My Childhood Gaming Memories: Part 1 

This is a story all about how.... my switch got flipped, turned upside down...

I remember when games didn't have microtransactions.

I love this kinda stuff it increases my love of gaming and is wholesome

I remeber when you purchased a game, you got the full game with zero protest.

I wanted public bathroom horror stories part 2 with special guest star Ralph, sponsored by cutting edge gamer

Who else really enjoys these story time videos from Rich?

One of my fondest and earliest gaming memories, was when I turned 5 and got a GameCube on my birthday and I believe mario kart double dash. It may have been the same birthday or a different one, or another time close to my 5th birthday, but I got a copy of pokemon Silver that i still have and treasure to this day. Unfortunately the save file is deleted, but I remember having a high level Feraligatr in my team and he became my favourite and still is to this day. Yet another reason I love physical gaming, those memories are still with me. I still have that gamecube and all the games, as well as my pokemon silver cartridge.

One of my childhood memories was playing Pokémon Gold for the first time, I got to Whitney and beat her on my first try. I love my Abkazam. (Kadabra)

I have a lot of good memories with Cutting Edge Gamer...

My Childhood Gaming memory was when i played on the NES, my first time playing on a Nintendo Console.

I remember when I first got cutting edge gamer in my childhood, good days.

Childhood memories are the best

Arcades like Pac Man and Frogger are what got me into gaming, we use to go to arcades to play games and that was before the NES, and then I got into console gaming when Mario, Zelda, and later Sega with Sonic!

*Ahhhh my old Odyssey 2, and Tandy 1000HX.* *Memories memories.* 😁

The SNES and N64 were my first systems great memories time goes by.

I was all about the C64 and the NES!!! 80s all day

I had my N64 up until 2005 when i got my first ps2. I dont know how i survived without that ps2.

This reminds me of my first gaming experience, It was a N64 and it was the smoke grey. I remember begging my parents for the longest time I wanted one and one day when I came home from school ,( I was in 1st grade) there it was in my room. I was so excited because I couldn’t believe it. They also got me Mario kart 64, Smash Bros, San Francisco Rush and Castlevania which by the way that game terrified me when young mostly because of the music and the skeleton boss. The best part about this is that I’m now 25 and I still have that console along with all those games and still play them once in a while, could never part with them they mean so much too me.

Yo friend Carl probably had *CUTTING EDGE GAMING* to get all those consoles early

My earliest memory is playing Sonic 2 on my Genesis. Still have that cartridge to this day.

I remember we got the n64 and snes for 99's christmas. I was 7 and my brother 10-11. We got the Turok bundle with an extra "atomic purple", obviously my older brother instantly claimed for himself. After realizing the violence of the content my dad bought us DK64. This was my introduction to video games, you are right it feels good to drive in the memory lane for a while. Great video!!

10:45 the test market for the NES was actually in 1985. So you definitely could have had it in 1986. I got my NES during the test launch in 1985. It was the "non-Deluxe Set" version where it doesn't say DELUXE SET on it.

This was a great video. It's fun to look back at video games and what made us fall in love with this hobby.

Noting can top your explosive experiance story in Gamestop.

Crazy Eddie's prices were so low, that they were insane.

Love this!!! Thanks for taking the time to tell us about some nostalgic moments from your life! Lots of love Rich❤

Castlevania IV is a masterpiece! One of my favourite games ever... Thank you for the stories, Rich!

I absolutely loved this video Rich! I've been waiting for a vide like this ever since you made the Genesis vs Super Nintendo videos (which I love) Looking forward to more videos like this! I played Karateka on our Atari 800 XL computer and even though it was laggy my brothers and I actually liked it! haha

My earliest life memory ever, not just of gaming, was playing Space Invaders on my Dad's Atari 2600. I friggin love hearing people's gaming memories, gives such better context as to why people fell in love with gaming. I wish every youtuber would share their gaming memories (of course many do, but some seem to overlook it). Awesome video Rich, thoroughly enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next 👍.

Really enjoyed the video Rich. Took me right down memory lane as well.

this is one of your nicest video to watch. no fake outrages, bad puns with high pitch voices… no just rich being rich talking about what drove him to gaming. please do more like this you bein gyou.

Thank you for sharing your gaming stories rich!

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing your fond memories, Rich!

Love your videos, dude. You're kinda taking me down memory lane too. Life is hard, keep on keepin on.

