You know you’ve made a good software catalog when it convinces Clint to buy a pack of word art fonts nearly 20 year later

"people getting married, they got everything!" lmao loving this one.

I was vibing to your techno mix - pure talent!

Oh my God LGR thank you so much, this disk is an irreplaceable part of my childhood. A friend had it, and he lent it to "me" (me and my brothers). I've been looking for it for ages but I didn't know what it was called, however as soon as I saw that expert logo and that rhyno my mind remembered.

Love how quickly you misremembered “Shaggymane” as “Weedguy”

We need another long video of this whole collection with you and roses. This is so awful and wonderful

As a kid, I grew up on these bundles. In my mind, it was either pay $20 for 1 game, or pay the same amount for 250 games. The answer was a no-brainer at the time. I remember buying Expert Software's 250 Best Arcade Games, and although there were a lot of stinkers, there were a lot of games that stuck out and still remember to this day. Great memories.

That quick eBay aside lets me know that at least I'm not the only one with a severe lack of impulse buy control

"There's not enough male stripping" -LGR

500 Games of Non-Stop fun! Press X to doubt.

I loved Beat2000 Demo when I was a kid. Spent many many hours to create a cool track but since it was a demo I wasn't able to save it, so I recorded it on tape :D

I’m intrigued by the CBT game

1) seeing a Packard-Bell PC just hit me with every level of Nostalgia. 2) this collection reminds me of these old Show & Go shareware disks with similar layouts and random collection of games.

This is some of my favorite content just exploring these old software compilations

Going through the catalog is low key asmr for me

Very 90s techno loops on that techno DAW generator thing! I love it. I suspect the drums were dubiously sampled from other tracks as well! The 303 definitely had to be samples as ReBirth the original 303 VST wasn't out IIRC! I would love to see the full thing in action since I'm a 90s techno nerd hahaha

I think the "test drive" in Hangman Jr. was trying to get an idea of how well you spell before picking words for you to spell. I've seen edutainment do that before. It helps them set a level to start at so the game isn't too frustrating for kids.

LGR, making key-gen music since 2020.

I remember that Hounds and Jackals game, especially the sounds. I think I never really figured out how it worked. But I tried quite a few times. Enough times to basically sear those sounds into my memory.

Clint, I love and respect you on a whole new level(and that’s saying something) this video helped me find a collection of shareware that I had as a kid and have been searching for the better part of 20 years. I downloaded it off the internet archive and I’ve been enjoying showing my 8 year old stepdaughter the DOS games from my childhood more than I have anything in quite a while ❤️

I have two big boxes from Expert - one is the Slam Tilt Pinball (one of the best of the genre EVER) and the other is Fantasy Illustrations, which is just a clip-art collection that's super rare today. And yeah, they were just shovelware publisher for the most part, but the packing they sticked to had certain charm.

3:30 Holy shit, that brings back some memories! So, back in the day, where I was growing up, we only had dial-up internet - which was metered according to data used but you _also_ had to pay the phone company for the phone call to the ISP. So internet access was an expensive commodity. But computers were still this exciting new thing that everyone was talking about (again, where I lived; can't say about other places - rural life is what it is) and I wanted to learn more about them. So - I actually bought those magazines with the articles about 'how to reformat to XYZ file system', 'installing linux for the first time', 'automating scheduled backups' and rubbish like that. Not because I wanted to know how to do half the stuff in them, just because they were such an insight into what a computer was and what it could do. And I read a lot more of them than I ever bought, because this being physical print media I was able to swap them with friends. I think all my old copies of these ended up with a cousin who was really into computers, or an IT department at a school a relative taught at. But they were actually really decent interesting things to have, if going online to find the information would have cost several dollars anyway and been over a 56kbps line.

I interested in that " Do it yourself lawyer" pack. I wonder how well that would work.

These things were my early childhood, my first experience with windows was playing a weird mixed game pack

Thank You so so much for trying that Male Strip Show game, you had me laughing more than i have in a long time. Wow was that funny.

Standing by for another Blerb where Clint mixes a song from Beat 2000. Love to hear a masterpiece :)

I actually played that Hounds and Jackals game when I was a kid. I distinctly remember the dogs barking at the start.

Heck, I remember 40 Games for windows from Expert Software, kept me well entertained as a youngin.

Every time I see a video pop up - I now see my cat going “blerb” in my head. Like a derpier version of “mlem”

the blue to black gradient, with the white times new roman with a shadow.. fills me with excitement and nostalgia. as does that embossed packard bell logo wallpaper! haha wow.

Expert Is like a 1998 version of Humble Bundle.

I used to love these kind of demo game compilations before I had access to the internet on my computer. I would spend hours going through the games and then playing a select few for weeks on end. The beat2000 program was pretty cool. I guess that's how all the late 90s sick beats were created.

I have been looking for this software forever! I have been watching your videos for so long, and did not realize that you did a video on this! This was bought for us grandkids to play on the old work computer my grandparents had for their business. Male strip show was the one piece of software that I have been searching for for so long, I remembered it as aliens and a very avant garde art style. Thank you for what you do man, you always make my day!

