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Yep! Another TS4 pack. This one being Eco Lifestyle, the ninth full expansion to the game and like, I dunno, overall pack number 173 or whatever. I can't imagine there are too many more expansions left for the game at this point in the game's lifecycle, but honestly who knows.
I also made an LGR Plays video ab...
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WELP. Guess it's been a while since I did a donations unboxing video, huh. I'd initially planned to do this back in March but well, a certain pandemic kind of interfered with my whole package retrieval process. And honestly? It just didn't have me in the best of moods for a while. I'm doing much better lately though after a series of changes to my routine, and finally felt up to recording ...
So this one's been in the works for a while! At least in the sense that I've been messing around with arcade PCBs in my spare time for most of 2020. If you follow the LGR Twitter, you've no doubt seen a number of these boards on there as video snippets. No emulation here, this all about playing classic arcade boards through a TV or monitor! JAMMA SuperGuns, interface converters, RG...
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Got quite the special item to share with you this time! One of my holy grail devices for the PC: the Creative Labs 3DO Blaster card from late 1994.
Yep, a proper 32-bit game console packed onto an ISA expansion card, which combined with a specific CD-ROM drive lets you play 3DO games within Windows 3.1! Absolutely bonkers to experience, just a rare treat in many respects. I've tried...
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So this project came together smoothly! And was even smoother to edit and render thanks to the resulting PC here.
Yep, wasn't sure if I'd be making a video about this or not since modern machines aren't the usual LGR fare. But I recorded the whole process anyway just in case, then decided to go through with it after receiving the encouragement from you here on Patreon and over on Tw...
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Greetings, folks! I hope that you've had a decent week out there. Either way, I've got another LGR laptop retrospective for ya right here!
Say hello to the Packard Bell Statesman (and Statesman Plus!) from 1994. Essentially a Zenith Z-Star 433 series in disguise, the Statesman is a halfway enjoyable machine that falls short in a variety of ways. And in my opinion, it's all the more ...
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It's been a while since I've done a dedicated PC restore video! Felt like as good a time as any, being stuck at home with a number of broken machines.
So yeah, for the most part I try to only take stuff that I know I can feature on LGR and avoid taking in computers in an unknown state. But that's exactly how I received these IBM 5162s a while ago now -- both in unknown condition and...
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Heh, Windows Millennium Edition. Just seeing those three words together conjures up memories of driver issues, bloatware, and blue screened instability.
And now it's time to give it another look as its 20th anniversary approaches! Personally, I hadn't used it in around eighteen years, so I was wondering how accurate my own bad memories of it were. Especially since I ran it on a chea...
Edutainment in April! It continues.
This week it's Gizmos & Gadgets from 1993. Robochimps, electric cars, and aircraft, oh my. It's one of those educational titles that's easily stood the test of time, despite its shortcomings with repetitious puzzles and such.
If you've got any memories of this one from the 90s, lemme know! The game's a source of seemingly never-ending happiness for me.
Unlike real life at the moment, heh. Things are okay I guess, but yeah, this is a...
Greetings, all! It's the time of year for a bit of edutainment on LGR once again, kicking off with Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego from 1989. The fifth main game in the franchise and one that shook up the formula to an enjoyable degree. Still holds up nicely. It spawned its own TV game show, too!
On the broader topic of edutainment though, I've made the decision to not cover only edutainment throughout the entire month this year. Partly due to lack of interest on my ...
Greetings folks! Hope things are going as well as possible in your neck of the woods.
Got a review here for the latest expansion pack to Cities Skylines. I didn't get an early copy this time so I've just been working on it since it launched last Thursday. One of those things where they didn't even announce it until like a week or so beforehand so there's no way to plan much ahead for it and ugh.
Anyway yeah, with this taken care of I can move onto... Edutainment Month? I guess? ...
Greetings! I hope things are going as well as possible wherever you happen to be. Times are truly getting surreal over here, so uh...
Let's look at VLB graphics cards! Specifically the 2MB Diamond Viper VLB from 1993, which cost $550 back when it first launched back then. The equivalent of a thousand bucks considering inflation, all for a whopping two megabytes to run Windows 3.1 at higher resolution, color, and speed. Worth it? Ehh, maybe if you were really into certain produ...
Happy Tuesday morning! Got a new LGR episode going live riiiiight about now.
Press embargoes though. I had to wait until this very minute to share the video, even though it's been ready to go for about a day now. Eh, so it goes.
That being said though: DOOM ETERNAL! RIP and TEAR!!
Been waiting on this thing for going on four years now, and wow, what a wild game it turned out to be. As a lifelong id Software and Doom franchise fan this ha...
No LGR video this week I'm afraid. One was in the works but then...
I got a Doom Eternal review code unexpectedly! So I've been playing that all week instead. There's an embargo of course, so my review of it will go live next Tuesday the 17th if all goes according to plan 🤘
In the meantime there's LGR Blerbs. To get myself in the mood for ripping and tearing, I made a vid about this release of The Ultimate Doom soundtrack on vinyl! Annnnd yeah it's not exactly official but he...
Greetings, folks! It's time for another LGR handheld computer thing. This time with a nice sprinkling of late 90s Palm OS tossed into the mix.
Been meaning to cover this delightful little PDA for, jeez, a few years now? One of those things that I kept forgetting I owned. But I was going through my "in progress" projects folder and ran across some b-roll that I shot back in 2018 and felt inspired.
It's just such a fun thing to hold and to interact with, hard to explain it unless ...
Aw man, 486 upgrade time! And this is one of those that's been in the works for a while. Not because it was difficult, but because other crap kept coming up, heh.
