Toy Story Action Game/Power Play (PC 1996) Walkthrough

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1. Hello, I was the lead programmer of the Toy Story PC version and I wanted to say a few things.

   First, thanks for the video, it brings back memories. Some good, some bad.

   Now, I would like to address some of the overly harsh criticism people are posting.

   The Mega Drive (Genesis) and also the SNES were written in the assembly language for their specific machines (as all console games were at the time). This was written in C with a lot of x86 (PC) assembly language. The source code was not available to me, Travelers owned the code and Disney didn't want to pay $$$$ for using it as a reference. I literally had to sit and play the game over and over and 'try' to mimic the behavior of the game.

   Also, this had to run on a 486DX 33 MHZ processor. Earthworm Jim that was mentioned in a comment below required a minimum of a Pentium 133 with a 3D card (and was DOS based). In raw power, that's over 4 time faster. Please do some fact checking before you compare products that have completely different target specs!

   The 3D effects were in at one point but had to be taken out because of the limited horsepower of the target CPU, too much slowdown. Everything had to be done in software, no nice hardware blitters or DMA chips for PCs!

   This had to run on both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, a double nightmare! I wish it had been DOS because it would have made things easier and it would probably still run (with DOSBox).

   The deadline to complete this was VERY tight. It had to be done so that it could be released the same day, and in kiosks side-by-side, with the video release of the movie.

   All of the graphics were taken from the SNES version and upgraded to 256 color.
   The music was redone and is CD quality, the best of any of the versions.

   NOTE: If you can get this to run on an emulator and it stutters, it's the emulators fault. This ran rock solid on a 486DX 33 with zero stutter ever.

   I'll always be proud of what I was able to achieve with the limited specs, time and resources available that I had to work with for this project.

2. Thanks for finally uploading a walkthrough of this game! I grew up with the SNES version, and I have a lot of memories with it, despite the fact it is not even close to being a perfect game. As a whole I wanted to ask what do you think of this game? As in, have you played the console ports and what is your opinion on those?

3. Someone needs to make a Sega CD version of this game!

4. Everyone’s shitting on this game but goddamn this brings back memories

5. Awesome play through, I really enjoyed it! I’m sorry if this question seems a bit random but I’ve always wanted to know what your opinion is on Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise. Personally, it’s one of my favourite Junior Adventures but it seems lots of people disagree and say it’s one of the worst, what do you think?

6. What is that alien noise at the claw, I just hurts my soul

7. Does the Shooting Stars mini-game exist in the PC version of this game or just in the Genesis/Mega Drive version?

8. Can you upload the Backyard Baseball songs. Like Amir, Achmed, Pablo?

9. Toy Story 2 was also on the PC.

10. But what about Toy Story 2?

11. It still works but online sometimes but your not really inside the claw machine still that level is scrapped on the PC

12. Rest in Peace PacMan World 2 Lets Play, Very Nostalgic.

13. Mr. Eight-Three-One Hey Check Out What I Found https://youtu.be/D7PEHcf2EoA

14. graphics? Great.music? Great.physics? Nope.

15. The music is good.

16. I Love the toy story cd rom game Disney/Pixars 1st game

17. If this were the only video game in existence, the "PC Master Race" wouldn't be a thing

18. I remember playing this game years ago. I wish there was a way to play old PC games on Windows 7/Windows 10.

19. If I wore hat I'd tip it as far as I could out of respect for actually managing to complete this piece of shit in one go, I said it before and I'll say it again out of the 3 major versions of this game the PC version is bar none the WORST version out there, seriously whoever coded this should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for making such a half-assed port, how Disney could actually look at this and say that the PC version was ready in such a state is beyond me, apparently by 1996 they remembered very few of the lessons that they learned from Fantasia on Genesis.

20. Let me just say: THANK YOU FOR THIS! Like I commented on your other gameplay of this 9 months ago, there is little to no footage of this version. Yes, it sucks. And I just realized why it has looked so strange for the last few years…. the 3d effects are missing… how lazy were they?

    Let me ask, do you know any way to emulate this game on a modern pc? I'd love to check it out. Yes, it sucks like mentioned before but I think it would be cool to play it for myself.

21. There should be an HD remake of this game.

22. After listening to most of the OST for years and hoping one day good footage of this version of the game would surface, I finally get to see only for the port to actually seem pretty crappy?

    What the heck happened here with the porting process?!

23. This is a horrible excuse for a SNES/Sega to PC port. I mean, look at how the 96 PC port of Sonic CD managed to get everything right in terms of recreating the original Sega CD game, and look at this.

24. Mr. Eight-Three-One that Run Rex Run level doesn't seem fair. The troops and RC corner you at times

25. 41:56 Duh!

26. THIS GAME WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME AS A CHILD WHAT

27. The game looks a little bit slow.

28. Whoa, Matt Furniss?? I thought it was also Allister Brimble, but no, it was Matt Furniss, and Allister Brimble just worked on the Genesis and SNES versions. But if Matt Furniss had composed only the Genesis version, the music would be way too much better than the actual game. (Gameboy version is crap!!!)

29. This version is satan. Jon Burton, the coder of the original mega drive version, was not involved with this version. It's not even the same code.

30. Nyc

31. This game is cool. The R/C minigame still reminds me of 3D Ultra Radio Control Racers Deluxe: Traxxas Edition. Nice walkthrough!

32. I didn't know Matt "hello hacker fucker heres the deal." Furniss (apparently) worked on this game. Huh. Nice video, and I love your notes in the description. I'm amazed at your detailed reviews that honestly deserve a video of their own, really. Nice work!

33. Have you tried the new Wheel of Fortune video game?

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