I'm betting this was one of those games that had a HUGE manual that you were expected to go over carefully before playing

For someone who hates playing horror games in the show, Dan played some disturbing things when he was a child

Borf "talking" like the teacher from Charlie Brown made me laugh far harder than necessary

N.P.R. stops them from doing things. The evil lady bred her creatures to not be effected by it. You pushed the NPR button and froze your creatures.

I really like how dans picking the games, like a “dans games” mini series

This game makes me feel like I'm back to my young teenagehood, not because of nostalgia, but because I couldn't read English and would play games by just pressing buttons until something happened.

By far my favorite thing is Borf turning into a Charlie Brown adult

Ah, yes: Counteract an army of genetically engineered abominations with MORE genetically engineered abominations...WHAT COULD GO WRONG???

I'm honestly really impressed how much they managed to figure out of this seemingly quite complex game without any manuals or anything.

A few tips: I think Arin's orange creatures in the cargo hold kept dying because he had the mutation set to max. So they were super unstable and all died. Next, turn down the speed when you're working, as there's a time limit to how long they'll let you make creatures before each battle. You're losing a lot of your precious time just hovering over menu buttons with the speed on max. Take your time to freeze the creatures (and timer), click on individual creatures to check their stats, and build walls/inject new creatures as needed. THEN turn up the speed when you need them to proliferate. Increase the space you have, so your creatures have more room to procreate. As you saw, towards the end room really ran out. So creatures will starve and die. Try to focus on making stronger creatures in each Stat. So try and inject creatures with high points in half of the stats, and have them breed with creatures that have strength in the other half. Offspring usually don't see an increase in a Stat, so you get high stats by breeding creatures with high x with high y, now you have something high in x and y. Keep breeding the best offspring until you have creatures high in all your desired stats. Although, as you saw, go too low in things like eat and they'll die before they can mate. Consider making separate populations good at different things. Fighters on the front line with high rage, strength, and stamina. Breeders and eaters on the back lines that will proliferate your army once your front line dies. Get creative with the Stat combinations to see what is more successful. When you get creatures with good stats, section off the good ones to let them keep breeding more with similar stats. If they freely mix with the whole population, your stats will most likely level out again and you will lose those high numbers. While they go at it in a separate area, you can keep experimenting with the rest of the creatures to make more combinations. Remember, high mutation levels let you have a chance at random high stats, but equally may result in random low stats. It's a gamble every time. Be sure to make good use of the noise and decoys on your enemy in battle. And I'm sure it's obvious that you need to optimize location of creature and food deployment so that you aren't overwhelmed or left starving. I'm personally a fan of what Arin did, start by using the laser to command your creatures to eat and mate, build up numbers, and then you can focus on attacking. I haven't ever tried the strategy of dropping rage food in the middle of enemy territory, but honestly that might work!!! I hope some of that helps!

Wow. This game is something else. You MUST have had to use a manual or something. There is no explanation for anything. Just pure trial and error; push a button and see what it does.

Once they got to the point of understanding the game, this got real interesting. I'd love to see another episode of this.

“We need you to create an army of monsters to kill the rogue doctor’s mutations!” *Constructs largest airborne orgy known to man*

I feel like Arin is now gonna try every deez nuts joke on Dan since feeldee

these episodes for the past week have kept the spirit of 2014 Grumps alive, and I want these good feelings to keep coming ❤

10:24 That was surprisingly graphic...

"What is the scale here? I thought we were looking at a petri dish, or something." ... I mean, an aircraft carrier is basically just a really big petri dish...

You know this is a 90's game that was trying to sound futuristic when model numbers for computers had "2000" in them.

This game felt ahead of its time. Glad they're exploring more obscure titles and having fun with them.

“Look they’re mating!” “Are you sure that’s what you they are doing?” “Either that or they are fighting…” Sounds like someone walked in on their parents.

