10 Things Today's Gamers Wouldn't Understand
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
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The moment when you are almost through your game (that has no safe feature) and the little battery light on your gameboy starts dimming down.
I remember trying to keep my game boy turned on while I was in school but it was always dead by the time I got out. Now people can just put it in rest mode
11) when cheat codes were a thing you had to find/discover/enter instead of purchase as DLC
12) when GAME OVER meant restarting
13) when you couldnt look up walkthroughs or solutions on the internet and actually had to figure out entire games
14) when 900 numbers allowed rich kids to pay for solutions when #13 took too long
15) when saving your progress was non-existent or took 28+ alphanumeric character passwords
16) when most families only had one TV, often resulting in the dreaded picture-in-picture debate with the parents. 2 inch Mario to the sounds of the local news... Thanks a lot, mother. Good compromise.
Picture in Picture? U wot mate?
games restarting when you die is not good game design, if devolopers could have made saving systems they would have
to be onest the arcade games are made with no saves on perpose because if your restart you have to pay to play again whitch means most of the games were intentionally hard as hell.
Yeah. I wasn't rich by any means, but my dad would actually buy things for me instead of medicine for himself and such. I didn't know back then. Having my own tv was amazing. Small nowadays, but it meant I didn't have to interrupt anyone and could use ear phones. Another nice thing was how my parents enjoyed gaming. Often I wouldn't even be playing a game and one would ask me "Hey, let's play suchandsuch."
in my household it was the 'please just let me get to a save point' while adults are getting angrier and angrier in the background, not picture in picture.
When everything you could unlock in a game was unlocked by playing and completing it. No DLC whatsoever.
expansion packs
Xehanort10 Facts
thank you, I remember those days fondly lol
I remember when games couldn't be completed, you just tried to beat your previous high score.
Remember when future DLC was actually based on how well a game sold, and weren't parts cut out before launch?
or when it was called an expansion pack and actually contained content. Like a whole games worth for half the price of the original game.
and sometimes didnt even need the base game to be played
@@TheMcal9909
You mean expansions?
Like Dragon Age Origins Awakening?
Or Blood and Wine for The Witcher 3?
Don't forget a lot of those DLC also eventually became free unlike today
Corsuwey me
How did he not mention that PC games used to come on 10 floppy discs....
Umm forgive me, little correction there.. You mean floppy disks (or diskettes). With a 'k'. Because.. you know, a disk is a disc obscured by something else
But yes, today's gamers don't really know games used to be installed from 10 x 1.44Mb floppy disks
And they rarely ask why Windows start with C: drive. Not A: or B:
He didn't talk much about PC games at all other than to say he didn't know how to use a PC to run games worth a damn.
Yeah, if you even showed a kid these days a floppy disk they'd go "what the heck is that?" and if you told them that in the early days of PC's you actually had the entire Operating System on one floppy disk while the second disk drive was used for whatever program you were trying to run I'm fairly sure the'd laugh at you even though it's true.
He didnt mention it because PC games and the community are irrelevant
@@main_game And 8 inch floppies before that.
If you didn't have a memory card you just had to try and play the game all at once or suffer
Or to take it one step further, if you played multiple games at the same time, you sometimes had to delete one games info to make room for the new game you were playing.
memory card slot may stop working on PS1 and you have to complete Diablo 1 in one setting
I used to try and see how far I could go before having to sleep ahah speed running before it was a thing
I remember I got my PS1 after many years of no console since our master system died. No idea about memory cards so didn't by one as I still had the "complete in one go" mindset. The game shop was many miles away so I didn't get back for weeks. My bro and i must have played the first 2-3 sections of MGS a hundred times. It's funny looking back now.
Well, then you just didnt turn of the console until you'd beaten the game.
I remember playing Spyro the Dragon on PS1 and I probably had over 8-9 hours of gameplay in that day without saving. Then the cat walked on my OPEN button and the game froze.
Similar experiences with Spyro the Dragon 2 XD
A thing a gamer wouldn't understand today?
Game over resulting in having to start all over again
Those games still exist. They're called roguelikes. lol
Warstar I have at least 20 different roguelikes in my library. They're fairly common. Although some of them classify more as rogue-lite.
BOBONOPOLI I loved it, check out Salt and Sanctuary too. More Dark Souls than Rogue but it's my favorite platformer ever.
that doesn't make any sense
Well today's roguelikes usually have you buffing your stuff so you get stronger for next playthrough. I guess he thought about those games where you just die (lose all lives/continues) and have to restart, I wouldn't call it roguelike
Anyone else remember going to the store and looking through the cheat code books hoping you'd find cheats for your game?
Of course. Then memorizing them with our young minds instead of staring at a magazine and trying them over and over. up down left right right left down up holding two buttons while doing so all in 3 seconds.
up up down down left right left right b a start - you're welcome
konami code!
Memorize? I just ripped the fucking page out, amateur.
Last month i met an old friend i had not seen in a while and grabbed our consoles, beer and chips to talk about the good old times. What happened?
