7 Things All Gamers From the Nineties Will Remember 

I would like to thank you for not naming the video something obnoxious like "7 Things ONLY Gamers from the Nineties Will Remember"

Searching for cheat codes in Games magazines, or showing your mates at school so they could copy the codes down for themselves

The House of the Dead is still alive.

How's about best video game commercials? There were some beautifully horrible ones. Plus it's an excuse to dress like it's 1993!

I feel old now!

@Order & Chaos - and if it didnt work, you just weren't entering it quickly enough!

Konami trolled us with gradius III- the konami code is the viper's self-destruct sequence

And it does on a random few games that are konami :)

The MegaMan blue & red dot grids, the 16 character codes for Punchout ... so many notebooks filled with stuff that will confuse the hell out of future archaeologists

Totally remember a birthday party when I was younger where me and my friends got past a part in a game on the Sega mega drive which we'd never got past and in the commotion forgot to write down the password for this point, then preceded to die and had to start all over again. 😱

And no matter how carefully you recorded them, they were always wrong.

The worst was when you wrote down a “2” instead of “z” because they looked the same and had a moment of panic when the code didn’t work

RIP trees of the 90s. I used so many pieces of paper.

Yea. I have to it's where I bought my N64.

They were using a perfume in all of the commerce my friend.

And always staffed by weirdo movie buffs :D

Oh yeah

You forgot the smell from all the little kids peeing on the floor.

A friend and I filled an entire notebook with clues, puzzles, and solutions for the original MYST. Every weekend I'd be over at his house and we'd beat our heads against that game for hours. Still to this day I don't think you can play a MYST game without pen and paper. And using a guide is just plain ruining it for yourself.

Been there, done that, actually found several of the old maps cleaning out old boxes with my father recently. He and I played games together and made our own maps. As a kid I was bad at games, so I'd have him play games I wanted to, but wasn't good enough to (like Stonekeep). This became a way we spent time together. Eventually, I started helping him keep the maps and notes. The maps mostly got saved because they were pretty dang comprehensive if you could read the map legend, the notes mostly got tossed because not even I could read my own handwriting.

On the mega drive, i'd watch my dad play this top down adventure game. It was one if those games where each area and dungeon room was a fixed screen shot, and tou enter and leave along different points on the screen. So I'd draw what was on the screen on to a post it note and piece the world map together. Took up so much room, and wasted so many post its.

Anyone remember how confusing the dungeons in Phantasy Star II became?

I still have my original zelda map with all the secret spots hand written onto it to tell me where to go and what to do.

I'm reliably informed by fan games that those were actually cosmic horrors.

This makes the Mario episode of Gumball make way more sense...

I lost a game tournament to a kid with an "uncle".

I was gonna write that. Glad I started scrolling. My fave thing was when they had an uncle and he would give them all kinds of toys and games but you couldn't see them because they were a secret and you weren't supposed to know so you couldn't even ask about it. I remember one kid told me they had a real pokeball and a hologram pokemon came out of it. My question now is why was it always an uncle? Was there no women working at Nintendo back then in the long ago forgotten time that were the nineties?

Women were relegated to the kitchen, making sandwiches for their hard working Nintendo husbands - just as God intended!

Hardware is officially defined as the part of a computer or other electronic device that you can physically hit or kick.

Shit is real out here

Or the controller with the rumble pack!

@@zachisofire2422 madcatz controllers are goddamn awful

@@MasterDracoDeity some were decent i lik the gamecube madcatz mini controller and the ones for original xbox.

Ahh yes, the good controller, it was always a good reason to say that’s why I lost

While im at it may as well grab that 10000 cheat code book so i can play big head mode

YES!!! For about ten bucks!

@@VincitOmniaVeritas7 but the only one worth calling was lucasarts

amen brother

hell yes. I still have the strategy guides for all the Final Fantasy games, Mass Effects, and Dragon Ages :D along with other RPG's and whatnot. I bought them just as much for the info inside them as I did to fill shelf space and get the maps and posters and bonuses they usually include. I still pick them up occasionally but nowadays its more convenient to just visit a wiki than to root through a massive tome of information that you can't just alt+f in :D

That's when you get a new memory card, friend. My saves lived in perpetuity.

