Our Gaming Memories - Game Sack 

Please release a Blu-ray of Dave recounting his romantic misadventures. It'll probably have to be a three disc set.

Dave, The Ladies' Man episode.

Dave's stories could all be episodes of a 80s/90s sitcom.

This is one of the most beautiful episodes you guys have ever released.

Please do another episode like this! It's like you're opening up to your audience by sharing some sweet, fond memories. Best episode yet!

The memory I'm having is a bit strange. I was going through a rough period of deep depression. What game was I playing? Well of course it was Demon's Souls on the PS3. You would think that would be the last game anyone would want to play while questioning their life and whether or not it should continue, but there I was, hating myself and playing a game most would consider deeply depressing in its own right. By the way, this isn't a joke. I know it seems like a punch line is coming, but it's not. I started to feel like I was actually the soulless man in the game fighting to save the world and get his humanity back, while piecing myself together, in the real world, at the same time. About halfway through the game, there was a huge breakthrough as my character was becoming more powerful from the days and days of soul farming. From that point til the end, the game became easier, and I continued to become stronger--in game, and out. I was no longer hesitant to take on bosses, or in fear of losing my loot. I became confident that i could go through each smoke covered door and kick the crap out of whatever demon was in my way. By the time I finished the game, I was really at a better place, and all the Souls games help me remember that I'm in control of my future, and I can make it better for myself with determination and patience.

I feel like I know you guys just a tiny little bit better now. That's a nice gift for your long time fans. Plus you guys got me thinking about some Jackal memories with my siblings, which to me is priceless.

This video shows Joe has a soul! too bad it's so skinny!

Story number 1 is a big part of why I don't have a Switch. I've broken a few controllers over the years, and when the console *IS* the controller... yeah...

My story was when I first bought Star Ocean: 2nd story for ps1. I played that game for hours and hours and it pissed my mom off so bad she tried hiding my memory cards from me. That game is so amazing to this day, and I’ll never forget how much fun I had playing it. I think I’ll fire it up right now. Thanks for doing this video.

Love how the first thing Joe does when he start hanging out with Dave, is to convince him how SWEET the 16-bit Sega Genesis is. Now that's a good Sega man *thumb's up*

My night is set!

Suave Dave. That Mario soundscape chatter was pretty funny. So funny that she couldn't pick that up.

"ARNOLD PALMER IS DEAD" i lost it

such a nice episode.... then you disrespect the dead.... perfect!

This was a really cute episode. I loved all the stories you guys had. I think I got a good gaming story: I had really stubborn friends in high school, like REALLY stubborn. A lot of them liked it when I tried games they had and got my opinion on it, but they wouldn't dare play my games, especially because they were scared of PC gaming controls. One day, I devised a plan to lock my friend in my room to play Unreal Tournament 2k4. I set it up like my door actually got locked just in case he didn't want to play, but he tried it out. He was glued to my computer. He was used to the controls instantly and was glued to my monitor. I had to pry him from my computer when he played it so he could go home. The dude got hooked on Unreal instantly and i was really glad. I don't know how that friend's doing, but I know I made him a PC gamer because of Unreal Tournament 2004.

Joe, I really like the gamesack transitions between clips, you did an excellent job editing this video, it really looks great. Good work guys!

Joe, Dave and Game Sack are priceless treasures. Thank you.

That's One Of My Favorite Episodes

I had tissues ready... but for other reasons.

5 MEGA POWER!!

Getting my tonsils taken out freshmen year in high school. Playing hours and hours of Rush 2 with my dad. The stunt course is awesome in that game. We'd compete for best single trick, and high score. He passed away right before my daughter was born, and i hope to make memories as good as those were with her. Great video guys, loved it.

Mine is turning on my n64 with 1080 snowboarding in it, running out the room scared shitless, waiting for the guy to scream 1080 SNOWBOARDING and then coming back into the room. I know, I was a weird child. Lol

I was totally not expecting dead mall talk to show up in this! * smashes like button for sweet sweet mall footage * And holy hell, that Mario All Stars incident was elaborate LOL. Well done.

