LGR - CHAMP Arcade Games for DOS

CHAMProgramming was a champion of arcade game conversions for MS-DOS! A retrospective of all their games, from CHAMP Kong onward.

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Intro music is "Watercolors" by John Deley:

[johnnywc]

Great video! Thanks for this - it was quite a nostalgia trip! I miss the old days of CHAMProgramming (yes it's pronounced CHAMP not 'shamp' :)) Real life took over for a few years but I eventually got back into game programming for the Atari 2600 about 10 years ago (Lady Bug, Conquest (Caverns) of Mars. I took another 10 years off but I'm back programming for the 2600 (Scramble). Thanks again!

[RichDuckKing]

I registered several Champ Games. Growing up in the era of the original arcade cabinets, these PC clones were mindblowing at the time. I spoke with John a couple of times via AOL, and he was always super nice too. I remember him being extremely appreciative of the praise his work got all around.

[TheKins]

Heh, I got back into these recently, and was gonna make a video review of them myself, but you've put it better than I could have. Kind of funny to see you couldn't get the Sound Blaster audio to work in Asterocks either!

[richardadams]

Ah, Champ games .... I actually bought the non shareware version of Champ Kong. All the Champ games were great! And John Champeau has now released them into public domain. Don't have the link handy, but a Google search should turn it up. And that's the full, non time-limited versions that you used to be able to purchase!

[AmayirotAkago]

I remember playing my fair share of Champ Asteroids back in the day, good times :) Very nostalgic retrospective, LGR. Loved it!

[MegaManNeo]

*THANK YOU* for making an episode of those games!
I still use to play those games inside DOSBox from time to time and although it's not exactly the same, I started with Champ Kong as well, back in 1998 or so when my dad bought a floppy disk on some flea market in summer.

Since we didn't own the Commodore64 any longer and my mom used to sell my GameBoy games all the time, I used to play the hell out of this clone on my 486 (used to make a copy of it though so I could keep one diskette at my dad's home).

Interestingly though, that version didn't had any Champ Mode and the CHAMP logo also used to be a different one.
I suppose the guy who sold us the floppy simply got hands on an earlier version or so.

Still great stuff.

[Tolman]

Oh how I miss AOL! So simple and high tech at its prime. I really appreciate your channel Lazy Game Reviews because it gives me that warm fuzzy nostalgic feeling when I see a video such as this. :)

[Superpacalex]

This takes me back, I remember when I was about 10 or so and my dad gave me one of his old Compaq laptops and helped me find games for it since at the time I also had a windows xp computer with a floppy drive and I found Champ Kong while looking for games that would run on this old laptop. Playing Champ Kong was some of the best DOS game memories I had since that era passed me by sadly. 

[MrPhillipbraden]

Thanks for bringing me back to the good ol days. Loved all the classic arcade games!

[cappantwan]

You just blew my childhood away once more. I had CHAMP Donkey Kong on my computer when I was a kid. Sadly, it was the Shareware version, but that's expected from Compilation CDs.

[ByGeorge]

You rock dude. Consistently keeping my sub box stocked with retro PC/gaming videos to watch on my lunch break!

[JonesDylan]

I remember playing CHAMPgames a lot when I was a kid. It was pretty cool to take the arcade experience wherever you go, on a laptop or desktop computer.

[monstermeal]

I had the demo for Champ Kong! Thanks for bringing back the memories.

[SoujiMonaru]

Great stuff as always LGR! I think I saw clones of even these when I was a kid, but I never got to play them as I didn't have a PC until 2002 or so...still, this feels nostalgic since I had played most of the originals before! ^_~

[djnekroman]

I always enjoy your vids, but this one has probably hit me the hardest, nostalgia-wise. I totally remember downloading Champ Kong from the AOL Games section, and just that quick mention of playing games on the demo PC at Office Depot has the memories really flooding back. Thanks a lot, man! Great video, as per usual.

[TheLastLineLive]

Great vid, I never played these ones personally but I played a lot of different arcade classics back in the day on my old 486. And it was by the time that I got my Pentium 2 that I found out about the exciting world of emulation, good times. The classics deserve to live on.

[cltmanthegamer]

The champ games are definitely some of the best arcade ports/clones out there. I recently found my old champ games disk so I installed them in dosbox on my linux pc and they run as well as I remember them when I played them as a kid back on windows 98. The gameplay is spot on and the new features are great.

[googleboughtmee]

Wow these look really well programmed. I'm recreating Space Invaders right now and have been checking out all the other ports, very few got the wave-motion of the invaders right like this champ one does.

[DoubleMrE]

I just ran into 'Champ Kong' today on the net and I am impressed. Its as good--if not better, than the arcade original. The altered levels are a great feature. I only wish I could use a controller to play instead of my keyboard. I should be happy though since I have a Mac and the game was able to install and is playable on "Boxer.' But Champ Kong is a great game and Champ's other games look great in comparison to the originals as well.

Thanks for posting this vid !

[Cecilbags]

Hell yeah. This type of great arcade port in the early 90s had such a good purpose. Thanks for this vid!