Still going? I've been coming back and watching it every half year or so since he posted it haha. It's almost nostalgic at this point which is kinda crazy
I skipped school a LOT...was never a good student. But actually one of my favorite memories from back then was playing games DURING school. I would always play Tactics Ogre the Knight of Lodis on my GBA during math class. We had it in the chemistry lab, and the tables were just big enough so that I could hide it. I beat that entire game during school I think. Was the perfect game for it too because it was turn based. I could look up/start writing something if the teacher got suspicious.
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I used the electric blanket to pretend I had a fever so I'd be sweating in the morning when my mother would come in, they'd go off to work & FF7 would get played lol
Oh shit,,,when FF7 came out I was on some school vacation of some kind but my mom had taken off to Rhode Island for that week and I had the house to myself; Ya, sleeping bag in the living room, coke cans and chip bags everywhere. I would only get up to piss or shit for that entire week. I actually lost skin tone from doing that lol. Good times.
Ronbo Fett ah, I remember arguing with my friend in school, because he loved ff7 and I was like “game is shit” he forced me to borrow it . Needless to say that I got so bloody sick that evening and I had to stay home for most of the week. I couldn’t run the risk of anybody in my school getting sick.
Can't say I have any memories of "skipping" school to play games, but I totally faked sick numerous times to stay home and play games. I remember faking sick for nearly 2 weeks to try and beat Crash Bandicoot, my mum eventually had to drag me out of my room and to the school gates. Was pretty funny in hindsight.
I fucking hated school, I have a Learning disability and it takes me a really long time to learn some thing, and the schools I went to all sucked and I even had teachers pick on me and one even said I was too stupid to do any thing and I would never become any thing! lol Fuck them, All I had was Gaming to take me away from that shitty ass time in my life, and Gaming helps to this day! I skipped like one day of school but playing sick was easy'er! lol School is not for every one!
Pokemon4Life I skipped by playing sick as well. I got to where it was easier to convince my mom I was sick, and once mom decided something, dad had to go with it, even though he kinda knew I was faking it. aka he knew lol.
I do too and video games were my escape from everyday life. And I also hatred school especially after I left this one school. I also began to change for the worst in my personality from nice to evil and in love with myself. I even disobeyed my mom and attacked her and stole her debit card to go on a electronic spending spree and funny thing is I got away with my crimes. No one thought that wait an obviously pre teen kid has a debit card with someone else's name on it maybe he stole it from the owner of it maybe we should trick him to give it to us and call the bank and the owner to find out if this kid has permission to use it. But nope I got away with it thanks to one my wits. During that same time I completely stopped going to school because I was being ganged up because I was planning on attacking my mom so one day I said I refuse to go to school and you can't make me go. Man how I wish I could go back and change that and just obeyed my mom I didn't knew that after I graduated high school it would be hard to find jobs even though the signs of it was out there I was too arrogant to notice. I'm different now I'm more happy than I was during those times. The last time I was evil was in 2013 when I almost succeeded in killing my mom from this condition she got. Doctors say that in some cases of it stress can cause it. And I was silently attacking her mentally. But the doctor who was working with her basically gave me a choice of staying with her just respect her or go to a group home. I at first lied to him until I saw my mom and found out they needed to do emergency surgery on her. She died during the test a couple of times. After that I made up my mind to change my life for the better.
I got into a fight in 7th grade and was suspended for 3 days. I got to play Final Fantasy 7 the whole time lol. I would skip school every day a new final fantasy would come out. When Final Fantasy 12 came out I was already 21 so I actually called in "sick" to work for a couple days. I would actually save up my payed vacation time to take off a full week every World of Warcraft expansion from The Burning Crusades to Cataclysm.
Ha! This is awesome. It reminds me of the time when my mom took away my Sega Master System in an effort to improve my grades. She made me pack it up into its original box which she kept in her closet. Of course I took the system out of the box and put some other random stuff in it to weigh it down. I played it in my bedroom on my little black and white TV set. I didn't even know what the colors were on some games for awhile.
I used to work a horrible admin job a few years ago and this video was one I'd always listen to on my earphones to keep relaxed. It's one of my favourite youtube videos ever it's such a nice look into an innocent time.
Last time I skipped work to play video games was when Splatoon came out. I downloaded it at 12, Played until 7am Then called my boss and told I wouldn't be able to come in that day.
