Command and Conquer Nostalgia- The Duality

In a deliberately overly nostalgic video, I attempt to explain the significance of the original Command and Conquer, and what it was like to see it for the first time through the eyes of an excited 8 year old.

[notahuman]

"It was, in essence, about commanding and conquering"
I'm surprised a British mom wouldn't be able to relate with that

[locomotivefaox]

Phillip disguises his taking over the world monologue as childhood stories.

[fimbul_]

"It quickly became too difficult for me to get any further through the campaign, so I spend way more time on red alert's skirmish mode." - shows my favorite skirmish map back then.😎

[BRUXXUS]

Talking about smells and games.
Reminds me of when I'd go to my little sister's friend's house and they'd be off playing and his dad let me play on his computer. He fired up Mechwarrior 2 and showed me how to play.
Just remembering that instantly brings back waves of senses from the smell of their house, the lighting, the wonder and excitement in experiencing something completely novel and magical to me as a kid. Some of the memories of me sitting in that hard wooden chair, hearing my sister and friend pretending to be dogs across the house, the music from the game and thick atmosphere it created.... those memories are permanently sealed into my brain, and I love it. :)

[ShawFujikawa]

Frank Klepacki's soundtracks are timeless.

[pcscairo]

My father used to play this game non stop in my early teens. Man whould just turn on my gaming rig and play Command and Conquer on full blown volume on the TV. Didn't know there was a remaster tho, I should get him a copy.

[thebap]

you just have the best scripts. Every video seems to give me an insight into your mind and into your experiences and feelings.
Just wanted to get this out.
I‘m genuinly sad that you have so „few“ subscribers. I just wish that you‘d be making enough money to be financially independent forever.
I think you‘d be the only youtuber apart fron videogamedunkey that I‘d support using patreon

[Mossmyr]

"One tank that would fire nukes, one that would fire acid." Sounds like you'd like the Warhammer 40k universe.

[BerenMace]

Funny it was the same for me. I even drew pictures of "gameplay" with the build menu etc. And my mother was concerned too.

[s.armstrong]

The appeal of C&C to boys growing up in the 90s i think was that our earlier childhood was filled with plastic soldiers and vehicles. Playing wargames and imagining the battlefields we could produce. Then C&C came along and there it all was for us to act out on screen.

[BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Someone else who played this on a PlayStation!!! I remember how awful the controls were, seemed like the first few missions just didn’t want to cooperate with me at all.

To be fair that made the leap to PC just just that much better, as I got Red Alert 2 as a present not too long after that...then
the moment I saw Command and Conquer Generals on PC for the first time, now that just seemed to be where the series peaked.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a video on C&C invoke so much nostalgia, the ‘horrifying’ aspects of the game really didn’t click for me at all when I was younger, nor did the campaign when the Skirmish mode let me play the game like an odd version of Simcity as a base builder.

Not even going to get into how amazing it was to see the series progress with the online play, as that was my first ever time seeing that aspect actually come into play damn.

What a phenomenally accurate video 👍

[ZeoWorks]

So many memories of playing this on the PlayStation 1!
Demo discs used to be amazing back then. :)

[KrissFliss]

2:25 Reflective glasses, like in some of your thumbnails where you're wearing glasses with those lense flare effects in front?

[ShootingStar]

"Invisible tanks?!" My memory of discovering NOD's stealth tank for the first time... priceless.

[HumanBeanOfficial]

This might have been my favorite video of yours last year (close enough). I watched this video in january of 2021, and besides just enjoying the video, you got me to go and find openra and get myself and over a dozen friends hooked on the game for hundreds of hours! Thanks for the fun and memories!

[mroctavio]

To prove what Phillip is saying about nostalgia I have two words:
*KIROV REPORTING*

[Enigmaticus]

Man its weird hearing you talking about the smell of your friends house in relation to C&C.
I used to play this game at my cousins house cause we had no PC, and it had this distinct smell, wich to this day i associate with childhood, big boxes of random Legos, my first Videogames (in this case, C&C Tiberian Sun) and just overall warmth and joy. I vividly remember us trying to build the closest replicas of all the GDI units with the Legos we had and then adding more guns and stuff to it. The feeling and Sound of the Legos while digging in those big boxes just to find the right piece, sheer bliss.
Funny how i liked to think this is something only i expirience and now in the days of the Internet i discover that there are people out there, hundrets of kilometers away, speeking other languages, with just the same mechanims going on in their heads.
Also i like how you decribed the feeling of looking forward as a child and now backward as an adult. Man, this Video really hit me good...

You might well be my favorite Content creator at the moment!
Keep up the good work and have a happy new Years Philip !

[son.pindorama]

I be dammed If this isn't the most true, honest, spontaneous and well narrated channel on games.

[Levisaurus_Rex]

Westwood lives in death! Born in 91 and also played it on a PS1, it's also one of my fondest childhood gaming memories, there's something special about this game.

[hemangchauhan]

You can take a topic as overdiscussed as nostalgia, and make it interesting again.

Perfectly summarizes how I am feeling about games right now, now that I stuck with it for so long.