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My Retro Life
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@uNkLeRaRa4
@uNkLeRaRa4 Год назад
Your dad was so ahead of the curve. We are all appreciative of the epic nostalgia he caught on camera. Our generation was lucky.
@SubieandFriends
@SubieandFriends 11 месяцев назад
Holding a Marketing director position in the 90s was usually a very high paying position back then…..so forgive me for saying but your family was pretty darn well off….as a kid my cheap ass horrible parents only bought me 2 n64 games….for my whole kid life….actually for my entire life….that’s right only two games….but in reality it’s not about how much money your parents spent on you and on your gaming hobby but the fact that they genuinely wanted to see you super happy and they wanted you to experience such cool entertainment experiences that other kids were experiencing and especially what other kids were maybe not able to experience due to money issues……my parents would only give me like a shirt on Christmas and that’s it….I was always the kid who never had anything special on Christmas while everyone else got something so cool to play with…..
@uNkLeRaRa4
@uNkLeRaRa4 11 месяцев назад
@@SubieandFriends All you can do is try and be better too your own kids
@arthurfleck4320
@arthurfleck4320 7 месяцев назад
​@@SubieandFriendsdepends on WHERE you were a marketing director. He was a marketing director of a small business, which is nowhere near as high-paying as a marketing director of...say, Sears (at the time).
@theycallmejpj
@theycallmejpj Год назад
No lie, you had more games in one Xmas than I did in my entire childhood
@DDavEE
@DDavEE Год назад
I was about to say the exact same thing lol
@j2323j
@j2323j Год назад
Fax
@gavinr9107
@gavinr9107 Год назад
I remember in the early 90's I sold my SNES to purchase a Sega Mega Drive. I only had Street Fighter 2, Darius twin (?) and Super Mario All Stars on the SNES. One of my sole reasons to purchase the Sega Mega Drive was just to get blood on Mortal Kombat. This was before Mortal Kombat 2 came out. Then the SNES had Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct and a few others come out. However I didn't regret as the Sega also had some good exclusives I enjoyed and I was far too young to be able to afford both.
@Canthatcrazy
@Canthatcrazy Год назад
10000%
@claytonjones8358
@claytonjones8358 Год назад
About two or three of mine..we were middle class and I had to buy all mine. Except for my birthday as a kid. Nintendo games were $50 at Toys R US...and a NeoGeo I remember was like $650-700
@pooksthepossum
@pooksthepossum Год назад
I cried at the end when you thanked him. I lost my dad in September of 2021 to cancer. He was a Marine Vietnam veteran, and worked his whole life afterwards on the line for GM. He would come home oil stained and ran ragged! Looking back at my own Christmases and birthdays, and seeing my 90s nostalgia everywhere... Every toy and every video game holds an image in my mind of him, his hard work, and his absolute love for his children staring back at me. That man went through hell his whole life so we didn't have to. Semper Fi and rest in peace, Dad.
@deadshotninja4852
@deadshotninja4852 Год назад
Im so sorry. I don’t want to brag here but i still have my father
@antikz3731
@antikz3731 Год назад
@@deadshotninja4852 thats fucking unnecessary
@jaxson3887
@jaxson3887 Год назад
Very similar story with my dad
@jakep8484
@jakep8484 7 месяцев назад
My dad was a Vietnam vet and passed away from cancer in 2019, I have a daughter now that he didn't get to meet but I'm going to play the same snes games I played with my dad. Found the same crt tv we had when I was a kid and I'm fixing it up to play games on it with my daughter.
@jesspace4069
@jesspace4069 6 месяцев назад
RIP good fathers
@chrisb6079
@chrisb6079 Год назад
Yes, you were the kid who had every game - we all knew one growing up and would say 'gee they are lucky', although thinking about it now, you weren't lucky because of the games, you were lucky because you had a great family, a great mom and a great Dad. Now that is really what makes someone rich. I think it is great.
@markb7040
@markb7040 8 месяцев назад
Upper Upper Middle for sure, not a bad thing but no need to downplay it. Your folks worked hard and achieved top spots so give them their due credit
@laksoysoy
@laksoysoy Месяц назад
remember he's the only child.
@LukeEganLyrics
@LukeEganLyrics 21 день назад
I take your point, but people have no idea how rich the US middle class was in the '90s.
@BF109G4
@BF109G4 Год назад
I’m from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 I’m a 90’s kid. My dad wasn’t educated but he was a legend. He loved buying me video games when I was young and he enjoyed watching me playing. My mom used to hide my video games when exams knock the doors and she would never give them back until my school report tells her good news. They are around 70 now. I love them both so much.
