Today is December 15th, 1993! New episode every single Friday!
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Welcome to Now in the 90s, where we rewind the clock exactly 30 years ago to see what new video games had just released! This week we had DOOM, ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron, and Beyond Shadowgate!
Writers: Jared Knabenbauer, David Rota, & Dylan Lawrence
Editor: Dylan Lawrence
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its really funny that you have no other job prospects there, Captain Sending Dick Pics
I'd love to watch Jared do a full playthrough of NES Shadowgate.
And Uninvited.
And Deja Vu. How can I make this happen?
About Sunset Riders, Bob also has the shotgun, he isn't anywhere near as stylish as Cormano though, one detail that i always found interesting is that in the Arcade version, when Cormano defeats El Greco, he throws his red sombrero to Cormano and he spends the rest of the game with it and the SNES doesn't feature that.
I love it when you show these classic commercials that I still remember to this day. I only ever saw that Funkotron commercial like three times, but boy did it ever stay in my memory.
Dylan was extra unhinged today. Love it.
Metal Marines is a fantastic strategy game! It was one of those games I bought by chance that blew me away when I first played it. As a kid, I loved trying to save enough money every level to build the ICBM silo. It was so stressful waiting to see if you could get it built before the enemy sent their metal marines or missiles to blow it up, but if you did, it was basically a win button.
I'd constantly play Doom at the Radio Shack in the mall, and I never bought anything. Twelve year olds can get away with a lot, it seems.
I'm so burned out on some Fridays that I don't have the energy to watch videos. But when I can afterwards, i binge watch everything I missed.
I never played Doom. A Doom-Clone game (I guess?) I did play was Alien on Sega Saturn
Don't forget that Doom is the reason that all shotgun shells in video games are red.
I was blown away watching a saleswoman play Doom at Electronics Boutique. I thought it was a video and she was tapping keys because it was moving WAY too fast. She was so into it she wasn't helping customers, haha.
While the gameplay of the original Toejam and Real is indeed very original, I would never call it "more fun". That is one of the most boring games I've ever tried to play.
I loved the seashell reference!m/
I know you only mentioned it in passing but I played the hell out of Syndicate. It came on my first PC that ran Windows 3 and I loved that game. Doom was a game a neighbor had on a shareware disc and I was maybe too young to understand that it was free and I felt guilty for years thinking I'd gotten this game illegally. I also only thought there was the first part I didn't know there was 2 more parts until like years later.
Toejam and Earl: Panic on Funkotron is one of the best games ever, Period.
Doom is a good exception of your rules and I must still finish Doom 64 on my Switch.
Doom '95 definitely made a lot of computer typing classes way more enjoyable, but you had to learn to be quick with Alt Esc.
Have you quit Projared ?
LILLEHAMMER 94!!!!
Hi! I’m on the Beyond Shadowgate 2023 dev team! I’ve been subbed to the channel since early this year and it’s a great surprise to be featured. Thanks for covering our Kickstarter! You’re right – the Turbografx game had no input from the series creator. Our version uses his original designs and is his official sequel to the NES game. Don’t worry – there are tons of deaths and interactive environments.
We have a free demo on the Kickstarter page. The final version will have chapters on the related Kemco games – Deja Vu and Uninvited. Thanks again for covering our work!
Had Doom on our Win3.1 machine. Had to restart with a floppy to avoid loading windows in order to have enough RAM
Metal Marines is an underrated game. I loved dropping ICBMs on the enemy.
We weren't allowed to play Doom, but we played it anyways thanks to my brother making a secret file on the computer to store the play file.
Since we rarely mention PC games I guess it's going to be the console Dune(1) game, and not the RTS grandpapi Dune 2. That was a weird game, and I never got really far in it. But I find it a suprisingly chill game to have a longplay zone out to in the background.
Imagine defending a man who has scammed people for 10 years using his dead mothers name to do so. You are disgusting.
Was Doom influential? Yes. Did I care about fps? No lol. Do I still not care? Yes. I never got into the craze but it definitely was one where I lived.
hokey smoke, what is that shirt?
Jared isnt kidding when he said Doom got ported to everything.