Awesome! Always love it when a new sack hits me in the face.

More of these in the future guys! Really love hearing your crazy stories!

This is definitely one of my favorite Game Sack episodes.

Haha, I love Dave's story regarding Super Street Fighter II Turbo though it contrasts with mine: I was 12, M Bison kept kicking my ass, I raged, kicked a hole in a wall, sold my SNES at a flea market to buy a guitar. Dave's story is way less destructive 😅

Very relatable episode, though Dave, what the hell, man?! When somebody you're seeing tells you they're married, you get the hell outta there RIGHT AWAY!! Ain't no good gonna come from prolonging that! Anyway, Joe asked at the end of the episode for any interesting gaming stories we might have, and I've got a couple good ones that I think you might appreciate. One is in relation to Zelda: A Link to the Past. I bought that game on launch day, and was very excited to play it... but believe it or not, I was disappointed in it! I thought the dungeons felt really boring and repetitive, and I ultimately decided I really didn't like it. Fortunately, I'd bought it from Electronics Boutique, which had that 10-day exchange policy at the time -- any game you buy that you don't like, you can exchange for another game as long as it's within 10 days. So I took my copy of Zelda: A Link to the Past back into EB, and I traded it... for Lemmings! The guy behind the counter was incredulous. He must have asked me at least three times if I was ABSOLUTELY SURE I wanted to make that trade. I told him I did, and you know what? I had a blast with Lemmings! I didn't regret my decision one bit. To this day, I've still never finished LttP. One of these days, I will, because I have a feeling I'd like it a lot more now than I did back then! My other story is about Earthbound. Rather than buy the game, I decided to save money (since it was pretty expensive!), and just rent it from BlockBuster instead. And if I didn't finish it after 3 days (which seemed likely)... well, then I'd just return it and re-rent it for another 3 days. And I'd just keep doing that until I beat it, because ultimately, that would still be cheaper than buying it (unless it took me MONTHS to beat, of course!). Well, four rentals later, I successfully beat EarthBound on BlockBuster's copy of the game, so my scheme worked -- I paid less than 1/4 of the price of buying the game, and still got the full experience! And as a bonus, I had renamed my main character "Dorky," so whoever rented the game after me would've seen three save files on the cartridge: two ordinary names that I've forgotten (something like Sam and John) at levels 1 and 3, respectively... and then "Dorky: Level 78." I often wonder what became of that cartridge. Did anyone ever save over my Dorky file, or did they keep it around simply because it was so high-level? Maybe it still exists today!

Dave's story about the Mario All Stars title screen is legendary. And turning the clock back? Awesome. Dave was a clever deviant back in the day! Ha. A regular Zack Morris.

This was my all time favorite episode of GS, every single story had me either laughing or put a big dumb smile on my face. You guys are awesome, I can't wait for the next story based episode!

I enjoy Gamesack in general but this episode was exceptional. Amazing work, guys.

Joe, as an ex-Mormon raised in the Motherland of Utah, your Black Belt segment entertained me more than you could ever know. Thanks for the laughs.

Ah man this was so much fun to watch =D As for a game story of my own...I remember a summer in the early 90s playing Mega Man 2 with my older brother. We were just playing through Wood Man's stage when our dad called on us to come out in the back yard to have BBQ dinner with our uncle and our cousins. This was the very first time I tasted garlic bread and whenever I hear Wood Man's theme or better yet play his stage I get the taste of garlic bread in my mouth =P

That ending skit, though- what a twist!

This is an awesome idea for a video! I loving your guys' stories, would love to hear more.