Or plugging in your memory card to the horror of it saying the data was corrupted 😭

Glad nowadays you have memory card adapters that use micro SD cards

@@amyhoard1222 yeah, there was a "memory extension" style of memory card for the PS2, it had its own memory but relied on having a standard 8MB card in it to work, its own memory could also end up being corrupted randomly for reasons. So every time you hit the button to switch to see its saves was a hold your breath moment.

I don't know how universal it was, but everyone I knew growing up had one of the weird knock-off batman-logo-looking psone controllers (I think they sold them in poundland) to this day I don't think I've ever used a more uncomfortable, unresponsive, unpleasant controller.

@@Kiytan I don't remember who made those, but my brain conjured the image... looked like a boomerang or something, ugh.... I think it was either Interact or Madcatz The wacky thing is, most of the knockoff controllers I had lasted way longer then the first party ones (at least for the N64, which had a trash controller).

Had a couple of odd joysticks and controllers for PC I think I managed to set up and use for anything a total of once.

😂😂😂 and they all had "Turbo Button" that pause and unpaused quickly

@@Kiytan A friend of mine had a few for his N64 so we could play Mario Kart and Goldeneye in four-player.

I still wonder how the PS in the youth center at my old school, survived hundreds of kids doing that daily.

@@insaincaldo cos the PS was about as durable as an old nokia brick. That thing would live through an apocalypse and still play games. The memory cards however were more prone to breaking than thin glass in a hammer factory

@@Zeuseus6609 Back when they were still thinking practical instead of head up their ass design.

They probably designed it with that in mind. "Dude, many kids will trip over gamepad cable, causing console to fall. Let's make it truly durable or we will drown in broken consoles."

@@JimmyBasquiat Yah, they forgot about that somewhere down the line.

You never watched that TV shows wherethey showed game reviews etc -And loadsof images in Magazines I know this is for the 90's, But Iw as just saying hecould of done a video about when Blockbuster first opened

dennisvedijk that’s how I ended up with Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash on NES

Oh hell yeah screenshots were important. Me and my brother automatically assumed a game was bad if it didnt have screenshots lol

😂😂

Sometimes the screenshots feature a level or weapon that wasn't actually in the finished game, leaving players searching for that hidden weapon or level that's not actually in the game, at all.

Yeah I remember those days on the PS3 and Xbox 360 now the disc just has the redeem code and bug fixes are next month, O and 60$ only gets you the demo and sometimes access to a multiplayer at a severe disadvantage on the bright side I've been playing a lot of indie titles check out we the revolution on PS4 I Must thank EA and their peers

but then nothin fixed bugs dangit!

To be fair, pc games did get patches and bug fixes in the later part of the 90's but it was nothing like today, when you patch the game immediately after install and the patch is 3 times larger than what the damn game you just installed. And when the game was shipped, it was complete, none of that add-shit-later roadmap crap.

You have a point on the dlc part of it but it's not like those games didn't have bugs and exploits here and there. They also had far less code to sift through and debug so a higher percentage was found in testing.

So buying a finished game and not a 'finished' one. Good times.

I remember it used to attract dust inside the cartridge that's why it had to be blown

I use to blow in the cartridge and if that didn't work I would cram another cartridge inside the Nintendo to keep it in place lol it use to work though.😂😂😂😂

Brad Fegan pretty sure some manufacturers specifically told you to blow in the cartridge if you were having trouble!

But would only work if you did fast and made the right sound. I can still hear it. Lol

Yeah it may cause corrosion over a long period of time but I've tried a million times( that's an exaggeration) just removing and reinserting and it never works one quick blow through the cartridge and proof it's like magic the damn game starts working. I still do it to this day and have never suffered a corrosion problem. So ill stick to what works thanks. Also original commentor is 100 % on the money with his post.

I used to love to smell of a new manuel.

some switch games have them. especially super rare ones, like Earthlock

I usually liked reading all the lore etc on rpg games.

I remember getting mad at my friends for throwing away the manuals as soon as they got the game and then asking how things were done! On occasions that they did kept the manual, but never read it, they'll tell me "How the hell did you do that?" I'm like "It's in the manual, duh!?"

