2 wad/partial conversion Head 2 Head Christmas 2 or some name like that. Instead of Doom Marine you are Santa Claus. Every level has Christmas music and all the power ups are changed into Christmasy things, and there is some background graphics changes like snow and the like. Plus the levels are chock full of enemies causing glorious zones of mayhem. Even worked with Doomsday Project mods. And dying = Santa saying "Oww my face!" Great stuff!
I had this back in the day, I was very young but I played it to death. recently remembred it/rediscovered it while searching for something else.
Skyroads, thats long ago. It was hard as hell but it was worth being able to show it off and everyone else going "wow"!
True, forgot about those! I also forgot Super Speed Christmas Edition and Christmas Carnage (dos version, not the new one)
Sky Roads!!
Oh man I used to own a copy of the game back in the day.
Cool game, filled with the required amount of adrenaline inducing substance to make the hairs on your back to twirl around copiously on their own, and capable of gestating an unhelty amount of selfinduced addiction to make random green goblins appear before your eyes.
I used to pump this mother with my old George Thorogood record in the background.
Tottal blast.
Damn, I spent ages on that game back in the days, just because I couldnt finish it. I played it together with my neighbour turn by turn, which made it quite an exciting competition.
I love Skyroads. In the original I was able to get through to the last three puzzles.
Damn, I love me some skyroads. I never knew there was an xmas version
God i remember this game. Haven't played it for about 15 years.
Clint, do you ever stop being awesome?
Love this show and keep up the great hobbie!
Hey, don't forget about the Jazz Jackrabbit Holiday Hare editions for 94, 95, and 98
Holy Crap, TekWar! Why don't you do a review on that? I could never find a retail copy but I loved the demo when I was a kid.
awsome rview as normal dude!
Oh no, I feel a Lemmings Xmas edition review appraoching.
@phreakindee you made my day.
Oh nice! I'll check them out. I love the lemmings games (except for Chronicles which seemed like a lazy cash-on on their own series)!
I miss when youtube videos were filmed in the dark dank recesses of our souls. Who needs lighting?
I played this game in vasant kunj, when I was 3.
Skyroads it's a fun game to play it again, I really like it!
intro is awesome :P
It's a trial and error game. You memorize the jumps and the number of bounces to let the ship make. It's a very challenging game, but I think it isn't as daunting as you might be making it sound.
The way to play it is to repeat the same track over and over, figuring out the tact for each next section and making it a bit further each time, until you have it down and beat the track.
Games back then were designed with that mentality in mind. It wasn't until mid-2000s or something that games started being designed with the mindset that players should beat each level and challenge on their first try and not have to repeat parts many times over.
I played a shareware version at school, when cd-rom was all the rage.
We had a "special" student who wasn't good at anything, but when you placed him in front of this game it was like it was meant to be ^_^