Playing Video Games Over and Over / To Death - Retro Bird 

Games played: Japanese Contra (via a Famicom to NES Adapter) (0:00), Super Smash Bros. Melee (0:15), Rocket Knight Adventures (0:35), Donkey Kong Country 2 (0:55), Metal Slug X (1:29), Street Fighter II (2:10), Super Smash Bros. (4:00), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (5:43)

I'm so proud of you for beating Ghouls and Ghosts on Genesis, no easy feat

Happy to see this out! Will wait for my kid to get home so we can watch together like we do every Friday.

I have SO many games on my backlog and yet here I find myself playing through Circle of the Moon once again… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Your channel is a great reminder that subs and metrics don't always tell the full story. Sometimes, smaller channels focusing on passion have the best content.

Beating Ghouls & Ghosts on the Genesis is a definite achievement, much respect!

I really appreciate your channel. Nothing gives me more joy than sitting back after work and bingeing retro bird videos. You have brought my love back for retro games. Thanks for sharing your passion with the RU-vid community.

“Yeeeeah, I suppose dying would be OK” is the darkest depth we’ve reached here, folks.

Yeah... Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metroid Prime, Star Wars X-Wing Alliance, Banjo-Kazooie, all played to death. More times than I can count.

Friday night begins with the retro bird, am I right

As an adult with stressful adult responsibilities, I'd like to say that your channel is super appreciated by me! Its so nice to be able to relate to you through love of retro games and I love your dorky humor! Like the games of our past, your channel is a great way to distract myself from the things that stress me most as an adult. Oh, and who doesn't love a good nanner or two? Thank you Retro Bird!

Feeling overwhelmed and just playing Super Mario World again is a feeling I know very well.

F Zero amd MK2 on SNES. I can't even fathom how many hours my friends and I played those games and had the greatest times.

When I was a kid I would go to my father's house a lot during the summer because he had a pool. I remember swimming with the siblings and friends during the day, and playing video games at night. We mostly just had a SNES. Later on the N64 and PS1. Man those are some find memories. Sadly today I rarely talk to my siblings, and it's been probably 2 decades since I heard from those childhood friends. Such is life.

That's the great thing about getting old and forgetful, all you have to do is wait a little while and you can play Super Mario World like it's the first time all over again!

I played Pokémon Yellow so much, that I NEVER got tired of it.

Why are you people watching without giving him a thumbs up? These videos take a lot of work especially the ones with the nanners

Knights of the Old Republic. I replay it every 3ish years. It's not my favorite game but it's absolutely replayable.

Super Castlevania IV is my all-time favorite game and i could play it a million times over and never get tired of it. Oh, and Minecraft. Maaan, i've played a lot of Minecraft. Thousands of hours. 😄

I've been playing StreetFighter since 91, and still love it!

I think it's awesome you've beaten Ghoul's and Ghosts. Congrats friend! I have played DKC2 to death and I still come back to it. The toughest level for me is the one you need to play as Squawks and go through the thorns as the wind blows you from side to side.

Star Wars Phantom Menace is a game that pulled me in and never let go. Fresh Dried Choky gets me every time.

A new video from Retro Bird officially starts my weekend. Cheers, everybody!🍻

I recently found your channel and just want to say your quality is great from the darkened room with the controller and gameplay on the screen, the nanners, and best of all the outro, you deserve nothing but success for sharing your humor and passion with us. Long live nanners and gaming.

The only way I knew it was Friday was because Retro Bird had uploaded. I just ate a nanner and blueberry pancake in respect.😎🎶

Blaster Master, Legend of Zelda, Adventure of Link, Phantasy Star, Shinobi, R-Type, Batman The Video Game, Target Earth, A Link to the Past, Alpha Mission II.

Love to see it. I play fable 2 or 3 at least once a year. That’s my video game comfort food. Especially with the memories that come with it from when I played it in high school with my friends. I’m also going back to the fallout series, again because the tv show was fantastic. There’s one game that does bring guilt and that’s Fortnite. For years I tried to get my brother and spouse into it. One day she finally watched me playing it and wanted to try. Then we bother were addicted and we had good memories playing that together. Since then my brother and kids have also gotten into it. But since I’ve been playing it longer I feel pretty burnt out and don’t feel like playing it as much when they want me to play it with them. That or adult life gets in my way of playing with them, but that’s for my game time in general.

1. Eat candy 2. Wipe your butt 3. Beat Super Mario Bros. Well, kid me, two out of three ain't bad. (It was Mario, I never learned the maze of 8-4, even with the All Stars version giving audio clues.) And I'm much older and diabetic so I only retain one of those skills now. Maybe when I'm really old and lost motor control I can finally learn the last one to make up for the loss of the middle one.