Thanks for the stories! I was born in 84 in scandinavia and had two elder bros, so i went through a lot of older second hand consoles. Great to hear your true life stories.

Thanks for sharing man, so many good memories popped up in my brain because of this :')

This has to be one of my favorite videos on the channel in a while! Can’t wait for part 2 and the Turbo Express review!

Rich, thanks for sharing. These stories hit me in the feels. I was born in 1985 and I remember my dad coming home with a Nes bundled with Super Mario Bros and Duck hunt.

My dad had a Commodore 64. I was hooked.

This video brought back a ton of memories. Great segment!

The first game I ever got was Banjo-Kazooie on the Nintendo 64. I never even had a gaming system before, or even played a game, but when I saw the commercial for Banjo-Kazooie on television, I just wanted it. My parents got the game and the console it came on and I sucked at it, I never got past the second level of Gruntilda's castle, I was only like five-years-old. I almost fell out of gaming, then a relative got me Mario Kart 64 for Christmas, I believe. Now THAT was a game I enjoyed, I could actually play it and win every time, probably because I didn't know how to switch to the other CCs at the time. I've been a gamer and a Mario fan ever since.

I remember back in the day we kids would constantly swap pirated copies of games. It was pretty fun. Wouldn't have played day of the tentacle without this little pirate circle.

Part 2 for sure!! Great video

Damn.... Being from NY I remember crazy Eddie's lol.

Can't wait for part 2. Super chill video

Rich this video was awesome!!!!!! can't wait for part 2!

Brought my SNES classic on this beach trip. Gonna get down on some F Zero!

I remember seeing an Atari console some rich kids dad had brought back from the US. My first computer had 1K RAM, the Sinclair ZX81 in 82. We got a Sinclair Spectrum 48K a year later, that had colour!

I remember when games didn’t have save states!!!! All those late Saturday nights, summer sleepovers with friends and cousins, the excitement of getting a new game as a kid. Christmas and birthdays were always exciting. Good times

Great stories Rich, looking forward to part 2.

Really happy u made this dude! Great video boss!

Insert "But Carlllllll!" meme here

Damn Rich you took us on a wonderful childhood memory trip! Awesome video and cant wait for part 2

Great vid; brings back all of my "mind blown, holy %%%% this is cool" moments 1)Playing Donkey Kong for the first time on a colecovision 2) playing Doom in '94 on an SNES 3) playing Goldeneye and mariokart on N64 when they first came out.

It's pronounced "karate" but with "ka" at the end :) It took me about 1000 times of seeing the word and what kind of game it was to realize this.

I just came back to this video to watch it again. You should do this off the cuff stories and memories stuff way more often. It's really nice to listen to and it brings me back to the days, when a super ninteno and a super game boy were my life! :) pls more!

I love this video! Please make a part 2 soon!

Let's all press f for respect for Rich's editor

I was around 14 or 15 when the Atari 2600 came out in 77. Of course I begged my folks to get me one so after constantly pestering them for a few months, I had to pay half. I mowed a lot of lawns, bagged a lot of groceries at a local mom and pop market, and raked a ton of leaves to get the damn thing. it was probably the most satisfying purchase I ever made. My TRS-80 came a year later. Fun times.

I'm loving these skits youve been adding

Story time from RTU? That's a treat for my weekend! Thanks Rich :'D

When will I see part 2?? This was a very great video, Rich! Thank you for upglading this!

Love this video. So many great games man

I had a friend who taught me disc swapping on the PSX in 1998 when I was in the 8 years old. DreamCast, enough said.

Excellent video, nice change of pace, going back to childhood gaming memories. Kind of reminds me a little of Happy Console Gamer and other retro style RU-vidrs. I would be interested to see a video on what made you more a PC gamer over time?

I remember being very young and Doom on the Super Nintendo was scary and hard to play without someone else .. nowadays I play horror games and laugh, good times, good times.

Why did we all know one rich spoiled kid growing up? Lol And why did my parents let me hang out with them?

I love your story videos,please more of this!!!

If little Rich was blown away by the turbo express he would have a heart attack if he saw the steam deck.

Richard great video it's so good I'm watching it for second time to relive the memory's on my end cause I played a lot of those games growing up also

Content like this is awesome a glimpse into what other people like looking to connect to relate.... now let me go to the video after this see u in a few

These are great! Thanks, Rich.

Wasn't sure you would make this video, but glad you did!