Oh, I have a rage story from back when I was a little kid. I got really mad at Mega Man Legends during a boss fight, and ended up taking my frustration out by removing the disc and throwing it like a frisbee. This ended up snapping the disc in half, and the game was a rental. So stupid young me thought I could tape the game together from the bottom and return it so nobody would be any wiser. This worked for several months, longer than it had any right to work, I know. Suddenly a phone call came in, if I knew anything about this game being broken. Luckily for me, the message was being relayed to me by my parents who didn't know what the game as called, so they budgered the game's name to the extent of something like "Man Manhattan." It'd been months since I'd broken the disc, and I had no clue who Man Manhattan was, so my response, one of genuine confusion as I had no idea what this was about was genuine. So my name was cleared. Later I heard the guy who rented it after me months later had to pay for the game because he was the one who returned it in that state, saying that's how he got it. That's when I realized this was about Mega Man Legends. Being a dumb kid, I never cleared up this confusion either. I don't know what to take away from this story outside of "Don't break games you don't own" or "Lie and things will work out fine."

Growing up my parents were always against video games so I never got any of the systems until years after they released and I bought them from my friends when they got the newer one. Until the Playstation came out, I begged and begged and cried until one day my dad begrudgingly agreed. Got home, set it up, played Formula 1 for about an hour then tried to save the game and realized that we needed to buy a memory card too. I remember the look on my dads face when I went upstairs to tell him that we have to go back to the store for the memory card. Needless to say this did not help to sway their opinion on video games.

We all have memories we all could be here all day. Nostalga is a powerfull thing

Best memory: Beating Maximum Carnage (red cartridge) on my genesis in college with a crowd cheering me on and a pixel wide sliver of health left - truly formative stuff.

Awesome vid guys. The adultry scandal with the Mario crowd voice over almost made me piss my pants in laughter. I'm your age and you still make shit fresh and youthful. Thanks dudes.

Listening to Dave talk about his wife makes me remember Jen :( Does anyone know if she's well and alive, I miss her so much, the best GS episodes featured Jen-Jen :)

My video game memory: This was a year or two ago. I was playing the first Wizardry and I got to the final floor of the dungeon. To Werdna, even, and his vampiric lackeys. His TILTOWAIT destroyed my first party. In Wizardry, you would wish for a game over if your party got wiped. Instead, their corpses would remain wherever they died and you had to bring another party to fish them out. Of course, I couldn't get them, since they died in Werdna's office. Not without fighting Werdna. Now, the final floor is pretty much a straight shot, with a bunch of teleporters. The last one leading to Werdna's office is a point of no return. I was on the final floor grinding to build my levels up and to get loot, when I trigger a chest's teleporter trap...which puts me behind the point of no return. I don't have a spell to get me out of the dungeon, so I have to fight Werdna. Somehow he spawns with only one Vampire Lord and one Vampire. Although one of the vampires managed to paralyze one of my party members, my cleric managed to SILENCE WERDNA. He kept trying to cast spells, which made him not a threat anymore. My cleric turned the vampires, leaving it just my party vs. Werdna. I just bashed him to death since his physical attacks were weak and he kept trying to cast spells like an idiot.

I think this is one of your best episodes along side the RU-vid parody video and Tude Sack. Really hope there are more of these!

Oh come on! I chug those exact cans of Arnold Palmer's like nothing! Wussie!

Thunderblight really is a jerk, though. Also, as a Mormon, I can relate to the black belt story to an almost depressing degree. Not with my family, mind, I only have two brothers, but some of my friends' families man....

This channel needs to be more popular for the sole reason Dave can use it as a full time job.

Just when you think Joe and Dave you your favourite episode of the year with the previous, they hit the ball way out of the park and produce another one of my favourites.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who bought BOTW for the Wii U 🤣

Cinder Alley! I used to have birthday parties at Funtastic Nathan’s (aka Poor Man’s Elitch’s). Loved that mall. Did you sell your Genesis at Power Play Games? That store seems to be lost to history. And re: Gaiares: do you remember that strange scowling kid who used to review video games every Friday in the Rocky Mountain News? Gaiares was the first game he ever wrote about. (Also - cough - that dorky kid was me.) The paper fired me after two years and hired a younger kid who couldn’t write as well; the entertainment editor thought that at 13, I was too old to be talking about video games (which were strictly for young children). I also loved Sword of Vermillion. Thanks for the fun memories. You’re reminding me of Celebrity Sports Center and Buckingham Square and a million other cool places that got the wrecking ball to make way for condos and Chipotle.