You play to death to win the game blessed to see all from 1980-Now what a life of gaming

I play to death any game where I can just screw around instead of having a fixed objective. Strategy games with scenario settings are great for this, whether I'm playing by myself in a single square map on Civ, or using an edited character file on Command & Conquer Red Alert with killer Einsteins. Likewise, open world games like the Saints Row series, where there are tons of things to do.

I've been playing and replaying Twisted Metal Black and Ape Escape since I was 7 years old. Twisted Metal Black is my favorite game of all time to this day. I played my original copy so much that the disc stopped working! That's how you know how enjoyable it was.

So true about enjoying more what you have versus enjoying more stuff. I went through one whole summer playing Alex kidd in miracle world 🌎

I NEVER get tired of replaying Ape Escape! Banger os, Fun Gameplay and total 90s nostalgia

A Link to the Past in the thumbnail? Welp, I know I'm gonna agree with this video a whooooole lot. That game never gets old to me!

I've no doubt Contra III has racked up the most time being fired up again on the ol' SNES for me. It's a good solid 20 minutes of action and pure joy.

I always end up going back and playing any Smash game, Yoshie's Island, DKC1/2, Kirby Dream Land 3, Lufia and the Fortress of Doom, Super Metroid, Zelda LTP,, Sonic 3, Spyro , CTR. I played through Kirby Super Star so many times.

Funny you mentioned Elden Ring because the first Dark Souls and Demons Souls are 2 games I have played to death. At the point where I can breeze them in about 6 hours these days and I love it every time. I have lost count of how many times I have finished them. Definitely came a long way from that first 40 hour playthrough for sure. Another one for me is a Link Between Worlds. I end up playing through it every year or so and enjoying every moment of it, such a wonderful game.

Smash bros melee, Mario Kart SNES, Mario party 1-6. As an old gamer I feel that new games I play nowadays won't ever be played to death, present and future, due to the lack of time and desire to do it. The market is also saturated nowadays compared to 20 years ago.

So many games that I still play about 30 years later. Super Metroid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Super Castlevania IV, Contra III, Contra Hard Corps, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Ristar, Dynamite Headdy, Rocket Knight Adventures, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World, Megaman X (1 through 4) and Zelda: Link's Awakening. More recently I've emulated them (even though I own the originals) so now I can earn achievements in all my favorite retro games.

Good review! Hey, I respect your Ghouls 'n Ghosts achievement, RB! I beat Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts legitimately on my SNES years ago, so it definitely is a badge of honor to finish any games in that series! Yeah, there were less games to choose from as a kid between only owning one system and having a limited game collection, so replaying games never had a stigma attached to it. I do still get friends together from time to time now for pure couch gaming and it is just as fun as ever! Many of my current friends are retro game fans, too, so it adds to the enjoyment! I have replayed many NES, Genesis, SNES and N64 games multiple times. I'm actually revisiting many of my childhood favorites now on a random whim. I'm also now exploring "new" games I had never got the chance to play as a kid such as Castlevania III on the NES, Aladdin on Genesis, Chrono Trigger on SNES, and Rocket Robot on Wheels on the N64.

I don't think I've beaten any game as much as I have beaten Journey to Silius, the music reels me in and the gameplay and my memorization of the levels keep me in. It's probably my favorite NES game.

I for one am so proud of you for beating Super Ghouls and Ghosts. 👍 Also, I've played Symphony of the Night, A Link to the Past, and Secret of Mana so many times, and I look forward to every replay just as much as the last.

"With certain games that invite chaos-anyone ever do a match with nothing but poké balls and a high drop rate?" Core memory unlocked...in fact, this whole channel is nothing but core memories dished out at a high drop rate. And I'm 100% here for it.

Ghoul's and Ghosts and I have a complicated relationship. As a kid I could only get up to Stage 3 as the boss was too hard. I remember my dad spent all night playing and waking up to see he was in my room still playing the final level. He was an OG gamer. So congrats on beating that game. The stage1 level gives me nightmares to this day reminding me of the crushing difficulty

Hah, my friends and I used to load up that Razer scooter game on the Dreamcast back in the day just to repeatedly laugh at seeing that kid wreck over and over again.

There's a comfort whenever I re-play the classics like contra, mario bros 1, mario bros 2, mario bros 3, super mario 64 etc etc, it's something I'll probably never stop doing if I'm being honest lol

Act Raiser, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Sim City (SNES), Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic 3, Okami, Klonoa 1 (PS1) and 2 (PS2) & Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1) are games I still play to this day. And I've owned most of these games for over 20 years now. I still love playing them every time. Love your content sir! Keep up the good work!