When I was in school, every time a new Call of Duty came out, a noticeable amount of guys would be missing. And the rest of us who actually showed up would straight up tell the teachers that they were playing it. "Does anyone know where Jared is? He looked fine, yesterday?" "He got the new Call of Duty, teacher"
CurtisAlfeld Sophomore year my Teacher skipped school to play the original Black Ops. I had another teacher at a different school skip for 420. Apparently he came back to school in the middle of the day to grab his laptop, he was wearing sunglasses. Now I wasn't there because it was my holiday too but I have to imagine he was high as fuck. He was a cool teacher, had Pink Floyd and Greatful Dead paintings painted on his walls.
I can't say I ever actually skipped school to play video games. But I did fake being sick for the sole purpose of playing video games. I most definitely remember the great Ocarina of Time flue of early 99 lol. I still feel bad though after I got better ( witch just happened to coincide with me beating the game) I loaned the game to me best friend and it must have had germs on it because he got sick and was out of school for a week :-(
I used to wake up at 6AM and go over to my friends house every morning before school to play Nintendo 64. We used to go hide in his hedge when his Mum and Dad got up so they thought we had gone to school and then go back in a play until lunch. We normally went to school for the afternoon and quite often the teachers never noticed since it was soo odd for a kid who had skipped the morning to just come in casually for the afternoon, I think they just assumed we had been there all day and that their minds where playing tricks on them. If I had not have done that I doubt would have had the awesome memories of playing F0 X.
I had no way to skip school as a kid. I lived way out in the country and the schoolbus would come by to pick me up, and my mom was always home anyway. But what I did used to do was wake up in the middle of the night, all on my own without an alarm or anything (because I was so excited to play whatever new game I had at the time), and I would go downstairs, sneak past my parents bedroom, go to the room my NES and SNES was in, close the door, keep all the lights off and even go so far as to turn the volume of the TV and the dim the brightness of the TV way down to try and hide what I was doing. Somehow my mom would catch me about half the time. Maybe I wasn't quiet enough going down the stairs.
Freshman year high school was when WCW Revenge came out. We'd usually go get stoned at a friends house during lunch, start up a 4 player match and three hours later realize we'd missed the last two hours of the school day. No regrets at all
"I had so much fun skipping school to play video games" "Don't skip school to play video games" lol I love this guy. Seriously though yeah, we all did it. I remember ordering Megaman 1 for NES through the mail (it was an old game already by then) and I skipped school to play through it after it arrived. I was a huge Megaman fan back then :-)
I did it for a few days when Super Metroid came out , that big red box made me do it :D In Ireland we called it mitching school instead of skipping school haha
Metal Gear Solid. During P.E. I intentionally pissed of a wasp, got stung, went to the nurse and acted like I was having a reaction. I was sent home early on Friday and had the whole weekend to play and beat MGS.
i skipped school a few times cuz it was just so lame school is like prison.. but i persisted and i graduated a 4 year state college i don't have a job but i owe them like $24,000 i don't see the point of school at all.. i mean i've been doing job apps like crazy and i only got one call back and the guy asked me one question.. i told him where i live and he said it was too far and that was it... i haven't heard from him since school is dumb
I remember when i skipped my job interview at the law firm, the birth of my son, and my best friends wedding when Pink Horsey came out. I played that game so hard.
I can relate to this, I did skip school back in the 80's to play games but not at home on my megadrive (as my mum was at home!) I would be down the local arcade spending my dinner money on Bubble Bobble, Shinobi, Chopper X etc.... great times, great memories....
During my senior year I must have played sick 90 days. I wasn't into gaming at the time though. How did I graduate HS? I think the teachers simply didn't want to be bothered with recycling students. My gym teacher made me make up days but that's the only person who called me out. I never got detention because I wrote my own notes "from my mom".
I can remember pulling a couple Ferris Bueller tricks to get some sick days in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade to get some quality SNES time in. Played a lot of Breath of Fire 2, Chrono Trigger, and Mega Man X. High school, same thing, only mostly Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden 2. Good times.
My senior year of high school is when Pokemon black and white had came out, my high school was next to a Walmart so I would get off the bus and go to Walmart with my DS in tow and go to the subway inside of the Walmart and play Pokemon all day, i did this so many times I'm surprised my step mom or my dad didn't catch me.
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I remember I told my mom I was ''Sick'' so she said ok and called me in sick. And she went 2 work and I played my PS2 the first console I've ever gotten! I've had great memories playing the PS2!
