LGR - After Dark Games
Added 2018-07-21 13:42:45 +0000 UTCAh, feels good to be back with a classic game retrospective! Hope you enjoy this one, it's been on my to-do list ever since I covered the original After Dark screensaver modules. Crap was that five years ago? 😮
Thank you to everyone for your feedback regarding the previous post as well. Lots of encouragement, new ideas, and critical feedback is exactly what I was hoping for (and need) as I'm moving forward with the next stages of LGR.
Won't be moving to releasing one video a week immediately, but I've decided I will be making that change in the coming months. Still a chance that I'll continue to do more videos per week if time allows for it, but I think relaxing my self-imposed schedule a tad will be the healthier choice for me and my content. Having Friday as the guaranteed day video and anything in-between as a bonus should work out nicely!
Comments
Playing screen saver characters, I guess its a novelty. Clint do you know anything about Sierras screen saver with a guy stuck on an island? Remember that as a kid. Might be a cool review and a pain to cover due to the randomness of the events that can happen in it.
Matthew Belshan
2018-07-26 06:28:20 +0000 UTCThe mowing game reminds me of one of the mini-games in the GBA version of The Sims: Bustin' Out
David La Roche
2018-07-25 13:39:37 +0000 UTCClint, you just jogged my memory of After Dark Star Trek! I did a quick search and didn't find you had made one on it, as far as it seems. I look forward to one if you haven't done so, already!
Steve Martin
2018-07-23 17:32:25 +0000 UTCCuriosity... wasnt the nightclub “After Dark” in Beverly Hills 90210 anmeld after that software? The logo at the entrance to the club, As i remember, was exactely the same.
Because Why-Nerd
2018-07-22 19:19:36 +0000 UTCMy favorite characters from After Dark, besides the toasters of course, was the bungee-jumping cows
SuperBunnyBun
2018-07-22 15:03:32 +0000 UTCi like the opening pan but it looks like you built a contraption to hand-crank it over to you lol
eumoria
2018-07-22 04:12:16 +0000 UTCHmm. They have solitaire on computers now. Sweet.
Gary Leigh
2018-07-22 02:53:07 +0000 UTCWow, I had no idea After Dark was so prolific back then! Who knows what else I missed... Is there any Johnny Castaway animated series I should know about?
Pablo Rodriguez
2018-07-22 01:10:33 +0000 UTCI wholeheartedly support the move to one video per week. With the preparation and research required for the kind of content you create, it makes sense, where it might make less sense for, say, a gameplay channel. Speaking of, I don't think anyone would mind an occasional new episode of LGR Plays? : )
Andrew Ferguson (DominateEye)
2018-07-21 23:08:14 +0000 UTCThe toaster game looks like an isometric Jet Set Willy.
Tim
2018-07-21 20:46:45 +0000 UTCSeems I have a higher level of fondness for After Dark games than you do. I LOVED it. Even Foggy's Boxes and Roger Dodger. I never had the After Dark screensavers, so my only experience with AD is with the games. But I think they're charming and the music is pretty good.
Stephen Staver
2018-07-21 20:27:42 +0000 UTC1 Guaranteed video a week and maybe a bonus one, sounds like a great middle ground to me
Aleksander
2018-07-21 19:52:30 +0000 UTCWow I never knew these existed. I did have the flying toasters screensaver, and also teh Simpsons After Dark, which was awesome - I seem to remember some slight interactivity with that one? I got it as a freebie on a cover CD, but would love a big boxed copy of that in my collection.
Pixels.Ltd (Samuel Victor)
2018-07-21 19:19:06 +0000 UTCHey Clint, I've been meaning to ask. Do you record all of your footage and b-roll and then go back and voice over later? Seems so, I was just curious.
Chad Keck
2018-07-21 18:45:29 +0000 UTCI really miss the days where having a cool screensaver was THE THING to have. Seriously. No one seems to care about screensavers these days like they used to. :( But as for these games, I totally would have played them as a kid in the 90s. As you said, they're predictable, but still fun to play. :) Enjoy mowing your virtual lawns (and murdering people with your mower)!
Lindsay Michelle
2018-07-21 18:23:54 +0000 UTCI loved After Dark when I was young, me a my brother loved watching the various screensavers, I do remember we played some of the games that was packaged with them, like a trivia game and a space shooter similar to sinistar. Always a bit of nostalgia with After Dark. I think I remember the mowing game, I liked those games, but now I do that kind of mowing in real life at the Golf Course I work at, and I really do enjoy it.
Douglas Holmes
2018-07-21 18:17:14 +0000 UTCI can't comprehend what's going on in Roger dodger...
Terry Lee
2018-07-21 17:35:29 +0000 UTCAs a writer, I find your fondness for alliteration absolutely appealing.
Steve Skafte
2018-07-21 16:50:34 +0000 UTCYou like lawnmowing games? Have you tried Jeff Minter's Hover Bovver? Ancient game and you'll need a Commodore 64 emulator. One of Minter's earliest.
2018-07-21 16:43:45 +0000 UTCSuch a missed opportunity to say "Once you lose your three lives - you're toast". Still Loved it though!
2018-07-21 15:52:18 +0000 UTCMoosho... the whale! I just flipped right into Futurama on that name. What a boring game! I'm a whale biologist! :D
Anders Enger Jensen
2018-07-21 15:44:47 +0000 UTCMust have that shirt 😍
2018-07-21 15:27:14 +0000 UTCMy favorite AD game was Lunatic Fringe, although I never managed to beat it.
moosemaimer
2018-07-21 14:18:13 +0000 UTCOh boy, after dark, how risque... oh, right, not that type of after dark.
Eric Siegel
2018-07-21 14:00:54 +0000 UTCThe shirt is epic. Think I’ll have some toast while I finish this video.
Jeremy
2018-07-21 13:48:11 +0000 UTC