@Scuba_Bro
@Scuba_Bro Год назад
It’s really nice that your carrying the tradition and love of video games to your daughter! Saw it in one of your other videos where she got splatoon 3. She seems like a really sweet kid and really enjoys the gaming experience like you did. I think your dad would be super proud 👍
@ninjapirate83
@ninjapirate83 Год назад
I'm 39. Same story. My Mom was a manager at McDonalds and my Dad was a Welder. I had a TON of games. You gotta be thrifty, there's always a way. Got a ton of used games, from garage sales, swap meets, presents. I would probably get maybe 1 or 2 brand new games a year but always looking for deals and bargains for older games.
@Canthatcrazy
@Canthatcrazy Год назад
Your dad was ahead of his time!! If he was our generation he'd 100% have been a streamer/collector ❤
@NoThanksnothanks
@NoThanksnothanks Год назад
40 bucks in 1989 = $95 today. I remember saving everything to buy a game. The sucky part was, my parents were so poor Nintendo Power was off the table. We never knew what was good or bad, this is before the internet. A lot of times I bought on box artwork. Didn’t matter though it was a new game and I played the hell out of crappy ones.
@33Dannyb
@33Dannyb Год назад
My dad would let me rent a game every single weekend without fail. So if I really liked a game I’d rent it multiple weekends. And if I really liked the game I’d ask for it for my birthday or Christmas. I lived for the rental lol. It wasn’t until I became a teen that I started to figure out ways to actually buy more games for myself. My dad had a lot of patience.
@valcrist7428
@valcrist7428 Год назад
Nah you're kinda Rich. I mean.. I never know anyone who could ALWAYS afford to buy any games and "ALL CONSOLES" from 8bit, 16bit to 32.. and even 64 bit ... and buying video games like pancakes.. Most of the kids I know only has One Console.. or a console which is a generation BEHIND.. and we were even an avarage income family. Plus you have that spanking Video Cam Recorder.. I mean.. who owns a video recorder during those times??? I know who... Rich people..
@joes9545
@joes9545 Год назад
I think it’s crazy that the price of video games and consoles have remained largely unchanged since literally the 70’s/80’s despite inflation.
@nunyabusiness9013
@nunyabusiness9013 10 месяцев назад
Really? Microtransactions and season passes say hi. Don't remember it even being possible to spend thousands on a single game back then.
@joes9545
@joes9545 10 месяцев назад
@@nunyabusiness9013I don’t believe I have ever fallen into that trap with the exception of expansion packs. But I get your point.
@nunyabusiness9013
@nunyabusiness9013 10 месяцев назад
Trust me, game devs are making thousands of times more profit than they did in the 80's. Also I remember new NES games being 50 bucks at Toys R US (with a few exceptions that were 60). Now the base price for a new game is 70.
@joes9545
@joes9545 10 месяцев назад
@@nunyabusiness9013I was never talking about profitability simply system and game prices. Plus using your example, $50 in 1990 is approximately $115 today adjusted for inflation.
@GarseJanacek
@GarseJanacek 8 месяцев назад
They couldn't justify raising the prices when the dollar is worth 2.5 times less than it was 30 years ago.
@ZefTillDeath8878
@ZefTillDeath8878 5 месяцев назад
You're literally living a life of Richie Rich as a kid. The family may have been upper middle class, but you had it good being the only child. I've never known any kid in my life that had this much stuff. Anyway, love your videos and thanks for sharing.
@jimmypeeps8471
@jimmypeeps8471 Месяц назад
I wasn't upper middle class, I had two brothers and I had that much stuff. My parents would go all out on Christmas and even a decently "expensive" birthday gift every year, like a new game if I wanted.
@PatrickRockwell24
@PatrickRockwell24 15 дней назад
@ZefTillDeath8878 The one kid in my neighborhood who was an only child who got spoiled, even he didn't have that much gaming equipment and his Christmas and Birthday presents used to fill up the entire living room and spill INTO THE KITCHEN. lmao His Birthday was right after Christmas.
@lancelance7918
@lancelance7918 Год назад
The average household income in 1994 was $34,000. To most of America you were rich. Not like owning a yacht rich, but like taking at least a couple of trips out of town a year rich. Most people I knew never left the state much less had video game collections. (Texas) haveing 4-5 games in the late 90s was a lot. We all had to trade in and rent games. Ask your mom how much you and your dad made in 1994 and I'm betting you would be in the top 10% of American households. Or in debt possibly ... Also love the content and appreciate the sharing of the home movies. Very cool. Edit : here's from the conversation below, if you dissagree with me thats fine. Were basing this off of our definition of rich, you may have a different view since rich is a social construct with many different viewpoints kind of like who consideres what to be "cool".: "his dad was a marketing director. That's an executive. "How much does a Marketing Director make in Houston, TX? The average Marketing Director salary in Houston, TX is $185,129 as of May 01, 2023, but the range typically falls between $165,150 and $209,254." -salary com- That's top 5% from his dad alone. That's "rich" to me"
@MrGittz
@MrGittz Год назад
I think you’re overstating things a bit here. He was an only child, both parents worked and he had family. My parents were by no means rich, not even close, but they saved up all year to make Christmas and birthdays really special. If you looked at the presents under our tree every Christmas you’d think “Wow. They must be rich”. But nope. I just had parents who wanted to make my childhood special and who went without so their kids could look back at all of it with fondness & love.