PS4: needs to Update for hours, no proper splitscreen game
PS3: the battery of both wireless controllers is dead, only one USB-cable to recharge
PS2: did not even start
PS1: drop in the first unmarked 20+ Year old home-pirated CD with a surface that would make sandpaper jealous, runs perfectly fine -> played Raiden I+II, Hercules, Driver and Tomb Raider till 4 am while the PS4 was still updating
Hey my PS2 still works like a pro
You realize splitscreen games still exist right? Like yeah they're not as common but they do exist, also for the ps3 sounds like that's on you for not having 2 cables to charge your controllers cause you know you could buy one of those whenever you want to so that doesn't happen
No internet to look up cheats, walkthroughs or secrets, so you either had to buy the guide or rely on word of mouth to get that info.
Shark Cards (I think that's what they're called) for the Gameboys. You'd plug the game into it. It was loaded with cheats. Like old school mods 😂
Or call the Hint Line they sometimes provided...
Renting games at Blockbuster in real life.
I experienced SO many games featured on Angry Video Game Nerd that way!
Wish we still could. I want to play the new COD WW2 campaign. Don't really care for the multiplayer
I remember asking my dad to go to family video to rent video games for the Wii with one dollar I made a week...
Renting games at Blockbuster and Hollywood Video......ahhhh, those were the good days
It’s actually really sad that we can’t do this anymore. I don’t want to BUY a new game, I just want to rent it for two nights, keep it an extra 9days (infuriate all the people in my town who are waiting for me to return it), and not pay the late charges until the next time I want to rent something. Is that really too much to ask? Smh
Anyone remember when MMORPG players were social? Back then you could walk into a tavern and say "I'm looking for a tank to help me run this dungeon!" and people would happily offer their assistance. Now, I see a player gathering materials in the same area as me in Final Fantasy XIV and say "Another day of gathering, eh?" and they would just go "ok" and walk away like I'm some social madman.
I do. A friend and I ran a guild and we all knew each other. Often we'd get on to talk, and we'd hat a hit sheet for the strongest, most arrogant guild's members, for each time we destroyed them. Leveling was tough, often taking months for one level.
Good old EQ, dying due to exploring and asking nice higher levels to help you in the nearest city and they helping while typing out a misadventure they had dying as well.
nothing like being on a boat headed back to the dwarven continent and getting a cyclops trained onto you, killing you on the boat and then spending an hour and a half swimming around in the ocean spamming the corpseloc command until you finally find your body at the very bottom of the ocean and having to make multiple dives to get it all back because it was down so deep.
Damn I miss old school everquest. It felt like you were really there. despite the crappy gfx it is the most immersed in a game I have ever been. The community was something else, people acctualy roleplayed
Yea i miss that i don't however miss getting murdered in dungeons because the designated healer is a moron especially when that same moron tries to tank the boss instead of staying back behind the lines of protection and doing their friggen job. Still i am pretty bad about not realizing i am being talked to and walking away because i have tunnel vision and the chat screen really does not have my focus when i am busy with a quest
#11. DLC being called Add-ons or Expansion Packs and being actual playable content with expansive story missions and not just weapon skins and a tactical fedora.
#12 Maps being free and games even included tools so users could make their own.
Even better: being secrets unlockable in the game. You didn’t had to buy it, you had to work your ass off to find a way trough it because your friend managed to do it, but was too much of a douche to tell you how...
Robert Petrea oblivion bro
Witcher 3. A single add on is 15 hours and the 2nd is 30 more hours of game play. Then you have shit like call of duty that's literally just skins lmao sometimes maps
unlockable secrets where just as much, if not more of a cash grab as DLC
unlockable content was put into arcade games specifically to make kids blow their alowances on trying to unlock them, hell some game devs actually realized that just spreading the rumors of there being a secret in their game was enough.
How about having to write down some crazy long password when you were done playing, so you could pick up where you left off later by agonizingly putting in the code. Alternatively, having to hold RESET while turning off The Legend of Zelda on the NES and crossing your fingers hoping your saved games weren't erased.
Man i had an entire notebook dedicated to Dino Crisis back in the days.
I still blow into things when they don’t work. Some habits never die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't work, blow me.
Some habits don't work too
That's why your employees love working for you. Ahhh.
Does anyone remember balancing a glass of cold milk on a ZX Spectrum power pack to prevent it from over heating? Or trying to get the Commodore 64 tape drive working? Or those brightly coloured strips of wallpaper that counted instead of copy protection? Or manuals? Does any one remembers when games came with a manual?!
Eloquently Emma back when my friend had a PS2, when he didn't want a game anymore he gave it to me but he kept the manual, that son of a b**** lol
Eloquently Emma I still have my ff7 manual
I remember well the times when buying a game was like a special event. You read magazines to check out reviews, anticipations and ads, you went to the game shop and spent hours in front of these endless shelves full of game boxes. You bought your game and couldn't wait to play it. You unwrapped the box, got the floppy/CD/DVD, installed it and took the manual to bed to read it until u fell asleep at 5 am. And finally enjoyed your game.
