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For over two dozen years, PC games were primarily distributed in boxes for retail distribution worldwide. They came in all shapes and sizes too, with extravagant box art and unique package designs. But in the early 2000s, they rapidly started disappearing from store shelves, and by 2004 these retroactively named big box PC games were […]
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[typing] [jazz music] Greetings and welcome to an off-the-cuff, quickly put-together LGR thing! Looking at something that, you know, I found in storage and I wanna talk about it. (laughs) Because, I mean, what else am I gonna do with this? This is the Multimedia Games Starter Kit by QuickShot. It’s over $40 value, apparently. […]
(AVGN Intro) (AVGN Intro) AVGN: I have a confession… …I totally missed out on the Tomb Raider craze! Full disclosure: I saved all my money for a Nintendo 64, so I missed out on all the PlayStation games that everybody talks about, like: “Metal Gear Solid”, “Symphony of the Night”, “Final Fantasy VII”, and yes, […]
In his first game, Pajama Sam delved into The Land of Darkness to confront and conquer his fear of the dark. In Pajama Sam 2, his fear of thunder and lightning sent him to World Wide Weather, where he broke and then repaired a machine that dictated the environmental conditions of the entire planet. Hello […]
I am a man of many haircuts. Just a quick look through my videos, and it’s easy to see that I Iike to change it up from time to time Just usually due to general boredom Currently my hair is growing out and while some people are very pro-hair there are other people that are […]
[♪ intense action music ♪] AVGN: Capcom is a name that needs no introduction. In the ’80s and ’90s, Capcom was one of the most dominant companies in the arcade and home console market. You’d be hard-pressed to go somewhere, in public and not see a Capcom machine or one of their games at somebody’s […]
Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing! And say, can you tell me what Quake 2 Diablo, Heroes of Might and Magic 2, and Flight Simulator 98 have in common? Well other than all being awesome examples of awesome games from the late 90s, the answer is: the Hardcore Gamer Resource Kit by Sonoma Multimedia! […]
[typing] Roland MT-32. The name alone has a seductive mysterious quality to it that still reels me into this day. As a kid, configuring all sorts of DOS games, every time I saw that name come up in a setup menu, I would fantasize about it. My Packard Bell PC only had a PC speaker […]
[Ancient Egyptian MIDI music] [typing] When I think about games that have sucked the most man hours from humanity over the years, Civilization is darned near the top of my list. There are very few games that can reliably turn the early morning into late night with you barely noticing, and it all started with […]
[♪ Music and Keyboard Typing ♪] Greetings, and welcome to an LGR thing! And today, let me introduce to you, this fine computer. A buddy of mine was recently wanting to build a PC, so I said I’d help him do it, with his chosen specs being an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X CPU, 16 gigs […]