@lancelance7918
@lancelance7918 Год назад
@GuyX 1 did you live in one of the richest suburbs in Texas and have a parent who was at an executive level at a local TV station? I'm not saying he was rich because he got a few nice games for Xmas. I have a feeling you were ok off as well since you didn't notice the house and the neighborhood and all the other little things. When you come from below the average wealth in America you would call that a rich life. I don't think I'm overstating it, I think maybe you haven't been average poor or lived it. It really is hard to see if you haven't been there and I get that. We really do keep up segregation of class in this country.
@MrGittz
@MrGittz Год назад
@@lancelance7918 Wait. Whose parent was an executive at a TV station? He said his dad worked in marketing/PR for a local home theatre company & his mom was involved in sales? And no I didn’t live in Texas. And yes I do have experience living in poverty, my parents just knew how to manage what little they had. We never went to Disneyland or major vacations. They budgeted their money so they could take us to the movies or McDonald’s every so often and the only time we got new things was Christmas or birthdays. Maybe a surprise here or there. But 300-400 dollars for Christmas isn’t extravagant by any means. Middle class isn’t rich. I grew up during this time I knew poorer kids than me with video game collections bigger than mine. So it all depends on what kind of parents you have. Do they spend their money on themselves? Do they live within their means? I don’t think Tyler’s family was rich. They were well off but not rich. Rich implies luxury & BMW’s or Mercedes. Nothing I’ve seen from these videos gives me that impression. He had more video games than normal and I wish my family had a video camera to record our christmases and bdays. He’s very lucky that way.
@lancelance7918
@lancelance7918 Год назад
@GuyX 1 my comment didn't post so sorry if I post twice. his dad was a marketing director. That's an executive. "How much does a Marketing Director make in Houston, TX? The average Marketing Director salary in Houston, TX is $185,129 as of May 01, 2023, but the range typically falls between $165,150 and $209,254." -salary com- That's top 5% from his dad alone. That's "rich" to me and most Americans. Not like rich rich but BMW and MB rich for sure.
@KadzietWolf
@KadzietWolf Год назад
@@MrGittz My parents growing up didn't have a lot of money. We barely ever got new things. Barely every went shopping. But birthdays and christmas? Gifts up the ass. And those were the only days. Doesn't mean you were rich.
@spencermarugg4098
@spencermarugg4098 Год назад
dude your family was very well off. But there’s no shame in that. As long as you are good people than I am happy for your prosperity!
@ShinobiWan1
@ShinobiWan1 Год назад
I think the two best things about your home video footage, is the excitement from your parents when they give you something, and your genuine reaction of joy in receiving them. They loved you very much, and it shows. Thank you for sharing
@TechFanChris516
@TechFanChris516 Год назад
This was a great way to honor all your family, and especially your parents, for making your childhood special for you and your cousins. You were so lucky to have a family who loved video games as much as you. I didn’t have as many games growing up but I did have an amazing family who did all they could do to get me what I had. I always loved seeing how much you appreciate your family in your videos.
@kuramakun84
@kuramakun84 Год назад
This is by far one of the best Gaming channels on RU-vid. Your experience are similar to most of us growing up albeit some experienced it slightly different some grew up with no father or mother. Or where slightly less fortunate but all in all we all grew up with video games that we all remember and love. You are incredibly lucky to have had a awesome dad who recorded these amazing moments.
@guilhermecaiado5384
@guilhermecaiado5384 6 месяцев назад
Kid retrogamer. I bought my ps3 in 2015, 2 years after the ps4 came out. Bought most games cheap. I have almost 200 games, but after the pandemy, the retro gaming market skyrocket. I live in the third world, so most games we had in our childhood were fake.
@noentropyjames1283
@noentropyjames1283 10 месяцев назад
This was the middle class. It no longer exists. Sucks for all of us.
@ivan95glz
@ivan95glz Год назад
Man it's not even about all the video games you receivedas as a kid , I find more amazing and heart warming that you have so many videos of a time when you were a kid and your parents were Young this is the best nostalgia you can ever ask for. Thanks for the content, my friend.