Your gaming memories are amazing

Cool video!!! My gaming journey started with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System lol Video games sure have come a long ways. Lol

OMG so many memories, I'm 39 and I remember all this stuff wow love gaming.

Getting the SNES second hand for about £50 with a buuunch of games, and the Mega Drive II with that 6 pack game cartridge and Sonic and Knuckles BLEW MY MIND. We had a master system and a sinclair zx spectrum up until that point. Just wow.

First gaming memory I have is prob from my dads Amiga,thank you dad for all the happy memories, this started years of me and him getting new consoles , playing games and here I am 36 years old, still got all of the consoles in tact , sadly no amiga thou. Side story, when the first super Mario came out my mom tried it and she always and still does until this day, pulls the controller up in the air when Mario jumps “ to jump higher” And I recognize this so much Rich about pirating old things hhahahha happy life :D Thank you for this video

8 months later. We need a part 2, man!

The part about struggling to find an open store on New Year's Eve to buy a copy of Balloon Fight really captures the sense of a bygone era. Always love these storytime videos, Rich! Looking forward to part 2.

There's nothing like playing team deathmatch in Call of Duty 4 in 2007 whilst someone is blasting "You Raise Me Up" through their headset.

Hearing Rich with his stories is just nice to sit down and listen every once in a while. Looking forward to Part 2.

Rich this is dope. We love you

I liked this video. Please post the next part soon!

best quote, "my head exploded again". great video, btw!

Thanks for the stories!👍🏾

I got my NES in 1988 for Christmas with Super Mario Bros. 2. A lot of people forgot that game was impossible to find forever.

Hey rich from review tech. I don’t think you dance enough. I think it would be entertaining to see you dance to that jazzy beat at the end of all your videos.

I don't know how well these videos are going to do, but goddamn please do more. Not for the money, just to reminisce the good old days when gaming was gaming.

Great stories Rich. We need to see a photo of you as a kid with that mullet. Also your Dad should be a guest on a future episode. Couldn’t agree more with you about Super Castlevania IV either, I got it for Christmas in 1994, I’ve still not heard a game have better music since.

Your childhood would have been better if you had CUTTING EDGE GAMER!!!

I hope that we get a part two, to this, soon, I thoroughly enjoyed the stories. Funny how we can regale our past experiences like this to the entire world now, but, back then, if you did not have a friend or family member who also played games with you, people didn't really care or understand the impact that they had on you, and there was not a lot of ways to express your joy about it. Nowadays, I can go to work, and hear co-workers talking about things like Pokemon, Smash bros., et cetera, with smiles and camaraderie, you can go online and talk to people on forums about them, or watch videos like this, and it really makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I was a semi-Carl, back in the day. Did not get games or consoles at launch, but, I got every one I asked for, most of the time, and had all 3 of the 16 bit consoles, which no one else in our neighborhood or at school had, as far as I knew. Yeah, I was one of those spoiled little butts, too. Never got the Turbo Express or the Super CD, though. I did know there were limits to what a parent would be willing to pay for, and those things were mega bux. Back then, getting a new console or the next hit video game was a gigantic deal to us. Time was at a snail's pace as a child, so, waiting for the next big thing was an ordeal our hyper active brains had a hard time dealing with. Waiting for Super Mario Bros. 3 to release some years after Super Mario Bros. 2, for example, was an eternity.

My first introduction to video games was watching my uncles play games; Maples tory, Kingdom Hearts, Sonic Adventure Battle 2, Dead or Alive. I remember the first game I ever played was some sort of Cats game on the computer, followed up by Freddy Fish, and then moving onto the Sims, Spyro and Crash, and I think some Smurf racing game. I didn't actually begin playing video games until I was around 10 years old, so I certainly missed the gems of my time.

Did you have the *MUST HAVE* Nintendo case way back?

Rich, you look great, keep up the good work man!

I'm 18 right now, and even I grew up with SNES and n64 games when I was way younger. I still love those games, especially Yoshi's island and paper Mario for n64.

Quality story time with the PC repair guy.. one of my many guilty pleasures

I forgot about the Teddy Ruxpin. My parents got one of those for me in the late 80s. That thing was cool for a few minutes but became terrifying to look at as I got older.

Munch Man on the TI-99 had me addicted. I wish I could get into the gaming zone I use to as a kid. (SIGH) The Defender handheld was PURE BLISS as well.

I know I'm a bit late here, but I really enjoyed this video and would definitely like to see a part 2.