Recorded the b-roll months ago, took care of the intro bits weeks ago, finished up the demonstration/summary stuff days ago. So it goes.
Hope you enjoy seeing the results of this! Cuz I gotta say, I was hoping for a little more drastic of an improvement, like, maybe 10-15% more. Still a nifty upgrade, considering this ...
Got an early edit of the next Oddware episode for ya! Gonna be headed out on a trip tomorrow, still got a tiny bit left to add when I get back, but it's 99% done.
This is the 1993 Action Replay cheat device for PCs from Datel. And yep, it's a predecessor to the lackluster parallel port PC Action Replay I covered a while back in 2018. Thankfully though, this thing works a whole lot better than that and the PC GameShark did!
Unfortunately I only had this on loan to make this video...
Oh, hello there. What's a patron like you doing in a place like this? You come here often? Here, have a love letter I've written to you even though we don't know each other *WINK WINK*
Sooooo yeah, this is a thing. 101 Love Letters, a Windows PC application from 1995 by Great Bear Technology. Because uh, other things weren't ready yet and it'll be Valentine's Day when this goes live.
And yes, it really is just a piece of software dedicated to writing love letters. Or to be more ...
I have no major reason to cover this except that it makes me ridiculously happy. So here's a video going on about how enjoyable it is to use the SC-55ST from 1991!
It's "just another Sound Canvas," sure, but it's one of those devices I can't help but smile when using it: for the sound, for its size, for that aesthetic. It's a downright pleasant device to use and to look at, and it fits in so perfectly with the beige all around.
So yeah, not much more to it tha...
I don't normally post things from my other channels here, but I thought this was worth sharing.
I've been taking a skeptically closer look at the different OPL and OPM synth chips found in various hobbyist sound cards, wondering if they've been resurfaced or something. Turns out they could very well be copies, fakes, or at least dubiously resurfaced originals.
Really don't think that the folks making these hobbyist sound cards are attempting anything shady here, but I h...
That feeling when you remember that you recorded 95% of a video 6 months ago but never finished the final bits? Yep, certainly had that feeling on this project!
It's like a gift to yourself from your past lazy self, a kind of unintentionally helpful procrastination. Then I see the half dozen hours of untouched random footage and remember exactly why I put it off in the first place, ha.
Oh well, this still ended up being satisfying to put together and remember the progre...
Yep, this is the sixteenth stuff pack for this game. And this time around it's actually... not awful? Unnecessary, sure, and a bit misguided in terms of what's included. But as someone who lives in a relatively small home and has wasted far too many hours watching tiny house videos on YouTube, this was more down my alley than most stuff packs! Despite the far-too-frequent murphy bed failures and resulting deaths.
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Oh yes, it's time for a tale of tech once again. And this episode is all about the infamous Year 2000 Problem! I cannot believe it's been two decades since all that craziness went down. I vividly remember following all the news and speculation with great interest, both online and off, just absurd times. Even knew a family that built their own survival area below their house, stocked up with food and supplies! I don't recall them ever mentioning it again after January 1st, haha.
This vi...
Why is this called the Xray? Who knows, man. All I know is it's a prime example of Oddware!
The Thermaltake Xray is a 5.25" drive bay add-on released in 2004 for less than $20, and yeah, it adds a cigarette lighter and hideaway cupholder to your PC. Because mid-2000s LAN parties demands smokes and drinks, and who has time to find a lighter and a coaster when you're ready to get your game on!
Of course, being that the lighter doubles as a 12V DC power source, same as you'd find i...
Got a quickly-made video detailing the updates and tweaks I've made to the recent Windows 98 PC build. SCSI cable extended, HDD indicator soldered in, DVD-ROM drive added, Noctua case fan connected, expansion cards rearranged to allow a little more Voodoo3 breathing room. Satisfying stuff.
And yep, this is on another channel I'm calling LGR Blerbs. Just a spot for unscripted updates and random things like this that don't merit a full video on LGR but are too large for something like Tw...
Happy new year!
This'll be the first LGR video of 2020 when it goes public. How exciting!
That being said, the Lazy Green Giant was a fun build when I did it but I've been wanting to update it since the day the video went live. Almost immediately started ordering better parts. So here we are!
Seems the PlastiDip was a mistake, haha. Looked cool, felt cool, but in reality it was a nightmare on a computer like this. So much dust and grime built up even with
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Here we are at the end of 2019 -- and the decade! What better time to go thrifting.
So this is the final episode for the twenty-teens. Pretty wild when you think about it that way, but in reality this is just another LGR Thrifts 👍
Hope you enjoy it, and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See y'all next decade.
♪ Guess who's back, back again ♫
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Finally feeling better this week! At least, enough to finish off the video I was working on before I got sick. Had a combination of nasty stuff mixed together that really had me down for the count, so yeah, it's good to be back.
And back I am with another Christmas LGR episode! I was planning to do three thi...
Quick LGR content update! And by that I mean I don't have anything content-wise to share, heh.
I've been rather sick since last Thursday and it has not let up very much. At least in terms of getting my voice and energy back, as both are absolutely shot. Fever finally broke last night so that's nice, but I'm not to the point of getting back to work. Haven't even felt like doing a "sick video" as I have in the past, I've been really needing to sleep most of the week.
Anyway, as a ...
It's December! Which means Christmas LGR for the next few weeks, hehe.
This first topic is the holiday edition of Interpose for MS-DOS! A side-scrolling spaceship shooter made in Norway by Twilight Zone Software.
And it's actually pretty awesome, which is an overall rarity when it comes to seasonal games like this. Really wish I'd known about it back in '96, dang it.
Also, keep an eye out for clones.