LGR - Jazz Jackrabbit's Poker Broker & Commander Keen's Trek 96

Xaphania

Thanks for reminding me of WinTrek! I recently remembered playing a Star Trek game from a shareware CD but couldn't remember what it was called until now

Now that is some clickbait right there... Or rather paybait.

I'm not too sure but these two games MIGHT be weird

Weird weird weird,

mavrick

Thu Nguyen - To Win - to win at poker . hahaha WTF

Jade_of_Arc

As always, great video. I love these odd games videos. I do remember playing WinTrek actually back then, thanks for the nostaliga :)

avfusion

I think I remember seeing this in one of those kitschy magazines in the 90's full of novelty crap. The kinds of stuff moms/grandmas that pennypinched everything would somehow find. Those and the people that ran novelty stores. They were always hastily printed, all the stuff in it was overpriced for what it was.

"Congratulations, you destroyed the Enterprise!" I think Troi would love that game 😂

floverSaeu09

Jazz...haha that name xD Jazzzzzzzzz

John Covil

I think I remember hearing something about that in the Weird Al epic "Albuquerque"

Joon Choi

The mind boggling part is that someone took the trouble to create those semi respectable yet entirely IP infringing boxes for such unremarkable pieces of trash. Someone got up out of bed, opened up Pagemaker, created those box designs, got them printed by a commercial packaging printer, then shoved 1.35 MBs of illegal shareware in them. Why? How? Does not compute!?!

Paul Unser

both these games look as pleasant as a wet fart in a closed elevator

Gary Leigh

This why I am a Patreon. You're humour always cracks me up!

Kenny Ketner

delightfully horrible

great video !!! :D

Paul

So, J&O managed to copy: Star Trek, Commander Keen, and even EGA Trek... All at once. Achievement unlocked. LOL

Mr. Bob Cyndaquil

I can only assume those discs were 'hot' in some way, and they had to get rid of them as soon as possible.

Taras Young

It looks like it was made in Visual Basic 5 or 6 - they didn't even bother replacing the default VB 'Form' icon on the 'View Cards' window. Same with Trek 96 with a classic VB error - "Run-time error '6': Overflow" 😁

BastetFurry

Gotta love the half-assed translation. :D

SammyToesis

Man, what a bizzare subject. I can't imagine if someone tried to pull this stunt today, but I guess they really didn't care back in the day? Or maybe these games managed to be incognito for the longest time.

You're right, no results show up for neither of those company names. Maybe a tax haven or just a white label release? This would be highly illegal seeing it's e-releasing shareware software under a different name. Not to mention wasteful. Seriously, a floppy + printed label would've been cheaper than that, or maybe there was some sort of craze for CD software back in the day?

JennaKay

Oh wow, that poker game looks like something I'd have made as a kid in Visual Basic 6. Except I always went for stuff that could use RNG's, like horse racing.

Christopher Bassett

P.S. Clint, the auction house that handled the Radioshack auction(UBID Estates in Texas), don't order from them, they use packing peanuts 99% of the time, even for more sensitive electronics like computers and hard drives, beware. But super friendly though. I might send you a packing peanut donation. Just kidding. LOL

Christopher Bassett

All I can say is wow.... So much bad... But hey I got 2 game for the price of 1 in this week's episode of LGR! Bring on the badness!!

Frederic St-Georges

I didn't know Albuquerque used to be "America's capital for copyright-infringement software" in the 90s. LGR, teaching people about geography and software contraband since 2009 :-)

LGR

Ahhh yes, I should've known that :D

Peter Metzger

Your blu-ray drive knew the discs had the capacity of a floppy disk so it was trying to make floppy drive sounds to read them ^_^

LGR

Thank you, Rob! It really is a perfect storm of bad

LGR

Bootlegception

LGR

Yeah, LG needs to add an R to their name, I agree

LGR

Well good, I had expected this wouldn't be what most would expect ;)

LGR

Ha! At the very least it is a bit of an aptronym.

Steve Lovelace

I wonder if Thu Nguyen isn't a real person, but just a punny-sounding name: "to win".

So... that was definitely not what I was expecting.

Jan E

how in the world is it possible, that your Blueray-Drive doesn't have an "R" behind die LG? like that: <a href="http://imgur.com/a/gAcSm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/a/gAcSm</a>

Pablo Rodriguez

Wow, even for bootlegs this is lazy. I mean, they could have at least slapped a freaking Jazz Jackrabbit icon on the darn poker game. And how do you even relate Poker to Jazz Jackrabbit? Why didn't they just slap the Commander Keen label on both? It'd have been easier, and clearly these guys aren't even pretending to make an effort, so it was probably the product of an aneurysm. Special props go to Trek 96 for being the bootleg of a bootleg disguised as an entirely different bootleg.

Rob Caporetto

I love it. How tacky the packaging is. How wasteful the use of a CD-ROM was. The cheapness of the discs. The horrible cash-in branding. I'm not sure if it's more impressive than shovelware compilations with warez scooped in, or not. A well delivered piece of snark which felt kind of apt for me today!