Computer Chronicles: Greatest Games

[shugo21]

Buried in time is such an amazing game, still holds it's own today.

[HardWarUK]

Little did he know, by promoting consoles on a COMPUTER TV show, he was helping the dumbing down of games and the dire situation we have now, in 2012, in PC gaming, and indeed all gaming!

[Neojhun]

OMG Microsoft Golf, i havent seen that in a decade. Dam that conference was the beginning of the Microsoft Gaming Empire. Wish i was there.

[Ikkepop]

FMV games were bullshit!

[WolfCoder]

toooo.. much 90s!! uuuugh! must get on IRC and- oh wait we still use that.

[youtubedude]

The 90's were awesome. Nobody cared about sex or popularity way back then.

[Quartrez]

@youtubedude ... You'd be surprised...

[M15577]

Dont coppy that floppy!

[sandweged]

$32.50 for a tape of a 30 minute show?? damn, thats a rip off.

[Ograws]

Is there something like this on nowadays?

[nym56789]

@KiranaForever Man I used to watch the begining movie to Mech2 all the time. That game ruled!

[51rickjames]

19:35 SHES THINKING ABOUT GTA lol

[Quartrez]

@51rickjames There's a lot of other 3D games that fit the description she's given that came BEFORE Grand Theft Auto. Just saying.

[51rickjames]

@Quartrez I know, but still :P

[51rickjames]

@Quartrez When she said a 3D third person open world game, GTA 3 just popped in my mind. Probably because i was playing the game when she said it lol

[Trukkerkeps]

Why would she show and spew out all these spoilers from the end of Phantasmagoria?

[midarkmind]

@KiranaForever Bravo cadet I'm on my way baring 029! Even people I knew that weren't computer gamers used to watch that intro over and over. Unfortunately the cinematic intro was a bit ahead of its time though. I remember playing the first level and thinking that I just got ripped off or cheated by yet another game with cheesy graphics! LOL

[crocodile2006]

Don't copy that floppy!

[Dakkiller1]

How come I hadn't seen a YTP using material from Computer Chronicles.

I could imagine the host being a foul mouth that wants Tech News to be edgy and out of reach from 8 Year olds who want to like crap that their adults actually like to watch all the time. (EXCEPT FOR SOCCOR MOMS)

[frigginjoe]

Thanks for the upload. I love viewing CC from its beginning to these more modern episodes. It's really been with computing for a long time, shame it ever ended but I guess the charm and purpose was lost as computing became such a typical fixture in the household.

[0neofthem]

those games look like crap interactive movies or unfinished. i don't get why people like them so much other than grew up with them.

[Samoutuomas]

@0neofthem They weren't really that popular, and were only on the market for like 2-3 years. Most people at that time thought they were corny too, like me. Some of them were good, like the ones that didn't over do the movies and let the player have more control... It was because of CD's becoming big that many developers tried to do games like that. Just like stuff like Heavy Rain and MGS4 for PS3 & Bluray. Heh, someone will probably say just what you said, 15 years from now :)

[bradfordbulls4lyf]

@0neofthem because they were like games of today... they didnt have the tools to there exposil and even if they did the computers couldnt run it and if it wasnt for games like these we wouldnt have games like we do today. You ungrate, uneducated cunt.

[0neofthem]

@bradfordbulls4lyf like this kind of game had any effect on what is available today. your time has passed jackass.

[bradfordbulls4lyf]

@0neofthem the software and the engines back then were the foundations for the amazing software and engines now

[HardWarUK]

All the game previewed in the studio I bought when new based on this show, when I lived in America, I still have them, along with my collection of about 300 90's games in all their wonderful big boxes, huge manuals and maps, etc! Great gaming!

[HardWarUK]

The 90's with be seen as the golden decade of ALL gaming!

[hanrinch]

who the hell would someone really spend money on these crappy game back in 1995?

[jrag1000]

heh, console games run P.C. games never ran well. Not enough ram, not enough hard drive space, not the right video card, not the right sound card, lol i rember those days... you also needed to be pretty much a basic computer programmer to get games to run also as you needed to reconfigure irq's and coms, and constantly recode your autoexe.bat and confg.sys files among other things like trying to load your mouse and controllers up to that magical 608k or so base ram limit... XD

[kidben123]

the harvy bird man game is beter its on the psp u get to see little skits and other things like.

