Descent

[auxpower]

holy crap does this bring back memories

[illjutsu]

I played this game for hours. Someone has to do a remake.  It was so much fun.

[alexKrasny]

@illjutsu There are remakes. I will be doing a let's play of this game soon. It looks much better than this and runs smoother.

[victorbarovsky]

I remember getting horribly lost.

[FreddoX1]

This game was so wierd, it didn't make any sense what so ever.

What kind of place would have like a bunker with a bunch of spaceships flying around in it?

[20110102]

@FreddoX1

lol, theyre mining facilites to start with.

The mining bots have been infected with a virus causing them to turn against their human controllers and killing them.

Later on though you do get to more military installations.

Read the intro to missions to find out.

[FreddoX1]

@20110102 That explains it. Thx :D

[renekenshin6573]

Damn it i want this on my ipod T_T

[brandonr85]

This had some of the best LAN multiplayer of its time.

[timbo81]

I remeber playing this on LAN multiplayer, use to blow the reactor then just camp the exit, fun times

[leerees]

I loved this game!

[Balnazzardi]

Descent was one of the very first games I played back in 1996 when I got my first PC along with Doom and Duke Nukem 3D (they all were shareware versions though)...So glad that Im now able to play all of these games again and full versions, either by downloading them from GoG or from Xbox Live Arcade =)

[DDReaper16]

BEST GAME EVER. anyone else think it ought to be remastered so it works with modern day computers?

[Balnazzardi]

@DDReaper16 Well I downloaded this (and Descent II) yesterday from Good Old Games (GoG), and it works perfectly, atleast on my laptop. Dont know how it works with dual or quadcore PCs though, but usually GoG team has done great work to ensure that the games work on any system. You dont even have to download DOS-programs seperately, and manually start the game, GoG team has done it all for you. Ofcourse it would be nice if the graphics would have been improved a little, but doesnt really matter

[DDReaper16]

@Balnazzardi so did I and they use it through dosbox. They just have a code set up so it runs it with the desired setting. Updated graphics would kick ass but it is still great either way

[maximetauziede]

Descent 1/2/3 AMAZING GAMES AND GAMEPLAYS this game has something that no other game had i don't know what it is... this series are so underrated.

PLEASE INTERPLAY WE WANT A DESCENT 4!!! stop working on "Legendary Wars:

T-Rex Rumble" "MDK2 HD" and "Project: V13" spend all your time on a Descent 4 make an awesome game that will be your best-seller and your money problems after D3 will be in the past

remember lasts hopes are always gold DK and FF1 proved it,Thumbs Up if you agree! we all hope :)

[SpoiiledHunniie]

anybody know where i can get this cd game help.

[CardinalGamers]

that game used to piss me off when I played it on my friend's computer...

[tomcat2285]

i still got the original CD for descent



[Explodius1990]

I don't like to admit this but Descent used to scare me when I was little. =O

[sentencedtoburn]

Awww man!! I remember bein 6 years old, sittin next to my dad watchin him play this and then playin it myself. Ahhhh, what great memories! Thanks for uploading this!

[pygar1369]

if ever there was an old school PC game just SCREAMING for a remake, this is it.... updated graphics and online multiplayer, mixed with Descents classic vertigo inducing 3D movement and the "oh goodie, you finished the level, NOW FLY! FLY FOR YOUR LIFE!!" gameplay would be instant win with many gamers, both old and new.

[TheTravisChannel]

This would be pretty awesome to see on Xbox live

One of the first PC games I ever played

[kitarofan87]

anyone know where i can get this game?

[kumquatsta]

this game made me sick

[Anusdhka]

Damn, the robots kicked your ass the whole level, you should practice much more before you send your next video

[itwizpro]

The game that pulled me away from DooM!!!

My buddy and I spent 100's of hours death matching with Descent 2, great memories!!!

[raabgunner]

OMG I loved this game.

[yostoyou]

found out this was on DS homebrew and i wanted to see what it looks like and i think i have already played this just didn't know the name of the game. thanks :D

[Tommygun1135]

Damnit, I want to find the floppy disk I've got this game on. I wouldn't mind purchasing it again, but my parents would.