T Destroyer seriously, the Everquest manual was my favorite book. And it’s true, reading it while the computer (or more accurately the dial up modem) was occupied used to get me so hype to play.

The day Halo died for me was not the plot, or gameplay of later games, but the lack of couch co-op/multiplayer.

Borderlands, and a few others, still have that, thankfully :)

and playing OddJobs was the fastest way to make your friends hate you forever!

Some PC games had a variation, in that if the game didn't detect a valid CD, it only allowed you to join multiplayer games. Meaning you and your mates could play multiplayer games on PC, and only the host needs the CD.

@@daiphipps8522 Imagine trying to kill oddjobs with jaws! Its gonna be a long day. Lol!

Had to have something to read on the way home from Electronics Boutique!

It also had blank pages that you could write passwords to skip to the section you wanted, if you died on a game, before memory cards existed.

See, by the mid-90s I had my OWN TV in my ROOM to connect my consoles to. Yup. I was rocking the ol' 19" Sylvania. You got like, 3 pixels per inch.

Or on the ride home from the store after purchasing.

If you ever touched a Gold box game the "Adventurer's Journal" was also 99% of the story going through and a lot of red herrings as diary entries and rumours heard at the pub.

Also when you sell the game you help the next person. I bought hitman 2 and had all the cheats.

Write in my pristine game manual? Have you lost your mind?! Easily lost paper for me. It's an unofficial hard mode.

....Why didn't I ever do this?!!

I remember writing the number code in the manual for Fatal Frame, but that's pretty much it. Still comes in handy when I replay it!

For a while, I had a dedicated notebook for savecodes. That was the closest I got. I was poor as balls, and got most of my games used, so no manual.

Lol I remmember that, kids nowadays are less stupid... I mean are harder to cheat on.

Oh the memories....

@Gobblarr whut?!

Damn the moment they got the controller pure silence good ole times

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's a hidden gem right there.

Same with dial-up been slow!☝️😁

I remember as a kid I had this old huge TV (like the size of a whole recliner level huge), built into a sturdy wooden box. Sometimes the TV would act up, and get all static-y, and either slapping the TV would get it to stop, or I just climbed on top of it. I remember one time having to play an entire game of Mega Man while laying on top of the TV and watching the screen upside down. XD

I liked the excitement of selecting channel 0 then tuning in for console. The joys of RF cables. This generation won't know.

The technical term for that is percussive maintenance

My brother and I got a shitty old TV for our bedroom, from a relative I think, which was very exciting for the time. Trouble was you had to "warm up" the TV, which basically meant you needed to turn it on for an hour before it would actually display anything...

Little Brother Mode... and now, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee has that!

Aw, I've done this for my littlest cousins.

I remember Jet Force Gemini having that mode, and the little brother could actually be really helpful. if you had a controller in Port 2, and had Floyd, the second player could control Floyd's guns, which never ran out of ammo and fired as fast as you could hit the Z button.

Haha I remember my sis and I doing that to her kids when they were really young. It didn't last long though as by age 8 they were able to figure it out. By the time they were 10, they were better than us, esp her son, and if we got stuck I'd ask him how he got past that level

... i still sometimes do this with my kids...

Also, 'raptors are little turkey dinosaurs.......what we call 'velociraptors' (due to Jurassic Park) are deinonychus. *We've been lied to!!!*

​@@exquisitecorpse4917 Actually the book was based on deinonychus, though it was "considered" a type of velociraptor. For the movie, Speilberg didn't like how small the Deinonychus was, let alone how much smaller a velociraptor would be if they wanted to be realistic.... For a while the films planned to use the NAME deinonychus, but eventually went back to the misidentification "velociraptor". However the raptors in Jurassic Park are too big to be either of their smaller cousins. Spielberg thought it would be cooler if the raptors in the film were as big or bigger than a person. His attitude was basically "There were PROBABLY raptors that big, right? No, not that we know of? I don't care, it's cool, we're doing it!" Only AFTER this were larger raptor specimens like the Utahraptor (1991-1993, who would be a little taller than a human of indeterminate size) and Achillobator (1999, who'd be a bit shorter than a human ois) discovered, disclosed, and named. PS- Y'all ever get annoyed that those graphics comparing dinos to human size never tell you how tall the human is? Like are they 4 feet tall? Are they 7 feet tall?? This is a big range to be giving me to work with. It'd be more helpful at this point to use a cat for scale.

