I busted the A/V input on my PS3 because of that. Was charging the controller while playing, leaned back and it fell about 3-4 feet. Twice. Now I have to only use HDMI, as the A/V has a bend in it.
Frank fruter, that's a rough one, I was trying to get to the third night on Majora's Mask so I left the game on and fell asleep and apparently thirty minutes later my grandma cut it off while I was sleeping
having to mess with the cartridge, pushing it at different angles, blowing into it, to get it to work. The worst part was the "Game Genies" those little cartridge addons, you would put it into the NES then have to use NASA's power tools to get the damn thing out.
Morrius07 day One patch do not work like that , even if they postponed the game you would still get day 1 patches because the game was already in gold one month before
I started playing Link's Awakening DX recently and it does that. And for some reason, Nintendo did not enable save states on the virtual console release. I have them for Oracle of Seasons/Ages, but not a game where you can't actually save without a lot of hassle.
I remember being at my best friends house playing ps2 getting to the end of Tony Hawk Underground and his mother kept asking him to turn it off because it was bed time. Just as we finished the game she was EXTREMELY mad because she had been asking for a good 45 minutes and as we were saving the game she comes up and rips the plug out. We thought nothing of it seeing as she was absolutely fuming until the next morning when we woke up to find that the memory card with 15+ completed games including Simpsons hit and run, God of War, Final Fantasy X, GTA San Andreas, Etc. got COMPLETELY wiped because she unplugged it as we were saving... I've still not forgiven that wretched woman...
The worst thing in my lifetime playing games was when you had the ps2 and everytime you put a game in there you hope to God that it didn't say, " please enter a disk " or " this game is unreadable "
Auto saves kind of took the fun out of games like resident evil. I’m glad they at least kept one mode classic in the remake hopefully they do the same for the 3rd
When you go to the store and think "oh cool a game!" and buy it only to notice in small writing it said "Expansion Pack!" and you needed the original game that was never in the same store.
And destroying the disc in the progress with a good old deep circular scratch. This happened to me with my PS2 and I swear it did something to the loading times with every game since.
My ps1 got destroyed when my dads dog, ran across the room and hit pulled the controller cable while I was playing Spiderman. I'll never forget seeing the console fly for the shelf and bounce across the floor.
I remember hooking up a Sega my dad brought back from Japan. Had to connect the VCR to a COAX adapter to UHF, turn the dial to 3 on the TV, and tune the VCR to channel 95 or something to play it on the TV.
toughluck8012 I was like that for all the Jak games. Staying up till the sun came up and eating all the hot Cheetos and drinking Mountain Dew. good ol days
did tht with Megaman legends on PS1. lol only takes me just the entire day to reach the final boss.....then die. lol thts y i sometimes prefered N64 ver of the same games for free save files. Game feels short if it takes just 1 day. :P
yeah i miss em too .. luckily my retro collection fills the void , especially with the older games from the major companies which had some major packaging :-)
Well I meant more like sometimes you would rather not save because you feel a boss fight is coming up and your super low on everything, THEN IT SAVES, and your stuck trying to beat that boss with nothing.
IdealIdeas100 games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim have this feature where they might auto save after you enter/exit an area and if there's an enemy on the other side that's especially powerful you're pretty much f***ed. Load and enter open area, get 1 shot by enemy, die then rinse and repeat. Then you'll have to play the mini game of pressing the pause button inbetween the time you load the area and the time you die to reload a past save. It gets even worse when you mod the game with things like modern weapons mods that do 500+ damage.
This really only became a thing once Autosaves where introduced and devs decided "you know what would be amazing, if the player was not allowed to also choose to save"
I was playing a game and just about to beat tohe game and then I heard my mom say "we definitely won't lose power" then the power went out, you double jinxing bitch
That’s why I use a energy save power bar, so if the power goes out while your saving it’ll give you a little bit of more time for the save to finish before shutting off the console.
never being able to enjoy singleplayer games because your brother was always screeching "IT'S MY TURN!!" and/or your parents wouldn't let you rent any games from Blockbuster that weren't multiplayer
Where as I hate that most games are single player or online multiplayer.other than dumb party games theres next to no decent multiplayer games these days,I miss the old multiplayer games
how about having to have specialized "Boot" disks to push everything into "extended Memory" to squeeze out as much as you can from the 640k conventional memory pool games would use to run on. (im looking at you kings quest series LOL)
Ob. yes, QEMM was the one that was able to mama 634 kB of lower memory available with carefully calibrated driver loading that required a couple of reboots. And some DOS games (Cannon Fodder comes to mind) wouldn't even attempt to run with less than 630, even though there was megabytes of extended or expanded memory available. Yes, you also had to sort out extended and expanded memory for programs that could use it. Real mode applications could only address 1MB of memory, and 360 I think was ROM (BIOS routines, ...). So there was only 640 kB of RAM available, some of which was taken by DOS. For accessing more memory you needed to use protected mode, don't really know the details, but most programs needed memory managers, e.g. HIMEM or QEMM, that provided easier access to memory. Most programs using extra memory demanded extended memory, some were happy with expanded memory, and very few were able to use the memory directly. Windows 3, for example, wouldn't load without a memory manager. Windows 95 would, as it would wipe DOS and everything from memory and use it all directly for itself. Where Windows 3 had the "exit" option to go back to DOS, Windows 95 didn't (for obvious reasons), you had to reboot is so DOS was reloaded etc.
playing ps2 games at night in a dark room and having everyone trip over the controller cable because they couldn't see it. shoutout to wireless technology
i get this but sometimes you forget to charge it or you think your charging it so you leave it charging overnight and then you get up and find out sits not done it and you can't use it or the controller runs out of battery half way through a super important part that makes you lose the game. i'm gonna stick to wired.
And then there’s Skyrim, that game just chooses when and where to autosave by itself. There was one time my game didn’t autosave for 2 hours and I died and I just stopped for the day
Skyrim's system is literally the best. You can quick save where ever you please as often as you please. More games should do this instead of only relying on auto save.
When you got stuck in a game, you had to figure it out yourself or get a help from a friend because RUclips didnt exist so you couldnt get help from a walkthrough.
Omfg, the first silent Hill...that damn piano puzzle, I had no idea wtf e or f or anything was, it took forever, and I remember getting it by luck once and heading through the door just to die having not saved!!
11: Having to untangle an unholy mess of controller cords. The more siblings and systems you had, the struggle got exponentially worse. Nothing like having to unplug everything and look at your brother like.... HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!
Xehemoth exactly! However for a retro gamer/collector like me this still fucking exists in fact for alot of us in the hobby it does an it seriously is infuriating like "what in the actual fuck how in the name of ass did everything get tangled into what resembles a fucking circulatory system?!"
TartleOP Back on oblivion after not saving for near 7 hours it auto saved when when I left the players home and since it was daylight and I was a vampire it killed me within a second..
I remember having an attachment for my old game boy that had a lens and shined light on it. It was big and clunky but it served it's purpose. It did however need it's own batteries... 😒
Lichtgestalt Kruemel yup. Get off the tv they said. However, it was all history after i saved up money mowing yards and selling candy to make the money to buy an 80 dollar tube tv. Which my parents took from me when theirs broke. Was soo sad to see my super nintendo without a tv. Luckily someone had 1 in a trash pile a month later down the street. It had no power button. I litterally stuck my finger inside the hole where the power button used to be 2 hit the button inside of it
David Daivdson, I got my uncles OLD tv, pretty sure if was a Magnavox or something, but I remember it had a little yellow stick that was behind a little door that folded down on the base of the tv and you had to use that to tune the channels to which all dials TO TUNE were also behind the little door. I think they did it like that was cause so there were no tuning knobs protruding out the front. I got the tv cause my uncle broke one of the dials cause he lost the little sick and he tried using something else. The stick had like 2 or 3 little prongs on it, the whole thing wasn't much bigger than match stick. Plus the tv only had like 8 channel BUTTONS peroid, you couldn't of watched cable on it if you wanted to.
A problem that I got solved was wired controllers since one of my cousins tripped over a cable and made my PS2 crash into many pieces so thankful for wireless controllers
We used to have games with no pause menu and now we have games with overlays that dont actually pause the game. We used to only have to save at certain points and now we have games that use auto save so we cant revert to an old save to a fix a mistake.
or the memory card ran out of juice and the data were lost (cant remember what device got those kind of memory cartridges with some little battery keeping the progresss till it died out).
Don't get me back to that... Installing Sims 2 was a pain in the ***. Got all of the expansions for that game and it took forever and even longer when - like you said - there was this tiny scratch or dirt particle on a disk. At some point I was so fed up by it, that I've downloaded a pirated version which installed everything at once with the help of a bat-file and changed the whole thing to use my own original keys. Since then: 20mins of installation from a single DVD. ;D
Minagy for people with shitty internet that can still happen. It happens especially on macs because the computer doesn’t check if you have disk space available
I've never come across an older game that had any game-breaking bugs, probably because companies actually had to make sure that there weren't any, because they couldn't afford to use updates like a crutch, like they can now...
Updates and patches are predominately a good thing in this age. Conversely, the devs are being pushed harder and harder by their publishers to release these games within a certain time frame (look at Christmas). I'm looking at you, fucking Ubisoft.
Yeah, they can be good, but not when they are relied on like they are, there is a problem with how developers are being treated, sure, but I don't think punishing the consumer by forcing big updates and such on them is the answer. The ways things currently are would only benefit the publishers, and even then, I don't think it is most of the time. There has to be a better solution out there.