@JOYSTICKGAMES101
@JOYSTICKGAMES101 5 месяцев назад
ok id have to say that this video brought me down to earth because i remember writing befire under a different name how pissed off i was at all the shit he was getting and i think i said something along the lines of that he didnt need all those games i forget but im sure it was hurtful to the guy I never thought he would explain this in detail and now that i understand everything for what its worth IM SORRY
@ricardosousa11
@ricardosousa11 Год назад
Just discovered this channel, such an amazing nostalgic feeling, you're so blessed your father registered all this, really really special watching this.
@LotusOpel
@LotusOpel Год назад
dont sugarcoat it..... i also come from a middle class family.... in norway though..... and i have NEVER gotten so many presants for xmas... yet alone more than 1 game!! you was spoiled my good man
@carl5381
@carl5381 8 месяцев назад
we didn't even have a NES until you were on the later years of SNES/Genesis and totaled four or five games. Dude, your parents may not have been rich but they were living very comfortably to have the disposable income to drop that kind of money for entertainment. Even still, I'm glad you got to experience the childhood some of us always wanted up until a certain point. It's beautiful. Be thankful for those times because those are times some of us have never experienced and will never get back in this life. Create your own and don't forget.
@orangeTadpole
@orangeTadpole Год назад
“Enough to make a grown man cry” is a pretty good description of this heartwarming channel.
@RyanDeClue
@RyanDeClue Год назад
Got news for you dude… you were not middle class. You were, at minimum, upper middle class. Factually though, you were beyond that. If you’re saying your parents income from those jobs named were modest… well, then something else was going on. Watching your vids, looking at your home and all the things in it, at the time, your parents had a LOT more money coming in than you were aware of.
@CharlieVictor212
@CharlieVictor212 2 месяца назад
Wrong. This is solid middle class before this country began to rot. I was poor. My friends parents had good jobs and lived like this. The upper middle class kids I knew had parents with Porsches in the garage and fancy houses. You have a warped (and jealous sounding tbh) view.
@tysonk-t2130
@tysonk-t2130 21 день назад
I love the woman smoking in the same room as the children at 0:43 😂😂. I look at old pictures from when my cousins and I were kids in the 80’s and 90’s and all the adults have cigarettes right by our faces. There is a picture of me blowing out candles on my 7th birthday cake and there is a full ash tray right beside the cake. 😂😂
@PatrickRockwell24
@PatrickRockwell24 15 дней назад
Yeah, both my parents were smokers until about 2005ish. It seemed like everybody smoked in the late 80s and early 90s. I used to hate smelling those cigarettes while in the car. smh
@jesspace4069
@jesspace4069 6 месяцев назад
Id get like 2 games hopefully for Xmas when I was young but my parents got us lots of stuff xmas is awesome
@jc4446
@jc4446 Год назад
Definitely got the family involved . Man the most games I received during Christmas was 3 one Christmas , RE code Veronica , shenmue and rainbow six all for Dreamcast . Two games became the standard each Christmas which was still pretty awesome 👏
@FlourescentPotato
@FlourescentPotato 11 месяцев назад
Your family was wealthy. You just think they weren't because you grew up in that middle class wealthy environment. Families that aren't wealthy got 1, maybe 2 games.
@KadzietWolf
@KadzietWolf Год назад
"We weren't rich. My dad was a director and my mom was a salesperson. We had two incomes." Bruh. I was middle class growing up and we had NOTHING. I had SNES for years, then N64(which wasn't even new), then PS1. And it was like that for years. How many games did I have? One SNES game. Two N64 games. One PS1 game. That's it. That was middle class. You were rich. Maybe not "upper class", but you had more growing up than 99% of other people. Humungous house. Suburbs(which wasn't cheap). Nice cars. Trips. Games and games and games. You were definitely rich. Not millionaire rich, but still rich.
@MyRetroLife
@MyRetroLife Год назад
There is no other rich. Millionaire rich IS rich. My parents worked hard and played hard, and provided well for their only child son whom they spoiled, but we were not rich. Rich is like Fresh Prince of Bellaire. Come on dude. Also my Dad was a marketing director for a local electronics store, not some famous rich film director.
@sammylane21
@sammylane21 Год назад
I got all misty eyed when you gave thanks to your loving parents. My Retro Lide, good man, you were and are rich in the way that matters most, and that is you had and have a loving family that loved enough to give a magical XMas. Remember, Thrifty means being smart with your resources and that's a good piece of advice to give to your kids.
@teachermatt
@teachermatt 4 месяца назад
I used to get 1 or 2 games for Christmas and on the years with big releases of new systems I would get the system and 1 game. My neighbor and his brother would get more than a dozen games and sometimes a system or multiple systems at Christmas. His parents never even wrapped the games - they were just in a trash bag with any other game stuff he bought for them. His dad was a doctor and flush with cash, so it was no surprise. It was great for me also because I got to play a ton of games and systems I never had myself.