The Genesis has some fond memories for me, I was in my early 20's and played in a few heavy metal bands and living that lifestyle, you know drinking heavily, doing drugs and sleeping with every girl I could find, you get the picture. My drinking was getting out of control so I purchased a Sega Genesis and to keep myself sober, on nights that I didn't have to play music, I would shut myself in my room from the time I got home from my day job and it would be me, Sonic, eccho the dolphin, etc...until the wee hours of the morning, doing this totally helped me kick my drinking habbit and got me and kept me sober for quite a few years and that was such an awesome feeling at the time and such a special time in my life. So when those games come to mind, it brings me back to a simpler time in life where it was me, a Genesis, and anidiction and like the joy I felt from beating those games, it was ten fold for kicking my addictions 10 fold. AA might help a lot of people but it wasn't for me so I only attended a few meetings but having to listen to everyone's sob depressing stories only wanted to make me drink more by the time I left those meetings, I didn't of course and would go straight home and pop in a video game. The best thing that ever came out of going to those meetings were that there was this one smoking hot chick that helped run the meetings and I totally got to hit that!!! Oh the memories!!!

Love, love, LOVE this video, guys! Hopefully you’ll do more in the future. Great combination of your usual game synopses and personal nostalgia.

aww that Street Fighter story is so cute :)

"And now Arnold Palmer is dead" I lost my shit, god I love this channel Edit: omfg that ending! Im WEAK!

I've watched most of your videos and I think this is probably my favorite so far. Thank you for telling your personal stories, they were weird, interesting, nostalgic and funny. Keep it coming with the stories!

Sweet Rastan shirt!!!

So this is basically, GAME SACK: Happy Console Game Edition

One of the weirdest memories happened when I was a kid back in the 90s. I was at my cousins house and we were playing double dragon 2 on the nes. Sometime during the first stage, we had to pause the game so she could run to her grandma's house to pick up some jelly, which was only like 50 yards away. So while she went to do that, I sat there and waited for her to return while the game was still paused. I waited and waited for her, but she was taking forever. All of a sudden the game unpaused itself and the game music started playing, but this time on the screen was cut scenes of the main villain talking about how the double dragons have failed and stuff in the comic book style of double dragon 2. It was really creepy looking and once it was done, it glitched out and froze. I sat there for a while and then reset the game. Finally my cousin came back and got mad at me for reseting the game. I told her what happened but she didn't believe me. I've tried to find that cut scene over the years and looked online for any answers to what it could have been, but no one has ever said anything.

I have a similar story to Joe's. My brothers and I saved up our money for a model 1 Genesis with Altered Beast. We also picked up Golden Axe and Strider. But because it was right before Christmas, our mom made us wrap it and leave it under the tree until Christmas day. We took umbrage with this because we bought everything with our own money, so when our mom went out to get groceries, we carefully took it out of the wrapping, unboxed it, played the hell out of it, and then wrapped it back up. Mom was none the wiser.

This has been one of my favorite episodes yet! Heaps to the bone bodaciously radcore to hear some of your guys storys. Here's a wee one of mine off the top of my head: Around 1994, I had gone to a friends house who had a PC and he showed me DOOM, I had a Sega Master System at the time and had played a little Megadrive/Genesis but seeing DOOM totally blew my mind and I was obsessed with the idea of being able to play it then on. The following year when I was around 8 years old I started playing soccer for a local club, and fancied myself as a bit of a good goal scorer, I boasted to one of my older brothers (in his 20's) as an 8 year old would about how I was good at scoring goals so he offered me a bet/deal: If I scored 3 goals at my next game he would hire me a Megadrive with a 32x and DOOM from the local Blockbuster for my efforts. That saturday morning came, I went to my game, it was wet, and cold, and lo and behold before the half time mark I scored my 3 goals and the score was 3-0, at the end of the game the score was 5-0 with those remaining 2 goals also scored by me. I wanted it so bad I went above and beyond. The feeling I had when I scored that 3rd goal KNOWING I'd be playing DOOM later that night was amazing and I'll never forget it! Fast forward to later that night, in absolute awe of playing DOOM on the 32x (easily one of the worst ports for DOOM funnily enough!) on my tiny 15" TV with my face less than a meter from the screen I was having the time of my life. Then it all changed... I was playing on E2M2, Containment Area, which from memory.. is one of the first levels in the game (on the 32x version atleast) where you see a CACODEMON -- as soon as I saw it I kind of freaked out, turned the console off, and had nightmares about it. That big red ugly 1 eyed bastard! I continued playing and didn't encounter anymore Caco-Boiz which was good and still had fun with it but I'll never forget that moment! And now to this day I am still utterly DOOM obsessed and haven't stopped being heavily involved with it, keeping up to date with the online community still playing user created content pwads/megawads via doomworld.com and have created maps of my own in the past. Those Caco's sure made an impact.

