The 1995 CD-ROM Upgrade Experience: Creative Discovery CD Kit

2X CD-ROM! Sound Blaster 16! Speakers! Tons of software! This time on LGR we're revisiting the mid 1990s to unbox and install a Creative Sound Blaster Discovery CD bundle — new old stock! I drooled over these as a kid but owning one was never anything more than a dream. Until now, 26 years later!

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[maxlarivee]

"Then I have a drink or two and go on eBay, that's the basis of my channel."
That cracked me up!

[SockyNoob]

you're opening them and ruining it!"

Who cares lol. Clint gives these items the spotlight they deserve and they truly become a museum piece of some sort. Better to see it all function now and document it before it rots away.

[alfulton]

You can always tell someone is a collector by how they open a package.

[Jenisonc]

This is some Toy Story-esk saga for computers. Parts locked in a garage until finally freed from storage only to then be sent to the perfect person to utilize it's potential and finally shared with the masses. Kudos sir.

[JJPMustang]

First sound card we had growing up was the SB 16. I still find myself humming MIDIs decades later 😂

[tyklink]

man i just missed this era. i grew up with windows 95 and DOS was still around in school like an angry revenant. still brings back some major nostalgia!

[outerfroggy]

I had this exact bundle as a kid! I played the everloving crap out of wing and strike commander. To hear clear human voices out of computer speakers for the first time was mindblowing!

[Twenty_Six_Hundred]

Having a day of binging the LGR archives. Yeah we had this Creative SB kit with our family PC. I still have memories of looking at that box on the shelf in the computer room. Same as that CD fascia brings back memories. We weren't a well off family but my dad worked hard and uncle owned a computer store. So we were lucky to have PCs when growing up

[konga]

Man, this bundle would've been the DREAM as a kid. I'm still jealous of anyone who had one over 25 years later.

[livefreeprintguns]

Oh man so much of this software brings back so many memories. I can't tell you _how many times_ I had a book report due that day when I was in grade school in the early 90's and basically copying/pasting whatever the CD-ROM encyclopedia had on it lol.

[joker]

These videos are so nostalgic. I remember walking through the local computer store and every game I wanted was on CD-ROM. It took a year of my family saving up to get a 2x kit almost exactly like this one, around $300. Rebel Assault was amazing.

[Tarryk]

I was getting into music production (using Sound Tracker, Impulse Tracker, etc) in my late teens, and scored that exact sound card from a friend. It was so amazing, it is what ultimately got me into audio production and later in 2000 I used it to begin my online live DJing thing. I owe a lot of my early adulthood joy to the SB16 card. I still have it stored in a box somewhere.

[matiasgl]

Oh man the memories. That moment when you left the "PC Speaker" team to join the SoundBlaster one. EVERYTHING had to make a noise. Maximize, minimize... everything. Nice video!

[rhone]

My teenage mind was blown away when I finally heard actual sound effects and MIDI music from Doom, Dark Forces, and Tie Fighter. Good times.

[BoshMind]

Not gonna lie. I would totally rock "birds" on a t-shirt.

[MelodieOctavia]

Clint: "I got away with a few minor cuts."

Ah, the retro PC gods have claimed another blood sacrifice.

[christiannetlogik]

Your video bring me back 20 years before, and I'm french, I bought this audio card kit in a store called "Surcouf" and it doesn't exist in our days... So just I love to see and thanks so much for this nostalgic moment.

[DavidStruveDesigns]

Okay I absolutely ADORE that appointment reminder software that pops up and talks to you!! The fact the character is animated to look like it's actually saying the words you typed, the fact it SAYS OUT LOUD what the appointment is for and for how long is ace (and hilarious)!! I could honestly do with software EXACTLY like this today!! :D

Man all the sights and sounds of 90s computing tech makes me feel really nostalgic for that time period. I know computers have gotten a LOT faster and more reliable, but for me they've gotten a LOT less fun!! We don't get amazing bundles of tech and software like this any more, or hilarious sounds and experimental software. Nor do we get the wacky experiments done with the technology itself OR its design - everything just looks like the same old black or white box nowadays.... boo!!

[iainh]

Moving from PC Speaker to a dedicated sound card was mind blowing back then. My first card was an Orchid Sound Producer Pro (an SB Pro 2 clone), I distinctly remember loading Prince of Persia 2 and the crystal clear narration made my heart skip a beat. The only upgrade that had nearly the same effect was moving to dedicated hardware rendering. Every upgrade since has been incremental, nothing like the leaps and bounds back then. The featured Creative Kit here has so much value, getting this back in the day must have been colossal.

[Blazbaros]

I remember those speakers distinctly, I was too young at the time to realize how much effort my dad had to go through to get stuff like that working properly. Those DOS games were fun, but finicky!