@PaulHindt
@PaulHindt 3 месяца назад
It's wild that your dad was picking up Japanese import consoles and games back then. That was the kind of thing I'd only dream about as a kid, reading about such things in the pages of Nintendo Power. I didn't own an import game myself until I had my own job and after eBay had appeared on the scene. I started picking up a couple titles here and there in the early 2000s.
@imyanigmw
@imyanigmw Год назад
Thanks for sharing these memories. I remember my brother and I having some pretty amazing Christmas times too. As a parent now, you can honestly say it's all worth it if you have a grateful child.
@reuterss306
@reuterss306 3 месяца назад
You got spoiled. Nothing wrong about it, as long as the parenting is on point. I mean who wouldnt love this as a kid? And you obviously know you were blessed with your dad sharing your passion and having such an interest in it. Perhaps some people just get salty? I for myself was happy if I got one action figure or videogame on my birthday or christmas. But I had enough friends to play and share games with, I did not even recognize that many others got way more presents than me. I was happy.
@Slothretro
@Slothretro Год назад
I grew up in the 90s as a motel kid. Now that I'm an adult I'm buying all the things I missed out on! You guys weren't rich y'all just had people that hooked you up 😊
@Suhadisgood
@Suhadisgood Год назад
The only video games that was worth buying was the arcade machines not the consoles that were trash if you didn’t have enough room to fit all the arcade games then you can just download them to your PC at no extra cost can’t imagine want to play the retro games in 8 bit graphics-16 bit graphics the PS1 couldn’t even run Pac-Man correctly so they gave you vibration arcade machines is what I bought they were $3,000 dollars not $60 if you can find used arcades you’ll find them at $400-$1,000 I’ll never go back playing on the consoles that failed arcade retro games now Nintendo and Sony are selling you Arcade archives each for $7.99 still waiting for teenage mutant ninja turtles hopefully it comes with the original theme song can’t believe how stupid Konami is to make the arcade 1 up and cowabunga collection have the wrong theme song intro
@realdealeddiefreels4818
@realdealeddiefreels4818 7 месяцев назад
Definitely upper middle class for sure. I grew up with a single Mom with 2 kids. I didn’t get my first console a Sega Genesis until 1997. It was the bundle with Sonic and knuckles. I got my N-64 used from a pawn shop in 1999. I didn’t get a console at launch until the Switch
@ciscoak9074
@ciscoak9074 4 месяца назад
I think that rather than the monetary aspect, the real credit goes to how ur dad would go out of his way to import games b4 U.S release, go find games that were hard to find or sold out ect..the monetary thing is still a big deal but the effort is even greater..also us only childs were usually more spoiled than other kids lol..i kno that was true for me..when a parent(s) only have a singles child to make happy they can afford to put more towards them rather than spreading the "wealth" between 3 or 4 kids..also a aspect of "we dont want to make the others jealous probably plays into multi child house holds as well. Where when u have a single kid u can get them whatever they want without the concern of "how will his siblings feel"..also iv come to realize as a only child myself that parents tend to charish and dote on single kids more for many reasons..maybe they had a hard time concieving and makes them really want to go above and beyond for that "miracle" kid, maybe the parents feel like since we dont have siblings to play with that they feel they need to over compensate with matreial things to fill thst void..i always felt like thst might have been how my mom felt, as a single mom with one child who had to work all the time to provide the best life for both of us, she overcompensated with buying me whatever i would ask for which for better or worse turned me into a "spoiled kid".. she wasnt tech savvy or knowledgeable in games and didnt have the same knowledge to import thing ect or else im sure she probably would have lol but she did buy me whatever i would ask for..she let me watch watchever iv wanted "R rated movies, mature games ect and i can actually trace my love for movies and pop culture in general becaise of her and her "lax" approach to letting me watch or play whstever i wanted just short of sex scenes lol.. i can literally remember watching holloween and chucky with her when i was 5 lol.. i digress, but ya the whole "are u rich" thing was asked to me ALL THE TIME even tho they knew we lived in a apartment lol..
@VGB004
@VGB004 8 месяцев назад
Im with you bud, Xmas was the only time I would get 2 or 3games, and bdays just 1. But Blockbuster was a life saver. Every friday was junk food and home movie night, so I was always able to pick out 1 game and 1 movie to rent and that's how I stayed up to date. But I did usually get mostly what I wanted for Xmas. I had a Sega Master system also along with my NES bcus the Genesis was to expensive so I had to get the MS' instead with 3games which I still enjoyed. 👍😉🙂
@leeartlee915
@leeartlee915 Год назад
If you had two incomes during the 90s, a family was doing pretty well financially. I came from a single parent home where employment was… erratic. AND EVEN THEN, I managed to acquire a good grip of video games during my younger years.
