Is it possible to legally share images such as these? How does Archive.org get away with it? Do I put them on a USB stick in my bin and wait for someone to take it out? 🤔 Join the discussion at discord.gg/rmcretro Neil
@tehf00n
Жыл бұрын
We have a human right to archive these things. It's never been proven, but it's facts ! Seriously though... I support archiving of computer games for historical purposes. I'd release it anonymously.
@tehf00n
Жыл бұрын
@@thomasrotweiler this is why a VPN and a fake name saves computer game history :)
@Bobbias
Жыл бұрын
@@thomasrotweiler Given how old these games are, and the fact that nobody involved with these games still stands to make any money off their sale, I'd say nobody has a moral right to keep us from distributing these things. Legally, someone might still have rights to these things, but IP laws are insane and make no proper sense, which is why I specified moral rights vs legal ones.
@thomasrotweiler
Жыл бұрын
@@Bobbias The copyright owners have a moral right to protect their property - users have no moral rights over other people's property.
@eddiehimself
Жыл бұрын
@@thomasrotweiler mmm those corpo boots must taste nice 😋
@AnthonyRosbottom
Жыл бұрын
Microprose used many UK developers back then. Me and my two business partners were Sleepless Knights, based in Preston Lancs and the developer of Special Forces. The two coders I worked with (I was the artist in the team), previously did the AtariST and Amiga versions of Airborne Ranger (as a company called DMA Systems, not to be confused with DMA Designs of GTA fame). When I finished the graphics for Special Forces I was at a loose end while the coders finished the game so ended up doing an animated intro for Microprose's David Leadbetter golf game. We visited Tetbury once to visit Microprose. I can't remember exactly what for but we had started working on a strategy game for them based on 'Invaders', the black and white 50's US TV show. That game unfortunately got canned. It was probably too ambitious for the 486 Dos PC's of the time. We stayed overnight in a room above a nice, rowdy pub in the middle of Tetbury (wish I remembered the name of it). We got drunk and met a guy there who was an extra on the Highlander film. This triggered an epic road trip to the Scottish Highlands the next morning to see the castle featured in that film but I'm wandering away from Microprose now so I'll stop :) Thanks for the video. Triggered some great memories.
@willd6215
Жыл бұрын
A spontaneous road trip, sounds epic
@arfanmedni7294
Жыл бұрын
Encore, More more please
@ChrisThomas-lt8jd
Жыл бұрын
In the summer of 1995, I think... I was looking for a new job. I had quit working at The Bitmap Brothers (having completed work on Z), and a few weeks later, Microprose summoned me to the Chipping Sodbury office. They paid the rail fare from South Wales (and back!), so at the worst I got to walk the hallowed halls of "the prose". First Prose game I played was F14 Strike Eagle back in 1984. And of course there was Civ and Railroad Tycoon + many more. The campus felt VERY quiet. I put that down to summer holidays. The interview went "well" in that they were positive about my work, it seemed if this carried on, I was "in". But as the interview closed, the interviewer said to me. Sorry to say this Chris, but we can't in all honesty offer you a job, as we have been told this week, that this office and indeed Microprose is closing. And there we go, that door closed. I headed back home, in an odd mood. To have such a positive interview at one of my hero companies, but to find out during it, that they were gone. It was all a bit odd. Got to say, Microprose was a giant of 80/90ss game development, soo many excellent titles came from them. X-Com, Civ, Pirates and all the sim titles as well. I can't really understand, to this day, how they went bust... So many successful titles. I guess "operating costs" were just too high i.e. too much profit was skimmed off at some point and left it with cash flow problems. Who knows.
@Dark_eVader
Жыл бұрын
I believe you meant F15 Strike Eagle
@ChrisThomas-lt8jd
Жыл бұрын
@@Dark_eVader Yes, F15, not F14, to be honest, I at first thought it was Super Huey UH-IX, but it turns out that was COSMI. But I guess it does bear remembering that Microprose were VERY simulator focussed back at their start.
@daviddavies3637
Жыл бұрын
@@ChrisThomas-lt8jd Super Huey wouldn't have been one of theirs. Would never have got past QA. I remember renting it once for the Atari 8-bit. I played it a couple of times as it was goddamn awful and unplayable. The issue was the mountains which, as you closer, they'd get bigger but the gaps between them would get smaller. The limited 3D was way off.
