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Better but less patient. I realized something interesting. As a kid, I wanted to kill everything on screen. As an adult, I'm avoiding stuff just to get through the level. TMNT is a perfect example. Patience wise though, if a game is just too hard to cheap, I'm done. As a kid, you had nothing else better to do so you'd grind for weeks or months if you needed to.
As a kid, NES and SNES were so easy. Now, they feel really difficult. I chalk it up to having less time to play and more hand-holding modern games. I love newer games, but they do hold your hand.
modern games are the cause of that. Checkpoints every 2 steps, healh regeneration, almost infinite ammo - all this makes you forget how to play. Instead of playing, you just watch a movie. But there's a way to help you get back your skill: just forget that modern games exist. Don't play them for 6 months and play retro games instead. And without save states of course. In 1-2 months, you will see that your skill is greatly improved
And just practice. Now everyone has 50 steam games they havnt even played yet and a good rotation. Back then It was a few games a year ,and If they sucked, too bad. You better play em. Lol
@@AlexxxPerales yeah. But you also replayed them even if they DIDNT suck. Replaying them was just part of the experience. It’s like listening to music. You don’t just listen to a song ONCE and then throw it away. Reputation is part of the enjoyment .
Pat, John Riggs just posted a video that you should check out. He got the "physical media" for the Amico and Tommy gave him a private demo while he was in L.A.
@Marc Carran I know, but in John's case he didn't say anything great about it. He just stated the facts and is letting his comment section rip it apart for him so he doesn't get any backlash from Tommy. He's done a video or two since he's really been trying to grow his channel that I called him out for in his comments, but this isn't one of them.
@Marc Carran There's no deal. Tommy is too stupid to use NDAs and such. He'll just threaten to sue you after the fact even though he has no grounds to sue. He'll also not give you anything else in the future which is what John may fear, but he shouldn't since John already pre-ordered the system. Unless he thinks Tommy may give him a free system, which he won't since he knows he already ordered it.
Same here.....I put so many arcade games down since emulation that I never could as a 14 yr old in 1992.... I've beaten countless retro games in the last 20 yrs
The best part was at 9:53 when Ian got irritated that Pat doesn't like hotdogs either. Expessed exactly what most of us were prob thinkin' in that moment. 😅.. God dammit, Pat! Why?! No weed, no hot dogs.. Where's your joy in life, Pat? Lol
Ian's response was so real and you could tell he was even trying to restrain himself. He couldn't believe Pat ruined this amazing wholesome interaction by being an uncultured stooge once again. The fact that it was a Jersey thing really gave the dagger a twist.
I love how Ian called it Indiglo, but thats what I call it too. I had one of those watches back in the day, and Ive always loved that color, the glowing blue-ish green.
Worse. I still have this little notebook of Atari/Intellivision high scores I would keep back in the day, and I don't come anywhere near matching them, much less beating them, these days.
I remember when I was like 10 being pretty good at games like Zelda 2 or Tetris, and now I think because I'm older I'll be so damn good, but I'm worse and I suck at Tetris now.
I remember a buddy of mine bought that DJ-In-A-Box kit back in the day (like 98/99). It was purple, and I remember hauling them around to various parties.
Much better now. I played games heavily as a kid as well, but rarely beat games. I kept a games beaten list but it took many years to complete even a small number of games. I started with Atari 2600 in 86 but NES was my first console where games were actually beatable. Atari 2600 had very few games that didnt loop. Of course you can get very good at those games based on score but I never pushed any real limits back then with those. Part of it is using all the modern tools on emulation. The main thing that opened up the older games for me was being able to practice isolated sections super efficiently then put it all together and beat the games legit, using save states for practice. Never to cheat though. Theres also videos for multiple ideas of strats to use, maps, gamefaqs, etc. Even though I used the modern tools available, beating so many games made me a much better player. I also saw a large skill increase in the mid 2000s when I broke 40 million with Ninja Gaiden Black's mission mode. That really pushed my skill and patience to another level. So its definately a combination of taking on extreme modes and games and just sheer number of completed games with the tools available. Eventually I was able to find better strategies in games then what was shown in alot of videos. Games tend to have alot of similiar layouts and things you learn carry over, so eventually you dont need to use guides and videos as much. In the tutorials I post up I often find alot of exploits to really simplify sections and many of them I spot quickly at this point. I play everything from very old to modern so the variety of game genres, time periods and styles really helps balance out the skill.
For me it’s Zelda 2 and Kid Chameleon. I beat both when they initially came out as a kid .for a lot of those games it was a matter of pattern recognition, timing and knowing the terrain. I have a lot of fun now playing Zelda 2 fan hacks . Not particularly because they are more or less difficult but just expanding on the original game world I guess. Stuff that as a kid would be coming from your imagination but now you get to play it . it’s pretty cool
Both. It’s easier because of knowledge and all the resources we have to help figure things out. Harder because most of us have modern tv displays and getting retro consoles adapted with little to no lag can be expensive. Many may not even consider lag at all and just assume they’re not as good as they originally thought. With developers and channels like retro rgb/mlig a lot of us know how to adapt that but may not be able to afford it. An example of how I adapt OG Xbox: Xbox>Original Component>HDMI Adapter>HDMI Splitter>mClassic>PIP Box with my Camera>AVerMedia LGP2>TV. I’m able to use other consoles using most of this but I mostly play Xbox CT3 lately.
