awww so many memories, I used to play this game when I was a like 10. And what I still remember I had the spanish version. I think I might still have de cd-rom :)
Man, I've been meaning to add Hell Cab to my collection for ages now. This video confirms my suspicion that it is totally worth whatever it may cost, haha.
Yeah I remember finding the CD of this game in the deep depths of my aunt's closet. The disc was scratched to hell unfortunately so I couldn't really see what the game was like.
7:09 Pick an "evil" choice and it takes 10 or 20 points off your soul (depending on which, like 20 for, "Guns don't kill people, I do.") and makes a "devilish" sound effect.
8:19 That punk Raoul took them all and asked for more! :-)
@purpureprinz You'll need a program called DOSBOX. There's a ton of tutorials online and on Youtube on how to get it working.
The hard part, however, is getting Windows 3.1 or 95 running on DOSBOX, because you WILL need that to play this game. I can't really tell you where to find that.
I had a 2 minute trailer of this game for years. Watching the trailer's concise sequences was better than actually playing this buggy garbage when I recently nabbed the CD image for Mac.
@TheAdmantArchvile That wouldn't be impossible, although if I did, it'd have to be on Abandonia's Youtube channel. I'll try to get on that when I'm a little less busy, but, in the meantime, some guy did a review on it here. He seems pretty legit, although I didn't watch the whole thing. watch?v=at-zjB1KjM8
One more thing about the messages that pop up about not being able to find the Quicktime or AVI movies. This may be because the path to the movies is hardcoded to look for the movie on the "D:" drive. Back in those days, the default for the CD-ROM drive was always "D:", so if you are running the CD from your "E:" drive, it can't find movies when it tries to play them from "D:" and the disc is not smart enough to look for it on the proper source drive. Sloppy programming. :D
@OneMetaphysician The thing is, I'm using DOSBox, so the way I have it set up, Windows 3.1 thinks that my virtual drive is the D drive. ...Anyway, question. Are there any other games you've worked on? If you have, maybe I'll put those up too and see what you have to say about them. You got a website or anything where you talk more about your QA experiences?
You've got to click like crazy to get through the gauntlet... and don't expect anything logical when trying to get through it. Just lots of fast clicking in one spot will get you through. Then when you are in the WWI trenches, I think you will arrive in a bunker... there is a pistol there and maybe a rifle you can pick up. Yes, it is tough to get there, but it is not because Hell Cab is challenging game-wise, it is only because of technical oddities. Good luck in getting to the trenches!
The Woodstock disc was something that I also tested. This was one of the more disappointing products because even though the concept was good, we couldn't get the rights to the music of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, etc. so had to settle for some of the less major acts at Woodstock. This reason kept the disc from being more popular besides the fact that it was technically crappy.
I did the scripting for Sports Shorts... basically made it "interactive" (button navigations, mouseover effects, video play, etc.). These were very experimental times... and back then, hardly anyone owned a CD-ROM drive, so this was really cutting edge technical shit. Getting those tiny compressed videos to run smoothly was a challenge, especially on a 4MB RAM 386/486 PC or a Mac... and someone thought people would want to see/hear those limited number of jokes over and over again. Wrong.
@OneMetaphysician Wow, for such a small-time Youtube person like me, it's a real honor to get to hear something like this straight from one of the people who worked on the game! I have to admit, I like this game a lot more than I kind of let on from the video. It's an interesting concept, and I think something about Raoul the demonic cab driver is very entertaining. To be honest, I chalked any crashes up to my personal copy and the Windows 3.1 emulation more than any fault of the creators.
@bobinator1992 To be honest, I even though I was like, 2 or 3 back when that kind of thing was really going on, I really miss the time of gaming when you could put pretty much ANYTHING on a CD-ROM and people would buy it. It just feels like there was a whole lot more creativity back then than there is now, and I'd definitely play something like this about 10 times instead of playing, oh, say, Call of Duty once. You guys had an interesting vision, and I have to admit Raul was pretty entertaining.
@bobinator1992 Anyway, point is, you all did an awesome job with the game, crashes or not, and I really want to say how much I appreciate somebody from behind the game coming onto this video out of ALL the videos on Youtube and sharing their story. You should share more about the development if you can, I love hearing about that kind of thing. Anyway, I'll shut up now. Thanks for coming by and commenting!
Hell Cab was released in 1993, so you were like 1 at the time I suppose. It made about 10 million dollars that year. Most of the development was done by Pepe Moreno (concept and artwork) and a single programmer (can't remember his name) who was about 17 years old at the time who worked out of his dark bedroom at home. The initial development was done on the Mac and the PC versions were then ported over. Many characters in Hell Cab were people from the office, Pepe and his wife also.
@OneMetaphysician I never got that far. Would you happen to know how to get past that gauntlet thing? I figure it has something to do with clicking when the spinny thing aren't in your way, but I guess the emulator throws the right timing off.
