I got my Game Boy the year it came out for my birthday and it works till this day my son would play it while we wait at the barbershop and it's always awesome to see the look on the other kids there his age faces when they see it.
More great stories from a great storyteller! This one was especially relatable for me. I got a game boy color for Christmas as a kid when we were dirt poor. It was the only console I had at the time and I basically worshipped it. I still have it to this day.
"If it's a Sunday, who cares?" I envy you. My entire week was basically dreading Sundays because of church. Then the high, immediately after going to church, was legendary. Best part of the week was immediately after church because it was the longest possible time before more church.
I'm lucky in that I only got forced to go to church a handful of times when my stepmother went through a thankfully-short spiritual phase. After having to go to school 5 days per week, I can't imagine having to go to church every Sunday on top of that.
Feel your pain. We went Monday, Wednesday , Sunday. There was no high for me. Moms still has que of scriptures on deck to fire off every single time I call. Which is right about now, actually. Hoping for Ecclesiastes, I guess.
I feel both sides of the coin. Church can be boring, but its all relative. There have been times in my life where I couldn't wait to get to church, for many reasons. But as a child, and even as an adult, it can certainly be unedifying.
I remember my older brother getting a Game Boy and Super Mario Land for Christmas. That game was different, but I still love it to this day, especially the music!
Thank you for this episode, it called up a lot of memories! I am from Switzerland and had (have) a couple of cousins in New Jersey, which we visited yearly. We also did so at Christmas in 1989, the first Christmas after my Dad had passed away. I was 11 back then and my cousins all got Game Boys for Christmas so naturally I had to have one as well. I distinctly remember picking it up at Toys R' Us with my aunt and mom. I got Super Mario Land and Allyway to go along with it. I beat Super Mario Land on the flight back to Switzerland, literally half an hour before landing and on the last leg of the batteries. It was the first video game I ever beat and felt like quite the accomplishment. Back at school I was the most popular kid for 6 months because the Game Boy only came out in the summer of 1990 in Europe... In any case, thanks for what you do, I appreciate it a lot!
Dude, I know these videos don't get as many views as your main videos, but I love these so much and love listening to you reminisce on things. It reminds me of my first time encountering different things from my past and gaming history. I'm always happy to see a new one of these and thank you so much for keeping this series going. These are the best!
Great episode as always. I remember I had to convince my parents that I would use the gameboy enough to justify buying it. I loved how tough it was. Never broke.
Great content as always. I hated back to school but I really liked fall so it was a mixed bag for me. You do a really great job with these videos and really evoke those memories from me.
From what I can recall the original grey Gameboy was my first ever games console and just like you I got it for Christmas but I don't even remember asking for it and I think my mother got a bit upset because I wasn't really that fussed about it. I remember getting the Gameboy colour many years later though and I lost my f**kin' MIND!! I think it was because obviously at this point I was older and to have something smaller than the original grey one but that had colour graphics was mind blowing.
I had an early Gameboy as well. Mine didn't fail as badly as yours, but my screen became a mess of vertical and horizontal dead lines. I know they're fixable in one direction, but I had it both ways. That happened after a few years. I wonder if your issue was related to that. It was disappointing that the hardware had the flaw, but the system was fun while it lasted. And I really loved Super Mario Land. It's amazing how ridiculously tiny the ROM is.
23:22 Back then the headphones were stylish or retro looking (most people choose the cheap on-ear headphones like I had when listening to CDs) or if your parents were really nice they would get you over-ear headphones.