I remember stickers "hugs not drugs" on arcade machine's. I always thought as a kid. Just cause it rhymes doesn't mean it make sense, the hugging eventually led me to a dealer.
i was playing ow and i just here my sis-pause the game and let's go get smoe food. me:I cant pause, just order! sis:yes you can it's not like the bots won't follow the rules.... me:these are real people around the wrold *puts team chat on* you suck widow blah blah balh
Only having one tv that was shared by the whole family so you were limited to short window of game time....and usually it took longer to get to the save point.
Messing with AV cables and composite cables. Remember having to connect up to 5 plugs? White and red for your stereo sound, yellow for video if not HD, or RGB cables for HD. Now we have HDMI, which gives us one cable to rule them all.
Instead of a phone interrupting my game, when I turn on the microwave it lags the absolute shit out of whatever game I'm playing and I have no clue why
wow. that sounds like it sucks. my advice is either: buy a new microwave, try and cook more with your oven/stove, or start making plans on posted notes for microwaving things before or after you start gaming.
bje1031 If your wifi box or router is close to your microwave then get further away, because the microwave sends a lot of some types of waves that interfere.
Well I heared that Microwave and wireless LAN use the same frequency, the microwave is just much stronger so it can heat up water. Plug your game into your router with a cable and the problem is solved.
MrNayru this is true, well it is basically cheating, your just paying real money to cheat, that is it. Sad actually how companies are doing this and can get away with it.
I cannot imagine what could eliminate lag entirely. Computers still have to communicate with eachother. Devises plugged in, such as your mouse, still has to communicate with YOUR computer. Distances between people or servers are always going to be a thing. So idk how you would ever have near instant communication on both sides of the connection to allow virtually no lag whatsoever.
@@shawnwolf5961 we can't get rid of lag completely but playing on a U.S. East server when you're in Australia or vice-versa and getting only 40 ping is the dream for many.
@@shawnwolf5961 - Well, electrons travelling with a certain speed. Light on the other hand... Also yes, lag is ethernal, but technology is evolving much faster than human senses. Sooner or later we will have tech that feels instant because the delay will be less than what people can notice.
Remember having to plug everything in through Cable so when it messed up on the back of the television u couldn't just switch to av or HDMI u had to stand there and wiggle the cable and the port or have another TV LMFAO
Or when you see that the ps2 disc is beyond function but you took that fucker, rubbed it on your shirt, and plopped it in, and waited about four min before the playstation logo popped up
When you have like 20 game cases and your brother doesn't follow the basic rule of "put the game back in its original casing" so it either rests on top or next to the console and gets ruined or you have to go through a massive scavenger hunt through your games to find the disk you are looking for.
I lost one of my ps2 memory cards when my family traveled overseas. I found it in a random suitcase like five years later and got all my saves back. It didn't mean much in retrospect because I played them all again, but it made me chuckle
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
For me it was playing Pokemon fire red, my friend wanted to give it a try so he created a new character... Which deleted my old character. RIP lvl 82 Charizard
I had a similar experience but it was with Gold on GBC. I was obsessed with Pokemon Gold and wanted to catch all the Pokemon and I got so damn close (only needed like 10 more or so for a complete pokedex). My best friend at the time wanted to borrow the game and help me get the last pokemon cause he had some on his Silver/Crystal carts so I gave it to him. The following day I went back to my friends to get my game. I turned it on and the game only asked me to start a new game. I thought it was a glitch so I restarted the game and noticed a window pop up before the new game one. THE BATTERY IN THE GAME DIED! That was one of the most soul crushing experiences I had when i was 12, I still remember it like it was yesterday. 300+ hours gone like they never existed
+GerryMOTO For one, now games even with DLC cost less than a single game back then (roughly 90~100$). And that's not to mention how much money gamers spent at the arcades. Second, you'd be surprised how many games had various microtransactions back then as well, from smaller ones, like designing parts of the game so that you MUST buy a guide or official magazine to clear certain points (blowing up a specific unmarked wall in Zelda 1 or the whole Castlevania 2 tornado thing) to bigger ones like additional discs with bonus content and expansions (which even costed more than DLC since it had to be sold on a separate physical disc). Third, the most evil money-grubbing dickmove of all, satellite and cable game services... an obscure take on online play, through either satellite broadcast (Nintendo Satellaview) or cable TV (Sega Channel), both of which were not very good, both time restricted, meaning you could only play certain games during specific time sof the day, and the worst part, the cost for said services was astronomically high. The Sega Channel was a cable service, so no hardware was needed, but you had to pay a 25$ activation fee and a 15$ monthly subscription PER GAME (which changed to 20$ for all games later on), while the Satellaview was an add-on that costed around 140~180$ and had a 30~40$ monthly subscription for all games. As you might have guessed, it didn't last really long and the game library for both was very low.
Lol, no. You're ignoring inflation, mixing various game systems, not mentioning a date and adding arcade players (?! wtf) into the mix. Also, I don't think the OP was talking about money but since you are... Games, and especially consoles, were globally cheaper yesterday compared to today and this will be true in the future as well as long as inflation rises and if the base game price doesn't drop below 40$. You can do a simple google research to learn about inflation and prices of games in time. Not to mention we're even luckier nowadays as we have sales, rental services, second hand markets and even media libraries that lends software/games for free. All this makes it possible to play almost any game that ever came out with any budget. On a side note : DLC is the only piece of shitty software that doesn't have much, if any, variation in price unless you get it bundled with a specific edition of the game which makes it even shittier ( in rare cases) like Darksiders 2 and it's updated edition that is more jerky and buggy. Which means that most console games out there with DLC have an expiration date on part of their content that will be locked up forever once the service selling it goes down or decides to disable/delete the hosted data. Even if you're willing to pay for it.
Now you have 1 CD but instead of just inserting the disk and playing, you have to wait while it updates (and even a brand new game will have like a day 1 patch because they rushed the game and use the first buyers as free beta testers) and even then you might have to jump through even more hoops like making you sign up for something online before it lets you play. Then there's free DLC that comes with the game: "You got this exclusive item. You just have to go to this website, create an account, confirm your email address and fetch three goats from the well in the woods and drink milk from all of them, except the third one because he's evil, to prove you're human and get the item in-game".
Old games didn't need dlc and they couldn't just add new content, meaning gamed were published FINISHED and no microtransactions. Also manual saving is fun to me. So.
Several games did release add-on content though. The difference was that it was actually added content, not just stuff they stripped from the base game and locked behind a paywall. The most notable one I remember was GTA 1, which had a London expansion pack released on a second disc. I also remember the command and conquer series had a few on PC. I personally like games that use autosave, but also allow manual saving. Manual saving is a great way to experience all endings to a game with multiple ending scenarios.
Only ea does this today they usually fix bugs when they find them back then you just had to deal with it yourself also Holiday themed stuff some games even give you free stuff on you're b day I prefer modern days
I remember going on roadtrips with my family. I had the Gameboy Color with light plug-in thing so I could play in the dark. Then I got the GBA, then GBA SP. I remember young me being amazed at the Gameboy Advanced SP backlit screen. Man games have come a long way.
I ordered a front light for my original GBA on eBay using my mom's stolen credit card Got beat when she found out but it was totally worth it to show it off at recess before the SP was a a thing, even though I lost half the screws in the process and held the poor thing together with tape
AvengedKyle i had the screen magnifying and lamp thingy for the original game boy. worked like a charm, but it sucked the batteries dry in like i dont really remember 2 hours maybe? and those were FOUR AA batteries.
agbond003 I miss the days of couch co op and the like. Its not the same, sure you can still play with friends but what about high fiving and things like that when you guys completed a hard level.
Interesting fact. I had a wireless housephone and modern internet. Until last year when we scrapped out housephone altogether, when the house phone rang, it would interfere with the wireless router and cut internet. We scrapped it after we realized that we were just paying a utility whose sole purpose was making us lose internet connection to telemarketers and scammers.
@@sin5946 Nope, that wont fix it, the channel is not the same as the frequency, it might lower the affect, but it wont fix it, the problem is that the frequencies most wireless phone systems use line up exactly with the frequencies used by wireless networking (either 2.4 Ghz or 5.1 Ghz), I had the same issue many years ago back when phones were still a thing one had in their house.. and not in their pocket.
My best friends little sister would always use her tongue to make the games work. Not sure how, but she'd lick all over the CIS and cartridge bottom. Then it'd work. Looking back it made no sense. lol
In my opinion, having your memory card get corrupted is worse than having it get lost. Because if you lose your memory card, there's a chance you might find it again, but if the memory card gets corrupted, then that's it. All your saves are gone. Forever. Start over.
That's the worst! That happened so many times to me because I always turned my systems off wrong when I was younger. But the worst time that happened was when it happened to my GameCube memory card.... I miss you animal crossing save... the amount of hours... the amount of bells... all gone.... and all my chao save data from sonic adventure two! Oh man the feels....
pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
Oh, I remember when games would come with a freaking sweet instruction book. Some had color pictures and they were so cool. Lol. Some of them had that telephone number that you could call for help but you had to pay per minute usually to talk to a "PRO" gamer. Thankfully I didn't have to call anyone. :p
Yeah... the non-existent instructions are more like a problem for old-school gamers who still game now. Some of those manuals had a lot of work put into them and you could tell.
Those instruction books were awsome especially because most of them had note sections so you could easily remember something specific for the game like passwords and glitches
The real struggle is when you complete a game, go to bed, get up the next morning to go play it some more, just to realize/figure out your save battery died. Has happened to me way too many times...