@dacechasinghawk3910
@dacechasinghawk3910 8 месяцев назад
We weren't rich at all? I still ended up with a decent collection. Also mostly the less expensive older titles. But those add up and make that collection bigger. Sorry I quit gaming when I got my first girlfriend. After that? I didn't care about games. LOL.
@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784
@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784 Год назад
To me a marketing director is not what id consider to be a low paying job, id say your family were upper middle class earnings wise back then. VHS Camcorders were super expensive in the early 90's so that alone says you were above the average family income, here in the UK my family didn't get one of those till late 1997. I had a wealthy friend and even he only had a NES collection of around 18-20 games in the late 80's / early 90's, when the average at the time was 3-4.
@Amero2323
@Amero2323 Год назад
OK so you weren't "rich" compared to the ultra-wealthy, but you were compared to the majority of us, who were lucky to get a game for Christmas.
@NYHeeb
@NYHeeb 5 месяцев назад
Everytime I see a video it shows me how similar we had as child. I am an only child they called us latch key kid. My parents worked and I wasn't spoiled. I rented a bunch and bought most from funcoland second hand.
@tekdrudge
@tekdrudge 7 месяцев назад
Now days it is rare to find a "New In Box" game on the shelf at a store 3 years after it came out. In most cases if you want a physical copy of an older game you have to buy it used.
@davidburke2453
@davidburke2453 8 месяцев назад
I always got one big gift.. A console perhaps, but if I had the console already I was getting one game and then another game on my birthday the next month. A console was like every 3 or 4 years. My Mom did her best but shit I was a wise kid and told her not to go overboad I did not need much ... other than the new console if it was duable for us. Single Mom and me relationship. A team.
@NextNate03
@NextNate03 Год назад
You can still be middle-class and still have or make alot of money. In order for anybody be able to big all those video games and systems, you would had to either make alot of money, be in alot of debt or both. That 35 dollar game back in 1990, that would be about 80 dollars in 2022/2023 money base on inflation.
@TheGoldwingz
@TheGoldwingz Год назад
Im addicted to this channel, its so dear to me and this is my probably my favorite video of them all, it's so heartfelt and beautiful. Thanks parents everywhere for providing for us and sacrificing for our happiness 😊 and thanks Tyler for sharing such a beautiful archive of valuable priceless moments with us!!
@nostalgiajunkieakaetherethi677
@nostalgiajunkieakaetherethi677 4 месяца назад
Loving all ur content I've been following the past few years and it never disappoints to either inform me of something I didn't know about or scratch that nostalgic itch 💪
@worldofretrogameplay6963
@worldofretrogameplay6963 Год назад
People of today don’t realize that collecting back then was far cheaper. My father surprised my brother (RIP) and I one Summer with a 7800 and 30 games. He paid less than $100 for everything because the system and games were on clearance. In today’s world with eBay, you can’t do this.
@ghostemane85
@ghostemane85 Год назад
most people had to rob to get rich in the reagan era...i got socks for christmas... i saw ur 1994 video.... My guy u were RICH!!!
@garethbeaton8414
@garethbeaton8414 Год назад
Love this Chanel which I had VHS of are Xmas and new years my mum dad hated me and games but from masters sistem to today switch it's bin ace Nintendo sage was king I never was buyist just only I know what I was on about with sage cd 32x I was 11 or younger I saved to get all that n super Nintendo I made it happen for me sonic 2 was best I cud ask for Xmas but got master sistem game nononono but a friend from acros the road had a megadrive and we was great m8s from ther he was a adult but man I bored it all and returned them swop with him and psx rip games was a fun way with no £ to play as a king
@DragonDM369
@DragonDM369 6 месяцев назад
Love your videos.....your life was so similar to mine that its like looking into a time machine of my own life. I still remember my first copy of mega man.....being like 4 yrs old playing mario on nes its insane
@clleo888
@clleo888 Год назад
Rich or not is not important at all, I felt every bit of love from your mom and dad!
@Gamers_Heaven762
@Gamers_Heaven762 5 месяцев назад
Hearing abt how good your parents were to you even when they finally had a divorce makes me wanna cry i had that with my grandpa before he died of cancer i still have my grandma but idk for how long 💔
@The_Conspiracy_Analyst
@The_Conspiracy_Analyst 7 месяцев назад
I had a friend with thousands of games too. Not because his parents bought him tons of em. Nah. Because his uncle was a computer engineer and hacker and had brought back a Famicom Disk System back from Japan and adapted it to work on the NES (really just a dumb connector). A couple of boxes 3-inch Mitsumi quick disk floppies and some trips to Blockbuster, and he had a full library. Great times, I'll never forget it!
@weiner_hands-guy914
@weiner_hands-guy914 Год назад
I don't think you really needed to defend that you were an only child so they can afford to give you more I have six siblings so I didn't get as many presents at Christmas but hey families better than any present right... right?