Man i grew up on that super mario... I got the gameboy when i was 10 first time and got the zelda bundle back in the day. however i was too young to read english and it! lol so it was a boring game for me. but tetris and that mario land.... countless toilet time (best lighting situation for gameboy! ) love this channel
CGQ+ Honestly I eat pizza every meal for my entire life since I was five years old. I think the ninja turtles had a profound effect on me. My wife loves Salisbury steak though so we’ll pick up a few next time we’re at the grocery store and report back ;)
I also was an early adopter of the Game Boy - got it for my birthday and I didn't know anyone else who had it. My strongest memory of it was when I stayed up late playing it on a school night (it was the day after my birthday). Unfortunately I had to keep the bedside lamp on to play it and my dad noticed the light from under the door. He stormed in the room and yelled at me. He said that it was probably a mistake to have given it to me and if he caught me playing it again after bedtime he'd get rid of it. It agitated me so much that I couldn't sleep that night! Other than that, it was really cool at first playing Tetris and Super Mario Land. Later, I got Castlevania Adventure and I didn't care for it much. I remember there not being any other games that interested me, and I ending up selling the Game Boy and my three games a year later. I'm still trying to remember what I ended up buying with that money. It would have been a game that I really wanted or at least SOMETHING that I really wanted. I never sold any of my stuff unless that was the case. Anyway, when Link's Awakening and the Mega Man games eventually came out, I wished I had held on to it.
Another great flashback episode. I asked for a Game Boy, but I never got one. I did have some of those Tiger handheld games you mentioned: Heavy Barrel, Double Dragon, Football and Skeet Shoot. I remember playing them a lot on long road trips. I'm guessing our relative satisfaction with those far cheaper systems probably made my parents feel getting Game Boy was needlessly expensive. Either way it didn't happen. I knew a few friends who had them and kind of like you said. No one seemed really envious of those who did; some of that may have been due to the fact everyone seemed to have the same games for it. Oh, Tetris? Super Mario Land? Oh, Zelda? And then always some random game like Kirby or something like that. But I would agree it wasn't the kind of system that made people really curious or want to watch you play games on it like your NES would. I used to peek at my gifts all of the time. My parents still tease me about it. I perfected unwrapping and re-wrapping gifts. My parents then began to deploy countermeasures like extra tape at key points to make it easily detectable if the wrapping had been tampered with. So I eventually gave up peeking, too much hassle. Another nice trip down memory lane! I'm glad you liked the magnet, I thought they were well done and I knew you'd appreciate the quality!
I'm sure you get a lot of requests and ideas for videos, but I'd like to know your opinion on maybe a top 10 games from any console that you just really enjoyed or loved to the point you would rank them above most others. It doesn't have to be a list of what others believe to be cool games, but your favorites. I'd enjoy seeing that video from you. Anyway, keep up the good work.
Also, while you’re here, I just wanted to say that I love your channel. I love listening to memories and stories like the ones on your flashback series. I guess I like to compare your experiences to British ones. I was born in 2001 but I was bought up by a family that wouldn’t get rid of anything (to give you an example we have a 1967 Mini in our garage that hasn’t been used since 1978) and using that ideology I can remember us having a huge wooden 1970s TV with a sliding door on the front, using cassette tapes and VHS pretty much daily and (most importantly) playing Sega MegaDrive (or Genesis in your part of the world, of course). It’s amazing that all the stuff that we kept but didn’t use for 30 years still works. This includes (what is now) my Beta, a few black and white 12” TVs, a couple of 80s HiFis and four 80s home computers (a Commodore 64, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an Acorn Electron and an Amstrad 6128, all dating from before 1986).
I AM wearing headphones and the stereo worked! Also, Mario's bouncy balls (lol) remind me of his cameo in Arkanoid with its similar appearance of Mario's bouncy balls. As far as your Game Boy memories go, what you say is absolutely right about kids' general reaction to the Game Boy. I only knew one kid who had it and it didn't make me want to get one at all. Also also, is that more Russian music similar to Tetris when Mario gets a power up? Nintendo must have really liked their Russian tunes around this time period.
Erm .. you CAN jump over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros. Intact there's AT LEAST one video on RUclips where someone has recorded themselves doing it!!
I will never forget my first exposure to the Game Boy. Like you, my first experience was seeing it sitting behind glass at Toys R Us... right next to that sweet, sweet Power Glove. Oh how I wish there had been a playable display; perhaps then I would have been able to resist the dark magic spell that Power Glove marketing had cast upon me. Alas, my 8 year old mind was unable to comprehend what the Game Boy really was as it lay there lifeless in its cold, glass prison. A years worth of saved birthday and Christmas money entered the void that day as I made possibly the worst purchasing decision of my life and chose the Power Glove. I can still remember trying that abomination for the first time; the feeling of my hopeful optimism souring into crushing disappointment will be forever crystallized in my heart. That moment, more than any other, symbolizes the death of my childhood innocence; it's my "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment. I never did get a Game Boy.