I was terrible at video games when I was younger. I’m way better now. Like with Metroid, I had no idea what it was or what I was doing. I had no frame of reference. Now, having experienced so many other games, I finally tried Metroid for the first time and had pretty good confidence in making it through pretty far without any maps or hints.
The Genesis Mini has been an exercise in humility for me since I was able to play through Ghouls N' Ghosts as a teenager, admittedly by using the infinite continues the game offered, but, in my mid-40s, I can't get past the second level. The one big difference that isn't entirely due to age is that I had other controllers for the Genesis in the 1990s including a stick while I'm pretty much forced to use the default Genesis controller on the Mini because no other USB controllers I've tried work with it, I don't feel like risking screwing everything up by installing custom firmware to make the XBox 360 controller compatible and I'm too cheap to buy one of those compatible controllers.
I think the best special edition console is the Panasonic Q Gamecube. With that mirror front and light up controller ports, that thing is beautiful. Plays DVDs too, it's just too bad that it cost more than buying a gamecube and DVD player separately at the time.
Well you guys bring up an interesting point. If games are rated in comparison to other games, then all ratings should be fluid, and subject to change as newer games are released.
I grew up watching mainly Comedy Central and MTV after I watched Nickelodeon as a young kid. I loved Pulp Comics. The stand-up with quick sketches mixed in here and there was a great formula I think. There were a few Stand Up series I watched all the time but cant remember the names of them. And its sketch comedy, not stand up, but I gotta mention MTV's The State - my friends and I loved that show. One time I woke up and there was a State marathon on, and I recorded it on my crappy VCR. I wanna say it was a good chunk of seasons 1 and 2, plus a short called "Get Me Cobalt" or just "Cobalt" which was a few minute spy/detective parody. This is how we watched the series for a long time as it didnt get a release on DVD for a while plus it didnt have the actual music MTV used but "sound alikes" which kinda sucked as some of those 90s songs go with the show perfectly or were even integrated with it (like the priest that gets the Rollins Band to play the church fundraiser instead of having a pancake breakfast).
Honestly, I’m so much better than I was as a child. I had no patience and expected to be a pro at things before I even learnt them. Now I just think about the 10,000 hours thing and keep trying instead of getting angry
See, Tommy's mistake was trying to become the next Nolan Bushnell. He'd be so much happier and successful trying to become the next Willie Nelson. Besides, they have so much in common - music, toking, and being on the road again... I am guessing that within the next 4-20 weeks, Tommy's gonna announce the Amico is toast(ed), and he's going to launch Intellivision marijuana instead... Either that, or he'll wind up living in a van down by the river.
I am definitely better at retro games now but its because I have a better understanding of the games and mechanics. When I was young I just tried to plow through the game without trying to really learn strategies to make the game easier.
There was also a limited run platinum GameCube that I was able to get my hands on and still have. I have no idea how "limited" it was since I grabbed it a year after the console came out.
I’m way better for sure as an adult and not just because of save states. I might have slightly lower reflexes now at 38 than I did at 8, but my patience is significantly higher, which makes quite a difference. I was never able to beat Mario 3 or the Sonic games without cheats as a kid but now I have basically no problem with them.
I was pretty good as a kid - I beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! and for my friend's 10th birthday party, I was the 'entertainment' in that I beat Ninja Gaiden start to finish for everyone to see the ending. Nowadays I can still go back and do pretty well in these games, and I find that I am now more patient/selectively aggressive in order to beat shoot em up games from this era (which is a genre I always was bad at and therefore hated). For example, I recently beat Abadox the legitimate, non-cheating way and there was no way in hell I could do that as a kid. So I think I am slightly better. Also, the one game that everyone thinks is hard that is a cakewalk for me is Castlevania III - I got that for Christmas one year and of course played it non-stop for months on end. I did a Castlevania series run of all the games in 2019 and Castlevania III was like one of the easiest of the bunch for me. I was legitimately surprised to hear that people thought of this as a hard game later on in life and I still can't wrap my head around it if I am being honest.
Ian. Don’t put down your technics 1200s. One of the best engineered turntables ever made. Legendary reputation for a reason. Forget about auto-stop or any other features you think you’re missing out on. You don’t want ‘em. If you upgrade the cartridge at a minimum to something suitable for hi-fi listening you can have a veritable beast of an audiophile-grade listening system. You’re literally already more than halfway there with a table like that!
Better today. Gaming reflexes don't diminish until you get much older, and you play a lot smarter as an adult. Most people have a tendency to really overestimate how good they were at games at age 9 or 10 (to the point of delusion).
