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PrettyOldGames
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Registrace 6. 02. 2010
PrettyOldGames is a channel that is focused on retro-gaming. It will focus mostly on old Windows-games. Most often I will not do complete playthrough-segments. The point of this channel is solely for nostalgic reasons, reminding people of games they might have forgotten.
Dark Colony
Dark Colony was developed by Take-Two Interactive Software Canada & published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1997 for Macintosh & Windows.
I am playing the demo version of the game.
Game description from mobygames.com:
In a gloomy not-so-distant future, mankind have finally made it to Mars. The colonization of the red planet is vital for humanity's survival, as the heavily polluted Earth's resources are nearly depleted. At the same time, the Taar, a mysterious alien race that lost their homeworld many centuries ago, has decided to take Mars as their new home.
As the war between the two species erupts, the player has to choose his side and lead his people to ultimate domination over the red planet. Things become even more complicated when the ruins of an extinct ancient civilization are found on Mars, revealing immensely destructive weapons that could easily turn the tide of the war in favor of the faction that manages to gain control over them first.
Dark Colony is a real-time strategy with heavy emphasis on the actual combat. Resource gathering, base construction and unit production have been made as simple and fast as possible, allowing the player to focus on decimating the enemy armies. Ancient artifacts, available in some of the missions, provide unique options for beating the odds, even when they seem to be against you (and they often will).
The game plot advances through short cutscenes, briefings and debriefings which detail the development of the war. The game also offers various promotions and decorations that you can earn for your player character, who will actually be present on the battlefield, acting as a more powerful and durable trooper with some special abilities (such as calling in reinforcements and inspiring the regular troopers).
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I am playing Dark Colony using Windows 98 in PCEm v16.
The demo version that I am playing is available here:
archive.org/details/DarkColony_1020
The full version of the game does not seem to be sold anywhere anymore.
I am playing the demo version of the game.
Game description from mobygames.com:
In a gloomy not-so-distant future, mankind have finally made it to Mars. The colonization of the red planet is vital for humanity's survival, as the heavily polluted Earth's resources are nearly depleted. At the same time, the Taar, a mysterious alien race that lost their homeworld many centuries ago, has decided to take Mars as their new home.
As the war between the two species erupts, the player has to choose his side and lead his people to ultimate domination over the red planet. Things become even more complicated when the ruins of an extinct ancient civilization are found on Mars, revealing immensely destructive weapons that could easily turn the tide of the war in favor of the faction that manages to gain control over them first.
Dark Colony is a real-time strategy with heavy emphasis on the actual combat. Resource gathering, base construction and unit production have been made as simple and fast as possible, allowing the player to focus on decimating the enemy armies. Ancient artifacts, available in some of the missions, provide unique options for beating the odds, even when they seem to be against you (and they often will).
The game plot advances through short cutscenes, briefings and debriefings which detail the development of the war. The game also offers various promotions and decorations that you can earn for your player character, who will actually be present on the battlefield, acting as a more powerful and durable trooper with some special abilities (such as calling in reinforcements and inspiring the regular troopers).
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I am playing Dark Colony using Windows 98 in PCEm v16.
The demo version that I am playing is available here:
archive.org/details/DarkColony_1020
The full version of the game does not seem to be sold anywhere anymore.
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FisHatchery
zhlédnutí 141Před 4 lety
FisHatchery was developed by JonCo in 1994. You are the manager of a fish hatchery and the goal is to make more than one million dollars. I actually finished the game during this short video. Not as hard as I remembered it to be. I originally found it on an old shareware CD as a kid. It was probably on one of those Games for Windows CD's that came with gaming magazines back in the day. I am pla...
Arcade America
zhlédnutí 891Před 4 lety
Arcade America was developed by 7th Level, Inc. and published by Mirage Multimedia, Inc. in 1996. It was released for Windows, Macintosh & Windows 3.x. This is the demo version. I remember playing this as a kid on my old IBM. I cannot remember where I got it from however. Description from Mobygames.com: Joey and his pet monsters are going to a concert in Woodstock. Unfortunately, Joey has overs...