There is a flip side to this story. As bad as the Power Glove was as a game controller, it did make for a pretty awesome toy. I'm not sure how long it took, but I eventually ended up cutting the cord off and using it as an imaginative toy; my Zapper had the same fate. This would have been around the time that the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon came out, so a a cord-free Power Glove and Zapper allowed me to emulate that in pretty awesome fashion. I'm still pretty salty about not choosing the Game Boy, but this experience had a huge positive impact on my buying habits even to this day. I credit this experience with instilling the level of thoughtfulness I put into even the simplest purchasing situation; I'll spend quite some time considering my options on even the simplest items. This has served me well over the years as I tend to make very sound and well thought out decisions when it comes to buying stuff. Thanks Power Glove! @@CGQPlus
lol don't feel bad. I swear I had my genesis such and such a time, come to find out that it wasn't available for most of the time I thought I had it. we are getting older, memories can get confusing. I am older than you so its even worse for me.lol don't sweat it, it happens to all of us, this was nearly 30 years ago after all bud. I do remember having the gb for Christmas my senior year in highschool, the same year I swore I had my genesis all year.l (nope, gensis wasn't available till the end of my senior year)but like you I had super mario for the gb. it Is fantastic!! was pretty damn good at the time, still isn't bad today. great memories, I love hearing everyone's stories and relate them to mine in the day. I did just recently pick up a lauch gb system complete in box etc, all accessories. it brings back great times. long range trips weren't so bad with a gameboy and some decent games like FF legends, mario and the staple Tetris.
It seems that for hard core Mario fans, Super Mario Land is always at the bottom of the list but it’s probably my favourite. I’ve beaten it a few times and for some reason I’ve just always found it the most enjoyable.
Great Video, man. Heads up though, Warwick is pronounced phonetically. Fellow Rhode Islander here. However, our accents would likely pronounce it as Wahwick. :)
Right now it has Street Fighter II: CE in it. I also have Final Fight and Golden Axe boards, and I have a 1-slot Neo-Geo MVS board along with a bunch of carts. What are your favorite arcade games?
@@CGQPlus Hey cool. So I have a 4 player mame machine that I got for NBA HANGTIME and Street fighter 2 Hyper fight. 2 on 2 open ice is good too. Basically anything by Capcom Midway and the Tekken series. Recently I got a trackball for golden tee. I am also waiting on the sinden lightgun for police trainer and point black. Then I think the cabinet will be all done So did you know that you can change some of the eproms in SF2CE to convert it to SF2 HYPER FIGHT? It really is the best version for the modern day. How is your NEO GEO collection? Also since pinball is getting a revival Did you play much pinball at Sams town?
Love your content but i really wish you’d drop the postcard section of your videos. I know it helps engagement but it doesn’t add much for the regular viewer and it takes a while to find where to skip past it, just my opinion!
The Gameboy was never my cup of tea. It seemed like old dated tech before it even cam out. The screen just seemed very crappy. Like it was just a bigger version of one of those early gray green digital watch screens. It felt like a backward step in technology for a up in price at 150 I believe it launched at.
@@Ducksauce33 Sure dude. You notice how among all these aged gamers youre the only one who used emojis? Youre trying to tell me you had discriminating taste on display specs that went completely against the grain at age 9? Must be cuz you were so used to playing your neo geo. We all wish we were young, bro. Embrace it.
On the one hand, dude accusing you of not being as old as you say is bizarre. On the other hand, I don't remember thinking this at all, but more to the point of what he said in the video, I don't remember it being very popular and we were more concerned with console games. Definitely don't remember criticizing the quality of games or the consoles for many, many years after that. Seemed like having the ability to play a video game in your hand was pretty damn impressive back then. According to the Wikipedia the Gameboy was $89 when launched, by the way.