I member
i had a bag full of manuals, back when they came in full color and had a lot of pages. Back then I could look at an image in an instruction manual, and without tracing at all, just redraw it from memory the same size on something else. I can't do that now.
Every kid that wanted to play on PC prior to Win98 was fluent in DOS. There was no struggling to get something to run. You just knew how to do it.
I could never get the sound card to work.
I just got my mum to start up all of my games for me.
Yeah, it happened to me many times. That was a pain in the ass.
Yes. and usually games included instructions on what (readme.txt or something else) memory types you needed and and they usually gave an error message if conventional memory etc was not enough. DOS/4G -> DOS/4GW made things a lot easier later on though. Early networking was a horror though :D
+Geri Shalnev What soundcard, did you load the drivers and do the SET SOUND thingies in autoexec.bat and config.sys ? :D
I genuinely forgot about the dog getting tangled in the cables scenario.
I rarely laugh out loud, but that got me.
Such a random memory.
Good work squire.
Good work indeed.
7:04 being able to see other people's screen was part of the strategy and made it so much more fun when you were in the same room as each other.
No checkpoints
Ooh! Kid Kool, anybody?
Or no auto save.
Dangerous Dave.
Where you had to use the "mighty password"
and how frustrating it was, when you lost the piece of paper which it was on...
No regenerating health
-When you had to type in the commands to your character.
-And that's when graphical adventures were a thing.
-Or even text adventures.
-When you had to enter anti-piracy codes from the game manual.
-When PC games had to explicitly state they needed a mouse, sound card, or the graphic card they required.
-When controllers were joysticks.
-Using floppy disks to boot to a tweaked autoexec.bat to be able to run the game.
I'll stop, I'm giving away my age :P
To this day, I still love Kings Quest 2 :) I was sad when I had to upgrade to Win 8 a few years back and found it couldn't run DOS games like my Win XP could :( Need to get a new power supply so I can play my old DOS games again eventually. Somewhere I still have a Dungeons & Dragons game that was text based. It's on a 5 1/4" floppy LoL
I think ScummVM can run many King Quests games, you should take a look. Also DosBox. If it seems too complex (it really isn't, but takes some time to learn), there are some good front-ends for it.
About floppies, oh well, that's a bit of a problem there. But most text based games are abandonware, if you look around you might find a copy (the internet archive, or abandonia are places to look at).
DOSBox. Nuff said.
I still play Alley Cat (IBM, 1984) as that was the game of my childhood.
PC games today still explicitly state the required minimum hardware necessary to run their games.
Right, they do, but they're more general. They may even recommend certain brands, but they rely on standard APIs. Back then, some games had a list of compatible hardware, particular video cards and sound cards they could run with. Some relied on a particular processor. Some mouses were incompatible with some applications.
It was a lot messier.
Back then:
--We would cut grass to make money for the arcade
-- Sometimes we had to walk through the snow to get there. No joke.
--There was no such thing as DLC.
--"Server down for maintenance" meant the maintenance guy was emptying out the quarters from the machine.
-- Gamers were alot more respectful because the "Report System" was a real life 1v1. You never heard racial slurs or extreme insults, and nerd rage wasn't even a thing.
--The top gamers were humble. Nowadays people celebrate and tea bag and say "git gud" but back then if someone beat you too much, and they knew you, they'd give you some quarters so you could keep practicing with them.
--Gaming felt more like a hobby than a chore.
only thing i hated about arcades no one would share there secretes i remember getting bodied on mvc2 bad for hours and the jerks would not even tell me how to aerial chase. my time came when tekken 2 came oh the joys i had destroying jerks at it.
Cut grass to make money for the arcade -> sometimes having to walk through snow to get there... somewhat of an unfortunate placing of that point I'd say! :)
And spend it at Putt Putt Golf Arcade.
Trev right
Man I fell in love with rare in the 90s. They could do no wrong back then. Also I loved time splitters as well. I remember sinking hours upon hours into time splitters future perfect and having all nighters playing conkers bad fur day multiplayer. I remember having a friend come over to my house literally every day just to play some couch coop and multiplayer. Man I'm getting so nostalgic right now.
Perfect Dark is why i love Rare
Oh man TS Future Perfect will always be one of my fave games. Me and my childhood sweetheart co-opped the story and then we would get all his mates over for four player championships. I LOVE that game. I was always Cyborg Chimp
I still play through Banjo-Kazooie about once every 2 years. It's become very easy to 100% but it still feels fresh everytime I enter that world.
when i have a kid im going to make him start from the NES and master system then as he slowly gets older he will make his way up.
Good plan, especially if you have all the consoles and games safely stored somewhere. I still have all my consoles I every owned, including the NES :)
Twon Games Great minds think alike. I had the same thought in mind, make them appreciate their gaming ancestors
before he or she gets to the shitty 8th gen give him or her a pc
But Daddy I want the PS7 and the XBOX 1XS3000
DangerRiot Don't make me get The Switch.
Man... you missed one
When games were hard...
Everyone saids " the Dark Souls of racing with the Dark Souls of this and that" but they never knew the horrors of contra on NES
"The horrors of Contra" couldn't of it said it better myself. Hell just the patterns of monsters in Castlevania 1-3.