@licensetodrive9930
Жыл бұрын
Ahh yes, dumpster diving at Microprose in Tetbury, I remember it well, pedalling back with rucksacks full of stuff, I mostly wanted the 3.5" game disks they threw away to re-use as blank disks. The Microprose baseball cap currently sitting in The Cave is one I retrieved during such a dive, and to this day I still use their giant clear plastic snap bags which were for storing the manuals+disks in the game boxes, can't figure out why they threw away so many, they're very useful.
@dh2032
Жыл бұрын
I wander did they have thing using a fresh disk, every time, like never just delete the old stuff, and reused the floppies back then a good quality floppy would set us back £3 or so, and as that what there doing all day and everyday putting stuff on floppy disk backup master pre-releases, etc.
@himselfe
Жыл бұрын
Neil: "I don't know anything about that piracy business" Also Neil: *building an industrial grade floppy copy station*
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Shhhhhhhhhhh! you'll get us both in trouble
@razorsz195
Жыл бұрын
Should be nicknamed "Big Floppa" :p
@mwk1
Жыл бұрын
@@razorsz195 now quote "I love it when you call me Big Floppa" sounds really familiar 😎
@IntoTheVerticalBlank
Жыл бұрын
Oh man! This is an incredible video, Neil! Those old street and buildings plus a Microprose specific store! You always bring the goods!
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Oh thanks! glad you liked it
@evo5dave
Жыл бұрын
Microprose was by far my favourite games publisher back in the day. So many genuine classics.
@transkryption
Жыл бұрын
Civilization of course, but I think Lightspeed/Hyperspeed were underrated
@DextersTechLab
Жыл бұрын
Cracking video Neil! I did have some experience of using duplication services in the 1990s. A pre-production sample was made by the duplicator from the master and sent back to the customer for them to approve before you committed to a big production run. Most duplication services were also disk manufacturers.
@daniel_lucio
Жыл бұрын
I can't think of the 90's without thinking of Microprose, as a combat simulator lover I still have dozens of big boxes of Microprose games, SSI and Microprose were (and still are) my favourites.
@desposyy
Жыл бұрын
I can
@handlesarefeckinstupid
Жыл бұрын
They were the kings on the speccy 128k as well in the 1980s. gunship took up an awful lot of hours of my early teens.
@daniel_lucio
Жыл бұрын
@@desposyy "Yes We Can't" Alfred E. Obama
@arnofleck
Жыл бұрын
As Tim and I were driving back to Heathrow today after the visit to the Cave yesterday, we - totally by chance - drove right through the town center of Tetbury and Tim immediately recognized the place from seeing this video, so we stopped and took a look ourselves. Really nice location, I can see how this would become the game development capital of England. 😄 Great to hear these disks are now safely archived and that you will have the chance to puzzle together a bit more of Microprose history over time.
@AndyHollis33
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! My very first trip to Europe was to the Tetbury offices for a marketing trip for Gunship. Also first time at a real UK pub, driving on the "wrong" side of the road, roundabouts, etc. So many fond memories.
@stevelupton2533
Жыл бұрын
SES - the occupiers of that building now - are a really interesting company. They service and maintain ejection seats, parachutes, life rafts, aircrew helmets and so on.
@OttoIncognito
Жыл бұрын
For me it was UFO/XCOM and Transport Tycoon. These two Micro Prose games started a lifelong love for strategy games
@seanys
Жыл бұрын
I am totally here for the driving places and looking at bins content! 🥰
@glonch
Жыл бұрын
"...that's the content you're here for isn't it so watch me drive you places and look at bins. That is some top-quality KZitem content" Yes, yes it is. We all bow to greatness.
@YenRug
Жыл бұрын
I actually worked in the Hampton Street Industrial Estate building for several years, long after Microprose were gone, only realising it was the same location after coming across a compliments slip that came with replacement discs for Gunship 2000 that I'd been sent. It finally made sense why a girder, that ran above my desk, had a Stunt Car Racer sticker on it.
@mindexplorers
Жыл бұрын
I did a few days in the store at Hampton Street - racks piled high with Microprose boxes - and we had races on the pallet trucks up and down - happy days :D
@NozomuYume
Жыл бұрын
Check the formatted disk image for data in case the disk was only quick formatted -- if so, the data is still on the disk and just the file information was wiped. In addition you can check parts of the game for checksums to make sure they're the same as retail or different, or maybe a rare early retail version (since games sometimes got updates).