The Hot Grill on Lexington Ave in Clifton is LEAGUES better than Rutt's Hut. Hot Dog Johnnies in Buttzville, NJ is a solid choice too; the birch beer in the chilled mugs is heavenly.
I'm only 26 so there's mental sharpness on my side but I find I never really get rusty at games other than like taking 15-45 mins to get back up to speed, even if I've not played it in a decade. I think decline in skill probably has more to do with age inhibiting reaction times and things like that, but you will probably only get better at turn based puzzles, stratedgy, RPGs ETC.
There was a study that came out very recently that basically said that your reflexes don’t degrade nearly as much as had been widely believed, as it relates to video games. Basically there wasn’t significant fall off until you are very, very old. But arguably older people are much worse at learning NEW games.
Im better at some retro games like RE2,RE3,SMB 3,SMB,SMW, Contra, Super Metriod, Jurassic Park,DKC,DKC2 as an adult and a few Ive gotten worse at them due to forgetting about secrets or layouts of levels. I am less patient now skipping cut scenes and passing enemies just to advance through games quickly since i have a huge back log. As a kid i was more patient since when my parents would buy a new game i enjoyed it and sunk a summer or two into them, it wasn't until N64 and Game Cube era when my parents would buy new games for me more often. I am a fan of George Carlin his stand up shows from the 70s was just funny as hell, his 80s and 90s stand up funny too. Robin Williams, Dave Chappelle, Mitch Hedburg,
Much better. I can chew through most 16 bit bames with relative ease nowadays. 8 bit games are still hit or miss but I chalk more of that up to game quality being less consistent along with my patience diminishing over the years
10 year old me would be so disappointed in how bad I suck at NES games now. I remember having competitions with my friends on who could finish Ninja Gaiden the fastest and I'd make it to Jaquio without losing a life. Now, I can't even get to Malth without at least two continues.
I can watch a game video and from the visual feedback and sounds, i can intuit an assessment of gameplay nuances, ratio of gameplay elements like sim sections in actraiser vs action parts, control fluidity, tedium of said elements, audio cues complimenting gameplay functionality, etc...
Of the list, I've seen Carlin, Burr and Chappelle and off list, Norm Macdonald, Eddie Izzard, and Super Dave(more for his interviews than his stand-up, he was incredibly naturally funny.
I don’t think anyone beat Rygar in a single-run back in the day. You just turned the television off, inconspicuously cover the light, and pray mom didn’t notice. Pat, collect the newly released vinyl copies of classic video game soundtracks. I don’t collect many records, but I had to get the Castlevania (I-IIIj and some Konami ones (Contra and Ninja Gaiden).
The only game I was good at and now shit at is Super Mario Kart because the game progressed so much throughout the years I can’t play the first one properly anymore
I remember getting to the final boss of ninja gaiden pretty easily as a kid. I don't think I ever beet him, but I could do it. I can't pass the 3rd level now.
Some games I’ve gotten markedly better at. Mostly games that require patience. Ninja Gaiden, for example. I can just let things go by where I used to rush. Other games I have gotten worse at just through having forgotten things it took dozens of reps to memorize. For example I could Make it through the turtles water level with no challenge for 20-something years and now I just forget where to go and how many times to tap.
I really like the SNES styled special edition New 3DS XL, not the American coloured one, which is nice, but the one we had here. Never did pick one up, and a bit pricey now. Look great though
Way better at true retro games to me. Something like Super Mario Land- I one shot'd last week just to see if I could. Barely any deaths and no continues. That took me like an entire summer to do when I was a kid, which was pretty much the last era I played it in.
It's probably worst because I don't have patience with old games like I had as a kid or teen. I remember trying again Might & Magic on the NES and not been able to get out of the first town. I was thinking how the hell I was able to play, have fun and finish that game (Internet didn't exist at that time...). Probably playing Dragon Warriors 1-4 is now like torture to me 🤣.
When I was 4 years old I got to Gozer in Ghostbusters for NES. I didn't beat it but I got there. When I played the game in my 20's I couldn't get past the stairs to save my life. On the other hand, I never beat Super Mario 3 as a 4-5 year old but I did beat it in my 20's.
Worse for sure. Not that I was ever good at games to begin with. There are some games I can beat now that I couldn't as a kid, but I'd say my overall skill peaked in my teens/early 20s and has been in steady decline ever since.
Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, Norm Macdonald, Bill Burr, Jim Jefferies, Dave Chapelle, David Cross, Ron White, Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Stand up hasn’t died, it’s just never super big.
way worse because of how much new games coddle you. dying used to actually mean something in a game. I get used to how much new games hold your hand, and then get destroyed in old games.
Worse. When i was a kid i was able to beat games like Shinobi 3 almost in speed run fashion. Now i screw up at the water level and run out of continues. What the hell.
I think I am as good as ever, if I could just have the time to get good at something again. I had beat the Mega Man 3 to 6 each with just a rental. I could still do that if I could ever just go at it for a couple days, but life doesn't let me do that.
