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Today I dive into Nitemare 3D (1994), an early DOS-era FPS. I clear the first level of Episode 1… and then hit a classic old-school roadblock when I can’t find the green key needed to advance.

Retro shooters didn’t hold your hand — and this episode proves it.

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00:00So, this is Nightmare 3D. I played this game a lot as a kid. Unfortunately, not that much success.
00:10So, new game. I'm playing this through DOSBox, so I don't know if I'll be able to play episode 2 and 3, but stick with one.
00:24I've only gotten to the end of episode 1 once.
00:36So, the story of this game is you're to rescue your girlfriend who's been kidnapped by an evil scientist to help him carry out his experiments.
00:49Or being forced to help him carry out his experiments.
00:54If the story sounds cliche, my response to that is, it's 1994. Or a game from 1994.
01:04So, that's why the story sounds cliche. I mean, it's...
01:14I mean, most games from the 90s, especially early to mid 90s, there was always a damsel that the hero had to rescue. In most games. Not all.
01:28But, I just say, how many times did Princess Peach or Princess Zelda have to be rescued?
01:38Oh!
01:40Oh!
01:44Oh!
01:46Now, there is something. Level 5, in episode 1, is a secret level.
01:58I no longer, and have not for years, had the walkthrough manual that I used to have.
02:08Because there used to be one that you could get.
02:24It was like a pink book.
02:28And basically, it told you, like, when you had to go somewhere in the game, it gave you coordinates, which are those numbers at the bottom.
02:36Oh!
02:38Oh, you were about to come up behind me, huh?
02:40Um...
02:42I haven't had that book for years.
02:44For decades, even.
02:46So, the thing is, in level 4, if you don't find the right ending, uh, the right exit, rather, you go all the way to level 6.
02:58If you do find the right ending, you get to play level 5.
03:02Um...
03:04So, if...
03:06If I get to level...
03:08If I do get to level 4, first off.
03:10Um...
03:12That's one thing, it's if.
03:18Second, uh...
03:22If I beat it, whatever exit I find,
03:26whether it takes me to level 5, or...
03:30Um...
03:32Or level 6.
03:34Directly.
03:36That's the one I find.
03:38Because, like I said, I don't have...
03:40I'm going in here just basically exploring.
03:44You know, I...
03:52Hold on.
03:54I'm also battling a cold.
03:56Still got a runny nose.
03:58Uh, but I feel much better than I did Wednesday and Thursday.
04:01Recording this on Friday night.
04:12I haven't even been, uh...
04:14To work.
04:15Last time I've been there, work was Tuesday.
04:17Okay, so, got some health. Good.
04:27I have no idea how to turn on, uh...
04:29The green and red meters...
04:31On...
04:32Near the bottom right.
04:33Uh...
04:34Along with that...
04:35Big black screen.
04:36Uh...
04:37The green is the map.
04:38The red is...
04:40The dots on the map, which would be...
04:42Represent...
04:43Any enemies you still haven't killed.
04:45Uh...
04:46I have no idea how to turn that on.
04:47It's not...
04:48It used to be...
04:49Uh...
04:50When I played this, it used to be the F keys.
04:52I...
04:53I don't even remember which ones it was.
04:55That doesn't work.
04:57Um...
04:58Now.
04:59Okay.
05:00Been there.
05:01Um...
05:02Uh...
05:03So...
05:04Yeah.
05:05So I'm not gonna be able to turn that on.
05:06Which is also gonna...
05:07Again.
05:08Now.
05:09It's basically...
05:10Just straight exploration.
05:11Cause...
05:12I remember very little from this game.
05:15Uh...
05:16I do remember the bookcases are the, uh...
05:20Okay, I've been there, so.
05:38I do remember the bookcases are the, uh, are, it's basically a neon sign saying, hey, there's
05:45a hidden door here.
05:50But some of them aren't so obvious, the secret doors.
05:57I forgot how good the music is, I, I, okay, um, enemies walking around?
06:14That mean, that must mean I'm going somewhere, or at least I'm going somewhere I haven't
06:18seen the doorway bin.
06:25Now help, Lorette Key.
06:33Now help, Lorette Key.
06:45Uh, I think I'm about to go up to the room where, yep.
07:00Uh, I think I'm about to go up to the room where, yep.
07:16MUMMY's and, what, a Frankenstein monster with a knife, with knives?
07:27Okay, I think this is the door to level two.
07:33Enemies remaining 14, panels not found 11, I care absolutely zero about my score.
08:03Okay, I like the music for level one better.
08:14But, just gonna have to deal.
08:27I don't remember there being an outsider at this level.
08:33Oh crap, I think...
08:48I heard bats.
09:03Shit, I'm going inside.
09:33The reason I don't want to be out there...
09:45There's an old saying, what used to scare you as a kid still scares you as an adult.
09:57And in level 6, I remember it happening in level 6. I don't remember it happening before then.
10:03Um...
10:07There were like these gargoyles on the gate.
10:10You saw me shooting.
10:11They actually come to life.
10:12But they're a lot scarier than the ones you saw in this level, so...
10:18How can I not hit you?
10:28How can I not hit you?
10:32How can I not hit you?
10:42And I got 5...
10:43Ugh...
10:44Okay, so the blue is health, but that...
10:57It's not much.
10:58I'm gonna hit you.
10:59I'm gonna hit you.