@@gattsuberserk4534 It's so bizarre, that you decided to pile on? Interesting take. But your'e definitely right about criticising games. Even the crappiest games got a pass for simply existing.
.I can't imagine who thumbs you down. You are one of RUclips's premier storytellers. Bravo on another fantastic flashback.
I got my Game Boy the year it came out for my birthday and it works till this day my son would play it while we wait at the barbershop and it's always awesome to see the look on the other kids there his age faces when they see it.
More great stories from a great storyteller! This one was especially relatable for me. I got a game boy color for Christmas as a kid when we were dirt poor. It was the only console I had at the time and I basically worshipped it. I still have it to this day.
"If it's a Sunday, who cares?" I envy you. My entire week was basically dreading Sundays because of church. Then the high, immediately after going to church, was legendary. Best part of the week was immediately after church because it was the longest possible time before more church.
I'm lucky in that I only got forced to go to church a handful of times when my stepmother went through a thankfully-short spiritual phase. After having to go to school 5 days per week, I can't imagine having to go to church every Sunday on top of that.
Feel your pain. We went Monday, Wednesday , Sunday. There was no high for me. Moms still has que of scriptures on deck to fire off every single time I call. Which is right about now, actually. Hoping for Ecclesiastes, I guess.
Revival week was the worst! Think Sunday is bad? Try going every day for a week for no reason. @@walylama1672
I feel both sides of the coin. Church can be boring, but its all relative. There have been times in my life where I couldn't wait to get to church, for many reasons. But as a child, and even as an adult, it can certainly be unedifying.
I remember my older brother getting a Game Boy and Super Mario Land for Christmas. That game was different, but I still love it to this day, especially the music!
Thank you for this episode, it called up a lot of memories! I am from Switzerland and had (have) a couple of cousins in New Jersey, which we visited yearly. We also did so at Christmas in 1989, the first Christmas after my Dad had passed away. I was 11 back then and my cousins all got Game Boys for Christmas so naturally I had to have one as well. I distinctly remember picking it up at Toys R' Us with my aunt and mom. I got Super Mario Land and Allyway to go along with it. I beat Super Mario Land on the flight back to Switzerland, literally half an hour before landing and on the last leg of the batteries. It was the first video game I ever beat and felt like quite the accomplishment. Back at school I was the most popular kid for 6 months because the Game Boy only came out in the summer of 1990 in Europe... In any case, thanks for what you do, I appreciate it a lot!
Holy crap that Sissy Spacek postcard is incredible
'Cooked Spinach Green' is the perfect way to describe that GB screen color lol
Dude, I know these videos don't get as many views as your main videos, but I love these so much and love listening to you reminisce on things. It reminds me of my first time encountering different things from my past and gaming history. I'm always happy to see a new one of these and thank you so much for keeping this series going. These are the best!
Thanks, man. Not too worried about the number of views. That's not why I do this channel.
Great episode as always. I remember I had to convince my parents that I would use the gameboy enough to justify buying it. I loved how tough it was. Never broke.
Great content as always. I hated back to school but I really liked fall so it was a mixed bag for me. You do a really great job with these videos and really evoke those memories from me.
imo Super Mario Land has the best classic Mario soundtrack. Brings me back every time.
excited to watch this - I have many childhood memories with the Game Boy!
Hey, a new episode. Can’t wait to check it out. Thanks brother.
Never had a Gameboy growing up, probably for the same reason as yourself, still had an NES. Thanks for sharing.
Love your Flash back videos. They take me back to my childhood also.
I love hearing your stories. . It makes my day when you post. Thanks for all the hard work.
From what I can recall the original grey Gameboy was my first ever games console and just like you I got it for Christmas but I don't even remember asking for it and I think my mother got a bit upset because I wasn't really that fussed about it.
I remember getting the Gameboy colour many years later though and I lost my f**kin' MIND!!
I think it was because obviously at this point I was older and to have something smaller than the original grey one but that had colour graphics was mind blowing.
