Name: LGR - 20年後のアンリアル。回顧 (LGR - Unreal 20 Years Later: A Retrospective)
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Time to make myself feel old with a retrospective on a PC game from my youth!

This is Unreal, developed by Epic MegaGames in collaboration with Digital Extremes and

published by GT Interactive on May 22, 1998.

Man, 1998 was how long ago? Ugh, that last fact still hasn’t quite sunk in yet.

Anyway, when it released decades ago Unreal was an absolutely monumental title for a multitude

of reasons, but one of the easiest ones to point out was its graphical prowess.

“Unreal! Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot.”

Hehe. And dude, that really was mind-boggling for February of 1997

Keep in mind that at the time of this world reveal magazine article, id Software’s Quake

was only eight months old, so going from characters

that looked like this to *this* was a notable improvement!

Furthermore, as a fan of titles like Epic Pinball and Jazz Jackrabbit, seeing developers

I was familiar with like James Schmalz and Cliff Bleszinski putting together ‘the most

advanced 3D shooter ever made’ only a few years after developing those 2D DOS games?

Heck when Unreal finally released, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 had only come out two weeks prior.

So seeing both a silky smooth 2D platformer and a silky smooth 3D-accelerated FPS arriving

under the same banner within the same month was just like... pschrrt, what, how?!

And even with Unreal arriving just five months after Quake II’s release, it still felt

like a generational leap in PC gaming graphics, and the box tried to make that abundantly clear.

Other first-person shooters often covered their package in logos and artwork providing

some abstract representation of the game, but Unreal went balls-out from the start,

plastering embossed renders of its 3D models right on the cover and including a square

cut-out showing off one of four screenshots.

And it was all topped off with quotes like “The best looking game of all time.”

The hyperbole continued around back as well, with copious screenshots and descriptions

cramming in every bit of self-congratulating marketing copy they could.

It seems a bit pompous in hindsight, but at the time they truly had earned the right to

And if you needed any more confirmation of how long ago 1998 actually was, checkout the

Not a single one of those APIs, instruction sets, or multiplayer networks exist anymore,

at least not in the form they did back then. Sad.

Inside the box you get a bit of an unusual cardboard insert, one that’s built to hold

the jewel case all snug so the cover screenshot is visible on the front of the box.

And inside you get the game on a single CD-ROM, as well as a booklet that contains not the

As well as a merchandise catalog letting you know all the cool Unreal stuff that I’m

one vulnerable late night away from irresponsibly buying on eBay.

And yep, there was also a Macintosh version of the game ported by Westlake Interactive,

which was set to release in June of ‘98 but didn’t actually show up until a year later.

For that matter, there was also going to be a PlayStation and a Nintendo 64 version of

Unreal, with none other than DMA Design aka Rockstar North working on porting the latter

to the 64DD system, but both were canceled because reasons.

Back to the box though, where you also get this little catalog for GT Interactive’s

offerings for Spring of 1998, including existing releases like Unreal

and upcoming releases like Duke Nukem Forever.

This “long-awaited sequel” is coming in Winter of 1998, huh?

Mm, ‘dates are subject to change’ indeed.

Finally, you also get an instruction manual, or prisoner transportation log, with over

30 black and white pages of information covering everything from the story, to the gameplay,

to the ins and outs of the options menus and troubleshooting.

And then these ads in the back are great as well.

You could win a BMW for signing up to AT&T Worldnet apparently.

And check out that Falcon Northwest Mach V, wonder

if anyone still has one of those beasts lying around?

And it seems the infamous Mad Catz Panther XL controller

was “officially endorsed by the creators of Unreal?”

[somewhat irksome rubbery creaking noises] Huh.

Suffice to say I will be sticking to a mouse and keyboard for the rest of this video.

Once you’ve got Unreal installed and your graphics card properly configured it’s time

to dive into the most-anticipated PC gaming--aww. Welp.

This is not an uncommon sight when it comes to the launch version of Unreal,

And Epic knew it, going so far as to include this slip of paper in the box calling for

their “hardcore” gaming audience to please forgive them in advance because making games

is hard and Unreal is full of bugs so please be sure to download

the latest updates as soon as possible.”

I can think of a few companies who should still be including messages like this but anyway.

Thankfully there are patches for just about every configuration of PC imaginable, so once

it’s working you’re greeted with the legendary Unreal castle flyby demo.

Every time I start this game up and I hear that MOD music playing, composed by Alexander

Brandon and Michiel van den Bos, in combination with those glossy 3D surfaces flying by?

Brings me right back to the first time I saw it running.

It was just me and my Compaq than ran Windows 98SE,

sitting there in awe at what was happening on my screen.

I kept thinking, “my computer can do THIS?!”

Granted, I mean, I had upgraded it with a 16MB Voodoo3 card

in order to make it happen so I knew it technically could.

But knowing and seeing were two different things, and seeing this in the late ‘90s

running on your computer was practically a religious epiphany to a PC gaming geek.

But impressive visuals can only carry a game so far and Unreal is much more than a tech

demo, so let’s get to it starting with the main menu.

And dang, I had completely forgotten this is what the UI looked like originally, with

no mouse cursor and a chunky green typeface.

Anyway, let’s begin with the single player campaign and its offerings of four difficulty

levels and a variety of character models to choose from.

What you pick out here is pretty inconsequential to the campaign since you play a silent protagonist

in a first-person perspective, but I appreciate the gesture regardless.

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