@imqqmi
Жыл бұрын
Agreed, with amiga disks disksalv can recover files if they are still in-tact.
@ctrlaltrees
Жыл бұрын
Good stuff as always! Rick Dangerous was fantastic on the ST, not that I could get very far back in the day 😄
@zoid9969
Жыл бұрын
Glad it wasn't just me. Such an infuriating game!
@rosstee
Жыл бұрын
@@zoid9969 I didn't play it on the ST but remember Rick Dangerous regularly committing the game design sin of unavoidable death, and so it became a big memory test.
@ctbfalcon
Жыл бұрын
I played Falcon 3.0 a lot and I loved that game so much that "Falcon" in one form or another has been my gamer tag for years and years.
@Brian_Rogers
Жыл бұрын
The two MicroProse games I spent the most time with were Lightspeed and Silent Service II. I never really did understand what the goal of Lightspeed was and just flew around either picking fights with aliens or or trying to peacefully negotiate with them. I may have come close to finishing the game one time but I'm not sure.
@Mani-aX
Жыл бұрын
Gunship for the C64 was my first introduction to MP. Then later I had M1 Tank Platoon on our Tandy 1000TL. Thanks for the flash back with memories of this company.
@dave24-73
Жыл бұрын
I always loved their Manuals, so detailed they were a treasure in themselves.
@inhumanmusic1411
Жыл бұрын
Indeed. Their manuals went into detail on the nature of their topic. Today, you get a blank stare when you mention game manual to someone.
@psprog
Жыл бұрын
This takes me back - we all went en masse to check the studio out in Chipping Sodbury, after Psygnosis closed down in Stonehouse (not Stroud, but The Wheelhaus studio often referred to as being in Stroud...) where I worked at the time. 1999. I recall it resembled a Silicon Valley type building, confirmed by the footage here!
@merseyviking
Жыл бұрын
We used to get on our bikes and cycle to Tetbury to go dumpster diving. Got a lot of good games. We even got caught once and got to see tbe inside of the warehouse. They gave us a stern telling off and let us go thankfully, so my parents were none the wiser. Happy days!
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Hah love that story, can you remember where the bins were?
@merseyviking
Жыл бұрын
looking at that photo, I remember we didn't have to sneak past the windows, and I am pretty sure they were not even round the corner of the building, you just had to get past the loading bay and there they were. IIRC there were two bins that were more like big covered skips. The door we got taken through was round the back, which is how we came to go through the warehouse. I remember being really impressed they had a couple of arcade cabinets there too! The skips were used for general waste too, because I remember finding some coffee-stained boxes and stuff. But I allegedly got a copy of Gunship on the Speccy, Ultima V with the cloth map and everything for the PC, and a few other games. Allegedly. They must have been faulty returns I reckoned, but most of the stuff we got worked. This would have been 88 or 89, and I don't remember seeing any nails through discs, but then we would have just tossed those anyway.
@merseyviking
Жыл бұрын
Also, I ended up working for Julian and Nick Gollop at Mythos Games in Harlow. They tell of the time they were developing XCOM and in the latter stages of development they had their own office at Microprose, it was a tiny cupboard with no windows and just enough room for them to sit side by side. I had assumed it was in the Tetbury building, but now I have learned that there were several sites, it might have been in Sodding Chipbury.
@merseyviking
Жыл бұрын
Also also, I grew up in Stroud and used to frequent The Model Shop almost every day after school. We got to know the staff, and I even ended up doing a week's work experience there. So this video has been a proper trip down memory lane! Thanks so much for doing this.
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant I’m so glad you enjoyed the trip!
@Gareth.W
Жыл бұрын
I just stumbled upon this video by chance and it has brought back so many memories. I grew up in the next town along from Tetbury and my neighbour was an accountant at Microprose. She had a copy of almost every game they produced, despite not actually being a gamer, and was the one who introduced me to the Atari ST. She also arranged it for me to do my work experience there where I spent a week with the testers and playing games. I must have been 15 at the time, so we're talking '90. So many happy memories! Thanks for uploading this video - I'm off to watch your some of your others now :)
@TheStevenWhiting
Жыл бұрын
4:57 Exact issue I had on my 386sx. I used to just play the demo as didn't have the game. I was clueless back then and didn't realise it was taking ages per turn because the PC wasn't powerful enough.
