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Games were played offline and nobody needed to be ‘connected’ all the time, games were harder & more rewarding, everything was new so developers were in there prime creative
The best part about gaming in the 90's was that games launched completed and optimized for their respective hardware on day one. On the physical side of things, the games came complete on the disc/cartridge without needing to download a portion of it.
@@stevienguyen2047 That wouldn't be an issue if developers would actually finish and polish the game before releasing it. Very few games that came out before the 8th gen consoles had issues upon release because developers actually took their time finishing the game instead of releasing it half-baked and relying on an internet connection to fix it way later. Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077 on their original release days are prime examples of this. Those games were unplayable without a TON of patches and updates back then. It's especially a problem when the update or patch is big enough that it simply becomes the whole game by itself which makes the data on the disc/cartridge completely useless. Nobody wants to download 100gb or more just to play their game, especially if they have slow internet.
The downside is paying for a brand new game when street fighter decides to make SF Turbo then Super SF. I am sure there are loads of people bought all of them for essentially DLC and slightly improved mechanics
Y'all act like we didn't have GameShark. Or that Pokemon came in red and blue and you couldn't unlock all Pokemon without trading or buying both copies.
I miss renting games so much! Paying $5 or so to try a game to see if I like it instead of shelling out $80 and crossing my fingers? Give me that experience back!
GameFly is probably the next best thing…although you can also see if your local library has games as well! Some of my local libraries have games to check out, so it’s a great way to test a game or even complete one without spending any money.
@@jrvy74 I really doubt my library would, I live way up in the middle of nowhere LOL. But I've been surprised before by my little town, so who knows. Thanks for the tip!
@@NigelWatersFWA Yeah smaller places it might be a little tricky. I know because I lived and grew up in one. I'm fortunate enough that where I'm at now is a little more urban, and it's also right next to St. Louis and both my county and St. Louis county libraries worked out a partnership that I'm able to get a membership at both county libraries. Regardless, good luck, and keep Gamefly in mind if the library thing doesn't work out!
Nothing will ever be as great as gaming in the 90s. There are so many games I wish I could forget just so I could play them for the first time again. The Nintendo and Sega console war gave us some of the best games. Games had to be as perfect as possible when they released. There were no day 1 patches. Online connectivity ushered in the era of half-ass game development.
I Was a Arcade Guy Back In The '90s Before I got my first Playstation kids today won't definitely understand that still can smell that Die Hard Arcade Cabinet
The Xbox 360/Wii/PS3 doing away with Memory Cards was great. It was such a waste of money having to buy several memory cards. For reference some games took up entire memory cards like Animal Crossing alone by itself but at least Nintendo included a memory card for free with that game.
Yeah memory cards were useful but I agree it’s nice just having a hard drive to just save your games to - plus now we don’t have to worry about losing memory cards with all our precious game saves on
Gaming in the 90's was crazy epic! Before the "Net" there was Nintendo Power Magazines, PlayStation Magazines w/PS1 Demo Disc to help guild you through the game! We went from 2 Bit/2D games to 3D games, evolutionizing gaming history. Weekends, Blockbuster, Hollywood Videos, Toys R Us, Best Buy, and all be lit af Friday nights! I miss gaming in the 90's.
Yeah I remember I surprisingly found an uncharted 4 strategy guide in my local tkmax it shows the location of every treasure and gives helpful tips - also have a great one for super Mario sunshine
I remember my parents getting me Mega Man X6 for Christmas of 2001 and I miss the excitement of going to buy the new game and then going back home to play the hell out of it through out the Christmas vacation. But what I miss the most is not needing to download day 1 patch just to have the game run smoothly in the first place, micro transactions.
I've actually never stopped to think about the controller situation in the present day, with smartphones and tablets. It is so true that there are kids that grow up playing on a screen and have never ever touched a controller in their short lives. Ahhh, those were good times, when you got to play Pokemon Silver on a Gameboy Color illuminated with an LED accessory that barely lit the screen enough to see, but it was amazing to play games on the go, and "full color". We've come a looooong way with Nintendo Switch and now the PS Portal. Thanks for sharing!
Excitement, Thrill, Motivation, and Sense of Pride in playing or finishing the game is almost dead... Back then, their is no other way to go to part of a game or be enchanted by it's story or unlock the secrets... NO VIDEOS FROM ANY OTHER DEVICE OR WEBSITE! THE ONLY WAY IS TO PLAY THE GAME! ... Good old simple pure joyful days....
