Video remix specialists The Reverse Engineers have done the hard work of squeezing the evolution of PC gaming into a 151-second clip. Now you get to watch it. The video debuted at the website Polygon, which has the full list of games in the clip.
The evolution of PC games [YouTube, via Polygon]
if i remember more than 70% of these games does it mean that I am too old?
No, you're a legend!
MEEE TOOO! proud of that fact !--- I think I was born at the right time :)
I remember every single one lol!!!! 35 this year and damn I feel ancient now hahaha.
Wow, I saw hundreds of my hours occupied in some of those.
Can't believe Captain Comic wasn't in there. At least Alley Cat and Wizardry 1 was though :)
Or Commander Keen, the PC's first sidescroller.
If its any consolation, the soundbyte at 0:38 of the doors is very similar.
Duke Nukem 2D would have been nice too. I would have put in heaps more Apogee, Epic Megagames, Origin, Lucasarts, Sierra... but I'm middle aged :) Oh yeah, and more Origin too.
PS. Jazz Jackrabbit, Jill Of The Jungle. Old school PC platformers rule!
Bah. Dangerous Dave > Keen. :)
I had completely forgotten how much I loved alley cat. Wow.
Me too, played that all the time.
Now you got that theme music stuck in my head. XD
No WoW, set the benchmark for MMO's
From about the 1 minute mark I recognised the games.
Alley Cat!!! Spent WAY too much time playing that at school!
Brilliant. About the 50 sec mark I know what I'm looking at. Also reminds me of those big 'leap years' where your graphics card lasted only a few months before you needed something else. :P
I just saw my entire life flash before my eyes!
holy crap, i've been playing PC games for that long? i do miss games like lode runner & my fav X-com...
lame video with a misdirected title. Thought it was gona be a video about the evolution of PC gaming in 151 seconds.
Makes me feel old, seem to have got heaps from the early years then bugger all from after diablo 2
I recognized some of them up until the 45 second mark but then I recognized just about all of them.
The 90s were particularly glorious for PC games. :D