Can we please get more of this? I wanna see how this goes. Also a game called Impossible Creatures exists... Its an RTS where you make your army by genetically splicing animals together. I loved it as a kid

You gotta remember the 3-F's of nature: Fighting, F**king, and Fight-F**king.

All I needed was claymation and the mention of animals. Sounds like a nightmare, I’m excited!

This video is starting out with BDE (Big Dan Energy) and I'm here for it

The acting is actually pretty damn good for one of these old games. Looks like something I would have played the heck out of back in the day. I played a Jurassic park game that kinda feels along these lines. u scanned barcodes for DNA to upgrade ur dino. Was the dopest game and im amazed there's nothing similar for phones using the camera.

I feel like my colour blindness is holding me back in this game

"Hey Agumon how you doing?" Agumon: I'm just Living that Digilife!!

We all know what this means! Game Grumps clay animated clip coming up soon....

I’d actually like to see another round or two of this, it’s kind of intriguing

"Oh, they're gonna fight! They're fighting!... No, they're mating." *Not even a second later* "Wooooaaaaahhhhh."

The 2021 Grump Nostalgia Tour is so much better than the Backstreet Boys Tour

On the second island I think the speed difference between the creatures is what screwed them. The oranges have really high speed, but their greens are very slow. Green can kill orange in large numbers because they have high str/stam but can't do it quicker than orange can mate because it takes too long to catch them compared to their numbers.

"This is like when your sick and full of 10 gallons of soup"

Truly a vision of the future, when man evolves to battle with liquid turtles instead of guns and missiles.

“Hello and welcome to another weird episode of game grumps where we play a game that I vaguely remember from my childhood” I love that we are going back in time to when that’s all they used to do.

13:00 the way they tuned their screams to each other was so satisfying

Those early 90's radio accents were like that specifically because the equipment couldn't pick up the voice well if they didn't speak with a higher cadence. I'm willing to bet this game was made using the same solution.

After watching the opening cutscene, I'm more convinced than ever - we need the Game Grumps to do a Rifftrax.

This game seems incredibly detailed for the time it came out

This game is like 12 years older than me, at least, and it's still fucking mind-blowing

Me watching this episode: “They we’re so preoccupied with the fact that they could that they didn’t stop to ask if they should.”

I will not rest until gg becomes an unnatural selection speedrun channel.

Lunch breaks with Game Grumps rock

This is like, Impossible Creature's stoned grandma. Love it.

I hope they play the Black Cauldron game while they're at Danny's gaming history.

An *HOUR* of Game Grumps and weird claymation creatures???? *SIGN ME UP*

I'm really curious to see what this looks like with a better understanding of the gameplay now. Of all things, I certainly wasn't expecting this to turn out to be a real-time stragedy game.

Dan not being able to tell between mating and fighting is hilarious.

I am…very confused. But Dan uncontrollably giggling at Arin’s fart noises will always make me smile 💖

I actually really like how distorted the in game dialogue audio sounds coming through my phone speaker tbh. Vaguely reminds me of radio chatter in Ace Combat

Dans reaction to Arin "getting him" in the first 5 minutes had me stop the video cus I was laughing so hard. Like, we all have that friend who, once you get them with their own joke, will make it their lives mission to get revenge for like a month.

Went on a clay nostalgia run. This reminded me of Claymates and Clayfighter on the SNES. Amazing

The weirdest game like this I've ever played was like a 14th century, ship trading game. Where you had to choose what country you were aligned with, you get a boat and some goods and you have to trade with other countries. But it's all historically accurate, and you got to make trade routes based on prevailing winds and ocean currents. I played it because you could build cannons onto your ship and build an armada to fight pirates, but I think that's only like 40 hours into the game. It was waaaaay too involved.

I'm gonna be listening to the narration woman in my dreams. "Zooming in. Zooming out. Injecting creatures. Aircraft loading. Satellite beam." She's like the "Where did you learn to fly?" robot woman thingy.