AlphaZeno 2 words. Kid Chameleon. A real ballbreaker.
Don't forget Golden Axe!
Omg this list was the best ever! I agree with *ALL* the words of it! It was so fun and nostalgic. Your lists are always the best Ben! You showed all the best games, too!
Getting all your mates round and playing wwf no mercy till 6am
They also don't understand games you didn't have to install first, games being broken and buggy messes that were unfixable because the internet wasn't really a thing for consoles, paying for a disc and getting 100% of the content without being told to pay for DLC, microtransactions and fucking loot boxes, games having cheats because none of them do these days and having a special disc you put into the system that you typed a ridiculously long code into which would do some sort of sorcery and suddenly hack the game to have cheats or hacks not intended to be used by the player.
On the plus side, during the 80’s when tape based media was king, getting a new fangled midi-system for Christmas with a tape-to-tape recorder meant that you could easily, erm, “backup” your games (and definitely not copy them like a pirate might do). See also: recording the Top 40 off the radio. Man alive, how am I not in prison?
Because it's one of those unspoken 'unenforceable laws' - too many people did it therefore it's quietly ignored in favour of 'more important crimes'. Remember VCRs? The main purpose of them was to record TV programmes... even though doing so was/is illegal. How many people were arrested for that? Pretty sure it's somewhere between zilch and nada. (Don't quote me on that).
I think the only ones who were arrested for doing that, was trying to make money off of it.
The movie and TV industry actually tried to sue for people recording videos at home and get them to stop. The Supreme Court ruled it perfectly legal for a person in their house to record a program on VHS on their VCR. So no, it was not illegal in any way, and anyone who may have been arrested for it was arrested illegally.
Because at that time up to just recently, copyright infringement has very little enforcement, and even if they caught you, they wouldn't give a damn, because they've much bigger fish to fry, at least with the Police, however Hollywood executives and publishing companies for intellectual property would perhaps try to sue you @$$ in Civil Court with no hesitation / mercy. They're the ones pushing that Law Enforcement cracks down more on online piracy. At least, as Ironic as it seems, in the near future (especially with the Legalization of Marijuana) We'll have this strange scenario where a guy get's pulled over and the cop says "We got nothing on him, just this giant bag of weed, rolling papers, and a bong, wait! is that a pirated burnt CD in his CD player?! Sir your under arrest!! Get out of the Car now!!"
+Toby King I remember putting my tape recorder next to a speaker and hitting record to record a song well before tape to tape recording.
I nearly cried with happiness when you mention Castle Of Illusion, World Of Illusion and Quakshot. Those were my game for Mega Drive (or Genesis), and who could forget De-Cap Attack!
This video brings back memories! Thank you for uploading!
when a game worked straight out of the box and didn't need updates, patches and day one DLC
Some actually did have game breaking bugs, but it was a rarity while it has become a norm now. Also too many games go out of support before all the game breaking is gone.
yes lol there are some games that didnt completed in release for example xbox version of true crime nyc there is no way to complete the game, all you need to do is to get a ps2 or pc
Turok Rage Wars was another unless you were lucky enough to have a silver cartridge edition that had fixed the bug :(
#1 should be game companies releasing a finished game that didn't require dlc for the full game
Reggie_bringit I think that wasn't on the list is because everyone knows that dlc and micro transactions weren't always in games
Reggie_bringit EA "it's not DLC, it's optional extras"
tell that to all the kids that grew up with an iphone in their hands with candy crush and other "freemium" games. "Freemium: it means "free" but not really"
Louise Drake "optional extras" aka "progression"
Reggie_bringit that's the joke, and so is EAs public relations.
I remember when I had an Atari you'd have to connect an R/F switch to the TV by sliping a thin forked metal tab under a screw and tightening it. It would often slip out and you'd get stripes all over the screen. Then you'd have to pull down the reset lever and hold it to fix some problems. The joy stick would often not work on certain sides when you push on it from wear an tear so you'd eventually started putting more and more pressure on it when you're trying to move around.
The first time I played N64 game I couldn't believe how obvious secret spots were. They had obvious tells like discoloration or slightly different textures. This was a major change from Nintendo and Super Nintendo where you'd have to bomb every little pixel to find a secret because they liked to sell gamer magazines that would detail secrets and maps. Then the internet came along where you could look it all up for free online.
I don't know how to describe it when I was a kid and first bought a Nintendo. The jump from Atari/and a Tandy TX1000 computer to a friggen Nintendo was so huge. We hooked it up and it was like having my own personal arcade quality center. It gave me butterflies of excitement when I went to bed and I knew it was just a button press away. I've never had that feeling again with any new console since and stopped buying them after the ps2.
Guess there's no strategy game fans at WhatCulture, because you left hotseat off your list. *"Are you done your turn yet?!"*
Ah, I remember screen looking...some of my friends called it cheating, I called it "A perfectly legitimate strategy, using only the resources at hand to their fullest potential".