[Wishing2BSakura]

LOVED this game growing up. Played with my dad because I couldn't fly straight for beans. SO great to see a video of level 1. Gotta love YouTube :)

[AcesHigh6789]

They need to put this on XBLA.

[Tommygun1135]

Definately. Descent 2 should be there as well.

[Lorenzo2300]

Man, I loved playing this game when I was a kid... Awesomeness. The music gave a really eerie feeling to the levels.

[PrawnToucher]

This is a game that needs a HD remake for 360 or PS3- would be great

[Pstrife22]

i love this game!

and nice playing :D

[Gencoil]

This game was pretty innovative at the time. Instead of making a simple Doom clone they went ahead and did something completely different by allowing the player to move freely in any direction.

[DerekJustis]

I got DOSBox 0.72 and I got descent running now but I cant get the 360 controller to work? Any other programs I need to get the 360 controller to work?

[barman1176]

@Derekjustis: You're better off using dx1 rebirth to run the descent data files. I can use the original xbox controller with it, so it should support the 360 controller fine.

[DerekJustis]

Is there anybody out that can help me install this game on my computer with the use of the xbox360 controller? I want to use the xbox360 controller SO BAD!

[ArMANRazoR]

I think you need emulators. DOSBox allows amulate controllers.

[JekHawkins]

NICE FLYING!

man, I miss this game....lol....

[McMaDMaXus]

Epic :-) I remember that i played Descent as a child. Thx 4 Uploading this Video.

[Alianger]

decent game.

[grabich]

oh my God. I played this game in 1997 on my aunt's Intel i486. I was searching for it's name for ages. thank you so much for this video :)

[sid300e]

Same here

[kinade0lexis]

adoro los juegos de antes

[ComradeSephiroth]

Help! My shareware version is playing too fast and I don't know how to slow it down! There's the D1x/D2x for full versions, but is there ANY way to slow down the shareware versions? Please, any info would be worth its weight in gold!

[joi1900]

I really loved this game... It was a lot of fun floating in a non gravity environment like that. I wish they would remake it for today's systems.

[doomdude873]

they will

[sushiserv]

dear gods what happened to the music? it must be different for me since i palyed this game on mac system 7..

[GLYPHKING]

hahahah i remember thisgame

[turboshagna]

Holy shit that game was fucking sweet!!!

I am going to take RobertDamali's idea DXX-rebirth or whatever I would love to play this game again esp in a higher res!!!!!!!

[csteel310]

This brings back memories!! I only had the demo version on my compy. ;)

[TheDevilOnHoliday]

such a classic game!

i miss it lol

[CyberSteelPaladin]

I miss Descent...

5/5 faved it also

[Cigmuntinho]

Recently played Dcnt 3, and the memories came flashing back.

[velocityreptile]

is that your best?... can you slide and turn in same time?

[CuteFloor]

No, you can't. You can either turn around by pressing the arrow keys or slide by doing the same while holding the [Alt] key. DOS games usually didn't have any mouse support or they weren't designed to play them in the same way as in later games.

[joaohenriquelopes]

I have to disagree with you, descent HAVE JOYSTICK (DUAL AXIS JOYSTICK) and MOUSE!

[doomdude873]

you can make it full screen by holding ALT-F12 and pressing enter

[majorramsey3k]

You absolutely can make the ship slide & turn & even roll at the same time. If you check the controls, you can assign different keys to different individual movements or you can definately use the mouse if you have a mouse driver installed.

[CaptainMcRed]

@CuteFloor unless you take about one minute to rebind your keys. Why does nobody do this anymore?

[goomer24]

@CuteFloor You don't need a mouse if you're fast enough. :3

[d46512]

@CuteFloor Slide-and-turn is possible; in fact it's a very important manoeuvre! Use the numeric keypad or re-map the keys as desired. You can for example set up FPS-style strafing on the left hand and steering on the mouse.

