10 Gaming Things You WISH You Knew as a Kid 

My dad, my brother, and I would have contests to see who could fly the Dodo the longest. I'll never forget waking up one night to find dad practicing, lol.

Number 0: How dad got so good at the game when you never saw him play it.

For the Driver one. The thing everyone should have known is that if you pause the game in the tutorial, there is a "demo" option and you can watch the computer do the whole thing. It's good to see what you are supposed to do but also gives you a very good order for the stuff. I remember starting with a burnout then going as fast as you can to the other side of the parking before braking in front of the wall. That takes out the speed and brake test within 10 seconds of starting.

One neat trick I remember about The Dodo in GTA3 was that it gained more speed while diving than it lost while ascending. That's physically impossible, but super useful. As soon as you're off the ground, waggle the nose up and down to gain speed. Eventually you're going fast enough to fly indefinitely. I remember flying that all over the map. Including finding some cut-scene-only areas WAY outside the play area.

Number 9 hits so close to home. My library would've been 10x the size if not for trading in games.

Didn't realize there were baby falcons 🤯

I'm 38, still have my Sega and Sonic 3, and today is the day I learned how those stupid cylinders work. Playing that game this weekend thanks to Falcon lol

The way my Dad taught me to roll up the controllers, is to put your finger where the wire connects, and roll around it. The space your finger creates helps keep it loose around the wire, and prevents damage.

I love it when Jake use his other voice.

I’m glad my dad taught me how to properly take care of things such as discs when I was little. I wasn’t perfect, but it did help me preserve my collection of old movies and PS2 games, which still work to this day.

3:20 that laugh got me 😂 this whole video is just Falcon progressively realising he’s old 😅

IMAGINE if you knew how to get Mew in Red and Blue when they were new. Nintendo would probably hunt you down. You'd be instant famous.

11. Smoking weed and playing games is the best

lil Falcon calling customer support for being stuck in Sonic 💀

During the days of FF 7 , 8 , 9 and 10, my two best friends and I would contest over save file progress, but on the weekends we'd play a shared file, and play in 2-6 hour shifts. For FF8 we got a Japanese version and went all the way to level 99 before even leaving Balamb Garden and we were so excited about how powerful we thought we would be........ mistakes were made.....

Oh my god. The Sonic 3 barrels. This video is worth an upvote just for that!

Love the mini Falcon heads ❤😂

My parents didn't buy me anything for gaming, i always had to buy my own, saved money from my paper route to buy an n64 that came with Mario Kart and an extra controller, then the ps2 i bought off my parent's for $40, they only bought it because they had "airmiles" and it was one of the purchasable items at the time and made it cheaper than a dvd player 😂😂😂, man my mom hated gta 3, the traffic sounds, gunshots and screams got me a tv in my room as a kid, good memories.

DIgimon World was one of the best and also most confusing games for me at a young age. It had such a weird vibe to it, but you also couldn't stop playing.

I remember being so mindblown that my Dad and older brother would be playing levels in Driver with different weather like dark and rainy (campaign levels) while I was stuck with the tutorial or the two stock levels.

That Driver opening was brutal, but i also felt some of the Time Trials in OG Gran Turismo were equally as challenging

Falcon is a dad that is cool af

The one about digimon world I can't really relate. Was about 10 when the game came out and I loved losing in singleplayer games. Understanding all the many mecanics digimon world had were AMAZING, there was so much too do, and everything you did or didn't do actually had consequences. Was one of my fav PS1 games. Loved it.

Dang GTA 3 hits deep. I remember coming home back in 2001 playing it, not even knowing how to read the compass, yet still progressing the game. Beautiful piece of art

8:10 is my favorite moment in the whole video. Give whoever did that Falcon graphic a raise!

The one gaming thing I wish I knew as a kid is how expensive this hobby would be 😭

Absolutely nailed it on the Sonic 3 barrels. I've spent so much time trying to jump at the right moment to maybe be able to go underneath.