Mostly Cretaceous Park!

@@Lanoira13 I like to think the 'human for scale' on the dino charts was there to indicate how readily a fully grown adult human would be eaten. Dino must be _this tall_ to eat you...

@@Corbald Not entirely relevant but I appreciate this science headcanon all the same. However tbf, anything can eat you if it's determined enough and you're docile enough. "Readily" was a bomb as word to use here. lol

Oh you're gonna love what they did with FF7's "remake"

@@Xannolc1 Aka a reimagining of Final Fantasy 7 because it's basically a "director's cut" or something.

look up best games of 2020 and you have 19 games like that and the other is completely playable now, its not that hard.

That sounds fun!

I always read the manual...

Honestly, I just wiped all the saves when I got a rental. Muahahahahaha.

I legitimately forgot about that, but I had to avoid spoiling myself when I rented Ocarina several times before I could get it for Christmas. Oh, but actually there was another ancient let's play, they made VHS tapes of people playing through games. I can't remember but I think they came with some magazine subs.

Joe

Was wondering if somebody mentioned memory cards. So many memories

Getting the console for Xmas but no memory card

Ugh *shudders* corrupted memory cards. I have ran into this 3 times in my life time, the first time was Mystical Ninja starring Goemon on n64 I had just gotten to the final boss. And BAM IT HAPPENED, I've also lost shadow lugia in pokemkn XD gales of darkness. And though not a memory card my ps3 shit itself and I lost everything.

Bad memory cards/save file corruption encapsulate 90% of the bad gaming experiences I've had over the years.

the second one can still apply even today

@@Aristaios but now I can only be sad at myself for being broke.

Then you had to restart the system after an hour because it froze (or crashed to the younger audiences)

Heh, for me it was the gameboy...I had a messed-up copy of pokemon blue that would only save when you defeated the elite four, so I used to leave it on and plugged into the wall until I got to that point...

Playstation not having memory card

Actually some catridge Games did have a save function, and they used a backup battery system to save your game on, a good number of the RPGs such as Phantasy Star for example, as well as games like Sonic & Knucles had this functionality.

@@jeffrielly most games used password or passcode to save state

"Mega Drive Mike " Epic!!! Some person likes Sega for once! What about the Commadore 64? Oh...that's the 80's

Commadore 64 was my first console i loved alien,jaws and batman

I put a hole in my copy of Final Fantasy that way. Still plays (yep, PRESENT TENSE), though!

Until it didn't..... 😭

The lie about how to get Lara Croft to remove her clothes went around for yrs. It was a lie back then, but modders these days fixed that, no doubt.

In Frontier: Elite II there was a legend about a hidden ship called the Mirage that everyone who played the game knew about despite the internet being in it's infancy and no one having access to it. The ship didn't exist but everyone had heard the rumour.

You can do THAT?!?!?!

Yes...twisted metal 🤘🏼

Woah what games could you do that with?

Dark Stone was another

@@Menaceblue3 If the game stores it's music in CD audio format, then yes. Track 1 will be the game data and will be mostly silent with garbled noise. Track 2 and beyond will play game music, (Big Red Racing also had voice tracks in CD audio as an introduction to each race)

Or if you bought the multiple controller adaptation that Sega and Nintendo offered for their systems. My best friend bought the one for the Nintendo in addition to the wireless controller.

Giving your friends or younger brother the 'better' of your two or three controllers.

I liked that. You forget that you're all sharing one screen. Plus parent either escort you home or allowed a sleep over. And sneak and watch then encrypted channels while they sleep 😃

Who the fuck is screen watching?! Lol

We still do lan parties

How tragically poetic

Redbox is still holding on I think. At least here in NY lol

While, as @JerryOnlyChild mentions, there does exist RedBox in many areas, I do agree - I use Let's Plays on YT to experience games vicariously that I would never want to play, or to see if a game is worth buying. For example, I became a SoulsBorne fan after watching my now favorite LPers play through Dark Souls, DS3, and Bloodborne! Never thought I'd touch those games until I decided to see what all the fuss was about via RU-vid.

