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Something about James’ calm voice gives the energy that you’re visiting friends and they’re showing their collection. James just exudes ol’ mate energy
For me it’s the fact that there’s no “HEY GUYS WHATS GOING ON, ITS YA BOY AND I GOT A GREAT VIDEO TODAY SO REMEMBER TO SMASH THAT LIKE….” etc. Just a solid guy sharing something interesting with people.
As someone who was born in the mid 80s, it’s funny to hear little explainers like ‘we used to rent video games from blockbusters’ or ‘we couldn’t use this port, didn’t even know what it was’. But it does make me think about how different we experience these things now, and this sort of seems like a cool historical artefact.
The Mega Drive was the first console we had as well - it was second-hand from someone my parents knew but it came with a copy of a game called Desert Strike (I loved that game and it's sequels BTW). Anyways, one of the games you showed for the SNES, Rock 'n' Roll Racing was a game we borrowed from the local newsagents (who did the whole video hire thing) - both me and my sister liked it so much we ended up convincing the folks to by a copy to keep. A hell of a lot of nostalgia here :D
the rf story really resonated with me. as a younger sibling, i was on dedicated cable wiggling duty when my brother and i were playing ocarina of time, and occasionally the picture was good enough to see
I think they're used interchangeably down here. Another difference I noticed is that we never referred to them as "video stores" as Americans do, we would usually just refer to the name of the store (Video Ezy, Blockbuster, Civic Video).
@@Zerphses In some parts of Australia, people will put an "s" after the name of a store. "Let's go to Blockbuster" would become "let's go to Blockbusters". It probably explains why so many stores down here end in an "s" by default e.g. Coles, Woolworths, Bunnings.
It depends: in the uk, we'd call it a video store unless it was a chain, like Blockbuster. In much the same way we were going for a takeaway, unless we were going to Subways or Mc-Coronary Disease.
The first ever console I have vivid memories of playing was my great grandmothers SNES. Jamming out levels and (eventually) beating Super Mario World with my brother is what I remember my world being at 5 years old. Ironically, the original SNES is 13 years older than me. The console is in my hands now, in its yellow, gray, and purple US spec glory.
This is the diametric opposite of youtube drama. Just a person positively and lovingly engage with something that means the world to them. It's so nice to see people turn positivity inward as opposed to negativity outward. So glad to be here on the ground floor for what I am sure will be a grand adventure!
As a European, specifically English, Nintendo in the early 90s didn’t have much of a grasp here, so I was a sega boy, master system and mega drive, though later my uncle got a SNES, and I remember I always loved playing it, Top Gear (not related to the tv show) was an amazing racing game that riffed on outrun, had an amazing soundtrack too. Good to see you have you own channel James, can’t wait to see loads of “ol’ mate” fixes
Best of luck with your own channel James! I’m not sure if your content will be for me tbh but I love the chemistry and dynamics you guys have on Garbage time so I’m sure this will be entertaining too
God it's so refreshing to hear "seega mega drive", and even "mega CD". I swear I've spent so much time listening to Americans, I was starting to think I just hallucinated that name. I sure do remember those 90s TVs too... we had ours so long I had to buy an RF unit for my N64. Didn't realise we needed one the day I bought it of course, so I have vivid memories of that first night trying to play Ocarina of Time though just... impossible amounts of static.
Sega genesis just sounds terrible to me being used to the word mega drive it sounds like a Phil Colin's songs gonna start playing when you boot it up lol Also I agree so many Americans on here hearing "Sega CD" over and over I actually forgot It was called mega CD over here lol 😅
Very nice collection. N64 and game boy color were my earliest consoles, my dad woke me up late one night to show me he bought mario kart 64 and we played for hours. Before that I always just watched him play PC strategy games.