I remember when Cheat Code Central went around. It made finding cheats so damn easy it was great! But the adds were like lime wire and give your computer aids.
hardly... little to no games have "cheat codes" anymore. back when CCC.com was a thing EVERY game had codes, or hidden unlocks, or actual ways to cheat in the game. nowadays youtube is far superior. but yes... the site is still operational.
I got Kingdom Hearts 2 for my birthday but I didn't have a memory card and neither of my older sisters (utter bitches) would let me save the damn thing, so I was stuck playing the Roxas prologue more than I should have, it got to the point where I thought this was all the game was and guy on the box (Sora the actual main guy) didn't exist. Thankfully when I finally got a memory card (or i just stole the memory card from one of them) I got to see the rest of the game after 4 hours (or longer I was really bad at games back then I had never completed one myself before KH2) of finally completing the tutorial part of the game...
I play the Sims 2, 2 hours of character creation, house decorating and career advancement, while saving, the power black out. I had to reformat the card as it was corrupted. All the saves! My NFSU2 with all Level 3 parts gone along with countless JRPG game saves.
Benjamin Tan In December 2004 I received a Holiday Demo disc which contains a demo for Viewtiful Joe 2. Which erases all the data on the memory cards inserted. I lost all my Socom data and was pissed.
My brother and I finished resident evil 1 (ps1) without a memory card (we didn't had one). When we died, we had to start the game all over again. We were so afraid of that game, that we couldn't play it after 6pm. Those were great days!
I remember before once I saw a mouse using lasers I seriously thought "Oh technology is improving, I can't see the ball anymore, they hid it better now."
let's go back even further, remember the 1-900 numbers that charged 2-3$ a minute to get game hints? The nes used to put the numbers in the game booklets.
+Daniel Catalan same but was on a written piece of paper and it was for Godzilla Destroy all monsters melee on the gamecube. Helped unlock every monster and city.
I feel so old when people talk about CDRom like they're ancient, I remember floppies, worse, I remember loading games from a tape, sometimes having to wait 30+ minutes just for the game to load... load "boulder dash" Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee BEEP!Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee BEEP! /cue screeching noises
Number three was a tearjerker for me. Me and my cousin when we were kids were obsessed with the game Pokémon channel (I mean like over 2 years of progress) everything unlocked and we had EVERYTHING then we got a new dog and he chewed up my memory card. I refused to look at that dog for a week.
damn, i feel your pain bro, when i was like playing roblox in infinity anime, i had like one of the strongest forms for example "fire dragon" it was like 15b stats or above, and i forgot to save it, when i came back the next day, all i see in my stats litteraly says 0....lol
I had a Game Boy Advance game called Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team. I spent five years on that game. I got so far. And than one day my little brother decided that "he wanted to play" and deleted my save so he could "start his own profile" I was livid. Than of course I got the "calm down it's just a game" from my mother, which did NOT help. She just couldn't understand the pain.
Not 100% true, believe it or not my parents played a lot of games back in the day. My dad usally showed me a game or i saw him play one and i asked if i could try that, this way i was introduced to some of my favorite video games of all time like Yoshi's Island, No One Lives Forever, Dungeon Siege and Baldur's Gate. If it wasn't for my parents i'm sure that i wouldn't love video games as much as i do today.
Till this day the only exception I know is my mom, she hella often tries to convince me to have all nighter, having a lan party or just play a hotseat game, for us it's not rare playing Diablo 2/Torchlight 2 , HoM&M series and similar games till 4AM lol.
Great video as always. Lol. This nostalgia. haha. The days when that mouse ball gets filled with sticky dirt, I dont know why I miss those all of a sudden.
Not unless you were playing on a GameCube and had a "16x" memory card. I swear, those things did not run out of space. But it would be annoying when you'd start up a game and get a message that your memory card is corrupted and you had to reformat the entire thing.
Aimela I dont know about the GC ones, but I know that with the PS1/2 mem cards, you just had to figure out what save was corrupted and just delete that one save, and then the corrupted data
Charles Guillory I was playing COD World At War for Wii, and I was walk around in campaign, and got stuck on some barrels. after about five minute og failing to get unstuck, I decided to restart to last save. It autosaved whole I was stuck in the barrels.
I've saved Skyrim just second before fatal blow... after dying for 15 times trying to avoid it by dodging, blocking, potions and stuff, I had to use tgm...
Loosing a CD key. Back in the day before cross platform DRM like Steam has. Oh, and having to have the CD physically in the tray to even launch the game. While I enjoy having hard copies in the event digital copies are pulled from stores due to licensing running out, I do like the ability to buy a game, and then play it on any of my computers without having to fuss with CDs and especially CDs that tracked and limited the number of times a key could be used, preventing you from installing a game you own on your own computer.
Yes! That last one got my friend, once. He'd bought a new game right before coming to my house. He was too excited to wait until he got home to play it, so we installed it on my computer in the mean time. When he tried to install it at home, later that day? Guess what? DENIED! LOL
Worst thing that happened to me was saving a game with a lot of hours put into it, then a power outage happened while it was still saving. Corrupted! D:
I was once playing the original Fable, and I had been playing for quite a few hours without saving. My Dad said I should probably save, so I did, and literally a few seconds after the saving had finished, the power went out :D
I once was playing Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, I was grinding until I could beat an enemy in one hit. I was already halfway through the game (>56 hours) and when I was saving, it said this in red text game file has been corrupted this save file can no longer be used. I turned off the GBA and turned it back on. It had this code where if a file was corrupted it will delete the file. That was not the only bad part, all the files couldn’t save and corrupted every time I tried to save. I even tried starting a new file and it still corrupted. I had to buy a new copy.
armgidion games having season passes doesn't automatically mean that the game was incomplete most really games are complete and the season pass adds longevity to the game
The games of today have more than 100x the content, just because some missions, skins, or cars get locked out doesn't mean you have to whine. So ungrateful....
So, Im ungrateful for having to pay for more things on top of $60? your usage of ungrateful doesn't seem to align with what you're saying. It's differen't when they give them for free, but not charge their players/fan base.
By far the worst thing I remember was scratches on CDs before games could be fully downloaded. If there was a scratch on that, the game was almost certainly ruined.
My brother did that to me so many goddamn times in morrowind. I had like 3 characters going and if i left it on he'd always save over the wrong one. Little bastard.
My sister deleted my Spiro 2 Ripto's Rage file (PS1) when i was 84% out of 100 percent complete. was pretty ruff but i eventually got the perma fireball that comes with 100% completion on a new file. I will be 30 years old this year and i still bring this up to her when she is actin the fool.
Reyvyn Nightveil it was even worse when u played games that actually required the analog sticks , or even worse the turbo button on controllers that broke games
True! Remember the first "Driver" where you had two buttons for accelerating? One to go smooth and one to just put the pedal to the metal because L2 and R2 were actually just buttons? :D oh and you didnt accelerate with R2/RT like nowadays
"Immersion is important" No, "FUN" is most important. whether that fun is dying repeatedly to the skeletons outside the first area in dark souls and working out how to beat them or playing an easy puzzle game.
The worst is cables that are just a tad bit too short to be comfortable, so you gotta be leaning forward to play your plug in play and then ur back starts to hurt so you get comfortable, and then you unplug the system....
But was that really a bad thing? Sure the game not working and needing to do this sucked, but looking back at it seems kind of cool. Especially when you realize that all of us, as a whole ended up finding out about it. Probably the first crowd sourced anything, in a day when crowd sourcing anything was impossible.
It was bad when you had much younger siblings who see you do it then try to do it themselves when you weren't looking and end up spitting all over the inside of the cartridge. Keeping it away from them was a task because my parents would always bring the cartridge back out for them to play with while I wasn't around. Trying to teach them not to blow spit into it and how to do it right didn't always work either. I don't remember it harming the cartridge or the console, but it wasn't pleasant handling the violated cartridge after.
Once or twice each year, I go into my closet and find old Nintendo cartridges and just blow in them for about half an hour. All I care about are the memories....
if you blow into it, you are putting moisture/spit from your breath on the cartridge contacts. If you needed to do that (well, it wouldn't do anything anyway) use a can of compressed air instead.
When your controller had a cord and you accidentally walked by it and pulled the whole console down and hitting the ground smh.
I busted the A/V input on my PS3 because of that. Was charging the controller while playing, leaned back and it fell about 3-4 feet. Twice. Now I have to only use HDMI, as the A/V has a bend in it.
Yeah, my cousin knocked he's ps2 about 5 feet that thing survived lol.
PixzelByPixzel I knew a kid that had his nephew do that to his PS2 and the disc tray snapped right off when it hit the ground lol
Oh, the memories lol.
Or if you had a pet they would get caught by the cord or chew it off lol.
leaving the NES on during school, then coming home to find your parents turned it off....
This is way to funny hahaha :)))
frank fruter Always happened to my gamecube lol
Frank fruter, that's a rough one, I was trying to get to the third night on Majora's Mask so I left the game on and fell asleep and apparently thirty minutes later my grandma cut it off while I was sleeping
Happened to me 3 times on my PS2 while I was playing Dragon Quest 8. I've played the remake ever since.
having to mess with the cartridge, pushing it at different angles, blowing into it, to get it to work. The worst part was the "Game Genies" those little cartridge addons, you would put it into the NES then have to use NASA's power tools to get the damn thing out.
Biggest problem now: microtransactions , overpriced DLC, Season pass etc...
or needing a code for certain in game things........FFS
day one patches they could've postponed the game for a few days to fix.