Great video as always. So... my story goes back to 1987 to my father's arcade, at the backside of his restaurant and there was a cabinet for Bubble Bobble. I was 8 then and was playing that game like crazy. So i reached level 100 at the final boss (where you could not continue or did not have any more quarters, i don't remember well)with my last life and did not realize my dad was behind me and was impressed i got so far. I got hit and lost the game. So i went AVGN mode and got the shit beaten out of my dad for very strong adult language.

This didn’t pop up in my sub feed. I blame Greendog.

That ending, lol. Loved the episode guys... please continue the series. You REALLY got me thinking about all the weird ass gaming stories from my youth.

Man this video was amazing! Love seeing all the old videos and stuff. Really hits the sweet spot.

Dave: “This is Mario Teaches Typing. I used it while I was GETTING HOT BABES”

I remember, back in high school, getting into a fight with my friend over Soul Calibur 2, and I ended up kicking my Gamecube across his living room, stomping on it, and then throwing it out the back door. I think it had to do with him repeatedly kicking my ass with Link no matter who I used. SC was my fucking jam and he almost never played.

I’ve watched every episode of you guys and really enjoy your content. This episode is up there on the top favorite episodes you guys have. Thanks again for everything you guys do!

I've watched every single episode of Game Sack , and this is one of the best you've done . MORE !

You guys are my ASMR. Good night everyone!

Dave was fighting off ladies and Joe had Arnold Palmer and John. Dam

Great episode guys! Thanks for sharing. Would love to see a part 2 sometime! In fact, this is my favorite episode so far, and I've seen them all...multiple times :)

Absolutely loved this episode guys. Would be awesome to see a part 2!

It seems like Dave was living in an episode of "How I Met Your Mother" all the time.

I like these kind of videos.

This is one of my favorite episodes, can’t wait for part 2.

Love the personal stories you guys. It's true that we get nostalgic over games because of the memories connected with them. For many this is the main reason to get into retro gaming, so I'm sure that many people would like to see more episodes of your gaming memories!

Wow dave looked so different back in the day. I like this episode. Its what gaming used to be about, sad it isnt like this any more.

I used to rent Phantasy Star for my Master System all the time, but everytime I rented it, my save was gone. At the time my brother had a Super NES, and we got a Tiny Toons game. When we got tired of that game, we swaped for Hook, and then we got tired of that game even faster. So I went to the rental store and proposed a exchange: Hook for the Phantasy Star, and the owner agreed. And so I got my favourite game ever, Phantasy Star. Which I played a lot, and I still have it.

One of the best episodes you've done, seriously. Loved hearing about such personal stories, and there were some really sweet ones I'll definitely remember :)

What an awesome concept. Really, really loved this one a lot.

I remember years ago, when The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was still popular game. I used to think it was the best looking game out there (yeah...). We didn't have that powerful computer back then and I was still playing Morrowind. Don't remember what year it was, but I was determined that time when we were shopping in the city. I was going to buy Oblivion. So I walked into a game store, clerk greeted me. "Do you have Oblivion GOTY Edition?" "Yes". I was super stoked and bought the game. I was so excited that ride back home. Fun fact, same clerk still keeps that game store in the same city. When we got home, I went to dad's "office" to install it on his computer, because it had slightly more power. Game ran like crap, but I sure had blast playing it. To this day it still is my favorited Elder Scrolls game, despite it's obvious flaws.

