Amiga Longplay [149] Loom

[greenchrisx22]

one of the best ad´ventures ever....

[MPSecare]

this game would make a super remake...

[ir0n2541]

At 0:29:30 when i was a kid i got stuck at this point for days, then my mother walked by one day while i was trying to figure it out and just suggested i play the tune! lol

[DBoy2029]

I love how Monkey Island made reference to this game when you make Guybrush say "I'm Bobbin. Are you my mother?" In one instance of said line, Meathook replies "No, your mother was a duck."

[Djtinus99]

pc ver. Ft. amiga ver. is nog Great. amiga is super pc has lame sound..

[PooKneader]

That bloke from the Scumm bar sent me here.

[666FrankBooth666]

Oh how I miss my Amiga...such great times! *tear rolls down cheek*

[judabe]

This game was awesome, remake for ps3. Thumps up.

[kekpafrany]

I loved this game :)

[vjludovico]

I think I still have the cassette tape that came with this... I've never forgotten the E C E D to open

[turelion85]

i like Lucas adventures point 'n' click games. I finished MI 1,2,3,4 , Loom, Sam & Max, maniac mansion 2 Day of tentacle and i was close to finish indiana jones and the fate of atlantis

[pablo89212009]

the version of the game i have has less quality, but i like it that way, more retro :P swan sea in 8 bits, thats really cool and geek

[SolidFellaMike]

Anyone know where to get the audiobook companion that came packaged with this game originally?

[melvoin]

this is a good game, but way too short

[creamargument]

wow i'd never seen this game before, started watching it and couldnt stop lol. amazing, wheres the imagination these days?

[Eliskoopa]

I didn't play Loom until a couple of years ago and I had so much fun. This game is pure fun I'm telling you!

[SiLeNCel2]

loom was one of those games my father bought for the whole family. i was about 8 years old when i played this and sooo proud to beat it before them all, including my dad... he was p*ssed! xD

but damn, such a long time and could almost remember every screen, those graphics were burnd into my mind forever, great work by lucas arts!

however, the scene when chaos appears gave me nightmares back then, he looked really grim... and the end made me cry. too much for an 8 year-old boy! ;)

[joe9songs]

Nice - Loom is such a good old game... puts a smile on my face to see all this again - thx!

[Ilissill]

Anyone know the name of the music/composer from this game?

[cubex55]

@Ilissill

Dave Warhol

[motocrossmaniac1980]

@cubex55

all themes of loom are taken from Chaikovsky.

[Ilissill]

@cubex55 Are you sure? This guy seems to be the programmer for the game, not the composer. =)

[szopheep]

@cubex55 The music is from Swan Lake though

[szopheep]

@cubex55 The music is from Swan Lake though

[motocrossmaniac1980]

@cubex55 Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

[alfonsonishikawa]

@Ilissill

And a lot from Tchaikovsky

[alfonsonishikawa]

@Ilissill

And other of the game are from Tchaikovsky

[kellyelf1981]

@Ilissill The main loom theme is a section from the pas de trois from swan lake by Tchaikovsky.

[Kostagh]

@Ilissill

P.I Tchaikowski's Lake of the Swans

[Achasbajs]

@Ilissill It's music by the russian composer Tchaikovsky, I think a lot (if not all) is from The Swan lake

[cyllocybin]

@Ilissill i know there are several classical songs in this. msg back if you want help finding out the names.

[MarcWimmer]

@Ilissill tschaikowsky swan sea (schwanensee german)

[DmitryEight]

@Ilissill

composer - Tchaikovsky.

[m14g]

@Ilissill Its Swanlake dude

The midi was made buy "The Fat Man".

[UltraSonicTH]

256 color version is awesome, the music is so much better, and since the game is about music that improves the game

[HaligonianType1]

Man this takes me back. Check my channel for a vid called "My room in 1989". You can see my Amiga 500 sitting on my desk in it. Hah... Great vid.

[thedragonb0y]

Holy shit! Talk about attic memories! I remember finding this old piece of history in there after searching through all of my dad's old software boxes.

Lucky I had the Windows PC version so it looked better, sounded better, and had voice acting! Trust me you'd want to see that version because this game is beautiful. :]

[spazztichead]

Ask me about Loom. :-D

[janmansde3dede]

Same that this dint used 32 Colors like monkey island :(

[ViewerNotes]

Let me say...this game deserves better music. I imagined my own version of the game with various pieces: (all in my channel) Darius Milhaud organ prelude ; Boris Tchaikovsky estudio para organo y cuerdas + Sexteto para arpa y vientos (I y II).