Morrius07 day One patch do not work like that , even if they postponed the game you would still get day 1 patches because the game was already in gold one month before
Add "People who complain about everything" to that list
taksuya so true :^/
You forgot the times when some games only had a "save and exit" option instead of a "save and continue" option. I'm looking at you Diablo 2.
That's because it's disappointed in you for not playing hardcore mode.
or because you didn't loot the countess like there's no tomorrow. My fav part of this game so far.
I started playing Link's Awakening DX recently and it does that. And for some reason, Nintendo did not enable save states on the virtual console release. I have them for Oracle of Seasons/Ages, but not a game where you can't actually save without a lot of hassle.
Still a thing in "My Summer Car"
@@iwanttocomplain nope, there's nothing wrong with not playing on hardcore mode.
When a parent says pause it but ur on a online game
you explain why you cant then they say oh ok, pause it
Zombie that happens to me all the time when I play clash Royale
yep. so you hit pause and someone kills you and you auto respawn thanks to force respawn and it's basically a murder train on your ass.
Zombie riiiiiiight
Zombie someone finally understands that bs parents say
I remember being at my best friends house playing ps2 getting to the end of Tony Hawk Underground and his mother kept asking him to turn it off because it was bed time. Just as we finished the game she was EXTREMELY mad because she had been asking for a good 45 minutes and as we were saving the game she comes up and rips the plug out. We thought nothing of it seeing as she was absolutely fuming until the next morning when we woke up to find that the memory card with 15+ completed games including Simpsons hit and run, God of War, Final Fantasy X, GTA San Andreas, Etc. got COMPLETELY wiped because she unplugged it as we were saving...
I've still not forgiven that wretched woman...
man, that sucks... still have such amazing memories of those games though!
I..cannot fathom such a loss
I've lost whole games at a time but that just sounds like a personal hell T.T
gg, rip in peace
How could she know? you better forgive her.
forgiveness is for the weak. hold that grudge!
This is the internet, where people get blamed irrationally by irrational people. Get your preachy ass silenced, because nobody's gonna listen anyway.
The worst thing in my lifetime playing games was when you had the ps2 and everytime you put a game in there you hope to God that it didn't say, " please enter a disk " or " this game is unreadable "
OverXRun still happens to me
When the red smoke came up, you know something fucked up.
Happened to me a lot in the past :(
i used to think if the dots went a certain way, the disk would not read
the sound effects still haunt me at night....
With autosave, you can mess up hard and can't go back.
Artificial Idiot unless if you have more slots for autosave and also you are able to save the game too at any point you want.
That's why you turn autosave off sometimes
The autosave function only saves at safe times. You never need to worry about a compromising position with this.
That's a side effect of auto save.
Auto saves kind of took the fun out of games like resident evil. I’m glad they at least kept one mode classic in the remake hopefully they do the same for the 3rd
My moms logic: if I buy something online all my money will be stolen.
SebSOP now I've heard It all
SebSOP LOL
Oh my gosh, I hate that.
she's not completely wrong lol
Same..
When you go to the store and think "oh cool a game!" and buy it only to notice in small writing it said "Expansion Pack!" and you needed the original game that was never in the same store.
That happened to me with the original SIMS game
This really confused me as a kid
Someone catching the controller cord on their foot or something and yanking the console right off of what you have it sitting on.
My anxiety spiked just reading this...
And destroying the disc in the progress with a good old deep circular scratch. This happened to me with my PS2 and I swear it did something to the loading times with every game since.
Trying to pause the game when both players have the button and it's just like
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
JUST PRESS IT
I'M NOT TOUCHING THE BUTTON ANYMORE.
My ps1 got destroyed when my dads dog, ran across the room and hit pulled the controller cable while I was playing Spiderman. I'll never forget seeing the console fly for the shelf and bounce across the floor.
Hell yeah
Waking up your parents with the PS2 start up at 2:30 am.
gotta mute that shit, lol
@@DragonfruitEdits fucking spot on
Hey youngblood, you mistaking the ps2 for the ps1.
@@kineticstarno the ps1 is BWAAAA NI NI NI NI DAAAAAA
Nothing compared to the Xbox one x start up
Tuning a tv station to the console and having parents get mad that the tv doesn't work afterwards.
Tathagata Buddha story of my childhood
That's literally my nan and the WII now...
I remember hooking up a Sega my dad brought back from Japan. Had to connect the VCR to a COAX adapter to UHF, turn the dial to 3 on the TV, and tune the VCR to channel 95 or something to play it on the TV.
Tathagata Buddha it was horrible when the tv remote was the only way to use auxiliary channels xD
hahahhahaha lol
When you didn't own a memory card so you would always try to beat the game in one sitting 😂😂😭
jak9777 I left my Playstation on all night
jak9777 lmao
jak9777 lol ya I had a 8mb ps2 card and it was full so I would try to get through jak 3 at one sitting lol
toughluck8012 I was like that for all the Jak games. Staying up till the sun came up and eating all the hot Cheetos and drinking Mountain Dew. good ol days
did tht with Megaman legends on PS1. lol only takes me just the entire day to reach the final boss.....then die. lol thts y i sometimes prefered N64 ver of the same games for free save files. Game feels short if it takes just 1 day. :P
just remember being a kid and my friend running in with a folded piece of paper with 5 cheat codes and we all freaked out.
"buy me some chips and the canteen and I'll let you copy them" heard that shit so many times 😂
I many little slips of paper or whole notebooks full of them!
"Losing internet connection when the phone rings"
Still happens to me. Venezuela.
Daniel Gonzalez ahahahhahahha lol
poor guy
Same (South Africa)
Well that's because you have a government that turned your land into a shithole country.
sorry, man
SniperXY 97 excuse me wtf
I actually miss game manuals. It's what you took the bathroom before cell phones.
robertdwilkinson88 ...
Before cell phones, I just pooped.
yea, back then bathroom literature was actually a delima, game manual or porn. now its pretty much just porn.
yeah i miss em too .. luckily my retro collection fills the void , especially with the older games from the major companies which had some major packaging :-)
nothing like rubbing one out to a crash bandicoot prima guide xD
Turning your tv to channel 3 so your games would work
DFeucht32 ahahahaaa true
Or 4. Lol
I dont get it... can someone explain xd
I still don’t know why that works but it’s true, and we somehow all knew to do that.
@@budj1 in the old days u had 2 put ur tv to channel 3 to play the game , it wouldn't show up on the t.v. til u put the t.v. on channel 3.
When you put a disc in the PS2 and wished for luck
resurfacing ps1 discs to 50 times to get a game to work again... kinda... w/ no sound
...aaaand
Disc read error.
worst optics ever... you could literally kill it with a written cd and few hours of game...
THE ps2 BLUE DISKs Curse them all
I also had one where it would read dvd disks vertically only and cd roms horizontally only.
When the N64 cartridge was dirty and you'd have to blow into it until you were 5 seconds away from passing out
Nes cartridges too, I found that a worn in basting brush that was super clean worked really well
good times, good times
Which did precisely nothing. It has been proven
Blow dont spit
tolga1cool
fuck you, let live my life in blissful ignorance
Idk, Autosave can be a blessing and a curse.
IdealIdeas100 yep I can tell some $/-/!Ts about to go down when an auto save happens.
Well I meant more like sometimes you would rather not save because you feel a boss fight is coming up and your super low on everything, THEN IT SAVES, and your stuck trying to beat that boss with nothing.
Or if there is an awesome moment that you want to replay.
IdealIdeas100 games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim have this feature where they might auto save after you enter/exit an area and if there's an enemy on the other side that's especially powerful you're pretty much f***ed. Load and enter open area, get 1 shot by enemy, die then rinse and repeat. Then you'll have to play the mini game of pressing the pause button inbetween the time you load the area and the time you die to reload a past save. It gets even worse when you mod the game with things like modern weapons mods that do 500+ damage.
IdealIdeas100 Thats why there exist Manual Saves.
when games don't have a are u sure option accidentally presses the new game button
Golden Dragons freakin zelda on snes....it took for ever to boot up and when you get to the main menu u accidently hit new game.....freakin hated that
Golden Dragons WE'RE ALL LOOKING AT YOU SONIC GENERATIONS
Golden Dragons omfg so true
Golden Dragons stil happens today
This really only became a thing once Autosaves where introduced and devs decided "you know what would be amazing, if the player was not allowed to also choose to save"
When siblings went to save their game and overwrote your save file...
Boy oh boy I remember that happening to me...
Happen to me
Happen to me 2 dame that make me sad and so mad :(
Happened to me on my Nintendo Wii and all my Lego Star Wars stuff. Literally, couldn't stop crying.
Oh my god a hated that
RIGHT WHEN YOURE ABOUT TO SAVE AND THE POWER GOES OUT
I was playing a game and just about to beat tohe game and then I heard my mom say "we definitely won't lose power" then the power went out, you double jinxing bitch
That’s why I use a energy save power bar, so if the power goes out while your saving it’ll give you a little bit of more time for the save to finish before shutting off the console.
My sibling did that when I was playing Harvest Moon, I was so mad.
WHEN YOU'RE SAVING AND THE POWER GOES OUT SO THEN YOU HAVE TO START *COMPLETELY* OVER BECAUSE YOUR SAVE FILE'S CORRUPTED
I feel that pain.
Once my friend stole my ps2 memory card. He wasnt my friend the next day
lol
happened to me too bruh.
My cousin stole my PS2 memory card once. I can't "un-cousin" him though.
