Zone 66 Introduction

[ChronoLord2RS]

This game is old! i remember playing it years ago! still good to see teh intro! :p

[CrixMakin]

This is awesome played through my tv and stereo.

[kungfuhungsu]

This intro was the first time I had seen a mushroom cloud anywhere

[k4mik4ze84]

I played this game when I was like 6 or something, this intro was the one of the best game intros at that time, I just loved watching it again and again

[zeroclockgaming]

:O nostalgia :)

[Cindywong2000]

LOvely ending!

[HikaroTakayama]

Ahhhhhh yesssss.....

This was the game that got me into anime... good times!

[rampagenl]

great game, awesome music, remember it to this day ;)

[jrgamemaster1]

if somebody has this track can u plz send it to me

[thejang]

Haven't heard that theme since this game was hot, but haven't forgotten a single note! Thanks for posting this. What a mind blowingly awesome game this was, all programmed in 32-bit assembler!

[vladik56]

i used to play this game when i was 6 years old :D

on my old 486

XD

[LegendaryGrandAm]

Turbo button on the front of the case FTW.

[sumguy321]

I'M PUMPED!!!! I WANT REVENGE!!!!!!

[CyberTiger000]

The music is a bit different from what I remember... (Soundblaster 16 on Windows 95.)

Yet one of the best game musics. X3

[FuzedBox]

That's because this awesome game had two separate, but similar soundtracks. There was your standard fare which worked on all chipsets and cards of the time, and there was the "high quality" audio track that worked only with a Gravis sound card (being played here with DosBox's GUS emulation, because I highly doubt this was captured on a 486 with a GUS card).

[veryslyfox]

I never got this game to run. It would play the intro then crash when the game begin. But i loved the soundtrack so much I just played the intro over and over to listen to it

[LAPODEROSA100]

Most memorable music ever, havn't played this in 14 years and i still remember the theme song! the drums sound awesome!!

[wysoft]

One of the best DOS games ever. The music still pops up in my head from time to time, like this morning when I was driving to work. Haven't played this game in a couple years and just randomly remembered the music!

[dmassive]

The GAME is hard and be boring after a few minutes of playing. BUT the intro is one of the best DOS intro.

[thaboinger]

omg I haven't watched this in like 12 years. Thanks for posting it!!

[Blueoriontiger]

This is an awesome game...a couple years ago, I did a radio play on the Zone 66 storyline in spring of 2006. I've thought about making a fan film, but I have yet to have other people help me with any of my other videos... :(

[AgentZ99]

anyone able to get the soundblaster effects... what IRQ DMA HMDA OPL settings etc do you have your dosbox set at?? I'm running 0.72 but still cant get soundblaster sound :/

[wildweasel486]

I can't even remember how I managed to get the sound working before. Maybe I forgot to turn off the GUS support.

[THEONLYmes323]

You need to run zone66 with the command line parameter of "/s" IE when you go to run the program it should read "zone66 /s". That should force the game to start with soundblaster support

Also, make sure CPU cycles are set at around 5000....Believe it or not this actually makes a difference. if set on auto, the sound for some reason does not work. I have no idea why and really can't explain it.

[Foxstab]

The music was composed by Kenny Chou AKA C.C.Catch (not to be confused with the female singer) AKA ProphecyX.

He's also the one who made One Must Fall:2097's soundtrack.

Sadly, it seems he left the demoscene and tracking infavor of pursuit a career in IT.

[huugoo0]

cool info. OMF soundtrack is also great!

[leerees]

He was the best musician in the demo scene. Sadly nobody really gave him any recognition as Renaisance demo's were average. Basically, cc catch should have been in the future crew instead of purple motion. I reckon being in FC would have got him noticed and he'd have been picked up by a games software house as a musician. It's such a shame.

[wally4000]

This intro always has made me warm and fuzzy, such a great game and so many memories :D

Thanks for putting this up, I cant get the audio working on dosbox for some reason :/

[gtrnbm]

You have to run it with the /s switch (at least that's the way it is for me)

[wally4000]

that didnt work either, for some reason i tried the /a switch and the /u (i think) switch...