@Megamentsh
@Megamentsh Год назад
It was the 90s. He's Italian. His family is from New York. The stuff fell off the back of a truck. Forget about it
@eksmad
@eksmad Год назад
I got my Nintendo 64 with four games, Christmas 99. Those were the only four I ever got. I got my Nintendo DS with one game. The only one I ever got. I am happy for you, though, of course!! And nowadays I am of course working so I can afford everything I missed out as a kid myself. But back then it really hurt sometimes. We didn't have much money, nor a big family.
@truthByFire
@truthByFire Год назад
Touching. Sorry your dad isn't there with you anymore. Seems like quite a guy who put a ton of joy and light in your lives.
@hisham_hm
@hisham_hm Год назад
4:40 At this point it's clear that his parents got into the hobby of hunting and collecting games (which is a hobby in itself even if you don't play them yourself!), and he was the lucky kid who got along for the ride
@greenbean850
@greenbean850 4 месяца назад
Love the videos. But bro you was spoiled lol. Just the fact ya had a camcorder explains it.
@verdman54
@verdman54 Год назад
I have to ask myself when watching your videos if I'm watching a football game or a video game content channel you sound just like this one NFL announcer 🤣 Dude seriously that voice is money 🤑
@protoculture289
@protoculture289 Год назад
Just from seeing your parents house and neighborhood and possessions when compared to me at the same age as yourself you might as well have been Elon Musk
@unisonosc1617
@unisonosc1617 7 месяцев назад
i just wish i had kept all my games growing up, usually ended up trading them in for credit. :/
@SirWiggy12
@SirWiggy12 Год назад
"Rich" is a very subjective term. You were damn sure rich compared to me. But I was rich compared to most of the world that would only dream of having a game console at all.
@GOREDO5
@GOREDO5 Год назад
Im not rich by any means. But i make decent money doing collision repair... im also a gamer so me and my son pretty much get all the big game releases and new consoles
@5dollarshake263
@5dollarshake263 3 месяца назад
Your father is such a legend for capturing this all on tape and you are a legend for taking that footage and editing it and creating one of the greatest youtube channels of all time. The amount of nostalgia and emotion your videos give me is immeasurable.
@jakep8484
@jakep8484 7 месяцев назад
My brother and I would get a couple games for Christmas and maybe 1 for birthday and maybe one random one a year.
@perryplays35
@perryplays35 Год назад
dont feel bad for having a great family.. we dont hate you we appreciate you
@Skazellino
@Skazellino 7 месяцев назад
Is Aunt Michelle still with us? Does she still play games? Did she get down on modern stuff like Wii or Nintendo Switch?
@GarseJanacek
@GarseJanacek 8 месяцев назад
Don't feel like you need to explain yourself to anyone. Just be happy with what you had.
@eustab.anas-mann9510
@eustab.anas-mann9510 5 месяцев назад
"Marketing director" "Only child" Yup, makes sense.
@noimdaveman
@noimdaveman 7 месяцев назад
Sad that you had to make a video saying you weren’t rich because people are jackasses lol
@bdr7576
@bdr7576 Год назад
You're very lucky. All I can get my kids to play is mine craft and roblox 🙄
@ab-bd1kt
@ab-bd1kt Год назад
Must be nice having rich parents growing up with all this content you can use on youtube, i didn't get shit all
@Xboxfanuk
@Xboxfanuk 7 месяцев назад
I got a video game Christmas haul in the 80’s but mine was Atari 2600.
@HORSEDICKoMPEG
@HORSEDICKoMPEG Год назад
No need to justify how your parents did what they did for you as a kid. They did great and thats all the matters.
@Jason-nx3hl
@Jason-nx3hl 8 месяцев назад
My dad owned his own successful business and I was a only child and didn't get nearly as much!
@teadrinkerfication9160
@teadrinkerfication9160 4 месяца назад
‘We weren’t rich, we were middle class’ to me that’s rich 😂 love your vids tho ❤
@LEXICON-DEVIL
@LEXICON-DEVIL Год назад
Even if you were rich who cares. You cant help what your born into and it would be no fault of your own. You definitely seem pretty dayum grateful even as a kid in these videos. My gawwd parents were rich and my family of 3 brothers including myself as the youngest plus my moms n pops were staying in there driveway motor home for a bit. Our family was going through some financial problems but we got out of it. I remember getting a box of NES games with black sleeve dust covers. T&C Surf was brutal but i loved the skating part despite how difficult it was. Theres something about these videos that just make you appreciate life in a way i cant put into words. Being a gamer is sad in many ways. As much as we love games we escape far too much in games. Im 34 and still play vidgey games haha. Despite your loss with your pops, at least you had him involved in your life. I wish i had videos of my pop pop haha.