Foxx 22 I had that same experience... I was so pissed
Foxx 22 as an April fools day prank my brother hid my power cables so I got back at him by using window seal to stick his phone to the floor
never being able to enjoy singleplayer games because your brother was always screeching "IT'S MY TURN!!" and/or your parents wouldn't let you rent any games from Blockbuster that weren't multiplayer
dafamsid Redbox asked Blockbuster if they wanted to buy em'.
They said no. and now they're six feet under!
😂
Garuu Spike omg I can relate
Garuu Spike ugh I hated that and they were always like the takes yo much power and the system will break IT STILL WORKS TO THIS DAY YOU IDIOT GRANDPA
Where as I hate that most games are single player or online multiplayer.other than dumb party games theres next to no decent multiplayer games these days,I miss the old multiplayer games
Farmer Dingus
Iirc Blockbuster also got an offer to buy Netflix for some 600k, and they refused
MS-DOS gaming where you have to remember which sound card you have every time you install a game, and also which IRQ, DMA you set those jumpers to.
how about having to have specialized "Boot" disks to push everything into "extended Memory" to squeeze out as much as you can from the 640k conventional memory pool games would use to run on. (im looking at you kings quest series LOL)
Ob. yes, QEMM was the one that was able to mama 634 kB of lower memory available with carefully calibrated driver loading that required a couple of reboots. And some DOS games (Cannon Fodder comes to mind) wouldn't even attempt to run with less than 630, even though there was megabytes of extended or expanded memory available. Yes, you also had to sort out extended and expanded memory for programs that could use it.
Real mode applications could only address 1MB of memory, and 360 I think was ROM (BIOS routines, ...). So there was only 640 kB of RAM available, some of which was taken by DOS. For accessing more memory you needed to use protected mode, don't really know the details, but most programs needed memory managers, e.g. HIMEM or QEMM, that provided easier access to memory. Most programs using extra memory demanded extended memory, some were happy with expanded memory, and very few were able to use the memory directly.
Windows 3, for example, wouldn't load without a memory manager. Windows 95 would, as it would wipe DOS and everything from memory and use it all directly for itself. Where Windows 3 had the "exit" option to go back to DOS, Windows 95 didn't (for obvious reasons), you had to reboot is so DOS was reloaded etc.
You don't need the mouse driver you know. Unless it's a mouse game...
Oh those graphics card hardware conflicts were a nightmare.
That's what I'm talking about. Sound blaster 16, port settings lol if you don't set it you've got no sound
playing ps2 games at night in a dark room and having everyone trip over the controller cable because they couldn't see it. shoutout to wireless technology
Beautiful isn't it
wireless....0% baterry = useless
i get this but sometimes you forget to charge it or you think your charging it so you leave it charging overnight and then you get up and find out sits not done it and you can't use it or the controller runs out of battery half way through a super important part that makes you lose the game. i'm gonna stick to wired.
I forgot all about that. The controller would get disconnected, too.
Don't you hate it in class when a girl says "video games are a waste of time" but you know damn well she watches 6 hours of Netflix a day
or spending hours on makeup
or anime or my little pony
Teh Submarine especially on there periods
Emre Yapıcı i like anime
i do both
The number of times I destroyed my PS2 by tripping over the damn 10 ft controller cord is ridiculous
Ethan or someone passes by and does it for u😥
My PS2 is 16 Years Old, still working.
I Broke my PS2 like 6 Times tripping too....
I think that could apply to any console game controller with those cords.
This only happened to me 2 times and it was so loud both times. But it somehow survived
atleast you don't have to worry of your controller running out of batery
And then there’s Skyrim, that game just chooses when and where to autosave by itself. There was one time my game didn’t autosave for 2 hours and I died and I just stopped for the day
Skyrim's system is literally the best. You can quick save where ever you please as often as you please. More games should do this instead of only relying on auto save.
@@jep1st Not on console.
I remember I went to check and it had like 50 autosaves and I was wondering if it ever overwritten any of them.
my dad's logic: if it's downloaded, it's a virus!
but i understand him because he's like 62 y/o
i can relate
mine too
M3RKPH4NT0M If I search for something on my computer and the result is not what is expected, it's hacked!
M3RKPH4NT0M same xD
"Your memory card is corrupted and must be formatted"
Words that tore me apart
When you stare blankly at the console in a blind rage....
the last gasps of a broken man!
RiP 400 hours of ToS gameplay ;-;
one of the lucky one's i see
Bailey Woodroffe don't use the wii for gamecube games problem solved
When you got stuck in a game, you had to figure it out yourself or get a help from a friend because RUclips didnt exist so you couldnt get help from a walkthrough.
Dark Fire Nintendo had a tip line, but it was a toll call.
I love those old online document walkthroughs.
You know the ones; with the ascii art titles!
TheOneLichemperor gamefaqs are forever.
and it's a timing level too
Omfg, the first silent Hill...that damn piano puzzle, I had no idea wtf e or f or anything was, it took forever, and I remember getting it by luck once and heading through the door just to die having not saved!!
11: Having to untangle an unholy mess of controller cords. The more siblings and systems you had, the struggle got exponentially worse.
Nothing like having to unplug everything and look at your brother like.... HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!
Xehemoth exactly! However for a retro gamer/collector like me this still fucking exists in fact for alot of us in the hobby it does an it seriously is infuriating like "what in the actual fuck how in the name of ass did everything get tangled into what resembles a fucking circulatory system?!"
you just helped me find my crash bandicoot I check in my old final fantasy disk case and I found it thanks
LyricsManBat Killa cant wait for the remake in a few days!!!
There are two kinds of people in this world:
People that put games back in there cases (where they belong)
and people like you.
aaron s i do the first one
lol
LyricsManBat Killa I left my Final Fantasy 7 disc 2 disc in my Crash Bandicoot case.
When you save right before your death,Then you have to restart the game.
Happened to me in ArmA xD
Fallout New Vegas... I saved one second before I die. And that was after 50hours of gameplay and I always overwrote the old saves.
TartleOP Back on oblivion after not saving for near 7 hours it auto saved when when I left the players home and since it was daylight and I was a vampire it killed me within a second..
TartleOP gutted
TartleOP no no no bro oh god
You could tell if a scratched game was gonna work or not depending on how long it took the PlayStation logo to clear
I remember having an attachment for my old game boy that had a lens and shined light on it. It was big and clunky but it served it's purpose. It did however need it's own batteries... 😒
Rubber banding book lights was the Jerry rigged way haha 😄
its*
its*
@@PANZERFAUST90 hey guess what no one cares so fuck off.
I had one of those ! Ah, the good old days !
Mine did too!
Not having your own TV and playing "A Link to the Past" inbetween the few hours your parents didnt wanna watch TV....
Lichtgestalt Kruemel omg I still face that
Lichtgestalt Kruemel OMG yes. That was an issue for me a lot later. I had my own PC though
Totally understand
Lichtgestalt Kruemel yup. Get off the tv they said. However, it was all history after i saved up money mowing yards and selling candy to make the money to buy an 80 dollar tube tv. Which my parents took from me when theirs broke. Was soo sad to see my super nintendo without a tv. Luckily someone had 1 in a trash pile a month later down the street. It had no power button. I litterally stuck my finger inside the hole where the power button used to be 2 hit the button inside of it
David Daivdson, I got my uncles OLD tv, pretty sure if was a Magnavox or something, but I remember it had a little yellow stick that was behind a little door that folded down on the base of the tv and you had to use that to tune the channels to which all dials TO TUNE were also behind the little door. I think they did it like that was cause so there were no tuning knobs protruding out the front. I got the tv cause my uncle broke one of the dials cause he lost the little sick and he tried using something else. The stick had like 2 or 3 little prongs on it, the whole thing wasn't much bigger than match stick. Plus the tv only had like 8 channel BUTTONS peroid, you couldn't of watched cable on it if you wanted to.
A problem that I got solved was wired controllers since one of my cousins tripped over a cable and made my PS2 crash into many pieces so thankful for wireless controllers
Leafy_Cynical
LOL
Wow that sounds exactly like what happened to me. I understand completely.
that happened to me. but my brother did it
same but my fucking dog
Or you could have not gotten a ps2 and saved everyone some money by not getting a POS game system.
We used to have games with no pause menu and now we have games with overlays that dont actually pause the game.
We used to only have to save at certain points and now we have games that use auto save so we cant revert to an old save to a fix a mistake.
Addonexus TheDeestoyer Exactly. Made a terrible decision? Oh! Who cares! Auto save.
I think you just described dark souls
DKGille i played gta5 story 100% so i dont save at all to keep my gta storymode money
all of these are 90's problem. and i remember every single one of em!!
The game boy problem is and early 2000’s
I do too!
Let's stand in silence for people who lost there memory card
* their* memory card
or the memory card ran out of juice and the data were lost (cant remember what device got those kind of memory cartridges with some little battery keeping the progresss till it died out).
Freddy Perdomo RIP
Freddy Perdomo oof
Rip me
I have to install Sims 2 a whole day . And at 99% the game say :
" nope "
Don't get me back to that... Installing Sims 2 was a pain in the ***. Got all of the expansions for that game and it took forever and even longer when - like you said - there was this tiny scratch or dirt particle on a disk. At some point I was so fed up by it, that I've downloaded a pirated version which installed everything at once with the help of a bat-file and changed the whole thing to use my own original keys. Since then: 20mins of installation from a single DVD. ;D
Been there with age of empires
4 disks for the damn base game another 6 for expansions, I remember when you could finally burn dvds, ripped the base game onto one dvd
Minagy for people with shitty internet that can still happen. It happens especially on macs because the computer doesn’t check if you have disk space available
Yeah you have to download it from the beginning again
At least old games and consoles didn't need to update.
