Obscure Games: Hell Cab Part 2

When we last left our intrepid AFGNCAAP, he/she had just entered the Empire State Building, deciding to take Satan's handy sightseeing advice. What will happen next? (Hint: It might involve crashing.)

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Gaming

Tags:

• obscure
• games
• hell
• cab
• fmv
• adventure
• dos
• dosbox
• windows
• 3.1
• satan
• time
• travel
• baltimore
• new
• york
• game

[jlassh]

i used to play this game at a friends house, this and Spaceship Warlock

[bobinator1992]

@jlassh I totally need to play Spaceship Warlock, I've heard for being pretty much THE first FMV adventure game ever made, it's got a lot of interactivity and other cool stuff in it.

Also, WOW, this game is a whole lot less rare than I could have guessed, for some reason.

[peniche311]

4:12 Look at me, now look at yourself, now back at me

[bobinator1992]

@peniche311 I got curious to see who the gladiator dude was, so I went on MobyGames and checked the credits for this game. It's some guy named Keith Davis. ...Apparently he did something for Crackdown 2. Don't worry, I wish it was the Old Spice guy, too.

Look down, back up, where are you? Ramming the mouse button as hard as you can and getting your ass kicked, apparently.

[rogermania]

This bring me memories...

I loved playing it 16 years ago!

Man, it's amazing how time goes so damn fast...

[bobinator1992]

@rogermania Sigh, yeah, I know. Sometimes it still amazes me that I was only a wee 8 year old back in 2000. Sadly, the 90's and all their awesomeness skipped right over me. I guess that's why I do these videos, to find the hidden treasures of a secret childhood that slipped me by.

Makes me tear up a bit, really.

[Silvanfan]

HILLARIOUS end :D (unless that was actually the end. when i was a kid i never even got past the first taxi ride cuz i was so damn scared ><)

[GTA2SWcity]

Yeah I played this on my performa 6300cd. Even then it was jerky as hell. No pun.

Never could get past the WW2 stage and the gladiator fight on my machine would always hiccup and kill my character. The game engine's controls are just a little too hair trigger IMO and hit detection left something to be desired. The bum...I have no idea what if any purpose he serves. Apparently someone beat this already. same actor for nero plays a snarky annoying satan.

[isniffedglue]

@jlassh haha yeah dude me too! hellcab and spaceship warlock!

[baddmanaz]

the part where the cab driver asks "did you get jur ass kicked?" is forever etched in my mind.

[OneWeirdDude]

2:15 You were either silly or lazy. (Er, no offense.) There were four pay binoculars to look through, but you have to get more cash from the ATM at the ground floor first.

2:35 "Pretty cool place, huh? You go to the top?" (I think that part was cut out.)

3:50 Whatever you say, you get thrown in prison. But it always takes three answers, but if you say, "Hail who?" and then call him Caesar, you shorten the conversation.

In your prison cell, you can talk with the "good slave" if you want.

[jizzninja]

Cheers heaps for posting this, I've been wanting to revisit this game for ages. I remember somehow getting past the Rome stage and then going to WW1 trenches where I always got killed by a dude in a gas mask. Never got any further than that.

[TheAdmantArchvile]

0:43

Pop Rocket? The same guys who gave us Total Distortion? AHHHH! WE'RE DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! AHHHH!

[vitalremainss]

this game used to scare the shit out of me when i was little.