Omg, buggs bunny: lost in time. I remember that game, now! I forgot all about it until i saw this. I played that so much. Once i heard the sound fx all these memories came flooding back. Crazy!
I remember those days. Honestly I remember there was one point where like you had to call Nintendo for tips and tricks on a video game or something but you know you would have to get help from them if you were stuck on like super Mario 64 or something honestly I really do miss these days and I’m so thankful that you can look online and get help to where you need to go now it was really different back in the days, I still play on my Nintendo switch once in a while and I do look up the stuff that I need help with online but either way I am so thankful and proud to be a 90s baby and Nintendo kid at the same time
I never really moved past 90s gaming so I can’t really compare or have say with today’s gaming. But by the looks of things, I am not missing out on anything.
I miss when buying a game actually meant owning the whole thing. Nowadays, when you buy a game digitally, you're at risk of losing access to it over a period of time. You can make backups of your retro games with a PC and store them on your own storage mediums. A crazy amount of them are already fully playable on a wide range of modern devices. Idk about anyone else but I'm loving my PS4 controller's analog stick for N64 games. I once destroyed one side of my thumb trying to beat one of those fvcking mini games from Rayman 2! lol
One of the worst thing about gaming in the 90's is 3 simple words. Game Breaking Bugs. Now if a game has a major bug, a patch can be downloaded to fix it. Back in the day, if you encountered a bug, you was stuck with it. Companies rarely would fix them, and if they did, you had to mail your old copy back, get a new copy, and pray the bug was fixed.
I miss just having to put a disc in the console. Go to a friends house and not having to take your whole playstation with you or having to download a game that took 2 hours….. just simply have your disc or memory card
Some 90s games haven't aged well, but we were given some amazing franchises that are still going strong today and some that still have a dedicated following. The 90s also made better use of CDs for games, particularly the PlayStation. CDs were cheaper to make and could store much more data than cartidges. I also wish that we still used memory cards. They were much easier to swap than internal HDDs
Having bday parties and playing with your cousins with 2 controllers or n64 up to 4 controllers. Kids don't know any gaming magazine anymore, nintendo power or a gaming quide magazine to give you cheat codes or buying a GameShark with codes (they don't know the famous Konami cheat code)
Yes, yes and yes. I rememerber playing Gauntlet 2 on the NES four score on the big wooden tv with the channel dials. Then it was N64 with Smash bros, mario party 1,2,3, No mercy, Mario kart, NFL Blitz 2000, Goldeneye, perfect dark, and Mario tennis. I have the goldeneye, perfect dark and zelda strategy guides. I got game informer, playstation magazine, psm and a few egm magazines. I got special books that have cheat codes in them and gameshark and game genie. The konami code was amazing when I discovered it. Going over friends houses and bringing extra controllers and games.
The lack of experimentation in game design nowdays is directly related to the ever growing development costs of todays AAA games. Publishers and developers just can't afford to take any risk when the development and marketing costs are in the hundreds of millions. A couple of failures and your entire company is going bankrupt. In fact, many of the problems in today's gaming market are directly related to development costs, from games taking forever to make to being released in an unfinished state. Market expectations have to change to something more reasonable.
Thanks to those demo discs I found out about Metal Gear Solid and Tomba! The latter being one of the most original and creative games i ever played…too bad now is a rare piece with ridiculously high prices on ebay.
I miss the part where you could go to a video rental place and rent a game to see if you liked it before you bought it. Now a lot of games you have to pay full price for a game and "take a chance" if you like it if not you just wasted $50- $100 instead of $5 when you were able to rent it
Gaming was amazing back then and still my favorite time in life but people need to realize just how good gaming actually is now. Shit on AAA games all you want but the games are massive and just as fun as a lot of games from back then as well. Only downside of modern gaming is moving to an all digital future and physical games being shafted with bonus content like manuals and gifts for purchasing early or deluxe editions.
I was a 90s kid and I can definitely tell you that the Nintendo 64 joystick really wasn't that good I also was more into arcades because the graphics are a lot better than that of the Nintendo 64
90s game my childhood memory is steal all 2aa battery in tv remote or torchlight just to play pokemon emerald battle frontiers because i dont have money to buy gameboy sp 😂
The thing I miss most about the old days of gaming were the MANUALS! These colorful booklets that came with every new game that had cool art, explained the basic plot and controls of the games and some had space to write quick notes.