I had an early Gameboy as well. Mine didn't fail as badly as yours, but my screen became a mess of vertical and horizontal dead lines. I know they're fixable in one direction, but I had it both ways. That happened after a few years. I wonder if your issue was related to that. It was disappointing that the hardware had the flaw, but the system was fun while it lasted. And I really loved Super Mario Land. It's amazing how ridiculously tiny the ROM is.
23:22 Back then the headphones were stylish or retro looking (most people choose the cheap on-ear headphones like I had when listening to CDs) or if your parents were really nice they would get you over-ear headphones.
Man i grew up on that super mario... I got the gameboy when i was 10 first time and got the zelda bundle back in the day. however i was too young to read english and it! lol so it was a boring game for me. but tetris and that mario land.... countless toilet time (best lighting situation for gameboy! ) love this channel
14:38 even though this video is a few years old this make me think of right now being locked down...
Yesssss a new flashback
When you were describing yourself playing gameboy at the dining room table I suddenly got the strongest urge for a Swanson’s tv dinner
That sounds great. What are your top 3 frozen dinners?
CGQ+ my wife loves the hungry man beer battered chicken... my favorites are kid cuisine pizza and Ellio’s pizza.
No love for the Salisbury Steak?!?
CGQ+ Honestly I eat pizza every meal for my entire life since I was five years old. I think the ninja turtles had a profound effect on me. My wife loves Salisbury steak though so we’ll pick up a few next time we’re at the grocery store and report back ;)
I jumped over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros 2 on the Game and Watch Mario Bros. Handheld.
I also was an early adopter of the Game Boy - got it for my birthday and I didn't know anyone else who had it. My strongest memory of it was when I stayed up late playing it on a school night (it was the day after my birthday). Unfortunately I had to keep the bedside lamp on to play it and my dad noticed the light from under the door. He stormed in the room and yelled at me. He said that it was probably a mistake to have given it to me and if he caught me playing it again after bedtime he'd get rid of it. It agitated me so much that I couldn't sleep that night!
Other than that, it was really cool at first playing Tetris and Super Mario Land. Later, I got Castlevania Adventure and I didn't care for it much. I remember there not being any other games that interested me, and I ending up selling the Game Boy and my three games a year later. I'm still trying to remember what I ended up buying with that money. It would have been a game that I really wanted or at least SOMETHING that I really wanted. I never sold any of my stuff unless that was the case.
Anyway, when Link's Awakening and the Mega Man games eventually came out, I wished I had held on to it.
Sounds like you should have been saving up your allowance for a small light attachment for your GB, so that you could play it under the covers.
Yeah, that would have been nice!
But that was two years ago! TWO YEARS is a long time!
you got three months off for summer? Damn that's amazing.
love your channel!
Another great flashback episode. I asked for a Game Boy, but I never got one. I did have some of those Tiger handheld games you mentioned: Heavy Barrel, Double Dragon, Football and Skeet Shoot. I remember playing them a lot on long road trips. I'm guessing our relative satisfaction with those far cheaper systems probably made my parents feel getting Game Boy was needlessly expensive. Either way it didn't happen. I knew a few friends who had them and kind of like you said. No one seemed really envious of those who did; some of that may have been due to the fact everyone seemed to have the same games for it. Oh, Tetris? Super Mario Land? Oh, Zelda? And then always some random game like Kirby or something like that. But I would agree it wasn't the kind of system that made people really curious or want to watch you play games on it like your NES would. I used to peek at my gifts all of the time. My parents still tease me about it. I perfected unwrapping and re-wrapping gifts. My parents then began to deploy countermeasures like extra tape at key points to make it easily detectable if the wrapping had been tampered with. So I eventually gave up peeking, too much hassle. Another nice trip down memory lane! I'm glad you liked the magnet, I thought they were well done and I knew you'd appreciate the quality!
I'm sure you get a lot of requests and ideas for videos, but I'd like to know your opinion on maybe a top 10 games from any console that you just really enjoyed or loved to the point you would rank them above most others.