[Lofote]

@CuteFloor Sure you can. Just use a different keyboard or better yet use a joystick - thats what it was made for back then. Oh and by the way, there IS mouse support since version 1.0 of the Shareware version of Descent.

[ekeuss]

@CuteFloor

I used to play this game years ago. I remember you can slide an turn in the same time. I used the numpad for these movements.. 1 and 3 for slide.. 7 and 9 to roll + and Enter for up and down.. A and Z to go forward and reverse.

[Boy75402]

@ekeuss

Indeed, I could do the same as well.

[Szederp]

@CuteFloor Sorry cutefloor, but that!s just not true. You can and could play descent using a mouse, in which case you could turn and slide at the same time.

[InexplicableHat]

@CuteFloor

That's not an excuse for not being able to accelerate/reverse while sliding in at least one direction on a keyboard. Yes, the default controls for Descent were intended for a mouse and were crap for keyboard play, but I've got it setup so I can play using only a keyboard and I'm capable of movement in multiple axes at once. Trichording is obviously a bit too tricky without a mouse, but using the numpad is the way to go when using just a keyboard.

[InexplicableHat]

@CuteFloor

For reference, 4862 are my directional/pitch keys obviously, 13 are slide horizontal, +/enter are slide vertical, and 79 are for banking, with thumb on Numpad Insert for bombs. Left hand on ASD keys with pinkie finger on LShift, D for Primary Fire, S for accel, A for reverse and shift for Secondary (F for Flares).

This setup's worked for me for years and due to the keys used you can easy fire + move in multiple axes. Mouse is obviously still preferable to this, but it works.

[karx11erx]

@velocityreptile Of course you can - at least when using one of the modernized open source versions of the game.

[jc10003]

OMG, could never forget that music! I can't even begin to tell ya how many memories this brings back, countless hours on the modem with the buddies. That's one HUGE thing that Descent had over Doom, Descent was SO EASY to get a modem game running and Doom was "tooth pulling agony"!

The 5 Chaos levels were our favorite, especially #3!

Thanks for posting!

[zimfromBM]

haha, I remember I ran up a $500 bill when I was 7 playing descent and red alert online :X

[trumpetSL08]

I love this game but It made me so dizzy when you go upside down :)

[bbqplatypus318]

First FPS I ever played.

[Helliconian]

Access to the secret levels : find secret doors at the end of level 10, 18 and 24.

[zimfromBM]

I could never beat the secret levels, there was one which was just filled with those huge purple guys that blew you to hell.

[0x0Alex0x0]

You don't know how happy I am to have rediscovered this gem.

[wolfdensetsu]

Oohh I didn't remember that you could have the vulcan cannon in the first level. Anyway great game. I made it to the final level where there were a huge place full of enemies and the final boss appearing and disappearing from nowhere.

[faiziiiiii]

classsic!!!

[lovemydoodle]

decent was my favorit game untilol i played the sims but i couldn't get the sound to work

[BraveheartKiwi]

I used to call Descent the first 4D game because it didn't matter what way you were up or down or on the side etc.

[Drvol1]

too cool.

[NyteSama]

Watching this brings back so many wonderful nostalgic memories... :'D

[justinbieber69er]

@NyteSama Massively agree with this. Must have been about 6 and my brother used to play the demo all the time. Whenever i had a go the countdown scared me shitless..

[chanrobi]

d1x 1.43 had OGL support and native windows xp support as well. As well as built in multi capability which did not require something like Kali or kahn to run. Msg me for more details

[ParadoxBattleZone]

really milked that escape, didn't ya?

[RavenKL20]

i used to be scared shitless of those things on 5:24 and also those green ones with the pinchers in the later levels.. great vid, i never beat this game, but me and my brother got pretty far in it. how many levels were there? all i know is there was alot

[D0mithan]

omg i loved this game :D

[doomdude873]

i miss playing this (sigh)

[anass733]

I absolutely hated the sound those silver robots with the vulcan cannons made. It was enough to prevent me from playing it, which was too bad, since it was an awesome game.

