When Microsoft Said 'Don't Buy a Console' | Nostalgia Nerd

This video features the Games for Windows 95 disc and Games CD Sampler 2, from Microsoft.

0:00-10:22 Part 1
10:22-11:27 SquareSpace
11:27-21:16 Part 2

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[VaterOrlaag]

I never get tired of that Bill Gates in Doom clip. Trying so hard to look cool while being awkward, babbling and so unfocused that he forgets that guns have triggers.

[Vokabre]

Bill Gates as a character in Doom was the most unexpected part.

[livefreeprintguns]

Lol the clip of Bill Gates in Doom and then shooting a demon saying "don't interrupt me..." I wish companies nowadays didn't take themselves so seriously.

[VoVilliaCorp]

Always loved how within a few years microsoft went from "don't buy a console" to "buy our console"

[betrayalth]

“Don’t interrupt me”

I fear for my life

[rodneyabrett]

I'm reminded of how much of a pain it was at times to just get a game to run properly without problems. Patches, fixes, wrappers. Missing .dlls

[ottergauze]

"Led by Microsoft's Gabe Newell" - Something about that sentence is seriously cursed.

[MrTaxiRob]

looking back now, the time between Win95 and 98 releases feels like an entire decade

[SergioEduP]

"DOS is dead", ships os that runs on top of it

[cthutu]

DirectX was the umbrella term which included DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectInput etc and also DirectDraw which was the name of the actual graphics interfaces.

[vespasian]

It was an interesting time to own a computer. Ataris and Amigas hadn't completely gone away and the PC even by 1995 wasn't that well supported for games. If you dumped your Atari for a PC like I did it was a rude shock to find shelves full of flight sims and golf games. Wolfenstein and then Doom eased the pain somewhat but mostly I fell back on PC ports of titles I knew from Commodore and Atari. I still favoured DOS and most devs used extenders to simplify the memory management so all was good. Then Tomb Raider came along. The first six months I played it under DOS. It was ok but the graphics were very pixellated to put it mildly. Then I played it with an Orchid Righteous 3d accelerator under Win95. No more games running under DOS for me.

[KowboyUSA]

These excursions into Nerd history are my favorite.

[JoeStuffzAlt]

I remember hearing that Direct3D, possibly other parts of DirectX, was purchased from another company.

I do know that once we got VGA and the 386-486 CPU, PCs started to be able to do what game consoles could. An NES emulator running on the 486 proves it

[jeroenboth]

Video’s like these are the reason I keep coming back to this channel

[Thekinggamelon]

And till this day, Microsoft still says: "Don't buy a console, if it's not an Xbox"

[TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

I've been working my way through your backlog and I've almost watched everything so now I'm starving for new content. I was happy to see a new video :D
Your the britsh LGR 😊

[dirtwagon]

the fact that "xbox" isn't just some name they chose because it sounds cool caught me off guard

[dreammfyre]

RIP Eric Engstrom. Apparently died last year from liver damage after accidentally taking too many painkillers when injuring his foot,

[alylee]

I've always had a memory of the Windows 95 game disc from when I was a child, but could never figure out what it was. Thank you so much! This is actually the third time you've helped me find something like that, first, it was Alien Breed 3d for the amiga cd, then it was Einhander for the ps1, now this!

[IngwiePhoenix]

Back then: Demo discs, magazines, whacky af internet sites
Today: Micro-transactions, youtube ads, DLCs
I kinda prefer the old days...