On early PC before getting access to any form of internet, I had mountains of computer magazine demo discs and cereal box games.

I did that to get Mortal Kombat moves.

Holy fuuuuuck bro. Just took me back lol. Tips and Tricks few!

Me and my brother would go to Albertsons

Still have my books in the shelf behind me. And I remember good old cheatcodes.com on dial up.... Ah the memories when you had to actually read through an essay of a walkthrough, and couldn't just watch a vid

Austin Pena I just ripped out the page too much to write down

Fun fact! They still have the moth under a bit of tape. A piece of history! Musty, candle flame lovin' history.

No it doesn't. The note about it is clearly referencing a pre-existing term "computer bug".

Yeah, I agree with you.

Movie Stop is gone as well. Game Stop will be next.

There is actually one Blockbuster video left in Oregon, funnily enough.

Fun fact blockbuster was given the chance to buy Netflix for $500 while Netflix was in its infancy, the blockbuster owners said “the internet speeds required to stream a movie won’t happen for a long time and people prefer going to a store to rent a physical copy of something, your idea will never take off” and basically laughed at the creator of Netflix... who’s laughing now?

@@jamesfowler5100 They need to go. But like my mother-in-law, they will live forever.

Movie gallery for us

silly humans dont need humor.

@@Dr170 Yes. Always.

I wouldn't know.

Worse you actually had to directly interact with said person to trade. Now it's all wireless over the internet with people you will likely never meet.

The reason I never finished my Ruby Pokédex was because my friend with a link cable moved away before I could catch everything.

Omg yes And then those weird wireless nobbins that never worked properly

i had an imported copy of pokemon green and corrupted both our saves when we traded pokemon. friend didnt speak to me for a week. still good friends to this day but he no longer plays pokemon

Only had an egoistic cousin to trade and battle with, once he completed his dex and proved his champion team stronger, he was done with me.

Or stacking your old game on top of your new games with that weird tower thing if you were a sonic fan.

Or having things unlocked using a PlayStation demo disc and your memory card for stuff in games like Spyro for example.

Na DLC was called expansion packs on and were on PC no luck for playstion Diablo

God dammit i hate you for reminding me of that

Good thing there’s none of that anymore...

And people wonder why there is a furry fetish today. Make people relate to anthropomorphic animals, and some people will relate so much it turns them on. Life's a funny ol' thing.

And then they grew up & moved to Tumblr.

I think it was because making good looking humans was really difficult

*-born in 1989 - uses crutches or wheelchair-* Yeah. Know the feeling.

I wake up in the morning ready to tackle the day. Then I stand up and everything pops and my back twinges and my stomach riots at the sight of food. I remember then (because “never forgetting” was so ten years ago) that my heart is willing but my body is stuck in “flawless imitation of the crypt keeper” mode. I am 31. *The struggle is REAL*

@@riveramnell143 I know right?? I literally can't bend over most days without screaming like an axe murderer is attacking me...

@ Becca Makin Exactly!! Man, 30 hit me like a brick wall... that I was launched into from a catapult. Ugh, I’ve got chin hairs, I’m down an organ because it decided to just stop working because reasons, my back and shoulder and hands and eyes and stomach all riot at a moments notice, and who green-lit adult acne?!? Health class promised me clear skin after my teens!!! IT WAS ALL A LIE!!! 😱🤯🤬

@@riveramnell143 Same on acne and chin hairs. I got hit at 25-26 -- Fibromyalgia on top of pre-existing autism, depression, dyslexia and dyspraxia, plus severe anxiety. Been in constant pain ever since. Daily meds reduce frequency of severe flares to a degree but there is a constant background pain 24/7 and flares still happen fairly regularly. Like... Why does my body hate me? What did I ever do to it?

The one I tried was the playing as Akuma in RE2.

And you can find a Mew by pushing a truck in Vermilion City!

The “nude” code for Tomb Raider...

@@darnellhagood1052 and naked Samus.