Nowadays when playing fighting games you have to pause it and try and remember the movement for whatever more your trying to do or spend an age in the training simulator, screw that give it to me in a manual where its all accessable easily.
I agree the 90s were great in terms of games on offer... but, credit where it's due. With stuff like Bioshock, Assassin's Creed, God of War, GTA, Halo, Alan Wake, Uncharted, Spec Ops: The Line, Breath of the Wild, LittleBigPlanet, Fable, Dark Souls, SOMA, Team Fortress, Dragon Age, Half Life, Amnesia, Horizon, Left4Dead, Until Dawn, Gears of War, Nier Automata, Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption, Batman: Arkham, Super Mario Odyssey & Wonder, inFAMOUS, Persona 5, ect. You have to admit, we been eating PRETTY. DAMN. GOOD. for decades. Nostalgia poisoning often blinds us from looking at things objectively
For sure! I was born in 98 and I didn’t really get to experience gaming in the 90’s, but I’d argue that the 2000’s were on par, it wasn’t really until RU-vid came around when you started to notice the decline. More mystery and excitement back in those days. Also, there’d be a new game every year! Now there’s hardly any game’s released on more modern consoles. Nintendo seems to be to only company that still makes fun games.
@@sensoryoverload6809 I was born in 1981 just to set some perspective. I agree the early 2000s were completely boss. Right now the major game I want to be a part of is FF7 Rebirth. I played the original so much I maxed out every stat for everyone to 99
Yes, but remember having to buy a separate cable just to evolve certain pokemon? I remember being mocked because I didnt know what a Golem was for the longest time 😅
@@andrewshorts1198a cable can be used in the next game, a micro transaction has to be made again in the next game, so buying a cable still isnt as bad as micro transactions
As a 90’s kid, the first PlayStation , Gameboy and Nintendo 64 became very impactful as I remembered enjoying playing hours on games such as Super Mario 64, Crash Bandicoot Warped, WWF No Mercy, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Star Fox 64, and finally Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.
Best thing about 90s gaming was being able to just pop the disc/cartridge in and start playing without having to wait for installs or 100gb day one patches to download.
My two favorite things from gaming in the 90s(and the early 2000s since that's when I first started gaming) were cheat code books and instruction manuals. I miss the days when you would open a brand new game and would have at least a 50-page manual talking about all of the aspects of the game, from the controls to character guides. Sadly, that's been phased out, and now, if you wanna know more about a game you're buying/bought, you can just watch a walkthrough on RU-vid. Lastly, I have such fond memories of going to my local Wal-Mart and seeing a stack of cheat code books right next to various strategy guides and magazines. Nothing better than buying one of those booklets and trying to find the codes for a GTA game or Need For Speed game. Good times.😊
Man do I miss rental stores. The amount of money I saved by RENTING a game and being able to finish it in 5 days or decide I didn't like it for a cheap price was invaluable back in those days. It was a different level of hype back then
having an actual manual with a physical game cheat devices like Game Genie & Game Shark cheat codes being fun & not screwing players out of progression, saving & unlockables when used Sony had real VARIETY in the 90s
things i miss the most about games made before i was born: big budget games taking actual risks no microtransactions the dreamcast vmu arcades having unique ways of playing wacky peripheral controllers magazines instruction manuals classic lara croft, for more ways than just the pyramid breats actual secrets harder to be spoiled
I do missing saving money every month for a copy of N64 magazine to see the reviews, ratings and sneak peak of upcoming releases… Ahh simpler times…😢 And sadly I was one of those kids who wouldn’t admit they played Video Games for fear of getting bullied ! Bizarre to think about !
Multiplayer: the best consoles prior to online gaming could plug in up to 4 wired controllers for people to play splitscreen on the same TV, and that was all a party could do in a single setting.
The thing about demos back then. For a lot of us, that was the game. We'd get demos back then in gaming magazines or console purchases and instead of forking over money for the full game, we just played the demo 100 times.
The best part was the memory cards because if you wanted to make a backup copy of your saved data because most new consoles internal memory which making a backup copy a lot harder. Having cloud saves isn't very reliable because you need a internet connection and pay a monthly fee which costs more than the memory card in the long term as well if the internet goes out or the online server is shutdown you're out of luck.