Someone figured out how to port doom to a pregnancy test no joke its for real i kid you not
DOOM is the all time best FPS games of all time, and it still is today. You just never get tired of playing this game. Because of thos every indie developer has carry on its legacy.
I played Toe Jam and Earl for hours with my best friend back in 93. Couldn't wait for a sequel, and what a complete letdown it was.
Thats not even true
Doom was huge
Happy 30th, Doomguy!
Are you doing Mega man X next week?
One of the biggest factors in doom's success i feel was the fact it was so technologically advanced yet it could still run on anything even back then. Nearly all pc games where either slow paced sims like sim city or way too high performance action games. Having something fast and fun that could run on your dad's work pc made doom super easy to spread and play on literally everything.
There weren't that many commercial games released using the Doom engine. There were Heretic (which you mentioned), Hexen, Strife, and Hacx. If you count freeware titles, then there is also the Chex Quest series (technically, the first game came on CD in marked boxes of Chex cereal).
Editor Dylan, you are wrong about Sunset Riders. The Genesis / Mega Drive version had the much better and faster gameplay. The Snes Version plays like molasses
I remember buying the shareware version at Walmart for like $5. It came on two diskettes if I am not mistaken. Going from Wolfenstein 3D to Doom felt like skipping two console generations in technology. Seems like for a long time the only way to get the full version was to mail order it. I never saw it in any video game shops.
I think a big part of the reason nobody cared because it wasn't very well advertised and, at least from where I was from, not a lot of people had a computer at that time that could run it. In fact not a lot of people had computers at all back then.
I ended up putting it into a time capsule in middle school that was supposed to be opened when we graduated. By my senior year nobody had a clue where the time capsule was or that it even existed.
Dylan channeling his inner ButterBun when describing the Olympic Game 😀
In 1993 we used to play Doom on school PC's on LAN at first. In Norway everyone cared about Doom and it sold a lot of PC's.
Jared you atleast make a video on your main channel addressing the fact that you making content here now, so the viewers that have been waiting 7 months can at the very least watch you here then …..
But can it play Doom?
Or you can play all of these games on your Android phone or tablet using the touch screen or some sort of Bluetooth controller like the Razer kishi version 2 or a Android handheld I play all these games through emulation anymore all the way up to PlayStation 4 yes I emulate PlayStation 4
Fun fact; even though I'm 30 years old (as old as Doom itself), I have never played Doom. I've played several boomer shooters, of course, like Serious Sam and Duke Nukem, but somehow the original Doom (and any sequels of Doom, for that matter) have eluded me my entire life.
I remember Metal Marines fondly, it was a surprisingly fun strategy games, you should give it a try… If allowed by deadlines 😢 also Cormano! What a man of culture 🤠 thanks for this nice episode as usual, I'm feeling like playing some Doom clones for some reason 😂
I remember buying the shareware version of doon in a vons grocery store back then
Its crazy to think back on that I don't remember finding any other computer games from a supermarket in my lifetime ever
Did you guys ever cover Eternal Champions?
2 toe jam and earl game was the toe jam and earl game everyone had when i was a kid 😮 just saying
And oddly i remember sharware doom cause my cousin had a computer where i had a mac cant rember if i played doom or duke nukem first tho
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Speaking of events that happened during the Winter Olympics that year. I just realized 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Nancy Kerrigan/Tanya Harding “incident”. 😅
Thanks for shouting out Doom and Panic on Funkotron!
I know you don't literally mean "nobody" cared, you just mean "most people," and I realize that you are talking about the console version, not the PC version. But still, I gotta call out this title. Doom was a pretty big deal back then, (even if most people weren't playing the mediocre console ports.) Keep in mind, Doom was one of the first FPS ever. Really only wolfenstein 3D predates it, but wolfenstein was super clunky and primitive by comparison. While we might see Doom as also being super clunky and primitive by today's standards, in 1993, Doom was seen as anything but. It was the premiere example of where the future of gaming was headed. I mean, it basically helped define the entire FPS genre, arguably much more than its predecessor Wolfenstein did. So, yeah, not true at all that "Nobody cared." 12 year old me, and all my nerd friends with computers fast enough to handle it, where OBSESSED with Doom. And apparently game devs also cared, because after Doom, the FPS genre really started blowing up.