Video Game Eras 

jackson lloyd-the sage, the storyteller, the catalyst of change-has returned! 🙌🎉 Picture this: The sun rises, casting a golden hue upon the play button. The screen flickers to life, and there, bathed in the soft glow of pixels, stands our hero. 🌅 The chat section buzzes with anticipation. “Where have you been?” they ask. “Why did you leave?” But jackson lloyd merely smiles-a Mona Lisa grin that holds secrets and promises. 🤫 And then, with a flourish, the video begins. The intro music swells-a symphony of hope, resilience, and pixelated dreams. 🎶✨

My mother got me GTA Vice City, and Im pretty sure it was a last ditch effort to make me heterosexual. Didnt work. Now Im fruit flavored and violent.

Great production quality, keep it up!

What a phenomal style bro, you're sitting on a rocket, just keep fueling it!

Sega even today has the coolest console names. The genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast all sound sick

Never played many games growing up, but having the DS as a kid was a really strong tool that defined my life as a whole

Damn its not everyday you see a channel grow. I always was partial to the 2000s, the energy gaming had is unmatch and truely unique.

I really appreciate your mention of Disney extreme skate adventure. Severely underrated

Really enjoyed this video man, great quality, good writing and a good dose of nostalgia. Earned my sub!

Not even a minute in, and I already had to subscribe. Your editing and stylistic choices are top-notch

That halo reach pre order commercial sent me to the feels

Think about how lucky we are to be kids and gamers at one certain point in history that we were. 90s and early 2000s will forever be in my heart

4th-6th gen was objectively the golden era, '89-'04. There was good stuff before and after but that period is unmatched.

i miss the early 2000s era of gaming, the devs actually have passion on their project. Your video is very fantastic at describing them

the 2000’s is the best decade of gaming.

this is an amazing video! the quality is up there with the likes of nakey jakey and Scott the woz. Whole video was fun to watch and made me feel happy that other people have had the same experience with video games as I did.

6th Generation was the best era, a lot of good games, and very interesting stuff with the big 4

ds and 3ds are my golden eras. mkds, cooking mama 2, and acnl my beloved

Thank u for bringing me down nostalgia lane man loved every second with this production quality ❤ love u dad

great vid, keep it up bro this is underrated for sure

The Wii homebrew channel bit was brilliant lol

6th and 7th generation were the golden era of gaming, after that it never hit the same.

6:19 HAD ME ROLLING

Therapist: American Maxmoefoe isn't real, he can't hurt you American Maxmoefoe:

That Pong era bit made me spit out my drink. 😂

Ah, the Days of Pong & Tetris...

When I saw the subscriber count, I was too stunned to speak. The way you make videos is incredible production value off the charts, the narrative you held my entire attention no skips which thanks to tiktok and short form content is brilliant. Nice one man.

The wii era is just awesome complemented with a dsi and kid me would have tons of fun

Star Fox Adventures is 🔥, the GameCube was definitely the console that impacted me the most, it had so many phenomenal titles. 🙌🏼

First video I’ve seen from your channel and you COOKED HARD. Can’t wait to see more :)

I lol’d at the Atari screen change

Xbox the first one is a gem I never experienced, the theme/logs and over all vibe is out of this world, really wish they would go back to that theme, instead of this mid era. W video btw keep it up man. More bangers like this you have great potential

I remember that clip at 1:03 , just a golden era for online nonsense

You’re a generation ahead of where I started but man it reminds me how those eras still were revelation. OR maybe I’m so old I don’t get that young gamer nostalgia. My kid shifts between a tablet and Roblox and Gamepass, we aren’t quite at the “I GOT PS5 AND GOW AND I CANT PLAY ANYTHING LIKE THIS”….I also have all the consoles as I’m a gamer where I had to pick a side back in the day cuz my folks thought it was all the same. My era was I’m Sega all the way for years until I beg for the next gen that was probably years after it’s release. I’m hoping the next gen my kid is hyped enough to where we can camp out in line on launch just excited to see what the next big thing is.