@Lesrol27
@Lesrol27 7 месяцев назад
How was your Dad able to get Japanese import game in the early 90’s?
@empire0
@empire0 8 месяцев назад
2 incomes and an only child in the 90s, this isn't that crazy. People had way more money back then
@jnmonsanto
@jnmonsanto 6 часов назад
You had an amazing childhood and amazing parents -- you were blessed in many ways. Thank God for your father and for his recordings. He seemed like a really really good father and I always get emotional when I'm watching your channel. Although my own parents weren't gaming aficionados like yours, I see my own childhood in your dad's videos. I wish we could go back to those days. Thank you so much for sharing your memories with us. I believe your dad would be REALLY proud of you. ❤
@rupman27isback
@rupman27isback Год назад
So the real question is how much money did your parents have left in their bank account on the average? lol
@airgreek
@airgreek Месяц назад
I know your dad passed away in 2006 how about your mom?
@alexelectricx
@alexelectricx 6 месяцев назад
My family also bought a ton of video games. With 3 young boys we owned NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Gameboy, Sega CD each with 30+ titles over the years.
@jimmypeeps8471
@jimmypeeps8471 Месяц назад
That's what people don't seem to understand, is that the economy was BOOMING back then. If you couldn't afford these things or thought someone was rich for having them, you just didn't realize HOW POOR your family really was then. Or your parents maybe had drinking problems, didn't buy them as much stuff because they were too deep in addiction to have the extra money or didn't care enough to buy them for their kids.
@Nielsfest
@Nielsfest Год назад
I really love your content but saying you got 300 dollars worth of videogames on christmass and your family wasn't 'rich' is just bullcrap. You were brought up in a privileged household. Nothing to be ashamed of but don't try to downplay it. It's a spit in the face for those who couldn't afford any of it.
@KokoTheGorilla69
@KokoTheGorilla69 Год назад
Exactly. This kid was getting every brand new console and a giant stack of games each birthday/holiday and he tries to pretend it was nothing unusual 🤡
@nathanlamont9920
@nathanlamont9920 Год назад
@@KokoTheGorilla69 He had a gaming family. While most families, middle and below, weren't into gaming and didn't see it as important. Thus why we got more clothes than video games and toys. Not money he was blessed with, it was the fact he had a gaming family. While we were getting 200 to 300 dollars worth of toys and clothes in a single Christmas. Remember, mom and grandmas respectively called every gaming console "a Nintendo". Most of us were lucky to have family members that were also into video games.
@TheKamotechunks
@TheKamotechunks 8 месяцев назад
This video made me cry, i remember my late dad who always provide for us and bought things beyond their budget. 😢
@Mario-zi8wr
@Mario-zi8wr 7 месяцев назад
Man I am so happy that emulation exists like holy shit man ❤❤❤❤❤
@airgreek
@airgreek Месяц назад
Man it is so hard watching some of these videos so emotional
@lobster7799
@lobster7799 Год назад
You weren’t rich but rather a solid upper middle class member. What helped is you clearly had a family that were filled with gamers so they spent extra income on games. In the 90’s most people fell into the class. Unlike today where the middle class is clearly dying. Back in the day families could afford a nice house in a great neighborhood on a single income. Now both parents have to work and they can only rent.
@marioboi323
@marioboi323 7 месяцев назад
Did you keep the boxes to your games (as in the ones that came in cardboard boxes)
@ALVMACHETE69
@ALVMACHETE69 8 месяцев назад
Another beautiful memories to be treasured.😢
@NoThanksnothanks
@NoThanksnothanks Год назад
I remember u talking about asking about master system games at toysrus and getting them cheap. Ur Dad was an OG collector.
@justafanofnerdculture7602
@justafanofnerdculture7602 Год назад
I just discovered and subscribed to this awesome channel today. I'm a huge gamer myself, particularly of games from the late '70s/'90s. I love the fact that you and family have so much love for each other, as it's so obvious watching these videos and hearing your stories. Your dad, in particular, seemed to be the coolest guy on the planet. The cool dad that every kid wanted to be their dad. I lost my dad on 02/01/09 but, unfortunately, we never had a good relationship. Long story short, he was the exact opposite of your dad. When I was a kid, my way of escaping was Sci Fi, fantasy, horror, action figures, wrestling and, of course, video games. My wife and I are currently going through a separation that will eventually lead to a divorce. Watching your videos today are somehow helping me be more optimistic for the future. I can't explain it, but these videos have been very, very therapeutic for me. It's even inspired me to play some games again, which is something that I haven't done in quite some time. Thank you for sharing your gaming memories with us and thanks to your dad for all of the awesome footage. May your dad continue to fly easy, Sir.
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