I have some favourite decade(s) old single player video games that I still play over and over again, because I love them and find them so enjoyable. The bad side of course is that you get to know everything about the game and it loses the ability to surprise you, and you then know exactly what is coming up next and how to beat it. But on the plus side, you start to set yourself challenges in the game, to make the game harder and to challenge yourself further. Challenges such as only using certain weapons, never using certain techniques, not allowing yourself to go to the next game level until you have found every secret and killed every enemy, not using in-game powerups, and so on. Replicability is very important to me. And yes, to me the best multiplayer experiences I have had are when I am playing against friends in the same room. All of the friendly trash-talking, seeing the frustration on the face of someone when you beat them, seeing their (good natured) gloating when they beat you, etc, it's so mucn better than playing online, especially when playing online against people you don't know. That said, I do like playing multiplayer first person shooters against bots, as long as the bots are capable, and have good definable options. (Good) bots play the game type you want to play, with the rule set that you choose, they play when you want to play, they don't cheat, they don't spout offensive/racist drivel, they don't log off when they are losing, they don't think it's "funny" to shoot their own team members, they play at the skill level you choose (so they aren't too hard or too easy for you to beat), and they do what you tell them, even boring things like defending the flag or staying where you put them. Sadly, many bots are not configurable, or are too stupid to play some game modes well, and bots overall are becoming less and less common in games, but when done well then they are very valuable additions to the game, and can even be used to pad out a game where only a few humans are playing in large levels or in game modes that need lots of players. Look at how many online games end up with only a few people still playing them, or even no one playing them any more, so you can no longer play that game on line. This is especially noticeable if you buy a game that's more than a few months (or years) old, and no one is playing the multiplayer, so you'll never get to play it. But if it had bots then it would be no problem. The other side of the coin is when an older game's multiplayer is populated by very good players, so that as a beginner you just repeatedly get annihilated. If there were bots then you could practice against the bots at whatever skill level you set those bots to play at. BTW, your videos are great - a little insane, but in the good way!

The way I see it, if you strongly want to replay or continue a certain game, then by all means, do it. But if you're picking a familiar title just out of habit or because you can't decide on something new, then I encourage you to push on through to at least *trying* a new game. There's so much out there and it can feel pretty bad if at the end of the night, you didn't 100% enjoy the time spent with the same-old game.

Good Job beating Gouls and Ghosts on Genesis!! I finally beat Castlevania 1 on NES. That only took 30 years. Few understand how good it feels to beat a game that has schooled ya forever.

5th/6th gen console multiplayer games are timeless! I want to also give a shout out to the 3D GTA games, the radio alone was reason to play it forever… let alone how fun the games are, even if you are just driving as legal as you can listening to tunes 🎶 🚗

Played Ocarina of Time and Dracula's Curse to death over the years. Banjo-Kazooie played to comatose, not quite to death.

Just bought myself a sweet retro CRT - 32". It took me and my neighbor almost throwing our backs out to get it up my stairs. Totally worth it. Now, I can finally play Actraiser for the first time and see what all the hype is about. A Link to the Past will be next, but I beat that one shortly after it came out. Love that game.

I think this video nicely sums up my previous-rant, wherein I raged about certain games and their "excessive hatred". It's so much easier for a child - with nothing better to do - to overlook such matters, than for an adult with many things better to try (including other games). I'm honestly not sure I'll ever understand how I once finished "Indiana Jones's Greatest Adventures" on the SNES long ago, even given ample time to burn, but I certainly don't quite have the patience anymore (especially not when many Retro and Modern games are both vastly more worth my time). However - as for games I've excessively played to death - I'm certainly ran through games like "Super Mario Land", "Megaman X", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II", "Star Fox 64", and "Chrono Trigger" nigh on endlessly. Finally - for what it's worth - I'm rather impressed you've played through "Ghouls and Ghosts" (Sega Genesis), it's undeniably a game I'd otherwise be afraid to engage with seriously (as in: all the way through).

I can’t think of another RU-vid channel that makes me laugh as consistently as yours does. I’ve only known about you for about a week, but I’m hooked. Genuinely surprised that you aren’t more popular

Some games are hard to play to death .. Some games simply refuse to die

I'd say the games I played to death were Final Fantasy 4 & 6, Dynasty Warriors 3 and the SNES Mega Man X games. I've been through each of them so many times I practically know them by heart

I still remember how my brother and I took the trouble to figure out the fatalities in MK2, MK3, and MKT. We tried every input combination. And exploring every single inch of the stages in Super Mario World and DKC. Now i look back and wonder how some of those things even occured to me or how i even had the patience and time to figure it all out. I cant do that now.