So this is what it feels like to discover a hidden gem of a channel. Subbed brother, good stuff right here

Worth every minute it took to make this Video. Absolute banger going through all these different console generations and staying relatively objective while recounting your own stories. I've watched some videos where they try to focus on the documentary style but their own opinions still slide through and here we have someone giving his own opinions while still highlighting other great consoles! The Dreamcast has always felt like the greatest console I've never had. All these amazing games that I later ended up playing on other platforms. So I'm very happy to see it get a little highlight inbetween.

Never in my life would i expect someone to mention champions in a video about game eras. That game is goated

This was a great retrospective on the console gaming eras, first vid from you I’ve ever watched and your humor, editing and amusing summaries especially of the gaming eras you didn’t exist through earned yourself an automatic subscribe 😃 I’m both proud and creaky to say I’ve lived through all generations of video game existence except the first one, being born in 1977 meant my earliest years of gaming were full of Atari games and their hypnotic strobe and color effects, along with a million other strange and marvelous consoles at the time, as well as tons of PC games and arcade games which were left out of the eras in this video. I’d have to say the original 8bit NES and SNES/Genesis were my favorite eras of gaming, although N64 is up there as well for the giant 3D leap forward it provided from the previous generation… I’ll never forget the feeling of Mario 64 and gleefully running around discovering every move you can do with Mario for an hour before even thinking of heading into the castle to begin the game because the 3D movement was so radically different and done to perfection. The console wars between sega and genesis was something to live through, you HAD to pick a side and passionately argue about your console’s superiority at the back of English class with this one kid for an entire year… hypothetically of course! Looking back, I’m ashamed how susceptible we all were to the (admittedly awesome) advertising of the age, but mortal kombat II on SNES was the first console game that was truly as powerful as the arcade game- even if later on I found out it really wasn’t but it sure FELT like that at the time. Im a switch dude nowadays, play a ton of Zelda and Mario kart with my son and wife, but I don’t think games can ever impact me quite as much as the ones I played 85-95 again. I mean when super Mario bros, Castlevania and mike Tyron’s punch out were released I could literally think about nothing else all day at school than being able to run to my neighbor’s house to get lost in these worlds over and over. Really looking forward to more from you dude 🤘

In awe of your editing aesthetic

2:27 for the record they did this because it as cheaper to just bury them then to go through the proper channels to dispose of all of those unsold games

love the editing, the whole video gives me that comfy 2000s feeling

man, i just love this video style!

I’m so glad you mentioned Star Fox Adventures! Such an underrated game!

Great video and coverage of video game history! I was very lucky to grow up when I did having great memories with the consoles and games I had access to. The late 90s and the 2000s were my era and I'm truly blessed.

The Sega Genesis had a modem adapter to play a few games online with a built in mic ( and Sega channel, basically Xbox game pass ) Xband for the SNES as well and nes era and up had kiosks too.

12:32 this part in particular is so funny because the homebrew channel ain't official lmao

All i needed to watch was this vid… Brother you are my favorite youtuber now -Keep it up!!

Awsome video man gave me a sense of nostalgia. My favorite era was definitely modern because I had most of my experience during it (I was born in 2005) but I grew up with my Wii and Xbox 360 and I’ll never forget the fun I had.

editing is cold af, nice video

The early 2000s was definitely my favorite era of gaming as well.

I'm with you. I enjoyed the heck out of Star Fox Adventures

thought you were a 100k+ subscriber channel because of the quality, nice video!

As a fellow small channel with a "green screen rant" style format...this is great man. Incredible editing! Looking forward to your success my man. :)

Great video don’t give up keep pushing you will get up there straight to the top bro

My very first gaming experience was the Atari 2600 on a black and white TV, and then Super Mario Bros on the NES. Growing up in the 90s was so cool lol! I guess I'm an old guy to you lol!

