LGR - QuickShot's 1996 PC Game Starter Kit

[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.
The thing is, this is a five-in-one bundle
that just looks like they shoved a bunch of crap
they had lying around in a warehouse somewhere,
and they're like, "Eh, let's stick it in a box and sell it."
I was most intrigued by this Arcade Mania CD, though,
because I don't know what's on there.
This is from 1996
and it comes with all sorts of 1996 things.
A CD wallet.
Jewel cases that are, like, colorful, probably.
And these crappy controllers from the earlier parts of the '90s
that were just not good at all, from what I recall.
"Custom manufactured in China."
"For QuickShot."
Yeah...
And this reminds me of one of those things
that I would have, like, wanted as a kid.
But...
would have quickly changed my mind on,
and I'm glad my parents didn't let me get it. (laughs)
Oh, but look!
It's a $40 value, and this was probably like, I don't know,
20 bucks or something, I'm just guesssing.
You know,
let's just open this up because I'm intrigued of what's in here,
and it's never been opened and these things excite me.
And I'm not really sure why.
Other than very much rose-tinted nostalgia
for these cheapo bundles.
Alright, let's figure out what is actually in here.
This is the kinda thing I saw in, like, Kmarts
and like, Roses stores, just cheap
compilations of...
well, this kind of stuff.
And already, I'm finding
something I wasn't expecting.
This QuickShot controller is another color than is on the box.
(chuckles)
Ah, that's pretty typical.
Mmm, has a turbo button, which is interesting.
So yeah, turbo, that just means it's gonna press these buttons really, really quickly.
And I love how that says "For Professional Players."
Ha ha!
Ya gotta be a professional playa for one of these.
Yeah, this is just your generic, really cheap
Chinese controllers.
It's a 15-pin game port right there, so that's cool.
Oh, this brings back bad memories!
I think a friend of mine had one of these on a Sega–
No, it was a... I think it was a Super Nintendo.
Wow, it's inside the box and it's already dusty.
(laughs)
(smack)
I like the suction cups, though.
(grunts, smack)
Alright, let's see what the heck else is in here.
So we have the jewel cases.
This just amuses me so much.
They're just like, "We just had some leftover jewel cases."
Like, seriously!
Just toss 'em in there!
Here is, I guess, the arcade CD,
which I'll get to that last.
That's the one I'm most intrigued about.
I just wanna see what's on that CD.
(Velcro ripping)
And here is the 10-capacity CD wallet, mmm.
Oh, that's disgusting.
The glue from the Velcro is...
Oh, this wasn't even stored in a hot place, either.
Like, seriously.
It's just gross.
Well...
I mean, that's to be expected.
Absolutely no branding or anything, just...
(sniffs)
Smells like chemicals.
The CD is the star of the show, as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, look at that, it's got Scotch tape.
Alright.
What is on this?
Arcade Mania...
Two? Volume Two.
Okay.
Interesting, and it says Compact Disc Digital Audio.
This is already exceeding my expectations.
I was thinking this was gonna be a generic shareware, shovelware thing.
Well, let's get this installed on my Compaq 486 and...
see what it does.
Okay, so I've got the crappy QuickShot controller
plugged into the game port on the back of the sound card there.
And...
let's just see what's on this CD.
Which I have no idea because it didn't come with any documentation or even...
any hint.
Okay, so it has a bunch of batch files
just to install.
Oh, dear, what is this?
So, this install batch file only tells you what
other batch file to use.
(grunts)
Each one of these is a combination!
"If D is CD-ROM and C is hard disk.
B, if E is CD-ROM and C..."
"I, if G is CD-ROM and D is–"
Wow!
Thankfully A is the configuration I have.
That's probably what most people had.
Okay, it's just installing crap to the hard drive.
I don't know what it's doing.
Where is it installing this?
Okay, so it put it here: Mania2.
(chuckles)
Oh, hey look, we have a GUI!
Well that's nice!
I love how there's a button just for Australia orders.
Ha! Send it to Hamilton Hill.
Eh, there's an order form, registration, a user guide!
Oh, that's good.
Magic Desk.
Made in Huntsville, Alabama.
"It's a graphical DOS menuing system
that lets you easily run all your programs
without having to remember cryptic DOS commands."
Yeah, you just need the cryptic DOS commands to actually get it started.
Ooh, nice, there's icons for everything!
I love how Quarantine here is actually "QURANTINE."
(laughs)
It's the little-known Muslim version of Quarantine.
Rise of the Triad has a Duke Nukem 1 icon.
Overkill just says "BEES."
This is super bizarre.
Like, this one is "HELL,"
and it's just a cannon.
This is amazing.
Prince of Persia 2 is a nuke symbol!
Are you seeing this crap?
(whispering) Are you seeing this crap?
"ALONG IN THE DARK."
SPIDERMAN has a Superman–
I can't make this stuff up!
(hearty laugh)
HERETIC, Calvin and Hobbes.
