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One of really cool (personal favorite) games from that era was Hover by Eric Undersander. While not removed, it only runs on Windows with limited resolution opt
by shurcooL 12y ago
One of really cool (personal favorite) games from that era was Hover by Eric Undersander. While not removed, it only runs on Windows with limited resolution options, etc.
I was lucky enough to contact its creator and he agreed to open source it, so I can one day finish a modern cross-platform port that I can enjoy on OS X at 4k resolutions, etc.
https://github.com/shurcooL/Hover#hover https://github.com/shurcooL/Hover#hover
Unlike books, games tend to suffer this fate where you can't easily enjoy the classics from many years ago because they run on proprietary/closed source systems and aren't maintained.
- richbradshaw 12y agoMicrosoft beat you to it: http://hover.ie/ http://hover.ie/
- dbloom 12y agoNeither of this looks anything like the Hover! that actually came on the Windows 95 CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQa3OM6zBJ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQa3OM6zBJ4
- shurcooL 12y agoThe was more than 1 game with the name "Hover". However, this one had really fun physics-driven gameplay that made it unlike any other game.
- notastartup 12y agoI ended up going through a wall and got stuck in a room with no exit.
- kaivi 12y agoTalking about extras on Windows, I warmly remember this one, a song by Weezer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4 This video was included on a WIN95 CD with my first computer, along with Hover and a game-like video editor, it's name I cannot recall.
- nacs 12y agoI remember that video and the trailer for "Rob Roy" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-2kzujLA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-2kzujLA8 ) being on there and remember watching both with amazement numerous times at how smooth the video was and how many colors it had (coming from the mostly 256-color Windows 3.1/DOS days).
- zorked 12y agoI felt cheated when I discovered that Windows 3.1 with Video for Windows would play all those Win95 movies identically.
- pwenzel 12y agoOne of my best 90s memories.
- lubos 12y agoThe second song included on Windows 95 CD was "Good times" by Edie Brickell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc Indeed good times back in 1995, can't believe it's been already 20 years.
- a3_nm 12y agoI still remember fondly the MID files that shipped with Windows 95: PASSPORT.MID, CANYON.MID, and the easter egg CLOUDS.MID. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoHxMWw354 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoHxMWw354 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfYP-KrNIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfYP-KrNIM
- rickdale 12y agoI used to have the disc with hover and weezer song buddy holly. My favorite old windows game tho had to be Rodents Revenge. Between that and snake I could spend hours wasting time.
- ejr 12y agoThere's some gameplay on YouTube of the 95 version for those who never played it. It's CTF on hovercars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeFEBCwXy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeFEBCwXy0
- colanderman 12y ago??? "a game originally created by Eric Undersander in 2000." That and the pictures on the page you link make me think that is not the same Hover that was included in Windows 95: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover%21 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover%21
- shurcooL 12y agoIt's a different game.
- colanderman 12y agoWas it ever included with Windows? (I think most other posters think you're referring to the Hover! I linked, which, like Pinball in the OP, was included with Windows.)