It doesn't have to be a list of what others believe to be cool games, but your favorites. I'd enjoy seeing that video from you.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
That straight piece drought was rough😆
edit: nice comeback😎
Also, I love the Betamax. We had one in 1982 and another (almost identical to the one on screen) in about 1985
Our first home video machine was a Betamax, as well. Had a hard-wired remote control!
CGQ+ Nice! Ours has a regular wireless remote. Apparently it cost over £1000 in 1982!
Also, while you’re here, I just wanted to say that I love your channel. I love listening to memories and stories like the ones on your flashback series. I guess I like to compare your experiences to British ones. I was born in 2001 but I was bought up by a family that wouldn’t get rid of anything (to give you an example we have a 1967 Mini in our garage that hasn’t been used since 1978) and using that ideology I can remember us having a huge wooden 1970s TV with a sliding door on the front, using cassette tapes and VHS pretty much daily and (most importantly) playing Sega MegaDrive (or Genesis in your part of the world, of course). It’s amazing that all the stuff that we kept but didn’t use for 30 years still works. This includes (what is now) my Beta, a few black and white 12” TVs, a couple of 80s HiFis and four 80s home computers (a Commodore 64, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an Acorn Electron and an Amstrad 6128, all dating from before 1986).
Thanks, man. Fix up that Mini! Those are classics!
@@CGQPlus haha. They sure are. I'm impressed you know about them. They weren't sold in the States officially as far as I know.
I AM wearing headphones and the stereo worked! Also, Mario's bouncy balls (lol) remind me of his cameo in Arkanoid with its similar appearance of Mario's bouncy balls. As far as your Game Boy memories go, what you say is absolutely right about kids' general reaction to the Game Boy. I only knew one kid who had it and it didn't make me want to get one at all. Also also, is that more Russian music similar to Tetris when Mario gets a power up? Nintendo must have really liked their Russian tunes around this time period.
Also also also, I didn't get Super Mario Land until a few years ago but right away it became one of my favorite Mario games.
@Thomas Anderson Ah, I gotcha 👍
Not a good student until Graduate School...? There's hope for us all!
I broke your Gameboy all those years ago Chris. I think it's only right that I come clean about it ..
Erm .. you CAN jump over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros.
Intact there's AT LEAST one video on RUclips where someone has recorded themselves doing it!!
I will never forget my first exposure to the Game Boy. Like you, my first experience was seeing it sitting behind glass at Toys R Us... right next to that sweet, sweet Power Glove. Oh how I wish there had been a playable display; perhaps then I would have been able to resist the dark magic spell that Power Glove marketing had cast upon me. Alas, my 8 year old mind was unable to comprehend what the Game Boy really was as it lay there lifeless in its cold, glass prison. A years worth of saved birthday and Christmas money entered the void that day as I made possibly the worst purchasing decision of my life and chose the Power Glove. I can still remember trying that abomination for the first time; the feeling of my hopeful optimism souring into crushing disappointment will be forever crystallized in my heart. That moment, more than any other, symbolizes the death of my childhood innocence; it's my "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" moment. I never did get a Game Boy.
Damn, man. That hurt to read.
There is a flip side to this story. As bad as the Power Glove was as a game controller, it did make for a pretty awesome toy. I'm not sure how long it took, but I eventually ended up cutting the cord off and using it as an imaginative toy; my Zapper had the same fate. This would have been around the time that the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon came out, so a a cord-free Power Glove and Zapper allowed me to emulate that in pretty awesome fashion. I'm still pretty salty about not choosing the Game Boy, but this experience had a huge positive impact on my buying habits even to this day. I credit this experience with instilling the level of thoughtfulness I put into even the simplest purchasing situation; I'll spend quite some time considering my options on even the simplest items. This has served me well over the years as I tend to make very sound and well thought out decisions when it comes to buying stuff. Thanks Power Glove! @@CGQPlus
Great, I really enjoy these.