We were asses because the internet didn't exist to fact check xD

Ah, I feel your pain- as a kid, the daycare I was dumped at had an N64... and no memory cards. Us kids organized a group to do things like put tape over the power light or leave fans on so the console wouldn't get shut off and lose all our progress.

@@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179 that's a nice group effort

@@Djaklie Drove the staff crazy though. XD

@christopher shields I would have no brother and his friends would be with him buried in the backyard somewhere

Must've been nice to have parents that were as rich as they were stupid

My mom would always tell me to walk and go turn them in and of course, Id take forever and come back home with the game.

I probably still owe them money...🤣🤣🤣

thats when I'd say haha jokes on you I wanted it another day anyway and late fees were slightly cheaper than another rental

and then lovefilm came along and changed all that no more late fees

I still rent games. Have a gamefly membership

How about the number of unopened AOL discs? Found a stash when I got to uni and used them for coasters, shims to keep my shoddy desk from rocking, the backs for makeshift disco balls at the a Halloween party, etc.

And the amount of parent anger, when you used the remote batteries for emergency power.

I would argue that came from the Sierra era, but there were still plenty of moon logic puzzles in 90's and 00's games

@@insaincaldo The 90's point and click adventure games from lucusarts, the Diskworld game, and the Broken Sword series would beg to differ

@@mathewpoole3589 That moon logic didn't survive, when I just said it did?

Or, they were released permanently broken because there was no way to patch them. Even games that were great could be broken due to the limited save systems. Being forced to start all over because your save is a situation where you can't progress and can't go back really sucked. By comparison, I'd rather see games getting day 1 patches.

Lol Bethesda had to mail floppy disks to patch Daggerfall in 1996.

Then you were either lucky or just never realized. Games of the time had to release at least.. more finished, but that didn't mean less broken games and definitely meant a needed patch might not be available.

My sister had a NES and I had a Master System. That war split my family in two!

Never knowing if your friend would betray you by getting the enemy's console. The double agents that had both. And the mythical neo Geo with so many identities that everyone claimed to have seen, but no-one could reliably say where. The horror, the horror.

@@Vamptonius I had a mate who had an actual street fighter 2 arcade cabinet in his bedroom. Though to be fair he was only my mate because he had an arcade cabinet.

"I got a PC for Christmas and some games for it." Cue the laughter.

I grew up on PC so I was pretty insulated from the console wars. We also didn't have cable and I only cared about PBS so I didn't even see the commercials. I may have lived through them, but I never actually experienced them. To muck things up even more, my father is an electrical engineer and way back then he kludged together parts to somehow make a computer than ran better than the top of the line computer and could fully run the emulators back when you could just... buy them... and they were normal. So I got to play things like Spyro courtesy of bleem!. I didn't even know what a console was until I was in the 3rd grade.

He only needs one.. :D

Facts, facts, & more facts. How they gonna try and tell us when we LIVED it.

it could have worked, but id guess it was just a "leave it alone and it will go away" kinda thing who knows though

I had a copy version no case . It only took 15 mins to work through numbers lol .

@@alanharrison2726 I assume you started at 140.00 and worked your way up one number a minute.

@@Elvisbackpack can't remember . But I had no choice .

Star Tropics for NES did something similar, except you had to soak the instruction manual in water first. It really sucked for me as a kid because I got the game without the manual from a garage sale.

Yoko Taro had similar energy, and is generally allowed to do what he likes at this point.

I still have all the password for Ecco the Dolphin written inside the manual

I played that demo countless times before I finally got the real game... Pizza Hut is also why I got Ape Escape and THPS.

It sounds less insane than anything made by Kojima.

Chris Sizemore fair lol

It would be worse if you said that in 1945 tbh.

Yeeeeah, fellow 1982 birth!

@@brentage5000 - Born in 84, so not that different. 5-15. NES, SNES, N64, and Game Cube at the start of the 2000's. Many weekends were had renting games from a local place (rather than Blockbuster) which had deals for all VHS and video game rental. Get it on Friday evening, due Monday before noon. Pick out some games and play them all weekend while the parents... oh shit... oh fuck... netflix and chill before netflix... oh god.

They did out Mike as being a member of the Nintendo camp I'm afraid.