Despite all of your videos, this one will always be my favourite. Reminds me of how I'd sometimes pretend to be sick so I could stay home and play Pokemon.
I skipped school a few times to hit the local Arcade and play classics. Sometimes we would steal cans from the neighborhood homes and recycle them to have a few extra bucks for the arcades and McDonald's. this was back in 1989
I often come back and watch this video because it reminds me of similar experiences I had as a kid. I have some pretty fun stories of my own. Maybe I will share them sometime.
I never skipped school back then, the idea or intention never even occurred to me. In fact, I remember having a very uncomfortable dream about me somehow missing some school classes and being like disconnected of whatever was going on in all of my classes, all my class friends talking about topics and projects and researching stuff that I didn't understand, I didn't have notes and had to borrow some notebooks to catch up, yet somehow I kept getting late to school everyday, missing more classes, watching classmates minding their own business as if I wasn't there, I felt out of place, a very panic inducive that dream was.
Ah, man, I suffer from those kinds of dreams a lot, too. Though mine tend to revolve around forgetting things, like where my classes are or what my locker combination is so I can't get to my books. Then there's missing my finals, except that one actually happened this past semester... Therapy sounds like an increasingly viable option.
Chris Pie All _"You were never sick and didn't go for a few days?"_, sure, what I meant was never skipped school on my own will, there sure had to be times where my parents had to go some trip and take me with them, or health or weather situations etc. _"Because so long as you know people in the same classes as you it's not that big a deal."_ Well, for me, being behind people of my generation and not knowing what is going on nor what they were doing and that I was supposed to be in the same level, watching them taking a class where I was no part of it anymore all of a sudden, was very panic inductive(in the dream), not because I'm not hanging out with them but because something was wrong.
I worry today. When giving advice to the younger generation. I never skipped school. Once kind of for 45 min segments that included marching too and from. School, if you like to will teach you things, If not experience will. Experience causes more fires. Just, so you'd know.
To be honest, i never skipped school, in fact i was basically almot the complete opposite of you. when i was a young kid, we never had a console since our genesis broke and all i focused on was school, and that's where it reached scary because i had math questions going through my head and when i played a handheld game from a friend, i looked around the room after i played and asked myself where have i been.
Almost burned down our apartment back in the days when fighting the last boss in Phantasy Star for the first time .. totally forgot about the popcorn on the stove =)
I was a gamer since 1998, but for a while when I was younger I had lost all interest. That all changed in 2007, when I bought an Xbox 360 and Oblivion. I can only remember going to school, going to practice/coming home, and playing Oblivion. All day, and all night. It changed my interest in games FOREVER and to this day is still my favorite game of all time, mostly for those memories. As far as skipping goes, while playing Oblivion I skipped three days in a row at one point. Needless to say, I didn't exactly make great grades after that purchase
Never skipped school to play games. My parents would literally kill me if I did. No, they would literally have choked me until my air supply cut off and I passed away.
Same mate. Even if I wanted to skip school to play games (and I really wanted to sometimes), there was almost always someone at home at any given time. I just never had the opportunity to do so as a result.
My bro only went to his high school class for 1 week and the rest he spent playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory the online mode for that was crazy good. Oh he failed school though haha.
I used to live in a pretty small city, so when my friends and I got into High School, we would often go out for lunch. But instead of coming back for our afternoon classes, we sometimes would go and buy a ton of junkfood before walking to one of our houses and watching movies and / or playing video games like Super Smash brothers for the rest of the day. Good times.
When I was in 5th grade I ditched school and was playing my NES when my mom or sister, can't remember which one, came into the condo. I hid to not get caught, but I left my NES and TV on! I don't remember if I got caught though. LOL! Sweet memories....
I once skipped high school, finished a leftover half gallon of wild turkey 101, played ninja gaiden II, and woke up hours later on my floor. Needless to say, I did not beat the game.
I've skipped about a month of school on one time to play Atari 65 XE and Commodore 64 and than later Amiga 500 games. Love your stories. I can relate. The best times ever...