@sycove1
Жыл бұрын
In the early to mid 1990's Microprose allowed Guildhall Leisure aka Acid Software to publish under licence a number of their classic titles including UFO Enemy Unknown, B17 Flying Fortress and several others. I have a few of these still.
@mbarker_lng
Жыл бұрын
I was hired at MPS in 1994, starting right on Valentine's Day at the Hunt Valley office. My first game was being added late to the Transport Tycoon Deluxe expansion, but my first full game was Colonization. Career-wise, it was the best time of my life by far. Looking back its almost hard to believe that it was one of the biggest names in eGames at the time and if not for a few bad biz decisions (and some questionable games), I would have likely worked there the bulk of my career. Ironically though, I was in the last batch of people hired at this office in my dept before the layoffs came again and again.
@ybergik
Жыл бұрын
For me, "microprose soccer" (c64) was the first to come to mind. Spent countless hrs battling it out with my brother.
@ukcc1
Жыл бұрын
Same here, as soon as I hear the name Microprose its soccer and F1 Grand Prix that spring to mind. Gotta love those banana kicks in Microprose soccer where you can basically do a 180. No suprise though considering it was developed by Sensible software, and they were anything but sensible with a lot of their games
@SparkyMAWy
Жыл бұрын
I used to work for a disk duplication company in Bradford. Pre-production samples tended to be a copy of a master that would a copy of the customers master. The customer would get a copy to check and approve and copies would also be held by the duplicator. The Pre-prod would be done from an image created from the original and when approved, that image would be used to write and verify production copies.
@eborger
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Neil, this video made me take out my a1200, now sitting on my workbench. Shown it to my kids (3, 6 and 8) 🙂 Even the 28 year old Western Digital Caviar 21000 still works. Now to check the two a500's, but i bought those a couple of years ago, bought the a1200 after lots of newspaper deliveries 🙂
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
That's lovely to hear!
@rigues
Жыл бұрын
The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear Microprose is the arcade version of F-15 Strike Eagle they had at a mall in my town. It was the first polygonal game I had ever seen, and the fluid, high-resolution graphics left a HECK of an impression.
@retroandgaming
Жыл бұрын
Transport tycoon! Probably the game I have sunk the most hours into and I still do play it. Or more specifically the open source remake OpenTTD. Thanks for another great video :)
@Tossphate
Жыл бұрын
My version has a bug where you start loosing all your money later into the game. I still played it again and again and just considered that to be the "end game"
@bluetideuk
Жыл бұрын
Thankyou for this video, I deliver to the co-op in Tetbury now and then and its nice to know something interesting and appreciate the area. I now admire the old shop as I go up and down on the tail lift :D also the Market house is a beautiful building and now I know what it is.
@dwinterx
Жыл бұрын
Really loved a lot of Microprose games, UFO on the PC being probably my all time favourite. The sequel though, Terror from the Deep was easily the hardest game I ever played!
@hosseruk
Жыл бұрын
Antics in Stroud was a common destination for my brothers and I growing up - couldn't believe my eyes seeing it mentioned in this video. I even remember the sign/fronting of the cafe next door.
@TransCanadaPhil
Жыл бұрын
hi Neil, I’m coming to visit both the Cave and Arcade Archive tomorrow morning. I’m in Stroud now, staying a couple of days. I took the train in from London (I spent 5 days in London) after flying over from Winnipeg, Canada. This is a real picturesque area this Cotswold place. Cheers! I can’t wait to see the cave.
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant I hope you have a lovely time! I’m afraid I’m at my best friends stag event this weekend down in Cornwall so I won’t get to see you but Alex will be there and Holly will show you behind the scenes if you tell her I sent you 👍
@TransCanadaPhil
Жыл бұрын
@@RMCRetro I played Pyramid Patrol on your LaserActive on the cave. MegaLD was the only Sega format I've never played before so that was cool to see. Talk about an obscure expensive format and this is coming from a guy that owned the Sega Tower of Power (Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega CD, and 32X). I bought your book and tote bag.too. Met Alex and spent the afternoon in the archive, I really like that Nintendo Sherrif arcade cab with its bizarre knob control, it feels like you're controlling the game with a Barbeque 😄
@IgkuitBBswm
Жыл бұрын
MicroProse made all of my C64 favorites, like Project Stealth Fighter and Silent Service. I used to take the manuals to school and pour over them repeatedly.