@@NoFormalTraining Ah, that's ok. Mike is always awesome. It's not like I hated Mario or Nintendo in the '90's. I didn't own any consoles in the '90's thanks to an anti-videogame mother (My Dad had to convince her that Myst would be ok for me for gosh sake). I always had to play them at a friend or cousin's house. So whatever they had, I enjoyed the heck out of. I did have a Game Gear though thanks to my grandmother and had all the Sonic games for that (other than Drift 2, Labyrinth, and Tails' Sky Patrol).

@@noirakita428 I'd heard about some parents refusing to buy video games or let them in the house, what does she feel about them now?

I know!!! Amiga forever!!! never had a console, but man, The Amiga was the best!!!

Andy isn't allowed to talk about Amiga any more

And then a (soon-to-be ex-)friend comes over and swipes a magnet over your precious commodore 64 games cassette collection... thanks Mark, I still haven’t forgiven you for that!

@@MarceldeJong Are you sure that ex friend wasn't actually Magneto? Because if he wasn't, that's one hell of a magnet he had on him.

but minecraft continued the learning your 8xtables as it counts stacks in 64s...

@@SevCaswell you know that there are games that are exceptions

Gamers like them numbers.

Mostly because all consoles -mostly and I’m simplifying here - are all 64 bits.

oh my, the first bnc network cards... every there? good! anybody got a spare tee connector / terminator? damn!

I was lucky and grew up in a multi-computer house. My father was an electrical engineer and did dumpster diving at a bunch of the electronics companies and scavenged parts and kludged together what were, at that time, absolute beasts of computers. So we hosted the parties and the neighbors or others would come over and play on these really nice computers with the 2 speed keyboards and 2 button mice. We had 4 computers all hooked up together at one time. Best part was that they were always up to date because he'd scavenged a board here, some RAM there, fixed up a busted hard drive. And it hardly cost. My father made all the money to support the hardware he couldn't scavenge and then the family vacation by making these kludged together beasts of computers then selling them to people who wanted to play games. I wish I'd paid closer attention, even though it's not really a useful skillset anymore.

Never rented a console, did rent many games.Blockbuster and Rogers were good sources.

i was able to play so many different games on different consoles thanks to console rentals. damn i miss being able to do that

I rented a PlayStation for a weekend to play the games on it I was interested in. The funny thing about it is that playing FFVII that weekend made me realize how much I hate the grind of JRPGs. Despite having played a ton on other consoles, it made me realize how bad the gameplay is in these games.

I rented a Saturn multiple times. With all the money spent, I probably could have just bought one.

I never rented a console but we would rent games.

A lack of game manuals with physical purchases is one of the things I miss the most. Even if it’s just a few pages of concept art of something, it would give that extra little sparkle to buying a new game and would validate my increasingly outdated love of owning physical copies over digital ones.

Blizzard Manuals were always my favorites because they were giant lore books for the settings. I think they paved my way to eventually becoming a Dungeon Master because I wanted to make worlds like that and have people play in them.

@@blakearmentrout7717 that's so cool! I still have the games so they'll be in the boxes but now I wanna book shelf of them 😂

Piracy didn't kill the Amiga, poor management decisions did.

Then maybe now that the guns are more accurate, I could actually shoot those damn ducks instead of trying to shoot the dog, after missing all 3 shots :o Anyone old enough to remember playing Duck Hunt, on NES will understand.

Desert, Jungle and Urban Strike comprised one of the best trilogies from that era of gaming. It's always neat to see them getting some appreciation in the comments.

EA used to be one of the most revolutionarieas and user-friendly corp. out there I know now it sounds as absurd as localizincg charathers with impossible accents, but both are true things (italian version of FFIX)

Ooh, OOH! Starflight! Try it if you haven't!

This is 100% a real thing and is still employed to great effect on some very expensive equipment. ...I’m told.

It's a legit prelimilary technique though not the "whack the thing eith force" but "tap lightly" technique. If it sounds solid, it's good, if it doesn't sound right it is tagged for further inspection...

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 ..After a reboot.

Probability dictates that after enough wacks, even a random pile of parts will eventually assemble itself into a working machine.