Ah, a fellow pragmatist. One must use all advantages to hand to achieve victory! Besides, it's not like they weren't doing the exact same thing. Spoilsports.
Have you no honor sir!?
There was a shooter recently where everyone was invisible but played like old 4 player so you had to screen peak to figure out where everyone was.
yup we all did it LOL
clericofchaos1 Yeah, I tried that excuse when playing with my older brother. Didn't stop him from punching me in the nuts. Moral of the story: don't cheat if you're not good enough to prevent getting caught.
Split screen was the best. Screen hacking was on the honor system, but sometimes taking the time to look at someone else's screen meant imminent death, as you weren't paying attention to your screen. Also, playing in the same room as your friends was always a million times better than playing online with a bunch of people that don't even use their mics. I really miss those days.
Ahhhh the memories.... the nostalgia.... the utter frustration only surpassed by the hours upon hours of fun..... How I miss those days.
YES! So glad you mentioned the retro Disney games! At last some else acknowledges it!!!!
Oh number 6 hurt so hard. RIP RARE
when he said rare i got that fluttery feeling before remembering they were all but dead and then that sinking feeling :(
+kabztunes you have Microsoft to thanks for that, they fucked RARE up.
Actually, you have Nintendo to thank for that...
As Rare started to struggle financially (because of increasing development costs), Nintendo did not acquire Rare when they could have, so Rare tried to find other potential buyers. Microsoft acquired them and the rest is history, for better or worse (but mainly for worse).
Make Rareware great again :'(
yet Rare kinda did it to themselves, had they just went ahead and made a sequel to Conker and Perfect Dark out of the gate on XBOX they would have been fine then follow those up with a banjo game??
then when X360 started they could have petitioned to get another month for Perfect Dark 3 so the game could come out after launch....cus that's what killed PDZ it was a rushed launch game and needed more polish....
but as things really happened, Grabbed by the Ghoulies sold for shit then Conker was censored for some reason i think they had a Banjo game on XB but IDK, PDZ and Kameo failed or were bad then they did the viva Pineta games but they were sidelined after that, they tried to get a perfect Dark 2 made for a few years and that's what made MS sideline em, f em sideline Rare then make em make shit games nobody wants....
FFS the then head of XBOX either J Allard or Peter Moore got nearly violent in shutting down Rare's attempts at making another Perfect Dark which IMO is damning and says a lot about their business......eh, good dev but most of the real talent left to form Free Radical and even they suffered under a stupid company......you realize how much money Crytek could have made had they let FR make a Timesplitters game in Cryengine?? OMFG would it have sold like mad......or hell what if they rethought everything and did Dimension Splitters or something?? Sliders with guns?? so long as they kept key characters like jo beth casey or whatever [the goth chick in TS2's mansion level] and i'd be good....eh
That if you were in the arcade, and someone was playing a game you wanted to play, you stuck a quarter on it to mark that you had the next play. The comment on the video about DOS and the games not working most of the time is a blatant lie. If you had a PC back then, you most likely knew what you were doing with it, unless you were a small child and didn't know how to use it. Those games had what they required clearly marked on their boxes and clear instructions on how to install them. It wasn't hard. Once you knew how to do one, you knew how to do them all. DOS may seem like a great mystery to people who grew up with Windows, but to those of us who grew up with DOS, we knew how to do everything with it. We had no problem installing "Tie Fighter" or installing hardware or any of the other things games needed back then.
As someone who started PC gaming in DOS when I was 5 years old, in a non-english country, it was hard to install games. Also, i've had to fiddle with a few commands over the years after that due to bad locations when installing, some folder that didn't create correctly, etc.
Even in more recent windows games, I've had to do command line or registry to fix some stupid game that didn't install correctly but had an easy fix (looking at you, Age of Empires and World of Warcraft updates). Installations haven't been always 100% reliable.
If you had DOS you had NC. :)
I was a wee kid, and I didn't know :(
Started off with DOS back in the days, now use Linux and still use the terminal. Typing commands is faster in many cases (thanking the Great Old Ones for auto-completion and command history)
Two words.... Cannon fodder.
I still do the first one lol. I’m a 2000’s kid but my dad was born in the 70’s. Literally he bought another tv, got a HDMI splitter, and cardboard. We still have the cardboard at our house.
Lol! Taping the card board is actually a great idea! I wish we had done that! Gone be the days of shouting, "SCREEN PEAKING! YOU'RE SCREEN PEAKING!!" Oh, good times.... 😂
I had a few friends that we looked on purpose. Made are games way more intense. These were the same friends that loved the golden gun too.
it's your own foult man.
when everyone is screen peeking, no one is.
#1 better be having to beat a hard game without the internet.
Thats what buying games magazines was for.
Thomas Clifford mew under the truck. That's all I need to say.
Agreed, nobody flexes their brain anymore when they get stuck. Every solution is on Google or RUclips
I’m ashamed to say I’ve fallen victim to the modern gaming practices. I remember spending hours, even days being stuck on 1 part of a level. Now I get stuck for maybe 30 min before I look up the solution on RUclips :/
Good for them. As a kid, I was never able to beat Demon's Crest because I didn't realize you had to push a tombstone to the side. Over 10 years later, I remembered it and looked up online how to advance - I was so pissed to find out that's why I could never beat the game.