@AmstradExin
Жыл бұрын
The Micro Prose logo meant for me mre than anything, cool Vector Graphics!
@stephenwilson5043
Жыл бұрын
Yes great to see it back now Microprose had been reborn, it will be quite something when their new versions of the old classics starting with B17 begin to appear in the next year or two
@TheMegaross91
Жыл бұрын
Blimey, I've seen most of those microprose buildings and had no idea
@miketran4289
Жыл бұрын
I've had fond memories of MicroProse in the 90's for PC and Amiga games.
@ximaipa6254
Жыл бұрын
Cool content … I still have my test diskettes fromTFTD I played looking for bugs. I also have source code diskettes I used to send code back and forth from the US to the UK and vice versa. I spent time at Chipping setting up the BBS system ( this was before the Internet) and Germany and it was the best time of my life. Great people to work with at all locations.
@LetsPlayKeldeo
Жыл бұрын
I wish when you looked at the dress and said "Uh ten Pounds not bad" that the net shot of you in the cave would have had you wearing the dress without saying anything and the net shot in the cave you would have our normal street wear on again
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Haha how do I hire you?
@shanehebert396
Жыл бұрын
Back in the day, if a box had Microprose on it, it was almost surely a good buy.
@ricardobornman1698
Жыл бұрын
The original Gunship copy protection was an interesting one. Apart from needing the manual they did something to the disc's which made them almost impossible to copy. I recall my copy had two 360k floppies with a silver hub. The box art was beautiful.
@retrosim4197
Жыл бұрын
The box art really was very nice. If you look carefully in the cockpit glass you'll spot my avatar. Mine came from an early promotional poster which was a little bit different. They darkened the cockpit glass in the final version that made its way on to the boxes.
@anakondase
Жыл бұрын
Same thing with my original Starglider 2. It worked perfectly fine in my A500 as well as a friends 1040 ST. Yes, it contained both the Amiga and Atari version. Neither of us was able to create a working copy of it though. I wanted to create a backup but it just wasn't possible.
@macmaniac3080
Жыл бұрын
That Dysan diskette case!!! I has one just like it!! Nostalgia overload!!!!
@tipulsar85
Жыл бұрын
First Games past the exit were Civ 2 Gold and Hellcat Ace. The latter was for 8-bit Atari and was one of the first games for the company.
@michaelwincott
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this, Neil. I know it's a bit odd but I found the visit to old software houses really moving. My little TV in the 80s was influenced by those staff in those buildings. I really hope some of those people end up sharing their experiences with you.
@kimberlymason1060
Жыл бұрын
Silent service took up hours of my life. Great game
@olepigeon
Жыл бұрын
Darklands is still my favorite Microprose game. I still play it fairly regularly. Lots of fun. I even designed and printed out my own US movie 24x36 poster for my wall. :)
@fourthhorseman4531
Жыл бұрын
Microprose! Man those titles are my teenage years! I loved their products and have many fond memories of playing their simulations and games. Great subject and video! Thanks!
@davidbanner9001
Жыл бұрын
It's hugely important to archive such disks. It's great to have the story and indeed history of the disks and company.
@SMlFFY85
Жыл бұрын
22:13 You look like one of the Off Roaders from The Fast Show. XD
@chrishorner4462
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Tetbury (I lived on the very hill where the woolsack races take place for 18 years) and my mate lived literally behind the fence of the MicroProse building on Hampton Road, after school we really did try and find disks in the bins - (large blue bins if memory serves). We did find some disks and they didn't have nails through, but I don't recall ever finding anything that was really playable (I guess in reality it would have been pretty unlikely) but to a couple of 10 year olds the idea of free games was all we needed to give it a try! This would have been in the very early 90s I don't remember the dedicated shop in the MarketPlace though, may have been before my time..
@markcartwright8169
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, really enjoyed the preservation aspect as you never know what historical oddities will pop up. Spent so many hours playing stunt car racer and Gunship 2000 with my brother, and what can you say about x-com. Oddly enough my brother completed Tower of Babel, there can't of been many people to do that, one of his favourite games ever and rightly so, cheers for the great content!