[ShinigamiAnger]

All the SCUMM based games were (and still ARE) awsome.

[AnotherSchmoe]

@ShinigamiAnger

That's what I love about these. They are still enjoyable. It's not even a nostalgia thing for me since I didn't play most of these when they came out and am just getting around to them now. They are also good games to play that you can involve young children in, that aren't all bloody or obscene and can help their problem solving (and reading with subtitles turned on in talkie versions) skills. I've been playing some of these with a couple of young boys and they love them.

[Gamesfan089]

I've heard, that Loom was really popular at the time, when it came out

[roskildahphreak]

Aye!

[Rattlesnake2002]

and the Classic Background Music!

Tshaikovsky :-)

[CheezeCracker]

Steam just released the game for download

[Morten1984]

Un superbe petit jeu de l'époque.

[EyalSpirit]

Wow I actually watched it like a movie :))

So good to return to the old days....

[ViewerNotes]

It will be a movie someday,....I hope

[yudonojack]

I have many fond memories of playing the DOS version of this as a kid, complete with the awful (yet endearing) squeaks and beeps from the old speakers. In the Glassmakers' City, I always liked to use the "Fill" draft on the chalice. It filled with wine and Master Goodmold got mad. Ah, memories.

[MattBaumann777]

Is there a long play for the Amiga version of Captain Blood?

[cubex55]

Unfortunately no one has created one yet :(

[MattBaumann777]

I just got the Amiga emulator working. I can do a long play video for Captain Blood once I figure out how to record.

[conradhw]

Just upload to recordedamigagames. once you figured out. I'd like to see you complete Captain Blood.

[MattBaumann777]

I got it working. I'll upload soon.

[Xerosch]

Unfortunately most fans of Loom don't know that there was a genuine edition with fully spoken dialogue and 256 colours. It's definately worth checking eBay for and the most precious CD-ROM game I own.

[TheOldSchoolPlaya08]

This had the best music! if i could i would favorite the whole soundtrack

[jchancel76]

Most of the soundtrack is from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

[HipHop1981]

Had this one on a CD-Rom from a Magazine along with Zack Mac Kraken. the only Lucas arts adventure i've ever played through.

[RobobTheGreat]

What a nostalgia kick! Really brings back memories of playing Loom (MS-DOS floppy disk version). Also brings back memories of the Commodore Amiga: a computer system with a huge library of good games and sound capabilities AHEAD OF ITS TIME...but with painfully slow loading screens (though the Amiga version of Lemmings was sweet!).

Love hearing the ending music, too (Dance of the Little Swans from Act 4 of Swan Lake, I believe)! It really captures the game's bittersweet denoument...

[djtrixen]

I always thought this game deserved a sequel. They left it very open at the end as though they were planning to do one, as Chaos says, "Know that we will most assuredly meet again." Yet they never did a sequel... :(

[Yodude1017]

They were actually going to do a trilogy, but the project fell through, I believe it was because of the poor sales of this game, but I could be mistaken.

[AnonNov]

it was an apic fail all around to an epic game :( God I loved this game.

[Xerosch]

You know, the best love stories are always the ones in which they don't get each other. Maybe it's for the better.

[Filmstripman]

This looks almost exactly like the turboduo version. It probably wasn't as buggy, though it did have the CD audio... The end was so cool!

[ancalimonungol]

There is no CD audio here. Game had standard Amiga modules.

[Filmstripman]

I was referring to the TG-CD version because it looks very similar, but has CD audio.  Have to work on organizing my ideas, I guess!

[alzico]

Fucking hell nostalgia overload, life really is all uphill after the magic of childhood.

[hardcorl]

OMG loved this game...

[DelMinor]

I completed this years ago, and almost every other Lucasfilm title out there. What a brilliant game.

[dumbasspauldentonkin]

This looks absolutely lovely :3

[runehunt]

I wish they would make games like this now.... They i find are the most fun.... Monkey island,Day of the tentacle, Loom all great games....

[natebooce]

SAM & MAX!