Vinyl Goddess from Mars
zhlédnutí 704Před 5 lety
Vinyl Goddess from Mars was developed by Six Pound Sledge Studios & published by Union Logic Software Publishing, Inc. for DOS in 1995. It's an action/adventure platformer. My capture card did not like the midi music so it's a bit distorted. Hopefully good enough. The Vinyl Goddess From Mars is in a spaceship headed for a B movie convention. It malfunctions and she crash lands on a strange plan...
One Must Fall 2097
zhlédnutí 190Před 5 lety
One Must Fall 2097 was developed by Diversions Entertainment and published by Epic MegaGames, Inc (now Epic Games, inc). for DOS in 1994. It's a side view mecha- fighting game. In the game the human race is being controlled by a company called W.A.R. It started off as an industrial company that made construction robots but eventually it aquired control over earth by force - assumingly by making...
Microman
zhlédnutí 484Před 5 lety
Microman was developed in 1991 by Brian Goble. It was released for Windows 3.1. It's a platformer where you have to jump, move & shoot to avoid different obstacles. Yes, I know that I am horrible at avoiding the bullets! The game did not have any music as far as I know. This was one of the first animated games I ever played. Brian Goble is also known for being a coder on Blood II: The Chosen, S...
3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride
zhlédnutí 1KPřed 6 lety
3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride was developed by Dynamix, Inc and published by Sierra On-Line, Inc in 2000 for Machintosh and Windows. It's a pinball game. This pinball game is supposed to take place in the real life amusement park Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It's got multiple events such as multi-ball, side tables and multiple flipper sets. This is the unplayable demo version of the ga...
3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride
zhlédnutí 94Před 6 lety
3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride was developed by Dynamix, Inc and published by Sierra On-Line, Inc in 2000 for Machintosh and Windows. It's a pinball game. This pinball game is supposed to take place in the real life amusement park Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It's got multiple events such as multi-ball, side tables and multiple flipper sets. This is the unplayable demo version of the ga...
Outlaws
zhlédnutí 243Před 6 lety
Outlaws was developed & published by LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC in 1997. It's a 1st person shooter set in the american old west. The plot of the game involves hunting down Bob Graham who killed the protagonists wife, burned his farm and abducted his child. To get to him you need to fight his henchmen. You have a lot of classic western weapons at your disposal such as the revolver and t...
Hoof Biter
zhlédnutí 128Před 6 lety
Hoof Biter was developed by Harold Frediani for DOS in 1995. It's a horse racing game using Ansi graphics. As far as I know this game did not have any sound. This is the shareware version of the game and I am running it in Dosbox through archive.org/details/HoofBiter_1020 where the download of the game is also available.
Piranah Panic
zhlédnutí 159Před 6 lety
Piranah Panic was developed by Wilhborg Entertainment in 1997 for Windows 95/98. In the video I am playing the software version of the game that can be found on the developers official website www.wihlborg.se/piranha_panic.html along with the retail version that is $ 4.95. You are a daddy piranah looking for mrs piranah and the lost baby piranah eggs. You need to swim through a lot of obstacles...
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
zhlédnutí 545Před 7 lety
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri was developed & published by Looking Glass Technologies in 1996 for MS-DOS/Windows 95. It's a first-person shooter with a tactical feel to it. This game used to blow my mind back when I was a kid & thought it would fit in perfectly on the channel. The story is about some humans who try to colonize Alpha Centauri in order to get away from a totalitarian govermen...
Prairie dog hunt for Windows
zhlédnutí 890Před 8 lety
Praire Dog Hunt for Windows was developed & published by Ian Firth/Diversions Software in 1993 for Windows 3.1. This video is best viewed in 1080p fullscreen. It's a wack-a-mole game where you need to shoot the rabid prairie dogs before they go back down their holes. A software version of the game is available for download at archive.org/details/PrairieDogHunt_1020. I could not find a way to bu...
Jump 'n Bump
zhlédnutí 961Před 8 lety
Jump 'n Bump was developed for MS DOS by Brainchild Design in 1998. It's a 2-4 player competative platformer where the players try to jump on each other. The game is available for download on their official homepage brainchilddesign.com. I am running it in dosbox without any custom parameters.