Yeah, at least game breaking bugs remained in old games.
I've never come across an older game that had any game-breaking bugs, probably because companies actually had to make sure that there weren't any, because they couldn't afford to use updates like a crutch, like they can now...
Updates and patches are predominately a good thing in this age. Conversely, the devs are being pushed harder and harder by their publishers to release these games within a certain time frame (look at Christmas). I'm looking at you, fucking Ubisoft.
f*ck updates, we just want to play :)
Yeah, they can be good, but not when they are relied on like they are, there is a problem with how developers are being treated, sure, but I don't think punishing the consumer by forcing big updates and such on them is the answer. The ways things currently are would only benefit the publishers, and even then, I don't think it is most of the time. There has to be a better solution out there.
I remember stickers "hugs not drugs" on arcade machine's. I always thought as a kid. Just cause it rhymes doesn't mean it make sense, the hugging eventually led me to a dealer.
Smart kid!
Lmaoooo
Mom I can't stop this, it's an online game, I am stitting here playing with 24 other real people to clear this RAID!
i was playing ow and i just here my sis-pause the game and let's go get smoe food.
me:I cant pause, just order!
sis:yes you can it's not like the bots won't follow the rules....
me:these are real people around the wrold *puts team chat on* you suck widow blah blah balh
My mom would INSIST that I pause the game no matter how many times I tried to explain that it's online.
the gaming vlog I honestly would have blown a gasket and slammed my door in her face
Only having one tv that was shared by the whole family so you were limited to short window of game time....and usually it took longer to get to the save point.
Excalibur 213 i fucking hated that lol, thank God I have my own TV now
I still have that problem.
Yes
Carson Wade damn rip
Excalibur 213 that goes way back to my odyssey / colleco days
& had RF modulator on Chanel 3
not a problem going extinct, but i really miss the demo discs from the e.g. playstation magazine
those discs were awesome!
KingHoliday demo disc ? That was a thing omg that sounds awesome
Yeah on certain games you'd get a demo of a different game before it actually came out.
omg the times i had with the demo disc you don't even know...
I loved buying the old PSX Magazines back in the day and getting the monthly demo discs. Pocket money was well spent on those!!
Messing with AV cables and composite cables. Remember having to connect up to 5 plugs? White and red for your stereo sound, yellow for video if not HD, or RGB cables for HD.
Now we have HDMI, which gives us one cable to rule them all.
I still do this. Lol
Somewhere between them RGB cables and HDMI I used s-video
Instead of a phone interrupting my game, when I turn on the microwave it lags the absolute shit out of whatever game I'm playing and I have no clue why
bje1031 That's crazy! I've heard of anyone having that problem.
Signal interference. Microwave ovens have been known to cause issues with WiFi.
wow. that sounds like it sucks.
my advice is either: buy a new microwave, try and cook more with your oven/stove, or start making plans on posted notes for microwaving things before or after you start gaming.
bje1031 If your wifi box or router is close to your microwave then get further away, because the microwave sends a lot of some types of waves that interfere.
Well I heared that Microwave and wireless LAN use the same frequency, the microwave is just much stronger so it can heat up water. Plug your game into your router with a cable and the problem is solved.
I miss and don't miss having to blow in to the game cartridge in order to get it to work
Ok
@@kyoto3695 oh no
That’s like the modern equivelent of cleaning a blu ray disc to get it to read
@@bluepeng8895 how is blowing into a cartridge modern
@@kyoto3695 dust would build up on the cartridge slots and it wouldn't read properly and would have to blow into the slot to clean it.
When your mom tells you to pause the game and you're online
its not extinct yet
you're*
Even my wife has told me this.
My brother knows that.
+neoroxx are you dumb? it litteraly says there ''you're'' -.-
Mouse's balls and lost memory cards: thanks to whoever made them gone.
Modern games don't have cheat codes but instead microtransactions....
There's also DLC, cant forget that. Some of those can be seen as cheats too.
ThundagaT2 yeah like horse armor. that was straight up hacking. and for only 3.99
dead rising 2 off the record has cheat function as dlc
MrNayru this is true, well it is basically cheating, your just paying real money to cheat, that is it. Sad actually how companies are doing this and can get away with it.
no modern gamers have... Scripts.
One day lag will be on one of these lists
I cannot imagine what could eliminate lag entirely. Computers still have to communicate with eachother. Devises plugged in, such as your mouse, still has to communicate with YOUR computer. Distances between people or servers are always going to be a thing. So idk how you would ever have near instant communication on both sides of the connection to allow virtually no lag whatsoever.
@@shawnwolf5961 we can't get rid of lag completely but playing on a U.S. East server when you're in Australia or vice-versa and getting only 40 ping is the dream for many.
@@shawnwolf5961 - Well, electrons travelling with a certain speed. Light on the other hand... Also yes, lag is ethernal, but technology is evolving much faster than human senses. Sooner or later we will have tech that feels instant because the delay will be less than what people can notice.
No it wont
Play at a lan.
When you play an online game and someone says "pause the game and do this"
John DeSilva I feel you
me too
sadvam se kat misla za tva ;(
that still happens
Those cringeful days
Remember having to plug everything in through Cable so when it messed up on the back of the television u couldn't just switch to av or HDMI u had to stand there and wiggle the cable and the port or have another TV LMFAO
Oh that sweet feeling of joy and elation when a dodgy ps1 disc went past the playstation logo screen.
You wait for that title screen with Bated breath!!!!!!!!!!! Especially when its a dodgy disk 2!!!!!!!!!!!
That was my childhood bruh
Or when you see that the ps2 disc is beyond function but you took that fucker, rubbed it on your shirt, and plopped it in, and waited about four min before the playstation logo popped up
When you have like 20 game cases and your brother doesn't follow the basic rule of "put the game back in its original casing" so it either rests on top or next to the console and gets ruined or you have to go through a massive scavenger hunt through your games to find the disk you are looking for.
This...
My cat pissed on my keyboard sometime earlier this year and my sister pissed on my Nintendo 64 when I was younger.
Some shit never changes.
Dafuq How?? Why??
Ante Radić cats have tendency to pee on things.
And sisters too...
I wish she would pee on me
Ben Osborn
Bruh she was probably like 10
That made me lol for real, holy shit.
Poor guy..... LOL
I lost one of my ps2 memory cards when my family traveled overseas. I found it in a random suitcase like five years later and got all my saves back. It didn't mean much in retrospect because I played them all again, but it made me chuckle
the discs not getting lost but scratched up enough to not work
Fuxk you
+jack chettri why?
Just
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
GTA 3 for PS2 would act weird after some time no matter what. It would start to not load parts of the city and such. Most of the time the game would just freeze, but once in a while you could get a good laugh out of a crazy glitch.
For me it was playing Pokemon fire red, my friend wanted to give it a try so he created a new character...
Which deleted my old character.
RIP lvl 82 Charizard
trusting a friend with a save file was the ultimate form of trust.
I had a similar experience but it was with Gold on GBC. I was obsessed with Pokemon Gold and wanted to catch all the Pokemon and I got so damn close (only needed like 10 more or so for a complete pokedex). My best friend at the time wanted to borrow the game and help me get the last pokemon cause he had some on his Silver/Crystal carts so I gave it to him. The following day I went back to my friends to get my game. I turned it on and the game only asked me to start a new game. I thought it was a glitch so I restarted the game and noticed a window pop up before the new game one. THE BATTERY IN THE GAME DIED! That was one of the most soul crushing experiences I had when i was 12, I still remember it like it was yesterday. 300+ hours gone like they never existed
Try having a lvl 100 pikachu that your mom lost cause she also played pokemon and traded between games, still give her hell about it... RIP pikapika.
I would have stab him 82 times and hide his body in a trash can
I know your pain it's worse when u have every starter and legendary and your little bro starts a new game 😫😫
now you have 1% game and 99% dlc
+GerryMOTO
For one, now games even with DLC cost less than a single game back then (roughly 90~100$). And that's not to mention how much money gamers spent at the arcades.
Second, you'd be surprised how many games had various microtransactions back then as well, from smaller ones, like designing parts of the game so that you MUST buy a guide or official magazine to clear certain points (blowing up a specific unmarked wall in Zelda 1 or the whole Castlevania 2 tornado thing) to bigger ones like additional discs with bonus content and expansions (which even costed more than DLC since it had to be sold on a separate physical disc).
Third, the most evil money-grubbing dickmove of all, satellite and cable game services... an obscure take on online play, through either satellite broadcast (Nintendo Satellaview) or cable TV (Sega Channel), both of which were not very good, both time restricted, meaning you could only play certain games during specific time sof the day, and the worst part, the cost for said services was astronomically high. The Sega Channel was a cable service, so no hardware was needed, but you had to pay a 25$ activation fee and a 15$ monthly subscription PER GAME (which changed to 20$ for all games later on), while the Satellaview was an add-on that costed around 140~180$ and had a 30~40$ monthly subscription for all games. As you might have guessed, it didn't last really long and the game library for both was very low.
Lol, no. You're ignoring inflation, mixing various game systems, not mentioning a date and adding arcade players (?! wtf) into the mix. Also, I don't think the OP was talking about money but since you are...
Games, and especially consoles, were globally cheaper yesterday compared to today and this will be true in the future as well as long as inflation rises and if the base game price doesn't drop below 40$.
You can do a simple google research to learn about inflation and prices of games in time.