10:53 I was about 14 when I played Kingdom Hearts for the 1st time and I understood the choices at the beginning. When they put them together and repeat them to confirm your selection, it made sense to me. 🤷‍♂️

Back in 2006, my dad bought resident evil 4 for like 20 bucks. We got home, installed it and it wouldn't launch because direct X was missing. We returned the game... I ended up playing res4 in 2010. We were dumb, direct x was included in the package

Anyone else feel like we got a little more character development from Falcon in this video?? There's more of them! 😂😂

Picturing lil falcon on the phone with tech support to see how to surpass the sonic barrels gives me pure joy

10:39 That AI falcon definitely needs to call tech support 😂

8:10 Falcon fun fact 😮

I love it when Falcon laughs, it always feels so genuine and it's so contagious

I can confidently say that as a kid I always had a 'collector' mentality. Coins, stamps, etc. So when video games became prevalent, I always took GREAT care of my games (now mind you, PS1 discs tended to get 'scratched' just from general use by the system itself, there was no real way to AVOID this if you actually PLAYED the games), but otherwise I kept things as immaculate as possible, kept all the boxes/instruction booklets/etc, and especially kept the meager preorder bonuses we got with games in the beginning days of "Electronic Boutique" (which later became EB Games, and then Gamestop). Of course, I also played Magic the Gathering pretty young, so that also helped with a collectors mindset and all that. So when Pokemon and Yugioh came along I was already well versed with TCG culture. Now... mind you I sold my 1st ed Charizard for like a grand a few months after Pokemon TCG first came out... and at the time that seemed like a great deal, and with the pronouncement of "rotation" where old cards would become literally unusable and unplayable (unlike say, MTG's Legacy format), I had figured at the time that card values would climb slightly but eventually stagnate for older cards and merely have a collector's value (like I figured MAYBE a 2500 cap in 5-10 years time on the Charizard... hooboy was I wrong and am kicking myself on that one, now.)

That sonic one was personal.

As soon as I saw the title, I knew I was going to be disappointed if Sonic 3 was not on here. I NEVER learned the trick after many hours of trying as a kid, even having my sister join me as Tails to do the jumping as I tried to spindash underneath...

Bro, that poop Digimon had me baffled for years. Thank you for ending that childhood mystery

For me it's the level skips in Halo 2. Though I wasn't even a kid at the time, but played through it on original XBox a few years ago and having to take the direct route through those sniper sections on Legendary was brutal!

So apparently slalom driving is where you zigzag back n forth while maintaining constant speed and control of the car. Usually seen in car commercials showing you how reliable and responsive the car is while driving in between a line of safety cones.

Aww yeah my daily dose of Gameranx!

As a Digimon enjoyer, I can't believe there comes a day where Digimon games are acknowledged by Gameranx, but I'm happy nonetheless

Digimon Worlds Virus meter was super visible. Big bar right on your digimons stat page. There were plenty of obscure things about that game but knowing to take your digimon to the bathroom to avoid care mistakes was not one of them. Fantastic game though, one of my all time favorites I still go back and replay.

Discovering L3 R3 was like Discovering fire for first time 😂

I wish I didn't sell any of my games . When I was a kid we had to trade like 4 or 5 games just to get a new one

Man, this video took me down memory lane... the tutorial mission in Driver. All those controllers with broken cords (I still have a phantom feel in my hands for my Genesis controller). Those barrels in Sonic 3!!! That took me literal years, man. Years. The unflyable plane in GTA 3, one of the biggest teases of my childhood. Once again, great topic, guys! I've had so much fun watching this! Edit: Falcon, it really warms my heart knowing that you have little ones running around. Hope you're all doing well!

I loved Gamestop only for buying used games that might only be marked down 5 bucks. BUT, it was the only way possible to RETURN a video game in the US. Buy the game, take it home, hate it, take back for a full refund. For the longest time I would NEVER buy a brand new game because if this. Only "used" games that I could return until I found a game worthy of keeping my money. So thank you for that Gamestop.

I'm ancient. The first game I ever played was pitfall on my uncle's atari. 😂😂😂

It took me a longtime to learn not to wrap cords around controllers too tight I think my mom told me a bunch of times & she didn't know anything about video games but she knew about the cords after going through enough I finally listened. I don't know how many games I rented from Blockbuster and the game was unplayable sometimes it would have a scratch sometimes it looked like someone just let their toddler play with the disc because that shit would have scratches all over it.