Search and Destroy
zhlédnutí 162Před 8 lety
Search and Destroy 2.2 for Windows was developed in 1992 by Randy Baron. It's the classic Battleship game where you try to find and destroy your opponents ships. I am running this game from the 250 Best Arcade Games CD found here: archive.org/details/250-best-arcade-games-1998 and I am using Windows 2000 on VMWare.
Space Quest I: Roger Wilco In The Sarien Encounter (VGA Version)
zhlédnutí 513Před 10 lety
Space Quest I: Roger Wilco In The Sarien Encounter (VGA Version)
101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy
zhlédnutí 9KPřed 11 lety
101: The Airborne Invasion of Normandy
pocket tanks was similar gameplay but much better than this
Topp
you gotta rivers and then put paths on those rivers so that asshole park goers can't litter
To anybody seeing this, this is actually my dad's old CZcams account. He stopped using it, well I really don't know. But he forgot his password to this account so there won't be any new videos anymore. But he has created a new CZcams channel called RE3MR, hope you guys visit it too!
That Frog ranger that pops up to give tips has lived forgotten in the deepest recesses of my mind since 1998, just to jump scare me in 2024 and remind me how an ecosystem works
Best game demo memory for me!
No Brasil, esse jogo veio em um CD Rom chamado " House of Games". Tenho ele até hoje, e estou jogando agora no Windows 10.
I remember playing this game as a child, and not understanding a sh*t the frog was saying, as I didn't know English 😂 this stressed me out af
All i hear is IM Weasel
FINALLY!!!
Still watching this in 2024.
The music
Oh man there aren’t many walkthroughs for this game and the audio is one of the best things on this game.
Thanks😊
I finally found something about this game on the internet these days. It marked my adolescence a lot.
Still my favorite strategy game of alltime
Finally - someone who shares the desperation I felt as I literally resorted to casting the bait directly on the fish's head. WAKE THE F UP OMG YOU DAMN FISH
Finally I found it 😍😍
Man I played soo much of this game
Fanns på en av datorerna på biblioteket.
The creepy but somehow soothing natural environment noise of this game is unbeatable. This was also how I learned what kudzu was 😂
Oh my god bro, can't believe I found this
I never beat the game when I was a kid. When the PC updated my game was no longer capable. At least I saw how it ends.
La la la la laaa
I think the best thing about this game is the sound track. On thing I love about 90s games is seems like they always tried to have a great sound track with them.
This game was, and still is, amazing! ☺️
"I was cleaning spoons when me got news!"
someone remember a old windows 95 game where you move a skater boy and you try to avoid cars? i remember it was a 2D game for windows 95, or maybe Win 3.1
super wholesome video, i definitely played the heck out of this solo and with my brother back in the day too
I had that game on my computer when I was little!
Finaly I found the game which I played 18 years ago
one of the first games i had on pc
I still have this game. And I still love it!!!
I laughed really hard when California just got eradicated. I felt bad because I like the state, but you know.
Was this game on RealArcade? I remember a dinosaur game from it u could download
I used to play this at the conputer lab at school on Windows XP
The intro music reminds me of Gran Turismo 2 menu music with the jazzy tune. Both games came out around 1999-2000.
This game looks eerily like Starcraft from 1998, Even the Marines say "orders received" and "lock and load" and "you got it" like the SC marines do.
7:20 widow mines from sc2!!
Sweet memories
а что без звука?
Minns det här från mellanstadiet. För vissa ett väldigt beroendeframkallande spel. 😅
this and sim ant were two games i hold so dearly with the time I spent at my grandparents house. My grandfather and I would spend HOURS making the best park and I would have an absolute blast. Made Saturdays my favorite days as a 5 year old.
I’m almost 40 and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the name of this game that I used to play at my neighbors house on a sega something and I happen to come across this video .. time to download the rom !! Thanks
great pixelart!
Omg, core memory unlocked!
This here is an arma-dillo
My sister put a bunch of flammable plants on an island with all the kid stuff. And lit fires.
I love using the green guys at first, then find out that Humans have 20% trade bonus. Definitely the best race.
I miss this game. I sadly no longer have anything to run it on.
I remember this game, it was part of a CD collection of dos games called Way Cool.