So, turns out, there’s still some obscure DOS games we’ve not talked about. Here’s the next 10… 🙂
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0:00 Intro
0:08 Wraith
2:27 Wreckin Crew
5:00 Xargon
7:18 Xplosive
9:00 Wrath of Earth
11:21 Xeno Ball
13:28 Xatax
16:06 Wingstar
17:47 Wolfsbane
19:59 Xenocide
22:23 Outro
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I don’t know Wraith either? Sounds like it has nothing to do with the wonderfully bad ‘80’s movie The Wraith?
Wreckin Crew downloading now! You got my interest.
Xargon ah yes, all archeologists carry frickin’ lasers you know? 😄 Looks fun though?
Xplosive sounds like a decent Bomber Man clone but Bomber Man exists & (like Arkanoid & it’s clones) that kind of makes it redundant?
Wrath of Earth is new to me too but it looks quite good for it’s day? I’m not a fan of mech games but I love the aesthetic.
Xeno Ball looks interesting? I get the concept & it’s another I want to try out.
Xatax looks a bit ‘home made’ for my tastes but I like a good R-Type clone, contradicting what I just said about Bomber Man/Arkanoid. 😄
Wingstar is another one that can get lost in the crowd of bullet hell shooters but I’d be happy to give it a go?
I don’t know Xenocide but I quite like the changing gameplay?
Wow! Another video where I don’t know any of the games in the list. You’re doing well finding the really obscure ones here, thank you.
Great video – thnaks! I knew Wreckin Crew as it appeared on the PS1.
didn't know about xenocide, always been interested in games that have multiple game styles on it
Oh yes, man after my own heart listing lovely dos games i have never known .)
Wrecking crew looks like that awfull Team17 racing game on GoG (wacky wheels – sory T17 i love your games but not all of them) glad it appears to be better.
Blue builders being definitively smurfs eh? so that means Gargamel won in the end? good!
Not a bomberman game (or Eric and the floaters) on drenched in lovely sarcasm oh man thats nice. To be fair i never mutiplayed bomberman, and i still had a blast (a dyna blast you could say).
Oh god yes wrath of earth sounds like something i need to find than! obscure doom-like game, that i have also never heard of. Also how dare you accuse me of competency, as shaggy sang in his hit song "wasn't me" (he spoke it rather than singing but still makes more sense this way).
Xen o'ball sounds interesting tho looks like the devs could have used slightly better tiles for the different functions, the reason why lemmings worked so well was because it had comical floppy eared benings splattering into their gruesome deaths yet in incredible well developed interface with many jokes (i mean PAWS come on!). the ball in question seems to have just boring tiles hat are in some cases slightly difficult to guess function of at a glance.
Hell yeah! a game i've played and forgotten Xatax. good.
I would argue that since China forgotten how to make gunpowder no less than two times over there is precedence to humanity forgetting about an aspect of warfare, tho i do concur we do not have it in human nature to forget about warfare as a whole. I do suspect i only played demo or shareware version of it back in 90s but it was pretty and thats all i remember bessides the name which i think is rather clever.
love this series.
2:52 I knew it, that building is a front for a mafia-owned racket
5:10 Is he shooting those red beams out of his pelvicopter? O.o
As a completely random person on the internet, I need to ask: should we stock up on earplugs in preparation for a possible vampmaid attack? What are her weak points? And what if she finds this video and sees our plans for defeating her? :S
Now, regarding the games, you keep finding not only more obscure titles, but also some interesting ones as well. But I've got a concern… are those bunnies on the track in Wreckin Crew? O.O I like arcade karting games a lot, but if the game involves bunny violence, I don't know…
Xargon actually sounds familiar, though I haven't played it. And Xenocide reminds me that I keep forgetting to put windshield cleaner in my car XD
8:46 I see pill addiction made Pacman turn to a life of crimery
20:23 awkwardly hides my pesticides behind my back
Oh man, Wraith really does have the presentation of Ultima doesn't it? Some real similarities in the character look and some of the equipment. Not that they have a hold on that sort of stuff, but it really does evoke that same feeling.
The only one I'm certain I played of these are Xargon. I think I only played the shareware version – like many games in my youth – but maybe I got it at some point? I remember having a lot of fun and enjoying the way the effects looked when you shot enemies. As for the rest, the only one that looks a bit familiar is Wingstar, but with so many of those kinds of games out there, it could have just as easily been another one.
Whatever the case, loving the work as always!
No matter how many shoot-em-ups I've seen here, in reality there is only one worthwhile – Tyrian, the rest is just meh, nothing compares to its looks, story, upgrade system, minigames and that beautiful FM synth music.
2:52 наконец то я вспомнил эту игру как только увидел! Играл в неё в 90х, тогда мне она очень понравилась из за необычного визуального стиля и интересного (для гонок) геймплея. Напрочь про неё забыл с годами. Классные гонки на ДОС.
Xargon has a fan made remake on Steam… it's a pretty cool game. I wish they would just release a remastered version of it. It had three different chapters. Still loving it, whether playing on my Retro PC or on Dos Box.