[DragonVargon]

woow i had this to my mac os9 it was sooo hard remember it so well that my dad couldnt stop playing luv this game

[hypnotik777]

i was soo scared to play this game long time ago

[yu244720]

This brings good memories for me with my son Robert - back in the days when windows 95 came out. He was 4 then.

[tristanm5]

Any1 msg me and ill send it 2 u Pc .... Descent 1 and 2 !!!!

[tristanm5]

i remember once i had a nightmare dat da ships came 2 get me..... but anywhoo i miss dis game i got it on mac

[LuffleBlue]

wow, my dad got this when we bought a windows 98, the demo came with it, i was like 5 or 6 then, used to always play this same level over and over with my dad...ohh the good ol' days, im like 13 now, and hes soooo busy, we might get descent 3 just for fun, cant play the original tho..dont have a 98 to play it on. gawd, i miss those game, not that shit today like finial fantasy, if you like that shit dont flame me freedom on speech

[obraso]

you can use Dosbox, its a porgram that emulate msdos :) so you can play it ^^

[Sleyd]

Best Game!!

i never pass of the level 12!

too hard!

=)

[weskerness]

wonder what it would be like to go back in after the self destruct.

[KazilTheDarkeye]

I have this Demo on my old dos computer [CC-486]

[lifesabeech411]

i have dis game

[BipedalMammal]

The best days of gaming are behind us. You may not agree, but you are just wrong... ;)

Nothing like opening up PC Gamer and drooling over pixelated messes. I miss 1993-1997

[sunhuts]

OMG Same!!!! =D

[Schnitz1]

Much of the magic of PC-games disappeared when the late era of DOS-games was over.

[JragunSmith]

I love this game. Ahh the old days.. i long to go back to those games though.

[dia8el]

Thot's my classic game.

One of the best EVER!!!

MAN! I agree 100% with

zimfromBM - thats my story too...

and so many fights with my friend MAJTON

hahah (GREETINGS SOLDIER!)

[James100111100]

Still playin, still winning. I hope to see some of you on Kali one day.

My guesss is that you use a keyboard? Ive been using a mouse keyboard combo now for years.

[gmskate8]

i would assume

[Rimsa]

OMG.

So THAT'S what the commotion was about!

I feel so behind the times.

[chanrobi]

Do yourself a favour and grab d1x. Community update using the commerically released source.

[zimfromBM]

This was the first game I ever truly loved. I still remember waking up extra early before school everyday so I could play it for half an hour before the bus came

[tylerichards]

I remember this game :)

[masskonfuzion]

the music from the 1st level of descent is still one of my favorite video games songs ever

[SaturnineXTS]

Yeah, especially in the original version. It sucks in the MIDI!

[duderseb]

Can't believe you got owned so bad by those little guys at ~3:45.

But your vid brought back so many memories...

[5StarGeneralXenoCO]

Great game! It reminds me so much of the good ol times ;)

[pcabsturz]

that was a fucking awesome game

[JorekTopel]

Couldnt agree more. Doom was.... Well lets just say it was nothing compared to this.

[masskonfuzion]

apples and oranges. doom was a bad-ass game in its own right. but if i had to choose, i'd play descent first :-D

[JorekTopel]

Gabba Gabba Hey: BigRed = Super Wowie Zowie Weapons. Learned the cheats after I finished the game. Best PC game ever made.

[NLind]

As with many others, this does bring back lots of memories! I still have this, as well as D2 and D3.

[MustBe18YearsOrOlder]

I have the Macintosh version and it blew me away. So many sweet, sweet, memories playing this game. Also the Macintosh has different music which is way better and has high quality.

[SimpsonsDude11]

I was never bodered in playing this game cause i thought it looked terrible

[DasMx]

this is one of the greatest games ever created..

[Sony234x]

Agreed

[walexia]

i wish you increased thevoulume on the music (the music was my favorite part of the game)

This game was so complex that i had to control the back and forth while my brocontrolled the shooting and turning(on a gamepad)

But it was loads of fun especially when we would go through tunnels and almost bumb our heads together coz of the great illusion it created.