Gah, the whole "taking care of your gaming stuff" really gets to me. I use to make sure I took the utmost care of my gaming disks and would always get soo upset with how my cousin took care of his...or...didn't. He had an entire dresser drawer lined with disk cases and like 90% of them would be empty and the other 10% had different game disks in the cases. He had just a tall stack of like 30+ disks on the top of his entertainment center and it blew my mind how he didn't seem to care about his games. (Mind you, he was in like up into his late teens doing this).

About the kingdom hearts questions: The reason it exists is to help more experienced players. There are pros and cons to all 3 paths. If you choose boosted exp earlier (pre 50) you will have a much easier time through a basic playthrough. If you choose the slow start though you DRAMATICALLY increase the level speed in the late game which is better for 100% and the secret bosses later on. If you're going to 100 you come out WAY ahead with the later option. The balanced option is stupid.

I was JUST thinking about the kingdom hearts difficulty level selection out of the blue the other day. The time I spent completely stressed choosing the weapon to keep/lose without even knowing what it would affect 😂 Replaying the remake as an adult when KH3 came out and realizing all those arbitrary choices made such an impact on game play was mind blowing.

I got Sonic 3 for Xmas in 1995. Figured out the barrels after about 2 weeks by mistake. F those barrels.

In Kingdom Hearts, it isn't a hard mode thing. You either... 1. Level up fast until lvl 50, then slow 2. Level up slow until lvl 50, then fast 3. Medium- paced leveling. So if you wanna rush through the story, choose 1. If you wanna hit lvl 100, you choose 2.

Ahh, Digimon World. A game where I had to give up a play through as a kid because Greymon beat my Digimon into dust and waited for me outside the house where you respawn and would keep beating up my now baby reborn Digimon. It was brutal.

I honestly don't recall ever having an issue with those barrels in sonic 3, i mean its like a swing, you swing yourself back and forth to gain momentum, pretty sure I'm about the same age as Falcon too, was also a huge sonic fan back in the day.

Falcon every time i hear you laugh i feel happy too! Its contagious af.. much love❤️

WOW. Digimon world. You just unlocked a memory I wish I never had. You described it absolutely perfectly.

Ah yes old guys it’s our time. Blowing the cartridge did nothing, the hand crank disc cleaner was pointless,don’t save at a certain point after catching Missingno. I could go on and on

I traded in like 20 PS2 games to get halfway to paying for Tony Hawk Underground. 😂🤦‍♂️😭

I never had an issue with the carnival zone barrels in sonic 3 as a kid, but that rant was really funny, I have tears in my eyes. I think I just accidentally figured it out trying to spin dash off them.

Sonic- as a kid I got stuck at the barrels in the SAME SPOT WHERE YOU WERE BLOCKED. There was no going back. Later in life, there was another route and the solution was SO SIMPLE. As an adult, I had to look it up. And every other situation in the game you jump for up and down motion. Ff8- man I got stuck so much. I was like 11 or less. I ended up getting soft-locked at the boss on the third disk. I was saved at a boss, but even with the guide- I didn’t have enough healing. I’m sure now, with that same file I could do it, but I had no idea. I never read anything and got lost. The PS1-PS2 always worked. My disks are so scratched and still work. If you have a scratch at the start of the game, it was useless, but I’m surprised anytime I put one in to a newer system versus old.

I was one of those weird kids that treated my consoles as treasures. I cleaned them and shined them weekly. That’s how I ended up still having all my consoles and games from 1983 to this day.

Here's one: I wish I realized as a kid that just cause a game has a cool cover didnt mean it was gonna be a cool or good game 🤣🤣

I don’t remember the Dodo being that hard to fly. It was tricky, but never did it seem like it was impossible. The driver tutorial was definitely a pain though 😂

The anti piracy measures in Spyro 3. The first time I played it was in a pirated version I loaned from a friend, and I didn’t understand why it had so many issues. Took me a while to realize that those “glitches” were intentional, and only happened on pirated version. That’s when I returned that copy to my friend, and warned him about it, but he didn’t believe me. We were 11 back then. Eventually, I got a legitimate copy, and got a proper experience.