Holy shit I almost forgot about Expert Software! They always had those 100-in-1 game discs at Babbage's/GameStop back in the late 90's and I fell for the trap and bought them every damn time like candy at the grocery store check out!

That ominous cut away to you picking up that font creator on eBay simply because you found something that moderately intrigued you in the product catalog is such a relatable aesthetic ...well, it is to me anyway.

This is where it all started and I’m proud to say I remember those mid 90s days...... you can even see those architectural programs Will Wright said got inspired from, I love this ❤️

THE PACKARD BELL NAVIGATOR! Oh man, i loved that house

Amazing!!! I had the CD when I was a child. Damn, I want this now in 2023!!!

Shaggy manes are delicious mushrooms. I saw mushrooms also on the name text. Mycology is wonderful.

Just seeing the Packard Bell monitor brings back a lot of memories.

I had that same damn Packard Bell monitor with the side speakers in 1997!! Wow. I'm glad I don't have it anymore.

Oh thank you thank you thank you for your struggle with the dll thing. I never found out what to do when that pops up in those shovelware cds and now i can try all the games i couldn't when i was a kid. I have been meaning to browse through the collections for a while now and it's a good time to see what to do to atleast get a change to see them work.

Seeing Helious for the first time in 25 years brings back some repressed memories. Such a weird and frustrating game to play.

I think every gamer had one of this game collection once in his lifetime.

Man, those old collection discs were rad back in the day. I had a few that I think were pretty much just bootleg compilation discs that had all sorts of random games on them. A lot of them shovelware, but sometimes there was a real game in there between them. Knowing nothing about PC games at the time, it often took me a while to realize that some of the better games that I really liked from them were actually hugely beloved titles. Biggest one that comes to mind being the original Fallout. I actually didn't realize Fallout was a real beloved franchise for the longest time because even when I did find a Fallout game in stores and bought it, it turned out to be Tactics. So for a while I just assumed my memories of liking that one game from that one compilation disc was just wrong.

I bought one of this kind of CDs when I had my first computer. It had a lot of showelware games but some jewels like Warcraft, A-Train, 1865 and Abuse.

This is a top shelf blerb! I remember digging through broken shovelware as a teen. Good times!

My uncle had a multiple-year subscription to Smart Computing in Plain English.....he recently gave all of the issues he had to me. Nice stuff.

Expert Software was one of the better shovelware companies, and I miss them dearly. Tons of memories. Remember Spin Doctor? Fun game, that.

I was thinking only the other day about a CD collection of these sorts of games that my aunt and uncle got me for a present years ago. I got rid of it but now I'm on my nostalgia trip, wish that I'd kept it. Thanks for uploading the disc image, I think I'll grab it and fill my boots with that!

OH SHIT! I had a shovelware disk I loved that I lent to a friend ages ago and never got back. I've never been able to remember what it was called, so couldn't begin to replace it. It wasn't this one. BUT I suddenly remembered it because of the "500 games best value" thing on the back. I was like "Shit, I had one that claimed it had over a thousand games on it" and the light went off in my head. Now patrolling eBay for an ugly green "1001 Games and More" disk. Thank you LGR, you've saved my youthful memories.

Oh man, seeing Hodj'N'Podj in that catalog brings back some memories. Old buddy of mine and I used to play the crap out of that against each other. Actually a pretty good time back in the day.

@16:18 sounds your kitchen utensils make! Thank you Sir! fun to see these software collections.

Hodj N Podj was a fun little thing. My brother and I played it a lot as youths. It's how I learned to play Mancala.

Oh wow! Crystal Calibrun! I remember that one so well! Had a really nice BGM too!

People may not understand now, but before high speed internet, shovelware/shareware disks were amazing. It was the equivalent of 'flash games' for an earlier generation.

That late night lighting is great. You should it more often

Vinesauce Joel used that Beat 2000 thing to create.. Uh, beautiful things. Lol.

"Tarot: Unlock Life's Mysteries Through The World Of Tarot"... That CD-ROM title in the catalog looks quite interesting!

"Male Strip Show" sounds like a fun adventure game

Oh god, this was from a Joel Shareware Madness. Haha.

I was also curious for the Ronald McDonald game and laughed at the catalogue but when you played it I had instant memories that I played it non stop somewhere I don’t remember lol, I wonder where was it

I had a subscription to Smart Computing and a couple others in the 90's, seems it was an easy christmas gift for me for several years in the 90's

I like that the fLiPeD oUt installer uses a warning dialog to let you know it finished successfully.

"I'd love to find that" follwed by ominous music

thanks for the comfy video clint

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West was a fun little point-and-click game, very reminiscent of Myst or Shivers. I actually had it when it originally came out. It was put out Cyberflix. I've been trying to find a copy of it again, just because it was so fun.

I remember getting a Mr. Pibb video game from McDonald's as a kid, I think on a floppy disk, and it was actually a really good first person shooter-type adventure game.

Cool, at first I thought you'd had a few drinks before making the video but then realised the playback speed was at 0.5. Still a great experience anyway, thanks.

