Games for Windows 95 - Manhattan Space Station

-- Disclaimer at the end of the video --

In 1995, Microsoft released the first operative system that started to leave behind the era of MS-DOS applications, that began with Windows 3 and earlier. The one and only Windows 95.

To accompany the big release and all the things Windows 95 was capable of, it was usual at the time to hand over a few Microsoft CDs along with a purchase of a Windows 95 PC. By doing so, Microsoft let customers get a taste of capabilities with various software demos and games that could run on the brand new operative system. At the same time, it allowed software publishers to get some exposure on their new products for the new operative system.

One of those CDs was Games for Windows 95 CD Sampler, released on January 8th in 1996, produced by young Monolith Studios, that created the interactive menu called Manhattan Space Station, used to launch the demo samples contained in the CD. The disc contains over 30 demos, not all playable, from different publishers back in the day. Later on Microsoft published more of these demo sampler CDs with a variety of other software.

This video is a simple tour of the station and a few of its secrets, showing the main areas of it, including the menu part that shows all the demos included, following up my previous entry with the intro video prior entering the station. I was hoping to make this video more interactive with YouTube annotations, but sadly, to my surprise, the feature was removed. Regardless I will be publishing videos for all the demos and include them in a playlist to bulk them together as well as link them here.

There's a small disclaimer at the end of this and each of the other videos, so please don't miss it. What it basically says is "don't make use of contact information shown" and "I do not claim any of the intellectual properties shown". Everything shown is property of their corresponding creators to which additional links in the description of each video will provide more info on the original creators.

There are some glitches here and there on every single video, please excuse those and my bad playing.

Here are a few other things I found interesting, be sure to check them out:

Archive.org data on the disc
https://archive.org/details/GamesForW...

Soundtrack of the station in Microsoft Synthwave by wabeti
   • Manhattan Space Station Odyssey MIDI ...  

All the secrets in the station by Noxedwin Tepes
   • The Odyssey Tour (Secrets)  

Small recreation of the station as an EDuke3D level map, done with Mapster. Not exact, but quite similar, using Duke Nukem standard assets. Haven't tested in the DOS version, should work just fine though.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vG0T...

Below is the complete list with links to the timestamps and demos.

02:56 - Sector E1
03:10 - Meltdown
03:16 - Double Switch
03:23 - Beavis & Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity
03:29 - Fury3
03:36 - Havoc
03:44 - Doom 95
03:52 - Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
04:00 - Battle Beast
04:08 - Locus
04:15 - Tri Tryst
04:21 - Pressure Drop

04:26 - Sector E2
04:35 - Full Tilt!
04:41 - Al Unser JR
04:48 - Arcade America
04:56 - Return Fire
05:02 - The Hive
05:09 - Mech Warrior 2
05:16 - Endorfun
05:24 - Ice & Fire
05:30 - Under Pressure
05:36 - Exos

06:00 - Sector E3
06:06 - Command: Aces of the Deep
06:12 - Shangai
06:17 - Atari 2600 Action Pack
06:27 - Dogz
06:35 - Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2
06:42 - Su27 Flanker
06:49 - Earthworm Jim
06:58 - Zork: Nemesis - The Forbidden Lands
07:06 - Muppet Treasure Island

07:11 - Sector E4
07:20 - The Elk Moon Murder
07:28 - CivNET
07:35 - Commodore 64 Pack
07:42 - The Daedalus Encounter
07:48 - HyperBlade
07:55 - The Dig
08:01 - Spycraft

10:10 - Credits
11:24 - Apple joke?

Let me know if you find any mistakes I made here on any other video, with luck I will quickly fix it, thanks in advance.

Enjoy!