[DasMx]

i always played it with my best friend... i was driving and he shooting... we've finished descent 1 and 2... one of the greatest games ever created..

[SpartanMachine]

I love the music too. Back in the days of my 486, I didn't have a MIDI soundcard. To this day the only "right" way to play the descent music is the FM synth.

[DarkStreifer]

great game ever....

played for hour on my old computeur

too bad I can't get it to work with sound on DoSBoX

[rasengan80]

i still have the full version of this, but i then again, i STILL cant get past the 7th level

[pityubacsi]

WOW I loved it very much.

[powerrangerguy]

My dad introduced me to this game a long time ago.

[njohnson2006]

wow ty for upload so many memories

[Quakeman224]

OMFG! I heard this music on Doom, well someone took the music and put it on there map. but still

[mikedeluco]

THIS GAME WAS ALMOST AS REVOLUTIONARY AS DOOM FOR iTS TIME.

[Quakeowner]

I loved this game ! It was on my Windows 95 when I had it :D First level is great :D

[alifalafel]

hmmmm :]

[tubesurfer1972]

SpootKnight In the "[autoexec]" add these lines:

mount c: c:\

c:

you can change the last part of the first line (c:\) to wherever the games path is

example: mount c: c:\games

these line can be typed in the dosbox command prompt as well but inserting them into the dosbox.conf file saves time.

[tafferette]

It took me a weekend to get over being dizzy while playing Descent on back in 1995 :)

The lan games and awesome Net play and kickass player created levels... good times, good times

[wardrich]

man, this game is what taught me how to type without looking back in the day... my like whole keyboard was mapped out. lol.  The soundtrack was killer too.

The demo (first 15 levels) came bundled with the first PC I got (back in 1996). Loved it to death. lol.

[JFB33]

I know what you mean. It came on my first PC, windows 95 I think it was. I was about 8 at the time I think. This video was enlightening, I was just transfixed, it brings back so many good memorys. It was like no other game, it gets your adrenaline going and your heart racing. I get the shivers just watching it. Wow.

[wardrich]

GABBAGABBAHEY

RACERX

:P

[powerrangerguy]

I remember that code all too well. I need to try and beat it without cheating.

[wardrich]

That game was the reason why I mastered the QWERTY keyboard layout when I was in like grade 4. lol.

[crazyguy212]

It looks way better with Descent 1x, the openGL update, and in DOSbox the game gets REALLY choppy in the later levels, but the music is redone, not the original ones, which sucks.

[SpootKnight]

The music on this sounds like it did when I played it nine years ago, now when I play Descent it sounds like a bunch of beeps. How does it sound all good like that?

[CuteFloor]

That's because I played it in DOSBox, a complete DOS emulator. It also emulates the sound card, so it sounds like in many years ago :)

[SpootKnight]

How do I set DOSBox up so I can run it? I've tried so hard to get it working.

[CuteFloor]

It's not only click and play, that's right. I can't post how to use DOSBox because the length of comments is limited. So please look at the FAQ at the DOSBox website, there is a well instruction how to install and use DOSBox.

But unlike in the FAQ I advice to change following settings in the CPU section of the config file:

core=dynamic

cycles=max

[jorgenwtf]

Haha.. Remember this game.. OWNS

[AlexisBV]

How did you record this?? Man I used to kick ass in this game ;)

[CuteFloor]

I used DOSBox, but you have to configure it properly to get it running well.

[KRAFTWERK2K1]

Too bad that there is no OpenGL port for that game. Just like terminator Future Shock. Same situation. :(

[CuteFloor]

There actually is an OpenGL port. Look for DXX-Rebirth.

[KRAFTWERK2K1]

Found it! :) Thank you so much!!

[TigerRaptorFX]

DXX-Rebirth is pretty good, sticks with how Descent 2 was originally played back in the day. Then there's D2X-XL with a bunch of enhancements. Almost like Descent 2 on steroids.

[marco171180]

Whoa that really brought back some memories.