I was the lead tester/QA person for the development of Hell Cab from the beginning to the very end. Believe me, I worked like hell at reporting the bugs and confusing functionality to get it to the point where it actually functions as well/badly as it does. You should have seen the versions that didn't work! It was fun to be involved in all that early CD-ROM game development, but you folks who bought it should have been pissed to waste your good money on that faulty crap.
Wow, thanks for the upload. I youtubed this a few years ago and couldn't find anything. I remember playing this when I was like 6-7 and being creeped out, but fascinated. I remember I always kind got the title confused with Quarantine because both were about evil cabs..hehe
Realistic ATM action, paying taxi drivers and reading license agreements? This has even better gameplay than an art gallery! The music composer really nailed the whole 'Hell' aspect in the hotel, too. Honestly, I WOULD be wary if a taxi driver suddenly appeared in front of me, knew I needed a ride and then teleported to his taxi.
By the way, the whole of Woodstock would have been nothing if it wasn't for Groovy Paint Feature.
I used to play it alot back in the 90´s ! Memories of my childhood !
RodrigoDigoJunho 1 month ago
awww so many memories, I used to play this game when I was a like 10. And what I still remember I had the spanish version. I think I might still have de cd-rom :)
tacrit 1 month ago
Man, I've been meaning to add Hell Cab to my collection for ages now. This video confirms my suspicion that it is totally worth whatever it may cost, haha.
phreakindee 4 months ago
Yeah I remember finding the CD of this game in the deep depths of my aunt's closet. The disc was scratched to hell unfortunately so I couldn't really see what the game was like.
cuppajoesugar 4 months ago
7:09 Pick an "evil" choice and it takes 10 or 20 points off your soul (depending on which, like 20 for, "Guns don't kill people, I do.") and makes a "devilish" sound effect.
8:19 That punk Raoul took them all and asked for more! :-)
OneWeirdDude 6 months ago
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OneWeirdDude 6 months ago
Hello anyone here knows how i can play this game; i have original cd-rom but obviusly is from 1993=S any idea please tell me.
purpureprinz 6 months ago
@purpureprinz You'll need a program called DOSBOX. There's a ton of tutorials online and on Youtube on how to get it working.
The hard part, however, is getting Windows 3.1 or 95 running on DOSBOX, because you WILL need that to play this game. I can't really tell you where to find that.
bobinator1992 6 months ago
@purpureprinz what about running in compatibility mode?
betteroffalone 2 months ago
i still have the disc lol
LOVEPARAMORE09 8 months ago
@LOVEPARAMORE09 Nice! I bet something like that would be worth a lot of money, someday. Really! I promise.
bobinator1992 7 months ago
It's not "Rauol" or "Raol", it's "Raoul".
Poodleinacan 8 months ago
Brought a lot of memories from the horrible mid 90s computer era
lightemup 9 months ago
@lightemup 90's are still the best decade ever and the pinnacle of human achivement. Real talk. :>
bobinator1992 7 months ago
I got this game in a package of cheap games at a computer show. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to play it due to the title.
I guess my Dad had my best interests at heart. He saved me from playing a truly terrible "game".
Uchuuneko 9 months ago
@Uchuuneko Hm, guess nowadays the CODs and game like that don't seem to have a menacing enought title...
Poodleinacan 8 months ago
@Uchuuneko Too bad he didn't let you play Hell: The Cyberpunk Thriller, either. I mean, at least that had Dennis Hopper in it.
bobinator1992 7 months ago
7:14 same signature bro
Exekii 10 months ago
@Exekii You should see how it looks in cursive.
bobinator1992 7 months ago
I loved playing Hell Cab!
DrZaius75 10 months ago
lol i was playing this game when i was like 4.. it scared the hell out of me
vitalremainss 11 months ago
I remember playing this as like a 7 year old kid... what's the name of that song at the intro of Hell Cab???
looneyboy221133 11 months ago
I had a 2 minute trailer of this game for years. Watching the trailer's concise sequences was better than actually playing this buggy garbage when I recently nabbed the CD image for Mac.
schtolteheim 11 months ago
@schtolteheim I wouldn't go far as to say that it's 'garbage', really. It's, um... uh... how do I put this.
It's 'ambitious'. Does that sound nice enough?
bobinator1992 11 months ago
I remember everything, the demos, the game. Thank you so much for sharing!
peniche311 11 months ago
@peniche311 No problem! It surprises me how popular this thing's been getting, really.
bobinator1992 7 months ago
I played this game is a kid... I actually played this many many times..
hentaikiller 11 months ago
Why couldn't you have played Zombie Wars instead of this shitburger? I've been meaning to see that in action.