So let me get this straight, a lady scientist runs off with a bunch of creatures all ready to breed? And this game *is not* a recent release from a Japanese company named Empress?

I love that Clicking on the creatures to get them on the plane, made them go AHHHH :D

Wow, I remember this one. I love Dan picking games, he really picks some weird ones.

"You can inject them in the SNI" "Anyplace else, or just those two?"

I love Arin's "Why doesn't this audio from 1993 game sound good in 2021!"

10:25 I love that synchronous "OOOOOOO GOD!" XD

I feel like I’m slowly going through a week of Dan’s nostalgia

"Do those buttons move the action?" 'No' (as it jumps the time forward)

20:38 that sneeze was the best part of the episode.

ngl this is the most confusing thing I've ever seen

Yes I legit want to play this game after watching this and I plan to do so. Thanks Dan!

I like the part where they go Arin: “what is this??” Dan: “I dunno”

"Borf said that he isn't familiar with the game he just said that he has a clear understanding of things in general..." Damn what I wouldn't give to be that guy

"Time to go into mate mode." Add that to the list of things not to say before proliferation.

Anyone else just start watching and wonder how they manage to play this for a whole hour?

Everytime I see the Grumps play a game with FMV it makes me really want them to play Phantasmagoria, Shivers or The 7th Guest.

I also have to say: dan having his childhood games on is awesome as fuck

I'm shocked that Arin didn't beatbox "drop the hulks" and "drop the slugs" and honestly, a lil sad

I watched this while flea combing my dog and it felt strangely relateable.

The Old school games arc of game grumps is at its peak right now, and I love it

This screamed Mystery Science Theater 3000 and I love it!!! Well done!

Wow, Arin really remembered the “Gimme some hoagie” from the gg remix

God, I would give anything to see them play FTL since Dan wants to play more strategy games. It doesn’t take that long and it’s so good

I'd definitely watch another run of this. But yes, perhaps with a bit more strategy and bit less tragedy.

Dan going "Tommy?" to the unmoving monsters really got me.

Lust, rage, and bran are the three fundamentals of living creatures

enjoying the very quiet trumpet when Borf talks

5:12 GOTEEM. Well done Arin 🏆👏

I am absolutely loving these long episodes of obscure yet charming games! Hopefully the algorithm treats these episodes well because this is Game Grumps at its finest.

"You put the food right in the center of the other army, Arin! You made them stronger than ever!"

Makes me wonder if Dan has played Lost Eden? Story driven, has talking dinosaurs

"Oh, what's going on with my mom? I've got six moms." Please don't take this out of context...

You can really see how Arin is the video game boy when he kinda figures out the game faster than Dan, who had played it before

Next: "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" for the Sega Genesis. *Sigh* a man can dream.

Actually a unique, interesting concept.

Im actually weirdly crazy interested in this game, thanks grumps for adding on to my obscure knowledge of wacky games

i love how they JUST started to understand the things, then straight up hit a brick wall lol...

all your creatures seemed to have stopped moving when you activated "M.P.R." Hope this helps!

Can't wait for the grump clip at 6:00 that just says "Dan has had enough"

actually i wouldnt mind a episode or two with you guys having a better understanding of how to play. i love these super lite rts games, where you just watch things interact with eachother

I feel like they'd be right at home with any of the Humongous games (Backyard Baseball, Spy Fox, etc.)

20:12 I swear to god all I hear is "LOADING POOPS"

Props to Boruff, for finding dans childhood fun and giving us more nostalgic Dan

These old games are so much more interesting to paly through than the hype trash that gets views. Sad that this streak will probably be abandoned due to all bad numbers.

"Can I look? Can I see?" Hmm... If only there was a button somewhere on the screen that said something like that... Maybe "Observe"? Or "Contemplate" perhaps?? Dan's inability to read a UI and use context clues to figure out a game is so frustrating sometimes.

I like how they literally made a wall of bodies and it basically ended in a draw