0:11 as a 30 year old gamer i wish i could tell my younger self that the friends i met thur online would be closer to the ones i see everyday and to not be sad when they never get back online.... the fun memories i knew most my xbox buddies for 8+years just remember some of them grow out of gaming rip to all the loved ones. WE all HAD THUR GAMING ❤

What's with the AI images? It's so damned lazy and looks ugly.

Kingdom Hearts contained so many unexplained layers that it was crazy. If you follow a guide though, it's super impressive as to how much you can alter your progress. I wish more games had this flexibility, but also had better transparency.

Those barrels in Sonic 3... I got PTSD when you mentioned it! 😂 I never figured it out correctly at the time but I remember jumping enough for the oscilations to be quite large, jumping off and holding right as it got towards the bottom and it glitched me below the barrel!... I'm 36 now and only heard a few years ago the expected way to control them! All those lost hours... 😂 Still love that game.

I was the same, bought Steel Battalion at launch, kept everything in immaculate shape. Nephew had a birthday party and they got into my off-limits xbox case and you can tell how that went. I still have the controller boxed up somewhere but I just never replaced the game. Wish I could've at least hooked it up to my PC and turned it into a controller for something.

OMG! "Today I learned!" Those damn Sonic 3 Barrels/cylinders!!!! I honestly never knew that until today. I grew up on Sonic and have since played it many of times and still never knew about that until now.

5:30 I had a 3rd party controller for PS2 that was clear to show off it's superior construction, one of their tricks was that the cable was secured with a molded thingy that was held captured in a holder molded into the casing; so that, no matter how you tugged on the cord, it'd never stress the connection to the board... miss overbuilt peripherals...

I enjoy this sort of narration compared to past videos and the cliche formula this channel has been known for. I love this informal friedlike voice over with personality and realistic thought in pauses and inflection.

There being baby falcons is some falcon lore I was NOT expecting. Bird just dropped the deets like it was known😮‍💨

While Kingdom Heart 1’s difficulty thing is indeed cryptic, especially after you already chose the difficulty at the start of the game, I think on repeated playthroughs it’s a genius way of changing up the gameplay. Depending on your choices of how you level up you may learn certain abilities sooner or later etc.

Im old enough to remember being stuck on games without access to the internet or youtube, it took me forever to leave clock town in zelda majoras mask, but i never would have thought to call tech support to ask like you did with the sonic barrels, i only found out how to get out of clock town months later when a kid at school told me to play the ocarina to that kid under the clock tower, another thing about gaming before youtube was it was a bit of a gamble to buy a new game if your friend didnt have it and let you try it, the games never looked anything like the ads, and without a letsplay you have no idea what your getting until youve spent the last 3 months allowance on it (unless you rented it in which case you added $8 to the price of that $70 game), or having a gameboy that runs on AA batteries and the cost of the batteries being a limiting factor to how long you can play on it, kids these days just wont get it,

On the Sonic 3 dreaded barrel, there's that one that you HAVE to get through in order to progress; I was only able to get through it by keeping the bubble shield and brute forcing my way by bouncing down as the barrel was going down. With enough tries (and lots of time spent) I was able to JUST get through the bottom and quickly race to the end of the stage before the time ran out. Sometimes

🤣 The Sonic Barrels!!! YESSSSS!! I feel your pain!

I treated my consoles and games like gold. Refused to borrow them to anyone. I even asked my mom to buy me those cd cleaning kits to clean my discs with. I still have my consoles and drawers filled with games wrapped in bubble wrap. My young son is now using my PS3 and he just loves it. Bought generic controls just to ensure the originals do not get damaged :)

Flying the Dodo was the best. Once you figured out pushing up you were able to fly all over. I would go under bridges and as close to the street as possible but turning radius was huge and turn was super sensitive.

You have unlocked me a bad memory with the slalom one on Driver. 😂 Luckily my older brother could figure it out thanks to the game Wave Race 64 since slalom was pretty much do zigzags on the buoys but in this case in the pillars of the parking lot.