Super Mario Allstars, The Lion King, Altered Beast, Double Dragon, Donkey Kong, Popeye on the C64, Time Crisis, Golden Eye, Resident Evil 1, Tomb Raider 1. Doom, Wolfenstien. Such great memories of my childhood stretched throughout the years.
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start.
Hahaha.. Konami code!
Super Alexa mode activated
*_Why aren't Controller Inserts on the list? Without them you wouldn't know the controls for any Intellivision games..._*
Honorable mention: *Physical game manuals.*
@1:48 that wasn't from the Super Nintendo, that's Metroid Zero Mission on GBA.
I remember going down by bike to my local game shop and trading games. I got to know the owner of the shop well and he was really helpful at trying to make good deals with me to get the games I wanted to play and making good recommendations. Man, those were the days.
Thanks for reminding me about screen watching, so many times where I was aiming at someone's head with a sniper rifle and they purposely stop short because they see you aiming at them on your screen
You forgot a couple other things about the arcades that, even today, aren't the same in the home experience: pinball game and special controllers (spinners, Tron, Spy Hunter). You also forgot to mention the struggle for 640k base RAM.
Hey... hey... who remembers when it cost over a hundred bucks just for a meg of RAM?
Speaking of which, I wonder how many gamers today know the difference between a byte and a bit, or that 1kB isn't 1000 bytes (and so forth).
uhh... (this is my best shot, im 14.) A byte is a storage unit, and it goes 1,024 bytes for a KB, and 1,024 KB for a MB, etc. A bit, as I understand it, is a graphical thingie, while a byte is a storage unit. And yes, my dad has many a tales about kb of ram and whatnot
Not bad kid. You got the conversions right. A byte is 8 bits. A bit is a digital 1 or a 0. A bit by itself isn't a storage unit, but storage units "hold" bits.
To go further, you'd have to know the basic workings of the atom. If you're familiar with it, I can explain more if you like.
ooooh that makes sense. So a bit basically is a "bit" of binary, which holds values, and one byte holds 8 values which the computer or consol uses to read or something.
Essentially, yes. Bits work off of something called voltage. Voltage is the potential for an electron to hop from one atom to another atom. When your lights in your house are on, it's because there is a voltage across the bulbs and electrons have a path to move across the bulb. A bit is one indication of whether or not a voltage is present (1 for present, 0 for absent). When you press a key on your keyboard, you're allowing electrons to flow across the board underneath giving a value of 1. One pixel on your monitor is the color it is because it's receiving a series of bits that equates to intensities in the colors red, green, blue, in a binary value that is determined by a consecutive set of bits. However the specifics get a lot more complicated than that.
remember when Memory Cards were having a weird measurement called Blocks?
Couch co-op > online
Geralt of Rivia I still remember playing through the whole Halo series with my brothers...
Timesplitters memories
Split screen is unless and dead. Get over it gramps.
Geralt of Rivia Facts
Cow chop
When seeing the EA Logo was a good thing.
When knowing how to do a MK Fatality was something awesome.
When you bought or played a game knowing that you might never see the end credits.
When you needed to ask your elder brother/cousin/buddy how to beat a hard section of a game.
E A sports...... It's in the game!
I started gaming when I was 10 with the PS1 and GB Color. Link cables for Pokemon, blowing into memory cards, no save points for ages, chunky game manuals, multiple glitches especially in the old Pokemon games like cloning and Crash Team racing... good times
For the most part i don't miss the old days of gaming.
Man those Disney games had original storylines and good graphics
They still do... Kingdom Hearts is still a thing.
I have a working Sega Genesis and both The Lion King and Toy Story 1, they are great platformers :)
Duck Tales and Rescue Rangers one and two are some of my favorite NES games.
At least we still have Kingdom Hearts *looks at Square Enix* never change Square Enix never change
Torchii kingdom hearts is a bullshit game that should have never been created.
great job showing the first road rage in the beginning! Oh the memories, awesome game!
Point four resulted in the death of my beloved PS2, still remember like it was yesterday, I was playing Lego Star Wars the original trilogy when my mum walked through the living room, catching the lead on her ankle and sent my poor console downwards towards its doom. It hit the floor so hard it shattered
Math? Cooperation? There's LOTS of things modern gamers have a problem understanding.
Math :DDDDDDDDD
Cooperation? In today’s “Git Gud!” age, where everybody just wants to totally pwn everyone else? Yeah, I bet many would have a problem understanding the concept of actual teamwork. Lol.
Darkness Prevails Maths, cooperation, teamwork, manners, respect, my respect for them, the concept of having fun and human nature itself with the noises that people make! I mean the screaming is sooooo annoying!
City Guard a team of snipers will never work
Good to see u here man lol
The fact that I grew up with and understand all these points makes me feel like and old man.
You are old af... Don't worry so am I
Makes me feel progressive.
And I’m still a gamer to this date.