JILL OF THE JUNGLE, just boobs!
GOBLINS is "Boblins!"
See, some of these I'm wondering, is this even the real thing or is it like...
a ripoff– Ahh!
"PICKEL WARS!"
Helda Pickel makes a return!
Oh, look at these playable demos.
Okay, so we got Dark Forces, Descent, System Shock,
Virtual Pool, NASCAR Racing, Death Dwellers!
Oh my...
And Simpsons Doom?!
I gotta try Simpsons Doom first because that's a
pretty classic WAD.
Yes!
This is already the best CD.
Aww, this is so cool!
(gunfire through speakers)
(laughs)
Oh, yes!
(gunfire through speakers)
(gunfire through speakers)
APU: She's gotta have it!
LGR: I love this, just graphic violence.
This looks like a thing for kids.
But that doesn't actually say it's for kids.
I noticed that it was kinda running a little choppy, too, here and there.
It actually is loading everything directly from the CD.
Nothing seems to be installed to the hard drive,
except maybe some...
Like, maybe this menu system?
(chuckles) Let's try "COMMENDER KEEN 6!"
And if it's actually Commander Keen 6, that is a registered game.
Oh, this is the demo version
of Aliens Ate My Babysitter.
Let's try the...
Oh, wow, that is so sensitive!
Is turbo on?
It is.
Nope, that doesn't change the sensitivity at all.
Yeah, it's even loading Keen directly off the CD,
which is totally unnecessary, but...
Cool.
(fanfare)
(game sound effects)
I mean it's–
Oh, God.
It's totally useable.
It's just not good.
This feels...
Like, I'm pressing the button in.
There it is.
Yeah, there's a lot of give in that button.
And this D-pad, it actually feels okay.
Oddly enough.
Those buttons are the worst.
Okay, so it's two-button firing.
Which means the turbo is effectively useless in this game.
But it does do that.
Alright, let's try "QURANTINE."
The typos are amazing.
There we go, Quarantine Demo.
No, I guess we're not gonna be using the
gamepad with this.
Yeah, and again, no sound, which...
I mean, it makes sense because
I didn't set up any sound!
And that's sort of weird, too.
It doesn't even give you the option.
You'd have to go into DOS
and...
configure, like, copy it over to your hard drive.
Like, even if I were to just run it straight off the CD,
it wouldn't be able to save anything.
Unless it's doing something where it's
making some sort of proxy configuration files on the hard drive, but...
I don't think so, I think it's just not very
well thought-out.
This is cool, you can make your own icons!
(chuckles)
I used to love icon makers, as a kid.
I had one, it was called
Icon Master, or...
something like that.
But I made icons for every single one of my games that didn't have them.
So I made...
And they looked better than the ones that came with this program. (chuckles)
I still have a lot of them, too.
But yeah, oof!
Well, close enough.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
I cannot imagine how that's gonna work with a two-button controller, but...
Is this the whole game?
Dang, yeah, this certainly looks like the full version to me.
Is there any sound?
Yeah, there's sound.
You know, I'm not entirely sure to how legit that is
to have appeared on what seems to be a shareware CD otherwise, but...
Sweet!
I'd have been friggin' amazed if I found that on CD randomly as a kid.
Well, that just froze the computer, but I did determine that that is a demo.
Does not include all the characters.
Does not include the two-player mode.
But that was pretty impressive for a demo,
before it totally crashed before I could get into a fight.
(chuckles)
I gotta try this god-awful joystick.
Because bad memories.
Alright! (smack)
Let's find ourself a flight sim.
Yeah, love the Falcon games.
Alright, joystick controls, we're gonna recalibrate it.
It is centered.
Top-left.
Bottom-right.
Well, it didn't recognize the top button, that's a good sign.
Alright, so the top button switches weapons.
That's cool.
Yeah, suck it!
Cargo plane!
(chuckles)
Yep, this joystick is just as bad as I remember.
If you can... (suction cups popping)
kinda see in here, it's got this flonky little thing.
Like, you see those little sticks?
What looks like a golf ball?
It's just a bad, bad design. (smack)
Great suction cups, though, I gotta say!
Well, that's pretty much all I'm going to show in this video anyway.
If you'd like to check out this disk yourself,
I have found it online.
I will link to it in the video description.
And it's pretty fascinating.
There's some interesting stuff to sort through.
And those typos and ridiculous icons
are hilarious to me. (laughs)
So anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video.
(jazz music)
Well, this was a little bit different than my normal fare on LGR,
so let me know what you thought.
I like doing these sort of relaxed looks
at certain things that I have lying around.
Perhaps you'd like to see some of my other videos,
and there's new ones every Monday and Friday.
And as always, thank you for watching LGR.

LGR - QuickShot's 1996 PC Game Starter Kit

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