World 2 looks like it's meant to be the lost continent of Mu
lol don't feel bad. I swear I had my genesis such and such a time, come to find out that it wasn't available for most of the time I thought I had it. we are getting older, memories can get confusing. I am older than you so its even worse for me.lol don't sweat it, it happens to all of us, this was nearly 30 years ago after all bud. I do remember having the gb for Christmas my senior year in highschool, the same year I swore I had my genesis all year.l (nope, gensis wasn't available till the end of my senior year)but like you I had super mario for the gb. it Is fantastic!! was pretty damn good at the time, still isn't bad today. great memories, I love hearing everyone's stories and relate them to mine in the day. I did just recently pick up a lauch gb system complete in box etc, all accessories. it brings back great times. long range trips weren't so bad with a gameboy and some decent games like FF legends, mario and the staple Tetris.
The next sticker has to be Conrad’s artwork
Mouser needs to return as a villain for Mario, Bowser got old.
I dont think you have any content I dont enjoy. Not that I always agree, but its at bare minimum well thought out.
It seems that for hard core Mario fans, Super Mario Land is always at the bottom of the list but it’s probably my favourite. I’ve beaten it a few times and for some reason I’ve just always found it the most enjoyable.
Guy, you said you were in jr high in ‘89?! I was born in ‘87 and I thought you were my age!
Turned 45 this year.
Great Video, man. Heads up though, Warwick is pronounced phonetically. Fellow Rhode Islander here. However, our accents would likely pronounce it as Wahwick. :)
keep doing more shows!
A++ video
What ever happened to Jonathan!? Jonathan, are you watching this?
Where's the link for the stickers? I'd love to grab one for my tumbler.
Scratch that, got it.
sports got me threw school.
Hey Chris I am a huge Arcade fan what have you got on your astro city cabinet???
Right now it has Street Fighter II: CE in it. I also have Final Fight and Golden Axe boards, and I have a 1-slot Neo-Geo MVS board along with a bunch of carts. What are your favorite arcade games?
@@CGQPlus Hey cool. So I have a 4 player mame machine that I got for NBA HANGTIME and Street fighter 2 Hyper fight. 2 on 2 open ice is good too. Basically anything by Capcom Midway and the Tekken series. Recently I got a trackball for golden tee. I am also waiting on the sinden lightgun for police trainer and point black. Then I think the cabinet will be all done
So did you know that you can change some of the eproms in SF2CE to convert it to SF2 HYPER FIGHT? It really is the best version for the modern day.
How is your NEO GEO collection? Also since pinball is getting a revival Did you play much pinball at Sams town?
256 kb, 512 kb, 1 Mb, 2 Mb, 4 Mb and 8 Mb cartridges (Game Boy).
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love your content but i really wish you’d drop the postcard section of your videos. I know it helps engagement but it doesn’t add much for the regular viewer and it takes a while to find where to skip past it, just my opinion!
It literally takes about 10 seconds to find the moment if you want to skip it.
Those 10 seconds though... :D
The Gameboy was never my cup of tea. It seemed like old dated tech before it even cam out. The screen just seemed very crappy. Like it was just a bigger version of one of those early gray green digital watch screens. It felt like a backward step in technology for a up in price at 150 I believe it launched at.
Bet 20 bucks you still weren't even born when they stopped making it.
82'
@@Ducksauce33 Sure dude. You notice how among all these aged gamers youre the only one who used emojis? Youre trying to tell me you had discriminating taste on display specs that went completely against the grain at age 9? Must be cuz you were so used to playing your neo geo. We all wish we were young, bro. Embrace it.
On the one hand, dude accusing you of not being as old as you say is bizarre. On the other hand, I don't remember thinking this at all, but more to the point of what he said in the video, I don't remember it being very popular and we were more concerned with console games. Definitely don't remember criticizing the quality of games or the consoles for many, many years after that. Seemed like having the ability to play a video game in your hand was pretty damn impressive back then. According to the Wikipedia the Gameboy was $89 when launched, by the way.
@@gattsuberserk4534 It's so bizarre, that you decided to pile on? Interesting take. But your'e definitely right about criticising games. Even the crappiest games got a pass for simply existing.