We have indeed seen that Hangman Jr. game show up on Shovelware Diggers! ;)

The weirdest thing just happened, as soon the Ebay image popped up, my phone notified me that my Ebay order of civ 2 is expect by Nov 19

PeanutButterGamer did a video on those Expert McDonaldLand games

I noticed on the back of the box that it contained Crystal Caliburn. That was a great virtual pinball program back in the day.

Better than the shareware collection i used to borrow from a friend.. 1000 games and only numbered folders on the disc. once the companion booklet was lost it became a nightmare. But it had demos to warcraft2 and batle arena so we were happy.

I had that same Packard Bell monitor. I gave it away after college, but I kept the Pentium 200MHz machine for use as a router. those built in speakers were convenient.

Seems like not even early Windows was safe from these weird "500-in-1" game packs

I remember Gubble! I was able to get both Gubble and Gubble 2 at an Ocean State Job Lot when I was in middle school; hooray for CD bargain bins. Didn't get that far into the first one compared to the second, the difficulty was surprising for a kids game. I had a hunch and went to check Steam; turns out the developer released an updated version this year on June 9th for $10, same price as the CD back then. Welp, time to go rack my brain again.

I have PTSD from that windows error noise. Also, the frustration of hitting the windows key while you were in a fullscreen dos game, and having it get windowed, or usually, then immediately crashing, such as with Duke 3D, and of course when you were playing Dukematch, and winning.. Is why I ended up with a bunch of keyboards with the 3 windows keys popped off, because I could never find a way to disable them..

I had one of those game compilation packs for Windows 95 as a kid. It wasn't the same one reviewed here but it had a fat stack of games on it.

As a kid msdos shareware compilations were some of my favorite things to go through. Now years later they’re probably the only msdos games I still play.

15:47 I'd listen to more techno stuff from Clint like this.

Expert typing tutor on win 3.11 is what taught me how to type. I thank my grandma everyday for forcing that onto me now that I’m older

"That's a book that came with a shareware disk." Oh man, I have a book just like that. Picked it up over ten years ago, it was part of a book transfer project thing, focused on Windows 95. Of course, when I picked it up I didn't realize it was written in German.

A P75 corner Packard Bell? A friend had one of them with the PB software Navigator...ohh fun times.

Reminds me of those Internet web site guide magazines you used to buy at the newsagents. The ones that were just like a phone book directory listing full of web sites.

'The shrink wrap is actually shrinking the box' ..lol

whoa. I'm pretty sure I bought exactly this from a computer store when I was a young kid. That jewel case seems so familiar

I have great memories of DUST a great fps/adventure title :)

I'm gonna take a wild stab in the dark here and presume before watching that this doesn't quite actually have 500 games on it.

I have the expert releases of both Cannon Fodder and Dust, bought at a long gone Pharmhouse store in the mid-late 90's. If you've never played Dust I highly recommend it, its a very unique adventure game.

This reminds me of "707 great games"

I've "15.000 Games and variants" from Easy Computing. I don't have the box anymore. But I do have the 8 (!) CD-ROM's it came with. Some of the games I actually 'liked'. But most of it's use is now on my mothers Acer Desktop with Vista. For like-this-other-game game: Tetris, Mahjongg, Bejeweled. I picked it up during it's Windows XP-era release.

I got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday and im feeling really awful, but LGR always manages to cheer me up👍🏻

Dust was RedDeadRedemption before rdr was a thing. I replayed it on android via doxbox and windows 3.1. its a childhood classic of mine.

Looking forward to that Font Blerb. Expert Software also re-released my favorite PC game, The Dark Eye. It is a point-and-click adventure game that is based upon the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and all the characters are clay puppets. It also has a great cast William S. Boroughs, Jennifer Hale, and Tom Kane. One of the unique points of the game is how each tale is played from the perspective of victim and murderer. It is an extremely underrated game.

You need to be on the radio... perfect voice for it

I actually did buy the 3D Font Creator back in the day at like OfficeMax. Can't say I used it more than a few times.

This was a wonderful video!

I quickly saw Skunny Kart scroll by on the screen. Worth it for that alone.

I remember liking these as a kid as I had limited internet access and couldn't buy anything online and some of the games I liked on these I couldn't find in stores either so just played the shareware versions over and over. This reminds me of one CD I bought when I was out in early 2000s or before that and I am pretty sure it said something like "Games the best 1000" or maybe it was 1001 or 100 or something similar. I lost the CD years ago after moving house and I have been trying to find what it was called so I could find a list of what was on it since as I remember liking some of the games on it. Plus there was a 2D tile based farming game where you clicked on tiles to plant crops, water, harvest crops etc... I would really like to know what it is as I remember liking the single midi track that would play over and over with a harmonica. Games I do remember being on it were shareware versions of: eGames: Speedy Eggbert and Demonstar, a 2D game called Treasure Island, Rats! (A top down maze like game where you had to kill all the rats before they bred and took over the level), Kung Fu Kim, Nonsense Trilogy by Cinnamon Interactive and Jumping Toon ( a French top down 2D game where I think you where in a cave and you had to jump rocks to get from bottom to the top of the level.)