I think its a problem with dosbox.

Wally

[trophy242]

Oh yes. Twas GREAT game... The music was just the best at this time for me. I played a lot. I've even finished that game on my PC. And I remember that I used to just replay the in-game music to have the pleassure of listening to these songs when I was making my homework. Heh... I've been in my high-school at that time, as I remember. Greetings.

[AztecCrawdaddy]

great, underrated game

[mysticalpotato86]

I used to love this lol it cost me 72p

[MichToJoshya]

Oh well! this was one of my fav games on the pc...

:) cool intro

[theoriginalrecon]

ok i still cant find the full vers, but if you get the shareware and dosbox(BOXER's site is down, gg) load dosbox andd type ems=false and then xms=false , you dont need to change core set. sfx work but i cant get music to play, ymmv

[Oscarlc85]

I played this game when I was 10 years old.....now I'm 24. Now, I downloaded a full version and I'm playing it. Nostalgies! Use Dosbox 0.72 and Boxer with full Emulated CPU CORE and no XMS AND EMS Support... and you will be able to play it with full sound

[theoriginalrecon]

well where'd you get it chief?

[Blitzkill]

at the time, this intro was the coolest thing i ever saw. i loved this game. I just downloaded it but cannot figure out how to run it on dosbox. and of course it doesnt open with windows vista. any tips?

[solpreak]

la musique d'intro, JE LA KIFFFFFF!

que de bons et grands, trés grand souvenirs.

rhaaaaaaaaaa yes!

[moejoe1337]

Absolutely awesome game!

[sumguy321]

No need for words! This intro gave me chills back in 1995, and still gives me chills NOW! LOVE IT! Great upload!

[jeremysart]

@sumguy321 The song in this intro made me fall in love with this game back in 1995. I remember just watching it over and over before playing the game.

[AntmanIV]

anyone else think the baby looked like a slug with a tophat the first time they saw this? The game was badass took forever to beat it, DFA Bomber ftw. Also, if anyone else remembers rennaisance's earlier demos the options menu had that floating thing in there.

[kk89kk59]

i love the music!! and i fliipin loved this game way back then!!!

[SensationEffect]

all the memories come flooding back. This game was awesome!

[saxxonpike]

Demo sceners can make awesome games. This is proof.

[tranceshakeel]

aah the good ol days.....

[anaani]

I really loved that intro. The game was also incredibly well coded. It was amazing to see a game like this running smoothly on my old 386sx.

[Foxstab]

IIRC, it was coded part in assembly, specifically tailored to the old cpu architecture, which is why it wouldn't run on new machines (dosbox non-withstanding).

[moejoe1337]

This is not the (only) reason why it doesn't run on modern machines. Zone66 used its own memory manager, therefore you had to boot it in _plain_ DOS (which was very unusual even _back then_), i.e. without any high memory managers.

[Foxstab]

Which all in all means this was an awesome piece of code work.

Probably because these guys came from the scene.

The coders today are mostly school tutored slackers with little real understanding of the machines they push bytes on.

[moejoe1337]

Not necessarily. Even today, many notable games are (partly) programmed by sceners.

[wildweasel486]

Exactly - look at IO Interactive (the Hitman games - includes many ex-demosceners), EA DICE (formerly members of Amiga group The Silents), and Remedy (largely comprised of the original members of Future Crew).

[moejoe1337]

Yeah, and even the Far Cry and Crysis teams have some sceners. :)

[dp85]

This cutscene is incredible

[menothere]

lol I remember watching this waaay back on my old 386. Wickedest thing I ever seen back then, and the music still rocks! C.C.Catch ftw! :) He also did the music for One Must Fall 2097.

[PsyPstorm]

lmao o shit!! this is my joint from like years ago.

[FrenchFriedPoop]

Haha, this gives me flashbacks

[ditmetuimay]

Cool I liked this game back in the day.