I used to rent PS2 games and DVD from my central Victorian town's Video Busters. No idea if the two are related or if it was just the video store equivalent of a chicken shop being called Charcoal Chicken
During this era of gaming I just played my cousins systems. My family were very low income so I didn't get my own game system until the PS2. This was my first gen of real gaming I remember and what I think of when people say retro, my mind doesn't even think of NES first lol. Obviously channel grew quick but happy to be here, loved the personal retrospective
I didn't grow up in the 80's and 90's but i certainly did grow up with the Super Nintendo. my dad put ZSNES on my laptop back in the day and it was how I got my fascination with retro games, especially the SNES. 15 years later and I have an actual Super Nintendo, with the holy grail of JRPGs, Chrono Trigger.
i never really was into oldschool games, but i really like your content, its just so janky, funny and genuinley nice to watch. but i also never was into cars, ipods and headphones, and wade got me interested in all of them, i think you will succeed too!
I thought this was gonna be a bait and switch where james was all like "actually i was a turbografx kid" and then the video cuts to james with like 3 arms with 7 fingers to each hand
Hyped you’ve got your own channel on the go now! Great vid to start with too lots of nostalgia. Got my dads Mega Drive given to me as my first ever console in about 94/95 and rinsed it. Still got that same one kicking around somewhere but I think I needs some soldering done Can’t wait to see some of your DDR and rhythm games dude!
I got best of all the worlds when I was younger. At my Grandma's, I had a retrobit 2-in-1 nes & snes console, where I mostly played Mario 3 and World with my grandma, while at my mum's, I had a Sega Genesis with sonic 2, golden axe, some manky tetris wannabe, as well as an N64 only with Mario 64 and Zelda OOT. I unfortunately only have the retrobit console today, but for a kid born in 2005, I couldn't imagine a better collection of games to grow up with. . .
I cannot get past that you say "hire" as apposed to "rent". In my mind you're telling the game you "hired" it for a long night of hard gaming, as your folks are out on a date and they gave you money for pizza and whatever else you'd need :P
Growing up in the mid 90s in Scotland I think only one of my friends had a Nintendo (snes or nes), everyone had Sega and sonic, streets of rage were always the main plays. Good times
Nice collection James. I'm a little bit older than you and my first console was the Sega Master System 2 with Alex Kidd in miracle world built in, it took me 2 years to beat that dang game. I also would hire out games at the video store. Good times.
Love you guys. Please look after the donkey van. I am a carer for my mum. Been trying to get a van. Things are tough brother in Australia. Me and my mum loves your channel and thank you for doing other stuff
In all honesty, I don't care one bit for consoles or whatever, but I decided to give James a watch because... well, we like James. And yeah, we do like James. The calm energy (and the genius of that portable Super Nintendo video) had me sticking around. Keep 'em coming.
when I was a little kid I had a master system and a snes, they where hand me downs from my father funny enough, I was obsessed with the weirdo master system sonic "port" and super mario world 1 and 2, I was very young and it was my first videogame experience, but I was fortunate enough to be able to play on a older ps1 at the time, and that became like my biggest obsession, to this day it's like the fondest gaming memories I have..
Good video nice to see some positive content on this site. The way this title was worded I was expecting the answer to be something like the turbografx 16 or the amiga CD32, but interesting none the less.
Wow unlocked memory. We used to put a match box under the power cable of our mega drive 2 to hold it in place. If you bumped the console, it would reset because it wasn't contacting properly
I'm a youngin so my first console was a Playstation 2, although the DS, Xbox 360 and PS3 were all out by that point. The first console I played on a whole lot, though, was my DS. I love the DS so much.
The SNES was the first console I ever used as a kid despite being a couple of years too young to have been there during its golden days. A friend of mine (who had a much older brother) had one at home and we used to always play Super Mario World on it. Today it's without a doubt my favorite retro gaming era. Mostly because the games have aged better than what came before and what came after.