I use to skip with my best friend and go to one of the near by malls to play in actual ARCADES for a few hours, not these well-lit skeet ball ticket traps we have today... yup, I'm old. We'd sit in the car for 3 hours until the mall opened and read comics or gaming magazines. We never stayed at home because both of us had stay-at-home moms. The book store or comic/hobby shop was also another place of interest on our day trips. :)
Well I didn't skip school TO play video games, I skipped school because I hated the school I was at at the time. Video games were just the best source of escaping from all the bullshit that went on there. I'm in college now, but I gotta agree with you, don't regret it one bit. Thing is, it was just the hassle of going through it with the parents since the school actually sends them text messages if you're absent.
i love this video so much! i was actually thinking about it recently. My friends and i sometimes skipped school and went to the city to play arcade games (Fatal Fury, etc!) and looking back, i dont regret it at all! Im so glad i did! Like you, I have such fond memories of those times eheh! Love your closet story hahah, so good!
Back in high school my friend was able to hack my PSP by putting custom firmware on it (this was like 08 and I didn't even know that it was a thing). I loaded it up with roms and other games and I would sit in the back of my biology class with my book bag covering it. I spent two entire marking periods out of the six we had just playing on my PSP and at the end I managed to get the highest final exam grade. Hated high school overall but damn that was a good time.
Just the title alone got me thinking of all my memories. I actually skipped school and pretended to be sick for over a week straight with my brother so we could stay and watch the OG Pokemon Anime on TV and play Pokemon on our Gameboys. We would cough loudly standing at the top of the stairs and then both went down after we were sure our parents heard us earlier and say we didn't feel well. We spent the day in the basement and I have such great memories. I miss those simple times in life without so much consequence. The old gaming days are golden and I think most gamers have some memories of great times gaming and calling out of school or work etc.
We had a mom and pop store that had Street Fighter 2 in Seattle....And imagine 20 kids cramming in this store when 4th period was happening just to play this amazing game....Good times, good times indeed
We used to be mad for an arcade game back in the day called Vendetta that was in a video store called Movie Masters on my way to high school. A friend of mine worked out he could get free credits by shocking a metal strip on the glass by rubbing his boots on the carpet. Naturally when our school shoes didn't have the same effect, we paid him to let us borrow his boots for a couple of days until we got bored of finishing the game. He was a short kid and no one fit into his shoes but that didn't stop us from missing days of school. I still remember the clerk coming over and opening the machine and looking at us with suspect glances!
This reminds me of when I used to skip classes form middle school and go to my friend's house who live a block away and played Powerstone, Sonic Adventure, and House of the Dead on the Dreamcast. Great memories, miss old school Sega so much.
I know I'm 10 years late to this video, but there is nothing wrong with skipping a day or work or school as long as you have a good work ethic and put the time in when you are there. I used to skip school from time to time, but the difference for me was I would ask my dad if I could just take a day off and he'd say yes as long as I didn't have any tests that day. It's all about balance and having a healthy outlook on quality time for yourself. That quality of life from missing school and work will carry over into school and work because it helps eliminate burnout. Obviously there are several caveats to that, but everyone needs that time off for no other reason than to just enjoy their own time with no interruptions.
I skipped school all the time for video games. I would always skip a Friday and a Monday to get a five day weekend. One time in middle school everyone got food poisoning and I pretended I had it too. I'll never forget one of my teachers KNEW I was faking it, he just couldn't prove it. He asked me to point out my throw up and I said pick a toilet. I had a friend who had everything too, and even though I had no idea how big of a deal it was at the time I would skip for earthbound. Later it was for ffvii, and in college lol, it was for ffx.
I lived out in the woods, so I rarely skipped school. Every now and then I'd fake sick or something to stay home, but usually I'd go to school, because it was the only time I'd get to see my friends. I skipped more often in high school, and sometimes I'd bring my N64, and we'd skip and go to someone's house and play games, then I'd go back in time to catch the bus home. As long as my grades stayed up and I stayed out of trouble, my parent's didn't mind.
Didn't really skip school to play video games, but one of my most cherished video game memories was opening up Donkey Kong Country for the SNES on Christmas Eve. I beat it in three days my first time playing it, but the best part was when I got to the snow levels because it felt very Christmasy. All the music in that game was awesome! In fact all three games on the SNES were great... Never bought the N64 one because it didn't have Dixie Kong, and it just didn't have the same 2D platforming feel that the other three had, because it went all "3D."
Back in high school, I went with my friend to as a witness in a court case where his car was in an accident. The court thing only took an hour or too, but for the rest of the day instead of heading back to school, we went back to my parents' house and played KICKLE CUBICLE on the NES and phoned into the school posing as each others parents. haha Great memory
Sounds like my childhood!! I remember playing Dragon Warrior 2 at my parents friends house and never knew what it was I played until I watched your Dragon Quest history/review videos!