You know you are getting old when all these games are from your adulthood.

Flying the Dodo takes me back. I was so determined to get it and finally found a guide on IGN or GameSages or something like that on how to do it. It seemed so easy after that.

Here's a big one you missed: Starting w/ the 360 era, you can change the geolocation of your console to access some demos not available in the States. I'll never forget changing my location to Japan and accessing a different demo for the highly anticipated Vanquish in 2010.

I totally forgot about Digimon. Childhood memory unlocked thx 🎉

Digimon world takes me back. I really enjoyed it once I figured out how to not get sukamon lol. Training and all that influences the digivolve result and you could experiment along the way to get new digimon you'd never seen. Digimon world 2 I feel expanded upon that better for more predictable results while implementing the mechanic of passing on parent DNA and not feeling so punishing when you restart with a Rookie level digimon.

I did actually figure out how to fly the Dodo in GTA3 back when it was originally released. I recall it was rather hard to control. If you fly around behind the third island, you will find the facade of the opening cutscene. You can in even land on those roads.

It's okay Falcon, I'm with you on most of this "feeling old" stuff - and I didn't know what a Slalom was until I was much older and I think that was only because I played some snowboarding game. Wired controllers are something I still use though - I can't stand wireless controllers or a wireless mouse. That tiny latency measured in milliseconds? that extra latency actually eats away at me - I can't get used to it. I could have when I was younger, but now I'm spoiled enough that I cannot POSSIBLY adjust to wireless controls. If only I couldn't tell the difference in latency.... but somehow, I can... will... and do.

180 snowboarding, cool boarders 3, and espn extreme games for ps1 taught me about the slalom... fun fact: you could listen to the soundtrack for espn extreme sports on a cd player.

I figured #4 out as a child after a few minutes of PUSHING BUTTONS. Children figuring things out by actually trying different things and experimenting is what led to the phenomenon of parents in the 90s and early 2000s amazed that their kids can figure out those new electronics so darn fast and easily.

My cousin learned the disc thing the hard way. He left the Army Men game Sarge's War on the floor and stepped on the disc on accident. The GameCube disc shattered into a dozen pieces. Years later he bought Call on Duty Black Ops from a friend for $5. He was playing it every day until the friend realized he sold the wrong copy and begged him to trade it back. The copy he was supposed to get had a lot of little scratches on the read surface. He was so bummed. His mom asked me if there was anything I could do for it. I was about to buy a resurfacer, but I took it to a guy I knew at Gamestop. They didn't have a machine, so he sent me to a local video store. I asked the woman working and for the low price of $6.25 and 10 minutes of my time, the game was restored to shiny glory. My cousin was so happy. He bought two more games off of that turd. I had to tell him to stop buying them if the scratched got any deeper.

I miss the midnight release events. Fans showing up hours before to play demos, sometimes food was ordered. Nothing beats waiting with a bunch of gamers 1 minuet to midnight.

Not gonna lie, I loved playing that Digimon Game. Same for the old Monster Ranchers, putting all those games in to get new monsters. So fun. So many hours spent in the early hours of the morning.

Digimon World on PS1 was the hardest game I ever played and despite getting no where I always went back to it. The disk I had stopped working at one point and then years later it started working again. Glad I kept it.

I as able to keep the Dodo going indefinitely and while it was awkward, it was amazing! I was so proud of myself as a kid since nobody else I knew could do it lol. As far as Sonic 3 we had rented and I only had it 2 nights. I got stuck on the barrel and couldn't pass before sadly having to return the game. Only when we went to the mall weeks later and I ran to gaming guide section was the secret revealed.

Wow Digimon World for the PS1 is mentioned. That's rare but welcomed. Can verify that was an interesting game to figure out.

During this video it dawns on me how old the falcon is, I think he has gray feathers 😂😂 Good video

lol I remember getting Driver as a kid and then just not playing it because I didn’t know how to do some of the manoeuvres. One of my favourite games once I read a guide.

I still think it’s worth leveling up in FF8. You get access to not only higher level spells but new spells altogether like meteor, quake, and triple and meltdown. Then you can really break the game at that point.