Awesome episode! I have a dumb one of playing Doom with the guitarist from my band back in the mid '00s and shouting "Saturday, Saturday, Saattuurday!" like Elton John over the Kitchen Ace (And Taking Names) song. I don't remember what started it but we were both laughing hysterically (I was crying and in pain thinking I was going to twist something in my stomach from laughing too hard) while our other two roommates stood behind us saying how dumb we were.

this is probably the best video you've done, or one of the best ones, thanks for sharing all those stories!

OMG this is one of the best episodes ever! Please bring more!!!!

My most vivid gaming memory was renting Resident Evil in April 1996 and bringing it to my cousin's house, cause he had a PS, for a sleep over. Needless to say we scared ourselves shitless playing it that night and stayed up til 3am. Great times.

Great episode, but I refuse to believe that Dave had all that game.

I'm just this moment back from Greece, and wanted to chill and iv got my game sack to kick back to. What a perfect week!!!!

Another great episode! Thank you for the hours of entertainment and all your hard work. Best gaming channel on the internet.

LOL. The end skit. Too soon? I don't know but I couldn't hold it back. haha

Now those are two handsome gentlemen!

Thank you guys for sharing your stories. I dont really have anything i can share but everytime I boot up my master system it reminds me of simpler times being a child and care free having nothing to worry about but how I'm going to pass the next level of whatever video game I am playing.

This episode was amazing! I'd totally watch another one, had a blast with this!

When I first moved to Raleigh I moved with two of my best friends. We shared a huge townhouse with one of my friends wife and his two kids. On Friday nights he would coucl a velveeta dip with jalapenos , ground beef and salsa. We would either play Goldeneye or Perfect dark on N64. One night we played the game with just slapping no weapons. Shit man we would laugh at how the slapping animation looked and sometimes we would laugh so hard we coudnt get thru the level. After that we switched to Street Fighter Zero 3 and they would double team me while I beat them silly with Shin Akuma. It was sad because I would do the instant hell murder to one and beat the other silly. They would try to double team me and turn after tuen after turn I would beat them relentlessly. We would sound like we are in an old kung fu movie doing voice overs. After that we would play on my PSX Debug unit and play Namco Vol 2, which was rare and the game of choice would be Super Pac-Man or Gaplus. They would laugh at how horrible they were and how good I was. Then they would try to make me mess up by talking about girls I liked at work or the girl I was talking to . Still I would win. Sadly one of my friends does not talk to us, and the other I hang out with every now and then but we are still cool.

that ending skit LMAO!!!

From my perspective your most outstanding episode. It provides everything we love you for, even that "MEGA POWER" continuity we wouldn't wanna miss. But what makes this your best off all episodes (which it will be for a loooong time), are the true and honest emotions transported to your viewers. Speaking for myself, those really sparked my own great memories into rememberance, making me smile during watching and will do so everytime thinking of this. This is at least a 20 out of 10.

Cinderella city was so cool! I remember that arcade being huge! It’s where I played galaxy force 2 for the first time in that huge rotating mock cockpit. I remember it reminded me of The Last Starfighter, when Alex is flipping and swinging around in the cockpit, I thought it was so awesome! My parents would bring us there so my sisters could ride that huge double decker merry go round, or to Funtastic Nathan’s, but I made it known we had to go to the arcade as well!

Had no idea Dave was such a loverboy.

Wow, that's a real rage quit, Joe^^ =)

Excellent episode. This is why i love retro gaming. Not only just the games but memories of happier yesteryear and easier slower paced life. Friends or cousins around during the weekend or school holidays. Going to the local video rental store. Hiring a game and movie. Smelling the popcorn. Going back home and playing for hours. Them reading computer game magazines. Seha vs Nintendo arguments in the school playground. Ahh. 80s and 90s gaming...

This was terrific. I love hearing stories like this. Please do another!