My two favorite games to play over and over are Flicky and Jumping Flash.

I think mine is Sega Rally on the Saturn. It’s still my first choice if I have 15 minutes to spare. Setting new records is always the goal, but also the general vibe is just fun.

I'm one of those people who likes completing a good majority of the games I play... but if there's a game I keep going back to, even _after_ 100% completing it... For me, that's a special game. Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Ys 8, Majora's Mask, Psychonauts, Donkey Kong Country, and even recent titles like Lies of P all fall into the special category for me - games I can play to death and still want to revisit no matter what 💙

I play Zelda OoT and ALttP randomizers to death. Never gets old and makes them infinitely replayable without getting stale over the years.

Thank you for pumping out hit videos every week, I highly enjoy your comedy

I will always be a retro gamer forever, i have been a gamer since 1985 and still have many great consoles, retro consoles are the best, thanks for the geat video and great memories.

I’m super impressed that you beat Ghouls ‘n Ghosts! My older brother beat Ghosts ‘n Goblins on the NES when we were kids. Even though I watched him do it, it’s still hard to believe as an adult. I wonder if the brown shag carpet remembers… Anyway, I love your channel!

For me it's games like Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Super Castlevania IV, Castlevania Symphony of the Night. One new-ish game that I've been playing over and over again is a shmup called Escathos.

majoras mask is a game i return to again and again. getting all the masks is a fun challenge to do every two years or so

It's been so long since you've brought up Rocket Knight Adventures that I was beginning to get concerned. I'm sitting here thinking "What's next; is he going to drop nanners for plantains now?" "What is this madness?" I'm glad to see you've come round. I just beat Contra last night for the first time in about a year or so and man am I glad I did. Next; I'm off to revisit Atomic Runner. One of my favorite games of all time that nobody really talks about. Those who know, know. Great video as always my friend.

Why can't you have your cake and eat it too... I play Star Fox 64 to death while stepping on LEGO!

I did the Pokeball with high drop rate in Smash all the time. lol It was total chaos!

I've played Final Fantasy 4 and Zelda: Link to the Past an unhealthy amount. I must have beat both of those 100% at least a hundred times or more in my life. Link to the Past I've done 100% with no deaths and no continues in one sitting, no save states or rewind. FF4 is worse lol, I've Leveled everyone to max level gotten all the secret summons and Adamant Armor on every character. Then again FF4 is my favorite game of all time so....plenty of other games I like but FF4 I've def played to death.

Dang it's friday! I've played pokemon to death. I like making different parties and trying out different starters 🙃

It's 2am in the UK but I'll watch this tomorrow ❤

G1 Jockey for the Wii. I have played all the way through every year since it's release. 15 years!

Hey man, nice job finishing Ghouls and Ghosts for the Sega Genesis. That’s pretty cool.

4:22 In full agreement there. When Super Smash Bros brawl came out March 9th 2008 my friends and I played it right there at launch into midnight into the next morning and one of the ways of unlocking Sonic is to play versus battles for 10 hours. We unlocked Sonic. I didn't even realize we had played the game for that log but we had locked them on day one because we couldn't stop playing.

I played Sonic 2 to death when I was a kid - mostly because I wasn't very good at it. On a side note, I've been bingeing your videos to death after discovering them recently - I appreciate how you say important/thoughtful things about videogames in a goofy way. Thanks for your work!

For me it's the Streets of Rage games on mega drive. The soundtracks still give me goosebumps! - Especially the first one. Favourite ever game soundtracks would be a video I'd like to see!

I'd list the games I played to death as a kid, but if I had a game, 9/10 times I did play it to death, so it'd be easier to just list what I didn't play exhaustively instead at that point! Games I've played to death as an adult is a different story though. Those are *much* further and farther between. Those games are Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Hollow Knight, Cuphead, Enter the Gungeon, Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed, and Breath of the Wild! And there's one bonus game I'll throw out there, and it's an unusual case. There's a game that I've been anticipating for years, that I already know I'm going to play to death ahead of time! That game is Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers, which is supposedly coming out in around half a month! Bet you couldn't tell I like racing games *just* a bit. ;) Great video as always!

When you get one of those handhelds with full libraries of emulated consoles and you end up playing Wonder Boy III on the Master System for the 100th time

I never got tired of playing Pokemon Gold/Crystal… Some of my all-time favorite games. Until I found out a couple years ago that the save file doesn’t last in the game for too long which ruins my urge to play them these days sadly but I should get over it and just get back to enjoying the experience. :/ …So I’d say my next favorite game that I never get tired of playing would have to be Sonic Adventure 2 Battle! One of the best games ever imo! :) Anyway, I love your videos! Been watching for quite a while now. :) Keep it up with the awesome videos I always look forward to them! ^_^

Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out, Streets of Rage 2, Act Raiser. And I’m proud of you for beating Ghouls 'n Ghosts.