[masterpj55]

woa directdraw was new back then omfg xD

[PcolaSteve4234]

My Dad, who is gone now, used to call me up to tell me what he learned from watching this program. I can't watch these without thinking, and missing him.

[EdgyRootStudios]

@PcolaSteve4234 Man, that is a sad story. If I brought up unwanted memories by uploading this, I am very sorry.

[theporkchopchannel]

@EdgyRootStudios can you dig up the ep  ware they talk abt iptv

[AMYuntold]

@EdgyRootStudios Don't apologize, he's gonna sue you anyways.

[lemonrind]

This is right before the downfall of Sierra :(

[jrag1000]

@lemonrind

yeah i remember. I think phantasmagoria was the destroyer of sierra online...

i think the money they spent to MAKE it was the demise...

[persevere67]

i loved this show when it first came out and I still do.

[cgohma]

We have come a long way in computers and the technology that drives them. Sense the introduction of things like multi core microprocessors have made some advancements that would have been unimagined back then. Things that people with their game consoles now that people didn't even do with their PCs back then. Having your gameboy connecting to the internet would have been unheard of then as well as normal game consoles that you connect to a television.

[Andyc18]

That courtroom game looks awesome!

[N64Guy]

that random acess chick is hot

[vartuos21]

I agree with the statement at 26:13 entirely.

Although game consoles will always be far more limited in what they can do, it's nice to know that your game will run exactly the same way it did while it was being tested by the developer. This is one reason why I dislike PCs in general, because you're never quite sure if a piece of software will run properly (or run at all). There is no default PC configuration, so people will always have problems. Oh, and backward compatibility on PCs is a joke.

[hottentot]

@vartuos21 FAIL

[Madcope2k9]

FANTASMAGORIA <<< LOL

[ace942]

I remember playing Buried in Time. It was very immersive as compared to the first game in the series. It took some time to solve the game and it was nicely done with the video and graphics.

[Darkbeatdk]

Oh god I remember those mid 90's games with "multi media video". They were so terrible most of them!

Mechwarrior 2 was cool though.

[coolie4u]

I like how it's possible to watch reviews and walkthrough videos from the 80s and 90s+ on youtube , saves a lot of time considering all the configuration that is required to get things running smooth in the emulators.

[reygood1]

if you wanna feel good on your hardware now, look back.

[bazfanv2]

isnt michelle a girls name?.

[reiismael]

Software rendering glory!

[avocadopunk]

I used to run a BBS on a 2400 baud modem when I was 15 in the 80's.

[BrianAStier]

Don't copy that floppy.

[DerKleineDude]

Roberta! You are our mistress! ;-)

[Shadowrain2TV]

I lold at 1.6gig hard drive

[DarkCybrid]

Lol, $3000 computer couldn't even play MW 2. That's funny, haha.

[monkey93222]

@DarkCybrid Pfft who need MW2 when you can play Mechwarrior 2? Or even Doom over a LAN with your bros?

[DarkCybrid]

@monkey93222 I meant mechwarrior 2 :V

[PimblyCharles]

Wow, thanks for sharing this! I remember this episode from when I watched it on TV over 10 years ago. Awesome memories of Mech Warrior

[simteknemesis]

Nobody knows name of music intro ?

I love ♥♥♥

[miciso666]

oldskool ftw :P man i remember no virusses no bull like that ^^ no crashes almost lolz today ur being bombed with virusses-,-,

[HardWarUK]

Funny that his closing statement about why you should consider a console machine and all the bad reasons for PC gaming not only put this show off the air, but stopped any new shows like it, as console slowly took over and publishers stopped making PC games. I don't mean not having PC games, but making them. Games like Mech Warrior, In the First Degree and Buried in Time, game types that would never appear on console, so never appear anywhere now.

[HardWarUK]

Roberta Williams - WOW!!!

[Arlekhine]

Mech Warrior 2 OMG cant wait to play it jajaja. I use to love that game...

[Eskimo50]

0:52 holy shit JeffK!

[Lachlant1984]

I've just realized how much better the PlayStation was for playing games than Windows 95. Too many things can go wr4ong when playing computer games, less can go wrong with a game console, you don't have to deal with corrupt files or incompatible hardware.

[HardWarUK]

Lachlant1984 - things didn't go wrong on console because games on them at the time were mostly simple platform games, while on computer we were playing Elite and Wasteland on C64 and later Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall on PC. Computer games pushed the gameplaying envelope, at best consoles have just copied them. For example Alone in the Dark on PC was 5 years before Silent Hill on PS, that basically copied it.