Not to mention we're even luckier nowadays as we have sales, rental services, second hand markets and even media libraries that lends software/games for free. All this makes it possible to play almost any game that ever came out with any budget.
On a side note : DLC is the only piece of shitty software that doesn't have much, if any, variation in price unless you get it bundled with a specific edition of the game which makes it even shittier ( in rare cases) like Darksiders 2 and it's updated edition that is more jerky and buggy.
Which means that most console games out there with DLC have an expiration date on part of their content that will be locked up forever once the service selling it goes down or decides to disable/delete the hosted data. Even if you're willing to pay for it.
GerryMOTO agreed
1% game 15% bugs 15% abandoned features 69% dlc
Now you have 1 CD but instead of just inserting the disk and playing, you have to wait while it updates (and even a brand new game will have like a day 1 patch because they rushed the game and use the first buyers as free beta testers) and even then you might have to jump through even more hoops like making you sign up for something online before it lets you play. Then there's free DLC that comes with the game: "You got this exclusive item. You just have to go to this website, create an account, confirm your email address and fetch three goats from the well in the woods and drink milk from all of them, except the third one because he's evil, to prove you're human and get the item in-game".
Old games didn't need dlc and they couldn't just add new content, meaning gamed were published FINISHED and no microtransactions.
Also manual saving is fun to me. So.
Several games did release add-on content though. The difference was that it was actually added content, not just stuff they stripped from the base game and locked behind a paywall. The most notable one I remember was GTA 1, which had a London expansion pack released on a second disc. I also remember the command and conquer series had a few on PC.
I personally like games that use autosave, but also allow manual saving. Manual saving is a great way to experience all endings to a game with multiple ending scenarios.
Only ea does this today they usually fix bugs when they find them back then you just had to deal with it yourself also Holiday themed stuff some games even give you free stuff on you're b day I prefer modern days
what about expansion packs?
NEO Nate yeah, graphics were shit, storyline was shit snd basically everything was shit. so.
I remember going on roadtrips with my family. I had the Gameboy Color with light plug-in thing so I could play in the dark. Then I got the GBA, then GBA SP. I remember young me being amazed at the Gameboy Advanced SP backlit screen. Man games have come a long way.
WHOA TECNOLOGY!
I ordered a front light for my original GBA on eBay using my mom's stolen credit card
Got beat when she found out but it was totally worth it to show it off at recess before the SP was a a thing, even though I lost half the screws in the process and held the poor thing together with tape
whats ROY?
AvengedKyle i had the screen magnifying and lamp thingy for the original game boy. worked like a charm, but it sucked the batteries dry in like i dont really remember 2 hours maybe? and those were FOUR AA batteries.
iLoveSmartMovies I love this comment! one day.. one day.
4 players sharing a 22 inch screen.
That was my halo 2 experience...
agbond003 shit that was my 007 experience lol
agbond003 I miss the days of couch co op and the like. Its not the same, sure you can still play with friends but what about high fiving and things like that when you guys completed a hard level.
agbond003 Borderlands 2 times were the best
dmayse1000 im not above admitting you had me thinking there was a hair on my screen haha
Same here :P
Interesting fact. I had a wireless housephone and modern internet. Until last year when we scrapped out housephone altogether, when the house phone rang, it would interfere with the wireless router and cut internet.
We scrapped it after we realized that we were just paying a utility whose sole purpose was making us lose internet connection to telemarketers and scammers.
I think if you change the channel setting in the router to a different frequency, that might can solve this case.
@@sin5946 Nope, that wont fix it, the channel is not the same as the frequency, it might lower the affect, but it wont fix it, the problem is that the frequencies most wireless phone systems use line up exactly with the frequencies used by wireless networking (either 2.4 Ghz or 5.1 Ghz), I had the same issue many years ago back when phones were still a thing one had in their house.. and not in their pocket.
@@mlmmt I see
When you'd buy a cheat code book,get it home, then realize it was the wrong one lmfao
Or the code was complete garbage!
Blowing in the God damned cartridges and then hit the power/reset buttons in a weird rhythmic fashion to get the game to actually work.
Skeptik I still do that with a few of my DS games. Mario cart DS beats clash of clans or whatever shit is on the App Store.
Don't forget the NES/SNES/N64/GAMEBOY cleaning kits eather.
*Mario Kart DS
Skeptik I remember that nes, snres, sega megadrive and N64
My best friends little sister would always use her tongue to make the games work. Not sure how, but she'd lick all over the CIS and cartridge bottom. Then it'd work. Looking back it made no sense. lol
In my opinion, having your memory card get corrupted is worse than having it get lost.
Because if you lose your memory card, there's a chance you might find it again, but if the memory card gets corrupted, then that's it. All your saves are gone. Forever. Start over.
That's the worst! That happened so many times to me because I always turned my systems off wrong when I was younger. But the worst time that happened was when it happened to my GameCube memory card.... I miss you animal crossing save... the amount of hours... the amount of bells... all gone.... and all my chao save data from sonic adventure two! Oh man the feels....
I've had that happen, it was pure hell. So many hours lost of Star Ocean.
Skye Blanchit are you single cuz u hot boy
pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
pdiddyrocks101 when I was younger the power outlet was by my bed so I would rip it out instead of probably turning it off, maybe that wasn't the reason why It got corrupted but that's what I think caused it lol and before you say it yes I realize how much of an idiot I am, I take better care of my systems now thank god lol
Oh, I remember when games would come with a freaking sweet instruction book. Some had color pictures and they were so cool. Lol. Some of them had that telephone number that you could call for help but you had to pay per minute usually to talk to a "PRO" gamer. Thankfully I didn't have to call anyone. :p
I remember when they decided to start removing them, cheap bastas!
Matt Bunch now at best you get a two page instruction booklet smh
Yeah, a 2 page booklet if you're lucky that has VERY basic hud/control nfo, as well as technical support info and health safety recommendations.
Yeah... the non-existent instructions are more like a problem for old-school gamers who still game now. Some of those manuals had a lot of work put into them and you could tell.
Those instruction books were awsome especially because most of them had note sections so you could easily remember something specific for the game like passwords and glitches
The real struggle is when you complete a game, go to bed, get up the next morning to go play it some more, just to realize/figure out your save battery died. Has happened to me way too many times...
I remember when Cheat Code Central went around. It made finding cheats so damn easy it was great! But the adds were like lime wire and give your computer aids.
onebigbamf Cheatplanet was better :)
Yeah! CCC.com! That was my go to website!
onebigbamf remember when it was around? It's still around dude.
hardly... little to no games have "cheat codes" anymore. back when CCC.com was a thing EVERY game had codes, or hidden unlocks, or actual ways to cheat in the game. nowadays youtube is far superior. but yes... the site is still operational.
Going to the library to use the computer to write down cheat codes for games.
Yup
keygoshima I did the same thing.
Ha been there
Thought I was the only one
You're supposed to do that at Walmart with the gamer guide books
i rember playing the Simpson's game on my ps2 and i couldnt save any more i was out of storage and i kept it ob for like 3 days
I got Kingdom Hearts 2 for my birthday but I didn't have a memory card and neither of my older sisters (utter bitches) would let me save the damn thing, so I was stuck playing the Roxas prologue more than I should have, it got to the point where I thought this was all the game was and guy on the box (Sora the actual main guy) didn't exist. Thankfully when I finally got a memory card (or i just stole the memory card from one of them) I got to see the rest of the game after 4 hours (or longer I was really bad at games back then I had never completed one myself before KH2) of finally completing the tutorial part of the game...
I play the Sims 2, 2 hours of character creation, house decorating and career advancement, while saving, the power black out. I had to reformat the card as it was corrupted. All the saves! My NFSU2 with all Level 3 parts gone along with countless JRPG game saves.
Got PS2 near launch. Unlocked everything in Tekken Tag. Didn't have memory card. Left PS2 on for a week until I could afford card.
Benjamin Tan In December 2004 I received a Holiday Demo disc which contains a demo for Viewtiful Joe 2. Which erases all the data on the memory cards inserted. I lost all my Socom data and was pissed.
My brother and I finished resident evil 1 (ps1) without a memory card (we didn't had one). When we died, we had to start the game all over again. We were so afraid of that game, that we couldn't play it after 6pm. Those were great days!
Who remembers playing the gameboy advance with the light that flips up
Me!
I remember before once I saw a mouse using lasers I seriously thought "Oh technology is improving, I can't see the ball anymore, they hid it better now."
And now we have mice with invisible lasers
Derek Brown we do?
let's go back even further, remember the 1-900 numbers that charged 2-3$ a minute to get game hints? The nes used to put the numbers in the game booklets.
Johnny and Johnny Jr or with ps1 and even ps2 games like Socom navy seals it was right there on the disk
same here but never used em we were too broke
I remember seeing them on PS2 game discs.
Yeah, they were called Game Masters I believe, you call them up to explain the issue (e.g a tough boss) and they will tell you what to do, sweet.
most of them are now sex hotlines nowadays.
finding cheat codes in books and magazines was actually cool. that feeling of discovery
same. havent bought one since 2007. 😢
Juan Diaz some cool ass kid once put the master cheat code for south park on the users manuel of a block buster rental.. fuck man that kid was a boss!
Damn EGM, that shit is ancient. I remember getting a few of those back in the day for Sonic 2 cheats...
It was cool. The key word is "WAS" for a reason. I'm glad I can look up these cheat codes now without hqving to looo through so many mags and books.
+Daniel Catalan same but was on a written piece of paper and it was for Godzilla Destroy all monsters melee on the gamecube. Helped unlock every monster and city.
Today the problem is "oh no! The game DID save!"