@JenniferinIllinois
Жыл бұрын
When I think gaming in the 80s and early 90s, Microprose is what comes to mind. Pirates, Railroad Tychoon, Gunship and Civilization. Some of the best games ever. But there were so many more that I played on my Commodore 64.
@airfixer9461
Жыл бұрын
Woooow, great video..I love those old Tetbury Microprose boxes, I still have several of them in my stash. Great to have had a look into the old places were all the magic was going on in those days. You were buying quality software when you bought Microprose..so they're still one of my favourite game companies today...being long gone..!
@Just_lift_anyone
Жыл бұрын
What a wonderful collection, absolutely unique! 😮
@lastfreethinker6810
Жыл бұрын
My brother and I played Master of Orion so much we know the copyright protection ships by heart. Lol, we still know them!
@Wilitee1976
Жыл бұрын
Really interesting vid - liked the road trip too!
@tooheystechgaming1977
Жыл бұрын
no one ever mentions golf when they speak about microprose....gotta be the best amiga golf game ever cracking video neil loved seeing the old buildings
@InCaldera
Жыл бұрын
Even as a kid, it was obvious that MircoProse was an English company. My first exposure which will ALWAYS be my reference point was Rex Nebular. My mom would playthrough games with me and honest to God, thats the best memories I have.
@alanedwards8834
Жыл бұрын
Oh Colonization, those soothing tones!
@KK4CNM
Жыл бұрын
First title that I think of? Gunship 2000. I spent many happy hours playing that with friends back in the day.
@BANGAverageTanker
Жыл бұрын
My Micropose memories mostly started when I was in my year in industry at college in 1994/5. IN 1993 I had bought an Amiga 1200, and my YII allowed me to get a 1230 accelerator and a Multisync monitor. It also allowed me to buy a CD32, which I got from a local Tandy’s for next to nothing…
@endgovernmentextremism
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thanks... I was having so much fun with the tour I forgot about the disks until you got back to them. Falcon was my main series but I always wanted M1TP2 (that 2 page ad in PC Gamer was amazing) so ended up buying a boxed copy a couple of years ago. The BMS team is supposedly working on a new terrain engine next, so Falcon is still going strong. It's a lot more immersive than DCS if you ask me, thanks to the dynamic campaigns. I find it very comforting, like maybe I'm not as old as I think and the past isn't completely dead.
@WyrdieBeardie
Жыл бұрын
This so4t of content is absolutely fascinating! Thank you.
@WW-jt2sq
Жыл бұрын
I live about 5 minutes away from their old office in Hunt Valley Maryland. They became Firaxis and moved like 20 minutes away to Sparks.
@hjalfi
Жыл бұрын
A quick plug for FluxEngine, which is my own flux level sampler --- it's intended for use with my own DIY hardware based on a PSoC5 board, but my client software works on the Greaseweazle too. It's more heavily weighted towards weird old formats and it's also capable of reading and writing files without having to image the disk. If you want to do anything with hard-sectored disks, then you'll want FluxEngine hardware rather than a Greaseweazle. I'm hoping to add support for other flux samplers, like the AppleSauce and the Kryoflux at some point.
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Take your heart and everyone go check out FluxEngine
@granitepenguin
Жыл бұрын
What's likely happened with Gunship is it had a single-use system. You had to install to a HDD via the install tool, which would render the floppy unusable. You could "uninstall" the HDD install back to the floppy if you needed to move it to a different system. They apparently did that to make sure it would be on only one system at a time. I ran into this when I wanted to move off my Amstrad PC-1512 to a shiny new 386sx/25MHz
@belstar1128
Жыл бұрын
With some of these old office buildings or industrial buildings you can't come too close because the workers will tell you to go away sometimes they even get aggressive. back when i was a teenager i saw some interesting equipment on the parking lot. i was just staring at it from the sidewalk and they where already coming out of the building yelling at me.
@AnthonyTeasdale
Жыл бұрын
Gets me thinking I should image my disks. have hundreds of floppies here. Sooner rather than later too as they will not last forever.