For me, the one that gets played to death the most from childhood to today would have to be Toejam & Earl. The randomized levels, the music, the art, just childhood in digital form. The slower pace also meant it was the only game I could ever get my grandma to play (she raised me) for any amount of time cause of arthritis in her hands. Who knew a Genesis 3-button would facilitate 30 years of fun.

Some modern games I play to death because there's a limited time to enjoy the full experience with the "live service" model the industry has adapted. This has really helped me appreciate retro games because the full experience is always available.

Super Mario bros 3, RE4 and Breath of the Wild were games I became obsessed with. Literally could not tear myself away from the television and missed many days of school and work to play.

Love the faces you make. Awesome videos brother!

my summers looked like this, my two sisters in i crammed into my room,adult swim on the t.v. and us hot seating either heroes of might and magic 3 or civ 4.....so good

Vids are the ultimate time capsule.

Im 40. The part about popping in super mario world , instead of playing a backlog of retro AND modern games so big its not even funny , hit hard.....lol. i also took the time to completly beat elden ring! Such an AMAZING masterpiece. I cant wait for the dlc. also took the time to go thru zelda botw and totk completely. Both also amazing.

Of course these are games I played to death, where I know every line and enemy location. MegaMan 2 & 3, Super Mario World, Turtles in Time, Mega Man X, Street Fighter 2. I played Street Fighter Alpha 2 so much it scratched. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Mega Man 8. Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold & Silver. GoldenEye64, Super Mario 64, Pokemon Stadium. Street Fighter Alpha 3, Resident Evil 2 & 3, Final Fantasy VII & VIII. Capcom vs SNK 2, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Final Fantasy X, Resident Rvil 4 unlocking the Handcannon, PLR, Chicago Typewriter on multiple systems. Street Fighter 4 was always "just one more game" and kept me outta trouble. Diablo 2 LoD & Resurected. Street Fighter 6 had over an 80+hour World Tour Mode if you go for Level 100, I honestly see myself replaying it in the future, on PC most likely. Multiplayer Shooters: Soldier of Fortune 2, Halo 2 on Xbox, CoD4 Modern Warfare, CoD Modern Warfare 2(2009), CoD Zombies(Waw, BO 1, 2, & 3). Rainbow Six Siege. Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield/Gold Edition is the GREATEST First Person Shooter ever made.

Games I play to Death. Super Mario Bros, Contra, Punch Out, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Shinobi. Mega Man 2 & Golden Axe. These are the same games I play over & over again. For Couch vs I used to play Golden Eye, Mario Kart 64 & NHL 94. These are the vs games I used to play all the time with friends. Growing up in the 80's & 90's games were very limited as I only owned 10 games per each generation cycle. Games were a lot harder to come by, my parents weren't into video games at all & I had no money as a kid. So the games I got as a kid on my birthday or Christmas were the only times I got games as a kid. As a kid I wasn't good at games either. I'm a lot better now with those games I mentioned because I can beat them easily now as an adult.

A Link to the Past is also my go to. I love that game, and could (and have) literally replay it over and over again.

I've played "Link to the Past" so much, I can't play it anymore. Then I discovered the randomizer scene. Amazing!

I feel like with the rise of speedrunning and randomizers this entire discussion has gotten more and more relatable to me. I can't tell you how many Final Fantasy, and Zelda games i've picked back up because of randomizers and can't tell you how many times i've replayed mario 64 and super metroid for speedrunning. I wanna play so many other games but randomizers especially are so addicted and the most fun i've had with single player games for years!

These are a few I keep going back to. Ikaruga SSVS Metal slug 3 Raident Silvergun Little Samson Windjammers Twinkle Star Sprites

For me personally it is the Forza Series. It gives me a good Feeling when i play it especially Forza Hoizon Games. Maybe it is the cool Music in this Game, that u have different Radio Stations to listen to and this with Racing is really great. Also sometimes Mario Kart and Donkey Kong Country/Land Series. Always a good to go :)

Some of my fondest childhood memories revolve around multiplayer games before online gameplay took over.

I played Halo 2 to death in college. I think my old Xbox live account had like 6500 multiplayer matches played. Good times.

Almost every day i play F-zero on the snes to relax. I love the music, visuals and the gameplay. It aged pretty well.

In my friday closing shift i find solice on my dinner break