[16eqlkwadraat]

Sometimes this kind of games are better then what you see nowadays. It's all about graphics but the gameplay and the atmosphere from this game are so cool. Thanks for uploading it. its a movie now. I played it when i was 8 in black/and white and i found it so difficult then. :p

[LadyElfie]

I love the fact that you're sharing an absolutely wonderful game that I have loved since I was a child. As far as the video goes, I wish that you had edited it and cut out parts of the loading time so the wait wouldn't be so long while watching this as a video.

[Sensenwerk]

I totally agree. The music, the wonderful atmosphere created with the mostly dark and intense pictures and the story... : ) Beauteous to resense all of this!

[TypicalJoe1900]

Anyone have any videos of the version with speech? I've never played that version, nor have I seen any videos of it.

[Stake2]

I think this is one example from the days games were closer to poetry and art. These days, it's all about sex, speed and entertainment.

[10samm10]

I don't know about sex but speed is what I love.... I am not a Sonic fan boy!

[Realmasterorder]

Beautifull and amazing game i loved it.

[gwz]

The game that deserves a remake most of all.

Also, if you play on HARD mode you get to see what happens when the thug lifts your hood. Scary stuff!

[MaximillianRiese]

I hate to try and ask, but how can you find that? I've been looking everywhere for a picture ever since I heard about that thing as a child!

[BartMan444]

dude howd u fit a 2 hour game in a 10 min video?? can u pls tell me? :D

[TheCoffeeGrind]

HE joined before they stopped allowing directors to make videos longer than 10 minutes due to abuse.

[BartMan444]

huaahhh this game was nice ;) but real confusing at some parts

[onorati8]

nice

[falconlem]

This might make a good kids movie? anyone?

[globalnywiesniak]

Yeah! I like all of those masonry Jesus Christ king of France kind of a thing. It's of course a childish story, but hey! That learning by entertaining! And that's a nice piece of history/allegory!

[globalnywiesniak]

Of course I don't mean "real", but gnostic Christ. What's the difference? That for gnostics Christ is just a story character, used to describe the magical transformation. Why king of France? Probably because of using symbols as a kind of plugging to local believes, traditions, and simple manipulative lies. That's the "loom", a net o symbols. A way to smuggle the dragon, and a way to feed the dragon (as he is like schizophrenic child that believes in magic).

[globalnywiesniak]

secret order:

dawn

noon

evening

night

dawn

[globalnywiesniak]

Kurwa! Trzeba to zlikwidować, przecież tak można kogoś praktycznie doszczętnie zniszczyć,a ten nigdy się nie dowie o co naprawdę chodzi!

[globalnywiesniak]

Naturalnie kurwa=nimfa.

Albo ta co się pod nią podszywa, bo nie pamiętam jak daleko to sięga ;). (ten fragment z mi1 to był podejrzewam żart z początku)Tzn. nimfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Justynka. Właśnie imprezie w Sadku (sceneria urwiska się zgadza)napierdalała mi jakąś gadkę o książce o kolesiu, co dzieci ruchał i nazywał je nimfetkami.

[e3ovuziotica]

Oh, this was the most important game for me ever! & Amiga <3

[s0what69]

@ benami7777

I finished it also with my dad..

[globalnywiesniak]

Lynch said that I will be fool by my eye phone, so that's probably a trick. But I believe that somebody (from my surrounding)understood it quicker than me, and that's why my problems started.

[benami7777]

I remember my finishing the game with my dad brings back fond memories.

[Shazbut01]

Will we ever see the likes of this on a home computer again? I'd pray every day if I thought there was a chance...

[ronzanio]

i played this game when i were 6 soo i never came father then the first island but i really loved the game!!!

[sindobrandnew]

The PC speaker beep music still lingering my ear.

[roelschoenmaker]

I think my first interest in English language started when I played this game. I had a dictionary and a notepad to write down 'drafts' and new words. SUCH a great game... pure sentiment!

My god, do I love LOOM, the MI's and GrimFandango!

[WeiterHimmel05]

Can I download this game anywhere?! Plz tell me! Luv this game!

[elpolentatlp]

asshole

[WeiterHimmel05]

????

Well, I guess, u might know, that i donno why you call me an "asshole" ?

[elpolentatlp]

sorry,I was in my period :$

[nilo4ever]

aaaah, the good old days. Brings tears to my eyes. Remember playing this on my friends 286 laptop lol.

[Ilissill]

OH .. MY .... GOD

This is like being reunited with an old friend. This was the first true epic computer game I ever played and I was so young. What a find! Thanks!

[FATxDAN]

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF LOOM!!