@rCRTEr
11 ай бұрын
Remember playing gunship on my Amiga 500 I played it so much that my disk got bad after a while and I had to replace it with my receipt. But yes I found an option to copy it to hdd and then I could play it forever if I wanted. But also very fond memory´s of playing colonization, pirates, tank platoon, silent service on the amiga those days where awesome Microprose was a awesome game studio at the time. And yes I bought the originals at the time because you wanted everything in the box manual, overlay, extras and so on.
@Pugwash.
Жыл бұрын
I had the original Stunt Car Racer on my ST-FM ad it ran very badly, but didn't crash. The Amiga version was smooth and great fun. I used to skip-dive at an industrial estate near home as a kid but just for electronics components from discarded gadgets.
@geoffbarnett82
Жыл бұрын
Microprose also had an office in Chipping Sodbury in South Gloucestershire, they had a fairly big office there in the mid 90’s, I was lucky enough to do work experience there for 2 weeks as a teenager.
@fishy7901
Жыл бұрын
Geoff Crammond Grand Prix on the Amiga. Amazing game.
@mindexplorers
Жыл бұрын
I saw a lot of those disks as I did a stint in the testing dept at the Tetbury office (the one with the bins) :D
@Retroornew
Жыл бұрын
Im pretty sure that Microprose had offices near me in Chippinsodbury as well, which is only about 25mins from Tetbury
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Keep watching 👍
@thepillock
Жыл бұрын
Tower of Babel was one of the first Amiga games I played, as part of the Astra Pack that the dealer supplied with my A500. Many happy hours spent on that, good to see it again
@eddiehimself
Жыл бұрын
@18:50, I'm now imagining Neil in a bright pink dress 😂
@keithjackson1180
Жыл бұрын
When you mentioned going to the MicroProse location, I was thinking in Hunt Valley, Maryland. They were in the same area as where my father worked when he was with Texas Instruments.
@spitfireraf1003
Жыл бұрын
Loved the Microprose games, spent hours on Gunship 2000, one of the best games i played on the Amiga and got me into flight sim which i still love today. Nice video Neil, really enjoyed watching this.
@TheGalacticIndian
Жыл бұрын
MICROPROSE is a legend!🎖🎖
@rigues
Жыл бұрын
Neil, I suggest you get into contact with the folks at Gaming Alexandria for more help onto how to correctly preserve and share those games.
@chrismes76
Жыл бұрын
The hat is awesome. I remember buying and cracking Special Forces for my buddies. You had to type in words from the manual as copy protection, but the words were stored in plain text in the .exe file and you could just erase them with a HEX editor.
@devriak4263
Жыл бұрын
I used to buy all my Amiga games from Antics Stroud back in the day, never knew there was that shop in Tetbury though
@jameshorigan3322
Жыл бұрын
3:58 response. . ."Drive on my friend!" :^D
@TomStorey96
Жыл бұрын
Transport Tycoon (Deluxe) was my childhood. I still play it today, albeit OpenTTD, but with the original sounds and graphics.
@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou
Жыл бұрын
I have a pile of MicroProse disks from my days there, from early 1990 to late 1993.
@ronsmith4325
Жыл бұрын
So many great memories playing Silent Service II and Gunship 2000 back in the day
@p_mouse8676
Жыл бұрын
Bin digging, hahaha, that cracked me up so much 🤣😂👍
@madyogi6164
Жыл бұрын
UFO and Rick Dangerous. OMG. Spent months(?). no - years on these. So cool!!!
@preferredimage
Жыл бұрын
I'd just like to say what an absolute joy it was being there in the cave this weekend. Loved the setup, atmosphere and general laid back approach. really enjoyed myself. Despite not playing Sam Fox strip poker on ANY platform! ;)
@RMCRetro
Жыл бұрын
Great to meet you!
@daveanderson70
Жыл бұрын
I loved Gunship back in the 1980’s and Silent Service has never been bettered.
@MikeyGRetro
Жыл бұрын
A great episode. Liked that you took the time to visit these places. Grand Prix was the first one I thought when you said Microprose but so many great classics from that time.
@paul_k_7351
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved Microprose.
@Tossphate
Жыл бұрын
This is the best thing on youtube
@tmp-3mtempest79
Жыл бұрын
This was really interesting - I loved getting a look at Microprose. Thank you for making this!
@benjaminwirth5192
Жыл бұрын
I am still playing enemy unknown pretty often. I really enjoy that game since we played it first in the nineties.
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