What happened to the Real Time Strategy genre?- Part 1 Classics

As someone who grew up on the cutting edge of RTS games i just want to say you did the genre proud with this content. Keep up the good work.

I played Dune 2 to oblivion. I still keep a piece of paper on which I wrote all of the map codes as a memento. It brings back fond memories.

All the sounds from Warcraft 1 & 2 are forever ingrained in my mind 😅

I'm glad you mentioned the sound effects of Warcraft 2. Back before everyone had a computer in their pocket, I have fond memories of going to the one friends house who had a computer and making our own sound packs for Worms from the WAV files from Warcraft 2 😊

Thankfully I don't have to imagine what it was like, I lived it and it was amazing. I was the rare sports nerd that would come home from soccer or baseball practice to play video games. I still have my floppy disks and CD with their cases with the codes still on them.

For its time, C&C had -- in parts -- mind-blowing graphics. The icons for the different units alone seemed very realistic at the time. I wouldn't say it was technically (far) ahead of Wc2, but it definitely took advantage of its possibilities with the maps drawn in an aquarelle-ish style that cleverly blended a lack of details with artistic abstraction.

Those games were golden, and besides clunkiness they still retain that captivating magic art style, that was lost in time evidently.

That was a quality video, quite informative. I've always wondered why it isn't as popular as before

I have fond memories of playing WarCraft II with my brother. We only had one PC so we would make maps and have the other play through them. We had huge overarching story lines, each map another chapter. I don't remember any of the story lines but we numbered each map and we were up in the 60s, probably higher but that is the latest I can remember. There was also a unit editor and we would take a hero from the expansion, edit the abilities and made it the general we could control. I do remember it was tied into our Hero Quest games. I still play WarCraft II every now and then. A few of the Command and Conquer games also, but later ones. I really think StarCraft ended RTS, it is the perfect mix of graphics, sound, ease of play, and strategy. After StarCraft the number of new RTS titles slowed down but SC still continued to have tons of players. For the most part that is all anyone plays anymore.

I played all the games, starting with Dune 2, for countless hours. Especially Warcraft 2 with a null modem. We played extremely difficult maps cooperatively. When we had finally defeated the computer after the twentieth attempt, we immediately started the map editor to create an even more difficult map.

From all the rts games i loved empire earth and battle realms the most. I still play them.

A friend and I rented Dune 2 for sega Genesis one weekend when we were kids and were blown away. Hadn’t played anything like it.

Command and Conquer was my 1st RTS I ever played, I even still have discs for the PC & PS1 somewhere.

I had bought that Dune 2 game for my Sega Genesis in the mid-1990s. One of the last games I bought for the system in those days. Great game. When I was preparing to be stationed overseas to Okinawa, I had left my family a bunch of my stuff, which included a Sega CD / Genesis combo, Playstation 1, Sega Saturn, and tons of games. My sister took immediately to the Playstation, never saw her mess with the rest. However, my dad was fond of still playing the old Sega Genesis. He basically took over my Sega CD / Genesis combo, but only played the Genesis games, games that he had gotten me for the old, chunky Genesis when I still lived at home. Back then he loved Herzog Zwei for the Genesis. That was what I saw him play most of the time. It was only Dune 2 that broke that habit and I saw him keep playing that game even when I went home on vacation during the early 2000s. He had a PC starting in the late 1990s and I offered him my discs for the awesome Starcraft, but he never did accept. He was in his 60s by that time. He knew how to work with computers but he never did any gaming on it. I tried to talk about how great Starcraft was but he wouldn't budge. Dune 2 was all he needed.

Musics and (french) sounds of Warcraft 2 are engraved in my memory. Thank you for this great retrospective, can't wait part 2 !

Love it, brought back some good memories. Good work!

Fond memories of going over to my neighbors house to play as a kid. We’d sit on these, especially wc2 and c&c. Still playing AoE2 to this day!

Great video, the sounds and music... What a nostalgy

Herzog Zwei will forever have a space in my heart.

The original Red Alert and Command and Conquer made up most of my childhood, and most of the things we complain about today about them didn't bother us. At the time it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Whenever I go back and play old games I sometimes wonder how we managed to play games back then and have such an awesome time while playing when the graphics were bad, stupid ai, and you can go down the list in comparison to today but the games back then had so much passion and ambition behind them for their time. Red Alert certainly shaped my gaming preferences from an early age. Loved the video. You got a like and subscribe from me, and hope to see more content like this. Love watching "documentaries" on the history of gaming. Brings back such good memories.