TheAdmantArchvile 1 year ago
@TheAdmantArchvile That wouldn't be impossible, although if I did, it'd have to be on Abandonia's Youtube channel. I'll try to get on that when I'm a little less busy, but, in the meantime, some guy did a review on it here. He seems pretty legit, although I didn't watch the whole thing. watch?v=at-zjB1KjM8
bobinator1992 1 year ago
ive been looking for a video of this for years! You rock.
optsyn 1 year ago
2:44
BIGMACBURGER 1 year ago
One more thing about the messages that pop up about not being able to find the Quicktime or AVI movies. This may be because the path to the movies is hardcoded to look for the movie on the "D:" drive. Back in those days, the default for the CD-ROM drive was always "D:", so if you are running the CD from your "E:" drive, it can't find movies when it tries to play them from "D:" and the disc is not smart enough to look for it on the proper source drive. Sloppy programming. :D
OneMetaphysician 1 year ago
@OneMetaphysician The thing is, I'm using DOSBox, so the way I have it set up, Windows 3.1 thinks that my virtual drive is the D drive. ...Anyway, question. Are there any other games you've worked on? If you have, maybe I'll put those up too and see what you have to say about them. You got a website or anything where you talk more about your QA experiences?
bobinator1992 1 year ago
You've got to click like crazy to get through the gauntlet... and don't expect anything logical when trying to get through it. Just lots of fast clicking in one spot will get you through. Then when you are in the WWI trenches, I think you will arrive in a bunker... there is a pistol there and maybe a rifle you can pick up. Yes, it is tough to get there, but it is not because Hell Cab is challenging game-wise, it is only because of technical oddities. Good luck in getting to the trenches!
OneMetaphysician 1 year ago
The Woodstock disc was something that I also tested. This was one of the more disappointing products because even though the concept was good, we couldn't get the rights to the music of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, etc. so had to settle for some of the less major acts at Woodstock. This reason kept the disc from being more popular besides the fact that it was technically crappy.
OneMetaphysician 1 year ago
I did the scripting for Sports Shorts... basically made it "interactive" (button navigations, mouseover effects, video play, etc.). These were very experimental times... and back then, hardly anyone owned a CD-ROM drive, so this was really cutting edge technical shit. Getting those tiny compressed videos to run smoothly was a challenge, especially on a 4MB RAM 386/486 PC or a Mac... and someone thought people would want to see/hear those limited number of jokes over and over again. Wrong.
OneMetaphysician 1 year ago
@OneMetaphysician Wow, for such a small-time Youtube person like me, it's a real honor to get to hear something like this straight from one of the people who worked on the game! I have to admit, I like this game a lot more than I kind of let on from the video. It's an interesting concept, and I think something about Raoul the demonic cab driver is very entertaining. To be honest, I chalked any crashes up to my personal copy and the Windows 3.1 emulation more than any fault of the creators.
bobinator1992 1 year ago
@bobinator1992 To be honest, I even though I was like, 2 or 3 back when that kind of thing was really going on, I really miss the time of gaming when you could put pretty much ANYTHING on a CD-ROM and people would buy it. It just feels like there was a whole lot more creativity back then than there is now, and I'd definitely play something like this about 10 times instead of playing, oh, say, Call of Duty once. You guys had an interesting vision, and I have to admit Raul was pretty entertaining.
bobinator1992 1 year ago
@bobinator1992 Anyway, point is, you all did an awesome job with the game, crashes or not, and I really want to say how much I appreciate somebody from behind the game coming onto this video out of ALL the videos on Youtube and sharing their story. You should share more about the development if you can, I love hearing about that kind of thing. Anyway, I'll shut up now. Thanks for coming by and commenting!
bobinator1992 1 year ago
Hell Cab was released in 1993, so you were like 1 at the time I suppose. It made about 10 million dollars that year. Most of the development was done by Pepe Moreno (concept and artwork) and a single programmer (can't remember his name) who was about 17 years old at the time who worked out of his dark bedroom at home. The initial development was done on the Mac and the PC versions were then ported over. Many characters in Hell Cab were people from the office, Pepe and his wife also.
OneMetaphysician 1 year ago
@bobinator1992 Have you ever tried picking up the gun in the trenches and shooting the homeless guy when he shows up??? :D
OneMetaphysician 1 year ago
@OneMetaphysician I never got that far. Would you happen to know how to get past that gauntlet thing? I figure it has something to do with clicking when the spinny thing aren't in your way, but I guess the emulator throws the right timing off.
bobinator1992 1 year ago
I was the lead tester/QA person for the development of Hell Cab from the beginning to the very end. Believe me, I worked like hell at reporting the bugs and confusing functionality to get it to the point where it actually functions as well/badly as it does. You should have seen the versions that didn't work! It was fun to be involved in all that early CD-ROM game development, but you folks who bought it should have been pissed to waste your good money on that faulty crap.
OneMetaphysician 1 year ago
Wow, thanks for the upload. I youtubed this a few years ago and couldn't find anything. I remember playing this when I was like 6-7 and being creeped out, but fascinated. I remember I always kind got the title confused with Quarantine because both were about evil cabs..hehe
natevines 1 year ago
At least your signature won't be easy to forge.
Realistic ATM action, paying taxi drivers and reading license agreements? This has even better gameplay than an art gallery! The music composer really nailed the whole 'Hell' aspect in the hotel, too. Honestly, I WOULD be wary if a taxi driver suddenly appeared in front of me, knew I needed a ride and then teleported to his taxi.
By the way, the whole of Woodstock would have been nothing if it wasn't for Groovy Paint Feature.
DjTake1One 1 year ago
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