Too true mate.
I'm young but I went through all that trouble myself going through all my old consoles. Fun fact: I still have all of those games with me to this day. The golden age of gaming... what a marvellous place
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, I enjoyed it. I actually still have my original 386 DX-66 and all the hardware, and yes it still works.
I never did understand people blowing into their cartridges, because it actually makes it worse by making the contacts even dirtier. Best thing to do was grab your no.2 HB pencil, and flip it over and use the eraser on the contacts to clean them. I still use that method for cleaning the contacts on video cards, etc.
Keep up the fab work on these vids.
I don't know if it's just nostalgia as I haven't played it in years but I remember that Tarzan game being freaking awesome as a kid.
Fuck yeah it was, but the game for me would always crash after a few levels on my shitty PC i had as a kid.
Anyone who did #1 for Mario Kart was breaking the rules.
It encourages you to look at the other players' screen in the manual.
Phh, cheaters, not looking at other screens...
uhh ok
You should do one on handheld devices, including "Streetlighting", when you were in the back of a car during a long drive with your GameBoy or whatnot, which in those days did NOT have a backlit screen, so you would try to plot your pokemon attacks in the half a second of light you got from the streetlights... or if you were lucky, the car behind you would have its headlights on.
I'm 22 and I remember a lot of this stuff. Sad that gamers (some not all) now-a-days don't know how much games have progressed through the years.
If you even had 4 tvs. Because remember: your computer screen was not a viable alternative. Hardly anybody had four tv screens back then.
Two for me. My parents had a larger one (small by today's standards) and I had a small one which was just fine to me.
We had a simple solution, we brought our own TVs to our LAN parties. Though my TV really sucked, it was a 32" flat screen CRT and weighed well over 100lbs.
We had one tv does anyone else remember that as the youngest and the one with the least amount of power in the house you were the one who had to get up and adjust the rabbit ears and maybe replace the foil on it to make it magically work again
Savitar The Surfing God haha, yes! My grandma had those. Oh and if you walked in front of them, or bumped them you’d get snow for days lol! At home our antenna was on the roof, thank heavens.
1:48 That's a GBA game, not an SNES game. Even if you want to pull the remake card, it's a remake of an NES game.
I remember all of these except the "going to an arcade" one as I've never been to an arcade ever in my life. Have to say though: I actually miss the split screen option. Playing with others one a single screen sitting in your home was fun - sure, multiplayer online has its advantages, but when it's the only option, I'm always rather sad..
6:50 Very funny that you should say that with Doom in the background. When i was playing Doom on my 486 with Windows 95 on it, one day i accidentally moved a dll out of the install folder. I immediately moved it back, but for some reason, the game would not run after that, no matter what i did to it.
when extra content was earned not bought
The two thing's alot of today's gamers wouldn't understand : Difficulty & Game Over's.
I think the difficulty part in games is why the current generation (Teens and young adults) lacks problem solving skills. And the abundance of walkthroughs and solutions to pretty much everything doesn't help in the developement of patience.
that doesn't make any sense
BlueTarantulaProductions
I understand perfectly. I'm getting mortal kombat Armageddon flashbacks
Definitely true. I can't remember when i have last seen a "Game Over" Screen in any game that wasn't from pre-millenium.
Just infinite reloads from the last auto-save, but even that is rarely met since it became so hard to actually die.
In some games it's literally impossible to die/fail; sometimes that fits perfectly with the game, but sometimes it's just stupid.
When your Nintendo restarts on you when you don't have a memory card is one of my joyful memory or when games were just coming out with the newer controllers with the analog and I didn't know and bought one and couldn't play till I bought the newer controller
I was born 2001 and I still can relate to every one of what you said. I even had cassettes as a child!
Did I somehow missed the childhood of my time?
What about fucking up your memory cards on ps1 & 2
Panzerkin how about 12 mb was alot on ps2 and ps1
Panzerkin how did you fuck them up?
With a left hook
corruption
Ps2 had 8mb adn that was a lot, PSX had 15 block (some game took 1 and some even 5 blocks).Yet "save corupted" was o horror back when there was no way to get them back.
And Aladdin was the bomb diggity
Loved that you featured Wave Race on the 64
Sega Genesis' Lion King was actually developed by Westwood Studios. One year before Command & Conquer. While i was playing Lion King back in the days i did not know (or wasn't interested in) who made it (probably because: too young). So later Westwood were naturally the guys wo made command & conquer and i was stunned when i realized that they did not only develop lion king, but a bunch of D&D stuff (like Eye of the Beholder) and Nox. So there are a lot of my all time favorite games from this studio. Unfortunately it died too early.
Also, back then people didn't care about graphics or framerate as long as the game was immersive or fun to play.
I still don't.
That's not true. The main selling point of every console was the graphics. Nintendo and SEGA fought hard about which would look the best, and High Definition was even thrown around back then too. Super Mario 64 was a tech demo on the side, showing off how pretty games could be.
Try looking up commercials for the old consoles.
i never gave a shit about graphics to be honest. Also the problem is putting graphics over gameplay. Personally I think people care too much about graphics.