In Arizona, we have a chain called Cobra. They are pretty nice sized arcades that include a bar. Pretty kick ass, except the games take tokens instead of quarters

Seems like arcades followed the children from back in the day to today. The only arcades I can find are bars as well. I love it

I found 3

Come to Matlock Bath we've got 3 on the same street and numerous Chippys. Teenage Nirvarna.

I wish arcades were still popular because it would be cool to have online compatible arcades like Japan.

oh PC Anti-Piracy systems....

Aw man could you imagine a remake of twisted metal or jet moto now days. I'd empty my bank account for it. Lol!

Jet Moto 1&2 was the shit! I had so many of those demo discs... honestly idk where they came from

@brandon roberts Yeah, but you don't need them very often today. Back in the 90's, before every known route or cheat code known to man was posted online, you needed game magazines, like Game Freak, or a help Line, like Nintendo's help line, to get information on a route in the game or a possible cheatcode, if any.

I read game magazines, and by their nature, you couldn't control when you get hints for certain games. So I spent a long time waiting for how to get past the barrel in Sonic 3. That's part of what made that barrel so notorious. Also, most modern games would give you instructions on how to control the barrel, so the problem would have been avoided anyhow.

@@Mekora OH GOD I remember that darn barrel, I remember the first few times reaching it I ended up timing out cause I couldn't figure out how to make it go high enough. All the previuos ones could be handled just by jumping on like a trampoline so OF COURE I thought that would work here too. No one told me anything about using the D-pad to move it, I had to stumble upon that on my own LOL

I'm still wondering what happened when you called a hotline, other than a massive phone bill.

@@AndyKennett Yeah, jumping gave enough distance alone in any previous barrels, making it look like what was needed again. There's no immediate feedback, you need to have been pressing up and down for a few bounces to notice anything. It's so notorious as something incredibly simple, but never actually explained or subject to immediate feedback. Giving a good example of why modern games give so many button prompts and explanations of game mechanics.

Sounds like a pretty good speedrun challenge.

I used the Game Gennie for Tomjam and Earl, on my Sega Genesis, that the code book will automatically open to that page >

Bro... That had to hurt..

Damn, it's like the first time I heard collective Soul on a classic rock station. I felt really old that day

For me that "I'm old as shit" moment was the first time I watched a trailer for a period piece set AFTER I WAS BORN! I know the 20 years rule and all, but watching a tv featurette use the words "recreating the feel of an era" hurt. Lol

So it Goes - I almost hit someone because they didn’t know what a VCR was... Me: “You know, a VCR, that thing you have under your living room TV...” Him:”A what? You mean a DVDR?” Me: SMH - “No... not a DVDR, a VCR.” Him - Stares blankly at me.

.. R.. really ? Man. They're not that old !

Just ate one yesterday. Still tasty.

Blue Cat al gore disagrees

I remember when they gave out game demos

Do you remember the Chex Doom mod? I don't remember what it was called, but I remember playing that game so much at cousin's house.

@@Inhaledcorn I don't think I ever played that, but it looks fantastic and I wish I had

You'd have to be pretty high to bid on it. ;)

You wouldn't, as ironic and zany as you wanna be, you wouldn't

I definitely remember that disc. I might still have it somewhere!

A lot of classic PS games had that. For example, Twisted Metal 4 was one and it even included all the sound effects as well and you could even copy them onto your computer.

Some games also had hidden audio tracks on their main CD, ie the Story of Boggy B on the original Worms wouldn't play in game you needed to play it via an audio CD player.

good lord... that physically hurt, how stupid people can be...

That was my first PS1 game, I bought it used along with a used Playstation. Even used, it still had all the extras inside and was basically in mint condition, really lucky. I only had enough to get either that and a memory card, or MGS but no memory card. It was tough but I don't regret my choice.

If it's Microsoft Space Simulator, the manual weighs about the same.

I had the exact same confusion and realization. Thinking what kind of clutz drops a stealth bomber maybe with a rocket? Then going "oh right the textbook on how to play".

I genuinely thought he meant the stealth bomber. Lol whoops.

You guys are doofuses. Why do the cute ones always have to be soooo dopey?