Yeah I hate that
For me it's like : "Oh yeah, OH I DIDN'T WANNA DO THAT- NOOOOOOO! IT SAVED NOOO!"
I feel so old when people talk about CDRom like they're ancient, I remember floppies, worse, I remember loading games from a tape, sometimes having to wait 30+ minutes just for the game to load...
load "boulder dash"
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee BEEP!Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee BEEP!
/cue screeching noises
I was just gonna mention the tape. And those times when your deck isn't quite in sync, or those times it chews up your cassettes?
Member the commadoor 64
Tape drives were the worst. I was so cool when I got a 5 1/4 floppy drive that sounded like a broken chainsaw.
I had a floppy atari, freinds of my brother had a commodore 64
I never used tape, but the floppies, oh, barely 1mb and the games were already having 20mb or something...
Number three was a tearjerker for me. Me and my cousin when we were kids were obsessed with the game Pokémon channel (I mean like over 2 years of progress) everything unlocked and we had EVERYTHING then we got a new dog and he chewed up my memory card. I refused to look at that dog for a week.
Make the dog suffer in pain.
Pokémon Channel is absolutely horrible to actually play so I really feel for you
damn, i feel your pain bro, when i was like playing roblox in infinity anime, i had like one of the strongest forms for example "fire dragon" it was like 15b stats or above, and i forgot to save it, when i came back the next day, all i see in my stats litteraly says 0....lol
I had a Game Boy Advance game called Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team. I spent five years on that game. I got so far. And than one day my little brother decided that "he wanted to play" and deleted my save so he could "start his own profile" I was livid. Than of course I got the "calm down it's just a game" from my mother, which did NOT help. She just couldn't understand the pain.
Parents and gaming, they didn't mix.
They don't mix even today
I'm 28 now and when my kids 3 kids get older they can stay away from my games lol or I will get two consoles to play online together.
Not 100% true, believe it or not my parents played a lot of games back in the day.
My dad usally showed me a game or i saw him play one and i asked if i could try that, this way i was introduced to some of my favorite video games of all time like Yoshi's Island, No One Lives Forever, Dungeon Siege and Baldur's Gate.
If it wasn't for my parents i'm sure that i wouldn't love video games as much as i do today.
Till this day the only exception I know is my mom, she hella often tries to convince me to have all nighter, having a lan party or just play a hotseat game, for us it's not rare playing Diablo 2/Torchlight 2 , HoM&M series and similar games till 4AM lol.
they still don't pal. but now people get door locks and move the wifi router to their rooms so patents cant get in to turn it off.
Great video as always. Lol. This nostalgia. haha. The days when that mouse ball gets filled with sticky dirt, I dont know why I miss those all of a sudden.
kids today will never know the horrors of having a memory card
Well said brother.
Not unless you were playing on a GameCube and had a "16x" memory card. I swear, those things did not run out of space. But it would be annoying when you'd start up a game and get a message that your memory card is corrupted and you had to reformat the entire thing.
Aimela I dont know about the GC ones, but I know that with the PS1/2 mem cards, you just had to figure out what save was corrupted and just delete that one save, and then the corrupted data
breaker throws=memory card resets
Jploui93 J kids will also never know the joy of having a game that works out of the case.
"ah I didn't save" was replaced by "ahh it saved right before my inevitable doom!"
Charles Guillory I was playing COD World At War for Wii, and I was walk around in campaign, and got stuck on some barrels. after about five minute og failing to get unstuck, I decided to restart to last save.
It autosaved whole I was stuck in the barrels.
"ahh it saved after my base exploded!!"
Happened to me in Halo 3, with a brute shot about an inch from my warthog as it checkpointed.
And that's why you manually save games every 15-30 min.
I've saved Skyrim just second before fatal blow... after dying for 15 times trying to avoid it by dodging, blocking, potions and stuff, I had to use tgm...
"oh damn, I've did something wrong! Luckilly I haven't saved it yet"
*You game has been saved*
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I hate it when real life does this
That is so annoying dude! "Oh, I just lost a bunch of weapons and ammo, glad I haven't saved it yet!" (Auto saving....) "Dammit!"
Nfan364 usually when this happens i unplug my console or pc from the wall
JR SmileyFace Sometimes pulling real life's plug is a viable option also
The Majestic Poptart always is :)))))))))
Loosing a CD key. Back in the day before cross platform DRM like Steam has. Oh, and having to have the CD physically in the tray to even launch the game.
While I enjoy having hard copies in the event digital copies are pulled from stores due to licensing running out, I do like the ability to buy a game, and then play it on any of my computers without having to fuss with CDs and especially CDs that tracked and limited the number of times a key could be used, preventing you from installing a game you own on your own computer.
Yes! That last one got my friend, once. He'd bought a new game right before coming to my house. He was too excited to wait until he got home to play it, so we installed it on my computer in the mean time.
When he tried to install it at home, later that day? Guess what? DENIED! LOL
Having a computer that didn't have a sound card.
GasPuch62 not having a computer
GasPuch62 i guess you riped the sound card out of your console or mobile divice or pc. man life without sound
having computer and not having speakers !
Worst thing that happened to me was saving a game with a lot of hours put into it, then a power outage happened while it was still saving. Corrupted! D:
That hurts my soul to think of. Sorry, bud.
and everything corrupted
I was once playing the original Fable, and I had been playing for quite a few hours without saving. My Dad said I should probably save, so I did, and literally a few seconds after the saving had finished, the power went out :D
luck
100
I once was playing Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, I was grinding until I could beat an enemy in one hit. I was already halfway through the game (>56 hours) and when I was saving, it said this in red text game file has been corrupted this save file can no longer be used. I turned off the GBA and turned it back on. It had this code where if a file was corrupted it will delete the file. That was not the only bad part, all the files couldn’t save and corrupted every time I tried to save. I even tried starting a new file and it still corrupted. I had to buy a new copy.
I remember when you bought a game, it was a complete whole game, non of this paid DLC season pass bullshit.
armgidion games having season passes doesn't automatically mean that the game was incomplete most really games are complete and the season pass adds longevity to the game
armgidion But the games of today have more content.
The games of today have more than 100x the content, just because some missions, skins, or cars get locked out doesn't mean you have to whine. So ungrateful....
armgidion ameen
So, Im ungrateful for having to pay for more things on top of $60? your usage of ungrateful doesn't seem to align with what you're saying. It's differen't when they give them for free, but not charge their players/fan base.
By far the worst thing I remember was scratches on CDs before games could be fully downloaded. If there was a scratch on that, the game was almost certainly ruined.
Or your sibling saves over your data by "accident"
Luckly I played games that none of my brothers liked, like GTA, BLACK, or Burnout 3...so the experience was all for me xd (PS2 days)
My brother did that to me so many goddamn times in morrowind. I had like 3 characters going and if i left it on he'd always save over the wrong one. Little bastard.
My sister deleted my Spiro 2 Ripto's Rage file (PS1) when i was 84% out of 100 percent complete. was pretty ruff but i eventually got the perma fireball that comes with 100% completion on a new file. I will be 30 years old this year and i still bring this up to her when she is actin the fool.
My lil bro did this to me on Pokémon green (or was it blue) anywhose that was all my lvl 100 Pokémon down the loo.
Matt Westbrook omg I miss black tbh
waiting 10 mins for a game to load from a cassette then it crashes
And then trying a few more times, and having to finally accept that your precious cassette has run out its lifespan :(
You mean GTA V online on console?
Not what he meant but that happens a lot lol
Yeah this is when loading times were a THING.
Though you could copy your cassettes when you had a twin cassette deck :D
Moonstalker no it’s still a problem
PS1 controllers before the analogue sticks
That existed? 🤔🤔🤔
Viktor yeah man they felt like toys they were so light
Reyvyn Nightveil it was even worse when u played games that actually required the analog sticks , or even worse the turbo button on controllers that broke games
Courtney-Jai I still have the ps1 controllers and use it on ps2 sometimes as a challenge to win bets and get money lmao
True! Remember the first "Driver" where you had two buttons for accelerating? One to go smooth and one to just put the pedal to the metal because L2 and R2 were actually just buttons? :D oh and you didnt accelerate with R2/RT like nowadays
"Immersion is important"
No, "FUN" is most important.
whether that fun is dying repeatedly to the skeletons outside the first area in dark souls and working out how to beat them or playing an easy puzzle game.
The worst is cables that are just a tad bit too short to be comfortable, so you gotta be leaning forward to play your plug in play and then ur back starts to hurt so you get comfortable, and then you unplug the system....
Blowing into game cartridges.
But was that really a bad thing? Sure the game not working and needing to do this sucked, but looking back at it seems kind of cool. Especially when you realize that all of us, as a whole ended up finding out about it. Probably the first crowd sourced anything, in a day when crowd sourcing anything was impossible.
It was bad when you had much younger siblings who see you do it then try to do it themselves when you weren't looking and end up spitting all over the inside of the cartridge. Keeping it away from them was a task because my parents would always bring the cartridge back out for them to play with while I wasn't around. Trying to teach them not to blow spit into it and how to do it right didn't always work either. I don't remember it harming the cartridge or the console, but it wasn't pleasant handling the violated cartridge after.
That never did anything to make them work though. It has been debunked a long time ago.
Once or twice each year, I go into my closet and find old Nintendo cartridges and just blow in them for about half an hour. All I care about are the memories....
if you blow into it, you are putting moisture/spit from your breath on the cartridge contacts. If you needed to do that (well, it wouldn't do anything anyway) use a can of compressed air instead.