No they don't or at least not as much as making the game enjoyable. Graphics don't mean anything if your gameplay sucks.
I still care less about the graphics than the storyline, which is why I'm playing on my ps2. They don't look as great as the ps4, but the games are fun, finished, and have no microtransactions or loot boxs :)
Why would you show a split screen mod of Super Mario 64 (something originating from more modern times), in a light that would suggest it is the real game? I mean the point still stands: there were certainly multiplayer N64 games that cordoned you to small quadrants. But why not show any of those real games instead of something that wasn't possible to anyone but "Today's Gamers"?
jmporkbob golden eye?
I just want to know where I can find that mod.
I'm glad i am not the only one that saw that. I was thinking "when could you play other characters on Mario 64?" and "Are they racing for a star or something?"
Did you not realize it was Mario Kart 64 4-player, and not Mario 64?
7:42 i played a ton of Mario Kart 64, and i don't remember the bob-omb battlefield map where you drove around without karts...
well my hometown has a arcade both new and old arcade machines. they do pretty well. Thursday thru Sunday it's packed.
The fog in The Killing Cloud (Amiga) was one of the first attempts to disguise the technical limitations of the time as plot. Regarding DOS, I became quite an expert on tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys.
Sega had blood in Mortal Kombat. Need I say more?
That's right kids, when us older people used to game, we had to use sticks and dirt.
Michael500ca
That's nice. That's what I did until I got a fucking leapster for fucks sake when I turned 8
A damn leapster
We actually did, it was called playing outside.
Well you still have to unless you hold your parents hostage, and demand they buy you stuff, or you will commit lots of violent felonies so they get hate male from everyone for the rest of their lives
Blowing was something I mostly did with Nintendo DS cartridges (the DS Lite was one of my first consoles)
I never used to have online play back in the early 2000s. Didn’t interest me, and none of my friends did either. We just used to invite each other round and play all the games split screen. Good times.
Todays kids dont know how lucky they are..they have the internet to look up tips and tricks,we over 30 had to wait for a magazine to hopefully cover it,no internet lol
Back in the days where you could be stuck on a section of a game for months and would check all the game mags in the newsagents without buying lol!
But they will never get that feeling when you beat a game section you have been stuck on for months. You feel like a champion!
yup, and do you remember when shops started getting wise to the fact that gamers would have to come in and leaf through the magazine in the hopes of finding what mag might have an article pertaining to their game so the magazines started coming on the shelves sealed in plastic :D even in those days the mags were £5
and if you wanted cheats you had to find the page in the mag with the premium rate phone number you had to call :D
Over 30? Alright, that's a bit generous 😂😂 I'm 18 and I spent over half of my time playing games with no access to Internet.
Or you were Konami, in which case, you purposefully screwed with people by giving reviewers an altered version of Silent Hill 1. That way when the reviewers told people what the puzzle solutions where they didn't work in the game because the game you were playing was the original one, and all of the puzzles were different. You either got really lucky, or you had a friend who already beaten the game to tell you the solutions.
The sale of rare to Microsoft is the biggest gaming tragedy of my life
What EA turned into would be mine.
I know. I was pretty upset.
As a Mac user, and a gamer, (I know, a unicorn!) Bungie was my personal tragedy.
The other is invention of EA
I still play PS2 (I wish they still made games because they're cheap and usually have good game mechanics) and i can agree with you on the memory card thing. I play so many games that it's hard to figure out which games I saved onto which memory cards. I feel like if my library was any bigger I'd need to start writing numbers on the cards and making a spread sheet telling me every save file that is on each card just so I don't forget.
I remember playing with friends on the Nintendo 64, 4 players. We all sat on a bunk bed - 2 on each bunk, legs dangling in front of the faces of those on the bottom bunk, wires everywhere... It was still loads of fun
So many memories
64mb ram sticks or memory
How about publishers not fucking us over at every opportunity?
I really miss Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2 is still one of my favorites platformers and both the campaign and the multiplayer of Conker's Bad Fur Day and Perfect Dark...
They will be remembered
My family had both Nintendo and Sega in our household. Also, never had problems with DOS here. I still used DOS a lot all the way up through the last 2 years when I had to upgrade to Win 8. Was disappointed most DOS features are gone on here now and I miss some of my games.
Also, to solve the splitscreen issue, my brother and I made a piece of cardboard with a setup to hold it in place on the tv and one of us would sit boosted up higher and the other on the ground so we couldn't see each other's screens... problem solved.
The controller thing is still a problem when you need to charge a PS4 controller
yea what a pain in the butt
Sesiom at least it's better than having to buy batteries
That's why I have 2 controllers :)
trying to beat mike tyson
Remember when carts had additional joystick ports on top of them (like Micro Machines Megadrive). Also i thik i had the Sega Saturn Bomberman black multiplayer link. That could entertain all the kids on the whole street in one go.
Though everyone used to blow on the cartridges, if you read the documentation for them there is actually an explicit want saying don't do that because it could loosen the pins and damage the cartridge from moisture