I got a mk 1 sega mega drive in the UK and I love it. My cousin gave it to me and my bro when I was really young in the early 2000. It broke eventually but about 8 months ago I got another one and I still love it. Played the hell out of sonic and golden axe. Just starting to expand my games as I have like 13 games now! Great video dude came here from dankpod's garbage time 😁
Had some money put in my account back in the day, I bought a Mega Drive straight away The Revenge of Shinobi was my favourite game and the intro screen sounded awesome 🏅
Awesome stuff! I remember playing the original Sega and the Nintendo at my brother's house, as he had electricity and also had disposable income, both things I lacked.
I grew up in Australia here in Sydney for me out of the two the Mega Drive was my first and then the SNES was my second I love both but my favourite is the Mega Drive only cause I grew up starting from Sega arcade games and then onto the Master System. Great video mate 👍
My "gaming introduction" was quite similar as well. I have an older cousin that got an used Mega Drive around 2003. I was three years old at the time, but I remember playing with him a lot of Tiny Toons and Sonic (I could never get pass the demolition ball Robotnik). A couple years later, my parents bought a Dynavision 101 for me (it's a NES knockoff sold in Brazil), and I started to learn English bit by bit with a dictionary just to understand the ending of Contra.
Great memories playing Super Mario All Stars on the SNES in my house, too! Our SNES was bought by our parents and over 30 years later it STILL WORKS. I have no idea how, it's been thrown around and lovingly thrashed over the years. My mum even played SNES while in labour with me.
I think you were scammed, mate. You wanted to get a dog, but they have you two. I think they knew they were off-brand, so they gave you two so you wouldn't complain.
One of the major things I miss from video rental places was the carpet. I don't know if they gave 'em the go over with a shampoo machine or something every night. But once the late 00's hit they started smelling more...stanky haha. Like...slow death I guess. Aw.
As an American, the use of "hire" rather than "rent" trips me up. Here in the states we say "hire" for people and "rent" for inanimate objects, but I guess it's different in Oz (as are many things).
Our first console was an Atari, but it was super old at the time. Can't remember which one. We were having issues with the RF too and my dad binned the entire lot. Still spewing. Not long after, we got a SNES, and I played Terranigma, my first JRPG on loan from my brother's friend, and it started a lifelong love of JRPGs.
1:34 If it's the Video Busters I'm thinking of, it used to be on Grange Rd at Welland. It was massive and now it's a Chemist King (apologies to non-Adelaide people reading this who probably don't know or don't care about this comment lol). BTW love the cats.
@@Starfireaw11 We only had the one Video Busters in Adelaide and it was around the corner from my Nan and Grandpa's house, which is why I remembered it so vividly. I think there were too many other local chains for them to properly compete with over here, though the two biggest ones eventually got taken over by much bigger chains from elsewhere (Focus Video was taken over by Blockbuster and Movieland was taken over by Video Ezy)... for what it's worth, that one Video Busters store over here became a Movieland in about 1994.
You don't know how calming it is just hear someone local on the internet saying SEE-GA not SAY-GA. SA GREAT! I started on a Master System II w/ Alex Kidd built in however it was the Super Nintendo and Nintendo from then on with my family. Thankfully this was still the 90s when an 8yo could go across the road and visit a neighbour (adult or friend) on their own so I still had access to SEGA consoles throughout the years through neighbours and as such they had access to Nintendo consoles through us.
My first console was my brothers Nintendo 64! I have a ton of memories playing Super Mairo 64 and Star Fox. One that was burned into my brain was Conkers Bad Fur Day. I was far too young for that game but I loved it, except chapter 4 with the zombies, that section genuinely gave me nightmares.
Hi James! I've just subscribed to your new channel. I know you via Wade on his "Garbage Time" channel and really enjoyed his videos of him and you fixing Wade's cars (e.g. Tony the Polish Fiat, the "donkey" Mitsubishi Express Walkthru van, Jeff the EF Falcon V8 GLi, and the "free" Daihatsu Charade).