Back when entertainment had colour

Great video editing and a fun watch Jackson!! The Gamecube nostalgia tho. I've been having fun creating Nintendo content on my channel and i'm glad I found yours. You have a new subscriber :)

I've remember when i wasn't allowed to play The Sims 2 because my mother wont let me (because of the someone mention the bathroom/shower part, and my mother said that is "too inappropriate for a young childs mind". So they bought me MK5 & DOA:P instead.

fantastic video, very relatable as someone who grew up in a similar era and went along a similar trajectory of interests. one silver lining of modern gaming to me, is that those of us who grew up in that golden era are now developing and releasing video games which gives me hope for the future especially in the PC/indie spheres.

Miss the golden era….

I would love to see the AAA scene return to the level of quality games it was back in the 2000s, just gotta have more focus on making the game fun, less focus on encouraging players to be whales, making sure the game's not a buggy mess at launch. Luckily we still have indie games being just that to this day.

Relaly enjoyed this bro!

I personally think its gen 6 for me cause of Half-Life and also Metroid Prime and GTA Vice City.

dude honestly thought you had 1mi subs when I started the video you got sooo much potential, love the editing and your charisma, sending this to all my friends, keep it up!

I grew up with the 360 but after going back into retro gaming and emulation, I think the 6th generation takes the cake for the best generation. There's an insane amount of good games shared across the Gamecube, Dreamcast, PS2, and Xbox, that I tend to forget those consoles all came out in the same time span. also The Simpsons: Hit and Run is awesome, I never cared about the Simpsons as a kid but it's probably the best licensed game I've ever played. Replaying it at the moment

As far as TV consoles/games go... For me the early 90s is when videogames started to get GOOD. Several masterpieces from that time and the quality of the average game started increasing. Going from 1990 to 2010 it definitely feels like we got less and less masterpiece tier games over time, but the quality of games pretty steadily increased overall. Like even games like "Wii Ski" wound up being better than a hefty amount of games from previous consoles. (No for real, I had more fun 100%ing Wii Ski as a teen than I ever did playing WaveRace or its sequel growing up) The last 15 years it feels like we've had a handful of really good games, but the average game tends to be too expensive and/or bloated. Back in the 00s you didn't really care if a game was bad because you picked it up used for 10-25$ at a gamestop and the game was only 6-16 hours long. Now if a game's bad it kinda sucks because either A: it's really long, or B: you payed 40-60$ for it AND A: The developer spent millions on it or B: It's an indie dev and they poured A LOT of time into it. Teams used to be able to make something like Spongebob Squarepants: battle for bikini bottom in a year or two without need for a huge budget, and if the game was a success they could pop out a sequel within a year or two. Even nintendo (who're typically meticulous with their games) was able to release Pikmin 2 only two and a half years after the release of pikmin 1. All in all I feel the early to mid 00s was the best era of gaming for me because of the abundance of quality singleplayer titles and the seriously addictive multiplayer titles. (SC: Brood War, Wow, and Halo 1&2 were all peak multiplayer experiences. And of course smash bros, mariokart, marioparty, monkeyball, and DDR, all made for unforgettable sleepovers.)

love the style you're coming with, inspiring

OMG THE WORMS SHEEP SOUND 8:56

this is amazing man keep it up!