11:00I'm gonna hit you.
11:01Okay.
11:02That's...
11:03Where I s...
11:04Okay, that's where I started from, but there's also should be more
11:34rooms I can explore that I can only reach from here.
11:41Okay, went there already?
11:57Okay, those that wore got me.
12:04Apparently, what are those Frankenstein monsters?
12:13But then again, if they're Frankenstein monsters, why do they have knives? Then again, why do the mummies have knives?
12:28Then again, why do the mummies have knives?
12:40Why do the mummies have knives?
12:43Why do they have knives and a book?
13:04Okay, this I remember.
13:06Yeah, I remember the password being 333, if you didn't know, you would have had to come
13:32into this room first, go up to the chalkboard, hit spacebar, and it would have told you the
13:41combination, 333.
13:43But like I said, I played these first few levels so many times.
13:52Okay, I know upstairs, on the second floor, I'm going to need a green key.
13:57So until I get that key, going upstairs will be pointless.
14:28Come on.
14:38Okay, go to the side, go to the left.
14:45All right.
15:15I can't pick up any of the eyeballs or crystal balls because that would be, that's like fuel.
15:22Hey, where'd you come from?
15:25As I was saying, that's fuel or energy, whatever you want to call it, from my map and to find sea enemies on the map.
15:35And since I don't know how to turn that on, it's just basically useless.
15:45So did I get everything that's down here?
16:04Please tell me no.
16:05Please tell me I don't have to go outside for the green key.
16:12Let's go.
16:49Yeah, that's not suspicious, but like I said, unless I could turn on my map and the enemy thing showing where the enemies were, useless.
18:19Well, what was I thinking playing this game?
18:37I'll tell you what I was thinking.
18:43I didn't think I was going to have to go outside and be scared of my wits, at least until level 6.
18:51Now, enemies that are alive shows I haven't been here yet.
19:01I don't think so.
19:01I don't think so.
19:01I don't think so.
19:02I don't think so.
19:03I don't think so.
19:05I don't think so.
20:54Wait, did I...
20:56Okay, I did get turned around.
21:00It's weird, the ID card...
21:24Um, is in here.
21:28But as far as I can tell, I think the key's outside.
21:32I think I'm gonna have to...
21:34Risk, uh, being scared.
21:54Yeah.
22:04Honestly, I'm not really sure I'm ready to, uh...
22:12I mean, and there are, like, different, uh, challenges.
22:23I mean, and there are, like, different, uh, challenges.
22:37Like, there is one level where the electricity knocks the power out.
22:40So you have, um, so, like, the elevators and dumbwaiters won't work.
22:45You have to, uh, flip the breaker, turn the power back on in the house.
22:49And, um, so, like, I'll do this.
22:54Okay.
22:55Um, so, like...
23:28Can't do it.
25:28I guess maybe the key's not out here.
25:58Wait a minute.
26:02I found my way back via a secret passage.
26:23I think we can safely...
26:27I think we can correctly assume that if the green key was out there, I would have found it.
26:34I don't know how I'm going to get through level 6 if I actually make it that far.
26:49But that does beg the question, where is this green key that I'm going to need?
27:03I don't know.
27:03I don't know where I'm going to need that.
27:04I don't know how to hold it.
27:08I don't know how to hold up.
28:24Which, I didn't, I didn't even find the key I was looking for, so it was a total waste of time.
28:30Yeah, at least the gargoyles didn't come to life, but like I said, I do know that's going
28:39to happen at a different level.
28:40Although they don't, they're not like bat gargoyles with their wings out, they're more like the
28:57face of like a wolf, I guess you'd say.
29:00And like big, uh, big, uh, circular bodies, and I think they carry like a whip.
29:08But I mean, you know, if I get to that dumb weight again, I'm just going to go up there,
29:31but I don't think the green key is, I don't think the, uh, key is up there.
29:42But that's the only place I haven't looked yet.
29:44Of course, I got to find my way back to that, uh, where the dumb weight on the stairs were.
29:51And I'm just going to go up there.
30:21Like I said, I went all the way around and found my way back through a passage that I
30:45had to uncover, so you can't say I didn't, you can't say I didn't, uh, look, despite me
31:01not wanting to.
31:02Okay.
31:03I know there's going to be, uh, I think there's going to be a few enemies.
31:31I think there's going to be a few enemies when I go up here.
31:38Or just one.
31:40Need a green key.
31:43Need a green key.
31:46Green key.
31:47That's.
31:48Okay.
31:49I've already been down there.
31:53I've already been down there.
32:06I might have to stop early and, like, look up a walkthrough.
32:07I might have to stop early and, like, look up a walkthrough.
32:11So I know how to get that green key.
32:18Cause, I'd...
32:19I might have to stop early and, like, look up a walkthrough.
32:26I might have to stop early and, like, look up a walkthrough so I know how to get that
32:33green key.
32:34Cause, I'd...
32:35Cause it's not going to be, uh, interesting watching me, uh...
32:41Okay, I thought that...
32:42I thought that lamp was an enemy at first.
32:48It's not going to be interesting just watching me walk around the same rooms I've already
33:13been in.
33:20Yeah, this is where you start.
33:23So, unfortunately, I'm going to have to end this here.
33:27Um, I will look up a walkthrough, uh, to see where the green key is.
33:33Um, but I hope you enjoyed this.
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33:55But, uh, until then, game on.
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