Man, I used to skip school all the time to play video games lol. Just a couple of times, I can remember skipping school to try out all the different fatalities in Mortal Kombat 2 on the Genesis and another day just playing through mystical ninja starring goemon on n64. Good times.
I very rarely skipped school, but I remember a couple of times I would fake being sick to stay home and play a game. One of these times I had just got Elder Scrolls III, and I had no idea what it was. I played it all day, at home alone, and I will never forget the sense of wonder it instilled in me. I wouldn't trade that memory for anything.
Great video Johnny! I remember skipping school for FFVII. Once I got caught with my friends ditching school to play Goldeneye and Turok. You really took me down a nostalgic road, thanks man!
My junior year of high school (grade 11 for you northerners) a group of us skipped school for 2 weeks straight as well. The N64 was already out, but we traveled around to nearby towns checking all the game/pawn shops looking for any NES games we could find. The goal was to beat as many as we could. The count go to around 85 games, 3 consoles, 7 light guns, and I don't wanna know how many controllers. Funny thing is when we went to play every few min or so someone would get excited for another game and switch it out. We made no headway, but such a great time!
Well, I've had several memories of skipping school to play video games but my most prominent memory is playing Ocarina of Time in my 9th grade year. I had been a Zelda fan for years so the anticipation was immense. So, I get the game and I skipped 3 days straight just to finish it and it was so worth it. The memories of playing that game will never be replaced but the time spent in school was forgettable. Anytime you just get away from it all and do something you love it sticks with you.
I got one. Forgot what I was playing (Chrono Trigger maybe), but I didn't feel like going to school that day. Behind my house was a little area circled in trees, hid out there a lot to skip. Well turns out some lady was cleaning the house that day, so I had to hide out there for a few hours. Needed to crap really bad, so I found an old wicker chair behind the shed and busted out the seat and crapped on the ground with it. Got int he house and got to play a little while before my mom got home.
I snuck out of recess around the 1st grade, just started walking home from the playground, to go play star-fox (snes), got about 5-10 minutes into it before my father walked in, eyes bulging out of his face, mad as all hell. lol
The memories with gaming as a kid is so wonderful. I smile when i watched this cause i got my own special memories aswell. I used to play super castlevania 4 and it was the first castlevania game i played and i was blown away by the music and the grafics. Also i had super contra or super probtector as its called in europe man that was fun!.those two games i skipped as mutch school as possible for but hey i was 6-8yo and those games well... you never feel that way about games again.
haha awesome. the best thing about school was always skipping it. Even now that I'm an adult I took 3 days off when I first started playing Farcry3, it was just too good to put down. Will probably take a day or two when Final Fantasy XV comes out too.
Lol I watched this vid and 40 year old gamer back to back. In two years time Johnny went from "Don't skip school to play video games!" to "Don't listen to what anyone else tells you, do whatever the fuck you want!" XD
I really wished you made a Happy Console Gamer Movie 2 sequel just about your memories playing video games with Robman and Andrew. You have some of the coolest unique stories man.
Great that you got that copy of Phantasy Star that was so near and dear to you. I got my brother's friend's copy of Secret of Mana which is the game that made me love RPGs and it was his copy of it that I used to play; granted I had gotten a copy from Funcoland in 2000. So yeah, I have two loose copies of Secret of Mana. I wish I could have gotten the rest of his collection because most of my early console gaming memories came from the games he would bring over. I skipped school a few random times to play games, and a few were unintentional. One was I was at school in 4th grade and we were making molds of California (where I live) for some history project or something. I don't know why, but having my hands in the goo stuff that we had to use for the mold just instantly made my stomach turn and I projectile vomited all over. The teachers got me up and bent me over a bucket in case I still had anything in me and even the principal was like "Alright, you can just go home, we'll call your parents." At the time, my parents worked and we had a nanny that watched the house and us so she showed up and from 11am onward I was at home playing Diablo 2. Success. The other is when I first got into WoW, and literally from when I activated my account till like 7am the next morning I was playing it. In the morning my Dad came into the room and was like "Have you been up all night playing that game? Well, just take the day off so you can sleep." Of course, I didn't sleep and just kept going on that game like no tomorrow. I should have known it was trouble. At least I didn't get as hooked on it as my brother was. Those damn Blizzard MMOs were too damn good.
That image of opening a closet and seeing a young you playing thunder force with headphones and a tiny tv with antennae actually just managed to save my day.