[justandre]

amazing how well i remember all this... and great music

[mindbender500]

i loved this game...it was the best adventure....on the same level together with Monkey Island, Zak McCracken.

i always waited for a sequel!!!!!!!!!!!

[bigdaddy496]

ah, i loved playing this game with this soundtrack, made it all the more mystical

[paparas2000]

LOOM has sold more than half a

million copies in various formats since it was published in 1990.

The reason the sequels weren't made is because I decided I wanted

to work on other things, and nobody else wanted to do them, either.

[paparas2000]

LOOM was conceived as the first game of a fantasy trilogy.

The second game, FORGE, would follow the adventures of

Rusty Nailbender as he tried to regain control of the Forge,

which was hijacked by Chaos in the first game.

The third game, THE FOLD, followed the adventures of

Fleece Firmflanks, who teams up with Rusty to resist the evil

forces that are camping in the Shepherds' territory.

Contrary to popular belief, the LOOM sequels were not abandoned

because LOOM didn't sell well.

[MrWhitman]

I played this game once before. I never much cared for the ending, though. I mean, I liked Goodmold and Fleece, and Rusty. It's sad that all those guilds are now doomed to be ruled by Chaos. But... it's closer to reality, sometimes there really is no all's well that end's well ending.

[poiuywqxz]

gran bel gioco

[jonsky88]

Absolute classic game!! Loved it! :D

[666Nukes]

I love this game. I used to play it so many times alsong with Maniac M, Zack McCracken and Indianan Jones Adventure. 17 years gone :(

[NSoul77]

One of the best adventure games ever played. Brilliant.

[funxstarter]

Over 2 hours!

[marainabono]

great vid

loved that game

[dano2012]

Omg...Loom! Great game, i played it on a commodore amiga 500 ... i think it was 1989 or 1990, im not sure.

Thx for this vid man! :D

[legrand421]

1990!

[legrand421]

A legendary game with monkey island 1!

[sinister8dexter]

i remember monkey island as one of my favorite games on the amiga. When this came out me and my friends thought it was boring rubbish, and could only ever open the clam but never progress beyond. After going back to it recently and discovering what the control system was, its clearly one of the most important games for innovation and imagination created. FIVE STARS!

[Fatal616]

SO thats how it ends.

[Shintaka9009]

Roffl, i wonder what he DOES look like under that hood though? XD

[Truzyxx]

You can see it if you play the game on the hardest mode. Or you can ask me to tell you. ;)

[Shintaka9009]

I'm never going to end up getting a chance at this game, so please do. :3

[Truzyxx]

Okay: it's a big ball of light. It shines brightly enough to show Cob's skeleton through his skin, then somehow sucks him up. Bobbin raises his hood again and that's that.

Never explains what all that's about, really, though in the walkthrough manual that came with my game it says that Bobbin didn't know what was going to happen either.

[Shintaka9009]

Hmm... Then why does it show his eyes as being blue in the introduction...?

also, sounds like he ate him to me. XDD

[Truzyxx]

Your guess is as good as mine. Or why his hood's able to completely shadow over something that produces that much light.

If I remember correctly, the light was kinda greenish, but it's been a LOOOONG time.

I sorta got the impression that Bobbin didn't really have any control over what happened when his hood was lowered. 'Course, nobody had ever done it to him before.

It does, however, raise some interesting questions about Weaver family life and reproduction.

[Truzyxx]

I too thank you for posting this. Now even when my floppies of Loom die, there will be a record of this wonderful game.

[RiZaeL]

God did this game have a wonderful soundtrack, thanks for posting it =)

[thinkfaster]

The soundtrack just so happens to be "Swan Lake" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy. You can see it live sometime :)

[RiZaeL]

Thanks for the info, I get nostalgic when I listen to it (was 4 or 5 back when I played this game ;) )

[champmeister]

Thanks for the info, although it made me a bit disappointed... thought the score was original

[ElGatoNinja]

after saw this video... I played again the game in my old Commodore Amiga 500.. XDDD

[mbrauer]

This game is just so wonderful! Thanks a bunch!

[frank4312]

ZZzzzz......

[legrand421]

good night!

[shubibinman]

one of the greatest games ever made!!

I played this forever on the TurboGrafx!

[ZanthiaKhala]

I love Loom ^^

[champmeister]

Such an original and atmospheric game. I never managed to complete it myself, so thanks for sharing.

[Reveers]

So happy you did this.