Heretic and Hexen series are often overlooked gems. Loved them.

I can't believe I missed this video! It hits a good spot for me. Our first PC was a 486 DX 33Mhz that we got in 1993. In 1995 we upgraded it with a Creative multimedia kit - 4x CDROM, soundblaster 16, speakers and a ton of games. For me, the 10 games I enjoyed most on that machine were: Monkey Island 1, XCOM & Terror from the deep (it came in a bundle box with both games), Jurassic Park, Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen 4, Lemmings, Duke Nukem 1, Syndicate and of course Doom. Some were shareware but little 8-year-old me never finished them anyway, so who cares! Weekend fun!! I would have put C&C on the list, but when I got it in 1996 it was simply too slow to run on the 486. Maybe 1 frame per second at most!

Heretic is so, so good. A literal fantasy shooter.

We got our first family PC just after the 486 era (a Cyrix 5x85). P100s were in the shop at that time aswell. I've obviously heard of most of these but only really played a couple of them but as choices to play on a 486 they're definitely good calls. Back then I've played on friends 486s or at LANs at various places. They're more of an interest to me than a nostalgic thing. Very nice video Rik 👍

Ok, here are all the games I played as well: Sim Tower, Full Throttle, Master of Orion, X-COM and Heretic. Heretic has a special place in my heart because it's the first game I played in a lan setup. My step dad was studying engineering in the 90s and he setup two PCs in his apartment for us to play. I enjoyed the video very much, it was over too soon!

I recognise some of those from past epic streams! :) Another nice machine there.

Nice - Ive just got a 486 built and am loving revisiting dos games from 92 - 94 right now. Its nice to have the 486 that really makes me focus on games from a couple of years, rather than using my P3 which then opens it up over many more years (though more 3d games from the late 90's)

man i love your keyboard cdrom desktop and monitor!!!!

486 for me and many of my friends is all about we set a specific platform, like socket 3 is the last “486” platform so agree with you! You should come to our 486-themed LAN parties in Sweden when the pandemic is managed, we play all of those you had there plus many more. And THANKS for not including Doom, hate that game haha!

For 486 era games I really enjoyed playing One Must Fall: 2097 by Epic Megagames, The Shadow of Yserbius by Sierra, Where In The USA Is Carmen Sandiego (both DOS and Windows 3.1 CD-ROM versions) by Broderbund, Caesar II by Sierra, Mortal Kombat for PC, Links 386 Pro Golf by Access Software, and I'm sure a few others I can't think of. This was perhaps my favorite era of PC gaming, but I may be wearing rose tinted glasses because I grew up on them, albeit a bit late.

Great list of games. Love to see them running on this machine. Also great to see you have all those big boxes. Impossible to come by over here. One time I picked up some old hardware from this guy who said he threw away hundreds of big box games cause he didn’t think anybody was interested. He told me how he separated the cardboard / paper / plastics / disks / cds and took everything to the recycling centre .... very painful.... I do remember having Full Throttle when I was a kid and it blew me away.

I have never played game 2: puzzle game. Thanks. it looks interesting. I played Syndicate & Star Control II on my 486 machine. Supaflex and the incredible machine were the puzzle games I enjoyed.

Really want to build a super powerful 486 next! I'm putting together the Pentium (some memory refreshing for this AT build that I completely had to re-learn), have Pentium II & III covered, as well as Athlon 64 FX-57. So 486 is the last one (yeah right).

Transport tycoon look a heck of a lot like roles coaster tycoon

Is that a Vibra16 S sound card? Does it have an actual Yamaha OPL3 chip? Those are probably the best SB16 versions of all, flawless low noise card with real FM synth and no hanging note bug. Got one in my 486 too, great card :)

Got a question I have a HP Vectra VL2 SE 50 and any Idea where to find info on that board for bios upgrade and what strange on mine is the board has the layout jumpers for WB or WT cache on the board but not the actual jumper pins on the board so I can actually add jumpers to it to set it. When I look my board up there should be pins but mine lacks them and my onboard video requires a proprietary video RAM instead of just buying the ram chips and setting them in the socket on the MB. It almost like my VL2 board was a strange prototype compare to what I have found online. Have a good one.

Awesome video. What are the specs for this beautiful 486? Cheers

what model are the sound boxes? also do you know a good place to get crt screens?

I have a very similar 486 probably the same model but it has no cdrom 11mb hdd and I couldn't find the audio. Is a pin on the motherboard or it need a Isa audio card? Sorry I miss hear and give a second watch. Mine has not a sound card yet.

Still play the original TTD. OTTD is great but somehow loses its charm with all the QoL stuff.