I had 3 golden eras and each one on a specific decade, in the 90s was 8 and 16bit consoles (i only started discovering NES tittles in the end of 2000 but now i love it a Tectoy Master System 3 Compact with Alex Kidd in the memory was my First console and Sonic 1 on SMS ws my first true love with gaming) i had a Master System a Sega Mega Drive and later in the 90 got a super Nintendo and feel in love with Donkey Kong Country 1 and Super Mario World, i never had a PS1/Saturn or a N64 but i played both in cousins houses(Megaman X5 and Crash Bandicoot 2 on PS1, Megaman 8 on Saturn and Super Mario 64 was probably the first 3D game i ever saw) later in 2005 my step brother bougth a PS2 and that was my Second era(at First we played games like Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks without a Memory Card and i even maneged to beat the campaing without it) them i feel in love with Hack'n Slashers like DMC3 God Of War II and Prince Of Persia 2 and 3, i got particularly found of the God Of War games where i maneged to get really far in their Very Hard dificulty modes before getting stuck for almost 15 years(God Of War 1 i got stuck on Are on the clone Fight, on 2 it was on the protect the translator mission) my third era was when i finaly started working for myself and bougth the PS3 from that same brother that got the PS2, since most of my spendings where gaming related i had the biggest collection of ps3 games on his console that he used only for PES and Call of Duty, he needed money and wanted to sell the console elsewhere and i just offered hin the money on sight, money on his hand the console was mine he could still play football and online matches with his friends and i could still play a LOT of many diferent styles of games In the 90s where mostly Platformers, Beat'n ups and Space Shooters like gradius the 2000 where literaly just Hack'n Slashers, the 2010's i played a lot of shit, TPS's FPS's 3D Platformers, Zelda likes (i had bougth a wii and a DS a Year prior to buying his PS3) hack'n Slashers thanks to Platinum games i got a Wii U in 2014 and it still my favorite Nintendo System (i have the Switch now but i'm sour on the thing) amzing times had on thosse systens So i could say, my Golden era was from the 3°Gen up to the beggining of the 8° i still like my PS4 but now i know the industry problens and i'm more cinical but i still love gaming with all my hearth (mostly the indie Scene nowadays)

Always love it when RU-vid recommends smaller guys like us, good work man, got a sub right here!

Duuude! I feel like we share a lot! It was hard being a Nintendo fan during the DVD player, erm, excuse me, PS2 era. I hated it as well back then but I did like the XBOX because my older cousin who I looked up to had one. The N64 was also my 1st console that I personally owned but my parents did have both an NES and SNES (as well as the OG GameBoy.

Really really great stuff! Can’t wait to see what you make next!

pls upload more this was good 🙏🏾

Instant sub! Your presentation is phenomenal

maaaan why'd you have to put on endless possibilities at the end? I was having a blast making me lunch listening to this video and now im crying🎉😂😢

MALUCO, que estilo incrível, falta esse tipo de personalidade na edição aqui no Brasil

I could tell this was a classic in the first few seconds. Great presentation, subbed and looking forward to the next one!

this editing style is so fun

You deserve more subs the vibes of the editing take me back

The editing in this is top tier. Keep up the good work dude!

AWESOME VIDEO! Although I’m growing up with this generation with gaming, I really want to play on a GameCube or SEGA Dreamcast someday.

Missed out on some of the handheld stuff, but otherwise great stuff. Been finding myself traveling back in time with some emulation streaming to crt. Nice to get some people together again for some fun and simple in person gaming.

The production of this video was amazing and there was never a dull moment, can't wait to see more of your content! :3

youtube algorithm got me on this, u got an amazing editing style, keep it uppp 🫶

Your editing skills are crazy, what a world to live in.

Killer aesthetic and video to boot! Instant sub!

with this being ur first vid in almost a year & also being your most popular , you HAVE to keep up the momentum. SUBSCRIBED

i love this video, man. thanks for taking me on a trip down memory lane.

Man i relate to you so much. Im def a nintendo fan the N64 was my first console and bo2 is my favoeite cod hands down

love the video 😂 awesome editing 14:15

amazing quality! glad there are still such creative creators out there.

The Jackson lloyd era ✨

Also dude is getting big with this video! Congrats 👏

I can’t wait to watch this when I get home

underrated fr love the vids keep up the good work

I think it's really cool that you actually played the older games when you were younger and could appreciate them. I can tell you are probably 10+ years younger than me, yet we have a lot of the same memories of our favorite eras. A lot of other RU-vidrs would be like "I never played these but they look cool" or "I tried them for this video and they're really outdated" but it's cool to see a young essayist actually have that experience!

Loving the content dude! Keep it up!!

Yo, thanks for sharing your story. This was awesome.

I love your personality and editing. You earned yourself a new subscriber!