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

That was the golden age for the PC.

[hanrinch]

yeah, consider today's pc is highly divided to two camp: intel or amd and consumer softerware program and even hardware menufacturer can only choose either of one side. it's like if you buy an amd or intel will mostly an "amd only" or "intel inside"console. this is makes no didferent than cold war in 1980s...

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

I agree and it can be difficult to build a all the way around rig so I build both. :D Got INTEL and AMD rigs. AMD has it good with memory and I/O while INTEL has a good FPU and high IPC.

[hanrinch]

yeah amd processor always seem to be better communicate on memory/graphic card than intel processor who had long history of capability issue with i/o hardware. however, their performance kick roof if it's pure computing. but amd still holding vast advantage here as many graphic card driver having conflict on intel machine more than amd. so even amd clock per cycle is far weaker than core2/i7 doesn't mean intel won the race. i admit amd would win at overroll if the driver issue is counted

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

All AMD needs to do is only improve the performance of the FPU by 5~10% per clock and they could easily close any performance gap. As for Intel they got their uses like encoding and running emulators since those apps are very fpu hungry.

[DarkCybrid]

It would appear that sony has a "slight" lead over sega.

[OpiumKoolaid]

I wonder what that old geek's comb-over looks like on a windy day?

[insaner169]

11:40

[zenhenswain]

there was a guy called michelle

[hero4ya]

nice

[splitka1996]

lol soo old

[Molejunkie]

I used to have that cell phone 2:29 lol

[toomuch290]

wow this is amazing, thanks for the upload

[Peeki]

nuuuuuu, buried in time required 33mhz... !!! this is pretty awesome though..... thanks for the vid :P

[Freemmaann]

ok people :) now that you done watching this go watch 2009 e3 convention video :P notice the difference?

[okreset]

A closeup of the progress bar. Hilarious.

[xxbox6191]

is that game double switch? on 06:07?

[Thegamer5150]

yeah AVGN reviewed it and it just SUCKED

[ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

doesnt he think everything sucks? i watch CGR instead.

[HardWarUK]

Who would have guessed just a few years after this show a free utility called DOSBox was going to make all those horrible DOS games a breeze to play with little or no tweaking like you had to do so so much of in MS-DOS!!!

[xdsomedude1337]

Damn its almost been 30 years of games and just look at the 1995 games then look at the 2000 then 2005 and 2009 just wow!!! soo much in just a few great years

[RosarioDFC]

Its amazing how far we have come in a few short years. Those were the good old days!

[matman125]

~diku!

[Ozymandias32]

How...how ever did we live?!

[hjnsf]

HOLY SHIT? PHATASMAGORIA!?!?!?!? the sequel sucks =D

[Appule69]

The 90's were my favorite years for being into PC's, and gaming (I'm only 21 just so you know), Though I am grateful that we have moved on, and computers and games have advanced to levels I never would have dreamed of back then, I will never forget the good ole days!

[Psychlist1972]

@Appule69 it's all on when you grew up. For me, it was the 80s :)

[MrKillswitch88]

@Appule69

3DFX ;)

[vio2112]

Mid 90s PC gaming... Gotta love it.

[moniker127]

haha i owned that exact computer back then. i remember getting mechwarrior 2 and being like ZOMGWTF :D

[pr0wnz]

lololol the real gamer pc 133mhz haha

[badboioscar1]

wow we have really moved on when it comes to computer graphics i mean those games look like 16 bit max and deff no aa or anything like that and requirements of a pentium and 10 years a go they werent higher 1.5ghz or somit... :S WOW! thats all wow,, compare it to crysis... wow

[jasonithompson]

In 95 a high end computer would be 166Mhz,32 Meg  RAM,1Gb HD 6X cd-rom 15" CRT for $3,000.The Voodoo video card(first ever 3-D card)was released in 96, and then things really took off.And P.S in 1983 an 8Mb Hard drive would cost you $6,000!Yes,you read write,8 Megabytes.

[badboioscar1]

wow....

[fuertherbube]

Ein Abenteuerspiel mit einer vollen 3D-Umgebung? Das wär doch mal was. ;)

[librano]

was that fury? it looked a lot like terminal velocity...

but anyway, almost unbelievable how far we've come!