"Japanime," or "The Greatest Video Game Ever Made" - 486 Retro Gaming Music Video

Song: "Japanime" (or "The Greatest Video Game Ever Made")
Music and guitars by Chris McGraw
Drums by Tom Reavis

Written and produced by Chris McGraw
Copyright 2024 Chris McGraw

This is a tribute. How many of these classic PC games can you identify?

All of the games here are running on authentic hardware with no emulation. The oldest game shown is King's Quest, from 1985, and the latest game is Tomb Raider, from 1996. By 1996 many games were being written to take advantage of the Pentium architecture and early 3D accelerator cards, rendering the 486 obsolete. Still, this machine ekes out 12 fps in the Quake timedemo, and it is just barely playable - with some patience.

Full specs:
CPU: Intel 80486DX4 (100 MHz)
RAM: 16mb FPM RAM
Video: Dimond Stealth 3D Pro (S3 ViRGE chipset)
Sound: Sound Blaster 16 PnP
CD-ROM: 8x