I miss 90s gaming so much. It was a simpler yet VERY fun era of gaming. Maybe some games from that era should be remade so the generation today can see how fun it was back then
God, I remember my parents had to go to an event with me, and i was in the middle of a long dungeon from FF7 and I couldn't get to a save point so I had to turn off the TV, keeping the PS1 on until I got back. It was 7 hours later!!!
One of the biggest things I miss from the 90s gaming was seeing technological jumps. It was amazing seeing the difference from an 8 bit to a 16 bit console. The huge graphical and sound improvements were awe inspiring. Then from 16 bit to 32 bit/64 bit, and introducing 3D graphics. I remember looking at magazines that showcased upcoming games/systems and being blown away that was even possible. No way could a game look like that! It was incredible and exciting to witness.
exactly that's what I was thinking. now days it's not much of a difference. but back then going from Nintendo to genesis to super Nintendo or 64 ,Playstation was big jumps
I am a 90's kid and so happy that we don't have to use memory cards anymore. But I still have my yellow Game Boy Color and play Super Mario Bros. and Pokemon on it whenever I feel like doing so.
two things i miss in the past would be that physical copy means owning it permanently until something bad happens(cause devs say you only pay to play the game rather owning it in your digital library) and the other would be that live-service games didnt exist as much (no offense but since live service maybe before but devs would release their games too soon with the bugs and all and while its nice that devs would fix it later and even add new stuff i think its safe to say that lots of gamers didnt like that much)
when I got my first ps1 I told my mom I wanted a memory card but she said not to me because she didn't understand what it was used for , and she thought that it wasn't that important so everyday I had to start a new game, I guess this is something that most boys won't have to deal with..
Same exact thing happened to me! My friends and cousins all had the NES, SNES or SEGA Genesis, and then N64, while I had the GameBoy (a wonderful handheld!), and when I got my first home console, the PS1, my parents didn't understand that it needed a memory card. I could kill the first few hours of Crash 2, Spyro, and Rayman, but it wasn't until a birthday that a friend got me my first memory card.
My co worker who is 40, her favorite game of all time is Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 😮 I love hearing her stories about how much fun it was to read magazines to find the secrets of the game, taking many many months to beat the game, and never being bored on how much content there was in this game. As a 25, coincidentally my favorite game of all time is Elden Ring 😅 the big difference being in the era of youtube in my pocket. I can watch videos on how to unlock the locked doors or where to find anything much faster and easier. Versus being stuck with not knowing where and if the magazine isn't very clear. Imagine Elden Ring in the 90s 😅 you beat the game and not knowing about the secret areas to eventually fight Draganlord Placidusax or Melania in that tree area 😮 today all of that info is instantly available
I honestly prefer having all the info available so I can actually 100% complete the game. Gamefaqs was a thing in the early 2000s and I think late 1990s, so you also had that. I don't have time to try to figure out everything and not even know if I actually found everything in a game....
The one major thing I missed about the good old days is that we didn't have to worry about waiting to play a game but now we have to wait hours for a game to download
How was that the best? I had to play Crash 3 on my cousin's PS1 and he had no memory cards, it was extremely annoying that I had to keep starting over the entire game as a child... The dpad is fine, but not having a memory card isn't x.x
7:47 Parents and educators often looked down upon video games, often calling it a waste of time. Yeah I felt it, I don't think I remember anyone saying it directly like that. I gamed in the 90's and went to school. Now I'm an aducator. So of course I don't see it as a waste of time. It's a break from reality. On Friday's I sometimes play a short clip from a game or movie to lighten the mood. However, it gets annoying when some of my students are playing games in my class on their chromebooks. Yes, I have taken ways to block them, but they still find a way. It's a lot to keep track of and manage.
Unlocking secrets. Endings on each characters. Powerups. New weapons. Satisfying end credits. Hard bosses. New era u collect trophies bronze silver gold and platinum.
Yeah still have my GameShark ps2 cd I loved playing Simpsons hit and run and being able to play as pretty much anyone in Springfield using the GameShark
Christmas day just felt different in the 90's when you got a new game. The market is so over saturated now that people buy games throughout the whole year cos there are so many, whereas when I was growing up, it was a birthday and Christmas specialty and only about half a dozen really amazing ones came out each year. You'd spend the whole afternoon playing and it just felt really special. My nephews and godchildren just don't have the same reaction/
Putting effort into finding out how to progress because no internet or youtube were around for me to quickly check what others have said. You had to find out much if not all on your own. I can imagine many can relate to this.
