This game is actually still very fun! Its got comfy couch co-op!Yeah boi, Scorched Earth!
Can't watch it now, but was Crusader No Remorse/Regret in there?
it was.
No Swiv 3D
Finally someone else who played stunts!
It wasn't in the video but does anybody remember Quarantine?
Oh, the days where you had to optimize your memory by editing autoexec.bat and config.sys to get a game to load properly. And also, the obligatory configuring the sound card with IRQ's and DMA's and whatever. Never knew what in the crap that was all about, but got it to work nevertheless. And well, if i didn't get the sound to work i could always do with the good ol' PC speaker *beeep ploooop meeep*. Such a hassle back then getting things to run..
Loved this video... I was a teenager through these years and played every PC game I could. Those were the days when PC gaming wasn't so easy and it was just us geeks really committed to it to make it work. Seemed like every game required you to screw around with your config.sys and autoexec.bat to get that memory allocation just right or whatever other driver IRQ conflict sorted away. I remember how angry I got just trying to get Ultima 7 working with its stupid voodoo memory.
I laugh when I see console owners say that PC gaming is just too complicated... they have no idea how easy it is now compared to how it used to be.
Stunts was the best. I played it so much I managed to figure out a specific physics glitch by just replicating the results by accident through endless repetition.
Uncle Tunahead's Stunts physics glitch tutorial:
1) Choose a race against an AI driver.
2) Pick the fastest car for yourself and the slowest car for the AI. Now all the pieces are in place for the tragedy to unfold.
3) Once the race begins, gently nudge the front corner of your vehicle into the opponent's rear wheel. This is why you need the opponent to drive a manky humvee, so he can't escape your diabolical shenanigans.
4) Marvel as your vehicle achieves escape velocity.
Once you get the hang of it, you can kind of anticipate your launch vector well enough to build custom tracks around guiding your supersonic carpocalypse trajectory.
I did pretty well with most of that stuff, even Ultima VII's weird proprietary memory manager, by making a boot menu with the menuitem system supported by config.sys and autoexec.bat, so I could just switch between memory systems on boot without additional boot file edits.
Finally watched that video, definitely brought back some memories!
Some games I thought might've made the cut but didn't, though:
Supaplex
Megarace
EGATrek
Captain Comic
Monuments of Mars/Pharaoh's Tomb
Wacky Races
Test Drive/The Duel/Grand Prix Circuit/The Cycles
There were fewer older games (pre-386, like CGA/EGA titles) than I was hoping for, too.
Has there been a better emulator than dos box?
DB seems to have a difficult time getting certain games to run 60fps at higher resolutions like 1024x768 even with a high end pc.
Worms 1 on an actual windows 98 machine runs WAY better than on dosbox.
Finally someone else who played stunts!
I do! I do! You can play all the episodes on Internet Archive.