The German Twitch streamer HandOfBlood delivered the full broadside of nostalgia on his channel HandOfUncut a few days ago. He streamed a 2002 classic Spellbound on a Windows 98 device.
What kind of game was Hänno streaming? The popular streamer, Champions League winner and producer played Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, a real-time tactics game that was released for Windows by the German developer Spellbound (Arcania – Gothic 4) on November 15, 2002.
The gameplay is reminiscent of classics like Commandos or Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (also from Spellbound), except that the missions throw you into a medieval setting and you control characters like Robin Hood, Lady Marian, Little John or Brother Tuck.
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What kind of rattlesnake does Robin Hood run on? HandofBlood streamed from his old computer, which was still running Windows 98 and had an AMD K6 processor, 6 GB of hard drive space and 192 MB of RAM.
The old Windows menus, the installation from CD, the documents flying into the yellow folder during the installation… even the first minutes of the stream exude pure nostalgia and awaken memories of long-forgotten PC joys. You can catch up on the stream on YouTube, for example.
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How was the stream received by viewers? The author of these lines was not the only one who was happy about the stream from the Windows 98 computer. In the comments, the community celebrates both the campaign and the game, which a surprising number of people seem to have grown up with.
buschtesspielstube2045 celebrates on YouTube: “Oh my God, thank you Hänno for playing the game!!! Absolute childhood! Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Just a few comments later, dominikb8027 is happy: “The whole atmosphere you created with your old PC is gigantic.”
By the way, Windows 98 was released on June 25, 1998 and was officially supported by Microsoft until July 11, 2006 – by then Windows XP was already almost five years old. Microsoft delivered Internet Explorer 4.0 with Windows 98.
The operating system also had native support for AGP graphics cards and USB devices, could play DVDs and offered FAT32 for hard drives. Using multiple monitors at the same time was also possible for the first time. Also worth knowing: Microsoft had a vehicle with over 60 USB devices and used it to torment Windows 98 and its own developers